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I hate troubleshooting DirecTV splitters. Particularly in systems with 20+ receivers. Edit: The grey cable near the top is a 150A power line. The black 2" pipe near the bottom is a gas line. The array of splitters is one of three banks in the house (20,000+ sq.ft.)

That is probably the bulk of it, and more run time.

A friend got to use my EagTac MX25L3 last night was was impressed. He is looking for something larger to replace his 3-D Cell Maglite. Doesn't need more performance, but is hoping for longer battery life. The light will live in his truck, so some kind of wired trickle-charger would be awesome...

Welcome pgrcom to the community!

Losing heat due to icing seems particularly troublesome. Do you have a secondary source? Fireplace?

I've already done a local install for the server, but the boss would like to be able to run reports for both the POS (both sites) and QB side from her desk. Previously I had a copy of QB installed on the server at each location that she would remote into, but now it is all being consolidated...

Thanks! I haven't been to my office in nearly two weeks. Most of my time has been at a facility 20 miles the other direction from my house. I do run into the building that contains my office to put out fires, but never long enough to sit down at my computer. I'll get it going again now.

Sorry to hear that. The only good news I can see is that, if all your health issue posts so far were accurate, you'd be dead 2 or 3 times already. May this one also fail to kill you ;)

You, too huh? ;) I'm in the middle of switching to the new version at a couple sites and tying in with the new version of QB Enterprise. Hopefully it will play well enough with the VPN that I can run an instance of QB POS at the admin office and not need to install QB out at the site (like I...

Study more? ;)

Interesting. I know I had to deal with some code stuff and install additional vents when I closed some off during the remodel. I'll need to read though that more carefully when I don't have a baby on my lap, but it is interesting how they say the humidity issue is better without the vents? None...

Thanks for that, testing it now.

Coug had nearly the same thought I did, but that would only be a concern until everyone noticed that I would pretty much never pay anyone for posts. Not that I haven't paid for products and consulting services from a number of members (and would hope that they've all considered it a fair...

I'll get the exact reason, but I believe it had something to do with responsiveness of the app and simplicity of the interface.

Seller is PC Parts Depot.

Darn quick for me at the moment.

My boss was running an app called "Note Everything" until recently. One of the advantages was that it was supposed to backup to Google Docs. A few months ago he did a firmware upgrade on his phone and it lost the data on the phone and...no backup! I'm looking for an app that does roughly the...

I'm just going to leave this here....

Nope. Not sure at all.

FiOS net neutrality issue?

I just ordered a new monster rig from Amazon, making sure that all the items were prime eligible. I didn't pay attention to who was selling the item, so long as they would ship same-day with 2-day shipping. The first box to arrive was a Newegg box. If they are already offering their products...

Might be the same block, APR claims 400hp at the crank for their stage III kit. The engine I drool over is the 2.5l I-5 that the RS3 used to have (mentioned in your article). That thing has tons of potential.

In the 3 series Audi, they haven't offered an S or RS version in the US in a long time (ever?). I really like the smaller car, but more importantly I love hatchbacks. Not just the practicality, but the look. Audi doesn't even offer a hatchback 3 in the US anymore. But even if they did offer an...

The Recaro OEM seats from the RS3 look tempting... https://www.recaro-automotive.com/us/product-areas-us/original-equipment/products/audi-rs3/audi-rs3.html

I don't want a race car. I don't even plan on auto crossing, and I don't want to sacrifice the bits of luxury that I like or change the look of the car. I've even added some sound deadening strategically in some weak spots. The seats I was considering as an upgrade are ventilated (something my...

I was able to not pay that price ;) And any performance above the standard battery is secondary to me. The goal is to shave as much weight as possible from the car (~35 pounds from the front of the car in this case), bonus points if it is from the front or top, double bonus points if it is...

Finally decided to follow up with APR on my Carbino Intake after a month of it being on back-order. No response other than a tracking number. What a coincidence. And on the way home today my rear-right brake started screeching (low pad), so the StopTech sport kit (4-wheel, slotted rotors, pads...

