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For me that is the biggest selling point of Ultrsharp Dells over their cheaper ones; more connection options.

T1 lines here are also $450 a month. Even now the internet connection at my office is 14 T1 lines at $450 a month. This is why I'm so stoked. Currently: $6300 for 21mbps Soon: $4400 for 1000mbps If I could get a gig for $500/mo I'd have one at home.

Years ago I used very early Ubiquiti equipment in the 2.4Ghz range to fire a point-to-point right down main street, about 5 miles. A site survey showed hundreds of APs, dozens without any security at all. Some clever coding and more radios and I could have harvested all the internet bandwidth I...

Two of the three enterprise web apps that we use specifically don't support IE or Edge. Chrome or FF only.

Probably won't do most of the things you're after, but my wife and I use a joint LastPass account. It has all the credentials to all of the things and is on both our phones and all the computers. That and a joint DropBox make things really easy.

Same. Available on ninite.com, no reason to mess with anything else.

I don't have any information for you I'm afraid. So far I've kept things in the VMWare world and haven't had to worry about it.

Wireless AC can actually give higher speeds than gigabit ethernet. I'd recommend some USB3 wireless AC adapters for max performance. (Also much easier to troubleshoot than an intermediary device).

Exactly. Another reason to move as much as possible to electric first.

I know two people who placed orders (I'm one). Both of us are anticipating deliveries midway though 2018 even though we were some of the first. While I doubt the subsidies will be pulled, it wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me. I also anticipate the cost of the one I'm thinking of to be in the...

Almost. Every month I'm charged $5 for the ability to take or put energy into the grid as needed. Actual usage is only calculated once a year when they look at the net for the entire period. At that point I pay somewhere between $0.21 and $0.36 depending on how much I went over. If they owe me...

This is why I pay the utility company $5/mo; to treat them like a giant battery. When I use more power than I produce, my electric meter runs forward. When I produce more than I use, it runs backwards. The difference over a year is all that I care about at the moment. This is a pretty standard...

I've been planning this for quite some time. When I redid the electrical service in the house 8 years ago I ran a 240V/100A circuit into the garage that terminates in a dedicated sub-panel. This should be able to charge a pair of electric cars overnight. When I did the design for the garage I...

If you produce your own electricity, you are helping them reduce load on their distribution network. If you produce more you become competition. Still irrational, but that is my guess. Peak loads, and loads when production is low is handled by the grid. Same as my excess production during the...

You're right of course, as evidenced by his other colossal failures (PayPal, SpaceX, SolarCity) Right again. I'd have been far more confident of their success had half as many people shown serious interest in their product. Of course not; this is someone entering into a known marketplace...

This was actually very intentional. Around here, our power company will not let you install more generation than your average consumption. I'd been intentionally wasteful for the year, but as I approached permit time I realized I hadn't been wasteful enough to get the system capacity as high as...

Blue is me, grey is my neighborhood average, green is an "efficient" house (whatever that means). There is a monthly fee ($30? something like that) for being connected to the grid and using it like a battery. No complaints there. They also buy back any excess power (though at a really low rate...

The solar just kicked in, yo! I'm hoping that net-negative for March means I'll be able to be slightly net negative for an entire year...

Good catch. With my luck I wouldn't have noticed until I needed to review the footage after a theft or other.

It also seems to be an either/or situation. On some installs (my Surface Pro) it works perfectly every time. On others (my Lenovo laptop Win10 install) it never works. Also doesn't work on Server 2016 TP4, BTW.

That was my thought.

...and a DVD reader capable of reading the 3-layer, 33GB/layer disks. I might be better off capturing the HDMI stream somehow.

Has anyone put together a hardware/software solution for ripping 4k UltraHD disks to a file yet? I've done a fair bit of searching and come up empty.

The app search from the start menu in 10 is my biggest complaint, as it very rarely works for me. Example: In Win 7, 8, or 8.1 I can hit the windows key and type "Photoshop", the program called Photoshop that is installed on my computer appears as the top result, pressing enter launches it...

I suspect the opposite is true. Google has enough techs, lawyers, and control over their entire environment to maintain a list of the standards that they comply with. Their exposure is also high enough that I'd bet their system is configured properly and actually complies with the standards...

