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My birthday is coming up so I'm looking at lenses for my Nikon D40. There are two I'm considering: 35mm f/1.8 AFS @ $280 And the newer to be released in June 50mm f/1.8 AFS @ $220 The 35mm is a DX format only so if I was to actually get the mega expensive nikon body I want, it would be not so...

Newegg had the 64GB m4 for $80 this morning but is now sold out. boo.

But with google groups, all the members have to join. I was thinking something along the lines of only the people sending the mail have to join and they maintain a central contact list. So the leader would e-mail an alias and that alias was hosted somewhere else and would relay the message...

So the local cub scouts pack has an issue with maintaining the list of people to email. What happens is that people just reply to an old email with the the entire list. So what happens is that bad or incorrect or no longer with the pack people end up getting e-mail. I've suggested switching...

Gmail has this new labs feature for smart filters. It adds a bulk filter and a notification filter and a forum filter. You can change what the filter does. They seem to learn. The bulk filter cut out all the ad type mail I receive that isn't straight spam and auto archives it.

I'm not sure how these drives die. I mean is it a power issue? Reflashing might work. How heat would affect the components I don't know. Would it kill the RAM they use for cache? Or where the firmware is stored?

Crucial C300 64GB for $100 with free shipping from newegg. Today only I think. You need a coupon code. http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=923806&t=2915411 I'm highly tempted but my desktop machine is really fast enough as it is. And that isn't big enough for my laptop.

No, the little one, who is almost 6 now, had to go pee. He was holding it for some time. I'm sure it'll be a youtube clip somewhere soon.

I thought it was good. Kind of weird to expect a plot twist in a story we mostly already know. I mean loki being a frost giant was news to me (never read the comics - only saw cartoons). I kind of wonder how he'll get back to earth though.

2GB limit? I have a near 5GB archive. This is with outlook 2007. But I'm pretty sure it was created before we upgraded to 2007.

I was looking at those but the newegg reviews made me second guess those drives. In other ssd news, crucial released firmware 007 for the C300 drives which seems to have fixed the stuttering issues some experienced. Some mac users still report issues.

That's a bummer. I was just about to recommend the local scout pack switch to google apps and give each leader an account. But we'd need at least 10 accounts.

Most of the time I'm working around the asp.net framework to get stuff done. I have multiple forms on one page, they just aren't controlled by asp.net (no runat=server). And all my code is in the code behind module.

Other than seagate's hybrid hard drives what innovation is left in spinning disks? We are all just waiting for the day our RAM is non-volatile anyway.

But the waffle fries, and the milkshakes, and the real chicken.... and kids meal toys that are not cheap plastic marketing crap for the latest movie...

Yeah a Krispy Kreme opened near where we used to live some years back. And initially big queues for free donuts. But it didn't last there more than a couple years. It was replaced with a chik-fil-a.

I'm looking at the 6450 because it comes in passively cooled variants.

This was bound to happen from an economic standpoint though. The hard drive business must be really low margin. I mean you get a 1TB drive for like $60 and a 2TB for like $80. When the margins get low, you have to do volume.

Except for the battery life, yes. The EVO fits your criteria I think (not 100% sure of bluetooth keyboard support).

OCZ Vertex 3 Retail Review at anandtech.

Wait the T42 has a PATA main drive bay but a SATA CDROM drive bay? Shouldn't it be the other way around. I know that is the problem with my old dell laptop. Even if I got a media bay adaptor, it'd have to be a PATA drive.

Mounted it over the fireplace. Looks nice. It is plenty big and doesn't seem too far away. We did switch to floor lamps to get rid of light reflections on the TV. Interestingly, about a week after I received it they disappeared from just about everywhere. I guess there wasn't much stock left...

Crucial m4 (C400) Review at anandtech

Intel's new 320 series seems to be getting reviewed today. Not sure of the availability. Are they in your price/performance range? Link

Intel new 320 line review at anandtech.

This is the thread that details the issues. Reports of stuttering, halved speed. Possibly dependent on which controller you use.

I don't know but I think he can tell with the CrystalDiskInfo software they seem to use in the crucial forums to tell the firmware version.

I like the C300 too but I'm waiting till they resolve the firmware issue apparent in version 006. Just review their online forums. If you get a firmware version 002 drive you should be fine. You can't rollback the firmware version.

maybe you have to live in ca?

Perhaps you should look at the pricier non-consumer SSD? From Fusion I/O? They probably have reliability down a bit better as their customers aren't consumers.

I suspected the power connector for the SSD. Or something to do with its power regulation. I doubt it is a failure of the NAND or controller.

Mine works well, my wife's has a blue tint sometimes.

Just found the /b flag for chkdsk in windows 7. I told Acronis 2010 to ignore bad sectors when making the backup. Apparently that didn't work as the restore had the same bad sector count. The /b flag should clear the bad clusters. This doesn't exist on XP.

I have young kids so probably about 3-4 times a year.

Money in hand, planning on ordering the Panasonic P50GT25 TV sometime this week from the panasonic EPP. I was going to wait but I don't think the price will drop anymore.

There is like 75GB of data already there so that won't fly. And the 120GB SSDs seem to be over $200. Can't seem to find a good notebook drive roundup. In the one I found at tom's the Western Digitals seems to be the fastest but I'm hesitant to replace a busted one with the same thing.

What do you think of the Samsung MP4 HM500JJ? Seems to get good reviews on the egg. My other thought was the hitachi. I have a 7200 RPM 500GB seagate in my work laptop. It seems slow.

My wife's laptop hard drive WDC 3200BEKT-60V5T1 has some bad sectors. Laptop is just out of warranty (2/15/2011). So I'm considering what to replace it with. I was looking at that seagate hybrid hard drive the momentus XT but the reviews on the egg seem to indicate firmware issues and not...

I'm thinking of getting the C300 after the C400 comes out. Good idea or get a sandforce based drive?

Maybe this is a good thing and new WD drives won't suck? I think WD gets bigger as a player to compete better with Seagate. I hope this will increase their design capability and manufacturing quality.

So we have Samsung, WD, and Seagate to choose from now? At least in the spinning disk area. Which at this point must be pretty low margin.

Fringe is great. I have no qualms recommending that.

I watch Stargate Universe. But there is a heavy leaning towards the emotional drama. Almost like the scifi is just the background. Unlike previous stargate shows. It is pushing the stargate mythos to new levels though.

Why not go to the local craft store? Most of them have framing services.

I measured. Room has 8 ft ceilings. Mantle is 52 inches high (4ft 4in). Room is 132in wide and 233in (@19.5ft) long. On the right wall we have measurements from mantle side to other side of the room of 76in (wall) + 55in (entraceway) + 102in (wall). On the left wall we have measurements from...

I'm not sure the ceilings are 10 foot. I've never measured them. Yes it will be further away which is why we are thinking 50" or larger.

Yes it would probably add significant production lag and possible cost. But they have to test it anyway so.... We'll get a tilting mount so the viewing angle is more direct. I've attached a sketch of the room layout. It kind of sucks where the TV is now. The windows reflects on it even with...

Why don't the manufacturers just run them for the first 200 hours before sending them out to customers? Seems silly to me that we have to be careful for that time.

I'm not really that interested in the 3D but the difference in price is like $25 (for the TV anyway). The glasses are another expense. I think I'll stick with the plasma.

Which leads to the question, what would you buy instead that is less than a grand and 50" or larger and has good vertical viewing angles since we'll be looking up at the TV?