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A friend is trying to digitize a bunch of old photos. They are of varying sizes and qualities, some are quite fragile. He is not willing to trust an outside company with them. I presume he is looking for a flatbed. Some basic research has revealed that most have essentially the same spec. Is...

Buying presents is stupid. Purchasing something for someone else introduces inefficiencies in the selection process that could be counteracted just by giving cash. Therefore when buying something as a gift for someone else it is best to get their feedback first. Buying her a watch that she...

A co-worker just got the Samsung Smartwatch. Very fancy. Something about having its own 3G connection and not needing to bring your phone with you? Still trying to figure out the systems offered.

My wife has given me permission to buy her a smartwatch. She tends to put her phone in her purse and her purse in a drawer. The only must-have feature for her is that the watch notify her when her phone is ringing (within BT range is fine). Of course, the only thing she cares about is that it...

I think the most important lesson in the video is to not store passwords at all if you don't have to. Use one of the other systems that offer it (Google, Facebook, etc). I understand there are privacy issues there, but it seems to be the least evil.

http://youtu.be/8ZtInClXe1Q

The thing to get seems to be the LoTR Extended Edition box set...

This has worked great so far, with a single exception that I don't think I can blame on the software. Trying to migrate "Home1" (sig) to the new X99 and m.ZX4 hard drive was unbootable. The copy looks flawless, likely just misses some system files to read the new setup. Might as well do a clean...

AFAIK, 3 LoTR and 3 just for Hobbit.

Do you normally get more than one of the main lenses? Do you try to keep them identified (label?)

Very nice. I've run a bunch of the Corsair H110s, I've had the water pump fail on one out of maybe 8? Mainly I just don't bother anymore, a massive normal heatsink is going to get you 99% of the way there anyway. Then again, if the case you are running gets a little tight, it might be a good way...

The board I got has two M.2 ports onboard, and I had two of the XP941 500GB drives in the cart for a while before I came to my senses. Trusting ASUS with a RAID-0 for no good reason (benchmarks!) just didn't pass the smell test. And there is the small matter of another $$$.

I ended up going with the ASUS X99-Deluxe. I had good enough luck with their X99A on my first build. This board supports two M.2s, but I only ordered one for now. I would be thrilled if everything came with 10GB, but I don't have any other infrastructure that would support it at this point.

Looks sweet, but the fan on the chipset is a deal-breaker at the moment. Not worth the hassle of replacing the chipset cooling right out of the box.

Didn't buy one of these, but I did order a Samsung XP941 after reading the review. It will go with my own X99 build (finally getting one).

Interesting. The link was a straight copy/paste from Amazon, and when I went to edit it in the original post, it was already correct and worked upon saving.

Just bought a copy of Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0, we'll see if that is what it says.

Still shopping around for the easiest way to do this. More and more often I'm upgrading mid/low-end laptops with 128GB or 256GB SSDs from 500GB or 1TB HDDs, and I imagine I am not alone. I love my hardware-level drive copiers, but they only work if the destination is larger (regardless of...

It is still the next lens on my list. I've procrastinated long enough that a new version has been released. I may actually order it before the III comes out.

The numbers I've seen show plenty of STR, just with a 5400RPM seek. The newer NAS units ship with either GBs of RAM for cache or room for an SSD as cache. Unless there turns out to be some catastrophic issue with these (super limited write cycles?) I would totally run them.

RAID-10 with 6 of them would have acceptable performance I think.

Having a gaming rig at home is more important than mining ;) When I get the Titan running again I'll switch back.

I've ordered a replacement cooling system (arctic closed circuit water something) after seeing the prices on those faster cards. Until then I'll run a couple R9 290X I still have kicking around.

Fan just quit on one of my original Titans. Card runs fine so long as I don't load it up and keep the airflow going, but that is not optimal. Am I reading it right that the current nVidia Badass is the Titan Z? I'll be getting an aftermarket cooler for the Titan (suggestions welcome), but could...

I'm 6'3", so it should be an entirely achievable goal. But I've spent less than 5% of my adult life within 10% of it. Something to work on. Merc seems to be nailing it.

180 is my target. I'm 70lbs away at the moment. Congratulations.

The cheap universal fit ones. Not the ones they sell now (600S), but some previous iteration in the $400 range. Had them for years.

