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Got my wife a Samsung Galaxy Note Edge because it supports cards and battery swaps. Nice phone, not too much bigger than an S5.

You'd think this would be an easy thing. -Pairs to phone in both handsfree (HFP) and audio (a2dp) modes -has input for mic (XLR ideally but anything will do) -has output for speakers (RCA ideally but anything will do) In other words, I want just the BT part of a modern car head unit. I can't...

About a year ago I had good fun nearly completely disassembling our washing machine. One of the first Samsung units (10 years old now?). I'd done quite a number on the dryer a couple times in the past when converting it from Natural Gas to Propane and back. Funny that in my head they are still...

That is very respectable and offers a "4k" (3840x2160) screen. I'll be considering one of those when I sell the W540. Thanks for the link!

Apple laptops have some sexy hardware, and if you are looking for higher resolution screens in lower-priced units you could squint and make a value argument. They format and take Win8.1 just fine.

The paradigm needs to change I think. Most people are happy enough with the price and performance of the camera in their budget. Things will settle slowly, then there will be a price war without real innovation, then something else will take over. Light field cameras? Video features? And as...

Looks like all their higher-end units were omitted.

OEM install here. Machines are ordered in small enough volume and short enough notice that I can't sufficiently standardize hardware.

Windows Defender should remove it automatically now, and Lenovo released a dedicated removal tool, including source code and license.

I would find it interesting, purely from a theoretical perspective. I might even run through it once just to see what happens. But with 1.5 people supporting 450 workstations in 9 offices using 7 major systems across 8 departments, I just don't see a formal system being manageable. Particularly...

Wow, you put a lot of fancy letters in there ;) No SOW, no SOP, IT wasn't even involved in the RFQ. I was informed which software the department had decided on (which was the first I'd heard that they were considering migrating from the existing software), and set up a lab for the trainer. At...

They don't even have proper documentation, much less a script. I was running a screen cap when their support guy remoted in and did it once. I'm building the doc from that. Hard to blame them, the app was less than $250,000. What can you expect for such a pittance?

That's pretty much what I was thinking, thanks. The IIS install is a PITA mainly because of the exact features that need to be selected (and deselected), probably 25 checkboxes out of the 40 available. There is a main database and a main webserver, but this program allows an "offline mode"...

I have a new program that I need to deploy to 40 Win7/8 machines. It requires IIS with specific options and SQL Express with specific options before I can even begin the install of the program itself. These machines are not part of a domain, and I currently have SQL Express and the program on a...

Got a sunburn this morning, 75F in Hollister.

Fooling around on a freshly paved (and still closed) runway this morning. I had no idea a buddy was even around, and he taped and tagged me on FB. http://youtu.be/ttHtSt6M5rE

If they are able to capture a large enough part of the astrophoto market it can be a profitable thing. Particularly if it starts being bundled with mounts and scopes.

Just ordered an M575F, but that might be out of your range. The M476dn has treated me pretty well.

100%. I'm still burning through HP OfficeJet Pro 8000s at a couple sites that insist they need them.

Spending a bit more on the machine saves you quite a bit in consumables, but you might never recoup that cost if you don't print a lot.

Color Laser does entirely presentable pictures these days. Not glossy, but entirely representative of what it was. We include them in estimates and presentations all the time.

Seconding Stereodude on this one. Being good a photos makes it bad at everything else. I really like the Color Laser HP MFCs. $400 will get you a good one.

One of the wonderful things about a NAS is that your storage can live elsewhere. I keep mine in the garage. It is fairly quiet until I start hitting it hard, then the grinding sound is noticeable.

I've used both with Synology units without issue. The latest was 12x 6TB WD Red.

I prefer to keep the same drives in a unit (first round is all bought at the same time), but many have ended up with mixed drives (some even different capacities). I've never had any issue or measurable performance impact.

I have in the past been known to abuse the crap out of a single Win8.1 key. Every time I call the phone number and tell them that "the total number of computers installed with this copy of windows" is "0". It always gives me an activation code.

I've been looking into this, and I think you and I are after about the same thing. Powerful 8-Drive NAS with 10GbE: Synology DS2015xs Switch that supports the SFP+ of the Synology and some Copper 10Gbe: Netgear ProSAFE Plus XS708E NICs from a vendor we know for Copper 10GbE: Intel Ethernet...

