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Nope. About 6 months ago they switched to a rectangular plug.

I'd probably focus on making sure it is bone dry before anything else 100F oven?. Also, just an FYI, even if you get it working the lifespan will be significantly reduced. There is corrosion happening in there.

I liked it, but kept willing it to go faster until it failed. ;)

Just one will do, but someone needs to make a water block for it first. The standard Titans in SLI will drive a tri-monitor setup at the office (3x Dell 30", total res 7860x1600) and this could handle the 4k 32" at home.

Cool thing: The new Lenovo M-series Tiny desktop uses the same power connectors as their new ThinkPads. Works great from an inventory management and flexible workstation standpoint.

I have a few people a week asking for such things. Some of them are removed enough from my operations that I just tell them to Google for something. That will help, thanks!

Found a company called EnfigCarStereo.com out of New Jersey, they have a YouTube channel showing all kinds on installs for VAG cars. Sent them an e-mail and they got back to me in 10 minutes with a parts list that will do the job. Not including the head unit, but including all the other...

The DasKeyboard works great for me. I have the Ultimate (blank keys) at work where people occasionally see me type passwords and the Pro (normal keys) at home where I occasionally drink.

That is the same one I was fooling with a few months ago. I wouldn't call it a working 4k screen; it has too many cases where it just doesn't work @ 4k.

The first game that freaked me out was Half Life. I'd just started a job that got me to my apartment at 10PM and would play in a blacked out room until 2AM. And Doom3 earns an honorable mention. I just started with the new Thief, and if you want to win bad enough that can put you on edge as well.

After you start making decent money (and you seem to at least care about learning and being self-sufficient, so you have a leg-up on most already). It will still be many years before disposable income really appears. First you have to accumulate stuff (furniture, cars, cookware, etc). Once you...

I usually end up with 8 meetings a week, and 10-15 incidents that require an immediate response. The rest of my time is spent trying to keep up with unscheduled projects. Building replacement workstations, redesigning systems (vLANs, IP space, wireless networks, unique computing challenges, etc).

The bigger the company the more likely this is to happen. Reminds me of that scene in "The Office" where he has to describe his typical day.

Not that I know of, just wanted to be sure before I drop that kind of money.

In people's opinion, is the Dell 32" still the 4k to get in that range? Likely ordering Monday.

I really like the new F1 car sounds. They are much quieter than the old ones because of the turbo, and have a more complex character as well. During coverage of the race you can hear the crowd cheering and tires squealing along with the engine, turbo, etc.

1.5l V16 with twin superchargers (72PSI of boost) reving to 14k RPM and producing 600HP. In 1952. Yes, there is great audio. http://www.thesmokingtire.com/2014/the-brm-type-15-is-the-greatest-sounding-worst-performing-engine-ever/

Special models made for Costco so they can avoid price matching. HP printers used to have 4-5 versions of each printer for the different resellers. Edit: Nothing was actually different, just the letter.

What the people want is tricky because different people want different things. Asking the people what they want while surrounded by Russian troops seems unlikely to return a valid result. I'd recommend the vlogbrothers video on the topic as a quick overview.

Running low on just about everything, so placed an order online: Lagavulin Scotch 16 Oban Scotch 14 Macallan Scotch 12 Macallan Scotch 18 Glenfiddich Scotch 18 Year Ancient Reserve Glenfarclas 105 Cask Strength

I can pretty much tell you right now that your board is fried. Even with a new PSU, CPU, and RAM with everything else removed it won't POST reliably. When I can get it to POST memtest will fail despite really safe timings. Let me see what I have kicking around, I have already built the...

Nope. Just me. I'll be meeting with the boss tomorrow to discuss which machines, in my opinion, are too critical to risk with XP and which machines can afford to go down for a while. Considering he will be interested in minimizing the number of "perfectly good working computers" that we replace...

Average lifespan of a PC in all the businesses I manage is probably around 5-6 years, though there are some 8-10 year old machines still cranking.

In this case it is the fact the the hardware itself will barely run XP (512MB RAM, P4, IDE, paralel printers, etc). The price I gave them was for new everything. For a small business that is hanging onto viability, $10K is a large amount.

Yes, the software they use could absolutely run on 7 and possibly 8, just not WINE.