The trailer is very far from Aero; it even has an orange flag that I have up when riding in town. I'm back up to 250lbs, and many hills in the area are quite steep. My normal route includes a 1 mile climb that has 600' of ascent, most of it in the first 1/3rd. On my old regular ride the leg...

Yeah, maybe 100W. I ordered Monoprice 12ga in-wall. Probably going to go with Logitech Harmony for remote control. Thanks!

If you needed to run speaker wire over 100' from the amp to the speaker, what speaker wire would you use? Shielded? Larger Gauge? What if they wanted a volume control on the wall much closer to the speakers than the amp? Is there something that can control an amplified signal? Ordinarily I'd...

Interesting. I wonder how they compare to my Ultimate Ears or Bose QuietComfort 20.

There is a seller on Amazon called "Computer Upgrade King" that sells Lenovo units with the RAM and CPU maxed, SSD swapped in, and Win 7 Pro downgrade already applied. Also prime eligible on some units. I've bought quite a few of these without complaints. 5 more sitting downstairs right now.

We have this discussion every few years. Every time we pretty much settle on leaving it as-is in order to make sure no-one can change the meaning of a post after it has been read or responded to (we used to have more politics).

I got a new cassette as well, but mine is specifically designed to help when towing a 50lb trailer that has knobby tires. Went to an 11-32 and a long-cage rear derailleur. I really underestimated how much additional power towing would require. According to my Garmin Vector pedals, 15mph with the...

I didn't think the post went at all, it crashed out completely.

My wife is a doc, and her professional medical opinion was that I should have some stitches, but she wasn't adamant about it so I think I'll be fine ;)

Did some of the local holiday parades with a giant piece of construction equipment on a trailer, the whole thing covered with 10,000+ lights that blink to music. Last time we did it was 3 years ago, but last time I didn't manage to injure myself this badly. Jumped backwards off the equipment...

I order direct from Lenovo, but I would be worried about how long their inventory has been sitting around for a laptop of that vintage. I'd probably turn to BatteriesPlus.

An 80" screen viewed from 10' might benefit from being curved. Of course, that is so different from the view the director had in mind I can't imagine the experience optimal. Maybe for 3D?

I really like that. Same as Lunar, it would need to be bigger and higher res to get me to jump from the Dell 30" or 32".

These two need to go here. http://youtu.be/f66kEastC58 http://youtu.be/Wpd2VaFt5iY Video tagging is broken for some reason.

Nice watching all the AMG GTs running around the last couple weeks. http://youtu.be/th9YqxWnCXE

That's fun. Typed in my two favorite shows just for kicks: Grand Designs: "not available" Match of the Day: "not available" The UI can be much cleaner without any data.

Yup. Lots of drivers. Windows update had one, HP had another. Both of those allowed normal printing (PDFs and such), but plotting from ACAD errored out. The workaround for that was to specify a similar HPGL plotter inside ACAD and their "plotter manager" application. Tried most of the plotters...

I'm afraid it has already sold Santilli, next time ;)

Frankly, I think they had the time and I could have gotten it going. I think the tech looked at ACAD 2015 and decided he didn't feel like learning it.

Next up is suspension. I don't need it lower (the Ti handling pack already lowered the car ~1" from standard) or all that much stiffer (not tracking the car). But better damping would be nice. Lighter would be nice as well.

Intel Core i7-5930K ASUS X99-A Crucial Ballistix Sport 32GB Kit (8GBx4) DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) CL16 DR x8 Unbuffered DIMM 288-Pin Memory BLS4K8G4D240FSA Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 Quiet CPU Cooler for Intel LGA 2011 Socket with 6 Heatpipes, 140/120mm SSO Bearing PWM Fans NH-D14 SE2011 Assembled...

Home finally. That was the biggest train wreck I've been part of in a long time. Everything was going perfectly until the user experienced an issue plotting from AutoCAD 2015 to their (ancient) HP Designjet 500. Everything else was working, even printing PDFs (or anything else) to that beast...

Nope, that outright sucks. For now I am happy with what I have, just had a recalibration of the clutch and all the driveability issues I had are gone. 99% stock for shifts and it feels very fast indeed. I'll have it properly dyno'd at some point, but it is keeping me happy.