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I'd also add:
- cross-platform compatibility for NET core
- a syntax succint enough to avoid writing code monsters while at the same time managing to stay readable;
- a naming convention that actually makes sense;
- intellisense in visual studio is amazing. If you've ever written c++ in visual studio, you have a vague idea of what I'm talking about. Except that c#'s intellisense is ten times more awesome. 

It will work with no real bottlenecking. After all, keyboards and mice need very limited bandwidth to operate efficiently and even high end external hard drive won't saturate the bandwidth anyway. You will only run into issues if you try to connect like 4 USB 3.0 powered hard drive enclosures.

My system is very quiet. I hate loud systems. I have 3 Noctua Redux fans, and 2 Lian Li fans in it on a controller. Custom fan curve for the gpu. Its stays nice and quiet 90% of the time and if I really crank the gpu its only a whir I hear as I have a 5mm glass window on the system and it keeps it pretty quiet even cranked. 

I don't see it...........

I found the "Microsoft Office 2016 Tools" folder and it still doesn't include your spreadsheet compare.

They're possessed by Satan. Your only option here is to call an exorcist.

That's called paranoia.
There is no reason why an appliance has any personal information.
Do you really think your fridge cares about your personal information?

I know. I just find it funny that people complain about privacy, do not bother to read the ToS but still use those same services.
 
That's a security concern that affects privacy, not a privacy issue with IoT per se. In case your ISP accesses your camera for reason different than those outlined in the agreement you signed/agreed to/whatever and you have proof, you can take them to court.

ask them, they have live chat: http://www.quantum.com/products/tapedrives/dlt/index.aspx

Don't replace the motherboard, replace the computer. 
You can get a computer with a core2 Duo for about $30, you are going to struggle to find LGA 775 for much less than $30 (let alone a motherboard for a particular prebuilt) 

Thanks guys, I'm using the disk now and it seems to be installing, I will reboot when they have completed and get the graphics drivers

all done, seems to be running sweet

Who talked about the desktop? What @Omon_Ra is suggesting is moving the location of the Download folder from the C: drive to the D: drive.
 

2010 MacBook Pros and later should support Internet recovery. Shut the computer down by pressing the Power button for a few seconds, then turn it on again and, as soon as you hear the Apple chime, press and hold Alt+Cmd+R.
It will ask for the WiFi password and then download the version that computer came with from the Internet.
 
You could find a torrent for OS X, but I strongly suggest against doing that.

DOH, I totally forgot about internet recovery, doing that now, thanks!

I just spam press my keyboard to generate random passwords

You put "you're password will not contain numbers" under the special letters question

I doubt you'll see any benefits from a swap partition with that much RAM. Heck, you won't see benefits even with 4 gigs!
Anyway, what you can do is downloading gparted Live, resize the root partition and create the swap, then reboot to Mint. Once you're logged in, type swapon in a terminal.
I'm not sure activating the swap area this way will survive reboots, though.

Thanks. Unfortunately no, the swap won't quite work on each boot, but I can write up a script to activate it at startup. No, having a swap isn't generally a benefit, especially with that amount of RAM, but there's a method to my madness. I won't bother with it for the meantime though. Thanks

Just did a quick test of your script and right now, the default options gives me a password 15 characters long with 67.6 bits of entropy. It would take 17 years and 8 months to brute force for a home user.
 
Changing the defaults to what I recommended, it gives me a password 15 characters long with 79.1 bits of entropy. It would take 8127322 years and 3 months to brute force for a home user, the mixed case and numbers really help a lot.
 
EDIT: I just noticed it's only creating a 15 character password, change line 80 to the following:
for i in range (0,length):

You don't need a gui, I have a gui-less debian server with steamCMD (command line steam client) to host persistant servers for starbound and terraria.
 
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD
 
 

I'm positive that you can play Forza Horizon 3 on both platforms with a single key. Not sure about Gears of War, but I don't see why it should behave differently.

On Windows, the two major compilers are the GNU C Compiler (gcc) and the Microsoft Visual Studio C Compiler. The first one is free and open source, the latter is available only through a MSDN subscription.
There are, of course, other compilers, but they make up a small fraction of market share.
For a one-off thing, I suggest you try the GCC.

Visual Studio has a free version called Visual Studio Express.
 
The problem with GCC is it has a large learning curve to use for anything other than basic stuff.
 
EDIT (number billion): I would suggest finding an IDE like Eclipse or something that uses GCC but does all the hard stuff for you.

Do the cameras create their own wifi network that you have to connect to? Because if so unfortunately you will just need two devices, one to connect to their network and one to your home network and subsequently the internet. I don't know of a way to connect to two at the same time on one device.