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Nope, no documentation here. That was the first of my projects to be cut. When the job grew to the point that projects weren't making deadlines, I began to maintain a list of outstanding issues and projects with an importance scale of 0-9 that the boss maintains. When I feel it is worth the...

In theory you are 100% correct. But one night of troubleshooting every 7 years is worth not having to deal with that crap the rest of the time, IMO.

Nope. The 6000 is a nice resting point WRT price/features.

Yup. Having two incompatible networks in close proximity is a risk, but I had made troubleshooting easy by using only blue patch cables for data and white for voice, with red for uplinks to other switches. Of course, when I got in when he was done they were all over the place and included...

I'm pretty much buying Samsung TVs exclusively at this point. Not the best picture quality, and not the best price, but out of two dozen so far not one has gone wrong. I can't say the same for LG or Panasonic.

Finally got through the wireshark traces, and I'm pretty sure I've found the problem. Looks like the phone vendor put in several bridges between his network (VoIP, restricted to specific ports in this building, managed by him) and my network. He has a Linksys router handling DHCP for all the...

Mixed switches, and a completely open topology. Traffic can freely broadcast across the whole system including wireless WAN links, fiber connections, etc. Going against some best practices, sure, but it worked flawlessly until this morning when all hell broke loose. This started at the same...

This one is killing me. My network has ~600 devices across 5 sites. Everything works some of the time but nothing works all of the time. Sometimes the speed is fine and sometimes it takes minutes. Any network communication is effected; to your network printer, network shares, RDP sessions, even...

I don't think the size of the company matters, just where you are in it. I've been in various companies at various levels, and once you are high enough up the ladder to have regular dialogs with the boss and be part of the decision making process things seem to make a lot more sense. Or they...

That would depend on how desperate the situation is. If things are truly going down the toilet than anything "now" might be the best bet. Then again, while $30k isn't chump change for a company of that size, it isn't that big a deal, either. Also keep in mind that companies these days are...

I went for a practice ride/race on Tuesday night with the team. On the downhill the bike was feeling a bit wobbly so I took it in for service. The frame is broken in three places; both the chain- and seatstays on the drive side and the chainstay on the left are cracked. I'm awaiting word...

So they mention the Cowboys screen as 160'x72' for $40M. This one is starting to look like a bargain....

That looks pretty good to me. But I don't know the current state of AMD stuff. Using a larger case if it still fits the location is always preferable. It can be quieter and run cooler than smaller cases. If this machine has a lower power draw, you may be able to dial down the fans a bit. Not...

Thanks for checking my math, I think I multiplied it twice. If it is 240 pixels per 5m, than a full 1080 pixel high screen would be 22.5m (73.8ft) high and about 40m (131.2ft) wide. And waterproof. And (relatively) low-power. And flexible. That would be pretty awesome. Some more questionable...

Pretty cool. So to get a wall 5mx5m would cost $26,680 and have a resolution of 3600x3600@60hz Don't have time to do the math on size and cost of a full 1080P (1920x1080) screen of them, but that would be pretty awesome.

I can only imagine the boot time on that with an ssd and W98...

127 seeders and 17 leechers for version 15.2 (mid-January). Of course, you wouldn't think of downloading it, but the swarm speed is pretty good right now.

I'm playing it as a sandbox game. I have no interest in playing with people I don't know. The city size restriction can be annoying, but the regional nature allows you to work around many of the limitations (you can run 14 cities in a region and exchange power, police, resources, etc between...

Honestly? It is a pretty fun game, and a bigger timesink than Civ5. Haven't had any errors in the last two days. Of course, you shouldn't buy it. No one should be rewarded for such craptacular DRM-sodden errors. But I've been playing the crap out of it.

I just ordered another Boxee. The local media support is awesome.

If you want to keep the WAN connections on two dedicated hardware machines, look for a system that will get two low-end servers in a 1U chassis. Anything will do. But I would be comfortable using the vLAN technique you mentioned, just be sure that vLAN tags are stripped both ways somewhere...

Mine are no longer mounted on the wall. There is now a 4-post 19" server rack in the living room that is all water-cooled with the radiator in the garage. You know you want a piece of that action ;)

It is remarkable how much distance is required to recover sometimes...I don't think I would be as bold if I didn't have 5+ acres of flat to fool around in.

