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Ah, well. Their delays are making my move more financially sane by the month.

Yup. Both as a matter of fact. But all those drives worked fine in 3Ware, Adaptec, and other controllers. Fair enough they weren't in the HCL, but I would argue 3Ware is up there in the RAID card hierarchy as well and works just fine.

That is what I'm looking for.

I very much do. Matte black on a white car with the black trim kit, please. What is the cost on those forgestar in the 18x9 (stock S4 size?)

I've had 3 3Ware RAID cards and one Areca over the years. The Areca kept balking at drives. Sure they weren't on the HCL, but 3Ware never had that issue.

Reducing unsprung weight to get a better ride was my goal. If I'm going to swap the wheels, I would want to do it immediately to preserve the resale of the OEMs. Maybe one of you would want them for snow tires.

I honestly want a sleeper, and am considering having all the badges removed except the rings front and back. What are people's thoughts on the factory wheels? Are they light enough? Are there significant performance gains to be had?

Did Richard Cheese ever do a cover?

Our new doorbell will play mp3s when you ring it. Looking for reasonable (or unreasonable) suggestions. Current (unreasonable) leader Honestly some pleasant chime would probably be best.

I, for one, see what you did there.

It would be interesting to have a "boot to cloud" device.

Feeling inspired are we?

Perhaps a sexual assault/rape. You probably don't want to go there.

Thanks Howell, I'd avoided the pressure washer already because I didn't know how the carbon fiber would take it. But specifically the crevice between the fork and the frame has me worried about gunk in there. Any specific dry lube you would recommend?

I'm not sure about you guys, but I use the GPS in two ways: 1. Just keep the moving map up to refresh my memory (90% of the time) 2. Program an address before I leave for some long road trip to some place I've never been (once a week if that). To access mode 1 requires one button press.

Like previous windows versions, it really likes some fundamental hardware to at least be the same type. A repair install is the best way if it works for you, but I don't do this kind of thing because of all the headaches it usually causes. I would try installing the drivers for the new hardware...

In my experience HDD speed only impacts boot time and AV scans if you have enough RAM in Win7 for normal users. Anything above my bare-bones boxes get an SSD anyway.

Looks like the cheapest voice plan combined with 5GB of data and their weak-ass insurance ($200 deductible? WTF?) would run nearly $100/mo. Have to think about that.

Desktop machines. All my servers are SSDs, with the exception of storage servers which have large arrays of 3TB 7200RPM drives backed with large amounts of RAM.

Bird seed is cheaper than cat food (and it's more entertaining for the cats).

I prefer tactile buttons to touchscreens in a car in general (operation without looking is impossible on a touch screen), but I agree that the Audi knob is clunky. The touchpad in the A7/A8 fixes almost all my complaints.

That is easily fixed if you have some form of internet at home other than cellular.

Compared to the 3.1" 480x320 screen on my current phone, I would be loving that. Bluetooth headsets are the only BT device that seems to work well, keyboards/mice and just about anything else suck. So long as a phone can fit in my pocket I don't see a problem.

And lower power consumption/heat and lower noise. Any time I'm not doing an SSD I'm doing 2.5"; it isn't a bad play.

If it were sold in the states I'd be first in line, I don't even care about the cost.

I believe it was an A8 (luxo sedan), not an R8 (sports car).

Interesting. How bad is the traffic that a disabled car causes a 12km backup?

Wouldn't the first step be contacting the manufacturer? Or are they out of warranty?

Some of these apps push tablets more than most. My mapping/navigation program has 10GB+ of imagery stored locally that is tiled and overlayed, and can be infinitely scrolled and zoomed. Add to that the real-time GPS calculations and plotting, even real-time weather if you have an internet...

Recently there have been tons of great apps in the general aviation space on Android; I've personally invested more into apps than hardware, and wouldn't be switching to iOS or Win8 anytime soon. This thing is strapped to my right thigh while I'm seated for hours at a time, with no risk of...

I wouldn't be able to contribute, but I would certainly read/use/reference contributions by others.

Is there a current hardcore in the Android tablet space, either out now or out soon? I have a ThinkPad Tablet, but it is only 1280x800 with a Tegra2. These will be used for navigation and secondary tasks on aircraft, so the price is not a significant factor.

Practice does make perfect ;)

TripleFis cost considerably more then $100, nearly double in fact. I'll need to be careful with mine, though I haven't tried the twist part of twist and pull, and I haven't had any issues with the cables?

My very kind elderly (80s?) neighbors aren't stupid, but aren't that knowledgeable about many things either. They have recently been talked into becoming part of the MLM scheme called Kangen Water, selling "ionized water" machines for thousands of dollars by their son. Many here know better than...

The other thing to keep in mind is the servers ability to cache writes from network users, the poor local writes might not be that big a deal.

I shall applaud the iPad3 for choosing such an awesome screen, and purchase one of the first Android tablets to use the same. Even though I've never bought an iThing, I am grateful to them for driving the market.

I've only played on the machines in my sig, so I couldn't tell you. I don't even have a 6750 to test with.

That does look great. What wire are you using?

New workstations all 'round, some new laptops, some tablets and phones, bunch of Kindles as gifts. New machine for my mom, plus some other random bits (switches, wireless, firewall, UPS, power conditioner, etc). Well into the five figures, but quite a bit of the stuff that was replaced was...

Just went on a bit of a buying spree at Park Tools...Wall mounted repair stand will also serve as primary storage. And a full tool kit that will take me a while to familiarize myself with, but the drivetrain cleaning bits will be useful right away. I know many things require a torque wrench, and...

I know it is a minor thing, but the all-weather floor mats are a must have IMHO. I got them with my wife's car, but decided to go with the aftermarket WeatherTech for mine. Mixed bag, but I prefer the factory ones.

This morning was my first ride in the rain. It was also the first rain in a while, so mud was everywhere. The clothes are in the washer, but my bike is going to require some serious attention.

Lego, Brio, and Lincon logs for me in the '80s.

Indeed. Thanks Handruin for making this place such an easy place to be. Free and low-stress hangouts are very few on the web. That should keep the place hosted for a while, or add an option on the S4...however you want it. ;)

I've used it quite a bit; many of my VM servers were once physical and went without issue. I've also used it to preserve old workstations and their programs before an upgrade. I encountered one glitch, where a licensing server detected the change somehow and required reactivation, but many such...

Cool. Didn't they let you special order all the parts you need to build your design?

That should be enough for smaller burst transfers (2GB+? How much free RAM does the machine typically have?) I've seen Win7 report bursts up to 127MB/s, but I do not trust those numbers too much. I am not having good luck with trunked GbE lines, performance is not always there. 10Gb is getting...

This is 2008R2 Standard, with the "File Server" and "Indexing" roles added. I plan to also make it an iSCSI target for more VMWare foolery. Edit: If that caching works with the VMs it could finally get me off my SSD DAS thing.

It seems MS Server 2k8 is also happy using all the RAM it has as cache. Even though the RAID5 array I'm writing to is only capable of 35MB/s, the transfer goes at 117MB/s up to the biggest files I have kicking around (~30GB). The server has 32GB of RAM and GbE.