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I picked up a couple of 21" trinitron CRT screens a few weeks back. What I had forgotten since going flat panel is the absolutely tossload of space they take, depth wise. Might have to pony up for a 19" flat panel, seems worth it for the extra space it gives you.

Thanks Fushigi. Ended up going with a 1GB Sansa c240. About $46, has the FM tuner and voice recording. Single AAA battery. Certainly hard to beat value wise when compared to the products with the "Apple tax" on it. Of course now the youngest is jealous and wants one as well :)

http://www.irislink.com/c2-532-189/OCR-Software---Product-list.aspx or more likely something like this: http://www.abbyy.com/flexicapture/?param=132539 You would need to define the fileds you want for each unique form type, no matter what software you use.

Looking at a SanDisk Sansa c150 2 GB MP3 Player for my son's 10th. It mentions it's PlaysForSure compatible. Does it still allow dragging and dropping of mp3s via Explorer?

Oh, I forgot to mention, the motors reach 80HP at 12000rpm. And the car it beat was a Porsche Turbo. http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=8754&vf=23

Nice. The xB got a big bump in power with the new engine, should have snappy performance. I was watching a documentary on HDNet last night, a Japanese uni professor was designing a high performance electric car, without any collaboration with existing Japanese auto makers. It's got 8 wheels...

Until AMD can get the Barcelonas to faster speeds, Intel has won this "round". However, AMD does know the Barcelona can't compete on speed, and therefore prices it appropriately.

Of course, for true redundancy that equipment should be located on the East coast, say upstate NY? :)

I don't know of any RAID cards that need more than an 8x slot. Chances are one of those 16x slots is 8x electrically anyway? Edited to add: If you look at the third image, looks like one of the 16x slots is only 1x electrical. WTF is up with that?

The man-trap at one of our colo datacenters has a CFL for illumination. Unfortunate when you are the first one in after a while (it has a motion activated switch), because it is so dim that it is almost impossible to see the keypad to enter a pin. In certain applications you still need instant...

From the stories I've seen, the Ford Escape Hybrid has been a big success for its drivers in NYC taxi use. The stop and go is perfect to maximise regen braking. They did have to get special approval as it is no where near roomy when compared to a Crown Vic. You could see the looks on the other...

http://afdcmap2.nrel.gov/locator/findpane.asp You can see the availability of natural gas locations (some aren't open to the general public).

Sure. But given I can fill up every night when the car is garaged (with both natural gas and electric), there's no reason to let the natural gas tank drop low enough to get stranded. The longest drive I do is perhaps 300 miles, and that's a very rare trip. For my commute to work, I only need 70...

The Volt could have a variant that has a range of nearly 1000 miles, if I'm travelling that far I will fly and rent a car: http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/01/07/detroit-auto-show-general-motors-e-flex-platform/ Even if it comes in at 60% of that range, it's still more than almost all...

Ultimate card write speed is limited by the camera controller, but if what you hanker for is faster reads to computer, then the correct memory reader is very helpful: http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-8462

There's a setting for PTP/direct printing shite, set it to mass storage or whatever the option is.

300 HP in a car that light should be fun indeed. For $33,000 that's insane value in any brand, let alone a BMW. Once the kids leave the nest....

Why run a mud and snow tire? At the speeds you are going a high performance summer tire would seem the best for noise control. Do you ever get any snow out that way?

Do you still have the Crown Vics?

Were any of those days off from work related to Honda workmanship/defects, or was it the general bb gun toting vandals/criminals at fault? Still, 6 day is too long a wait without compensation, they should have small parts like that within closer range.

How many miles has that got on it? I would be asking the dealer for a loaner.

Looks like the price of the iphone has been dropped to $399 for the 8GB, and the dropping of the 4GB altogether. What a depreciation after just a couple of months, it's like back in the days of the Pentium 60/66. Milking the upper crust tit.

I would assign at least one hot spare if you are running 12+ drives in a single array. Especially if the controller is farking slow to rebuild.

Nikon D3 and D300 announced: What impresses me is the 922K pixel 3" screen, and the carbon-fibre shutter. Looks like it has a stinking fast processing chip as well. Dual compact flash for RAID 1 like capability might be useful for the truly critical moments...

