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    Technet Advice

    Nope. Legally, your old keys expired, though they still work. It might be best if you let one subscription expire and then created a new one.
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    Bicycle LED headlight

    <poke>
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    Something Random

    Also known as Wall-mart customers. Really, just don't do it. You should know better.
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    Half Price REVO drive

    Ahh...just remembered that that isn't a RevoDrive. Let me run it on another machine later. But yes, you will see some faster write speeds.
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    Half Price REVO drive

    Yup. This is from "Home 1"
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    dSLR thread

    I don't actually have the need or the money at the moment anyway...too many other things going.
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    dSLR thread

    If I were planning on supplementing my 7D, it would be with a 5DII. But I would absolutely wait until the 5DIII came out, to see if it's worth it or at least drive down the cost of the 5DII.
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    Folding@Home

    I had missed it as well. Congratulations.
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    Something Random

    Started last night. That thing is huge; I need to lower the rotating beacon or it is more than 14' tall and not legal on the highway. It is also about 2.5' wider than the flatbed, so I need "oversize load" signs and magnetic navigation lights all over it. I had a crew of 2 for most of the...
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    Something Random

    He's just happy to see us. ;)
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    Something Random

    Not a fan. Being able to use the card should at least require physical possession of the card without exception. From what I understand, there are ways to read the NFC in cards the same as passports and standard RFID keys.
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    Folding@Home

    I don't know that much about clustering, but the guy who is interested in a "beast system" says his load is "massively parallel". I figured 64 cores for under $10k would be the way to go. His work is something scientific, mathematica? Something like that.
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    iPhone syndrome

    How did you get such a nice screenshot? With a camera or via HDMI?
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    Something Random

    I have the same problem as Handruin; my gear is better than all my friends with the possible exception of the boss. I should put together a list of the bits there for SD and the other experts to look at and tell me what I'm working with.
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    Folding@Home

    Hardware and electricity. The crowd sourcing thing is helping all kinds of fields, turning peoples hobbies into actual productive work.
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    Folding@Home

    Thanks for the link. It looks like the 6100 would work better for the client as well, but it seems the secret is out. The 6100 2.2Ghz 12-core chip is twice the price of the 6200 2.2Ghz 16-core chip.
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    Folding@Home

    I wonder what a quad AMD Opteron 6274 Interlagos (64 2.2Ghz cores) would do with the -bigbeta units? It's only going to have 64GB of RAM...
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    Best movie you've seen

    Thanks. In the Netflix queue now.
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    Indeed. I'm sure a few thousand simultaneous games would positively kill my rig.
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    I don't keep up with the card releases, just buy something a few ticks down from the top and call it good. If someone had news about new cards, I would be interested as well.
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    Best movie you've seen

    We did the "Support your local Sheriff/Gunfighter" double feature last night. Not James Garner's best work, but a decent cast and some mild laughs.
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    One of the things I like is that they have turned up the max viewing distance, so you aren't living in a foggy world. You can move slowly and carefully through the world, spotting baddies and avoiding confrontation.
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    On "Home1" it plays at 2560x1440 on Ultra quite smoothly. It does demand more CPU than any game I've seen before.
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    Just put 2 hours into Skyrim...it was pleasant.
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    My new system

    The biggest day to day hurdle would be the VMWare vSphere Client. It would also be simply too much work to re-install my entire work environment. If that was required I wouldn't do it.
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    My new system

    Grr. Perhaps if I ran my actual work stuff in a VM on a Linux machine?
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    My new system

    Hmm...that is a thought. I don't know if I can get away with making my work machine native Linux...do you think I could get away with a Linux VM?
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    Xmastime: Crappy music, good deals on stuff

    I think it needs white polka-dots to finish the look. That way he can be properly camouflaged in it's natural environment.
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    Something Random

    I get to do this to one of these on one of these for a parade on Sunday that will run for a total of 15 minutes. We are moderately confident that it can make most of the corners on the parade route, and we'll have two days to set up and one evening to tear down. Stressful, but darn fun and...
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    My new system

    I was able to get my work machine to 4.4Ghz stable if I turned the RAM down to 1400Mhz. Thoughts?
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Other than RAID-0, I don't see a compelling need in the SSD space at this time. The cost/GB is still high enough that your redundancy should be in HDDs wherever possible.
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    Llano for HTPC?

    If you are considering upgrading video later on, I might recommend simply starting with a low-end discrete GPU and evaluating upgrades later. You'll save nearly enough on the video card to cover it, end up with some better performance in the meantime, and have a more clear upgrade path for the...
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    New motherboard supports 288GB of RAM

    Photoshop and the rest of my workflow can easily use all 24GB if I don't only keep one application open at a time. Closing them is massively time consuming.
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    New motherboard supports 288GB of RAM

    Keep in mind that Windows 7 can only support 192GB of RAM. That is probably the sane maximum at this time.
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    Something Random

    At least my hot spot is claiming 4G ;) The only direct flight to Moscow on the west coast is out of LA. Mom's English isn't good enough to manage a transfer on her own.
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    Intel store

    if was here, i remember it as well.
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    Something Random

    At the Crown Plaza next to LAX. Dropping my mother in law off tomorrow morning. This is a nice place, but charging $11/ day for WiFi is dumb.
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    Televisions as monitors: What are you using, and why?

    I shipped that Sim2 projector back to the US repair center in Florida for $350. They "repaired the fan motor" for $25 and shipped it back. While they were at it they cleaned the whole unit and flashed to the latest firmware. Awfully nice of them.
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    Something Random

    Country western bars.
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    Folding@Home

    16 Cores? Hmmm.
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    Football

    This is why I pay attention to Hockey. They have resolved these issues.
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    Something Random

    That looks really nice. I'd assume it's comfortable?
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    Google Music beta

    All my music purchases are MP3s from Amazon. Probably 3-5 albums and a few singles a week.
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    Something Random

    The shop-vac is actually stage two of three: 1. Push-broom 2. Shop-vac 3. Cool moppy-thingie I have large open stretches of hardwood. Using tools designed for large flat areas seemed the right choice. <shrug>
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    Nice New Antec Case

    Interesting. It looks like it might be able to hold one of these.
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    I do want to buy a used car

    The Audi is supposed to be 90ftlb BTW.
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    Thailand Flooding Threatens Hard Drive Supply

    That is for the Ultrastar, which has always been a premium product, but wow.
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    Something Random

    I suppose if I turned on the kitchen vent (1000CFM+), but I'd have to borrow one from the gardener.
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    Something Random

    I tore all the carpet out of my entire house. I like being able to clean with a shop-vac.
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    Media Player Appliances

    My next project is trying to get my HomeRun HD to tie directly into my Boxee. Apparently there is an XBMC trick to make it work. Maybe next week.
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