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Merry Christmas everyone!

Doug, it is hard to put a price on peace of mind and lack of downtime/loss due to failure. Even if you did pay a little too much, it is worth the investment if you are stable. It is hard to argue with a quality NAS device. As with anything else, there are good ones and bad ones. You usually...

I find that there are many Mac myths out there, especially the "faster" and "better for design" myths. While this may have been true many years ago, this simply is not true now. Windows 7 is a great OS (in my opinion) and in my situation (large format graphic design focused), I find almost...

As a disabled veteran, it warms my heart to hear such kind words. Thank you all for appreciating what veterans sacrifice for this country. I too would like to thank my fellow veterans and all those currently in the Armed Forces. I would also like to thank all of the supportive spouses and...

I am planning on going this year too (SAi Booth). That is interesting about the Tropicana. I want to stay at a casino as I am fond of blackjack. +1 for getting together for drinks.

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Welcome Stephen!

Stephen did that several years ago (before AG created a similar design). It was just as impressive in person. He is VERY talented.

I have personally seen (customer's shop) CS5 have some pretty serious issues on Mac computers of late. The issues that I saw were connected to drivers released in a recent Snow Leopard update. This was confirmed by Adobe. These particular systems were recent iMacs and Photoshop was the only...

LOL... sounds like a job created on one of our computers. I tell my customers, "just because you can doesn't mean you should". I get calls about files that customers have created on one of our design computers. Sometimes they do something odd, like up the resolution and it creates an...

You are getting the message during the NV RAID "POST" screen right? Before it ever gets a chance to boot into the OS? If that is the case, I wouldn't worry about drivers. I think you are correct to look at hardware. It is hard to say, but it could be anything from a faulty controller to a...

There was a vitualization requirement for the CPU for a while (XP Mode in Win 7), but that has since been changed. As far as 32 bit vs 64 bit and < 4GB vs > 4GB of RAM goes, it depends on the user and his/her workload, the software being used, and how much mutli-tasking one likes to do. With...

I would recommend a separate drive just for scratch space. Larger files can use a LOT of scratch space. We have customers that need 500+ GB of scratch space on their larger files. Even if you have the space (unfragmented) on your C: drive, I would still recommend a separate drive dedicated to...

Acronis is more robust than the image backup in Windows 7 Pro and Ultimate. If you like using the more advanced functions, then keep using it. I like it too, but for most people, the built in image backup is great. Please remember that Pro and Ultimate are the only two that have the image...

If you have Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate, you don't need Acronis. You can do an image backup and restore to similar or dissimilar hardware.

But how does this protect you from fire, flood, theft?

Yep, this can be a problem. But, it is pretty easy to copy the file to your desktop, work, save back to desktop, move file back to server (or NAS) at the end of the day or when you are done.

But what you don't understand is that your Internet connection is EXTREMELY slow compared to your local area network (LAN). It will take FOREVER to load the files up to the server even once. Then when you do need them back (in the event you need to restore the backup), it will take FOREVER to...

+1 The idea of storing GBs of files online turns my stomach. Over the weekend, I wrote a small article about backups. It might be worth your time to read: http://hotwiredtech.com/blog/

Awesome. I hope that those of you that go will stop by and say hello. Sean, I forgot that you were on here. Drop me an email sometime.