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Hah. Mine were submitted Jan 30th ;)

Anyone else considering it? Today only, $1500. The main thing I'm tempted by is the POV camera for pictures/video of the kid. Though I suspect that this is a fire sale of dev units before the much cheaper and better production units show up.

It was pretty much the money. I'd decided that the larger screen of the Note3 would be better for my use in the car, but got the call that I could have an S5 for free if I said yes right now. So I did. I hadn't been comparing the S5 to anything, so I don't have any arguments for or against it. I...

I have this French door fridge. I really like it. The only complaint I have is that the water dispenser stops operating when the opposite door is open (for no apparent reason). If I had it do to again, I wouldn't have a water/ice dispenser at all. Filtered water and bagged ice would be the way...

Just ordered my S5 today. Was going to go Note3, but got a deal on the S5 (free with contract).

Cpt. Hook from Peter Pan

Ugh. Done that. Don't know of a fix. Sucks.

From what I understand, the identity theft market is so flooded with documents and CC#s that the price is remarkably low.

I believe Merc meant the Txxxs (s at the end, a subcategory of T-series).

I didn't mean to say that they don't make a difference, just that the result when relying on just them is frequently unacceptable. In most cases I've had to install additional lighting in a follow-up based on the quality of the video on an overcast night.

In my experience the IR LEDs built into cameras aren't that great. Using some kind of external light source (IR or otherwise), particularly if it can be closer to the area of interest, is more effective.

At home the computer rack is water cooled. During the winter the radiator is in the house, during the summer it is in the garage. Designing a water-cooling system where the water heats to a sufficient temp to act as a water heater might lead to some system instability.

My current favorite for that kind of installation is the Axis M2014-E. Small waterproof unit outside, small box inside. Gets power over ethernet, has microSD card slot for local storage, has handy web interface for monitoring, setup, and retrieval of recorded content. Edit: Note that this unit...

I like the cooler, should make CrossFire configurations more stable.

That just means that your Russian needs some work. Guard dogs react to German, babies to Russian.

Finally had time to play with my FireTV. I can't find an app for AmazonMP3 in their standard interface?

Private ;)

You shouldn't have an issue mubs. I've done more installs than that. Now I have "Creative Cloud", a monthly subscription service for all their products that I have installed in three different places without issue.

Random enough: http://youtu.be/UWGIc68aDls

Mirrors/lenses. Beam it directly from the bedroom projector ;)

Although, if you wanted to watch stuff in your shower, projecting it in would be a great way to avoid the waterproofing issue.

Those cocktails are fine, but the people that frequently order them are a menace. It is true that holding one of these drinks is a strong indicator of idiocy, but don't blame the drink ;)

I started with Photoshop version 5 almost 20 years ago. It does all the stuff I need pretty well, so I don't see a reason to learn something new ;)

Just spent way too much time troubleshooting an issue. Mouse worked, never lost ability to move around the screen and both buttons worked in some programs but not all. The Classic Shell menu worked fine, and most hyperlinks worked fine, but controls in Flash windows didn't, and tab controls...

If you're going let me know, I'll run up there and we can have dinner or something.

I haven't been a houseguest, but I think it is pretty awesome.

It is a cheapo LED unit. The problem is that the layout of the room doesn't leave any walls to mount a TV. The resolution is that the projector is mounted to the foot of the bed pointed vertically, creating a ~50" image on the ceiling at just about the right angle if your head is on the pillow.

The CPU heatsink (and the rest of the system) were equally loaded, but those are accessible. The GPU heatsink is completely boxed in with a squirrel cage on one end and grille on the other. There is no easy way to get into this box without removing the heatsink assembly from the GPU which...

It seems one of the main issues of the overheating is that the GTX 295 has a large part of your cat in the heatsink assembly that I am unable to extract. The only loose and known working GPU I have kicking around is a GTX 690 if you are interested ;)

Mine should arrive Friday. If it does full screen mirroring from my Galaxy 10.1, I won't need a PC connected to the bedroom projector anymore. Which would be awesome.

I ordinarily wouldn't use a thread to do what is likely a 1-on-1 communication, but this machine is all this thread is about, others might be interested and things have been slow around here ;) Of course, once addresses or dollar amounts are mentioned, all that is e-mail.

Yup, I'll be home. Address in a text.

I'm not saying that you even have better than a 50/50 chance of making it work no matter what you do, but I've been in the "more time than money" position as well, and you may as well take a shot.

Percussive may not be necessary.... http://www.ifixit.com/Device/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab

The Passmark tool produces the highest system-wide power draw of anything I've used, going so far as to read from any optical drive, play audio, STR the drives, and constantly refresh the video. For systems with questionable stability, it is the best I know.

Bad news for Greg, this computer seems to work fine now. In the end I believe the issue was insufficient cooling. After stripping out some unused SATA and IDE cables, as well at through use of an air compressor, and replacing some fans things seem to be working fine. Two sticks of the RAM had...

Thanks! No luck last night, malware removal and teething kid.

Preparing for the project... Edit: Wrong image....

It is built in to most of the programs, but when I'm just dragging out boxes and roughing things in I don't want to start dimensioning or specifying relations and it is easier if things just land in the right place. SolidWorks is big in this, getting the relationship mostly right first can save...

Not quite. I want to be able to make out the pixels. Particularly for CAD applications it is helpful to know whether something is aligned or it isn't.

28" wouldn't have worked for me anyway. 32" is what I would consider a minimum as I can barely make out the pixels if I really lean in and squint.

2 out of 35,000 is a "don't worry about it".

Thanks! That is still about a month old. She's just recovering from a rather nasty reaction to some antibiotics, so more photos will have to wait another day or so.

Ugh. Thanks for the news Coug. I'm guessing I have 18 batteries that might be affected. :(

Yes it is, though it is a bit outdated. I just don't have any new ones that shrink that well.

Yes it is, though it is a bit outdated. I'll put up another in a minute.

At the moment I'm using a 10' Displayport from a single GTX Titan. Win8 automagically changed resolution for me to 4k@60Hz without any issue. I didn't turn off the computer, and by the time the new monitor powered up it was already at the correct settings. Interestingly, I'll need to go to a...

Just got it installed. So pretty. The apparent size difference between the 30" and the 32" is much larger than I had anticipated. I hadn't looked before, so was surprised to see to DVI ports on this thing. Even more surprising is the presence of an HDMI port. The SuperSpeed Hub is nice. If...

The switch became pretty logical when you look at my latest X-series. The old plug is 90% the thickness of the unit.

Indeed. Like a very dynamic set of dominoes.