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Does owning Canon and Nikon stuff complicate things as much as I imagine it would? Vendor lock-in is pretty brutal in dSLR kit.

I actually kinda like it. I suppose if you are the type to use the word gauche, it isn't for you ;) Not sure how much noise a drive would make with the sophisticated suspension system, but I did pick a low-power card with a quiet cooling system for a reason. This chassis with it's two 120mm door...

Allow me to complicate the story. He had a computer, he also had a wife. He no longer has a wife, and he only had 45 minutes of access to the computer. He did use iTunes (though the account was hers), and many of the songs were purchased from there. I've managed to talk him out of going that...

Wow. The NIC driver needs to be installed from the CD. While I was there I noticed Acrobat Reader and decided I could skip the download. The disk still has version 5.0 (!).

Helping a friend who has a boatload of WMA files from iTunes and a non-WMA capable MP3 player. Looking for a way to convert all of them, preserving the structure and the metadata. This one will do the data conversion, but one folder at a time and without metadata. Thanks in advance....

A picture of a skull on the board? With LEDs integrated into it (eyes flash with HDD activity). BIOS control of brightness (you can disable the whole thing). Who took control of Intel? They've gone nuts...

Pleasantly surprised at how well this one turned out, considering the only part I've even seen before was the optical. Antec LanBoy Air Intel i7 860 (2.8Ghz) 4x 2GB Kingston Intel DP55KG HIS 5770 IceQ 5 RevoDrive 180GB Seasonic X-400 Fanless (80 Plus Gold) SATA Optical The real standout so far...

Just finished the build in the LanBoy Air. Friggin' awesome case. 1. Very easy to work in. 2. Looks great. 3. Very fast build time, even with reconfiguration. Downsides: 1. Some of the bits are standard case faire, and clash with the slick looks and blacked out screws. 2. Additional reconfig...

Absolutely. Google Apps.

Same

Lanboy Air.

I've always said the letters "s" "l" "i". That chassis does look awesome, just ordered one to check out.

I've always said the letters "s" "l" "i". That chassis does look awesome, just ordered one to check out.

Running an HP laptop with a WD drive? You like to live dangerously....

The next time this system scales, it will be getting another 180GB Revo for a RAID-0 of RAID-0 SSDs. That should be interesting. It also doesn't require a cabling/mounting mess (there isn't even a secondary power connection!).

Specifically, something that can send/receive/edit files with MS Word. I know of Pages, but according to everything I can find, there is no compatibility with the Office or ODF stack, so it is useless.

Speaking of, I just took delivery of a 180GB RevoDrive. Short blurb soon.

4x 64GB C300 and an LSI RAID card is $700. 240GB REVODrive is $600. The main reason I like the integrated solution is because it is easy and clean to install without requirements on the chassis or PSU.

Compared to a single SSD the speed is superior, compared to a DIY RAID the price/ease of use is superior.

I don't think so. I'd bet that Newegg and the other super-high volume resellers know exactly where the optimum packaging level is. Not for best drive life, but for highest profit.

That is funny, but long. This is 30 minutes long, but quite good.

How much does it cost to pack/ship a drive like that?

My plan was as follows: 1. Sync all machines with XMarks 2. Install Firefox Sync 3. Sync with FS 4. Uninstall XMarks That should do it, yeah?

Thanks for the heads-up. That was a great and very candid summary of their history.

neat.

183 has some basic improvements re fan placement and some wire guide clips. 193 is considerably larger, including side fan and (iirc) a second top fan.

No problems here.

Cleaned that up for you, Lunar ;)

Modern SSDs on modern OSes have TRIM automatically, I don't need to buy software to get it. Defrag is useless on SSDs, as the drive can access any point on the drive in the same amount of time; there is no benefit to having the data adjacent to the previous bit. As a matter of fact, it is...

Those are all so amazingly cheap, now I remember why I used to build AMD systems...

Look on the bright side. If you need a serial port, it has one!

That was my point. Defrag is useless in SSDs. Trying to sell a defrag app to SSD owners is like trying to sell tsunami insurance to folks in Ohio. Nothin' but a scam.

But...why would you want to?

10-4

I walk to work, but my travel to other sites averages 100+mi/day.

4.2GB IIRC.

126 meters ;) My new house is 13 miles away, so I'll be limited to 150Mbps point-to-point wireless with a 4' dish.

Civ V is downloading now. I'll be back in a couple weeks ;)

My (current) place is connected with Gigabit Fiber to my office. The office has a pair of T1s and a wireless backup in a load balanced config.

With no bandwidth cap? There must be some brutal TOS. Makes my $500/mo T1 look even worse.

That it crashes? Or that it can't handle processing subfolders? Both seem fairly relevant.

Nope. DPP crashes if it's working while I'm doing other stuff, and doesn't seem to perform very well. I use CS5.

Steam is useful, and it is evil (same as Facebook IMHO). I have given in to Steam because I like near-instant gratification and hate going to physical stores. I have avoided Facebook because I don't like people as much as I like games.

Threw in some meteorites as well. Awesome.

If you were to locate the folders correctly, you could have it process a main folder that contained your three subfolders. That would cause it to process them sequentially. No?

With a parachute of course. Though you would want to avoid all the high-tension wires holding it up.

I would feel considerably more comfortable at that height with a hangglider or parachute than with a 30lb toolbag attached to me.

Yeah. The tallest I have to climb regularly is 75'. Even at that height, the movement in the wind is considerable.

Way ahead of you. Already replaced the breakers I'm using in the old box with GFCI, repaired (or should I say, installed) the grounding system, repaired the tool, and repaired the extension cord. Other than blackened fingers with little blisters, I'm fine. The breaker is already quite broken...

Wow. 7D with flash? Do you have the latest firmware?