I can relate. I take my car out to our quarry probably once a month for some fun. Really hard-packed earth with 1/2" of dust on top; super-slick when the water trucks aren't running. I've been able to balance it with full opposite lock on throttle, but the exit is still darn scary.

You now have my interest ;) I'll be looking at it the next time I'm not at the end of a 20 hour workday. G'night, all.

Nice! By the third video you were able to catch and hold it a couple times. That is always great fun.

When I was on ESXi I had the full version of Veeam backup, and it worked great. But according to their sales guys, they don't make a product that can interact with VMWare Workstation. I would love it if it did, it was awesome.

Thanks! I'm down to three 4x6 bandages already. Once the hip and ribs heal I'll be back riding again. Hopefully this weekend?

Indeed. Though it is probably closer to 80% without SSDs.

I have a new need for one of these media appliances. Who likes what now?

Is that an internal or external drive? How is it connected?

The complaint about city size is completely legit. Don't know who thought that was an acceptable size. Bit I do like the game. Logged a few hours this morning and enjoyed it considerably. More fun than CitiesXL if it can keep running without crashing for more than 90 minutes at a time (losing...

Hand delivered and fitted by a model ;)

I know DRM is bad. I know I shouldn't buy any game that has the nastiest flavors of it. I know EA is a scourge that shouldn't be trusted. But, Dammit, SimCity looked so awesome! Even worth installing Origin on my machine. Even worth paying a crazy price. But now their servers are borked and the...

I agree with all above that it would likely turn out to be a tiny amount of money, and would likely not even be worth collecting. But to be fair we are using the infrastructure, and should be billed out portion. $2 a tire or thereabouts would be my guess.

Finding some way to get bicycles to contribute to the infrastructure they use makes sense, all other things being equal. But they aren't. First we would need to remove all the subsidies to petroleum powered vehicles, or at least add on enough taxes to neutralize them. Then we can calculate how...

Now considering wireless HDMI to the projectors and having the computers under the desk.

Yup. Though I think the McLaren P1 is more my style.

Actually, they use a metal pole connected by wire to the helicopter. As they approach, the connect the helicopter to the pole electrically. That way they have the same potential and you can move freely between them. Since the heli isn't grounded, the electricity doesn't go anywhere. It does make...

My Galaxy S3 was in my pocket unprotected when I fell at nearly 30MPH and banged around sliding on the ground for a long way. Other than some scuff marks on the back, it is fine. It has been dropped onto concrete and asphalt by me at least a dozen times without issue. What is Apple doing to...

Near my office a crew from the power company has been working on the high-voltage transmission lines with a helicopter. They have a rope ladder hanging from the heli, and they hang from the ladder as the heli flies cross-country from tower to tower. When they get to a tower, the workers just...

I am pulling a copy of the SQL database while dismounted from time to time. That seems to be the only way to get a copy that our vendor's app doesn't complain about. The thing is an utter mess and needs to be rebuilt. The nightly online backups fail 80%+ of the time, and even when it succeeds...

Also, I haven't purchased anything yet. Do you have a different program capable of live imaging that I should be trying instead?

I can snapshot them, but I was hoping not to have to. The computer is powerful enough that there shouldn't be any appreciable queue lengths, but I see your point. Can you think of an easy way to test for minor data corruption/loss issues? The biggest concern would be the SQL 2008 server.

This is my crazy idea for the evening. I have a Win7 Ultimate x64 machine running VMWare Workstation 9.0.1. Upon which are 14 production VMs. I would like to install Acronis TrueImage 2013 on the host, and backup the entire thing live using the "Nonstop Backup" feature. 1) Anyone try this...

Ah, still have that value from before. No 7661s yet, but I will keep my eye out. Thanks!

That is awesome. Thanks. Would it benefit to run the new core on my GTX690s? Or is it roughly the same as standard for nVidia GPUs?

Wow. Glad to hear you came out of it alright. Even at only 60kph going down in a lane of traffic could have been pretty bad; good job keeping it upright as long as you did. Any idea the cause of the blowout? How were your tires?

P5: I'm afraid I don't know enough to understand your post?

I've used USB3.0 active extensions before to 30'+, so any conduit would do. If there was some hardcore fiber adapter that would be perfect. Right now there is no conduit to the table at all; just cables along the floor. This isn't OK at a law office apparently.