Looks like they also sell it in a wider format for rackmounting, with the rackmount ears included: TEG-S24G.

I picked up the smaller form factor a few hours ago for $105 shipped (to my US mailbox). I have a few sets of rack mount ears here from other products which i hope to use with it. If the fit isn't exactly right I can easily tap some new holes in the ears.

Peachy. That's pretty much how I've done it here too -- reused some ears from the switch it replaced.

I'm looking forward to getting it installed as I've now got a few additional cable runs just hanging in the basement that need to be terminated. 2 drops to the room I'll be using as my new office and 2 to the master bedroom. Oh and a third drop from the family room that's been waiting a couple of years to go live.

I can also finally use the 24 2ft patch cables I bought from Monoprice over a year ago for their intended purpose.

Now if I can just find a decent floor-standing rack enclosure at a bargain-basement price. Time to set up some filters on kijiji.

Or just side mount it on the wall / wiring panel area.
Unless you've got a few other racky things to mount/remount.

Cheers

I just found someone selling a bunch of Dell 42U rack enclosures for $200/ea. The issue is that they're right smack downtown, Yonge & Adelaide. Ugh.

I've got all my stuff on some strong chrome steel wire shelving now, but I'd like it a bit more organized and taking up less floor space. The shelving unit is something I already had and re-used - I can put it to better use elsewhere now.

3 APC UPS
PVR Server
14" LCD
ReadyNAS
Router
Modem
VOIP Adapter
7-ch Power Amp
24 port switch
24 port patch panel
some other odds and ends

If we're doing server/comms cupboard porn...

From the top, that's: ADSL (FTTC) modem (white box); Netgear WNDR3700 running OpenWRT; Netgear GS108 switch; 1 empeg mk2, 1 empeg mk2a; AMD E-350 in a Chenbro NAS case (4xHDD, 1xSSD), running Windows Server 2008 R2; Synology NAS box; Acer Revo R3610 running Ubuntu.

Here's a silly question: is there any way to get my cursor to automatically go into the search box when I go to Amazon?

I really like that on the few times I open a Google search tab, the cursor is already in the search box and I can just start typing. I'm not sure why they wouldn't do the same on Amazon.

Any ideas how I can do that myself?

Javascript injection. On the Mac I'd use Glimmerblocker to inject the script. Greasemonkey or something else for Firefox on Windows?

I thought Greasemonkey might do this. I use Chrome, though, and I don't know if it's available to me...

*edit*
Looks like there's an extension called "Tampermonkey." Hmm... Not sure if I'm comfortable with a knock-off...

In a word: yes.

I found a Firefox plugin that did that, and it worked, but it wasn't what I needed so I deleted it. Don't recall what it was called, but a quick Google look brought me back to it: here

It wasn't what I wanted because it only went to the search box when I loaded the Amazon site, rather than every time I wanted to do a new search while the site was already loaded.

tanstaafl.

Edit: Ooops... too late.

Update: I now have had two more experiences with Monoprice that have turned me off of their site. Not permanently, but for now.

1) I had been waiting to hear back from a client that they wanted to go ahead with some work. By the time I heard back from them, it was Friday afternoon and the work was to be done on the following Wednesday. I need about $60-90 in parts, all from Monoprice. I add it all to my cart. Unfortunately, I need to be guaranteed that the parts will all get there by Tuesday. The only way I could do that was to choose a shipping method that added up to $50. Even then, I've had bad shipping experiences with them before, where things don't get there on time. In the end, I ordered it all from Amazon, paid twice as much for most of the parts, but the total ended up being MUCH lower and I now have a guarantee of a Tuesday delivery date.

Okay, it's not Monoprice's fault completely on that one. So here's one where it is:

2) This one really peeved me. Different client, finally got back to me to tell me we're on with the project. Great! I go to Monoprice. I log in. I go to the wishlist I've created just for this job. I then call the contractor I work with for TV installations to confirm a day/time to do the project. After this 3-5 minute phone call I turn my attention back to the computer and move all the parts to my cart. I'm taken automatically to my cart...but it's empty. Curious. I then see I'm logged out. Okay, fine, I'll just log in. Not only is my cart empty, my wishlist is also empty! What the hell? What the hell kind of design is that? I chatted with support who said they were having shopping cart issues at the moment (no mention of that on their site), and my wishlist - which I spent a good 30-60 minutes putting together - is now lost. I have no record of what I added, because I didn't think I needed it.

