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The solar panels seem to be having a significant effect on my need to cool the house. They cover the two sunniest planes of the roof, and stand about 4" off the surface. I suspect that having those parts of roof shaded helps keep attic temps significantly lower.

I knew you were a secret agent. No one else arms their horses with frickin' laser beams...

After reading your post, I was certain I had great news for you. The new version of the Dell 30" that I have is a nice unit and is less than $1k! (Follow the link)...Ah. AU$. Sorry, not much to offer. You seem to have found the good'uns.

Some local EV Shenanigans. https://youtu.be/j433Y83ta0o I didn't get to hang out long, I had the opportunity to do some fun field work; pioneering a road in a Cat D5 dozer (first time!). 650ft of elevation gain, about 1500ft of road total, in 6 hours of work. Amazing what a mid-sized dozer and...

If you are looking for new hardware from a major vendor, I can put you in touch with my sales rep from IT Creations. He can find a current supported spec that will fit your needs.

Did your driver update automatically? I have had MS Update override 3rd party drivers with older ones.

That sounds pretty epic, but the 100-400II is enough for me ;)

Yup. Will be a good test of the redundancy, just pull the drive and swap it live. Make sure you know which drive, first.

Some of my games do that in fullscreen mode. Windowed mode does what I want.

I knew you were a robot...

Another point worth making is that GPU tasks are absurdly parallel. This makes just throwing more cores at something a completely viable solution. CPUs would have made much larger strides if this was the case.

Ugh. My gag reflex is very...sympathetic? I have no doubt I'd be joining them even if I felt fine to start. This is particularly difficult when you have a small child.

I'll second that. Synology does have several great NAS units that have 10GbE (or support adding cards) and higher end CPUs. The DS3615xs is a great unit; at a fairly competitive cost for what it is. I've installed them and have no complaints. $3200 before drives and before 10GbE NIC is probably...

Yup. Very familiar. I was expecting them to use poisonous spiders in your part of the world, instead it is the same phone maze.

Not forever, but possibly days.

Absolutely. 1. Move all energy consumption to electricity (appliances, HVAC, etc) 2. Maximize efficiency of all those systems (LED lighting, heatpump-based water heater, heatpump HVAC, induction cooktop, smart thermostat, etc) 3. Measure energy consumption to size system (optional add for...

It really depends on how much space you have. With the current cost of panels (so low), it is rare for tracking mounts to be more effective than more panels. Mine are arranged on two different planes that combined offer some generation all day. Same with the high-efficiency panels, I ended up...

I have some retail Win10 USB sticks coming soon, but I'd guess those are the same as the MCT.

Indeed. Just upping the surface area more than anything. Copper/Aluminum aren't even that necessary.

These came from Amazon with double-sided thermal tape. I do also have some of the arctic silver 2-part thermal epoxy, but I didn't think that it was necessary for this application.

Used the themal camera to locate hot spots and that was one of them. It isn't just a waterblock, the pump is in there as well and did get hot. I'd rather it not fail, and the system as a whole doesn't have that much airflow.

I suppose it depends on how good your backup infrastructure is. If it would be inconvenient to lose the entire array (meaning, more drives than you have redundancy fail within the rebuild time), run the tests. I don't, and am lucky enough to have never lost an array, but that is luck that will...

Rebuilding my work computer, finally got a case for it instead of just sitting the parts on the motherboard box on the floor with cables everywhere. I consider it a step up.

I generally tell it to keep the following: Last 3 changes One from over an hour ago One from yesterday One from last week One from every month permanently My theory goes that the further back things need to go, the more understanding the user is about re-keying data.

The new version of the software is natively Windows based with an SQL backend and doesn't puke with WAN-like latency as their old system (some real-time OS with Oracle 8i) did. It will run locally everywhere. No access gateways; I've built a private WAN spanning a couple mountain ranges and...

Outlook makes users particularly vulnerable, and I can't imagine the benefits being worth it. My best (not only) defense against ransomware is a near-real-time backup with versioning that doesn't honor deletes to a share that isn't accessible with any domain user permissions. The...

When we started the house remodel 7 years ago I bought a full set of DeWalt 18v. Time for a replacement set soon I think.

Nope, I left the decision with the software vendor. They already had a supported configuration that ran Citrix so we just went straight to that.

You've nailed it. Not having control over the TS clients causes all kinds of trouble. Not being able to train them is an issue as well. After we did a full lockdown with group policy things were a little better. After we went to Citrix and started only exposing apps instead of the desktop things...

Recently got a quote from a vendor. Someone we already have a functional system with, just needed to add a new module. $22k. $9k in software licenses, $10k in training and labor for setup, $3k in stuff that, even after I asked for clarification, still didn't know what it was. My second request...

Configured correctly an SLS is $250+ all by itself. That number sounds high but not out of the question. On the first read I made it 6 words in before switching to look at the pictures. First thought: Handy is doing well these days...

The thought of managing 1000 TS clients scares the crap out of me. I suppose with enough staff it'd be fine.

Years ago, I once configured a server and then shipped it halfway across the country. It was handled so roughly during transport that a heatsink snapped off and tumbled around the inside cracking boards and breaking parts off components.

I've had a half-dozen or so root canals, probably should be in line for another 4 or so but I can't be bothered. When the nerve endings cause enough pain to prevent sleep or eating I'll have them killed off. Haven't bothered with crowns either, eventually I'll just get a set of implants and be...

I've done untangle, smoothwall, and PFSense. They all do the things that routers need to do. Unless you have a very fast connection or specific interesting needs it is likely that a standalone router will do just as well with less power consumption. I'll be running a VM for my firewall soon...

I can understand the awkwardness. I managed to avoid it (at least in my head) by never even asking for a quote. Tire Rack just ships straight to his shop and I call to let him know they're mine after they arrive.

Perhaps the main parties losing control will eventually be enough to force a change to the system. Making votes more than a binary choice is the only way to prevent both sides from running towards the extremes.

More suggestions on how Trump and Sanders managed to get so much support despite the best efforts of their respective parties: https://youtu.be/5tu32CCA_Ig

I heard that Founder's Edition are basically the only cards to come with the reference cooler. This is supposed to be really good. Of course, I might not even test mine before sticking a waterblock on it.

Attended the Leon Panetta institute lecture this evening. Fun times. https://youtu.be/CNXcN1NRd94

That's nothing. Here plastic bags are banned and paper bags are $0.10. We use our own anyway, but this kind of thing is why there are so many laws (and lawyers).

...and some of the info I'm hearing now is discussing how many times faster a 1080 will be for VR vs. TitanX. VR is the main reason I went SLI in the first place, and I still haven't gotten my Rift!

Yup. I use the GRC program annually and it makes a significant difference. Easily saves the time it takes to run it.

The most impressive part of it in my opinion is the lower power consumption. Going from 2x TitanX to 1x1080 would reduce my power bill appreciably.

Sweet. Thanks for running that project, Merc. Much appreciated.

I put "nope", so I'm sure you're fine.

Have not seen Deadpool yet, but the gag reel is NSFW and hilarious. http://www.themarysue.com/deadpool-leaked-gag-reel/

Fox News editorial What a mess....

That also depends on the game. Kerbal Space Program was CPU limited (at least up until the 1.1 release) at any resolution and graphics setup. PhysX was unable to handle all the stuff (even with a TitanX dedicated to it).

Remaining GPU limited with just one of these would probably be a $1200 computer. 6700K, 512GB Samsung 950 EVO SSD, 32GB RAM, ~500W PSU.