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Just realized I forgot to disable the turbo-boost, so it is going to 5.1Ghz for single-threaded stuff. Never had a 5Ghz+ machine before...

I was thinking about that, but I really like having 24GB of RAM, and the added throughput is nice as well. 4.8Ghz might be as quick as I can go.

Yup. Nuts. Give a geek a lot of money and they start doing crazy things. Actually, geeks just do crazy things.

It isn't exceptionally multithreaded, so clock speed it pretty much it. Now stable @ 4.8; I don't think any of the other chips can do better on air.

Still easily a good value, but I bet the motherboard mounting points are non-standard.

So it turns out that my new favorite game, Mechwarrior Online, is massively CPU bound. The video cards I throw at it make no difference, but a little overclock is directly visible in the framerate. Currently working on my "office" machine (990X) and now have it up to 4.6Ghz. Does anyone have...

Seconded. When I have to work on one in my office I will go to great lengths to minimize runtime. This was the primary motivation for out of band control.

This is what I would try.

Bought a Parrot AR 2.0 Drone. Great fun. Once I get some decent time with it I'll post some videos.

That is a very nice drive.

I can't comment on the FreeBSD stuff, but if redundancy is really important, you'll want at least two different forms of internet connection at your end and a VPN link that can hop between them. For this kind of thing I use FatPipe equipment at either end; capable of redundancy and load...

That is possible. The only thing I can think of to help would be to manage "lockers" for people; a folder that stores their music and their playlists. If they use iTunes to purchase stuff it should sync there, same with Amazon or whatever. If it came from physical media, you should probably keep...

This.

...the real problem is with your keyboard?

can you get away with just file access and the default player?

It is possible to have the same account signed in from multiple locations editing the same doc, but you may be prompted to re-sign-in more frequently. You could simply invite them using their credentials, or create accounts for them.

I voted by mail days ago. No hassle, and a computer in front of me if I forget anything.

I also believe that his workshop/office was in the basement. So that may be an additional factor.

Never. They went from a very vocal minority to a less vocal minority to a ridiculously vocal minority in the desktop/mobile space. But they will be dying again soon.

Thanks. And that was a typo...they are GTX690s (basically a pair of 680s each) so two cards is 4 GPUs. I don't think I'm into this enough to drop another $1k just for folding...

I've currently worked 65 of the last 80 hours, and I'm not going home yet. There are 2x GTX590 currently in my work machine, and there is room for one more. Does SLI support more than quad graphics cards?

And if you are off grid you need to worry about sourcing the fuel yourself regardless.

That Smoothwall firewall I installed on the mountaintop the other day? In the secure and very hard to access location that I need to schedule an escort to reach? It decided to enable the onboard DHCP server and disable the web interface. Now half my machines are listening to the wrong server and...

We're actually playing "pick your own IT" with our new cell phones. You can pick, and pay a premium out of pocket if you want to upgrade. That will be (at least in the short term) a time sink.

At the moment merely entertaining the idea. But the next house I build will likely be completely off grid due to location.

I can't imagine telling anyone not to use the default e-mail client or media player on and Android device. Even having multiple web browsers confuses my people, and more powerful versions of applications will only confuse them.

Building codes in my area wouldn't allow it.

Perhaps when we get an electric car I'll rig the onboard batteries to be able to power the house in an emergency. That could be fun.

There are ways to sell back electricity to the grid and at least break even. This is the way most solar systems (including the one I envisioned for us) would work. Of course, in case of emergency that shuts down power, having a local store would be nice. I'm just not sure whether it is worth the...

Not fun, but mandatory. I'm down to about one a month, and all kinda scheduled. Major upgrades to a software stack tomorrow, simultaneous with a switch from 100+ Nextel phones to 100+ Verizon phones. Currently installing a dozen "Network Extenders" made by Samsung to insure complete cell...

Shoulda bought an Android ;)

Fair enough, I'll believe you on that. The only hardware I've tested it on was a fanless Atom rig with an SSD and 2GB of RAM and it was impressive if I wasn't trying to play full HD video. Is the boot time really that much better?

You aren't worried about 8 being more bloated and hurting your scores?

Indeed. So once I go solar I have a space in the garage to have a bank of batteries. Time to do some math on consumption/run time/etc.

At my place we use electricity for everything; heatpump, water heater, oven, everything. I plan on adding solar, but the thought of disasters makes me want to add some local capacity of some kind. Of course, they don't happen here often, and it is never that cold, but still....

Anyone who can recognize pedobear knows better than to be offended. Props to you for making an effort; I'm still at work and will be for the rest of the night. My neighbor's kids will need to be disappointed for another year running.

Same here. I try to get the first 20 miles out of the way before Marketplace ends.

I love the TEDs. I'm just bummed that I discovered them the year after they moved to LA; they were 16 miles from my house.

'salright, I omitted the part about the Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins lectures at Oxford. Here is a lovely TED talk.

For some reason I ended up watching some Bill Maher for the first time, on YouTube. His position on Religion is hilarious. My favorite: "Calling atheism a religion is like calling abstinence a sex position."

Only anecdotally (is that even a word?) would I say that Intel is more reliable than the rest, but I have no evidence to support that.

Yeah, that looks pretty clean as well.

I presume he meant something like this, which can be used without the chassis. Certain Retail Intel SSD packaging ships with a great one.

That is a pretty amazing link to have copied and get in there...

Copy worked, thanks for the help.

The one I'm copying FROM is about to fail SMART, but I was able to get the image off no problem. The target drive (brand new Intel 330 240GB) has perfect numbers.

One friend in Manhattan had the facade of the building next door collapse, another a mile further north is out getting pizza right now...

Apparently NYC is having some power issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ

One of them is about to fail according to SMART.

"Time Remaining" has been "less than one minute" for an hour. I'm just going to go home and get my hardware SATA drive duplicator. I can't believe Acronis sank so far in such a short period of time...Ghost was awesome for many years before Symantec ruined it.