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Dell Precision M6800/harddrive conf

Dear All, I am trying to config a fairly high end M6800 for use in trade support. I am kind of confused on hard drive selection. Here are goals: 1) SSD boot drive 2) at least 500GB 2nd drive 3) less important, some kind of automatic good encryption on both (great if finger print, but...
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- Sep 8, 2015
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Laptops
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2013: PRECISION T7600 for mission critical trading

Dear All, I'm about to upgrade my trading computer to a DELL PRECISION T7600. This computer is to be used for mission-critical trading applications. (Note: thank you all for the advice you gave be back in 2008, it was very helpful, I just re-read it you guys have a lot of wisdom)...
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- Feb 1, 2013
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Laptops
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power supply for fan

Hello All, I'm trying to use a good quiet computer fan in order to cool an equipment cabinet. I've selected NOCTUA NF-PF14 FLX. http://www.amazon.com/Noctua-Ultra-Silent-140mm-NF-P14/dp/B002XISTXM/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1329859517&sr=1-1 The problem is I need to plug this...
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- Feb 21, 2012
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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best wireless access point

Hello, I'm looking for some advice for a very stable and secure wireless access point. My house has two buildings, the main house and a smaller building which sits rights next to the main house. My office is in the smaller building. I'm currently running Netgear N900 Wireless Dual Band...
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- Nov 21, 2011
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Networking
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network connection monitoring

Hello, Can anyone recommend a robust software app which monitors your network connection? on Windows PCs... (if no good apps for Windows, we could have a dedicated LINUX machine, but not our preference unless you strongly advocate) I run a small trading group, and live in fear of our...
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- Nov 8, 2011
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Networking
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existing hardwired ethernet cable too short

Hello All, I recently bought a new house. It has a small room where all of the networking stuff/servers/etc are supposed to go. Ethernet cord exists from here to most of the rooms in the house. The problem is that only about 4 inches of ethernet cord sticks out from the ceiling in this new...
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- Feb 16, 2011
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Networking
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wireless speakers / long range / mission critical

Thank you all for your advice. I think I will go with the FX tranmitter idea, that sounds good. Then I could put receivers all over the place as I want. Any recommendations for a misison critical one that won't let me down? If this thing crashes or doesn't transmit when it is supposed to...
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- Jan 14, 2011
- Forum: Audio Components
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wireless speakers / long range / mission critical

Dear All, I recently moved into a new place, where my office is in a seperate building from the main house, seperated by about 15 feet. In my office, I run some computer programs which monitor financial markets and set up loud audio alarms if certain things happen. The problem is that I can't...
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- Jan 11, 2011
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Audio Components
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Outlook 2007/2010 Search Add-on

Hello, I'm always struggling with the search function in Outlook 2007. I have tons and tons of emails across multiple PST files (10 PST files, total size about 20G). The Outlook 2007 Search is not user-friendly at all, sometimes it takes me a long time to find things, also the indexing...
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- Sep 26, 2010
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows
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upgrading to Outlook 2010

Hello All I'm about to upgrade to Outlook 2010 and hoping someone might have some advice. I'm currently using Outlook 2007, and have it all configured up with multiple email accounts, PST files, and other things. What is the best convenient and safe way to port my settings over to the new...
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- Sep 26, 2010
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Windows
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good reliable laptop for multi-tasking office work

Hello All My colleague needs to buy a good laptop for multi-tasking office applications (predominantly heavy duty accounting work with tons of excel spreadsheets, outlook, explorer, skype) all open at the same time. This accounting work supports a high frequency trading company... so we want to...
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- Apr 17, 2010
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Laptops
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best reliable cable modem

Hello All I run a day trading operation from home. My cable modem recently died on me (Motorola Surfboard). So I go to the cable provider and they give me their newest one: Ubee D3.0 Cable Modem It looks a little cheap. Don't know how it actually is, but the appearance sure doesn't...
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- Mar 18, 2010
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Networking
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best high-end business laptop

Hello All, I need to buy another laptop to serve as an emergency system for my trading operation, if all my other systems crash. Last laptop I bought was Lenovo ThinkpadW500. I guess it was good enough. I was wondering if people still really like Lenovo for high-end business use laptops or...
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- Feb 23, 2010
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Laptops
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Cisco ASA5505

Thank you for all of your help. I just called CISCO.... they pretty strongly recommended that I get the 1811 Router instead... they said that that was more appropriate, and that the ASA (although good) is primarily intended to be a security device. They said they would recommend the 800...
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- Post #4
- Sep 28, 2009
- Forum: Networking
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Cisco ASA5505

Dear ALL, I am in the market for a wired router to support mission-critical day trading. After asking for advice here, I have pretty much decided to purchase the Cisco ASA5505-SEC-BUN-K9. I'm also planning on getting (either at start or a couple weeks after) the: ISP failover...
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- Sep 27, 2009
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Networking

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