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Smoothwall and UniFi.

If the electricity is going into your head, I don't think that encouraging it to pass through your body by grounding you/your chair is the right direction to go.

Yup. XP 32 and 64, Server 2003, and 7 x64 without issue. Are your machines attempting to sleep/hibernate/spin down disks?

I'm sure the satellite and cable companies would have something to say about that...

74 and sunny here. That is unseasonably warm, even for central CA. The South Pole also recently had a record high.

Any way to check the ground on your computer?

I did (and a dryer, and a refrigerator for that matter) and have been very happy with them as well.

1.5 is current for my phone. Feel fortunate ;)

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I can't check at home where my U2711 is, but I'll test my U3007 at work with my ASUS Transformer.

I do agree that trying to compare directly to our labor isn't really possible, but as the show Merc referenced illustrates, there are many easy steps that could be taken with minimal additional cost that would make things much better. It seems that no one really cares, and that is an...

Interesting that they chose red to show the car, I feel that is the least appetizing color of the bunch. I don't like reds in general, and that one is verging on a pink/orange more fitting of a Lambo.

I heard bits of it. Nothing exceptionally surprising to me, just a bit depressing. Really, Apple has the mindshare and marketshare to do things right. Up the costs by 15%, tout the good working conditions, and get their customers to feel even better about themselves. I don't think anyone else...

Just stirring this pot a little... we are getting close.

I was using my MP3 player via audio jack and phone via bluetooth. It handled that perfectly. Doing both via bluetooth is a great question, I wonder if the phone handles it?

I cancelled the XM immediatly but would keep the Wifi; internet+Pandora is better than XM any day. Also, I suspect the internet plan is needed for the traffic reporting to work?

The Bluetooth voice commands are a nice feature, but at least on my current phone/car it can't handle contacts by name. I can say "dial number" and the number or I can use the steering wheel "mode" switch and scroll through the contacts on the DIS.

I read a lot about Audi and have never heard of Justin Timberlake.

I believe they charge for that site, but it does take .gpx files and does some neat calculations.

Indeed. I've had two SSDs fail so far, an OCZ Vertex after 18+ months and an Intel 5xx after 2 months.

Beautiful ride tonight. Would have been a lot better if I hadn't gotten lost in the abandoned military base barracks at the end; had to climb a chain-link fence while carrying my bike. Hooray for carbon fiber.

Depending on which computer you are using, there are between 2 and 4 USB headers on the motherboard. Using these will add more without needing to resort to hubs and the like, these are native ports of the motherboard.

I remember way back in the day needing a crossover between my DSL modem and a router, (in addition to the NIC<->NIC mentioned) but that has been many years. SD is right on all counts. Anything with Gigabit has auto-MDX in the spec, most modern 100Mbit switches include auto-MDX as well.

I do like the bit about postscript being a turing-complete language and having the PS generate the exploit on the fly to bypass filters. That was awesome.

I don't have any eInk devices, so while I have played with them I haven't tried reading a whole book on one. I do quite a bit of reading on my ASUS Transformer and it works pretty well.

(Oblig. TED link for Nathan Myhrvold)

Making sure our year starts on the right foot? :p

Was it your work that brought you back to that part of the world? Do you anticipate staying there?

Searing at the end is better anyway, the crust comes out better.

Years ago. One of the last of my favorite shows to go HD was Top Gear, and that was in 2009.

Nice. Mine will ask "Can I use you as a man?", this means getting the lid of a jar off...

I can't, as most of my systems don't have PS/2 ports anymore.

Lawers are a tool, like a gun or a law. Extending that analogy makes the actual offenders the politicians.

Shame that won't protect you one bit. Once AMD is gone (and it looks like that will eventually happen), and Intel is the only player, one quick US law (or "understanding") and the one CPU manufacturer will include TPM in every CPU they ship. Now where are you?

Life is getting better, but not fast enough. It helps that my life changed completely just 3 years ago, so I don't have the benefit of sufficient hindsight to see a long downward trend ;) EDIT: Oh, yeah....Happy New Year!

Just finished building the computer that will replace the Boxee in the back room. I've basically given up on appliances.

Excellent. I buy his broader point, but the attempts to put a finer point on it during the Q&A was fishing a bit.

Quite so, but I can't imagine those are much safer.

Very. Not much I can do about that. Go to local printers only? Declare the entire LAN insecure and outsource as much as possible (payroll)?

Using a phone is like talking to a passenger. You (and the person you are talking to) need to understand that driving takes priority. This is easier when they are sitting next to you due to the non-verbal queues, but possible with a phone as well. If getting into a tricky situation (traffic...

Operation of phones in CA is legal so long as you aren't handling the phone. Steering wheel controls and voice recognition are still legal, as is looking at the phone if it is mounted to the car in some way.

The good durable cases are made by OtterBox.

All the math has shown that write wear is no longer an issue.

I would have to assume it is related to additional traffic on the disk from the indexing. I would turn it back on and not worry about it.

The solution I settled on is to have a charger at home (next to the bed and next to the computer), at the office, and in the car. It would be better if my phone supported an induction charging system of some kind, but it works fine for me.

Can I change my name to "Food Bank"? That sounds like some awesome meat.

Yup, that is pretty normal. It is basically a computer, and using it like one will drain the battery like any laptop.

We'll have a furnace soon enough, for now 3kw+ worth of resistance heating will keep us comfortable.

Yeah, they call that interior some form of brown. My wife calls is massacre red. 16k strikes me as very low for an '09 (my '09 has 65k) and the '09 A5 has the exact same look as the '11, so the value is pretty strong.

The manual. The last service for my car was @ 25k, and included a firmware update for the transmission that made it bite much harder. Still smooth if you are gentle with the throttle, but wide open it will chirp all four tires going into second.