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At the moment he's playing with "Windows DVD Maker" that ships with Win7. In the past I familiarized him with Format Factory for use with his iThings. I'm just not sure what settings in Format Factory will land him with optimal DVD quality.

It isn't a firetrap if the breaker is the lightest-rated component. 12/2 is 20A, as is the plug, so the breaker is 20A. Trying to put a 50A load on that circuit, even if I resort to modding cables, just invites tripping the breaker, not starting fires. That said, I chose the 2kva unit over the...

Yup. I have three dedicated circuits for my home computers/entertainment stuff. One for "home1", one "home2", and one for accessories.

I'm certain the wiring is solid; there is a single 12/2 from a dedicated GFCI 20A circuit breaker to a single GFCI 20A outlet that only has this single UPS connected to it. As soon as the replacement arrives (Liebert GXT3 2000RT120 shipped 10/5) I'll take this one to work and try to make it...

I took care of it.

I logged in and changed the "power quality sensitivity" to "low" and the high/low "transfer voltage" to 128/105 respectively. Of course, the voltage is 121.6 +/-0.5v and has been for as long as I've had the unit (3 months?)

Unplugging the UPS Stops the psycho AVR and it just enters battery mode. I noticed it doesn't just happen when it's raining anymore, and now it is happening even with the lower load. What a piece of crap. I'll try and log into it and check the logs, maybe widen the range for the AVR.

I ran liquid cooling for quite a while. The only reason I stopped was that I was tired of rebuilding the whole thing every time I swapped out some bits. I was very paranoid about leaks, so I ordered top-end bits and did everything myself.

I have a friend who wants to take some .MKV files and create DVDs that will play in a standard DVD player. He isn't tech savvy, and I don't know anything about the .MKVs in question. No fancy menus or other authoring stuff, just a disk that will play in a DVD player. Thanks!

I called him jobs (as in plural of employment) to his face and he didn't correct me. The others did the same, so I'm pretty sure that is correct.

I'll try that. I've noticed that it does calm down if I reduce the load significantly (from ~600W to ~200W. When it isn't screwing up, even with the full load, it shows as ~50% capacity.

Because of that, I don't feel that a particularly efficient unit or configuration will ever really pay for itself. Even using electric space heaters, our annual heating costs are ~$1200. Even if the new unit cut that in half, it would take thirty years to pay for an $18k unit.

The climate here is very mild, and the house is incredibly well insulated and very air-tight. Here is what the Trane zone calculator said for my place: Average days per year above 75: 0 Average days per year below 40: 0 Average high...

Nice. Ardunio UNO - $25 Ardunio Ethernet Shield - $40 PoE Adapter - $22 6x LM35 temperature sensors - $6 Plus wire, some soldering, and some programming. So $100 plus whatever it takes to get someone to write the relevant code? That sounds very tempting...

Indeed. I was reading somewhere recently about mega cheap tiny linux PCs that were powered off USB or something. Might be cheaper just to connect some sensors to one of those.

Grr...for some reason when it rains my APC 1500 alternates rapidly into "Advanced Voltage Regulation" and back to normal. Sounds like it's doing it at 60Hz. The reported load on the device triples (taking it beyond 100%) and the battery slowly depletes. I now have an Emerson/Liebert GXT3 2000VA...

Not always. Sometimes it is a hard drive, UPS, router, PoE injector or camera. The enclosures themselves and any climate control they require is the responsibility of others, and I want to be able to hold them accountable. I need to be able to state that the recorded temps are the ambient in the...

Thanks. Still trying to work out the technical details. Switched it to 2560x1440 and now it won't let me back in to change it to something else. My machine should be able to handle just about anything on a several year old game.

Which server should I use for CoH?

I meant, perceived by his customer base. That mostly rules out "real understanding of technology".

Thanks. I don't know why my searching didn't find it, I was actively searching for devices like this on Smarthome's website.

They do, but it is pretty far from ambient in most cases.

Wow. That is a bit pricey... I'm stunned there isn't a little PoE SNMP ethernet dongle for this kind of thing...

Don't forget these are apple products, the majority of the margin is in the perception. Jobs was, at the very least, perceived to be the grand visionary.

Will Steve's death make them more or less evil? I know it will make them less profitable.

This looks perfect, but I can't find a place to buy it?

I am doing several goofy (and a few sane) things. I'm having hardware failures in equipment cabinets in the middle of nowhere and I'd like more information about what the cabinet is going through. For the goofy, I'd like to put in a computer controlled multi-zone HVAC system for my 1400sqft 3...

Interesting. Similar, and a little cheaper, but still painful.

I have a few places where attaching a thermometer to my network would be useful. Logging to a text file would be fine, an integrated web server could be interesting. POE is a practical must. A. The server room could use 3 B. Many equipment cabinets could use 2 (inside and out) C. My house could...

If it is supposed to be transparent to the client, doesn't that mean that the problem must be with the server implementation?

I use the Boxee with SMB, but don't use mount points. Works perfectly for me.

I hear it is very pretty. Is there a demo so I can just have a look?

Never even installed an MMO before, much less played one. But I did just create an account, and it will be downloading while I'm at work. I'll poke around when I get home tonight.

I don't know about the rest, but I'm certain this is wrong. In every heat engine I know of, efficiency increases with size and maintenance costs per unit energy don't.

My opinion of those two is exactly as you have described them. I do really like my ASUS Transformer, but not enough to recommend it above those you mentioned.

Not as well as Android. If you are using Google stuff, you will be better off on an Android.

Glad to hear it, paugie. It has been a while since we've heard from you...

Indeed.

That was the cheap way to fill the urge if you don't actually need anything. If you do have a need, get this and call me when it's full ;)

This. Manage the urge with minimal expenditure. ;)

Yeah, vehicles aren't in the current beta....they opened that map up for a day and closed it again with a "thanks...kinda" vibe to the announcement.

I'll ride on wet roads, and I'll ride in the dark, and I'll finish a ride if it starts raining. But I'm not going out in the dark while it's raining. That would be dumb.

Boxee is handling my tv shows amazingly well. Identifying shows, grouping them by season, and giving full blurbs and art. Fantastic.

Got the UE TripleFi 10. For the record, mine came with several pairs of comply tips in the package. I've had them in for about an hour so far and I'm really enjoying them. They are likely the most accurate way I have of listening to music so far (certainly beats my cars, likely the office as...

My night rides are never longer than 90 minutes, so a battery would be fine with me.

Very tempting.

What does something like that weigh?

Right numbers, wrong order. Want me to fix it?

What I have now weighs 94g for 150cd. I'm willing to triple that weight, but not much more.

What do you plan on doing for bike lights? I right quite a bit at night as well, particularly in the winter, and what I have isn't cutting it.