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I've been meaning to play with Hyper-V for quite some time. You and Merc have both said nice things about it, and I believe it could be better than ESXi. But I have no experience with it at this point and it is time to start the project. 32GB of RAM won't be enough; 48 might do it, but I'd...

Thanks Coug, I love me some data. My performance could most charitably be called "inconsistent".

1. Due to a large number of recent acquisitions, there are currently 10 servers. Until they are able to integrate the data and users from the other companies, this is how it will be. 2. The number of users is much higher, but the other users work from home and remote in to WinXP/7/8 VMs running...

The demand for a decent ESXi server is there, but the server room isn't. This will be sitting in a room with 8 people who talk on the phone all day for a living. I've already done all I can with the acoustics of the space in general, but this thing will be within 6 feet of a couple people no...

Giving it a shot now, I liked his first album quite a bit when it came out.

That is definitely outside my normal listening zone ;) But I did find this today: http://youtu.be/s1JsBhRCRH0

Just the system at work. I suppose it depends on your definition of bad-ass; but it is easily twice as good as the systems I've had in the past. A pair of Adam A8X along with an Adam Sub8. All being driven from a Creative X-Fi HD USB Sound Card. The weak link is no doubt the source (Pandora @...

Now that I have a bad-ass audio system, I find that songs that sound clean are getting much more play. Recordings by "The Xx", particularly "Stars" is getting a lot of attention at the moment. Other suggestions?

Indeed. Just scroll to the bottom, and there are some statistics along with the birthdays.

Yup. Tax against corporations is a bad idea to start with. 1) We can't put a gun to the head of every other country to make them play along. 2) Taxing something we want more of is not a very good idea. Note I'm not saying there should be less taxes, just tax things we don't want (unhealthy...

I'm still cool with that. Not a bad idea.

Best thing about the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 is that is uses a standard micro USB connector instead of the larger one that their older tablets used. Loving that.

RAID-0 of SSDs in a laptop. Awesome.

I think the total number of IRL meetings between anyone here and anyone else are pretty low. I've met Handruin (once) and Santilli (three times) in person, years ago, and that is it.

:-D

So many laptops support an mSATA SSD as well as a HDD, this is a bit too late I'm afraid.

Nope. All the downloads had completed over the last several weeks. They thought that every time it prompted for an update it was a new update, and that they had been installing them correctly.

"200 copies of Minecraft.exe in the download folder" rings very true. Along with the 200 copies of the new version of reader/flash that they were promped to update to, but then didn't realize that they had to do something beyond download it. Along the same lines, step one in repairing a printer...

Based on the marketing strategies of the major resellers, there is a very popular item sold at deep discounts (called a "loss leader") that is a good deal. Their hope is that you will also buy other stuff, which isn't discounted nearly as much. If they have targeted something that you want, and...

Faster fans will keep things cooler, and that is a good thing. The downsides are as follows: More noise More dust in the case Faster fan wear Noise is my biggest complaint, but if that doesn't matter to you, I would be wary of how much dust gets in there.

I guarantee if you wait long enough, such a configuration will be under a grand. It just might be for Christmas 2014.

I have about 500GB of microSD, so that is fine with me.

Yup. For $550. Wow, it better be awesome.

Thanks for the tip! I was in fact in the market for just such a thing ;)

Ah, that sounds like it is beyond my ability to test. If it isn't, let me know what to do.

I maxed out a BOXDC53427HYE and had it playing back a 4k sample on repeat for 2 days as a test?

Running again. Started the 8.1 update before I left for the weekend.

She'll be going back to Moscow. She's in her 70s and lived there her whole life, so yeah, endured a fair bit worse ;)

Interesting. AFAIK, my wife has never paid for mail from them. The account is very old though (1998?), could that have something to do with it?

My wife's primary account was Yahoo. My fix was to get her a Google account and forward the mail.

I don't notice any. Is there some kind of synthetic test that would be better and making it obvious?

This is the retirement home. So I have ~19 years to save up ;)

Ignoring the SPAM folder entirely is the best option, but OCD may prevent such things ;)

I'm a big fan of the "wet room" configuration, so having the toilet that close just makes it easier to clean ;) The weight bench (and even the bathtub) are out due to weight considerations. I've attached the floorplan.

At home now I have a high-end projector and a 92" screen. It hasn't been on for nearly a year. In front of a huge window (10' wide and 7' tall) we have our desks, each with wireless headphones and large (mine 30", hers 27") monitors. That is where we spend all our time when we aren't with the...

The EagleTac are protected, the first ones I got weren't. They will be going in other applications. I'm thinking of modifying some of my R.A.T. 9 mice to use them.

Perhaps it would still have thermal fluctuation in their crappy warehouses to deal with? Who knows. I just want as few people as possible to touch the drive as little as possible from the factory to me.

Like I said, I set the bar (for myself) pretty high at the start. I actually am pretty happy that that is the best thing someone who stays with us can complain about. When we started the rebuild we wanted a place that was a similar to a high-end B&B as possible in feel and comfort. Slowly making...

The idea first started after one of our regular walks around Carmel-by-the-Sea. We were looking at the different lots and discussing what we would do there. All of them had issues and all of them were high-7-figures. I suspect that such a craft could be constructed for ~$5 million and...

They say you get a song stuck in your head when you know one part, but then forget what comes next, so the part you know runs over and over. I get crazy ideas stuck in my head until I can confirm absolutely that they are impossible. Then I can move on.

The program is called Chief Architect Premiere (I'm running version X5). Got it for a general contractor friend, and I love it.

For the last several weeks I've been semi-obsessed with the notion that my dream house would be about 1000sq.ft. hanging from a Zeppelin. After a couple weeks of falling asleep visualizing it I finally got a couple hours tonight to sketch something up. Time to start doing the math on how large...

Been discovering Avicii over the last few weeks. Favorite so far is probably "Shame on Me"

She'll be here through the winter. I think she's leaving in mid-March. I think the problem is that I've set a pretty high bar as far as comfort and luxury go. If she only complains about one thing like this a week I can handle it.

I'm afraid that would require her to do something.

Sweet. I'd forgotten to restart in a couple days ;)

It needs to be. That Seiki was unusable @ 4k. I ended up selling it as a regular HDTV. For that purpose the user is quite happy.

I consider Ultrasharps to be the best of the non-reference-class screens. At any particular moment there may be another that offers similar quality, but you don't need to do the research with the Us, they just are good and have the features you might want. And that is a great price. Still...

I got the Nitecore Intellicharger i4 specifically because it can charge 3 batteries without issue.

I also agree. Which is why I buy in the largest quantities feasible (usually a dozen) from the largest supplier (Amazon) with the fastest shipping. Fewest hands touching it for the smallest amount of time.