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First rain is upon us, and my mother-in-law is complaining that the water going down the downspout is making too much noise (the back of the house isn't as soundproof as our bedroom). I'm tempted to try two remedies: 1. Dynamat the inside of the lower spout. 2. Insert a plastic scrubbing pad to...

They are working fine for me. Perhaps it is your inferior browser? ;)

Yup. At the moment I'm using the EagleTac brand. They aren't the first ones I bought, but the others didn't have a bump on the positive contact and didn't work with the light. I'm currently considering modifications to the cells to allow them to work.

Thanks for that!

Sounds good, so long as it is stable enough.

Based only on your recommendation, I picked up the EagleTac MX25L3. Fantastic light. The brightness is utterly absurd, even compared to my 1700 lumen bike light.

My mother-in-law (for whom english is a very distant second language) managed to initiate the 8.1 update on her HTPC machine last night. Swears she didn't do anything. I haven't seen this upgrade yet, is it that easy to do? BTW: It broke Start8; doesn't start to the desktop anymore and the...

I know this won't fit your need, but I may as well stick the recommendation in this thread. I have both the Sennheiser RS180 and RS220 wireless headsets, and both are excellent at their price point. Perhaps double the cost of a corded set of the same quality. I just noticed that they do sell a...

The Linux and Apple bars are much larger than I would have anticipated. And there are no appreciable stats for resolutions above 1920x1600? The only screens I use are 2560x1600 and 2560x1440.

Yup.

Welcome to the community ;) We are a fairly small bunch, but some of the users are massively knowledgeable. I suspect your profile will open up with time. Probably one of the SPAM filters...

If the sound quit when you hooked up the HDMI monitor, check your default audio device. It may have switched to the HDMI...

I use Firefox because it was the first one I used after IE and haven't had a reason to switch. Because I am familiar with it I recommend it to my friends and clients just because it is easier for me to support.

Looking to get a fairly comprehensive service manual for my cars. One is an '09, and the manual is available. The other is an '11 with direct fuel injection and a dual-clutch gearbox. I can't find a reputable service manual for it anywhere. Help?

Indeed. In Two Years Before the Mast he describes traveling the California coastline in the mid-1800s. The hardest part seems to be getting the goods the ~200 yards to the coast.

The road from Katmandu to Pokara is actually pretty similar to that. When I saw all the locals riding on the roof instead of inside, I first thought it was because that was cheaper. During the drive I realized it was so that they could jump off if they had to. You could see the shells of other...

The local one here is open 24-hours ;)

I don't always eat Taco Bell, but when I do, it's for breakfast.

JTR and Merc have it. Phone calls are more of an inconvenience for the person receiving the call than the person making it. E-mail is the opposite. For the truly clueless I'll either add my contact to their phone or write my phone number on the card (making them feel very special).

I'd have to think that you are making some security compromises if you are using the router part of this. If all you care about is using your wired computer (that has wifi) into another AP, it seems quite reasonable.

Nope. I just hit the "ignore" button about once a day.

One of the most profitable parts of my business is helping wealthy yet technically illiterate people get up to speed just enough that they aren't embarrassed. My most recent client does real estate and is succesful enough to own a Citation V but has an @aol.com email address and wants to be able...

I get asked for a card about once a week. I hand out probably one a month. On average, those who I've given a card are worth about $2500 to me over time. These cards cost about $2/ea in the small quantities I order, but are totally worth it IMHO. I'm having the guy who makes the paper (yes, that...

Stoked about my business cards. I've wanted cards without a phone number on them for ages. Letterpressed and thick enough to cut a steak. ;)

Yup. Causing trouble already; able to grab and pull stuff. She loves eye glasses and keyboards most of all.

I completely stripped down a ThinkPad E-something today. Even though this is a massively cheap model, it was still built like a tank.

Random giggling baby video. Mainly to test out some gear:

I'd assume the easiest way to measure that is with a modified cord between the supply and the tape? It has pre-wired barrel connectors, so I'd need to get an extension and open up the wiring? The outside of the house has these all the way around. Not dimmable at all, but that is OK out there...

Nope. No cats at the house yet. Just a bag with the lid open.

My favorite way to help eliminate software as an issue is to boot to another OS. Linux is the obvious choice, but there are bootable Windows disks on the shady side of the internet as well.

I also also like that, depending on the source and destination, it will queue some file copies/transfers until the first completes. Not sure how it determines which is faster, but it seems to be pretty clever.

Finally managed to do an entire room at home with LEDs. Specifically: These LED tape lights (under the bed and above the acoustic panels) and these LED Floods (for the cans). Now the question: At the moment, I'm powering the LED tape with this power supply (non-dimmable). What I need is one...

The high-end inkjets separate the ink from the heads, and can be semi-reasonable on the consumables. The time to first page will beat any laser as well. I have a bunch of the HP OfficeJet Pro units.

They already do. Depending on the manufacturer and segment, up to 25%+ extra.

I have run into that before, headphone out from HDMI in.

Wow, I've never put that kind of time into teaching folders. The most successful method I've tried so far is when they've recently purchased a digital camera. Pictures are so obviously "things" that need organization. Typically I start by creating the folder structure and teaching them just how...

Those are all good ones. Files and folders are hard, but I feel that it is massively important. When I got users to navigate through the network drive to their file rather than opening Word (it it was a Word Doc) and using the "recent" list, it saved me a dozen calls a week. And once they are...

I've started refusing to give step-by-step directions. As mentioned above, interfaces change too much for that to be useful. Fortunately, people are beginning to understand that computer knowledge is important, and possibly that their future employ-ability depends on it. Instead I talk about...

Changed my mind again to go with the Aputure V-Control (cheaper still, looks like the same functionality).

They had one with a blemish for $189. Should be here Monday.

I've been doing a lot of narrow-DOF baby and animal photography lately. This last time I brought a Dell 30" monitor and hooked it up as an awesome live-view for focus, and it was a revelation. Next up is some way to have my assistant pull the focus while watching the screen while I concentrate...

Awesome info. So tempted.

Thanks for the link, Coug. I know you said they ship only to the states, but how did you find out about them? Any personal experience?

I would be tempted to run Win8.1 natively on a MacBook Air 11"...that is some sexy hardware.

Indeed. But those are free and therefore partially excused by me. That I paid for a product and that company now saddles me with additional labor to maintain that product (removing their other crap when my users update) is unacceptable.

Sometimes, but this time we went up to his place to grab a bite to eat and watch the game. He has excellent season tickets and the game was happening 50 miles away, but I had to go back to work after.

My favorite trick is to find the cheap brand equivalent of the expensive brand (Denon and Marantz have many models that are just branded differently).

The GTX's are technically cast aluminum and polycarbonate ;)

If a product has a shiny black plastic surface the odds of its quality being poor is fairly high.

That is the monitor I buy when I'm not buying U24xx ;)