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I remember a story about IBM back in the day having (by far) the fastest drive. Once a competitor got close they just added a second read head on the other side of the platter and held everyone off quite a bit longer. It would be interesting to have a CD/DVD drive that simply sucked the entire...

Yup, down to 3500g before that started to recover. And the night under the tanning lights was indeed a rough one; I had to hold her hands the whole time to stop her from screaming (4 hours at a time, my fingernails went blue). But now we are home and all is well. Family is swarming, and taking...

All the decent pictures are on the DSLR and will have to wait for us to get home. Jaundice and weight loss issues have us in the hospital for our 5th day, and the sleep tally is now about 10 in the last 100, with the longest single stint being 90 minutes nearly continuous this morning. In the...

So far we've managed about 7 hours of sleep each in the last 72. It is becoming an issue.

... but I did get my wife to accept a full height rack of water cooled computers in the living room. wrapped with acoustic panels to conceal the 3" conduit into the attic.

Most remarkable dimension (and the reason for a hospital all-time record-long labor) is a head circumference of 38cm.

Baby Elizabeth was born at 6:05 Am on April 18 after 32 hours of labor. She weighs 8.5 lbs and is 21" long. We haven't slept for 55+ hours, so the rest will have to wait.

That does look cool. Did you find videos demonstrating usage cases?

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What I'm putting together now is a fan to force air through the doorway into the rest of the zone. Hopefully I can manage to get closer to the average and trigger the AC. My other plan was to plumb a radiator on the outside of the wall and watercool the PC. Haven't gotten that OK'd by the boss yet.

Mainly due to the brain-dead HVAC system at work. I currently have a half-dozen servers in my office doing about 450W. My machine while folding pulls another 780W. My office doesn't hit equilibrium until past 100F with that load, and F@H crashes before then.

On and off, still having heat related stability issues.

Never heard of them I'm afraid.

I have a project (forms, documents, spreadsheets, maybe procedurally created docs if possible) that I don't have time to do. Anyone here interested? Probably a dozen phone calls with our contact out here (not tech savvy, but the end user of the system) for requirements and training, and probably...

All of them have tools to edit PPD files (even iPad). Only the Surface Pro will actually run PowerPoint.

Lantronix Spider Duo with Power Control Module. I'm loving these things, now.

PrtScr should be pixel-for-pixel flawless on the clipboard. What are you pasting it to? BTW: Alt+PrtScr will do just the active window.

I've never disabled the page file on any of my systems, or done anything else fancy (alignment, etc). I can't remember the last BSOD I've had. <shrug>

Yep, that looks to be right in the spec range I was aiming for. Just in case my Google-fu needs re-alignment, what are ya'll using as search terms to get these results?

Yup, there is no shortage of choice on the ink-jet side, just the higher-volume lasers.

Thanks for the tip! Their Océ TDS750 looks promising.

Inkjet is fine for smaller-volume operations, but our average day is 100+ 24"x36" sheets (6000+ ft/month). The cost of ink alone would kill us, and few of the inkjet machines would last long at that rate. Plus they aren't fast enough.

Our Xerox 8850 finally died after nearly 12 years, and Xerox no longer is in this market. Our vendors are putting together quotes, but I like to learn about this kind of thing before making a decision. The quote I have now is for a make I've never heard of before (Kip 7700). Worse, I can't find...

I have an app for my phone called "CamScanner" that automatically deskews, crops, and saves as PDF. Very professional looking output considering how easy it is to use.

Thanks for the tip on the Galaxy players. Didn't know those existed.

Android smartphone here. Works amazingly well. Does her phone support a microSD card? I'm thinking it must. A 64GB card is cheap enough, and should suit her needs. Rather than ripping the disks again, just use one of the programs that converts to a non-lame format (MP3 is the obvious choice). I...

I'd change that to: If your desktop has one drive, you need a second drive to keep a backup. I don't see any of the other things you mentioned as a "need" or even with strong supporting evidence on modern SSDs with their high wear ratings.

Either would be better (and both best) compared to what we have now. Eliminating all deductions would be a great start. Simplifying the bracketing system would be a nice second. If the system were simple enough, the employer could simply withhold the appropriate amount and only those with...

Finally got around to sticking a PolkAudio 12" sub under my desk and just wiring it straight into the speaker output. Turned the low-pass filter to the lowest (80hz) and it seems to be doing OK. Can't notice it 95% of the time, it just sounds like the speakers have a better low-end.

It seems from the article that she continued to use an electrified shower after she knew both that it was electrified and that she was suffering as a result? She didn't bring in her own professionals or even consult a physician for quite some time afterwards, despite SCE obviously giving her the...

A friend had a magnetic sign the size of a bumper sticker that read "Danger, 10,000 Ohms!". Good for keeping the janitor out of stuff.

Or, "how a family took a bad situation and did everything in their power to make it worse".

Or use Start8 and configure it to go straight to the desktop.

The occasional restart isn't a bad idea. Set the sleep timer and occasionally (weekly?) tell it to restart and walk away. When it comes back up it will go to sleep.

I had a problem with an old MS wireless keyboard and mouse set. The keyboard had died long ago but the mouse was still in use. At random intervals the keyboard would launch random programs or type random stuff. Put in a wired keyboard for a bit and disconnect the wireless receiver. I bet things...

This. The oath only means something to the people that would behave even if they didn't take it. Therefore the whole thing is useless.

I was halfway through a reply when I saw Merc say everything perfectly.

Nope. She had had a green card for 5+ years when she started the process. Before that she was on a work visa. From what I understand the biggest question they ask is "In the last 5 years, have you been out of the country for more than 6 months at a time?". Apparently if the answer is yes another...

The thing I like about MSE is that I haven't seen a machine with it installed where it wasn't running and fully updated. Most machines I come across with the other free options (or Norton/McAffee) don't have it updated and many times it isn't even running. Just sitting in the corner with some...

I don't understand the framing of the question? She has some superstitions brought over from the old country, but we are part of the fastest-growing religious movement out there (atheism).

You won't be disappointed. And a note for others here: ESET makes two products; NOD32 is great and their "whole system protection" program is crap, just like every other "whole system protection" product.

Not daunting, just long. We followed the process and it took about a year. If you were trying to rush things along, or didn't have all your ducks in a row first, I could see how some stress might enter into it.

Anything is better than Norton. It is hands-down the worst out there IMO. Of the free options I prefer Microsoft Security Essentials. It isn't the best, but it is the most fool-proof. Even better programs will be worse when they aren't updated or running in 6 months. For the paid stuff I still...

My wife is now a US Citizen. That was a massively boring ceremony.

I'm a bit concerned about the limitations of a 529. I suspect that standard university educations will be supplanted significantly in the next 20 years for many fields. Not sure where else to go and still keep some of those benefits, but my accountant is a very clever guy.

Approx. 8.5 months ago. This Thursday will be 37 weeks and counting ;)

I love those guys...the most bad-ass stuff imaginable. But a bit out of my budget ;)

Just put a gaming-class video card on there and make it your workstation. Imagine the bandwidth to all that local storage ;)

That is indeed a monster. I'm assuming 24 3TB drives?

On a happier note, I was cleaning up the cabling this afternoon and found a way to pull another 30% of internet bandwidth into the main pool. 540kB/s! Between 300 users! Woo!