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3 speeding tickets in 18 months will get your license suspended in NY.

Have you tried just making a data disc, with the VOB files in it? DVD Shrink will probably also work.

Very nice Will. Plenty of room for the kiddies :) How long is the lease for?

Around $500. For a little more, I can get a Supermicro case with 15 hot swap bays, and triple redundant 760W PSU. Which does fine with dual Opterons, and 12 drives. I guess this is one for the "mines bigger than yours" people."

Upcoming Blu-Ray region codes: Region 1: North America, South America, East Asia except for China (India, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia etc.) Region 2: Europe and Africa Region 3: China, Russia and other countries I'm trying to figure out where Australia is in that. Probably thrown in...

Not in MO, but I'll be in Arkansas and Miami in January.

http://theinquirer.net/?article=28577 The WD1500AH is a model "for gamers", while the enterprise version is known under the name WD1500AD and comes with TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery) marchitecture. Also, the drives support SATA-II and NCQ marchitectures.

The newer vid cards from ATI (x1800, x1600 etc) now have acceleration for WMV-HD in the latest Catalyst drivers.

Hey Max, I wouldn't worry about 16x lanes for a simple SCSI card, even the fastest PCI-E RAID controllers max out at 8x, and work happily in a 4x (electrical) slot.

Several inkjets can print directly onto a printable CD/DVD. However, if you aren't doing many, you may want to look at just printing labels with a printer (lasers included), then applying them with a centering device. The kits are cheap, and then you can use the media of your choice.

There will be some chipsets that can do a full 2 * 16x slots, coming out next year. In addition to a couple of x1s and maybe an x4 (I think they have a max of 40 lanes total).

Tough to buy one, when the Arecas run at 500MHz, for a few bucks more. And none of that "no BBU, no write back cache enabling" nonsense.

You can switch an SLI board to SLI (giving you two 8x slots), and just use one for video. The other can be used for SCSI etc. Keep in mind that most PCI-E SCSI cards are RAID controllers, I haven't seen any normal HBA in PCI-E form yet.

Did you see this? http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cfm/newsid/2051212.002/bmw/1.html

Interesting. I wonder how they block the sun from hitting the drivers eyes, with that massive windshield? And can you AdYellow, if you run out of AdBlue? :D

Ah, the Samsung 451? I have one myself, only problem I find is that can't go directly to a sub-channel, have to push the channel up button multiple times.

Hi Tim, Is that electricity pricing including supply charges etc? A high efficiency gas furnace can get you close to 95% efficiency. It wouldn't surprise me if electric was cheaper this year, after the insane increase in natural gas.

How do you feed it the HD signal from the HD receiver? Does it have component inputs?

Weekend P4s are sadly gone, one of my colleagues was going to bitch to the CEO about them, it was easier to stop running it, rather than fight about it. Definitely want to wash good glasss in hot water yourself, dishwashers do some nasty stuff to it.

They seem to be slower than the Hibachis. No failures yet.

It's only a matter of time. The Dell 24" undercuts the Apple 24" quite substantially, they are probably eyeing the profits to be made on the 30" size. The only bad news is 30" won't fit under my hutch, the 24" has 1/2" clearance.

So I was planning on driving to NYC tomorrow in a Dodge Sprinter or similar (high-top van). Instead the rental place gives me a freaking 14' parcel truck, 11' tall (using a 350 chassis). jtr: better stay of the bike tomorrow, at least in Manhattan :)

Both Dish and DirecTV are in the process of switching to MPEG 4 compression. This will render any MPEG 2 HD DVRs such as the DirecTV box and the Dish 942 useless. That's why you see the DirecTV box at such low prices currently. The good news for you is that if you aren't going to be using an...

Is that paint peeling off your Honda there Tony?

I use a Dell backpack to carry the tremendous heft of my InsipRon 8200, and assorted paraphernalia, including PSP and MP3 player. Since this thread has already been derailed, does anyone use a GPS for navigation? I have to venture into the big city (NYC) for the first time, so I ordered one of...

