You're kidding, right? I was an Apple tech during and after the Power Computing era. The Power Computing machines were an absolute nightmare to fix. sharp edges, shitty hardware, etc etc.

Because Grues are afraid of lanterns. Duh.

Because "Dr. Scarle's work history included gaming industry experience as a software engineer at a company associated with Microsoft Games Studio."

ie he's had experience in programming for the platform, was likely used to using Visual Studio with XNA and likely had all the tools he needed to program for the 360 already.

The phrase RTFM springs to mind, for some reason. That the OP, and the several follow-up posters I responded to, didn't recognize the reference to, arguable, the premier case modder/builder out there isn't my problem. My time's as valuable as yours, if you don't feel like doing some digging, don't. You got the link, do what you will with it.

Wikipedia's your friend. Minimal work is required not to suck at teh internets.

Remind me to prefold your TP for you too.

Had you taken the time to do a little research, you'd realize the comment wasn't specific to the netbook but to the fact that you CAN build things other than a desktop machine and have them be respectable. Of course, that would require someone not spoonfeeding you.

I beg to differ.

http://benheck.com/

...let the inmates run the asylum. I for one welcome our monkey-poo-flinging overlords!

Well, considering the application they're running, ie a discussion board, I doubt they'd have 30TB of data. In this particular situation, I think it's a viable solution. My point was that if they're worried about their data, they shouldn't have it accessable via the intertubes =p. Ymmv, but if it was me, and I had 30TB of data, I wouldn't be backing it up remotely over the net anyway.

I'm no expert, but if it were me, my off site backups wouldn't be accessible via the net at all, they'd be completely offline. I'd back up locally to a system not connected to the Internet at all then move my backups off site manually.

Microsoft releasing their internal tools finally. I myself am waiting for their '!MakePortedAppsSuck' and '!CrushAllResistance' apps with baited breath...

Local celebrity and all around gadfly Count Dracula has seemingly developed a penchant for biting the necks of his acquaintances. When asked why he began this, he replied:

"Well, I was over at Bill's house (and what a house, I might add), and he mentioned sucking the life out of the computer industry. I just put two and two together. Bill's my hero!"

I for one welcome our new self-aware network overlords. All hail the Intertubes!

Er, wait. That's not ri0h%@^@HJ HQ$! @!NO CARRIER+++

that I wanna go out and frag someone with my Spartan Laser.