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Not sure which power supply calculator you used, but with triple the RAM, triple the drives, a decent add-on video card, and massive overclocking you still don't need anything more than a good 380W or any 420W PSU, with your actual draw probably in the <250W range.

I wonder what would happen if you swapped out the drive for one of your own? If I put an SATA SSD on this thing, it would rock!

Works fine here as well, I usually am logged in at least 2-3 locations.

Those waves are tough. So friggin' fast. Fun watching people think they have it, try to stand, and just get flipped off the top.

34" pants would be a stretch (literally), I still prefer 36".

Didn't I already mention that I don't have a basement ;) I could have them drop down from the ceiling, though. My bed was on a pulley system to the ceiling when I was a kid (got the idea from "An American in Paris").

Nope. We have a small house, and the "home theater" is little more than a really nice "tv" in the living room. Other than bedrooms (which I can't use), there is only one big room.

With a BMI of 24.6, I am barely in the "normal" threshold. But I'm happy. To be in the middle of the BMI normal range I would need to be down to 168lbs...screw that.

Nice picture, stereodude....thanks.

My goal was to get under 200lbs before my birthday. I don't know if I would have made it if it weren't for having the flu for the last two weeks. Not the way I wanted to go about it, but 197lbs will have to do :)

Thx ;) Are you charged by the letter?

As would I, but the space doesn't allow for it. The projector screen is surrounded by floor to ceiling cabinetry that I am not allowed reallocate. As the time gets closer, I may decide that it is worth the political hit to make it happen.

I'm just upgrading as I go. The first one was a requirement of a vendor, and now 2008 is the default.

Clearly that is the optimal solution, however since that isn't an option (the space doesn't accommodate it, the wife wouldn't like it) the ceiling will have to do.

Thanks guys. Slept in until 9:30, but now it is back to work. As my boss says, "It's just another day" :)

I have bad HP experiences in general, but not their business class stuff.

I'm perfectly happy with 2008, and am updating all the servers as the underlying software is updated. I still need to figure out how to set up a RDP gateway.

I'll second all that. The amount of air passing through a case determines the amount of dust in it, and having a powerful intake grabs any nearby dust and pulls it in. Having faster fans in the chassis making sure there are no hot-spots is good, while having just enough airflow through the case...

No idea. Perhaps 20% worse? Just a guess. Like Sol, I am very far from an audiophile. Spending that much on a pair of speakers (actually, I need 3 pairs for the surround system - doubling up the center channel), guarantees that it is as good as I could possibly appreciate.

16 years ago there was a flood that got within half a mile of my current house. It would have had to spread for hundreds of square miles before climbing the ~9' of additional rise to the base of my property. Other than that, the gutter gets about 3" of standing water in the worst rainstorm every...

The attacks that favor servers are always more brutal IMHO. Mainly because these machines are usually always-on and can be attached to massive pipes.

Wow. I was always a little jealous of people that had basements. Now I'm not. The whole house is 18" above the ground, and the property is 4' above the street. French drains under and around the house send everything to the street, the drains from the roof are fed into additional french drains...

https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-worm-morto-using-rdp-infect-windows-pcs-082811 Seems to only be a dictionary attack against the default port (3389). So have good passwords and don't use the default port. The port can be changed in the registry here...

Slashdot is no longer serving me pages, instead giving me a 503 about their varnish cache server. No idea where they host from, but I know their headquarters is back east somewhere.

Considering everything in that kind of rig needs to be redundant anyway, just get the fastest you can and let 'er rip.

I'm pretty sure they don't have the drainage capacity to handle a hurricane. I also wouldn't be surprised if some of the tunnel walls disintegrated were they to be submerged.

Wow. What a mess. 72F and sunny here, 93F in the valley on the way to San Jose.

*cough* ;)

I haven't tried 1920x1200 personally, but you are right that is the top spec.

It does, but it uses a hell of a lot more bandwidth than the 14.4kbps that it does natively.

Sprint Overdrive -> DD-WRT'ed router in bridge mode -> Vonage Adapter -> Fax Machine All this just to get an old fax to work in the middle of nowhere.

Yup. I've slept through bigger than that. Once they get in the 7s (10+ times larger?) it gets the heart rate up a bit.

Indeed. If you connected a single SATA 3.0 link to 120PB, it would take 5.3 years to fill it.

This is why I like earthquakes. None of this suspense or anticipation. By the time you know it, it's over, and it's time to put the books back on the shelves.

With my last car, when the warranty had expired I stopped all maintenence. I did an oil change whenever the low oil light went on (about every 50k miles) and didn't do anything else. It ran for another 135k after that, and the guy I sold it to now has nearly 300k miles on it. Yay for VW...

Several Terabytes per second. Sweet. I wonder what kind of SSD cache they have strapped on the front end?

...and the poles it's attached to ;)

The dealer is expensive, I know I won't be going there when I am out of warranty, but it is the only number I am familiar with at the moment. Here is the PDF that spells out what is involved.

Is the restriction a chip thing? Can you have the software re-flashed after the first year?

Honestly not something to worry about. From what I understand, HDMI has the DVI pinout spec in the cable. There is no tricky conversions or software, just moving pins to the different plug. So long as you intend to run resolutions below 1920x1080 I've done this dozens of times without issue.

That isn't where mine was lagging, it was during what used to be the "starting windows" screen.

The maintenance is still complimentary on my cars, but after that expires, were I to have it done at the dealership, I would be spending $500-$750 every 10k miles.

Polk Audio LC80i - It is steerable/directional. Should be fine. After the new bicycle.

Yup

They are aimed at an angle, not straight down. The problem is that the screen and seating area are in the middle of a larger space, with no walls nearby to put them.

Still planning on some in-ceiling speakers when I have the money.

I had a machine stall massively during startup, and disconnecting some USB peripherals sped it up dramatically. Reconnecting the same devices once the system was up worked great.

If there were any, I'm glad the filter took care of them ;)

I don't think so. I've started a few companies in my life, some of them grew considerably before being sold. At the moment I (mostly) work for someone else. I did stop working for myself because I didn't want to deal with stuff. Taxes, regulations, and government bureaucracy played no role...

I think that is a very optimistic view, jtr. I believe most of the problems in that bottom 20% are cultural, with the biggest problem being massive family sizes. #1 cause there is religion, specifically Catholicism and Christianity. Studies have shown that people who are less in control of their...