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I'd carry it on my boat or in my plane, if I still had either. ;)

...or just set up a proxy...

I've used quite a few of these LED strips, and they are really cool. The picture below looks a lot like the ones I've used. Note the obvious cut line and the positive and negative terminals available at each cut line. If you do get the waterproof or otherwise coated ones, it is easy enough to...

I really like this idea. And am shocked it came from P5...but that makes me like it more.

Lunar humor....awesome.

Indeed. But if they didn't find anything, have they just decided to start poking around during surgery? I'm pretty sure they want you not only accompanied on the way home, but for some hours afterwards.

In my experience it will also after a couple reboots.

Fixed. Is it admin abuse to repair that link?

...or Aston Martin putting the V12 in their smallest car (The Vantage). Cool part about that is that it is still for sale.

I'd be tempted to use thermal adhesive, but it does conduct electricity as well. Let me know when you find a driver for the larger chain and I'll send you some money.

Indeed. I'm just a fan of the "biggest engine in the smallest car" thing. Like when VW put a Bently GT Speed W12 in a GTI.

That shouldn't be an issue. According to this chart, 1/4" "L" thickness pipe would be a near-perfect fit. Maybe close enough to just epoxy in at the right depth. Even 3/8" isn't that expensive, so making each one a foot long would be trivial and should give us plenty of thermal mass and surface...

I wonder if the new blown Z06 motor would fit?

Awesome. So there are no adjustments in the driver for the wire length? How about number of LEDs? At the these price points we may as well do them all. 4 Drivers with 2, 3, 5, and 15 LEDs. would finish off the landscape lighting entirely.

72.3F with 3mph of breeze and 27% humidity. Just about perfect for sitting around.

So shipping the pipe and wire would probably be costly, and it doesn't sound like tuning the system to the wire length would be as big an issue as I was anticipating. Does it sound feasible to have you build the LED units and the driver unit, then have me do assembly here? The XP-G2 has a...

I have spent perhaps 10 minutes in Metro total. Just enough to launch IE, go to Ninite, and install Classic Shell and Firefox. Several hundred times.

My thought was to solder a brace across the pipe section near one end to mount the LED to. One of the thoughts for making it so long was to add to the heat dissipation capabilities. If that isn't an issue I can get just enough pipe to connect the flange and cap to. I was thinking about...

That, with 5000k LEDs and dim-able from a regular wall dimmer. I could buy those just to use the enclosure, but it would be about twice as expensive as using threaded pipe components and 4x as expensive as doing the soldering myself. I'm tempted to use the threaded cast brass parts to make...

SolidWorks is so much fun to screw around with. No dimensions given as I drew up the components myself without referencing the real thing, but it should work for the purpose of this discussion. The two dimensions that matter the most would be the pipe diameter and pipe length.

I'm imagining this to mostly be a dialogue between JTR and I, but all input is welcome. It will probably conclude with me having JTR build something for me as he has in the past (happy customer). The outdoor wall lights are already installed and are 5000k (Lumark Crosstour), I'd like the ground...

I just stick them in and don't worry about it. The only issues I run into are space related (Windows Updates take tons of space over time).

Citibank has a small box at the top of each e-mail including the name on the account and the last 4 digits of the account or card number. I really like that.

I didn't really specify who or how because those are so broad. Hack, sniff, insider, laptop, etc. The point is that if there is information about you that matters, it is on a computer that you don't control and is likely to end up "in the wild" at some point. A friend mentioned that they don't...

Nothing. If you are under the impression that all the major governments and corporations can't get this data on anyone regardless of what they do, you aren't paranoid enough. My guess is that even if you tried to get off the radar by going all caveman (no internet, renting under a false name and...

And if you were to create an account on those services, he would just hit the "I forgot my password" button over and over....

I've heard that (for identity theft protection) even if you don't plan on traveling internationally you should get a passport because it is easier to apply for a first one than apply for a replacement. Perhaps proactively registering for these services is a decent way to defend against this stuff?

I'm quite happy that I don't use an @hotmail/yahoo/gmail/att/whatever domain for my addresses, it is far less likely that someone would enter my address by accident. A friend signed up very early and got commonfirstname.commonlastname@gmail.com and gets hammered by friends of other people who...

Interesting. You'd think that there would be an e-mail authorization step before account creation. I probably would have started with "forgot password" and started deleting from there.

If you need hot-swap, they are really expensive or crap. If the drive in question is an SSD, just double-sided tape it to a panel somewhere or screw it in with one screw.

I was lucky, during the coldest days here (30F?) I had ~10' of the water main to my house dug up and exposed. I was a bit worried ;)

I read that as a bunch of content creation professionals don't know a damn thing about computers, and that is why they were on OS X in the first place. Now they have to suffer their decisions.

And other than a (fairly common) drought, we are exactly where we normally are. Sorry, guys.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25666737

That sucks. How is the screen?

Stolen from Facebook and NSFW.

I can't recommend it, but this seems to be very popular at my house.

That is....closer than I would want to be. ;)

That is a deal-breaker for me...the 32" supports 60Hz.

Support for more RAM and more CPUs, along with some management tools. Some software also insists on only running on "Server" OSes while others insist on not running on "Server" OSes (usually to protect a more expensive "Server" option, Acronis is one of them)

Restrained swearing is allowed. Those are words with meanings, and if you mean it, use it. ;)

Brilliant.

I just heard that it is so cold in Chicago the zoo had to bring the polar bear inside. Damn.

Overcast and 48F here....not as nice as yesterday. We really need some rain. It has only rained once this winter so far.

Link: http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KCASALIN15

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The fog was rolling in, so that humidity reading makes sense. The unit is an Acurite Pro Digital, combined with another temp/humidity sensor for the kid's room. Amazingly cheap for what it does.

And I mounted a weather station to my roof. 71F (20C?) and sunny with a light breeze. Cooled down quickly an hour after sunset though. Grabbed this screenshot at 7:45PM:

Try removing the battery, keeping it plugged in, and turning it on.

I consider just being able to make out the pixels with some effort the perfect PPI. At home my standard viewing distance is about 19". Leaning forward another 4" and squinting allows me to just make out the edges in high-contrast areas. This allows me to drag-and-drop with pixel accuracy if...