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I am advising everyone to avoid BB due to a very shaky/questionable future. I am recommending Android-based phones, due to their pending dominance in the marketplace, and the abundance of apps. I've sworn off Nokia and Motorola phones due to reliability/stability issues. HTC seems to be doing...

Other than health care, what cost has grown rapidly since we had a surplus (mid-90s?). Granted, not paying for a bunch of wars was a huge chunk as well, but at least that could go away.

I won't upgrade to it intentionally, but if someone buys one of the rigs I'm using now, it just might happen.

Maybe?

I think you mean "hear" ;)

I actually never have had to.

I was thinking of you guys while I watered my lawn.

Looks like Google just limited the free version to 10 users rather than 50. Though they told my my old accounts will still have the 50 user limit.

Now that I am not building systems for a living, I can be much more unprofessional about it. I try to sell people the rigs that I've been using. This often leaves me on my laptops until I get the cash and order another one, but that is fine. Barring that, I get them to order the parts on Newegg...

It was in there somewhere, I haven't had to look in years.

Nice. I cap my users at 25 people at a time. If they want to send to more than that, they can get me to do it or do it in batches.

Yeah...no.

Yesterday was another all-time-high for the team*! Congrats! *(and me)

Kingston DT Ultimate 64GB (USB3) Sequential Read : 91.065 MB/s Sequential Write : 66.021 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 74.923 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 61.893 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 5.428 MB/s [ 1325.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KB...

A lot of the time we won't spell out the complete name of a lens. When you do it (most recently "24 TSE II" and "24/1.4G"), I often have to hit the Google to know exactly what lens you are talking about, what bodies it is compatible with, and how much it costs.

I'll try to do the CF cards tonight.

That would be great. Thanks for volunteering, Lunar ;)

Kingston DT Ultimate 64GB (USB2)

Yeah Paugie, I often have to Google to find out which lens people are referring to. If you use Firefox, you can just double-click to highlight the word, then right-click and choose "Search Google for "xxx"". Works great ;)

Does this belong in the Lenovo thread?

The Continental ContiExtreme Contact was the OEM for my car, and it is way noisier than the Pirelli P-Zero Nero M+S that I'm running at the moment. That is an old tire, and I was hoping that something better would have come along by now.

Those are the ones I'm considering for my car. My main concern with them is road noise. How do they compare to what you had before?

That is neat. I'll have to give it a try.

I'd agree that pulling data and blowing it away is the prudent move at this point, though trying to figure it out can be fun if you have the time.

Greg, that will be considerably faster than the CF-51.

Today the weather was sketchy, but went flying anyway. Wanted to get a bunch of touch-n-gos in with a strong crosswind, and no one else was flying so I had the pattern to myself. Local restrictions keeping us above 1300ft and clouds at 1700ft, good fun.

I recently considered the Ultras for a RAID array. With the number of ports available on modern motherboards and the advanced redundancy options available, it can't be worth the money.

So it is. I guess my brain just didn't wrap around the thought of an 8GB file re-creating itself.

I think it's Linux LiveCD time. IIRC, there is also a tool that will move files on reboot, but that would be less reliable I suspect.

Thanks Lunar. I put on the monkey suit and do that probably once a month. I'll probably get that lens, once I offload the 17-40/4.

Yeah, I was trying my 35/2, but that was too long when the place got crowded and I had to get closer to my subjects. That is when I switched to the 17-40/4. Considering all this camera gear is paid for out of pocket, I don't see myself leaving Canon (and all my existing gear) any time soon.

I was the only authorized photographer, as I knew many of the attendees socially. Depending on who is there, how much it costs, and what it is about, it can become sensitive. That would be another benefit of a shallow DOF; some people are not to be photographed.

Lunar @ 7k! Thanks for all of your insight and advice (especially the stuff I don't listen to ;))

I don't do much shopping, so I can't help there.

Chinese Restaurants are famously open on holidays.

The 'dude said it. There were enough variations that they started getting acromyms.

Not an option. Event organizers specified no flash. Nope. I'll buy what I can to do what I can. I doubt that will stop at 25600 ;)

An excellent looking unit.

Yeah, I'm not actually a fan of TOS, but we are doing it in chronological order, so it is next.

I have quite a few of the cheapest Thinkpad in the field. They seem to be holding up quite well, with good build quality. Not up the spec of my X201 or T410, but nice machines.

It was actually alright. I liked it, my older, geekier friends didn't. My wife (who had never seen any Star Trek before) liked it. We're now going to make our way through TOS and then some of the movies.

If you were to show someone some Star Trek TOS episodes who had only seen the most recent movie (the prequel). What would they be? I'll be doing "The Cage" and "Where no Man has Gone Before" because they are "the beginning", but after that?

I was doing photography of an event at night. Close quarters, very poor lighting, no flash. Not candid per se, but not posed either. The people in the background were out of my control and quite possibly not in a flattering pose. Fast is important due to the poor lighting, but I would love to...

I don't believe so. At least I couldn't find it.

A user of mine is trying to e-mail someone. That person insists that they aren't getting them. They had successfully received them in the past, but starting about a month ago they "stopped". I use Google Apps, and haven't changed anything on my end. Today confirmed that they received a...

Just confirm that your main build will boot with the other drives removed. Then boot into a Linux LiveCD and kill off the folders that you want.

I believe we did. I've always found troubleshooting compatibility issues with it not worth the hassle.

So three copies of Win7, one of which you want to keep? Just modify the Boot.ini and pull the other drives (don't wipe them yet, just in case, just pull them).

It is of course an absolute worst case scenario. But the current generation tech requires tolerances and QC on the cutting edge. How far back would they have to go for a run-down production line in some third-world country to be able to knock them out reliably for $25?

...but if someone were to walk into an abandoned HDD space, it would be some bare-bones company with no QA knowledge at all. Welcome back to 100GB drives with 14ms access times and a super low MTBF.