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Fantastic. You will make my wife quite happy ;)

Nearly. 1. Read from a file called names.xls 2. Generate folders A-Z 3. Rename a different file, "Master Competency.xlsx" and put it in the folders. What you are going now is exactly right, except that the file I want copied is different than the file with the names.

Also, the file that needs to be copied is an .xlsx file with spaces in the name. Not sure if that matters or not...

Handruin, Finally got to testing yours...seems to be missing something? I'm trying to copy and rename an excel spreadsheet, but not the one with the names...a different one. There doesn't seem to be room for an argument that would specify the file to be copied. It does function exactly as...

I don't know, but I'll be able to tell you in a few days. A customer's multimedia data needs are growing darn quick; he now has 3 3TB USB drives and is beginning to worry about backups. He still has the originals, so backups aren't strictly necessary, but he's beginning to appreciate the time...

I have quite a few of the 120mm and 80mm Noctua fans, and am quite happy with them. I didn't get their 140mm fans because I couldn't set them on edge and have them stay up.

Thanks Coug. Have any of the reputable companies come out with anything larger? There is basically no static pressure, straight CFM at low noise is ideal.

My new coffin can utilize 140mm or slightly larger fans. Haven't found any that I really like yet, but I'm running with 4 of these at the moment.

I haven't needed any in a while, I actually have an OCZ RevoDrive and 40GB Intel that need a home...

Victoria City is beautiful. Salaries around here are pretty darned good, and the geek culture is so pervasive that you might be more comfortable in general.

Thanks Handruin!

That is exactly it.

The unemployment rate in Silicon Valley is back down to the single-digits for tech folks. I do think you would enjoy San Francisco or Santa Cruz.

You must be a very good customer to receive that kind of service!

Nope. Every copy of "sample.xls" will be identical, and contain a complete copy.

Not being able to solve this problem should cause my geek card to be revoked, but I can't figure it out. I have a spreadsheet ("names.xls") with a single column and a bunch of rows. Each cell contains text that includes spaces, numbers, commas, etc. What I need is to copy a file "sample.xls"...

You could make the USB drives Dynamic Disks and then make them a RAID-5 array, but Lunar is right, that is a sub-optimal solution.

I plan to put mine just below the roof in the attic. If I need to go on the roof I will reconsider the design.

I would go back to RAID-10. The IO loss would not sit well with me.

I had to Google both of those ;) My English-major family (both parents, grandmother and sister) would be most displeased.

I currently have a Winegard SS-3000 and it isn't working that well. Just ordered a Winegard MS-2000, we'll see how it goes. If need be I'll stick it on the roof.

I have a little one sitting next to the TV, and the signal is spotty on some channels. I'd like to just get a beast of an omni- in the attic and call it good.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-031-AK

I plan to, but she is also computer illiterate. That will take some time, and in the meantime I want her to have the familiar "channel up, channel down".

Nope. I can see the towers from my backyard. She is. But the perception is American TV to help her English.

I am considering it, but the house is not currently wired for Coax. To maximize speed of the Cable Internet connection, my modem is in the attic next to the eve of the house where it enters from the pole, connected directly to the wire Comcast came off the pole with. No splitters, no splices...

Wow. 20CM of x/y control would be pretty awesome.

I don't have cable or satellite, the internet treats me well. However, my mother-in-law will be staying with us for a couple months, and I would like to get her some normal TV. AntennaWeb tells me that I have a number of channels available from two towers nearby (44 and 148 degrees, 10-12...

The pole terminates behind the TV, 7 feet off the ground. And it is for my mother-in-law, so this is a good thing ;)

They say not 'til FF7 (~3mos)

No, there will be a pole coming down from the ceiling about 20", with the monitor mounted at a 15-degree down angle from there. The whole thing can rotate. I would have used an extending wall-mount, but the wall this is going next to isn't a real wall; just two layers of sheetrock dividing a...

I did need a macro rail, and this looks to do that and more.

1. Don't worry about it. 2. Dedicate a disk. There isn't that much of a performance hit just running in a virtual environment. The hit is multiple VMs beating on the same disk. Give a VM (or even just the database) it's own spindle (or better yet, SSD) and it will be more than happy.

Just got a Toshiba 42" LED-LCD TV for the back room. Using it as a monitor until the ceiling mount arrives. Very happy with it. Got it for a great price as well.

Smoothwall

The more expensive way is what I do...get bigger monitors. At work my primary is still a 42".

I completely agree, you did the right thing. Sometimes the wrong thing isn't so bad, though. Depends on the consequences, and of course you would know those better than the rest of us.

Windows 7 allows you to set whatever resolution you like. It will scale and look like crap, but for some reason they never notice or say anything, even if I point it out.

Cheers to Tannin for favoring us with over 4,000 posts in his primary account alone!

That is a lot of driving in circles, then ;)

Not saying it should have, just that it didn't. We were talking about toughened glass, and I set an upper bound ;)

30" might be a little big this location. Something in the 26-27" range with a native res of 1920x1080 and high image quality would be ideal. I suppose I could consider this Viewsonic 27" TV, but after my experience here I am tempted to go back to monitors.

Just one more negative thing to say about it; the lag is really bad. I would have blamed it on the PC or not noticed it at all, but having both screens mirrored off the HDMI splitter side-by-side makes it really apparent. Another attribute to look into when buying my next screen.

Newegg, just more trouble than it is worth. It will end up with a client I don't like so much who wasn't going to run it at default resolution anyway. It will likely be at 1280x720 knowing them.

I just tried setting it to the highest resolution in it's EDID (1600x1200) and it looks perfect at "16x9". The box doesn't say 1080p anywhere, but the manual clearly states "Optimal PC resolution is 1620x1080@60Hz". Looks like that simply isn't the case.

Right now I have it on an HDMI mirror with my ASUS monitor. It is being driven at 1920x1080 to the corners of the screen, but the interpolation is obvious. If I set it from "fit" to "16x9" (which I assume is the "1:1" setting), then it blows off all 4 edges of the screen about equally. Telling...

Looks like borked EDID info. I just did a firmware update on it with no luck. Any other tips?

The Motorola/Nextel i1 is supposed to have that, and it couldn't survive hitting the road at ~35mph.

Sounds like a great trip! Which continent?

Very cool Merc! Were i single, i woulda gone for sure.