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If the mount wasn't cheap plastic, I don't think I would have an issue in the first place.

On my ride this evening, on a particularly rough pothole, my headlight separated from my bike, flew through the air, and disintegrated on impact. I managed to tape the pieces back together for the ride home, but I do need a better light. I would love to get one built by JTR; I have no doubt...

Wow. And this is only the worst flooding in 50 years? Don't people's memories go back that far? I made sure that my house hasn't been in a flood zone for recorded history, and that is just a house.

I found the 35mm F2 to be a great "social" lens. 1. It is much faster, which makes it twice as good in low-light conditions. 2. It's a small lens, so it isn't too intimidating on your subjects. 3. It is relatively wide angle, so you don't need to be on the other side of the room to...

Ah, gotcha. So that is why my 6 (12 with hyperthreading) machines can handle big WUs and GPU. So if my new spare parts machine were to have 3GPUs in it, I would need a 6(12) core CPU to also get big WUs? (12-3=9, 9>8)

Great, thanks. I hope to have that system up by the end of the month.

Thinking about putting together a rig with some spare parts and have some questions about multiple GPUs. 1. Can there be 3 different cards in the three slots? (nVidia 400 and 500 series) 2. Do I need monitors connected to the cards? I was hoping to run it headless.

GPU would prevent you from getting big units?

Coug, if you are looking for a quiet GPU with some more power, take a look at this Zotac 580 with self-contained water cooling. Tempting to put 7 of them in my Gigabyte GA-X58-UD9. That would make a hell of a folding rig, and put my 1200W PSU to the test.

Wow. Congrats Dan!

Because I hadn't noticed the Asus cards? Thanks for the links.

I currently have a passive Zotac GT430 in the shopping cart. Passively cooled and no additional power headers.

That I find interesting. What was their reasoning? Got a link to a discussion?

That price tag isn't that bad considering it is "it" in Canon's line...Those specs seem pretty awesome, and I'm a bit relieved that they decided to hold the line at 18MP.

Those Dimmable CFLs do look nice. I trust the efficiency figures of the LED manufacturers themselves, as they are independently verified by lots of people. The problem with LED "bulbs" that you encountered is that there is more to it than the LED. There is a power supply, some kind of...

CFLs are not more efficient. Cheaper? yes. More light? yes. Better quality light? Maybe. Dimmable? No. More efficient? No. Longer lasting? No.

Indeed. I never let my bike get that low; every Saturday the bike got a once-over that included topping up the tank.

We'll be in the mid-to-low 70s for several more weeks...don't count on more from me for a while.

Went to visit a friend in the Sea Cliff district of San Francisco and ran across a 458 Italia parked on the street. Not something you see every day, even there.

Indeed. They also say they are for sale, but don't mention anyplace that sells them. WTF.

Indeed. Very tempting. My Garmin 610 records information very well, but is difficult to monitor while riding, and doesn't play music. I'd just need to figure out a mount for it.

I can't see any rainbows in any projectors. Noise isn't important here as there is an actual projection room behind the theater with soundproof glass.

I'd probably go with Verizon and the LG Revolution if I couldn't afford the Droid Bionic. I would also max the data plan, enable tethering, and then get what I could afford for voice and text. That is what I would want to get at least. The lack of ANT+ support on any Android devices would...

Yup.

Bug circus charges cell phone (a little). Cute video.

$1100 plus shipping and tax. The two items that I noticed were resolution and brightness. I know there are other factors that affect quality, I just don't know enough about them.

New Civics will also outperform old Ferraris. That is the foundation of my question. I know the Sim2 was better than the cheap stuff when it was made, but how about now?

At one point someone here recommended one that could recognize various season/episode headers and standardize them. Many years ago I had a program/service that could sample the audio of an MP3 and correctly fill in the ID3 info. I don't remember the names of either of these, though I would...

I just got a call from my sister. "Hey how was the train ride to Portland with the kids?". "Oh, a little different." was her response. She's fine, BTW.

Nope, those are all MSRP for the parts alone. Does the C3X-LINK actually do anything substantially better? My the numbers it doesn't look like it, but they do use a bunch of magic words in describing their own awesomeness.

The home theater guy installed one of these at my boss' house many years ago: SIM2 Grand Cinema HT C3X-LINK Yes, it actually uses a 20m fiber optic link from a signal processor in the rack to a projector in the back. It also cost an amazing amount of money. It is also only 720p. This is a...

They offer it, but it really sucks. The latency is awful. Further, the whole industry is on Nextel. When we start a job we can use direct connect with our subcontractors and vendors as well.

Nextel is still huge in the construction industry. These guys just got the old Motorola radios removed from their trucks, and they need to preserve the ability to shout obscenities into your phone at inopportune moments.

Someone on the CM forums managed to root my Nextel i1. If they can get CM working on it I would be willing to contribute some cash. The thing is still running Android 1.5 for crying out loud.

My new super UPS showed up today. I hope to get it hooked up tonight. It weighs at least twice as much as my APC 1500; that is a good sign.

How about being pissed at the system for charging so much in the first place? I don't really care who's paying, as it all winds up coming from me anyway. 1. Company health insurance - payed by the company so I make less money 2. Govt health insurance - payed by the govt so I get taxed more 3...

Wow time, I do wish you the best. I can see myself in your shoes in a few years. I already have occasional heart pain, and I manage to make myself dizzy when I sneeze. Resting heart rate is well above 50, and just walking around puts it in the high-70s. A burst of solid exercise can get it into...

Reserve wattage I think is the key phrase here. They shorted the battery pack enough that it can't keep up with the rated AC load. that is a major oversight.

I suppose it depends on the UPS and the Utility.

My Sprint Overdrive Pro was able to maintain at least 3G service all the way from San Francisco to Los Angeles streaming Pandora and Google Maps the whole way. Not that I don't have service issues elsewhere, but the last place I had issues Verizon and ATT were down as well.

I won't let any of my users put their machines on the floor. The additional dust/etc the machine picks up is unacceptable. I've gone SFF where possible, and if the machine needs to be under the desk I block it up at least 8" using bricks or whatever else I can get my hands on.

Perhaps just buy from the 'Egg in bulk and resell? Even when I had reseller accounts with many distributors and did $250k/yr+ I couldn't get their pricing on a bunch of stuff.

We got it slowed to 55MPH balanced on the prop, but at that point we were very high-alpha and she wanted to keep dropping a wing. Something tells me that still won't get us close to 50mpg, maybe 7 ;)

It was given a false piece of data (that I was on a bicycle). Based on that, any error in the reporting or analysis is not surprising. Particularly considering the performance recorded was so far out of the reasonable envelope for a bicycle.

The calculation happens in software after I get back and upload to the PC. I suspect that the values it received were outside their prediction model.

I used my Garmin 610 cycling watch to capture the route. It was configured to calculate calories based on speed and elevation changes (I didn't wear my heart rate monitor in the plane). So according to the Garmin software, had a rode a bicycle at that speed over that profile I would have burned...

Getting my pilot's license as well ;)

Used my Garmin GPS watch to record my flight. It thinks I cycled for an hour, covered 148 miles and burned 5572 calories with a total ascent of 11197 feet. Damn I'm good. ;) Google Earth viewable track attached.

Yay Penny Arcade. Nice office.

The Wrangler just got a new engine/transmission that actually looks decent. The high-end configurations look relatively comfortable as well.