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Wow. I had a front disk brake lock on on the freeway, but losing a wheel sounds very dramatic.

Now that it is dark so early, I've decided to try again with some astrophotography. And I have a hint of a connection at Orion, so we'll see how that goes.

I prefer hardwood, heated from below if possible. At my boss' place the foyer (sinks and closets) of many of the bathrooms have carpeting.

Since September 2010. Keep in mind that I have a game running in the background most of the time at work (and a number of times left it open for a full weekend), so it isn't really dedicated playing time.

No, I couldn't. I could get those kinds of hours @ $65, but I'd rather work much less for much more.

Awesome. Thanks!

That would make a great 9tb backup machine as well. Might have to do some of those.

I've played Civilization 5 for 920 hours, and finally unlocked 90% (158/176) of the accomplishments. If that was work at my normal rate, I could buy a new GT-R in cash. That is a depressing thought.

'salright. There will be other goodies in about 6 months for me to waste a day building.

My last Socket 1366 purchase was...oh...a week ago. Looking at these, it doesn't look like I missed much. I think I'll wait around for v2 of the motherboards and some higher clocks on the CPUs.

I've found that pitch has a much larger affect on my perception than absolute volume. Taking <80mm fans and making them >92mm is very nice, air blowing is downright pleasant.

My office is quite warm at the moment (couple kW of computers running, no dedicated AC), so the ambient is 25C+. Idling, my "work" machine is 30C, under full F@H load it hits 56C.

The ThinkPad is decidedly better than my ASUS Transformer. The screen is brighter, the touch more accurate. It ships with a lot more crap on it, though. Including a security program and their own app store? Bleh.

Yup, that machine (a Lenovo T410) has a 200GB Vertex2 SE in it. But things that are not particularly disk bound (panorama stitching in Photoshop with 8GB of RAM) seem to take forever.

My ThinkPad Tablet just arrived, I'll be fooling with it over the weekend.

I have a few laptops with that CPU. It is an i7, but it is the slowest i7 I've ever seen.

If you go this route, after setting up the machine, get a drive image and put it on bootable recovery media along with some basic diagnostics. That way you can talk her through a lot more remotely.

That was Pacific Bell, our old phone company. Recently acquired by ATT.

They're only running GTX460s...lame ;)

I first had and Aeron in an office long ago, and it was so comfortable I fell asleep in it while on hold with Pac Bell. Didn't wake up for 6 hours, and got out of it without any stiffness. Bought one for myself on sale about a year ago for work, and am waiting for them to go on sale again so I...

Nah, I can wait for the next generation before doing anything else.

I don't have noScript running, but I don't see anything. Perhaps Adblock Plus popup addition is enough to stop it?

12 cores including hyperthreading, so a single 6-core system will do it if clocked high enough, and a dual 6-core system could do it without significant overclock? Would be interesting to throw on some of the bigger VM servers while the VMs are down for maintenance, or on a backup/redundant...

I was informed by Virgin that they will not allow any phone not purchased from them onto their network. They do have some nice phones at competitive prices, though.

What can be bad about more realistically representing the content? Why wouldn't 100fps@5k be even better?

Wow, that is really thin to simulate 300 machines. I love virtualization.

When you find out let me know...I occasionally get to play with decently sized toys.

ThinkPad Latitude Everything Else. IMHO.

Nope, I plugged it in, let it charge, and then made it live. I'll be back there tomorrow and can check it out then. The load is super-small, but I wanted a unit with an 80mm fan.

But each video card crunches its own unit...they don't team up on a single unit.

Just so. I shave in the shower while the water is running by feel without a mirror.

Nice, 5k, 48fps, using 48 Red Epic cameras....damn.

I just installed one of these two days ago. First one of theirs I've ever dealt with. Seems solid at this point.

Nope, I bought a couple dozen of them and only one is still working.

I would agree, unless you are coming from the entry-level with tons of Canon glass and not a lot of other video infrastructure. Quite a few have made the transition into video using nothing more than 5DIIs and CF cards, those might be tempted to stick with the Canon solution.

I still prefer my Herman Miller Aeron ;)

The master bedroom is lively enough; the more dead I can make it the better for my health.

I'm not sure how important it is these days, but it used to be that they all tried to screw you, they all had poor customer service, and they all had random dead spots even in metropolitan areas. The best you could do was find someone who already had service where it mattered to you and choose a...

Thanks for the tip, I'll need to play it some more.

I have a couple dozen 1TB and 2TB drives I pulled from various storage arrays when they went to 3TB. Looks like they'll be going into desktops before long...

An excellent thought. Be sure to include a real keyboard, typing anything long on the screen is a pain. Also get something that can print in a non-retarded way.

Side walls are better for that kind of thing. Or so I've heard.

Hadn't heard about it before now. Looks really nice. For all those movie people where 5DII money just didn't matter. I remember reading a workflow somewhere that included a dozen 5DIIs per team. Those guys would go for this.

Me. But I'd be hesitant about reliability as a direct connected drive. Didn't we have issues with the 3TB drives as well?

When talking to my wife I refer to the house as a "toy" not a computer ;)

'salright Lunar, I was hogging the bullseye lately anyway.

Sweet. Just last night I got the OK from the wife to do the ceiling and headboard wall in the master bedroom. I've been granted 2".

Indeed. But this house is old enough that the subfloor is 3+ times thicker than modern houses. Now they use 3/4" plywood, my house has 2x6 dimensional lumber. With that much more for the heat to work through, significantly more heat will be lost to the underside of the house.

A worthy 6,000th post, Coug.

But since you'll be dead, why not shoot without cards at all? Save the money for a fancy gravestone or something?