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I would love to track a car, but I don't have the time for it (even though I live 15 minutes from Laguna Seca). I just want a car that is fun to drive all the time. The GT-R may not be comfortable enough to be that car. Driving a car that performs well puts a smile on my face. That is what I...

A gallon each way per day would hurt, but I would arrive at work every day with a smile on my face ;)

This giant piece of plastic right here. It needs to be a computer touch screen. At the least an iPad docking port.

Nice, but I think the three I have are enough for most weekends.

Yup, the auction was nearing the "Buy it now" price...I bet a deal was struck. Low mileage white GT-R. That dash totally sucks, though. Would have to replace it with something better.

So tempting....of course there isn't a chance, but it is tempting.

Still tweaking the CPU OC a bit, and haven't started on the GPU yet, but I'm happily surprised at the results so far: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2076408

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I only have 10TB at home, and another 4TB at work. I know that we are outliers, I just wanted to see how many of the more normal users are pushing beyond the capabilities of a single hard drive. I currently have a couple companies and three home users who require more than one drive to keep a...

That is pretty awesome. That isn't "colliding" with a deer, that is getting full-on attacked by something with giant fricking horns.

How much data are you the caretaker of? Before the backups and drive redundancy, including home and work, not including empty capacity.

I don't know about her, but I love having the space on my SSD to work on my pictures before filing them (makes Adobe Bridge or preview much faster). Even if all you do is max the memory on the board and drop in a $200 SSD it will make a heck of a difference.

I was wearing a long sleeve shirt, so all was well. ;) Honestly, it wasn't bad until my temporary light slipped. It went from shining down the road to shining straight into my face.

This may be a wild bet, but I'm guessing that the 'Coug isn't married.

Indeed, Cougtek. And I am anticipating building a chassis for the light as well eventually, but I haven't done any CAD work since high school, and I wasn't paying attention even then. It may take a long time before I can design anything that complex. Having the battery and light combined makes...

CS4/5 is required before any GPU acceleration would be used, but any of the new-ish cards can participate. That 7900GS would be fine. 16GB of RAM is a no-brainer, super simple choice. She absolutely needs an SSD. If you don't want Sandforce take a look at the new Intel 3xx series. They are...

As the title says. As portable a printer as possible that can still do 8.5x11 (preferably 8.5x14), preferably color, preferably wireless. Price isn't really an issue. I don't have an iPad to play with at the moment, so I don't know if there are any special requirements. Thanks!

Almost had a deer run into me tonight on my bike (12:25AM and I just got back). Saw the eyes in the brush, but I was going too fast (27+mph) to do much about it. I just picked my line and it turned out well.

Just some encouragement from behind ;)

Another pair of GTX580 for the next couple days

I'm almost done with the prototype design, and will have emachineshop.com knock out a few for me. This idea of designing something on the computer and having it physically produced is pretty thrilling to me for some reason. The revised design has enough of a foot on it that it could be epoxied...

I am so grateful to my neighbors and their awesome trees. They take care of them and handle the liability, I get some shade. Nothing on my land is more than 8' tall.

The TripleFi are good, but nothing compared to my Bose headphones. I don't have any experience with with active noise cancellation in-ear monitors.

Permanent changes to a $45 part? I'm not worried about it. Clamps are crap; they usually don't fit well, are bulky, and are a PITA to put on and take off because any position adjustments are lost. Instead of welding, drilling and epoxy could be used; I'm not the metal smith. Perhaps have a new...

I do like this idea. Any patent lawyers in the house? I would be interested in having it drawn up.

Thanks guys. I was first planning on mounting the rail the usual way, with a conforming partial tube under the rail secured with zip-ties (note the smaller holes on the bottom of the rail). For the stem I'm actually envisioning a single plate that passes through a slot and is both the top and...

I'm tired of mounting stuff onto tubes with zip-ties; it isn't the right way to do things. The fit is poor, the appearance is clunky, and it is never that secure. My thought is to weld mounting rails to the top and bottom of the bicycle stem, allowing secure mounting of a computer (in my case a...