I'm a fan of the Synology units as well. But don't pull the plug on them regularly without doing a proper shutdown. It is a computer, they like to be shutdown properly. In fact, just set the drives to spin down at an appropriate time and leave the unit on so it can perform diagnostics and...

At the work facilities with such equipment there is usually a power failure every quarter or so, and that is more frequent than any testing I'd bother with. The most common issue with the system is a mechanical with the generator. The most common minor issue is someone plugging their computer...

Nope. All my work sites of any significance have auto-switching UPS and gensets with giant fuel tanks. The batteries are only ~15 minutes (long enough to troubleshoot the genset or get some gas worst-case). Normally the generator goes from off to producing power in ~30 seconds, and auto-tests...

This is the windiest it has been in a number of years. I decided to remove the trees on the property that were >15' when we moved in, and I pay to have my neighbor's trees pruned if they get close to my property (with their consent of course).

I'm seeing a similar page every time I post, it moves me on after a few moments.

Power outages are so rare here it isn't worth it to have one wired in, though I'll probably put in the hook up for that when I put in solar. This was the first power outage in years, and it only lasted about 25 minutes.

Powers out. I only have ~3 hours of UPS for everything before I kick into the emergency system (12hr UPS for modem/router and a laptop). Then I get the genset out.

I don't care about reach, but speed/versatility is important. I have managed to get rid of most of my EF-S lenses, but I'm just as likely to shoot a bicycle or auto race as a product shoot. Of course, the majority of my work is baby pictures of a single client (mine), and those are always fast...

I enjoy making GP images as much as the next guy (more, probably), but where in the real world are >15MP images used? Certainly not in print? What size are you printing to?

My big question is who were these people that needed more than 20MP? Anyone here feel they didn't have enough? If you do really need all 50MP, how much trouble do you have with lens quality? Is Canon L glass all good enough to not impact things at these kinds of resolution?

Fun. But were I good at tinkering with such things, I'd be pursuing the rail gun with finishing nails or BBs.

Merc's suggestion of a bluetooth audio receiver sounds best. Let the laptop send the audio wirelessly to your bigger sound system.

Looks like they're trying to go after low-end medium-format cameras? Crazy MP, maximum color and sharpness, low ISO, low FPS. But still waterproof. It actually looks like it would be a good one for my uses, but I suspect it is out of my range. I'm talking to someone right now who is considering...

Quite so. Liza is lucky in that all the people who could be a part of her life have chosen to take an active role. It's just unfortunate that they aren't all perfect role models.

I entirely agree. The first year she was here for nearly 6 months. The second time was 3 months. This time is 2.5 months (1.5 left). All of these are too long.

My mother-in-law is an idiot. Before I just thought that she was irrational and liked to waste time doing useless things. Nope, an idiot. Crazy considering she was a cardiologist. She took the kid in the back yard, where I put in a play table with water and sand. She opened it up and added...

Some mining equipment requires you to provide the PSU separate from the miner. I have a shelf of 1kW PSUs for that reason. Of course, circuit management becomes an issue beyond that. Then again, it shows peak efficiency at 50%, so if you were drawing 1kW continuously (as I am), it might make...

I suspect that many of us type for hours every day. If that experience can be made 15% better all the time, that may be worth several orgasmic experiences.

I bought the first Seiki 4k TV when it came out, and had numerous issues with it. Many could be chalked up to just being a super-new standard that wasn't sufficiently supported. That said, it was a negative experience.

I run 4 batteries, 3 of which are in standalone chargers all of the time (home, car, work). Rather than leave the phone plugged in for extended periods anywhere I just swap batteries when it runs low (once or twice a day depending on load).

If your phone must share the space in your pants with other things, and if you can't get away with cargo pants, you might want to stay away from the Note series. I'm honestly considering a lateral move from an S5 to a Note 4, but the phone has an entire pocket of my (baggy) jeans to itself.

The reason I know it isn't speed limited by the WAN links is that I had originally planned to do the file archive locally and then copy them across. It was the same speed going to the workstation that is connected via GbE to the phone system. At that point I decided to not bother with the...

I have a file transfer that is pegged at 222kB/s. I have no idea how big the total transfer will be (files are mostly <1MB), but I suspect it will be a few hundred GB. Source is a telephone system that records phone calls, archive needs to happen through their crappy software running on a local...