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I don't always eat Taco Bell, but when I do, it's for breakfast.

JTR and Merc have it. Phone calls are more of an inconvenience for the person receiving the call than the person making it. E-mail is the opposite. For the truly clueless I'll either add my contact to their phone or write my phone number on the card (making them feel very special).

I'd have to think that you are making some security compromises if you are using the router part of this. If all you care about is using your wired computer (that has wifi) into another AP, it seems quite reasonable.

Nope. I just hit the "ignore" button about once a day.

One of the most profitable parts of my business is helping wealthy yet technically illiterate people get up to speed just enough that they aren't embarrassed. My most recent client does real estate and is succesful enough to own a Citation V but has an @aol.com email address and wants to be able...

I get asked for a card about once a week. I hand out probably one a month. On average, those who I've given a card are worth about $2500 to me over time. These cards cost about $2/ea in the small quantities I order, but are totally worth it IMHO. I'm having the guy who makes the paper (yes, that...

Stoked about my business cards. I've wanted cards without a phone number on them for ages. Letterpressed and thick enough to cut a steak. ;)

Yup. Causing trouble already; able to grab and pull stuff. She loves eye glasses and keyboards most of all.

I completely stripped down a ThinkPad E-something today. Even though this is a massively cheap model, it was still built like a tank.

Random giggling baby video. Mainly to test out some gear:

I'd assume the easiest way to measure that is with a modified cord between the supply and the tape? It has pre-wired barrel connectors, so I'd need to get an extension and open up the wiring? The outside of the house has these all the way around. Not dimmable at all, but that is OK out there...

Nope. No cats at the house yet. Just a bag with the lid open.

My favorite way to help eliminate software as an issue is to boot to another OS. Linux is the obvious choice, but there are bootable Windows disks on the shady side of the internet as well.

I also also like that, depending on the source and destination, it will queue some file copies/transfers until the first completes. Not sure how it determines which is faster, but it seems to be pretty clever.

Finally managed to do an entire room at home with LEDs. Specifically: These LED tape lights (under the bed and above the acoustic panels) and these LED Floods (for the cans). Now the question: At the moment, I'm powering the LED tape with this power supply (non-dimmable). What I need is one...

The high-end inkjets separate the ink from the heads, and can be semi-reasonable on the consumables. The time to first page will beat any laser as well. I have a bunch of the HP OfficeJet Pro units.

They already do. Depending on the manufacturer and segment, up to 25%+ extra.

I have run into that before, headphone out from HDMI in.

Wow, I've never put that kind of time into teaching folders. The most successful method I've tried so far is when they've recently purchased a digital camera. Pictures are so obviously "things" that need organization. Typically I start by creating the folder structure and teaching them just how...

Those are all good ones. Files and folders are hard, but I feel that it is massively important. When I got users to navigate through the network drive to their file rather than opening Word (it it was a Word Doc) and using the "recent" list, it saved me a dozen calls a week. And once they are...

I've started refusing to give step-by-step directions. As mentioned above, interfaces change too much for that to be useful. Fortunately, people are beginning to understand that computer knowledge is important, and possibly that their future employ-ability depends on it. Instead I talk about...

Changed my mind again to go with the Aputure V-Control (cheaper still, looks like the same functionality).

They had one with a blemish for $189. Should be here Monday.

I've been doing a lot of narrow-DOF baby and animal photography lately. This last time I brought a Dell 30" monitor and hooked it up as an awesome live-view for focus, and it was a revelation. Next up is some way to have my assistant pull the focus while watching the screen while I concentrate...

Awesome info. So tempted.

Thanks for the link, Coug. I know you said they ship only to the states, but how did you find out about them? Any personal experience?

I would be tempted to run Win8.1 natively on a MacBook Air 11"...that is some sexy hardware.

Indeed. But those are free and therefore partially excused by me. That I paid for a product and that company now saddles me with additional labor to maintain that product (removing their other crap when my users update) is unacceptable.

Sometimes, but this time we went up to his place to grab a bite to eat and watch the game. He has excellent season tickets and the game was happening 50 miles away, but I had to go back to work after.

My favorite trick is to find the cheap brand equivalent of the expensive brand (Denon and Marantz have many models that are just branded differently).

The GTX's are technically cast aluminum and polycarbonate ;)

If a product has a shiny black plastic surface the odds of its quality being poor is fairly high.

That is the monitor I buy when I'm not buying U24xx ;)

:-D

If you take out the fact that Classic Shell is free and Start8 is $5, the only difference I care about is that when there is an update to Start8, it (by default) will install a trial version of other software. I hate this trick, and will excuse it reluctantly on free software. However, it is...

I don't think Win7 is better than Win8 with Classic Shell installed in any way.

Turns out these guys had a mainstream hit that isn't half bad. "Can't Hold Us"

After way too much wine with the boss after a sharks game, I'm back in my office listening to Dubstep remixes of songs I like at absurd volume levels. Best comment on a song: Roses are red Violets are blue Last thing that dropped this hard Ended WWII

I don't normally listen to rap, but the combination of great production and amazing lyrics has led me to the album "The Heist" by "Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis". Not the usual "bitches and hoes", one of their songs is called "Ten Thousand Hours", referring to Malcolm Gladwell's argument that...

Here is a datacenter-sized submerged cooling solution.

And the question I had is answered right in the brief. Because these drives are sealed, they can be used in oil baths.

Nice summary mubs. I don't have much need for a light at all, but one in the car would be a good idea. I think it should be a headlamp so I can do whatever I need to do, and I think it should work 99% of the time after being ignored for year(s). And under $75 wouldn't be a bad idea either. The...

Got a flexible one long enough to lay the video card in parallel with the motherboard. Should make for a very thin computer. Haven't unwrapped it yet, though.

The only advantage I'm envisioning would be distributing your storage array throughout the racks of servers, allowing your existing distribution (cooling, generators, etc) to also give some protection tot he storage system.

Awesome. Thanks Merc!

Two monitors, and the secondary is a touchscreen. Win8. At the moment when you touch the second screen, it clicks the mouse on the primary. Does anyone know of software that can tweak this? Thanks!

Nice!

This is where riding with a group pays off. The groups pace may be above or below your steady pace, and it is up to you to "dig" into reserves and find enough to keep up. Finding some kind of training aid that forces you into a higher or lower pace at random might be beneficial (RNG-created...

My suggestion for getting your cardio up is to ride less responsibly. Sprint from a standstill in a high gear, run the cadence way up, or maintain your cruise pace while on the tops. You won't be able to go as long, but you should run into VO2 max much sooner. The #1 way for me to get there is...

Chewy, sorry to hear about your wife's issues. I hope things go as well as possible. WRT blood pressure; mine is in the 150-something over 90-something. So don't feel too bad ;)