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I was wearing a long sleeve shirt, so all was well. ;) Honestly, it wasn't bad until my temporary light slipped. It went from shining down the road to shining straight into my face.

This may be a wild bet, but I'm guessing that the 'Coug isn't married.

Indeed, Cougtek. And I am anticipating building a chassis for the light as well eventually, but I haven't done any CAD work since high school, and I wasn't paying attention even then. It may take a long time before I can design anything that complex. Having the battery and light combined makes...

CS4/5 is required before any GPU acceleration would be used, but any of the new-ish cards can participate. That 7900GS would be fine. 16GB of RAM is a no-brainer, super simple choice. She absolutely needs an SSD. If you don't want Sandforce take a look at the new Intel 3xx series. They are...

As the title says. As portable a printer as possible that can still do 8.5x11 (preferably 8.5x14), preferably color, preferably wireless. Price isn't really an issue. I don't have an iPad to play with at the moment, so I don't know if there are any special requirements. Thanks!

Almost had a deer run into me tonight on my bike (12:25AM and I just got back). Saw the eyes in the brush, but I was going too fast (27+mph) to do much about it. I just picked my line and it turned out well.

Just some encouragement from behind ;)

Another pair of GTX580 for the next couple days

I'm almost done with the prototype design, and will have emachineshop.com knock out a few for me. This idea of designing something on the computer and having it physically produced is pretty thrilling to me for some reason. The revised design has enough of a foot on it that it could be epoxied...

I am so grateful to my neighbors and their awesome trees. They take care of them and handle the liability, I get some shade. Nothing on my land is more than 8' tall.

The TripleFi are good, but nothing compared to my Bose headphones. I don't have any experience with with active noise cancellation in-ear monitors.

Permanent changes to a $45 part? I'm not worried about it. Clamps are crap; they usually don't fit well, are bulky, and are a PITA to put on and take off because any position adjustments are lost. Instead of welding, drilling and epoxy could be used; I'm not the metal smith. Perhaps have a new...

I do like this idea. Any patent lawyers in the house? I would be interested in having it drawn up.

Thanks guys. I was first planning on mounting the rail the usual way, with a conforming partial tube under the rail secured with zip-ties (note the smaller holes on the bottom of the rail). For the stem I'm actually envisioning a single plate that passes through a slot and is both the top and...

I'm tired of mounting stuff onto tubes with zip-ties; it isn't the right way to do things. The fit is poor, the appearance is clunky, and it is never that secure. My thought is to weld mounting rails to the top and bottom of the bicycle stem, allowing secure mounting of a computer (in my case a...

A pair of 130W i7s, a pair of GTX580s, and a dozen 3TB hard drives at max load produce closer to 800W, even if I don't go crazy and water cool the power supplies, Onkyo Receiver, PS3, or UPS ;) That is all the heat I would need for the house, and it would be nice to get the (much lower) heat...

The design I've been working on includes three different loops terminating in the same reservoir. 1. Home 1 2. Home 2 3. Cooling loop This way each of the machines gets a more traditional CPU cooling loop that just dumps into and draws from a large reservoir. I then use something more...

After our remodel, I haven't gotten around to installing a furnace yet. The only heating we have is electric resisive, which is no more efficient than a computer (looking past the obvious capital costs). I am still seriously considering going to water cooling at home just so I can put the...

There is some justification. We run consumer-level gear in servers, so I like to have as long a burn-in time as possible. My machine is the burn-in process, so the i7-970, RAM, etc are going into our new ESXi box and I get an upgrade. Considering the money the company saves not buying Xeons and...

I always have a Civ5 game in the background, and BF3 in the evenings. Not to mention the folding. Actually, this is one of the Zotac water cooled ones ;)

The work rig got a bit of an upgrade today (see sig). Note that the bottom fan of the Noctua will not fit in either configuration using either Kingston Hyper T1 or Corsair Vengance memory modules in all 6 slots of this board.

Sweet.

In addition to the mortgage, one of the cars isn't paid off. That is at 1.9%, and is on a short enough term (3yrs) and a large enough down payment ($10k) that the value of the car will never be less than what is owed - still technically an asset.