Amazon, on the other hand, lets me create multiple wishlists and doesn't delete items you move to your shopping cart until you do it manually.

Sorry, I needed to vent. Amazon wins again. Monoprice is great when you can pick the absolute slowest shipping available, or when you need that thing that you can't find anywhere else. But I keep coming back to Amazon when stuff like this happens.

One of the reasons why I like this place is that if find similarities with people in here also in small things. Like being addicted to Amazon. very addicted. On-click is my drug

At work, security desk (where packages get delivered) guards expect few packages for me every week. That is because I use Amazon for both personal and work purchases. Today I received three. A book for SWMBO, a wireless keyboard for my HTPC, three CDs for myself.

Amazon Prime in Italy has no general delivery time, but for every item you order you're told beforehand when delivery will occur; they are right 99% of the times. Actually, based on my experience since Prime started (I subscribed as soon as it was available too), they are only wrong, and rarely, when a third vendor is involved. Otherwise, they're just always right in their estimates. Most times, that is 2 days. But very often it is just 1 day. And they keep improving by the day. Few times, I ordered at 10:00pm from home while watching TV, and got the package on my desk the morning after. That means, I would say, that if I had ordered in the morning, I would have received the package that very day. Amazing. Really.

Interestingly, packages are most times not from Italy, in spite of me ordering from amazon.it . Most packages are from France, several from Germany, less often from the UK, but that happens to. Once I got a package fro Poland, so they must have some storage facility there too. Clearly Amazon has a network of storage facilities in EU that all ship to several countries in the union.

More interestingly, I've been a customer of Amazon.com (meaning US) since before amazon.it was available. Prices have typically been so good, often due to the favorable exchange rate, that on specific items it was still convenient to order form the US in spite of custom taxes. That was particularly true before 9/11, after which Customs got wild here in the name of safety and security, adding a great deal of uncertainty in terms of custom taxes and delivery times.
Well, my account immediately and seamlessly translated to every other amazon site. Carts and related features (save for later, for example) are obviously separated, but wish-lists, logon credentials, payment methods and most (not all) shipping addresses are in common, which made Amazon a quite unique case in my experience where nationalized websites did not add confusion and frustration.
Superb is the currency conversion service they add between the Eurozone and UK. Even there, they proved excellent.

Today, I often check from amazon.co.uk if a specific item is more convenient in Pounds rather than in Euros. Unlikely, but it happens, and because they let you switch prices from Euro to Pound and vice versa, you can see it right away. And, by letting you pay in Euro if you purchase in the UK, they take the currency conversion risk. Again unique in this compared to any other on-line store.

Prices in the Eurozone are now identical, but there used to be some inexplicable differences between Italy and France and Germany, for some reason.

I now buy even just a 8 Euro CD from them. I'd rather wait one day than having to drive or even just walk to the music store round the corner. Because they still exist - music stores, I mean -, don't they? I haven't checked for a while now...

I mean, I look at their website (I agree it could use some improvement in various areas, but that really is not enough to make me less than enthusiastic with the purchasing experience from them) and I am amazed to how their product range is expanding. And they're so good that I feel they deserve their success.

I've returned items foru or five times for various reasons, and while I had (and gave them) some suggestions to make the return process smoother, all cases ended up well.

What did you guys buy from Amazon? I bought all sorts of IT hardware, ranging from mice to some rack shelving to Drobos and Synology NAS units to networking devices of all price ranges to cabling of all sorts - and edned up loving Amazon Basics products and packaging - to HiFi components; a couple of Cisco IP Phones I could not wait to get from Cisco. Tons of CDs. Shoes. Clothing (including --> Steampunk Corsets <-- for SWMBO's halloween costume :D).
I am indeed spoiled. I forgot how the world was before Amazon. I shiver at the thought of it. Worse than that is just the world without the Internet.

... Oh, and Lego Kits.