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    Third Party Batteries

    IIRC, the power rating of the battery is communicated to the computer by a chip in the battery pack. So, a battery pack could technically lie about what it is and leave out a cell or something. Also, my T510 battery (42T4791) has two different ratings on it, 4.76Ah and 5.2Ah, but this battery is...
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    Something Random

    Where is this digital high school?!
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    Monitors w/massive brightness range

    My T510 seems to have a very wide range.
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    Noise Cancellation

    The newer grey foam tips fit my old UEs. They work much better and are more comfortable than the yellow tips.
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    Marvel HyperDuo

    It shouldn't be any faster than use without this controller. It should be less due to having more room to spread out the data.
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    Marvel HyperDuo

    I like the looks of it.
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    question Multiple servers booting from SAS

    Fiber channel or iSCSI.
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    Rain and flood

    Not to mention the snakes! http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/trainer-fights-off-snakes-while-racehorses-tread-water-for-hours-to-survive-queensland-flood/story-fn7kabp3-1225987391058
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    Rain and flood

    So what's the reigning theory on the presence of sharks? They are being flushed out of high alpine lakes or they are swimming upstream through chocolate milk?
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    Lenovo Thinkpads

    Also, I have the discrete graphics option installed but haven't bothered to figure out how to tell if its switched on. That would affect battery life.
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    Lenovo Thinkpads

    I typically have the brightness set to 10/15 (220 nit) at least 1 VM running and Netflix or a DVD playing but I suspect these are not the conditions you would want tested. If I shutdown the VM and turn off all applications and set brightness to 3 (I think) power manager thinks I will get 4 hrs...
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    Something Random

    It does look very cool! IMDB has them labeled differently. I think that one is the "International Trailer".
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    Sil3132: Can Silicon Image do anything right?

    http://www.fantomdrives.com/products/datadockii.htm Would GigE allow your backups to fit within the window?
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    Something Random

    I had not heard of it either. No big names in it. So which trailer is the third one?
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    MyDefrag

    Yeah, I use this too. Its mighty fine. Used in combination with sdelete to keep my VMs small.
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    Rain and flood

    Sorry to hear about all of the destruction. Stay safe!
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    Lenovo Thinkpads

    I now have a T510. Questions?
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    External enclosures?

    I have a Fantom Drive that I like but I'm not sure they come diskless. Personally, I would wait until you could get one with USB 3.
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    Something Random

    And you still have to have significant foundational support for the base.
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    Something Random

    You are exactly right about what this is designed for. Battery packs for the same purpose require regular repurchasing but this solves that problem.
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    Something Random

    This should help you a little bit. http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/635.stt.summer05/Manual/July%2020/Rotational%20Dynamics.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_around_a_fixed_axis The topic you are looking for is rotational dynamics. To account for friction, either bearing or air...
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    Something Random

    http://www.liebert.com/product_pages/product.aspx?id=59
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    Rolling your own offsite internet based backup?

    You control that with routing rules. I would be surprised if Tomato does not facilitate split-tunneling.
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    Rolling your own offsite internet based backup?

    How does a constant VPN tunnel fetter access to the other devices? In a pinch you could setup and tear down the VPN connection on a schedule and kick off the WOL on a schedule.
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    Bathroom TV

    I use my laptop to view potty humor.
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    USB Network Print Servers

    I'm currently using a Linksys device over wireless and USB very successfully to a small B&W laser printer. I think it's the only one they have but I can't get to the model number right now. It also has an ethernet port.
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    Something Random

    Neat little case. Question about [i]"If the eSATA port is a non-combo port (such as those found on PCI cards) the drive must connect to USB ports for power...."/[i] Does it really require two USB ports to power that like the picture of the cable seems to indicate? That would imply taking up...
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    Rumor - 4TB hard drive from Hitachi

    The force is strong with this one. :thumbleft:
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    Something Random

    Fewer than 50 people determined the winner despite it being online and driven by FB "likes".
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    Something Random

    I have a friend who used his 1000+ global FB contacts to win a local photo contest and a free iPad. I have been so affected by it I now walk with a limp. LAME. The most revealing part is that only ~130 people voted for him. People sing the praises of the power of social networking but I'm...
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    Rumor - 4TB hard drive from Hitachi

    Or maybe stripe with 0 parity bits.... to avoid confusion.
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    Rumor - 4TB hard drive from Hitachi

    Fixed that for you. :D
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    Audio Equipment

    If you are comparing your old amp and new amp at moderate positions on the dial (vs. moderate measurement in db) and there is significant difference then either the old amp was crappy or broken.
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    Something Random

    Its all the rage in the troposphere.
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    Rumor - 4TB hard drive from Hitachi

    I see what you did there.
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme Heatsink & Scythe SFlex 12cm Fan

    Free bump. According to that link the brackets should have been included.:cry:
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    Something Random

    Ha, I don't blame you. Keep trying though, people talk about what they have in common. Last weekend I went to a poker game and a philosophy discussion broke out.
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    RAM prices finally falling...

    Looks like a good time to max out my new T510.
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    Happy New Year to everywhere else!

    I had a reasonable 2010. I managed to get caught up on all my debts and save up to buy a newer car. Unfortunately the year is going out with a bust as I lost my job a couple of weeks ago. Upward and onward!
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    Something Random

    Very Cool!
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    Question regarding SAS controllers

    Prady, something you might be able to learn in the mean time is the technical differences/limitations between what you have worked with and what they want you to have worked with.
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    VirtualBox

    Which HAL is installed? Halaacpi.dll (ACPI HAL with IO APIC) Did you try twiddling the IO APIC switch?
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    VirtualBox

    You may try uninstalling as many of the original drivers as you can from the machine before the P2V or while in VMware player. I have seen openmanage software and Hp management software randomly affect speed and stability. What service pack is the source machine on?
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    Reboot Linksys remotely

    I am annoyed to no end. The newest firmware is in ASP so this doesn't work; and there is still no way to do it through the web interface.
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    Something Random

    What do you mean by savings rates; and how is that supposed to be beneficial?
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    Correct pronunciation of "Asus"

    I never pronounced it aye-seuss or ah-seuss; I always pronounced it aye-suhs. Old habits are gonna die hard.
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    Online backup

    Bleh, Memopal was not really what I was looking for. The service was priced pretty well at ~$30/year/200G but there was not an easy way to do an incremental restore. It was essentially just another file repository. It also, like Carbonite, required manual initiation to back up very large files...
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    Online backup

    Coincidentally, but probably not, within 16 hours of signing up with Memopal I was sent an email by Symform. Maybe I should have actually read the privacy policy. :) It looks like a really interesting concept. Essentially it is shared, encrypted, online backup storage in a P2P flavor. You get as...
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    Something Random

    "A band called Journey..."? I think you did that on purpose. :) The Moog was a staple instrument of the progressive rock genre.
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    VirtualBox

    Check out the difficulties people have had with intelppm.sys and see if that helps.
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