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I haven't seen it, but I only have ~40 machines on Win10 so far.

$5k a house would be pretty cheap for that, roads are crazy expensive.

This is why they wanted to break it into two sections, so they can be argued independently in court.

Indeed. I suspect it has to do with the size of the part compared to power consumption and how isolated it is from the rest of the motherboard. When those same chips are mounted to a 2.5" drive it isn't as big a deal.

Yup. I've had exactly one HOA, and they had my car towed from in front of my house twice, cited me for installing a hot tub in my backyard, and prevented me from installing double-pane windows to replace the ancient aluminum ones.

I suspect he is simply omitting a step titled "go to court, win right to modify contract" in between "remove protections" and "further modify contract". I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing ends up in court several times. Contracts that prevent use of the legal system are very often...

FLIR One, not that expensive. ($250) Easy work justification. AC in server room wasn't keeping up, and the thermostat was giving poor readings. Turned out to be an air circulation issue. Also good for identifying hot spots in computers for instability or failing components. For example, the...

Just a warning for anyone looking to run M.2 SSDs, they get hot and will thermally throttle if you don't cool them. I even went so far as to use thermal epoxy to attach large heatsinks to mine, and the base of the drives is still the second hottest thing in the computer.

Merc nailed it. Also, when you get it running, take another image of your 7 system ;)

I don't know of any way to measure capacity or (by extension) power draw or charge rate. I'm sure there are industrial-level tools for that, but I know of nothing in the consumer space.

SD@8K! Sweet.

Pis and no programming means implementing some of the existing builds. Arcade? Home Automation?

If disk backups are failing, you need to pull them. I might try to pull these, erase them every way you can think of, and then restore back. Or just replace them and hold onto these for a less critical project in the future.

Should be able to. I'll be visiting the fab shop early next week.

RED Scarlett with a walk-around fit and one lens was still ~$2.2k to rent for a week.

RED is too much for me, even just a week rental would be thousands. 5DsR and a 35/1.4II? Not sure the 17-40/4 will be sharp enough, but the 24/1.4 should be, no? And the 100-400II should be fine as well?

...or maybe a RED?

I don't plan on buying anything for a while, but I do have a vacation coming up in a month, and it would be nice to play with some fancier gear to make the vacation more interesting.

Which camera rental places do you guys have good experiences with? I'd love to try out the 1DX II...

Unfortunate. Though I expected anyone actually trying to profit from DRM defeat to go down eventually.

Speed might be ok but the bandwidth would be too expensive for the security camera streams. Razzolink is a local wireless ISP that I have a really good relationship with. They have 500Mbps+ of internet at the top of a local hill and would let me buy some. I've attached images of both runs for...

Yup, using Ubiquiti gear. The relay down into the quarry will be a sector antenna, probably one of these, to feed the different facilities (gatehouse, scales, processing, haul trucks, etc). I'm currently evaluating different options to get data in there. Ideally it would be a direct feed from...

...and 2x 10GbE, and IPMI...too many thoughts...

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.