There is (isn't there always) a specific program they need that requires the .NET framework and the tiny version of MS SQL.

The motivation behind not thinking it is that big a deal is that many of these XP machines haven't been updated in years anyway and are still chugging along. If they are a year behind on updates and not dead, will it matter that much if the updates (which they wouldn't install anyway) don't...

What are peoples thoughts on having machines running XP still in production after the EOL? Obviously this isn't ideal, but the opinions I've been reading run from "meh" to "omgwtfbbq". Sounds very Y2K to me. Do you think that XP machines behind a firewall running updated software will be...

Something tells me you haven't watched at all in the last several years? There were 66 overtakes during the last race of last season in Brazil, and that was with very established technology. Edit: And some of them were pretty impressive.

Where is that cost coming from? Or do they offer the publishing as a bundled service?

Alonso and Räikkönen are going to turn Ferrari into a drama/therapy session. I do like Red Bull, but McLaren has to be up there as well.

Anyone else looking forward to the start of the 2014 F1 season this weekend? I'm excited to see how these new power plants perform. 1.6L DI Turbo V6 revving to 15k RPM, two electric motor/generators (one on the crank and one on the turbo shaft itself - which spins to some crazy 6-figure RPM)...

And before you get too crazy on the SSDs, this application (high STR, few seeks) works really well with RAID-0 setups. My Thinkpad W540 shipped with two SSDs in RAID0 from the factory. An OK 998MB/s per CrystalDiskMark.

The other thing to consider is how many cores the software he has in mind will actually use. Some of the photo stitching apps I've used in the past did not fully utilize all the cores I had, and some didn't use all the RAM (stopping at 6 cores or 16 GB). PTGui is excellent and the newer versions...

I've always enjoyed bottles that have sat on the shelf forever. My first roommate was from a fairly well off family on the East Coast. His (awesome) grandmother lived in Greatneck, NY and was known to handle the estate sales of her neighbors. When she cleared out their bars, any open bottles...

Indeed. I'm still looking for LED license plate bulbs that won't throw an error code on the dash ;) Most of my research so far has been looking for wiring adapters that will accommodate the steering wheel controls and match with the harness at the back of the unit. It would also be nice to...

I'm still waiting for MS to support the webcam at that stage in the setup.

I would love to install the Pioneer SPH-DA210 in the wife's car ('09 A3 with Navigation and Bose). But according to Crutchfield, it isn't compatible. I don't know whether that means it physically won't fit (I have a dremel), there isn't a wiring harness adapter (I know how to solder), or what...

If you start a sentence with "He didn't even, fuckin, um...." you can just stop there. I assure you that whatever you were about to say had no value.

I'm using a hardware copier these days, doesn't have issues with anything except cloning to a smaller drive. It won't do that.

You guys need to up your game...

I'll already sign up for this one. It is clearly the superior choice.

Prison Architect is available on and off steam. It is still in Alpha (but very playable, with monthly releases full of features and fixes). It has consumed an absurd amount of my time since I discovered it.

A RAID0 of those would be awesome! (I kid, I kid)

When all else fails, sorcery works, I guess. Best wishes.

If a product is a particularly good idea or a good value but difficult to get a hold of, I'll typically sell mine to the customer and wait for the replacement myself.

The entire touchpad moves down ~1.5mm when you apply pressure. If this is in the bottom right corner of the pad it is a right click. Anywhere else and it is a left click. Even if I disabled it in software the stupid thing would still move on me. I've switched to the joy nipple for times when I...

I suppose it needs to be like that to some extent, as my clients are mostly rich, and that is the direction I want to grow my business. There may be another way to get this business besides possessing and demonstrating stuff that they didn't know they needed, but I don't know it.

It is interesting. In the past I've always steered my creative clients (photo, video, animation, CAD) away from laptops. This might be the first laptop capable of running with the workstations in these applications. I only spec'd it with 16GB of RAM, but I think it could do quite a bit. I...

Typing on the W540 for the first time, and if anything could make the case for a $3k+ laptop in this world of tablets and cellphones, this is it. The screen is a revelation; 2880x1620 and beautiful, amazing colors and uniformity. The Pantone/X-Rite color calibrator works perfectly. The RAID-0 of...