It would be interesting to see if one of those third-party tools worked or no (whether VSS was actually working correctly or not).

Awesome. Thanks Merc!

It's domino time, the rest of the free service-based systems should disappear soon. This makes sense considering services cost money. I also believe that none of the non-service-based systems are easy/reliable enough to deploy. They are too sensitive to changing IPs/Firewall settings/etc.

There is a local drive on a Win7 computer that is TrueCrypt encrypted. Because of this, the share breaks every time the machine is rebooted. Once the drive is mounted, I need to share the drive (U:) as "U" with full access to a local user group "company users" I tried the "net share" command...

I'm the least football-oriented person I know. I don't even know how many points the various things earn. But I stopped by a friend's Super Bowl party just to say hi. It turns out her husband (who was sitting next to me) used to play in the NFL for Denver and New York. I got a bit of a lesson in...

Indeed. But the usual steps of waterproofing the board or insulating the waterblocks only works long-term if the water outside the pipes doesn't freeze ;)

Going below freezing brings all kinds of trouble; I wouldn't consider it viable for 24/7/365 operation. My current water cooled loop has been running 24/7 for over a year without even needing to add coolant. My current loop runs at near outdoor ambient (the radiator is in the garage) which at...

In the spirit of internet forums everywhere, this is not a solution to the problem that you asked about. But I had no idea it existed, and you might be interested. SanDisk ReadyCache SSD (with software)

I don't think I'm this crazy....not sure how much extra OC I could get driving the waterblock below ambient....

...although I'm hoping it is generic. Bluetooth annoys me. My wife and I get into each others cars with our cell phones, and specifying whose phone is tied in is a pain. The best I've found is this NFC-enabled BT-audio receiver that works exactly as advertised, but doesn't support phone anyway...

I'm using R.A.T.9s everywhere at this point. I also like some of the added weight, and the customizable size (I have big hands). The batteries are starting to exceed their lifetime, though. Thinking of building a larger one and ditching the weights.

I may have a PCI sound card at the office still. I'll take a look Monday.

When I'm calculating my ROI, I am looking at the 91 map. But there are pumps with everything up to 110 octane 12.2 miles away from me at Laguna Seca raceway. Just swipe your credit card and go, if you are willing to pay the price ($9/gal).

I'll second XBMC and the k400r. I have a NUC running the projector in the bedroom with a k400r and it works great. Though I have given up on any of the special UIs; my screens are big enough that the normal Windows Desktop is fine (and familiar).

It is purely temporary, and speed is important. Good for storing the thousands of RAW images after a big shoot (with a copy still on the CF cards) before sorting and filing. Also good for a recovery destination on hard drive repairs. The recent version of AutoCAD was a 40GB+ download that...

The intercooler is the middle part of a sandwich with the AC in front and the radiator in back. The whole unit had to be removed, to get to it involved the front clip, headlights, bumper assembly, undertray, etc. Still great instructions, just a big project.

My local machine has a RAID-0 array of 4, 4TB disks. But I do consider that to be a temporary drive; no mission-critical, non-backed-up stuff allowed.

3" downpipe installed. Involved relocating the driveshaft to reach one of the bolts. They claim the intercooler can go in without removing the front clip; we'll find out tonight.

Good find. I'll look into it more when I get to a real computer. The number of 24 and 48 port switches I'm using now is annoying.

We could use some rain here..... Interesting related story.

One of the commercial applications to the SLS process is making custom-sized Ti bicycle frames as light as many carbon-fiber units but stronger for certain applications (looking straight at JTR on this one). Being able to vary the thickness of the tube walls and enlarge the joints between tubes...

The plastic extruders that are out there now are pretty clearly mostly toys. The ones I'm excited about are the selective laser sintering machines capable of working in Ti and Al.

I have a 25 user gotomypc.com account. I add/remove machines as needed. This is not the cheapest solution (cost is nearly $2k/yr), but it always works, is very fast, supports multiple users, and supports android as the client.