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The worst one I have to do these days is LAX -> SVO; about 12.5 hours usually with a 1 hour delay. My local airport (MRY) is an absolute dream; typically a staff of 5 (same people check you in and board you) and a dozen TSA just sitting around watching their 3 co-workers do the things. Very laid...

Sounds about right. One of the things I like about that channel is that all the errors make it in; there is no hand-waving "what mistake?" editing shenanigans going on. Looking forward to the next video...

I've always ended up buying new cars because I want tech that is only in new cars (this time it will be Tesla Autopilot). Once you are buying the car and eating the depreciation, then you get to make the decision about interest vs. cash.

Very jealous. Getting on a plane for a "vacation" in San Diego in about an hour. With a kid the best vacation is in a completely controlled and predictable environment. Last week I tried to take 3 days off and stay home but was called in every day.

I'll likely be financing a car in the next year or so. In the past I've financed cars for 0.9% through dealerships (with good credit). Even if I have the money I can do better than 1% elsewhere (managed 5% in the market last year).

For those concerned about the performance of their virtualized workstations. The reason I'm not putting my own workstation in the same machine is that unRAID won't support SLI, and I think I'll want that when the Oculus arrives. https://youtu.be/FvcxPufSRNo

Google Apps Unlimited supports unlimited mailbox size. And (thanks to the web interface) this won't cause performance issues.

I'm still in the high-700s because I both don't have enough lines of credit (3) and the lines of credit are too young (avg. 3.5 years, oldest 6 years). Without any large purchases coming up soon, I'm tempted to bite the bullet now and get some additional lines of credit immediately and then let...

Yup. When working with most vendor application issues, the step after "reboot" is "disable firewall and see if it works".

If CPU usage on the E5200 is _really_ close to 50%, you are likely hitting a single-threaded CPU bottleneck.

This, but make sure you send an e-mail in advance warning of the problem and requesting the resources. When the resources are denied (notice I didn't say "if"), then you will be appreciated after fixing it while having your ass covered. Why do you think all the US intel agencies post so many...

I found variable fan speeds more annoying than fixed. I ended up setting the fans to the highest speed that wasn't audible and then added heatsinks and ducting to cool any hot spots.

7200RPM likely induces a load?

For the record, I was back at that same place having the Orange Chicken last Thursday. Still awesome.

I also had to Google it. Maybe it is an east-coast thing?

With tiny parts of the platter being randomly heated to 500C I would fear for the integrity of the platter itself. Motors, bearings, and arms are things that I feel are pretty solid tech at the moment.

RDP works fine @4k over LAN. Video over RDP never works well. I can vouch for the K420 working 4k@60.

Video on the subject. Thermal cycling can't be good for longevity. https://youtu.be/PnM38b_CMIo

This is probably the right chassis/MB/power supply for this kind of project: https://youtu.be/DhZJ66l82r8

For all the ThinkPads the Lenovo Windows application handles BIOS updates along with drivers and their utilities.

Currently I'm running a dedicated firewall without WiFi and running a pair of Ubiquiti AC Lite access points in the house. The firewall is fast (not willing to compromise my 150Mbps+ connection), but power hungry. Can't remember the name, but we've discussed it before and it is a 1U chassis with...

This is for my house. The goal is to fit as much of my computing infrastructure into this machine as possible to simplify the hardware stack and reduce power consumption. Putting the firewall in the same machine eliminates another electronic device that consumes power. Rather than connect this...

After watching some videos on YouTube demonstrating VMs with direct exposed hardware while wanting a NAS with 10GbE and SSD file caching, I decided to start a build similar to that in the videos (links at bottom of post). UnRAID will do a bunch of things, the things I'm interested in at the...

Do you have a french keyboard, or did that take a lot longer than it should have?

https://youtu.be/vydPOjRVcSg Pi day is more accurate this year than in centuries.

Is it formatted NTFS or FAT32? Last time I had drives randomly error check was in the bad old FAT32 days.

After the BIOS, check the XMP settings and make sure the speed is indeed correct. Welcome Edwin!

Sorry, should have been more specific. One thing Microsoft is really good at is taking your money and fixing issues with their own products. Not sure whether your company has a larger service agreement with MS, but even the pay-per-issue support is excellent. As you mentioned in the OP, this...

Setting tiny mailbox sizes and restricting attachment sizes is so last millennium. Outsource your issues until you can get off such a crap platform.

Nice work. People don't consider this as often as they should.

Yup, that is a problem. The last time I was dealing with Exchange I had a mailbox corrupt itself before reaching the official limit, ended up having MS deal with it. They saw the mailbox size (smaller than yours) and admonished me. When I mentioned that I was under the limit they said it was...

Haven't used it. Swype and Swiftkey are the two I use on my things.

Indeed. It seems that Lead-acid or flooded batteries are the better option. And as always, having more capacity is good for a bunch of reasons. 1. Charge/discharge rate per battery is lower for any power level 2. Charge level is easier to maintain away from extremes (batteries don't like being...

I'm sure there are now better ones, but I'm still really happy with my EagleTac Link: http://amzn.com/B00H1IK6JY

What I find interesting about that is whether the codes have always been able to be used repeatedly (never tried), or that they are now handing out special codes that can be used repeatedly. If the latter, that means that they had planned for this since the beginning.

There are better keyboards out there. It also depends on whether the company that makes your product decided to replace the stock keyboard (which normally has an enter key on it) with one of their own.

The only time I've seen something similar was when a previous update failed/crashed/corrupted. The fact that you've already tried a System Restore means that that probably isn't your problem.

Truecrypt does support a mode where you could plausibly deny there was any hidden data at all. I'm grateful I don't need to worry about that one. The main mode is just making a bunch of stuff completely inaccessible to anyone without the password. Of course, with the internet and VPNs being what...

Nope. 7.1a is the same as 7.1a. The assumption was that you didn't have it installed and that is why you were asking. It you already have TC 7.1a, there is no reason to believe that any other product out there is more secure.

We use Google to run our e-mail system, and they have a 20MB limit. We also have DropBox Corporate, and they have a Google plug-in that embeds an interface that supports 10GB attachments though their service.

Indeed. Same with Corsair.

I still trust Truecrypt. Specifically version 7.1a available here.

We use Konica Minolta. And I did end up configuring an FTP server on the Synology box that holds the scans to make that work. No security, not happy. HR has a desktop unit connected via USB for privacy issues.

Haven't used eBay in ages. Every once in a while I'm tempted, then someone posts something like this. Occasionally I'll take my chances with with someone who isn't at least "fulfilled by Amazon" on their platform, but that is as risky as I'll get.

Xerox bad, Konica/Minolta a known evil (their networking is just a bit less reliable than I'd like, what do you mean you can't scan to a windows network share reliably?!) No experience with the others.

I want to replace all but one of the other computers in my house with locally connected virtual machines (as shown in the videos above). Besides by main workstation, there are 6 other computers in the house constantly running. Replacing 5 of those with one (even if it is a dual-Xeon) is going to...

What you really need is for your NAS to support iSCSI and those 10Gb connections we were talking about...:diablo:

Seriously, if this had existed when I owned the LAN center I would have been all over it.

...and it was only for the USB devices. If you didn't see it, here is when he scaled it to 7 gaming machines. https://youtu.be/LXOaCkbt4lI

I believe it is so that you can easily identify the devices by description and sort them out. I'd bet that some trial and error would also suffice.