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I recently had to dig into the cert wormhole here (when you want a piece of "The Cloud" hosted locally you get into all kinds of mess). At the end of the day I had the vendor providing the software deal with it.

This one isn't for the back yard. I need to relay a wireless signal into a canyon we're going to start mining. Most open mines are built into the back side of hills so you can't see them from the main valley, this makes line of sight from our other facilities difficult. I've had a plastic garden...

Even my NAS boxes have SSDs for the OS ;) Shrinking the W7 partition and putting both on the SSD seems to make the most sense. It will also give you an apples/apples comparison of the speed.

I'm going with a deep-cycle lead for my current project. The draw and charge are going to be slow enough compared to the capacity of the pack, and the weight and size of the box will be mostly irrelevant. Well, it will matter to a few people on the day they deploy it, but I'm going to be...

Each of the cells is individually fused, so that helps. Metal box is a good idea. Clear of the house is a better idea. I'm currently putting together a garden shed with solar panels, battery array, and inverter for off-grid use. We'll see how it does.

Verizon here.

Installing OSes on drives with data scares me quite a bit. In fact, installing OSes on drives with an existing partition structure isn't something I've done in years. If there is space on the SSD that already has 7, I'd disconnect your data drives and install 10 alongside 7 if it lets you...

My G4 got the same update at the same time. Interesting. The 1DX II is a fun looking camera, but I'd be using the network connection over the others.

Type-C is the new regular socket. You will live long enough to have to make at least one more switch. This is also the first new connector of all the ones you listed that has an actual advantage; it is fully reversible. It can also handle more power and faster data while in theory being more...

No type-C connector, no replaceable battery. Boo. https://youtu.be/7SKRn_VNwNA

Can't do it that way. During the copy, when you are being hard on the drives, you don't have a backup.

Backing up and restoring is better in all ways except that you need to have 200%+ your array capacity online at the same time. Also, when 1GbE was the thing an array backup and restore would have taken longer.

One of those will be my next phone. I love the G4, but the accessories and compatibility checks available to the Samsung products is amazing.

My guess would be that the CMOS cells weren't fully discharging between exposures. An interesting failure mode.

Wow. Thanks for that. Had no idea adjusting the autofocus point was even a thing.

Is it bad that I don't know what any of that means?

I've been watching this guy for a couple weeks now. He seems to have a good-enough grasp on what he is talking about. Of course, the big money thing not mentioned here is that neither his (nor the Tesla) include the inverter that would be required to make it work with your house. Going through...

In my experience dimmable increases compatibility and improves performance.

When in doubt, buy all the things.

I love that game. I do my best to not reveal how rough some of the cards are when explaining the rules to new players. The look on their face during the first few rounds is priceless.

Boss' house. Home office. Silly to have a home office if your corporate headquarters is <1mi away and the living room PC can do everything anyway. Hasn't been used in years, and the CRT monitor still works. I'm already seeing the benefits, it just isn't the flawlessly intuitive thing I was...

The 3DConnexion Space Mouse is proving to have a steeper learning curve than I had anticipated. It is still quite awesome.

I took this picture today.

Now, do future you a favor and move all machines you support off Exchange and Outlook. It took 7 years, but I've been free of this garbage for 8 years now and loving it.

I take a lot more pictures than I look at. Folders sort by year, and then by shoot, with the original RAW images in a subfolder of that. In the year folder is another called "good" that may get one or two pictures from a shoot and at the end of the year has ~75 pictures in it. I browse using...

Not enough data on those 8TB drives, I'm sure that will improve over time.

I'm actually stoked about having an excuse to buy that 12" Samsung. Haven't had a reason yet. I suppose that proves the point to some degree.

Many of the larger or tech employers around here have free charging stations in the parking lot. Some of them actually have competition for the spots, and make you go take turns during the day. I'll end up negotiating with the boss about having one installed at my spot. This will be much easier...

The Model S battery packs are water cooled, I suspect that would also work to heat if required. There are videos of the automatically extending door handles punching through thick ice when required, pretty cool.

Mid-tier UPSes these days have SNMP capabilities, that would allow you to log data from the wall at some frequency. This would allow you to aggregate large amounts of data and put together statistics which could compel action.

What a complete pile of crap. There were enough giant assumptions and cherry-picking of facts in the first half that I didn't bother to continue. Assumption 1: As soon as the big three decide to get into the EV game, they will immediately do it better and cheaper. Assumption 2: That gas and...

The AC kicked on here this evening. A combination of 80F+ in the afternoon and me cooking (spicy orange chicken wings and lavender rice with mushrooms). 425F in the oven for 40 minutes puts a lot of heat into the building envelope.

Not that scary, and more my fault. The e-mail they sent asking for payment was a link to Paypal. I'd already paid 50% up front, and the second link stated "remaining balance of $26k+" and never showed a confirmation page. Sure enough, the charge was for the full amount, so I've now overpaid 50%...

Many of the things I'm doing these days are pretty parallel. But for my desktop I want the one I linked.

This is the one I'm interested in: http://wccftech.com/intel-rumored-launch-51-ghz-xeon-e52602-v4-processor-broadwellep-lineup-features-165w-tdp/

Anytime I want good cooling and encouter packaging issues I just go to an AIO water unit. Surfing around, the Corsair H5 SF looks pretty cool.

Closer to 10 once the tax man is happy.

I'd like to just state here that PayPal sucks. SolarCity routes all credit card purchases through them, and accidentally overcharged me. The refund from SolarCity was processed, but still hasn't shown on my credit card. I fear that it will eventually show as a PayPal balance instead of a card...

Funny, they did the same to me when I left my VPN service running once.

IIRC, PacBell/sbcglobal (later ATT) got Yahoo to manage their e-mail? Perhaps you can convert the address to a free account?

That depends on who is currently running your e-mail. I'm a firm believer that everyone should have their own domain, that way they can keep their e-mail address no matter what and have whomever they like run it for them (among other advantages). Cost is well under $100/year for all of it, setup...

I've already deployed a number of Netgear 10GbE equipment. Specifically the 8 and 12 port versions combined with Intel X540T2. These costs I can handle, but upgrading my perfectly good Synology units to ones with 10GbE was a bridge too far. Synology will serve as backups and can sync all night...

I'm looking for a new home server as well, though I be using it as a computing resource and wanted 10GbE. Looking at this Supermicro board: Link: http://amzn.com/B018AX40ZE

I've never seen a graphics score so low. Feel the ASPEED AST2300 power!

The first YouTube/YouTube Red revenue numbers I've ever seen. https://youtu.be/B-Hr0H7TwAo

In the past we've discussed YouTube Red and whether it was positive for creators, this guy does a lot of this stuff and seems to think it is a pretty good thing. https://youtu.be/kBwCRPlpFXU

A bit basic, but relevant to the thread: https://youtu.be/m_B8AFvguqo

Any particular reason you are installing 7? Going for an upgrade?

I know for a fact that Dell and Lexmark were the same many years ago (cartridges were even compatible), but haven't bought either in years.

I'm still running the big-dog Routerboard at my place. Super powerful, very capable (if complex) interface. That plus a UAP-AC Pro for every room should solve your problems and blast everyone else into the stone age.