Or use Vista and behold how it allows you to add drivers further down the track, i.e. if you forgot to hit F6, no problems, and it display what devices you may install on to. And most importantly, drivers don't have to be on floppy :)

Reminds me of a B&W Nautilus speaker:

She was Operations Manager (i.e. oversaw our service bureau). I now do the front and back end of customer support, technical support, software testing, and R&D interfacing. Also customer demos, operator and maintenance training, and day to day IT issues. I have a part-time assistant. In any...

My boss was escorted out on Friday evening, I've taken over most of her tasks and report directly to the CEO :)

I'm happy with the Dell 2405 (24" widescreen at 1920*1200). I don't believe there's any screens out there that are 4:3 ratio, beyond 21" and UXGA. All the rest are widescreen. Of course if money is flowing like water the 30" Apple can be considered, however it cannot be run from a StinkPad...

On the lower end of the spectrum, found a cask of "hard" iced tea, 1.3 gallons aka 14 standard drinks, for less than $10. Sits in the fridge with it's little tap ready for instant pourings :)

There's a UL/CB safety reg that you cannot draw more than 240VA from any single rail of a user-accessible power supply. So to get more than 20A, you need multiple 12V rails.

I believe multiple 12V rails have something to do with UL listing.

Not at all Greg, it's like using the "Turn monitor off after...mins" in the Screen Saver tab of Display Properties, but under your direct control :)

Bought a second Elantra, for the wife. Tidal Wave Blue. POS Taurus shat the brakes again, got sick of putting money into it.

It's not the 15MB of memory I'm worried about. It seems to me that FAH is a memory intensive program (i.e. lots of memroy bandwidth is used). That doesn't play well with our image processing software (which is also memory bandwidth intensive). I've seen the slowdown of batch jobs myself.

Only two of them, weekends are best for my production, because when the machines are in use by operators, FAH is turned off (I only run the command line, no service mode). The problem is that the memory demands of even the normal units really f-up our productivity, even though it doesn't...

Had to order five of these turdy Seagate 500GB, as more 500GB Hibachis are impossible to find in stock.

Does the 20D have a noise reduction mode? If so, try a shot with that on, it may subtract the hot pixels. Sometimes there will be specks of crap on an image, that you can't see with your Mk1 eyeball on the sensor. I would give the sensor a clean in any case, they don't always come out very...

Looks like the 24-105mm has been recalled for fixing: http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=PgComSmModDisplayAct&keycode=2112&fcategoryid=216&modelid=11924 No parts till the 14th November tho :(

LSI and 3Ware are hardware RAID controllers. Therefore the higher prices.

Bringing this back up for Lunar. With our Dell Precision 380s, and P4 3.8GHz, we can convert a 1Ds-MkII RAW file into an 8 bit TIFF in 12 seconds using DPP 2.xxx

At least in my experience the shutters seem to last around double what Canon spec, at least with the 1D/1Ds MKIIs. If you do happen to wear it out, and if the warranty has expired, a shutter replacement is around $300-$400 (hopefully a lot less for the 20D).

I have one of these for my elderly Nikon Coolpix: http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=77&productNr=25615#

Talking of Lenovo Tony, they are putting Thinkpads back on retail shelves in the US this week. Previously they were only available online. Which will be good for anyone that wants to buy a Thinkpad, they will have to drop prices to compete with the Compaqs etc sitting alongside.

http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&fcategoryid=151&modelid=7321 I'm losing it.

Something like this (on a full frame sensor)

To me fisheye is a full 180 degree field of view. Personally I think there is more fun to be had at the wide end of the spectrum. Plus I'm sure Tony is sick of telescoping itty bitty things that are miles away.

myfico.com gives you the real scores. However, auto loan scoring uses a seperate scoring system, the score for which you cannot buy. Charge cards such as Discover, Amex etc often don't score as well as a true revolving card, such as MC or Visa. In particular, charge cards don't have a credit...

Dell were definitely desperate last quarter. Normally we spec P4 3.6 workstations, we placed an order last week and they upgraded us to P4 3.8GHz, several hundred dollars off per system, and gave us free overnight shipping.