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A friend destroyed his very expensive color laser the other day by feeding glossy photo paper into it; the wax layer melted all over a bunch of rollers.

Test Drive Unlimited.

Caught Bozo, Doug is next ;) I just looked, and I'm the 1000th highest PPD user at the moment. Cool ;)

Rule #2 is that if you don't complete your thought, no-one can disagree with you. ;)

TDU2 is a massive f*cking disappointment. I enjoyed TDU so much, I bought it three times, and completely beat it (driving every road on the island) twice! I logged massive hours on that game not because it was the best graphically, but because the loosely tied together gameplay gave me actual...

Strangely enough, this isn't a real Thai restaurant. The owner is Chinese and the cook is Mexican. The best dishes on the menu are Chinese/American. They didn't choose to make it a Chinese restaurant because, at least in this area, Chinese = cheap.

Neither do I. Though I did just have the best vodka I've had in my entire life, and it was Japanese? I don't remember the name, but it was absolutely clean and super sharp.

Now that I've moved back to my home town, this place has become a regular hangout. Now they try to poison me. I stop by for lunch; orange chicken and pot stickers, and I get home at 6PM after having 3 glasses of wine, 2 shots of vodka, and 3 shots of tequila. None of which I ordered or paid for...

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DVD players are the only ones good for beer.

Today was 75F, right now (11PM) it is 43F. 70F in one day would be crazy.

I was at SFO, having just returned from China, when it was stolen. I was leaving for Buenos Aires the next day. And this was post-9/11. A company arranges for you to go to the office where passports are processed, and a guard walks you from desk to desk as they put it together. Kinda neat, really.

Getting a passport is an identity theft protection measure. It is much harder for someone to request a replacement than request the first one. Or so said a buddy at the FBI that does such things.

That is interesting. I've moved a whole bunch of domains to Google Apps. Many still have the DNS hosted elsewhere, while new acquisitions use Google for everything. Give me a test account to send to and I'll test from some other Google Apps domains.

Still mid-60's and sunny here :shrug:

I had to rush my last passport. Several thousand dollars not including the flight to Washington DC. But got it in 4 hours ;)

The Android 3 tablets should start showing up at the end of the month.

Ah, well I'm just doing GPUs at the moment, so I don't think that will work for me. Thanks for the tips though ;)

Got mine consistently over 35k PPD, will do some more tinkering soon. Handruin is still plucking away with these massive 60k+ hits. What is causing your spikes?

That is beautiful. I'll need to talk to this guy...

Funny you mention construction, I work for a medium-sized construction company (<500 employees), and my client is a small general contractor (crew of 5 if the job is big enough).

For the record, I found it by Googling the IP address (66.151.1.51)

I will play with that. At the moment, this user has about 600GB of data on a generic NAS that is being duplicated via a script to another generic NAS in another building.

I haven't played with Windows 7 Libraries at all. Do you have a recommendation on where to start learning?

I'm helping a friend take his very small company paperless. How small? He does all the paperwork at night himself, and Quickbooks is the financial product of choice. I'm thinking of setting him up with this scanner to supplement the flatbed (without ADF) that he already has. We'll also need a...

And I'm guessing that they are correct. Will you be served with the papers, or is your employer (wherever they are) going to get them?

My X201 is under that weight, and is pretty far from a netbook ;)

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I had a 12-channel 3Ware IDE raid array. That was a cabling nightmare.

I have several Logitech G15s. Black keys, backlit amber. Integrated LCD that will give the time and CPU/RAM usage. The Esc is not on the top row, but buttons above it are flush with the chassis, so easy to ignore. However, it is also not on the left column, and that took a few weeks to find...

Not complaining about the walk, it is a beautiful day today (68F and sunny). We just ended up at the more expensive place next door ($40 instead of $12). And, of course, the Cold Stone Creamery on the way home ;)

My wife and I walked downtown for lunch today (about 2 miles each way). When we got to our destination (burger joint), it was closed for the super bowl. Grr.

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I have some 19" rackmount power strips (plugs on the back, one always on plug and a switch on the front) that I've used to separate my stuff into groups. Nothing fancy or expensive, but it does a good job with the distribution and looks clean.

Yeah, I know. I'm in charge of several home automation/home lighting/whole house audio systems. Ne Hochu. The things they all have in common: 1. Massive cost 2. Technology lock-down (what they offer is what they offer, when the next thing comes out, buy their new system) 3. Custom specific...

I'm not an EE ;) Just because it's normal doesn't make it crazy.

My Kill-a-Watt is on a job at the moment ;)

I'm trying to keep to the most basic, standardized systems possible. I have enough custom UIs and dedicated software management apps already. I just want a cable from A to B.

Good to see you theSwede! That is just crazy.

My thoughts are that time's calculations above are about right for a non-OC'd system, so 500W would be about right once I turn this thing up. Adding some more drives and another GPU would make this PSU ideal.

There are speakers in the ceiling in the bedroom, driven by an amp in the equipment closet. These speakers don't quite have the low-end I would like, so I want to add a sub. The only place to put it is under the bed, which has a 7" clearance. I would also like to have the option of feeding the...

These systems haven't put "put away" yet. They are still just a bunch of parts sitting on the desk below the monitor and behind the keyboard. I was just sitting back, looking around, and noticed the spec on the PSU. The advantage to the new ones I have coming is they are 80%+ efficient at 50%...

What additional info would you like?

Thoughts?

Looking to get a stereo line-out from the bedroom to the amp in the equipment closet, and get the signal for the subwoofer back to the room. I have a pair of CAT5 cables to do it. Is this what I'm looking for? What is the difference between the top three items? Is there something better I...

I don't have the equipment to test what the components are drawing or what the PSU is putting out, but I'm typing on "home1" right now with F@H (GPU only), Pandora, and Battlefield 2 minimized. This system hasn't crashed since I un-OC'd it last weekend.

Awesome.

The only card beyond my bank's debit is an AMEX. Their protections/services have saved my ass countless times (once literally, in Nepal).

The 580 is a monster for points, and I got the OC'd Gigabyte card with the aftermarket cooler, so it is much quieter at full throttle than the 570. It doesn't exhaust the heat out the case, but mine aren't in a case, so that isn't an issue.

;) With all the cold there, surely you could use some more space heaters...