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I'd need to get a larger one to sleep in. Cold I can handle, heat is tolerable, but humidity is crippling. When I last went through that part of the world I could never get a full nights sleep. I remember taking a shower, lying under the ceiling fan that was over the bed, and never getting dry...

With high humidity, I presume? Ouch.

That MiniDSP does look like the secret sauce I'm after, no? I'm hesitant to deal with the waiting and ordering process for that Audio-gd unit; how much would I be losing by getting something from Amazon or Newegg? I've been doing some research on USB DACs, but they all say something stupid...

Yeah, tough here, too. Got into the single-digits Celsius overnight. ;)

The motherboard does have optical out, so that isn't too big a deal. What is crazy is the pricing of things as we talk about this, not to mention the space it would take up. All I'm looking for is a couple DACs and a low (maybe high) pass filter, no? If I just got some splitters off my sound...

That USB soundcard will probably be going somewhere else. First time I've even heard of a Pre/Pro. So I should be looking at a cheaper version of this?

The soundcard I have does not have a subwoofer output. That is the direction I would like to go. Do you have a product in mind?

Thanks for reminding me about the Klipsch, my memory is even worse with a fever. If I were to keep using the USB soundcard I should just get some RCA splitters to come off the speaker channels? If I wanted to look at something better suited what would you recommend?

I've been running the Futaba controller with my computer using the simulator called Aerofly Professional Deluxe. I still can't fly from an on-the-ground perspective, but FPV is no problem. Once I bring my solder station home I can make the harness to charge the batteries and test the FPV camera...

Nope. But better to learn here than at work. I can learn and test out the bits that I need, and then deploy them elsewhere. I've been using Smoothwall for a long time, but decided to try something more powerful and less user friendly. A good opportunity to learn more about routing.

Bingo. The External port could get out, but I hadn't told the internal ports how to get to the external port. Thanks! This thing is badass; dual 1Ghz CPUs, 2GB RAM, 13 Gigabit ports, 1 million PPS.

I figured that is where this would be going. Sticking with off-the-shelf stuff, what should I be looking at? Something that has an adjustable cutoff to match the speakers I assume? Perhaps the mid/low-20s is a reasonable floor?

This is the most hardcore router programming I've ever attempted. Of course, I hadn't planned on doing it tonight, but the only other router in the house took a dump earlier. So far I've done the following: I've set up a bridge of all the ports except port 12. I've assigned that bridge the IP...

That worked. After converting the FLAC to WAV and running it through, there seems to be relevant data to 8hz. Crap. I know I'm not going that low, what is a realistic expectation? Volume is nearly irrelevant, quality and range are what I care about. Maybe $500 cap?

Interesting. I was on the Emotiva website and the 5 and 6 are listed, but not the 4. That is only on the EmotivaPro website. Strange marketing. Yeah, I was kidding, it doesn't transfer correctly when I'm sick. It would be interesting to somehow analyze the music I'm listening to and find what...

The Stealth 8s look awesome. Shame that I already bought the 4s (which look to be discontinued). But 30hz isn't low enough anyway.

AFAIK, the next integer increments at around 4000AD.

The speakers are being driven directly from a Sound Blaster X-Fi HD USB sound card.

Bought that for the Boss last year ;)

I've had small helicopters for a while, and I even had a 450 full-aero helicopter that I was never able to keep off the ground for more than a minute before crashing. Then I decided to actually get my pilot's license. After passing a medical and logging 20+ hours, my wife got pregnant. I'll get...

Looking for a sub to go with the Emotiva 4s. I don't need more power, just lower frequencies than they can hit. The example that highlighted this most so far is "Natural Self - In the Morning". Baseline has a nice progression, and some of the notes are just...gone. Something that matches the...

Anyone else play with this stuff? I'm particularly interested in the following aspects: Drone (GPS, waypoint guided, etc) FPV (flying with live video transmitted from the aircraft) Multi-Rotor (no flaps or ailerons, just motors and computers) Starting to buy stuff and watch videos...

Funny enough, my wife is far more sensitive to cold than I. Russians are always discussing the weather. Being in the construction business and trying to blend, I usually wear a Carhartt like this one over a shirt like this one with jeans. Still can't bring myself to wear steel-toed boots (don't...

Nope, but it looks really nice. I might need one, supposed to get into the 30s here soon.

I gave a Win8 machine to a user that had never even heard of it, in fact, their last machine was XP. No complaints. Start8 makes that much of a difference.

Peerblock was nice, but I haven't been using it for a long time. I just don't torrent media that this country cares about.

Good thing I wasn't trying to convince anyone ;) At the end of a 24-hour workday I don't try too hard.

Just finished watching Green Lantern while fixing file servers at work. Nice film.

Interesting that they gave you the one famous for being the most "acquired" of tastes. I've drank bottles of Scotch, and I am far from acquiring said taste. The tasting notes I remember are smoked fish, peat, bonfire smoke, and oak-iness. Near $750 a bottle, IIRC.

Awesome, thanks. The rest of that is stuff I really should learn, but this will help me now. Much appreciated ;)

A bottle of Scotch will make a nice addition to your collection. It makes up about 50% of mine at the moment (discounting wine, and there is no beer). For those of us that geek out in that particular way, what is it?

So you would keep the scripts on a thumbdrive? For the most part these are computers I'm touching for the first time, and don't have anything on them. At the moment I'm going to the desktop, opening the folder explorer, using that to get to the standard control panel, and getting to network...

A task that has been common for me for years keeps getting more difficult with each OS, and I would love people's advice on the simplest way to do it in Win8: Change an IP address on the wired NIC. Thanks.

I'm supportive of the project, but they still have a long way to go. It annoys me that they do a cut after the thing falls/rolls; I would have felt much better if the camera had kept rolling and it just stood back up.

Per that link, they refer to the IMAX HD variant which was 48fps. Started in 1992.

Re-read the gizmodo piece, and I don't think there are any real arguments there. Many of his sentances could refer to any upgrade in medium, including from books to radio or radio to movies. Yes, it is harder to make because you are showing a more complete story. Yes, the presentation itself is...

10FPS would suck, 24 is better, I see no reason to believe more isn't better in this metric. All the arguments seem to be couched in "what has been done before".

I haven't seen the film yet, but the HD+ high-FPS stuff I've seen makes me agree with you.

The other point with regards to SSDs and writes is whether the pagefile sees any action if you have enough RAM. It might never be accessed even if you leave it at default settings. In either case, SSDs have a high enough write limit for that to be a non-issue.

Assuming the PATA drive the one with the OS on it?

Badass until you fall to your death. Then dumbass.

Probably. But ram is so cheap these days that it mitigates the issue, and the useful life is longer than you need anyway.

Shoot a video. Bring it up in the gallery. Start playing it. Choose the menu key (bottom left "hard" button) and choose "trim".

We figured it would be a cube 4'x4'x4'.

Just the regular camera app. She mainly does it to get them under the 25MB attachment limit.

One of my clients regularly crops video on her S3 before emailing it. The stock app supports it including a timeline with previews. I was amazed how well it works.

Glad that worked out for you Azjazz. Now that SSDs are getting cheap enough per GB we can finally get HDDs out of the system entirely in some cases. That makes life much simpler.

It is my portable toolbox. Lives in my glove box most of the time and contains all the software I commonly need and system images. I'll also use it to transport backups from "offline" sites to my office. The 64GB wasn't enough anymore.

I'm sure I could get a structural engineer to sign off on it ;)

I was still game, I thought a massive fish tank hung like a chandelier would have been awesome.