not really, because if you get a kid you can always put it up for adoption, so no it's nothing like having sex with out a condom.

don't hate I've gotten almost all those levels to 3 stars!!! hahaha

I love how everyone says boot usb or cd, but if your IT department was smart enough they would have disabled the boot other devices made the HDD the first and only boot option and then locked you out of the bios so you couldn't change it. If you really much do personal thing on the computer ask the company what you can and can not do with the laptop. If they say you can't do anything, buy your self another hard drive install your OS of choice and move on. Don't mess with their partitions and/or anything that's on the hard drive that's already there because most encryption software will log that kind of thing or prevent you from using the hard drive at all. I've got my work computer locked down, but it's video card is also really nice so I did this to my laptop. can't boot up CD's or USB sticks on it so another hard drive was my only options short of running a shell on top of my OS that it starts off with.

Since they came out with the whole plan on making small changes then calling it a new version I think is annoying, they don't need to play 'catch up' on version numbers with chrome and IE because Firefox hasn't been around as long as IE if you don't count it's source being a part of what Netscape ended with. I didn't mine version 6 and when 8 came out I was happy. I started to become annoyed with 9 and 10 of Firefox because the people who make all the add-on’s I use are running in to compatibility issues. As for chrome, sure it's fast and cool looking but it still doesn't load 100% of the internet like IE was made to do Perfect example is www.Comcast.net . Until Google fixes its issues I'll never use it. I'll stick with Firefox and IE

The Government and almost every business in the world that has people working away from the office uses VPN's so they are saying that their own employees are terrorists? This is just another one of those 'people with power' don't understand a god damn thing on how shit works. Unless you know of all 'good' and 'bad' uses for VPN's you shouldn't be aloud to say shit on the matter let alone call people names because of it.

Since moving it will cost them too much they should turn it in to a hotel! Who doesn't want to sleep in the of the worlds most expensive mistakes?

Your talking about linux, a slowly build together peice of software that's kernal has more swear words in it than most websites have in their life time. I'm sorry but no. I was talking about an OS that was built for Mobile application and for that alone.

I save anything important on at least 2 removable drives or 1 of 'em and on dvd's I have nothing to hide.

However if the police/FBI come a knocking on my door my computers, dvd's/cd's, and removable drives will be melted in a small fire long before they take me away!

It's the first, and the oldest smart phone OS

Enough said.

This is old news, they take something else and use it to make your wireless become directional, it had nothing to do with making the signal "better" in any way shape or form. you might as well use tinfoil on the tip of the antenna to make it go further. It all boils down to this, people want better reception in their house they need to two a few things. first and foremost they need to central position their wireless radio, 70% of all house hold i talk to who have issues is because the device is on 1 side of the house, and they expect it to go down two floors to the basement on the other side of the house and work. 2ndly people need to stop buying cheap routers, I can't tell you the number of times I've replaced a router with one that's got better output Db and it's fixed the issue.

But I guess people who like the whole DIY will have a ball with it for a while.

The only thing I can recommend with a Network Operations center is to use SNMP to monitor your gateway and access points, we used it at my last job it was very helpful to check every 15 minutes to get a very close idea when devices go up/down and you can monitor everything separately. Now you don’t have to do it that often but it’s a good way to keep track of any problematic access points you might run in to.

I did installing and managing for hotel’s for three years with my last job there were weeks of hell and weeks with almost call problems at all. I bid you good luck.

Some more questions I'd like to ask you to help with your project. and a few suggestions

Is this hotel apart of a hotel chain or is it owned by individuals? Most hotel chains much use companies that they recommend for setup and support for their hotels. Some chains require this others only suggest it I'm sure they know this, but it wouldn't hurt to ask.

Does the company use Comcast Business class internet? If not, do they know there's a 250mb cap on the internet?

Is this hotel Enclosed ie. (walk ways are in the center of the hotel rather than outside) if it is inside you shouldn't have much trouble setting up the access points for every 3-4 rooms that is assuming normal wood construction. If there's concrete in-between the floors your in trouble and might have to do 5-6 rooms with AP's on both floors.

