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Mom. I was on baby duty until 2AM, then woke up at 5AM to start setting up the course and closing roads. Finished clearing the roads by 10PM and was back on baby duty until 2AM again. Then on Sunday I moved us out of our house and into the garage and demo'ed 1200sq.ft. of flooring so the new...

I removed one of the drive bays just because. At the moment it is housing 3x 3TB (RAID-0) and the 512GB 840 Pro The P180 was my previous "favorite case", but this beats it by a mile. It also costs nearly triple the price. 10% on the computer case is not unreasonabe.

Pre-OC the Win8 Performance score is 8.1 (tied but for graphics, 8.5)

The Corsair Obsidian 900D is by far the best case I've ever worked in. The Gigabyte GA-G1.SNIPER 5 just disappears inside of it, with room above for a 3x140 or 4x120 radiator and fans in both push and pull. There is also room for a full row of cable management openings below the MB and two rows...

Haven't ridden in almost two weeks. Was busy organizing and running a Crit in my hometown. That was a massive PITA. (PDF)

We are trying to help inform people, mentioning iThings doesn't help ;)

Yup, than something about "refining bath-salts", shooting his neighbors dogs, and possibly his neighbor.

Most of the phones I've used ask once during the setup phase. I'd love to know where that setting is. Also how to actually merge contacts instead of just "link" them (limit to 10 linked accounts).

I think the case was just vague and messy enough, and him just famous enough, to avoid it going anywhere. He does seem to be quite the character, though.

Don't be silly, he's rich ;)

In my experience, most of the non-consumer items you listed make a machine slower for most single user/single task applications.

Switches are expensive, but I don't mind fooling with multiple NICs. Getting better speed to my NAS would be nice, particularly once 4k video starts getting more common.

Anything over 100MB/s I consider maxing the GbE. Can't wait for 10Gb to start shipping on gaming boards.

I tend to get some gaming done at the office ;)

So I think Everything is in the Amazon Shopping Cart: Corsair Obsidian 900D Gigabyte GA-G1.SNIPER 5 Intel i7-4770 Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB 2400MHz (2) EVGA GeForce GTX Titan SuperClocked 6GB Samsung 840 Pro 512GB Corsair AX1200i PSU Corsair H100i Liquid CPU Cooler Corsair SP120 Quiet...

Indeed. That is a very expensive way to do it. SSDs are a great deal if you are measuring in IOPS.

It is a really good idea in my opinion. Running independant physical servers usually leads to tons of underutilized hardware. Going Virtual allows you to minimize waste. But it also means that bottlenecks in the hardware will become an actual issue. HDD IO is a significant bottleneck...

New spin: Dad just got a gig rewriting the Corsair Link software, So I told him I'd need some more gear handy for testing/etc. If I use the Corsair H100i cooler (and Obsidian 900D for easy mounting), Corsair AX1200i PSU along with Corsair Dominator CMD32GX3M4A2400C10 memory (32GB@2400), that...

Yup. Haven't been able to actually see combat yet, but the UI is really intuitive for the whole multi-planet thing. The math on the back-end for making it all work right must be intense.

Not playable yet. Only about 30 seconds before a crash.

Looks great. Downloading the Alpha now....thanks!

Nah, clock speed is too important to go anywhere but top end (3.5, maybe 3.4). The OC is optional, so I might skip the "K" part to get the other features. Coug, that system would be too noisy. I suspend folding when I am in the office, so it only needs to be quiet when near idle. I think the...

Less than I was thinking, and less than the Shimano Ui2 system I was looking at. Of course, I'd need to price in the price of the rest of the wheel and having it built.

Haswell-E looks interesting, but not soon enough. Same with Ivy-E Sandy-E doesn't have the clock speeds I'd like. Cores is nice, but many of the things I do are still mostly single-threaded.

Awesome.

My main rig (in my sig under Work1) has found a buyer. I have a couple weeks to build a new system for myself. From what I can tell, the CPU to get is the 4770K (unless there is some awesome overclockable Xeon I'm not aware of). I still like Gigabyte boards, so the G1.Sniper 5 seems the...

That is sexy. Can't find a price anywhere, and I suspect it is way outside of my range. The US distributor is a 3-hour drive away (Berkeley) so it wouldn't be tough to take the bike up there and have them fit it.

My cassette is a 11-28, and I long for my 12-32 on most days. Beyond 25% grade I can't sit at all in 39-28. The local monster climb means standing for 30+ minutes at a time; not efficient. I wouldn't mind larger gaps between the gears; my useful range is pretty large at this point. Putting a...

And that is the ugly, local ride. My Saturday ride through Pebble Beach is probably the prettiest in the country. Once you start going over 15-20 miles you really need a proper road bike and some appropriate clothing (padding/breathing). Otherwise you will not be enjoying yourself. Once you get...

I set up routes with climbs because it punishes me for my extra weight (probably 25 extra pounds at the moment, 220 total). Of course, that does lead to some awesome downhills. It seems I'm cadence limited at about 49mph (50 in front, 11 in the rear). Might be time to switch to a standard in front.

If all you want is a backup solution, just go for USB and use the computer it is connected to to "pull" the data from the various machines. Centralized management is a good thing. If you want to step up to a NAS and centralized storage, I really like the Synology products. Of course at that...

Tonight's ride with some pictures. Haven't built up the nerve to ride with my DSLR, and I like posting pictures to FB while I'm riding (another way to encourage people to ride with me), so I bought a Canon S110 with WiFi. Pairs directly to my phone in the field...

You can boot the mSATA and have a pair of HDDs. As Merc said, it will draw considerable power.

No idea. It may be limited but I thought that the main determining factor was the GPU, which is on the CPU, and certainly does support higher resolutions.

Pretty sure that onboard DVI connector is a dual-link? If so, all you would need is a dual-link cable.

Thermal Interface Material?

Nice call Tannin. Only thing different from my latest is to put an SSD in the laptop and a big disk in the expansion bay. Actually, the ultrabay usually contains a battery, but the drive is there if I need it.

That is a very good pace with lots of climbing. That is your regular route?

I am, I haven't, and I should. Backups are the thing now; everyone can do visualization well enough.

Thanks y'all. All my 8-week-old got me was (another) dirty diaper.

Today's top speed, 43.4mph. Nice pace all-round.

All else being equal, I'd rather have my allocated 50GB right now than need to max the connection 24/7 for the entire month.

De-soldered the IDE connector and put another one on. Copying files now. The new PCB arrives Monday. Oh, well.

When connecting the drive directly to a native IDE port the machine halts before completing post. It first shows the drive, and it passes a SMART test in the BIOS, but halts on a blank screen (sometimes with a blinking cursor) when attempting to boot with the drive connected.

Ordered. Not quite an exact match (P/N after the "-" is different), but we will see. Very reasonable price.

Hmm.... http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-ST3200826A-9Y7289-301-05510-06380/dp/B006KW8JU0/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1371156906&sr=1-1&keywords=9Y7289

IIRC, it would need to be an exact drive, no? The only similar drive I have is the 400GB equivalent.

It has been a long time since I've had a drive with critical data fail without a backup. This one wasn't my responsibility before now, but I told them I would try to get it back. IDE Barracuda 7200.8 200GB User attempted to install an additional drive, and in doing so temporarily disconnected...

Insurance card and a RoadID bracelet (I can offer a discount to anyone interested). I use Strava to track my rides, and Glympse to keep my wife posted on my location.

I feel much better doing my long bike rides with a cellphone. I do ride with a toolkit and a couple bucks, but being able to call the wife and be picked up when things go bad just makes for a more pleasant day.