Nothing is entirely safe. Larger organizations that can devote enough skilled staff to maintain their own e-mail/spam/AV/calendar/etc system in a secure way can have a system more secure than trusting it with Google. Most companies running Exchange do not fall into this category.

I've given management the choice, and they've decided to keep former employee accounts open just for easy access. The $50/user/year is nothing to maintain a full searchable record of all their communications. Protocol is that password is changed and given to former supervisor, and all new...

Lunar nailed it.

Nope. The only video cards I've had die were my own fault (failed watercooling or running way out of spec).

Wow am I glad you used your good keyboard for that post; I wouldn't have understood half of it if it were below your average for clarity. Thanks for the information! Do you know of any large 4k@60hz capable displays that offer any of these features? This is what I get for gaming and working on...

This first-gen Dell 32" 4k in front of me now positively sucks. Running it in DP1.2 (60hz) causes constant loss of sync and corrupted video. I'm looking forward to replacing it with something a bit bigger that can handle 4k@60 reliably.

Congratulations on the apps. Is that $5500 just for the first year? Just for tuition?

Last I heard the thought was that >45 SPF had a very diminishing return.

My favorite are the custom ones that only work if you are wearing the correct glasses. ;) https://youtu.be/zL_HAmWQTgA

Totally interested. May/June seems to be the availability people are tossing around?

Nope. Hate it. One of the big selling points of getting in with your guys on S4s was not having to negotiate. I'm very tempted to get someone else to negotiate my next car. Best experience ever was for my wife's current car; did it all via e-mail over the course of a morning.

I've had a 2-post rack in the living room for years, but I think it is time to transition to a 4-poster. Due to cable length limitations it was important for the rack to be close to the desk. Now that USB 3.1 and HDMI 2.0 over fiber are a thing I can put the hardware further away. I may even...

Again this is part of dealing with a system that already exists. When I was in SE Asia and showed interest in a product, the seller immediately quoted a price 5-10x what it was worth. I'd respond with an offer 1.1x the value to me (still probably double what they would have settled for had I...

I have luggage with wheels, but I had two max size checked bags behind me and they weren't fitting through that door.

Those look cool. Thanks for the link.

Tipping is awful. It's been shown that tipping and bartering corrilate directly with corruption. There is also a layer of social awkwardness that I find very distasteful. So much so that I nearly injured myself carrying our bags to the room to avoid the guys at the door. This would be so much...

Currently at SeaWorld with wife and kid. I believe Dante would have referred to this as sub-basement 2.

Just started using Uber for the first time on this trip. Amazing experience compared to a cab. No cash involved. No tips. The cars are nicer and you can specify how nice you want. Even on a busy night you don't have to wait thanks to surge pricing. They already know where you're going because...

The video above says that unRAID uses the KVM tech from RedHat. I don't know what VM format that requires.

As usual Merc nails it. I'd either go Android or full-blown Win10 with an MS Surface Book. For your budget forget that second option. The Surface Book is awfully nice, typing on it now and have been photo editing all morning on Photoshop. Because most of the brains are behind the screen the...

The worst one I have to do these days is LAX -> SVO; about 12.5 hours usually with a 1 hour delay. My local airport (MRY) is an absolute dream; typically a staff of 5 (same people check you in and board you) and a dozen TSA just sitting around watching their 3 co-workers do the things. Very laid...

Sounds about right. One of the things I like about that channel is that all the errors make it in; there is no hand-waving "what mistake?" editing shenanigans going on. Looking forward to the next video...

I've always ended up buying new cars because I want tech that is only in new cars (this time it will be Tesla Autopilot). Once you are buying the car and eating the depreciation, then you get to make the decision about interest vs. cash.

Very jealous. Getting on a plane for a "vacation" in San Diego in about an hour. With a kid the best vacation is in a completely controlled and predictable environment. Last week I tried to take 3 days off and stay home but was called in every day.

I'll likely be financing a car in the next year or so. In the past I've financed cars for 0.9% through dealerships (with good credit). Even if I have the money I can do better than 1% elsewhere (managed 5% in the market last year).