On top of the internet they are getting do they have a gateway already setup? Using a linksys, d-link or netgear router isn't going to handle 40+ guests on a full night, I would recommend a business gateway Nomadix AG-3100 so it can do load balancing and make sure no one customer takes all the internet for them self. This device will also have a built in portal that the hotel can use to setup weekly passwords to keep people from stealing their wireless. The Nomadix gateway also has a great support team that you can call and work with if for instance something goes wrong. Also the gateway supports Multiple IP's which is a must when it comes to 2+ people trying to connect to their company vpn from 1 location and something you'll never find on a cheap router make for home use.

If your looking to support this your self are you aware most hotel guess don't come in until either very early in the morning or very late at night, which can generate calls at any given time of the day if something goes wrong or fails to work.

One last suggestion if you saw telephone cables used in their setup I would highly recommended you run new cable, just for error rates alone. but in the process of doing that get access points that support POE and you can get a switch that can give it out that way you only have to run 1 cable to the desired location and you can reboot the devices remotely in the last job I had we did this to many hotels and it's saved us lots of money and time because you don't have to tell the hotel staff to unplug power from the devices, or have to wait until morning for the crew who knows where everything is.

I agree with the bad caps, they are everywhere my Westinghouse monitor blew almost all 4 of it's caps and sadly none of the shacks out here sold the right kind of caps. Thankfully there's lots of people out there who are trying to make a bit of money off of selling kits because when you try to buy them direct from the people who make them they normally ask the orders be 1,000 units or more. We shouldn't be considered about e-waste they should just look in to alliterative means of making the devices bio degradable over time. I know that there's lots of different kinds of plastics today made from corn. We shouldn't be looking at the now we should be more worried about what's going to happen to it in 10 years in a land fill. Has anyone ever thought that maybe the reason the ocean's are getting larger is because we're putting more shit in them, rather than the ice caps melting?

As I've noticed with most of my friends and a few of the comment I see that a lot of people use multiple e-mail account for different things. I’ve only had my 1 e-mail account since back in 99 when I needed an e-mail account and I got one free from hotmail. I think just from the top of my head I’ve got about 8 or so e-mails accounts, most free e-mail accounts that I’ve gotten for 1 reason or another and a few of them from my ISP that gives them to my freely.

I only use one, just one e-mail account the at all times I have used two at one point because I wanted to create a more professional e-mail using gmail so I could apply for resumes and not use my e-mail that I normally have that to some people would be considered non professional. Over the years of using only one account all the time I’ve noticed that during the winter I get more spam than I do during the summer, and if you unsubscribe to e-mails you end up getting more in the end result.

Now I used to be an MSN plus member and when I used the service for a whole year and a half I think I got about 2-3 spam messages every 2 weeks when I stopped paying MSN money I notice I would get about 10-20 a day. In the last few months I’ve recently gone though and checked on websites I’ve sign up for and deleted the accounts. 60% of them being forums I never go to anymore and others being websites that required my information to make a user to view their content. Now I haven’t signed up for anything in the last 4-5 months and I get about 1-7 spam messages a day, and not a single one gets in to my inbox they just show up in my junk mail, I check to see if it's legit or not and remove them.

Out of all the other e-mail accounts I never use the only ones that I’ve notice that get any kind of spam are my two g-mail accounts. One I’ve got on my resume and another I’ve had since they started the service but have never given it out. That one gets 30-100 spam messages a day, I have no idea why and it makes no senses to me what so ever since I’ve never used it for anything other than having an account to sign in with using Google.

If you downloaded any of them from the internet and you need to find out what, just look at the tags on it for comments. 90% of all the music my boss downloaded from the internet on his 2TB music drive had information in the comments field of the ID3 tags that said something like "ripped by such and such" or had a website in the comments. Other than that I'm sure it's next to impossible to tell if you got it from the internet or ripped it your self.