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Thanks for checking that out.

Never before have I had such a hard time finding the price of an item. Behr Ultra "Ultra Pure White" Satin finish, 5Gal bucket All I can find is home depot online selling it by the 8oz sampler. That would be expensive and time consuming.

Certainly not a recipe for speed and stability, but these folks certainly know what they are doing and pulled it off.

OpenLeaks, a copycat organization founded by some of the WikiLeaks folks distancing themselves from Assange, has now been started. Soon there will be more, and competition to break the story and release more info than the others. This will lead to the dissemination of pretty much anything anyone...

The only issues I've had with Cable around here is that the modems they provide are crap. I'm ordering one of these for my house.

I suppose that depends on the app. We have an construction-industry-specific piece of software (Harddollar) that requires 3 2008 machines (DB, App, Web). Typically industry-specific stuff is the worst, but these machines have are only touched for software updates once every 6 months. It is all...

4 weeks shouldn't be an issue, particularly on a machine like that in those conditions. The built-in UPS may actually be a benefit. Just in case, you might want to configure the app to run on startup.

I wouldn't expect that kind of uptime from a laptop; they are thermal timebombs. I have yet to find one that can run indefinitely without thermal throttling or crashing. None of them seem to have enough cooling to do the job right.

The business Internet+Basic TV looks like a good deal. 22/5 for $105/mo.

Basically: 1. Build them right 2. Don't install anything you don't have to 3. Don't touch them unless you have to I would certainly be testing all these software programs on one machine, then nuke it for a clean install and just put on what finally decide on.

Not if you make it redundant. All the files may not be on the same drive, but all the files will be on at least two drives each.

My system at home (7 Ultimate x64) hasn't been rebooted in a couple months. I have some servers that have been up 1.95 years (bit late on some updates)

Something like this?

File-based replication, capacity expansion/reduction, mixed capacity drives. These are more user friendly and flexible than standard RAID configurations.

I have a number of clients on both DSL and Cable in the area. The best DSL plan will get you around 7mbps, Cable will do 42mbps down and 2mbps vs 15mbps up. Not sure why, but DSL just sucks around here.

Yup, not happy about it. But the speed difference compared to DSL is significant (in my area at least). I've heard that people have had good luck keeping their promotional pricing long-term if they make a bit of a stink, and all I want is internet, so we'll see how it goes.

Holy crap.

250GB is an awful lot.

I wouldn't worry about the wire strength, the electronics box will be in the attic directly overhead and I'll have complete access.

Really? If we were to have the flicker LEDs flicker independently, wouldn't we need an independent wire to each of them? How many and what gauge for the power LEDs?

I'm fairly certain I want everything in the chandelier to be low voltage DC, which would involve even more equipment in the attic and even more wires heating into the fixture.

I gotcha. You mentioned the flickering being out because of the dimmer. Could we make the flickering a seperate light mounted to the same fixture with an independent on/off switch?

Ah, yes, pictures. I'll do those tonight if I can. If we were using aluminum tubes for the candles, couldn't we run the wire inside the tube? The fixture is designed to take the wires inside the tube and then through the inside of the fixture to the top, if we can use small enough gauge.

That does look ideal. Now that the sheetrock is up, we can start to worry about this again. After looking more at the chandelier, I'm thinking it might be a better idea to put all the controls and electronics in the attic and feed power down to the LEDs in the unit. Would the extra wire length...

Just some neat pictures from a previous project JTR has done for me; LED lighting embedded in the bottle racks light the bottles from below. These pictures were taken during the day, and I'm not so good with a camera, and the chair was moved during an exposure, but you get the idea. Images on...

Reality does have a liberal bias...

From what I understand, the most recent batch of docs was released to a number of papers around the globe for analysis and redaction before anything was released. This means that the decision to release the docs was a fairly common one. If the press felt the need to release the docs as well (and...

? So knives are bad because they can stab people? Fire is bad because it burns down people's homes?

After doing battle with sales prices, price matching, and a massive stock shortage of some killer deals, this is what I will hopefully be ordering tomorrow.

Just ordered Comcast for the house. The rep kept trying to talk me into adding tv to my internet order and seemed amazed that I wasn't interested in any number of channels at any price.

This is an important point. Wikileaks is a tool; a way for people to anonymously publish information. A tool that performs this task is invaluable in modern society, corruption and cronyism exists at such high levels that no other technique will get this information out. The value of this...

There are special ends for solid cable, I use it for my outdoor antenna stuff.

No appreciable difference for GbE between 5e and 6. If there was a kink, the concern is that it damaged the cable, not that the kink slows communication. I would probably make a holes a bit bigger, and use great stuff to seal them up when you are installed.

Depends on the NIC, but Intel NIC software will give you stats WRT transmit errors.

Did you put the ends on in the correct order? The different pairs have a different number of twists per foot, making that significant.

That is awesome. Props to TSA and NYPD for not freaking out.

I'm a big fan of cutting spending on everything else as well, but if the Iraq war cost (conservatively) $3T+ and wasn't paid for, that is gross financial negligence.

Something like this?

I'll give it a shot when I get home, thanks.

Wow. That is absolutely nuts. Glad I only have to deal with 110 most of the time; it is only a minor annoyance.

I haven't gotten anything new since we last spoke about this.

Ultimate

See image. Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H57M-USB3 I'd like to use more than half my RAM.

Miss me yet?

Clinton had it fixed. That wasn't all that long ago...

Because we fought two wars without paying for them? Not particularly responsible, but one would hope that, had their been proper disclosure to the people, there wouldn't have been enough buy-in to get us there. Another argument for transparency.

Because working with your arms extended to a vertical work surface is as uncomfortable as working with your head bent looking at a horizontal work surface?

Not sure. I do occasionally hit the edit button instead of the quote button, but canceling doesn't make the "edited by" thingy show up.

I just eyeball them. Keeping the drive against the back rail, and "feeling" it in. I don't think I'm busting it up too badly; of course, anything plugged/unplugged enough times will break.

What are you mounting 2.5" disks into? What thickness of drive is expected? What drive are you using?