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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.

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.