Argh, you’re one of them 😉 I’ve spent 5 years without admin, and here I am, still working away. nnGranted, you can’t instantly debug IIS, but why don’t you run the process as you local user? Boom, no problem debugging any more.nnOh, you can’t install WCF services? Try running ServiceHosts in an .exe. nnSince I’ve been part of Information Security at a company, I’ve had to be paranoid by default. Although work wise, it makes things simpler, you’ll discover all sorts of utilities, trial ware, personal use, Dropbox, Skype .. All good, but what stops your DB backups appearing across the internet.nnI’m not here to moan about those wicked ways, admin doesn’t half make life easier. But give it a go, see what you need to do, and be safe in the knowledge that you’re running with almost no privileges … Almost … It doesn’t half make you stop and realise how much access you really are granting to just run a website.

Yeah, that is a good point.nnI think an outright rejection of local admin grants is pretty ridiculous though. nnIf you are actively putting obstacles in the way of your developers, you can’t expect good results.

I’ll be running http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814139055

Which is a 4 DVI out card.

MLC drives have shorter lifespans than SLC drives, but it is still pretty long. MLCs should get around 100,000 write cycles and SLC around 1,000,000. With TRIM support and wear leveling algorithims most SSDs should outlive their usefulness.

Wear leveling allows the drive to store data in every physical cell before writing over a previous so it may be awile before the first write cycle occurs, especially in a 256GB drive.

What do you think? How long do you suppose your disk will last with the pagefile sitting on it? Was that even a concern for you?

I agree with you on the virtualization. with your SSD the speed benefit of a VM will be moot. I keep a couple VMs ready to go when there is a good chance something I am working on will break the OS. They are convenient for end user support especially when paired with profile and application virtualization. Why bother troubleshooting user problems? If something goes wrong you can trash the VM, send over a new one and it will pickup all the user customizations and apps at log on.

I am interested to see how RemoteFX turns out. Full motion video and graphics over RDP will be good times.

i run 2 external 24″ monitors plus the laptop’s 17″ screen. the laptop is on the left and runs comms, code is in the middle and browser/reference on the right. it’s a pretty sweet setup. not sure what i would do with a 4th monitor.