Search results

Works correctly for me as well. (3)

I'm guessing a power issue as well. All my LEDs that are _not_ dimmable have issues and fail early even if I don't have them on a dimmer. The higher-powered outdoor ones I have have actually killed a couple Insteon switches in addition to misbehaving themselves.

My most common solution is a piece of cardboard to prevent the motherboard from shorting on the metal shelves in the rack. I position the boards at the edge of the shelf so that the longer part of the PCI card covers extends below the shelf. If I'm not putting the system on a shelf with an...

So maybe more than a dozen :p. It's been three years since two of my machines were in cases. The only reason I used a case for this one was to better secure the water tubes.

Cases are not mandatory. Only one of my last dozen PCs ever ended up in a case.

Interestingly enough, the camera on my DJI Phantom 3 Pro uses the same sensor as my GoPro, but with a much better lens and no fish-eye.

I have the Hero 4 Black, and it is a good camera with 2 caveats. 1. Wide-angle lens. Really wide. I don't know if there is an aftermarket way to fix this, but doubt it would fit in the watertight enclosure. 2. No view-finder. They do sell a small LCD that can mount to the back of the camera...

I doubt you're pregnant.

AM2 or AM2+?

Modern. Tried to download the desktop program and it claimed "already installed"

Mainly I'm thinking of Skype. At this point in Win10 it is a colossal PITA to change Skype users without creating an entirely separate user account on the computer.

Yup. I used to buy one and get right back in line to buy the next. Same cashier, still doesn't care. Just can't be on the same receipt.

Just a follow-up to this. Turns out EC2 can give you pretty respectable GPU machines, and the program I'm using is OpenCL accelerated. What took 46 hours with CPUs will take 6 with GPUs. Specs for the machine: [/LIST] The big one is still less than $3/hr.

Another useful app does the way of most useful apps....:(

Completely understand, I'm a big fan of the overkill myself. I actually stuck a AIO 120mm water unit on an i3 at home.

That CPU in that use case shouldn't need much of a cooler at all. Link: http://amzn.com/B00K7809O2

Looks entirely legit and quite reasonable to me. Edit: Wow, PCI slots....haven't seen those in a long time...

That picture was taken at about 10:30 in the morning, and is facing north-northwest. The house itself is on a 45-degree angle, with the road going from NW to SE and the house built squared to it.

The windows in the top-left quadrant of this picture (that would be west) are only the bathrooms and have privacy glass. Good thing, or they would see the storage shed and heatpump exchanger. The panels need to be a minimum distance from the sides and top of each roof plane to prevent lift...

What is the minimum resolution you like to see in your finished images?

Yup. That is pretty much the whole property, not a convenient place to stay out of frame.

Photogrammetry. Specifically, running the program PhotoScan by Agisoft against ~300 18MP images to create a 3D model of several acres of complex terrain including several buildings and other objects. More specifically, creating a dense cloud of several million points.

When the largest EC2 instance isn't enough....this is going to stay pegged on this process for 40 hours+

Running only 20MP from a FF sensor is one way to get good low-light performance. It also lets you get high FPS numbers. I'm most impressed by the 4k@60FPS video mode; last I checked that was a RED thing (or GoPro, but you know what I mean).

I held quite a few individual stocks along with ETFs through most of last year (actually managed a positive return in 2015, a hard thing to do. Thanks Amazon!), but sold out mid-December. I had a feeling it wouldn't be pretty, but I had no idea how bad it would get.

Photogrammetry is getting much better. Also, here is my installed solar array.

None of my recent fixtures are at my place, but JTR did wire up an LED conversion for an antique chandelier years ago. The LEDs are at the top of where the "candles" are and shine directly upward with no diffusion. From any place below the plane of the LEDs there is no visible source of the...

LEDs are effectively point sources. If you don't have a lot of them you should consider either diffusion or indirect light. A lot of the fixtures I'm putting in lately are designed to throw against a wall or ceiling. The two bedside lights I'm putting together mount into the ceiling, but are...

Thanks for that. I've passed the message on. Once I hear back from him we'll probably go e-mail for negotiation.

Any coders around here with some free time and experience with page scraping? Just an inquiry for a buddy. He wants to be alerted when a campsite that fits his parameters comes available in Yosemite Valley. ( on recreation.gov) No idea his budget or specifics.

And for flights, I haven't even tried to check batteries, so I wouldn't be able to tell you. The craziest I've done is bring about 15lbs of LiIon batteries in carry-on for United; security didn't even look twice.

Sorry. Let me try that again: https://www.anker.com/products/A1310011

Clearing snow from a roof or solar panels is as easy as heating them from underneath. Perhaps run a coil of water/antifreeze under the panels/roof and route the other end far enough underground to find non-freezing temperatures? As far as living away from people, I think it has more to do with...

There is a huge difference between wireless internet and satellite internet. Satellite has two problems, latency and bandwidth. Latency is purely a matter of the distance the information travels. All HughesNet satellites are in geostationary orbits approximately 35,786km away. Even if your...

Here is the page for the 10050+ on their site. I haven't tried checking a battery; my carry-on these days is a Pelican case holding laptops, camera bodies, and batteries. Important to board early to make sure there is space for it, but I also keep good (not TSA) locks handy if they insist it go...

And on that note, get a multi-port charger, so you don't need to charge the battery and device off the same port. https://www.anker.com/products/A2062111

At this point they have several generations of products all for sale at the same time. Their latest generation products have a pretty good size/weight per mAh. I haven't tried charging devices off the battery while the battery is charging, I just charge the battery and device off the same...

At this point my trusted brand for USB-based charging is Anker. They make cables, multi-port wall and car chargers, and battery banks. I've had great experiences with all of them.

I was born in Eugene, lived there for a year in my 20s, and still have friends there I could walk through a repair/rebuild if it comes to that. Just let me know.

(keyboard rebuilt) Making all my appliances electric is the start of figuring out how to go completely off-grid. I've done the math, but this will be a practical test of how many panels it takes to run an efficient house in a very inefficient manner. Once that is confirmed I can start worrying...

But my responses are far less ambiguous.

Apologies. I'll be tearing down my current keyboard and cleaning it tomorrow as a replacement arrives. For now I'll avoid words containing "h7".

Admittedly, th7ose are use cases for low-power, low-price computing in general and may not be ideal for th7e Pi. And th7e 7s are th7e result of my daugh7ter pouring diet coke into my brand-new (3 h7our) old dasKeyboard 4 Professional. Th7e "h" key also triggers th7e "7" key. Wh7en sh7e first did...

Paperwork with7 th7e power company was by far th7e limiting factor. Mainly th7at th7ey didn't want me producing more th7an a tiny percentage of wh7at I could receive. Solar City managed to put togeth7er an argument based on sub-optimal angles of th7e panels and weath7er conditions in my area to...

:p

I th7ink th7e trick is to look at places th7at h7aven't h7ad computers before, rath7er th7an places th7at already do. H&ow about controlling Ch7ristmas ligh7ts? Putting one in every ligh7t switch7 for fancy automation stuff? Tying into th7e garage door opener? Flood detection? Smart appliance...

I think it is a case of misplaced incentives. Those in charge are punish7ed if th7ey underestimate th7e storm, but not if th7ey overestimate it.

https://youtu.be/qRv7G7WpOoU

Yup.