I'm toying with the idea of writing up a guide on setting up a static network which makes managing various machines much easier.  Shoot me a PM/email or post here if you think you could use it, if people already know what they are doing then I won't bother.  I find that using bridged mode for the VM would be a pain without statically assigning IP addresses.

Looking forward to a guide, update for backup script, as well as setting up the static IP. I'm still failing with the version 0.1 script, so I've given up for now. Hopefully my sister shutting down the computer properly will let me fold properly without having to use backup scripts.

Sorry folks, I'm buried up to my neck in work so this will take a while.... it's in my todo pile though.

Hopefully I get around to this over the weekend..... if I'm not still working like mad.

My avatar is Vic the Rattlehead.  Eddie is the mascot for Iron Maiden:  http://truemetal.org/meta...er/images/killers2.jpg

1983 good times, Megadeth had Peace Sells, and Metallica had Ride the Lightning, two albums I really like.  I call it a tie then.  +1 for you for being a longer time Megadeth and Maiden fan.  +1 for me since it's impossible for me to have been a fan that long since you saw those two bands when I was 3 years old .  I was brought up right by my old man who had me listening to Def Leppard, ACDC, G&R and Motley Crew a lot.  Now that I have music taste I know that G&R and the Crew sucked but I still listen to Def and ACDC regularly while I'm working.

I agree about Dave being under rated; however, many big names in metal don't under rate him so the people who count know he's a good player.  When he injured his arm (sleeping on it of all things....) I didn't know what I was going to listen to since there were not many good bands worth listening to then.  Around that time Lamb of God, Gojira, etc... were around but not well known and we all know what Metallica was up to around then (not much....).  I think in around ten years we'll see some form of metal back in the lime life, it goes in cycles and it's next cycle should be coming up soon.  Hopefully it's not polluted with crappy bands that are heavy and get mistaken as metal bands like that wave of "nu-metal" bands we saw go by for 15 seconds just like the majority of garbage "music" we have today.

Anywho.... back to the subject, for those of you who want to see a networking guide, let me know what kind of topology you use for a home network.  By that I mean any of the following:

- PC connected directly to modem
- PC connected to hub/switch to modem
- PC connected to router to modem
- Or whatever you have

I could use my network topology to describe this stuff but it's a pretty big network with my TV, iphone, computers, bluray player, wireless bridge, PSP etc... so I think that would just confuse people so I will attempt to descibe the "typical" home network instead

Does anyone still want the networking guide?  I have been crazy busy at work for the last two months and things have gone from uber insane to slightly insane in terms of my workload so I finally have time to work on it   If I don't get 10+ requests then I'll assume most people know what they are doing and can help eachother out.

Lefty, I hope to see you run a bigadv machine 24/7 as you cut back your output.  Even in California a bigadv machine running at 4GHz runs around 20-25 bucks a month in power bills assuming you stay in the lower 3 power tiers.  When summer rolls around I may do the same since my place is getting warm with my two i7's folding and it's only in the low 70s outside....