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I've purchased 3 of the 3TB USB3.0 drives, and none have come with a card. Of course, all my Gigabyte motherboards already have at least one 3.0 port.

I've heard of it, but always decided to just get a DSLR instead. Let me know how it goes.

Nope. The website tells you to call customer service. Customer service asks you a bunch of questions, then tells you to call their transaction resolution hotline. The hotline asks you a bunch of questions, then tells you to hold for a rep, then tells you that no reps are available and hangs up...

Nice article. When I was there, I was stunned at the depth of the escalators. Particularly those around the river. And in weeks of riding them many times a day, I never encountered an escalator that wasn't working and completely packed.

I log into my bank account every day to check transactions (thank you mint.com). Just noticed a transaction I didn't make dated today for ~$2800. Turns out BofA customer service claims department is only open business hours. Strike one.

Company Christmas lunch. I also had two going in the oven, but those aren't as exciting.

I'll be getting a batch of upgrades during Intel's next high-end refresh. Not a 980X, but whatever is faster after that. It's a shame I can't find a way to run the client on a VM on a production ESXi server using only the idle cycles.

If I were to buy one at the moment, it would be the Archos 10.1". But I think I'll still wait for 3.0. Any ETAs out there?

Yup. There shouldn't be much seek action, so anything will do. Depending on your CPU (or GPU if the software supports it), even a 2.5" 7.2k would keep up.

Just finished frying a 13lb turkey and and cooking another in a paper bag on the grill. In the rain.

Doesn't look like it yet. I really want a larger screen, and something with some more power that would be upgradeable to 3.0 would be nice.

That was only 3.5 hours ago. You have sobered up that quickly? (kidding)

Just happened again, and I got more info this time. After some interrogation, this is common with all three instances: User was prompted for some form of Adobe update while using Firefox. Update succeeded, but internet was immediately inaccessible. I really don't want to rebuild this machine.

You might consider a network-enabled surveilence camera instead. They can sit directly on your network and upload images to an FTP on their own. I have no direct experience with any of them.

I've been lusting after some of these for quite a while.

Assigning disks to folders gets really complicated really quickly. It leads to things like a volume having free space but a folder being full. Not good for organization, IMHO. Dynamic Disks will survive most anything, including system upgrades and swaps.

No doubt, though this could be said for most of the tech world. At $100, I'll get another before 6 months are up ;)

I've had my share of disappointments with tablets, specifically the iPad, but I do see a place for them near the couch, breakfast table, or toilet.

No idea if the WHS client app will install. I can try it out if you like. 2003 or 2008?

Looks like there are a few out there now, and at some fairly amazing price points. Is anyone here considering one? Maylong 7" - $100 Augen Gentouch 7" - $180 Zenithink 10" - $260 I would love a larger (14-17") for the coffee table, but that would bump the price considerably.

That is a heck of a price to pay to try to keep information away from a company that is a world leader in gathering information. Personally, I'd rather trust Google with my credit card info than random-dude-on-the-net.

Does the unit support 3rd party firmware like DD-WRT or Tomato?

Indeed. And a lot of it involves a webcam. *cough*chatroulette*cough*

But far more likely that my estimation of humans in general will decrease. I'd prefer to remain optimistic.

Talking to a human? No thanks. ;)

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...