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If I looked hard enough, I'm sure I remember a post where you said you would never make 1k.

The i7 is the fastest, but the mobile versions are the slowest of the i7s. If you are going to be doing that kind of hardcore computing, you might consider bringing along a small form factor desktop of some kind.

Despite Lunar's predictions to the contrary, he has in fact managed 9,000 posts. Yay.

The more powerful processor will certainly be busy for less time, and will therefore produce less heat. If you are going to be logging hours doing 36.3MP RAW conversions, getting the fastest processor and hard drive seem like no-brainers. In fact, you would likely be much better off having...

I've found the Windows Experience Index to matter on scores between 4 and 6. Above that it doesn't matter, and below that they system is unusable.

My power washer has a specific compartment for detergent and a special nozzle for foaming. Haven't tried it with the car, I used it for the house before painting and it worked pretty well.

I also feel that they are notorious because they are so common. You are more likely to hear horror stories if more units are sold. And they are common because they are a pretty good deal.

On average, you'll need to buy ~1.05 based on my reliability numbers.

Indeed. I know I wouldn't be able to wait.

I suspect that Comcast is throttling my link constantly due to torrent traffic. At the moment I'm at 1.8MB/s down and 0.5MB/s up, but that is sustained for days at a time.

I have more OCZ SSDs than the rest of you combined. I've had one failure and, knowing how bad their RMA process is, I just threw it away. In my experience their failure rate is fairly low and their prices are awesome. You do need to be OK with simply taking it as a loss at some point if the...

I've noticed that Coug's character seems to be trying harder than anything to prove that he isn't gay. Not that I think he is gay, but anytime there is a question involved, his answer is also the most "manly" answer conceivable.

The APC SmartUPS SMX 1000 with two 2U battery add-on modules will give all my gear (~3A) 200+ minutes of runtime according to the interface. If there is an outage that lasts longer than that, I have more to worry about than not being able to surf the web or listen to music.

I plan to use my actual aviation headset. I have an adapter that will allow me to jack that into the computer. The mic is sound activated with an adjustable cutoff.

I've experienced success when using them in any way that makes the hardware think they are individual drives. This includes Windows Home Server and Windows Dynamic Disk Arrays. I suspect ZFS would be much the same. Anything where the array is configured in some kind of BIOS has never worked well.

Not where to buy, what encoding to use, or what to listen to it on, but music itself. Bands, recordings, combinations/mixtapes/playlists. Now that anyone with an internet connection can hear at least a snippet of many songs through Amazon's preview section or Pandora, or something else, this...

Pretty much everything cool and/or fun does.

Just bought some music on Amazon MP3 (<200 songs). They appear in the cloud player correctly, and that part plays fine. But the downloader seems to be choking. I've decided to acquire a legal copy of the music I listen to, as they seem to have actually found a way that is easy and cheap enough...

Sold. Looks interesting. Registered already, same handle as here.

You could still use windows, it just won't matter what you use. And x86 won't matter if the OS runs on RISC or whatever else. When it doesn't matter, MS and Apple will have a hard time justifying their prices to many people.

Hmm....Thinking about it. Wouldn't be able to even start until the weekend probably.

Don't make me bring over that picture from the RIM thread...

We will be creating work products on "The Cloud" from whatever generic platform happens to be in front of us. I suspect it will be running Android, but that doesn't matter too much.

I would love to play a MechWarrior game. I refuse to play an MMOG. Conflicted, but I certainly don't have enough time to "keep up with the Joneses" or commit to a time to group raid.

What level of RAID is required before Merc will trust data to WD drives? 61? 11? 111?

One of my boss' favorite local charities is selling fireworks as a fundraiser. He is offering to subsidize a chunk of any purchases made there. I'm tempted to go big.

Also, a lot of the brit techs I worked with used the phrase "knock it over" to mean reboot it. They did not mean to literally knock it over. That took me a while to figure out.

My wife and I tried something different today. Normally I do a massive ride and meet her after, so her ride is my cool down. This time we started at the same place at the same time and I took off on my own pace. My route was 40 miles and hers was 16. On my return I caught up with her about 7...

That is pretty awesome. I'm going to be lucky to beat that on my road bike this morning...haven't ridden in a week.

And as such, we are talking about the performance improvements you can achieve in a standard office cubicle by applying stickers.

I have a few 32" Visio screens that I use for the playstations and they play BluRay disks just fine. This would not be possible without HDCP support.

Not nearly as expensive as I was thinking during the production video. The market for these things must be larger than I thought.

Yup. The cheapest thing you can do is delete everything as quickly as possible. That way when you are asked you can just say you don't have it. Some ISPs used to have this as a selling point, but there are many laws in many countries requiring they keep logs.

Good tip. Thanks!

Nope. But they seemed to work ok for the 3 miles I had to drive. Should I be anticipating damage?

I didn't have it weighed, but I will when the new tire arrives. The screw went all the way through the tire and exiting just outside the bead and chipped the wheel. If you look at the first and third picture you can see the exit wound in the tire aligning with the nick in the wheel.

Now for part 2 of the story. This happened 70 miles after I installed the tires and wheels, and is pretty self-explanatory. Needless to say my replacement tire arrives tomorrow.

Part 1 of the pictures... I really don't deserve to have them look this good. I eyeballed the color from the Forgestar site and matched from memory a stock color based on what color my car is.

I thought it was funny ;)

My thought was to do it via a web page. That way I can use the same interface from tablets and computers. I already love the webpage built into my Denon receiver; it is the only interface I use now. I have a bunch of Insteon lighting control stuff, that HomeSeer thing looks interesting, and my...

Yup. Looks interesting. I might consider some as remote controls for the home automation system. Just need to get more of the home stuff...automated. Scripting may be involved.

Apparently LED bulbs commonly throw errors in Audis; there are many stories of people putting resistors in parallel with cheaper bulbs to stop the errors. These didn't require that.

Yup. Those are pretty much the options. We are evaluating going back to radios for our field people and picking a network for the rest of us.

Another serious annoyance with this phone; when you connect the charging cable there is a bright white LED that illuminates the charging plug. It only illuminates after the cord is connected, so it isn't actually helpful, and you can't turn it off. Anyone here sleep with their phone charging on...

So two of each: HDMI Splitter HDMI Converter Headphone Amp Of course, I'm questioning the fidelity of the converter and the amp...grr.

The car is so far from clean that I'm embarrased to post current pics. Hopefully by tomorrow. The lights were from Tuner Domes. Just worked out of the box and looks good. The license plate lights threw one error once (bulb out), but hasn't happened since.

The Foregestar F14s were installed today with Hankook Ventus V12 Evo tires. The gunmetal powder coat finish looks flawless. The tires are great; very good feel and not much road noise. The wheels seem to be a bit better off the line (with quattro traction was never an issue, so I don't attribute...

Accurate and yet not helpful....10 points! ;) I'm hoping for something small that can sit on the desk below the monitor and have a volume knob.

That would work. Does anyone have a suggestion for a mid-range headphone amp that can take HDMI in?

Here is the situation: My wife and I both have computers in the main room. The machines themselves are in a rack with the rest of the AV gear, and a set of extension cables lead off to our desks. Our primary monitors are higher resolution than 1080P (Dell 27" and 30"), and require DVI...