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so the best cable is one that you can't see?

With the assistance of Steve, there is hope that the mini bookshelf speakers can be completed. Picked up some sanding sealer and painting supplies yesterday and I get to try my hand at applying it tomorrow. Also, this baffle will be painted black courtesy of Rust-oleum. Lowes/home depot did not have semi-flat black, so I had to settle for satin. Hopefully it'll turn out alright!

At Home Depot retail stores they have a free dewalt 45 pc screwdriving bit set ($19.97) with purchase of dewalt 35 pc impact ready screwdriving bit set ($29.97). Not a bad price for bits. I happened to be needing a bit set so I was happy

Howdy gatto

I'm amazed that the builder thought putting a F5 into that chassis was a good idea to begin with....

No, but according to a thread on the other forum, getting some audiophile carpet will do the trick.

Mine came in this afternoon but I just picked up the 1/4" adapter to use it with my pico. It sounds great!

They're generally pretty good at sticking with their release dates.

Horrible reflection in the glass in the upper right, but gives an idea of the cool view. Not post processed at all aside from a right click resize.

Happy Birfday!

Ah...I got thrown off by the DriveimageXML name, didn't read the "dynamic volume" part :facepalm:

The applicable items that I can see are below; don't think you'll need the others. Won't be able to do file serving without this service Only if you plan on using your server to share web pages, and even then IIS is connection limited (I think) on vista. From an admin standpoint those are useful, but I'm not sure you'll use them much as a simple file server except for System Restore in the event of a crash after patch. You may want VSS if you use previous versions, if not then don't bother. Definite yes on this one, otherwise you'll do much more babysitting with the patching than you probably want. Not quite sure what that is myself, I'll defer to others for this one.

You can always use vLite to trim down the nonessentials for Vista. SSD for OS is great, I plan on migrating most my my computers to SSD's in the future.

Since the XP clients are accessing via SMB and not via the actual hardware they won't have any issues accessing the share. From my experience you might have some odd share size reporting issues (e.g. "3tb free of 933gb") but functionally there shouldn't be any issues. You can always be safe and stick with 2TB partitions though.

I have found that Server 08 is very good at maintaining itself. If you schedule defrags and enable windows update/set it to schedule update reboots for a specified time, it'll run just fine without much attention needed. I do recommend if you are running any sort of raid to enable some kind of notification when a drive fails

As long as the hardware has Vista drivers, you're good to go; as long as they're signed drivers you won't have any issues. With unsigned drivers you can get the 32 bit versions to work, but with the 64bit OS it doesn't IIRC. mirumu: It's how we did our migration too; it's quite handy isn't it?

If you have windows xp, download the 2003 admin pack here: Download details: Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools then get the GUI for robocopy here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/d/0/fd05def7-68a1-4f71-8546-25c359cc0842/HoffmanUtilitySpotlight2009_04.exe (ref: Free Utility: RichCopy, an Advanced Alternative to RoboCopy ) If you don't have .NET 2.0 already installed, you can get that here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en That should set you up to play around a bit with robocopy. It worked quite well for my file server migration, let us know how it works out for you!

I will have a mouser or digikey order pretty soon within this coming week, I can tack those on if nobody else will have done it by then

Nope, not working for UPS

Unfortunately I've run out of time prior to my move so this project will be on hold as I prepare to move to Colorado and transition out of the military.

Good idea! Will probably have to use a rabbet bit to cut the countersink larger, but it should be workable! Thanks for the idea!

Had a massive failure on my part today, when routing the countersink for the tweeter I cut it as 4 1/4" instead of 4 1/8" so there's now a gap of 1/8" between the tweeter flange and baffle. Unfortunately I don't have the time right now to redo the baffle so I'll press on and finish it as is. It's a good thing I decided to go with a removable baffle

Haha....let him think it's curly maple Thank you all for the compliments, I'm rather flattered!

Installed port and jacks on the mini's and finished clear coating the SR-71's. The result:

I'll definitely be making sure that the area around it is masked off with masking tape before starting. The SR-71's are finished in terms of paint, all that's left is the routing and painting of the baffles, along with the mounting of the parts on the back.