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I think you would get better value by sticking a bloody great fan by the window and blow all the hot air out. I found working on a small screen and a dinky little keyboard so irritating I gave my (ASUS) ultra book to my daughter.
However when the A/C breaks down I refuse to work as the sweat tends to make the keyboard all sticky and it is a bitch to clean.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's surprising how much difference a small keyboard makes: when I bought this computer some years ago, I hated it for ages before I realised the keys were too close together for comfortable typing and swapped back to the old (bought in the 1990s!) keyboard...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm right under the roof and the only windows I have are skylights. The roof gets hotter and hotter thorough the day. This was the smallest room in the apartment, that's why I made it my office, but it's a terrible choice during summer.
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Before investing any money, I would borrow a laptop and an Ethernet/Wi-Fi hub and see how good the Wi-Fi connection is to your desktop. You may find that to be the limiting factor - slow screen updates can drive you crazy!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: see how good the Wi-Fi connection is to your desktop
Ethernet over power lines...even if it means running an extension cord outside if you don't have any power outlet outdoors. Mine can do 200mbps, which is faster than my actual wired LAN inside the house (100mbps).
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My PC is wired on a gigabit LAN and the ultrabook can use a 5GHz WiFi network, so that wouldn't be a problem. They don't need to be connected to each other directly.
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I didn't explain myself clearly; I meant the Wi-Fi connection between your laptop and the PC. A fast Wi-Fi adapter does no good if the radio waves can't get through the walls or floors of your apartment.
Re dandy72's suggestion of Ethernet over power - the actual speed depends on the quality of the electrical work in the house and many other issues. I have found that in my home - the speed is not high enough for HD-quality video from a server in one room to a client in another. If you can - test before spending large sums of money.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I've been doing this for years, but I've taken a somewhat different approach. The big fat powerful but noisy and heat-generating PC goes down in the basement, and on my desk is nothing but a rather modest, low-powered and completely quiet machine that acts as a dumb terminal.
The heat-generating PC in the basement (i7 with 64GB of RAM) hosts about 12-15 virtual machines, and I use remote desktop to connect to any number of them from the machine on my desk. Initially that was a first-gen Surface Pro tablet connected to a USB dock that was used to hook up 3 monitors and my full-size keyboard and mouse (and other regular peripherals). The tablet is completely quiet and hardly throws any heat. With the full-size keyboard and multiple monitors, the experience is pretty much exactly like having the kick-ass computer right next to me. Everything's wired (wifi sucks). Even at 100mbps, screen redraws don't lag.
Then I found a cheap 4K monitor at about the same time I found out that Intel's tiny NUC devices could do 4K (whereas my tablet can't). This is what I'm now using to remote into the virtual machines, so I'm doing 4K + 2 other monitors, regular mouse/keyboard, etc in total silence, no heat and very little power required.
Every once in a while I grab my laptop and go outside and remote into the VMs to do some work. Since they're all intended to be remoted into, it doesn't matter if I do that from my office, from outside the house, or at a friend's place.
I quite literally don't have anything of importance on whichever computer I'm using to remote into the VMs (except for any required motherboard driver and the like), so I never bother backing those up. The VMs themselves (just a bunch of virtual disk files, really) get backed up to a NAS on a regular basis, which in turn gets backed up separately.
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That's an interesting setup. But why is your PC hot & noisy?  Do those VMs run at the same time? All of them? Maybe you did not invest in a quiet case and good fans (like Thermalright Macho). My PC is noiseless unless I'm playing games.
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We probably have different tolerance levels. If I hear a fan at night, I call it noisy.
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My CPU fan turns at 569rpm, the others are off until the computer determines they're needed. I would describe myself as a person with very sensitive hearing*, that's why I asked.
* I can hear turned off Xbox One in instant-on mode from the mezzanine above. I hear my old secondary monitor's induction coil. I catch all the kind of quiet background noises that other people miss - yet, I can't hear my PC (using a Fractal Design case and Thermalright Macho radiator + fan + Silent profile from my ASUS motherboard).
modified 4-Aug-15 2:55am.
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Thing is, the fan isn't really the problem. It's the amount of heat generated by the CPU.
That heat's gotta go somewhere, and all a fan can do is move hot air out of the case and into the room the computer is sitting in. Getting a "better" fan or case does nothing for the amount of heat produced.
This isn't just this one PC, but all PCs I've had since CPUs started requiring fans to be mounted on them.
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Today is my first working day after my very first longer vacation since I got the job. And I managed to forget most things about the projects I'm working on so I can say that the vacation was good enough 
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Well done!
By tonight, you should need a holiday to recover... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well luckily my documentation has helped a lot, so perhaps just some counselling
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Well done...
(The ESCape is on the top left side of the keyboard...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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And luckily F1 is right beside it, that saved a lot of time 
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I forget most things about the projects I'm working on after I've been to sleep.
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RUs123 wrote: I managed to forget most things about the projects I'm working on so I can say that the vacation was good enough
That is the test of if it was a good vacation or not. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Anyone else watch this series on channel 4? The final part was aired last night. What an absolutely brilliant series. An intelligent script, well acted and directed. Can't wait for the next series
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Nah. Channel 4 doesn't work very well here
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And the bastards closed TPB down!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I believe it going to start showing here soon. Could be worth I look.
TV3 here if that helps
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I can't see how such unrealistic series can be so good?!
I see humans all around all day long, but no sign of intelligent script, good act, better not to mention the direction...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Sorry to say I found it unspeakably boring. Despite being in the same room last night as a TV showing the final episode, I have no idea what happened in the end.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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