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Use 4 Port Gigabit switches at every location that has more than one device, as for a recabling to place, i dont see that happening in a completely finished building because of the work and tearing that has to be done i cant see them letting someone do that, Cat5e supports gigabit speed. just use a good router at the entrance, if your serious use an enterprise grade router if you need any specific features, then add an access point for the wireless devices off of one of the switches that is closest to the center of the place, that way wireless inst amazing at one side and horrible at the other. there really not much you can do besides what is the obvious thing to do unfortunately. you could put a 24 port Gigabit switch at the entrance and run cables outside of the walls but that would be weird. i see yourself adding 5 switches, and calling it good. My apartment is much smaller, so my infrastructure was done completely outside of the walls. please let me know what your thoughts are and what your planning on doing or if any of this information was not correct. -Tyler

just to clarify this will not have anything to do with VPN connections or Remote desktop.

the VMS are created automatically with the backups, the backups are taken twice a day locally then FTP to my network Opp center. the VMs dont get started unless we need them. The client sided server never has to be turned off (and never gets turned off) it takes about 15 minutes to boot the VM (which is always made and current) and have it fully operational. I thought about VPN but im not going to do that, i want it to be like nothing ever changed to the client with the quickest turn around time. ideally the client will go from no server to a virtual offsite server in about 15-20 minutes. i was thinking about using NAT, the idea i have is when something happens while the virtual server is spinning up i would remote into their router (some clients will need to have all locations upgraded to a router that supports this) and make their server internal IP ( example: 192.168.1.100) resolve to our external address using a porting method. once it hits our external, (example 74.78.122.12) it resolves to the internet address of the new virtual server. that was any IP based programs and mapped drive should have no hiccup. i have a router that supports multiple Virtual IPs on a WAN port. this way i can assign different IPs to different clients in the off chance multiple servers go offline at the same time. the router is a ZyXEL ZyWALL USG 50. If this works like it should, downtime for a client would be about 15-20 minutes in total, enough for a smoke break and some chit chat, then back to work. What are your thoughts?

I have a question for those of you who know networking very well. ATM im working on an offsite disaster recovery program, This consists of getting backups from multiple servers to my office and those backups are being created into a virtual image that can be booted from Virtual Box. So the backup server at my office contains multiple virutal Operating systems that are created daily from backups of other servers. I can start these and run them, i need to be able to start these from my location and have them work as an offsite server for the client, so host it from my end straight to there end. Ive got some ideas on how im going to do this, but ideas would be much appriciated. If you need info on the Networking gear, please ask!

i have a .png and a .svg i guess its not me thats having the issues its the ones im sending the logo too...

So i have a logo i need to remove edges from, to make it rounded, the design is rounded but the picture still comes out square with white spacing at the corners, say i needed to get it printed on a tee shirt and i only need to design section not small spacing on the corners. The green in this picture displays what needs to be removed. in photoshop it is a transparent backgound but when saved as a .jpeg it makes it white. From What ive read it sounds like it needs to be converted to a vector image in illustrator but i dont know what im doing in illustrator. Any help would be great! In the picture you can kinda see the edges are rounded, thats how i need to image to be. the white area where the green is should be transparent.

get elric, logan, and jj all to come on, thats sometime i would quit my day job for.

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@that guy i have the radiator there not only for cooling but for tubing route, it brings the tubing up from the CPU block to the VGA block very nicely, take a second look with that perspective and let me know your thoughts, i could really use the feedback.

i Use NZXT AF fans. They come stock with NZXT Cases and are extremely cheap, but silent and very efficent. My fav fans.

So about a month ago i started my desk build, which is now complete. PARTS: Intel Core i7 @ 4.7 GHz 2 x 4GB Corsair Dominator Modules at 2.133 GHz ASUS Z77 Sabertooth Motherboard SB Recon 3D sound Card Radeon 7970 GPU at 1GHz NZXT High performance fans OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD NZXT 1000W Hale 90 V1 NZXT Cable Extensions NZXT Touch fan controller 2x1TB HDD Seagate Barracuda WATERCOOLING: 2x 360mm White XSPC RX Radiators 1x 120mm XSPC EX Radiator Koolance PMP450s Pump Bitspower Modkit Bitspower Pumptop Bits power Res. Primochill Primoflex Tubing Mayhem Aroura Red Coolant XSPC Raystorm CPU block XSPC RAM Waterblock XSPC Razor 7970 V2 VGA Block Beginning the Box, Step one was dimensions and size. Step Two: Adding the bottom, This was Recessed 1 1/2" for the legs to be recessed. Step Three: Test Fit and draw out component Layout. Step Four: This step was a little strange, here i was trying to figure out how i wanted to do my back I/O I realized that cutting the wood for this shape would be hard and unlikley to be perfect. So i broke out a drill and my old Phantom 410 Case. Drilled out the rivits and took the back I/O plate from that case and test fitted it in the new desk. Step five: Cut out the Radiator Holes and screw holes for mounting the radiator. Step six: Because the screws were ment to go through a fan and into the radiator the screws were too long to go thru the wood and into the radiator without puncturing it. This ment i had to Cut each screw down. I had to do this for the Powersupply Rear Radiator and Two bottom radiators. I cut alot of screws. Step Seven: This is where i marked out the motherboard Stand offs and where it would be positioned. To place the stand offs into the wood i drilled a small hole, then wood glued the standoffs into the holes. Step Eight: Here i cut out side holes to mount 2x140mm fans for free airflow out of the desk. I have everyother fan intaking and the two going out. Step Nine: This step is where i stained the entire desk Black (ebony) and test fit all of my major components. Step ten: In this step i used a router to cut out the shape of the plexi glass top window for the computer. This look alot of time, but it came out perfectly. Step Eleven: Tubing, in this step i tubed up my loop, This was easy. Step Twelve: Block off all cable routes and PSU with walls. This is the cable managment. You Can also see that i mounted the pump and res outside of the desk. Step Thirteen: Fill the loop. Step fourteen: Attach all cables and manage. Step Fifteen: LEGS! Added a 45 Degree bar for support, didnt want the desk to be able to wobble at all. Step Sixteen: Place the top on, lay in the plexi, turn on all the lights and enjoy. Here shows the Military style power switch, where i flip it the computer powers. It also shows the USB Ports, Headphone and mic ports and fan controllers.

go into msconfig, and disable all Services (check the box that says hide all Microsoft services) and all startup items, try it after that, if it shuts down normally, start enabling one by one to narrow it down to whats making it hang.

I second Norton Ghost, best cloning out there.

Have you ran any tools to find out where the harddrive health is at? if it is detected I recommend running hirens boot cd, and running HDD sentinel to see the health of the harddrive to determine that is infact the problem. If the harddrive is just filled with bad / weak sectors, you can try running a program called R-studio to see if any of the data is recoverable. Let me know if you would like links to these tools.

Is your CPU / RAM OC'ed? if so that could be causing the crashes.