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So glad I don't deal with local re-sellers anymore. Some are good, some aren't, finding out isn't worth it.

I think you're on the right track with SATA modes in the BIOS. Can you force them into IDE mode? Maybe even SATA1 (150)? Try disabling all the ports you can?

There is a forest fire about 15 miles away, so the air quality sucks at the moment. Rather be elsewhere.

Thanks again Handruin for all you do to keep this place ticking!

We've had some warm weather here, too.

They have suggested that they are switching to an iterative model, it may only be updates for the rest of time.

A fairly recent thing to think about is that many brands now ship special fans for high static pressure in addition to the usual series. Would your application benefit from this?

Yup. At best in gaming I've seen 1.8x or so. Average is probably 1.5x. Combine that with games that won't run with an SLI setup at all (Eve Online and others), and it is a no-brainer.

So I'll be replacing the 2x "Titan X" in my home rig with 1x "Titan X" and expect a ~30% performance improvement. That isn't confusing at all....

Master Plan, Part Deux

The only time I've felt the need is when they don't offer a card big enough. One Titan X wasn't enough, so I used two. One 1080 is totally enough, so I won't be bothering.

I'm pretty sure I'm done with SLI for these reasons. NVidia has made it clear that they are trying to get away from supporting multiple card setups as much as possible. There are those new card/vendor agnostic systems, but I don't see them being that big a thing either.

So far this seems to be a pretty good cover of the two: https://youtu.be/mF4S5ZaXdgE

I was thinking about it, but this was on too short a notice.

We played CnC: Generals Zero Hour and Battlefield 4. This was a really interesting experience. The people that came over used to work for me or were regulars at the game center I owned in Monterey. At the time they were kids or close to (oldest was 19). Now they are in their mid-20s and manage...

LAN night at my place, family is out of town. Fun times and easy; all the computers and game licenses are mine. Slowest machine is 2x 290X, all are 32" 4k displays.

It shouldn't, but I've only actually done it with the Synology. I assume you intended to add a drive to an empty slot and accidentally pulled a full slot?

I haven't seen any analysis of the solar roadway proposals that address the engineering issues. And charging lanes are too socialist for the USA :p

For the most part I don't use hot spares. I will occasionally keep a spare new drive sitting nearby so that a rebuild can start ASAP.

It is entirely possible that gas prices end up going down and staying down. All that is required is for demand to shrink a bit. EVs are still selling even though gas prices are low. The most difficult industry to substitute gas is aviation, IMO.

Very happy to not have a landline, though I do still get a couple sales calls a week to the cell. I pretty much never answer, my voicemail says to send me an e-mail.

The poll wasn't for cold storage, it was for any storage. Folders with files that you don't want to lose. How do you store them, how do you maintain backups, what level of redundancy satisfies your paranoia, etc. IMO, cold storage is not reliable enough to be counted in most redundancy...

Do not want a hybrid. The added complexity and weight of two different propulsion systems in a car causes an allergic reaction in me. Also, the performance of the Volt seems pretty lame. The cheapest AWD Model S has a 0-60 of 5.2s. Slower than what I have now, but enough. The numbers I can see...

Our TV died a year ago and I haven't felt the need to replace it. Obviously I'm not the main audience.

That is the reason I'm keeping the Golf R on the list. I've seen one with 45k miles got $45k before. I might go for that, maybe $50k for one with the higher performance options.

Sounds like a touchscreen might work better?

This poll was inspired by snowhiker asking about the cold-storage / shelf-life of data on SSDs. I'm of the impression that any kind of cold-storage is too much of a risk for data you care about. There are many levels of redundancy that can be taken, but I'd imagine most here at least have a...

Do you have a folder or drive where you keep stuff you don't want to lose? Do you take precautions (multiple copies, redundancy, multiple locations, etc)?

Connectivity is going to be a major concern as well. As Lunar alluded to, even now newer storage interfaces are coming out. Also, the unknown risk of putting something offline on a shelf is, to me, unacceptable. I'll start another thread about this part of it...

Mine has 120k on it, and likely won't pass CA smog at this point. The absurd part of me wants to do an EV conversion with 700+ hp.

Evaluating the replacement of my Audi. Currently the main contenders are a new Golf R or a used Model S. Ideally spending not much more than $40k.

Other devices. I ended up making a mount for my phone in portrait mode to make it usable.

I don't feel comfortable calling an overclock stable unless I know how far from "the limit" it is. This involves finding the limit. Quite possibly. Good thought. I wish. Doing an OC is something I charge a flat rate for.

Mine are, which is a problem if you are trying to use LCD screens.

Trouble. I was doing a long-term test of the system after a final overclock. Left it on the bench overnight with very little load. Came in the next morning and the system was off. Turning it on causes the following: 1. No video 2. All three lights on the keyboard on solid and non-responsive 3...

The trick to making Amazon links work is to not use your own address bar. On the right side of the product page, above the "Add to Cart" button is a simple link called "Share". This will give you a URL that will work for everyone following it, whether they are logged in or not, or whatever...

I have a pair of full wrap-around sunglasses with my prescription in them and a pretty dark tint. I think Nike makes them, and they can fit a pretty thick lens without looking weird or feeling heavy. They live in my car, as the self-darkeining lenses work everywhere else. I think they were...

Even their smaller units would do that pretty easily. The main question then is how much antenna you'll need to use to acquire the source signal. On containers I typically bolt a 15' length of 2" schedule 80 pipe to the side and then mount the external antenna to the top of that. I bet the Home...

Cool, that implies that they'd be willing to sell it for a price. The dead guy wouldn't even return my messages.

It really depends on the size of the area you need to cover, and whether the source antenna can be reached using reasonable effort. I have their large system driving a pair of giant outdoor panel antennas and providing coverage to an acre or so including warehouses.

Thanks for looking it up, I'd forgotten you could do that...

I own ddrueding.com, I've wanted drueding.com. Which has been owned by the only other David Drueding on earth (well, formerly on the earth; there can be only one.) Distant uncle.

I've wanted a domain name for many years now, and the owner has never gotten back to me. He is now dead. I'd like a service to purchase this domain name for me as soon as it becomes available (might be years depending on how far into the future he paid for it). Does anyone here have...

Nah, I ordered it several days ago. It had a quantity of one, and I'm fairly confident it was me.

Thanks for that. You may notice that they are now out of stock. That may have been me.

I've had really good luck with equipment from a company now called. WeBoost They used to be known by another name that I can't remember at the moment. I've used many levels of their product between the car and full-building modes. Takes time to set up correctly and possibly some infrastructure...

Customer decided that they wanted me to do an overclock after all. Currently 4.4Ghz for the CPU, 2300 for the RAM, and 2.1/5.5 for GPU/Mem respectively. Still testing.

I can't see heating the NAS helping, Lunar.

Yup. We went through a case and a half of wine, a dozen or so beers, and about 1L of liquor distributed across 8 varieties. A buddy of mine used to be a bartender, so if anyone wanted anything crazy they would just ask him.

We had a full open bar, but with 18 guests it was just a table with a bunch of booze on it.