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Are you confident that that tool is able to accurately measure SSDs? Does that graph reflect your real-world experience with the drive?

More importantly, I would download a car, modify it, and then make one of those.

Just signed up for this eddy current driven LED set. Not very bright, but very light and geeky.

Sorry for the derailment, but I don't think there is a significantly better CPU for you in the foreseeable future. A mainboard might be necessary to get you more RAM and SATA3. It might also give you better OC'ing capabilities (along with a monster cooler).

They were buying way old equipment; stuff that would have been tens of thousands at one point ended up being less than $300.

This is something I can attest to. Two of my first roommates went this route; finding old hardware on eBay and spending months building up and tearing down configurations. Within a year they passed many of the CCxx certification exams and went directly to $80k+/yr. They are now easily double...

Making significant progress on generating point clouds. The automatic alignment is good and the manual assisted alignment is awesome. At the moment I'm running into a few issues: 1. My "Home1" machine becomes laggy @ 50,000,000 vertices, and near unresponsive at 75 million. It seems this...

My suspicion is that tablets are putting computers back to where they were in the 50s/60s. In the hands of professionals to do the real work, while tablets are simply the modern day newspaper. AFAIK, no one has developed an app for a tablet on a tablet. Or designed the circuit board for one. No...

Merc is typically the man for the super-cheap solid builds, and I suspect he will still steer you towards an i3. I'd probably look for a hybrid drive over an SSD if there was budget for it.

That is rough Chewy, I hope things turn out better.

IMO, the trick to staying relevant is to maintain a combination of people/interaction/interpersonal/communication skills (so they can't outsource you) and technology skills (so you are the one programing the computer to do someone else's job, not the one who's job just got programmed into a...

I suspect there would be far fewer complaints.

Sounds great. I'll probably use your wire to get out of the enclosure and then tie into the main run of wire somehow.

Dual Xeon, Quad GPU? I always considered the 1200W big enough that I simply didn't have to worry about doing the math.

15%? Most of that from clockspeed. I'd get something like a Corsair H100i and see if you can get more speed from your existing hardware. Maybe combine it with a SATA3 controller and some faster drives.

I was talking to a coworker about this. It seems some employees consider themselves responsible for performing a task, while others consider themselves responsible for providing a solution. The former is not worth having as an employee, IMHO.

64GB of RAM is the top end of "normal". Normal motherboards can take it, and DIMMs are easily available in densities to make it happen. And the first time I had proper money to blow on such things is about 4 years ahead of you, so you still may have some time to go. Before then it was...

All my Google Apps domains are down right now....grr....

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That is awesome. Granted I'm some way from it, but I'd like to think of retirement as when I can turn down any work at any time for any reason. I can't see myself not working or pursuing income of some kind, but being able to say "nah" if the project doesn't sound fun would be awesome.

I think your best move is going for more clock speed. Just upping the cooler and doubling the RAM is probably the most effective performance boost for the photo processing workflow. I'm shocked at how often a single thread is the bottleneck; you need each core to be as fast as possible.

My only guess would be if the network is blocking some ports? No idea how to even test that, does he have hotspot support on the device?

Sorry, it is a W540. Fairly maxed for ~$3.5k.

Start here for the CPUs. I have a 990X and was able to get it to 4.6GHz stable on air. There is a slightly better IPC on this architecture depending on application, IIRC. Doubling the RAM might help, changing the board to have the faster SATA might help. Coug will need to chip in on what is...

Even if you want to go ballistic with a 10-core Xeon you won't get much more than you have. What is the clock speed? I'm assuming the 24GB is a limitation in your workflow?

Stoked about my new W530 with "3k" display: 15.5" IPS 2880x1620 (16x9)

Awesome Lunar. Even when you seem to have a fully-functional keyboard in front of you, you can drop a bomb at any time. (ugh, pun)

IIRC, drives that are considered external go into the safer mode. Even internal drives (if they are on an add-on controller) can have this issue.

Do you have write caching disabled?

...and an oldie but goodie. Back in the day my dad bought a mobo/CPU upgrade for the home computer. 386/33. The cool part was that the motherboard supported both 386 and 486 CPUs, so we could upgrade the CPU some day when the price came down. The downside was that, when putting a 386 CPU in one...

The one that had the largest consequence and was totally my fault was accidentally shutting down a server I was remotely managing. I was in San Francisco, it was in Austin. The Austin office didn't have any employees at that time, so the closest person we could trust to fire it back up was me...

I was talking about the C-9000. While I don't doubt that it has more capabilities than other chargers, I don't believe the difference is worth the extra effort most of the time. I do still have the C-9000, but the charger I throw Eneloops into 2-3 times a day is a BC-700. So much easier. I...

It doesn't solve your problem, but I'll second this. While I agree that it likely have some negative effect on the hardware that would be impossible to quantify, my gut instinct is that it is very small. My machines turn off the display and that is it. If I had a drive that wasn't an SSD I'd...

I have one, but I don't use it regularly. I want one that I can throw batteries in and walk away. When I come back they should be done.

They are, but that is an additional level of knowledge that most users don't have. I've set up many Firefox installs with a few extensions that I thought they'd like (AdBlock, YouTube Downloader, etc). The user has no idea what extensions are.

I was thinking flour. It also doesn't seem to like matte black; my DSLR and keyboard were giving it fits.

Any recommendations on the glass? I'm thinking something other than glass, but it will need to stand up to constant UV without hazing or cracking too badly. And I'll need to cut them into circles and drill holes in them. Same with the gasket.

While ordering the copper, I found these 1/2" x 12" "stub outs" that look perfect.

Just an update for anyone following the thread, money sent and parts ordered. Should be 2-3 weeks before an update from my end. Thanks JTR!

Any word of this happening with Firefox? With such a capable alternative, this is enough for me to advise my users against Chrome.

Confirmed. Jealous.

The big issue I've run into so far is that this method does not work well on small items or reflective items (the Kinect projects an IR grid and uses that data to collect a depth map). My primary goal for this is automotive, so that may be an issue. My car at the moment is just the right amount...

I can find an excuse to make the minimum string 5 LEDs. Thanks!

I did a quick scan on the statue of limitations and can't find one that would give any clue. Contempt of court - 1 year All unspecified crimes - 5 years Disorderly Conduct in Mississippi - 2 years I wouldn't trust a Mississippi vet if I were you ;)

The printing is not something I'm that interested in doing myself. Creating the model of something you possess from real life is the thing that is really hard to outsource and the CAD work I really enjoy doing. Creating the dimensionally correct and properly finished end result is something that...

The learning curve is a bit steep considering I'm not reading the manual (3 YouTube videos should be enough for anything shy of brain surgery ;) ) Using my new Kinect ($80) and KScan3D ($200) I was able to create a thorough point cloud (12 million points) of half my couch by combining about 60...

Sounds like a hell of a good time. I'm guessing Antarctica ;)

The rumor I just heard was ATS-V, 3.2l V-6 twin-turbo ~500hp. @1:57

The 128GB cards are still plenty big for me. I pull them early because I don't want to risk that many pictures of an event at the same time as it is.

Anyone have one yet? I've ordered a Kinect that I plan to use with one of the many software packages out there. Designing things in SolidWorks is fun, but most projects I have in mind involve an interface to an existing object. If that shape is simple I can break out the digital calipers, but if...