A pair of 130W i7s, a pair of GTX580s, and a dozen 3TB hard drives at max load produce closer to 800W, even if I don't go crazy and water cool the power supplies, Onkyo Receiver, PS3, or UPS ;) That is all the heat I would need for the house, and it would be nice to get the (much lower) heat...

The design I've been working on includes three different loops terminating in the same reservoir. 1. Home 1 2. Home 2 3. Cooling loop This way each of the machines gets a more traditional CPU cooling loop that just dumps into and draws from a large reservoir. I then use something more...

After our remodel, I haven't gotten around to installing a furnace yet. The only heating we have is electric resisive, which is no more efficient than a computer (looking past the obvious capital costs). I am still seriously considering going to water cooling at home just so I can put the...

There is some justification. We run consumer-level gear in servers, so I like to have as long a burn-in time as possible. My machine is the burn-in process, so the i7-970, RAM, etc are going into our new ESXi box and I get an upgrade. Considering the money the company saves not buying Xeons and...

I always have a Civ5 game in the background, and BF3 in the evenings. Not to mention the folding. Actually, this is one of the Zotac water cooled ones ;)

The work rig got a bit of an upgrade today (see sig). Note that the bottom fan of the Noctua will not fit in either configuration using either Kingston Hyper T1 or Corsair Vengance memory modules in all 6 slots of this board.

Sweet.

In addition to the mortgage, one of the cars isn't paid off. That is at 1.9%, and is on a short enough term (3yrs) and a large enough down payment ($10k) that the value of the car will never be less than what is owed - still technically an asset.

Essentially none, I hadn't thought of that, it might be an issue for some.

I find they don't rebound as quickly after a couple dozen compressions. It sounds like their deterioration levels out?

Couple weeks maybe? Depends on use.

I got one, and time was absolutely right. This will be awesome as a bike monitor. The question now is whether I want to put some kind of plan on it or keep it WiFi only. Being able to use it for "my bike is broke" calls to friends, or so wifey can reach me while riding would make sense. And...

The complyfoam tips actually shipped with my triplefis (6 pairs in the box). They are apparently the new standard. I love them.

JTR, How difficult would it be to incorporate a basic taillight into that battery pack? 5-10 surface mount red LEDs oriented in a 3" line on the narrowest board possible, with the smallest wire possible back to the battery pack? I'll just packing-tape/zip-tie it to my seatpost. No optics necessary.

250GB of RAM and a few TB of disk? Nice.

Got the new bike. It is an utter revelation. 3mph faster, heart rate 10bpm lower, 20% further, and less sore in the end. I'll need to set aside more time for my rides in the future if I'm going to keep pushing. Of course, these new speeds are even more dangerous without a headlight...

1. Put noisy 1U server on your desk 2. Use that as an excuse to put on your noise cancelling headphones and close your door 3. Use that as an excuse to ignore everyone and all phone calls all day Awesome.

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It should, the semi-pro I work with is exactly my size/proportions (minus the gut) and has the same bike. The shop is an authorized Specialized Fitting Center, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Sandforce were the guys to figure out how to get the write amplification under control so MLC could have decent write cycles. IIRC, their stuff is also used in the Z-Drive and their top-end VeloDrive.

Just bought a new '11 Roubaix Apex Compact (size 58) on clearance for $1k. Sight unseen. While massively sleep deprived. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Hopefully I can stay awake on the drive out to Carmel to pick it up.

Yeah, I don't think I need that level of complexity. At the moment I have the VMs on one ESX server backing up to the other ESX servers, so a once-every-three-years hardware failure simply means firing up the backup that already exists on the other server. It isn't automated, and there is...

3Ware was a competitor, you buy competitors to strip their tech and their customers before burying them. Sandforce is a complimentary tech with a good name. It will give them leverage with the other users of that chipset as well.