Where do your downspouts from your gutters end up? If they terminate close to the house and you have room get some extensions so the water flows out well away from the foundation.

For water detection in our machine rooms we use two wire cable that is layed out in regions. Even the tiniest drop of condensation will set the alarm off. Then it's off with the floor tiles to see what's going on. Most common water problem is when an A/C unit condensate pump fails.

5 fps, not bad at all. Interesting to see the auto sensor clean functionality, as well as the option to have the mirror locked up for more than one shot. I know for some applications it would be best to have the mirror constantly locked up. One less moving part to fail. 16 to 21 in itself is...

At least on this camera, there is a layer over the sensor itself, so what you are touching isn't the sensor, but a plate that sits over it. Hopefully the next gen has a self-clean function.

Well these cameras were very rarely without their lens on. The problem we had was twofold, firstly the sensors got dirty during the first few days of use (as the shutter wore in, or perhaps dirty straight from the factory), and secondly as the shutter wears at the end of its life, we would get...

Used to do this a lot with the 1DsMkIIs. Ended up getting one of those sensor clean brushes, fluffed it with canned air first to get it clean and charged.

A U.S. Citizen has to report world-wide income. It's just Dubai won't charge you any taxes.

The ES does do better in RAIDs. But from what I understand they still aren't as capable/reliable as SAS drives. Only a problem if you really hammer the disks 24/7.

Perfect. Thanks guys.

I humbly request that it stay. Only Coug seems to be having a fit, Mark, Greg, Mubs and myself have no issues with it.

The upside of the story is that at least they didn't use a .22LR cartridge to substitue for a fuse :)

Harbour Freight has some great stuff for very good prices, but they are definitely not the first place I would get delicate electrical bits. McMaster-Carr, on the other hand, I have had great success with in my previous job. Very cheap shipping as well. http://www.mcmaster.com/

Certificates can come in handy on occasion, problem is most employers like to see a combination of education and experience. Chances of getting a sys admin job based on say just an MCSE cert are slim to none. You need to show that you have experience actually managing servers. Bit of a catch 22...

I do not consider this post to be spam. It's highly targeted, and has a real contact (as opposed to being an email address collector). Sorry Coug, but I think it's your behaviour that's out of hand.

A friend of mines wife went to work in the Middle East for a while. Lucrative pay rates, if you can deal with certain restrictions (she could drink with her colleagues, but only in their "compound").

Apparently London won't get done with ACing their Underground for many years yet. Biggest problem is the deepest stations.

Whilst there aren't any turnstiles there is definitely enforcement, when I was riding the U two undercover cops got on, one young woman who went thru each carriage (as the train sat in the station), and a bigger guy standing close by in case assistance is needed. Very discreetly she flashed her...

I'm waiting for the Areca SAS controllers. Dual-core IOP348 at 800Mhz should get the job done :)

I like the format painter in Office 2007. That and the Calibri font :)

Sophos (get it free from work). It's pre-configured, I've seen no reason to change it.

They aren't out yet: http://www.dailytech.com/Intel+Leaks+45nm+Xeon+Clock+Frequencies/article8065.htm From what I recall the E5450 was going to be $891 or somesuch.

What's impressive is the price of the new quad core Xeons. Even the most expensive model at 3.13 GHz is less than the price of the 5160 dual core @ 3 GHz. I thought 1333 FSB would matter for the quads but it looks like it only delivers a few percentage points of performance.

They should have 6x single layer and 4x double layer burn speeds in the 3rd quarter for BluRay. Once they can increase the laser power, we should see even faster speeds. Lot more storage than DVD. But I wouldn't trust it for critical archiving just yet.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161079 Dunno how an x1550 performs, but this one gives you dual DVI (via two low profile slots).

Don't get a DLP based set until you can be sure that you aren't prone to noticing the rainbow effect. Apparently even the LED based models can have it. For 1080p I would suggest 60" or bigger, projection is always nice if you have ambient light control. The newest model of the TV that Mark has...

One of the things I've noticed in the USA, as opposed to Australia/Europe, is that people tow massive things behind their trucks/SUVs. Boats, 5th wheel trailers, car trailers etc. Obviously not all SUVs are used to tow. But there are certain things that a car cannot do.