Essentially none, I hadn't thought of that, it might be an issue for some.

I find they don't rebound as quickly after a couple dozen compressions. It sounds like their deterioration levels out?

Couple weeks maybe? Depends on use.

I got one, and time was absolutely right. This will be awesome as a bike monitor. The question now is whether I want to put some kind of plan on it or keep it WiFi only. Being able to use it for "my bike is broke" calls to friends, or so wifey can reach me while riding would make sense. And...

The complyfoam tips actually shipped with my triplefis (6 pairs in the box). They are apparently the new standard. I love them.

JTR, How difficult would it be to incorporate a basic taillight into that battery pack? 5-10 surface mount red LEDs oriented in a 3" line on the narrowest board possible, with the smallest wire possible back to the battery pack? I'll just packing-tape/zip-tie it to my seatpost. No optics necessary.

250GB of RAM and a few TB of disk? Nice.

Got the new bike. It is an utter revelation. 3mph faster, heart rate 10bpm lower, 20% further, and less sore in the end. I'll need to set aside more time for my rides in the future if I'm going to keep pushing. Of course, these new speeds are even more dangerous without a headlight...

1. Put noisy 1U server on your desk 2. Use that as an excuse to put on your noise cancelling headphones and close your door 3. Use that as an excuse to ignore everyone and all phone calls all day Awesome.

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It should, the semi-pro I work with is exactly my size/proportions (minus the gut) and has the same bike. The shop is an authorized Specialized Fitting Center, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Sandforce were the guys to figure out how to get the write amplification under control so MLC could have decent write cycles. IIRC, their stuff is also used in the Z-Drive and their top-end VeloDrive.

Just bought a new '11 Roubaix Apex Compact (size 58) on clearance for $1k. Sight unseen. While massively sleep deprived. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Hopefully I can stay awake on the drive out to Carmel to pick it up.

Yeah, I don't think I need that level of complexity. At the moment I have the VMs on one ESX server backing up to the other ESX servers, so a once-every-three-years hardware failure simply means firing up the backup that already exists on the other server. It isn't automated, and there is...

3Ware was a competitor, you buy competitors to strip their tech and their customers before burying them. Sandforce is a complimentary tech with a good name. It will give them leverage with the other users of that chipset as well.

I don't bother with the iSCSI backend, all the disks are local. The simple description of the current problem is just flaky hardware with the simple solution being better and more hardware. Of course, if I wanted to implement systems and management capabilities that would prevent a flaky...

I thought I was getting good at my job. No significant loss of productivity company wide in the 3 years I've been in charge. No loss of data. No virus infections. And for the last 2+ years since I got most of it set up, no all-nighters. I have 3 VMWare servers, any 2 of which have the...

Supertoaster!

Indeed. I'm swapping out all our serial/parallel POS crap to at least USB, network if I can manage it. That is an interesting thing. My only use for serial would be to remotely control my 4x4 HDMI matrix switch (IR and serial, gotta love the monoprice folks).

The REVO drives I've been buying are LSI RAID cards tied to Sandforce controllers tied to memory. The pending Intel PCIe drives are Intel all the way. If LSI/Sandforce wants to compete in a growing field with shrinking margins, consolidation might be their only play.

My congratulations to Lenovo, for building a desktop that is simultaneously: 1. High-tech (No PS/2 ports) 2. Low-tech (VGA only) 3. High-tech (No Parallel) 4. Low-tech (Serial)

Google reads everything.

Some of my lower volume clients just give me some Benjamins on my way out the door. Of course I declare it as income later on, but it does make the billing process easier.

I like this stuff for making occasional use items more accessible, but I can't imagine using it full-time. Tactile feedback is simply too valuable.

My i1 (1.5) doesn't have an issue, but it is a piece of crap anyway.

I withdraw money at the teller only because the ATM won't give $100 bills (only in Vegas) and has a cap of $500. I use plastic for stuff I want to keep track of (food/gas/home improvements) and cash for stuff I don't want to keep track of (toys).

I forget who it was who earlier was comparing Ferraris to Civics?