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I vaguely recall Canon recommending you format the flash in the camera?

My contractor had issues with PEX at his house. He has fairly hard water from his well, and any place the PEX made a hard turn it was wearing through the pipe after a few years. He said it would have done the same to copper eventually, and the fact that he could make the bends in the PEX more...

I love those shark bite fittings, I have quite a few of them around the house.

That was it. Thanks! Edit: And, Plex is available to run directly on your Synology Diskstation. Sweet.

I suspect he means different ambient temperatures and/or humidity.

A while ago some people here including Merc were talking about a program that runs on your media computer and transcodes/streams media to other devices. My search skills are so poor that I can't find the thing on Google or here. Help?

Certainly just a re-branded drive. 99% sure you'll be fine.

In the console wars, the only thing I care about is Gran Turismo 6. I own two PS3s, and two copies of GT5. What surprised me was that they announced GT6 for PS3 and not the PS4.

Even if he did (doubtful, considering how little total time I have, and that it is a single seater with with the smoke system in place), I couldn't afford the gas. $1000/hr+ purely in running costs is a conservative number. Him just farting around on the taxiway for a bit cost more than I make...

Local friend of a friend, used to do the air races.

This guy had a pair of these in flying shape, and a number of others in a hangar. He also has a non-flying Mig-25.

Out driving on an active taxiway today, and was stuck in line behind this guy.

Does anyone know a travel agent? I have a specific international flight to book that requires more flexibility than the online systems allow.

XKCD or Tannin's fabulous site.

Proper laptops around here are available for ~$450 most of the time (usual discounts from Dell or Lenovo). I would consider the performance difference worthwhile.

That is very possible. Can Windows be told to deal with it? I know the font smoothing (ClearType?) supports different modes.

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Yeah, nevermind. No eaves. Best of luck.

Good story and a nice picture. How far into the room is the TV?

Probably not this year for the 7DII. I wouldn't mind going into the FF sensors of the 5D, but I don't want to lose the high frame rate.

Hooking them up under the eaves and running the cable there shouldn't be an issue if it is 3 stories up.

It just looks blurry. When I bring my macro home I'll take a few pictures. Granted, it is sharper than any of my 1080P screens, but the color is still way off.

I'm still waiting for something similar to the 7D but with better high-ISO performance. 5DIII?

If you run PoE cameras with shielded ethernet you can skip the conduit. It is all low-voltage, and most shielded cable has a UV-resistant shell.

Finally got the x-rite i1 out to try and calibrate it....better, but horrible. The pixels aren't exceptionally sharp or well-defined either. Great for video, but not as a monitor. Still, Civ5 is great at this resolution ;)

I love AXIS cameras, they aren't cheap, but they work great every time. Many of their IP models have SD card support built-in, so even if they are stand-alone you can retrieve video later. They are all PoE, so cabling is simple. Wireless cameras do suck, but using a wireless bridge between the...

For this reason I suspect CS6 will be their best-selling version ever.

This is just temporary of course, learning what it can do. But it was fun to have Adobe Bridge on the huge left and Photoshop on the calibrated 30"er on the right.

30" 2560*1600 and 50" 3840*2160

Finally got the display to work at full res (3840x2160). I've concluded that there is no way to use the mini DisplayPort to do anything better than 1080P. I bought countless adapters and cables at various price points and all behaved exactly the same. Finally got a DVI->HDMI cable and it worked...

Just checked with the wife, all my day-to-day clothes are REI.

Just ordered the toolkit from iFixIt. Once I get the unit open I'll know what I'm looking at.

My trick when I was single was to go into the perfume section and convince one of the employees to assist me. Kinda sounds weird now, but it worked great when I was 22 :/

So you don't think that caused a software glitch Merc? Sure? ;)

Were one to build an HTPC for a 4K TV, what sort of requirements are you looking at? What is the lowest-powered fanless video card that could do the job? CPU? I'm assuming hardware decoding would be a must, what would you guys look for with regards to software? Uncompressed 4k video is just...

So we think this is a hardware issue? The user has already purchased an iPad3 as a replacement, but would like to get this working as well.

This just landed on my desk. When held in portrait mode, the right 1/3rd of the screen is perfect, with the left 2/3 "streaked" horizontally. The entire screen is still responsive to touch input. The user claims that this has happened before and magically fixed itself after a time. I have tried...

Yup, my company had something similar about 5 years ago. Then we switched to something like this so that tablets and other things could use it as well. Now we just have hotspot functionality on the phones.

I haven't come across a CFL I'm happy with either, I'm speaking of the 4' tubes. For in the house (where the tubes are impractical) I'm still running thousands of watts of halogen cans.

That CRI seems awful low, are you really happy with it? My 98CRI tubes have spoiled me I'm afraid.

The rough part was that I really haven't put in many miles with the kid, and I gained about 25 pounds in the last 2 months. It was also 90F and shadeless for most of the climb, and I was doing it on 4 hours sleep. There, that is the rest of the bragging done ;) I like that ride because the...

Here all the new 3G/4G devices are WiFi hotspots, do they still use USB there?

Nope. But I should put some time in for that. Just haven't bothered to date.

Hardest ride I've ever done.

I haven't touched it today. We'll see about tomorrow. if anyone has a good source for 4k video I would be interested.

Yup 30Hz is all she'll do, but I'll be lucky to get 30fps on games anyway. And Civ5 and SimCity don't care anyway.

Seiki SE50UY04 arrived today, exactly as the pcper unit. However I am having the hardest time getting it to display anything above 1080P. I'm at home, and all I have here is a single GTX690. This card has 3 DVI ports and a single compact display port. As I don't have a DVI-HDMI adapter at the...

For that environment I would be all over a RAM drive for the data and a small SSD to occasionally sync to.

That is interesting. Long ago I replaced all my industrial computers' drives with SSDs. These machines are in dirty, nasty environments without climate control and I keep airflow through the case as low as possible to minimize dust/dirt/cement powder buildup. Some of the machines don't have any...

"Worse" meaning a slower adoption rate?