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after talking to my wife, putting blood type might not be a big deal. They have to test before giving you any even if you have it tattooed on your arm.

Last week I had to photoshop-edit 40+ pages of PDFs. Font-matching, updating tables, graphs. What a pain in the ass. The user typed it up, printed it, didn't save it, then scanned it to PDF using the copier. As a lesson, I made them stand there and watch as I made the changes and berated them...

And my take on things that make me most safe while riding are as follows: 1. Be visible: Lights, bright colors, whatever. Riding in a group helps considerably. 2. Be predictable: I do use hand gestures, but not the official ones. I make eye contact with the car I'm concerned about and point...

Must say I've never noticed an impairment from the helmet. In fact, I forgot my helmet once and went 5 miles before meeting up with a friend and he mentioned it. Of course, I'm running a pretty good helmet (Kask somethingorother, $500+, the part with the sticker is still on the side of the...

It has just been too hot in my office lately. When I'm there I need to stop it because it is too hot. And when I'm not there it crashes after about 6 hours because of the heat. As we pass into Summer and the AC units go online it won't be an issue, but at the moment the only time air circulates...

Managed to get cleaned up from the bike crash in time to make it to a "casino night" fundraiser for a local school. Managed to convert 1,000 into 75,000 in 4 hours of Blackjack. Not my favorite game, but there wasn't a hold-em table set up.

Before the crash ~10% of my teeth were not fully functional, now it's more like 13%. Not a big deal. And this is my first crash in nearly 2000 miles of riding, which I suppose I should be happy with. No medical bills other than a couple hundred dollars in bandages, tape, gauze, antibiotic...

The headwind along the beach in Pebble is 20+mph always (usually both ways). Doing it solo is too demoralizing.

Had a bit of a crash this morning. Paceline at 29.8MPH, I was second wheel. Guy in front did a minor brake check and I crossed up with him. Shattered the back of my helmet, bashed my hip pretty good, chipped a few teeth, and lost a lot of skin (shredded the shirt). Glad my car key and S3 are...

I said he needed some space, but that might be too much space....

When Handy wants to be back he'll be back. He knows we miss him, but every decade or so someone might need some space ;)

But....they're my friends.... ;)

This. I'm about to implement some kind of in-VM disk imaging tool just cause the rest is scary.

Law office. Complex conference room setup. The assistants who do the argument prep are on the conference table and often need to scan in/read stuff from disks. The computers the projectors are connected to are in a closet. The floor is hardwood over concrete. USB2.0 would work I suppose, but it...

Of the USB2.0 implementations out there, does anyone have a favorite?

USB over powerline?

IIRC, the limitations on the free version of ESXi were on CPU sockets. I think two is allowed, and as many VMs as you want to put on there is fine. With this approach, you can just do a Physical->Virtual conversion and move all 18 as-is onto a single machine.

I have a need for high/ultramega-speed USB3.0 to a place without conduit. Installing a conduit would cost thousands, but I have the OK as a worst-case. Anyone have a better solution? There will be a switch with several devices hanging off it (optical drive, scanner, key, mouse). The budget is...

Just be sure to specify when you talk about selling the hardware that all hard drives will be pulled first and disposed of in a manner appropriate to your disposition ;)

Yup. But there is a transparency issue here. You should be able to charge whatever you want, but you shouldn't be able to charge more after-the-fact. The only way they get away with it is calling it a fee.

Unless your enterprise is massive, you don't need to worry about an IO bottleneck. I've run 500 person AD servers with every FSMO role from a 7200RPM SATA drive.

3D 4k video is about 1GB/s, no?

Sometimes you have to wonder how people that dumb get trusted with that kind of responsibility.

Both of these. If you can't just do a re-install and re-enter the data easily, call MS. And watch the guy who remotes into your system do all kinds of command line magic. I've been on AD-related calls that took 16 hours+, but in the end all was well and it was still just the fixed fee ($300...

Yup. This is why I treat the OS and the AD database as one monolithic, inseparable block. To do otherwise is to invite massive pain and suffering.

Home safe with my very pregnant wife, after managing a meeting with the city council while very drunk without them suspecting a thing. Nice to know that after years on the wagon I haven't lost the skills ;)

The keyboard is poor, and it isn't very useful without some storage infrastructure behind it (NAS or cloud-based).

Honestly I don't know why I don't have one yet. The thing looks completely awesome. If I got one is there anything people here would like to see?

FSMO roles is what caused me to treat the OS install as critical data.

Funny enough, I am currently at the restaurant that started this thread, on my fourth bottle of Hahn Meritage, being presented with many options. I clearly love my wife very much.

That sounds completely plausible. I'm sure that a MS guru could get it working without a reinstall, but I'm not one. I'd be doing a re-install. Was there a reason the OS wasn't on the array as well?

Very interesting. Still comfortable with the 690s in SLI I guess.

I've managed to deploy quite a few copies of Win8 (and run it myself at home) without needing to know a thing about Metro or their apps. I just install Start8 and pretend the thing doesn't exist.

I had vSphere. Still have the licenses, though I let the support lapse. The main reason is damage control. When something goes really wrong in vSphere, I'm in a command line world I have very little experience in. With Workstation I know my way around and can deal with OS issues without stress...

The main advantage I find to running a light system is that I can upgrade/swap out very frequently and still be well within any reasonable budget. At the moment my company (400 employees at 7 sites in two counties, 200+ computers and 100+ smartphones) runs on 2 NAS boxes (Synology 8-drive units...

Mubs is right. What you are facing is a political problem. That it can persist despite all the money it is costing is a sign that the forces involved are too strong to fight. Here would be my recommendation: Identify clusters of servers that will be EOL'd at about the same time. Proactively...

I was setting up a satellite internet connection out in the middle of nowhere. Very expensive link, 6'+ dish, multiple shielded coax cables to the modem, very high-end. No expense was spared. But you can't go faster than the speed of light; the time it takes for data to travel from the dish to...

Considering this is the F@H thread, I think it might be in the F@H production.

Yeah, when I took my desktop from 32 to 64GB I thought it was silly. Now I roll past 32GB all the time.

780ms ping and 4MB/s? Must be a satellite connection...

New NYC subways

All I know is that I'll be buying a pair of PS4s as soon as GT6 is released. Here's hoping that my existing force feedback wheels/pedals are compatible.

I haven't manually written a check in a decade. I haven't even had a checkbook for 7+ years. Even if I am sending a friend some money I type the details into my bank's website and you get a check a couple days later. If you need it faster than that you better accept cash.

Interesting how they are going after anything with a camera with privacy concerns and not full automation due to safety concerns. Plus, that is in Oregon, where crazy happens (I was born there, my sister lives there, I know). Pretty silly considering there are already privacy laws on the books...

Yup.

I just grabbed one of the views from SolidWorks; no idea. I want to capture a video of the model rotating, but I don't know how to do that yet.

More space for stuff. Gets the camera mount out from between the rotors. Looks pretty cool. More structurally sound (arm lengths are shorter).

Tonight's work:

Wow. Are you happy with the repairs performed? I seem to recall you being knowledgeable enough to tell the difference.

Great. Demonoid used to be awesome.