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The Best Kind of Nerd is Unnecessarily Complicated or Overkill As most of you are probably aware, Sarah and I moved into a two bedroom apartment this past weekend. With all of this extra room, my thoughts naturally went to planning a massive network for Sarah's desktop, my three desktops, and my laptop. [1] I wanted to network as many of the computers above as I could with a minimal budget. So wifi was out; a router and five wireless cards were roughly "way the hell" out of budget. In addition to the computers above, I also had a 5-port ethernet switch on my hands. After scribbling on a few post-it notes, I finally arrived at the following setup [2]:                                                  ____| Laptop (XP/FC5) |    ...