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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...

I've enjoyed my S5 so far. Better screen and faster than the S3 that it replaced. The fingerprint reader is easy enough to use that I've "secured" my phone for the first time.

Tesla P85D beating a Lamborghini Aventador to 80MPH. Awesome. http://youtu.be/0e-jquwHKtI

If it was in an enclosure and removed quickly enough perhaps the water didn't get to the drive? The shock from the impact might also have caused damage if it wasn't straight into the water.

I thought everyone had agreed that RAID-5 was basically useless for modern drives? RAID-6 was marginal with at least -10 recommended?

Just mute your phone on the conference call. I find a direct relationship between how noisy a keyboard is and how much I like using it.

The higher-end Synology boxes support SSDs for caching, you don't think that will be enough? 2*800 + 4*1800 = 8.8TB. You might be able to go with fewer features but a solid block of SSDs (not the DC Pro, but many others could be had for <$10k).

Similar. Most importantly they have enough drives to provide legit aggregate data (as opposed to the anecdotes that we can offer).

My public high school diploma laughs at you ;)

I found your next avatar. These systems are capable of identifying other cars and specifically excluding them from the beam. Having a hard time figuring out how this could be any more obnoxious than even old-fashioned headlights.

The other consideration is the size of the heatsink you plan to fit in there. Many of the newer designs are huge.

I've never experienced that kind of failure either, but I think you have done all the things. I'd be comfortable passing on your diagnosis at this point.

My Corsair AX1500i is big, but still only 225mm.

I thought OLED was old tech now that quantum dots was a thing?

For companies below 6 users with little turnover, I've gotten rid of centrally managed anything. NAS usernames and passwords are managed independently of workstations. More complex solutions simply aren't worth it if they only have one or two staff changes a year.

I'd say 7 years. I worked for them 8 years ago ;) Edit: Make that 14 and 15 years, respectively. Damn I'm old.

I almost added a rib at the end that you wouldn't be interested until it dropped to a crazy low price. The price I was going to use was $500 :p

I just ordered a second 4k 32" screen. If the 5k were at least 32" I would have ordered that instead.

I have no experience with that unit, but is there a reason you aren't just using the onboard controller?

The ideal monitor for JTR has arrived. 5120x2880 (5k) in a 27" package. Cheapest I can find it is $2100 though.

Thanks for the article, sharing elsewhere...

I've lost 15lbs since I started riding again, but that was the easy part. The next 2.5 stone will be harder.

The other one I hear all the time is that download is the word for the file they are downloading and the destination on the device where the downloads go.

You are lighter than I, but considering your archaic unit, that is merely a guess. At this point I am almost exactly 100kg.

I'm always a fan of positive-pressure cases. Prioritize intakes, particularly if they are filtered.

The guideline I used to hear was 1x RAM for swap. Because of the crazy amounts of RAM on the systems I use (this one has 64GB), I usually set it to 0.5x RAM.

3AM once or twice a week isn't bad at all. Been doing that for 20+ years.

As stated previously, I'm 100% happy with the ASUS options. The X99 Deluxe I have at home has one M2 port on the motherboard and includes a PCIe card that will hold another one. It has tons of overclocking features (that I've only dabbled in) and everything has just worked in Win8.1.

Reset the BIOS and remove the fish.

My Samsung Note 10.1 2014 in an Otterbox has survived my daughter for 3 weeks now. Really impressed.

More entertainment than information, but I'm sure you took it in the correct way. ;)