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Time for the shop vac. Just keep some distance, or you might suck components off the boards ;)

Extra depends on where you are terminating them. If you are mounting a rack to the wall, and it is unlikely to move in the future, I would just leave a few feet. In the rooms will you be terminating to wall jacks?

Nope. If you think sleeping with a small noise every 30 minutes is hard, try it with earplugs ;)

Frys I think? I don't know if it was intended to be baseboard, and it was a fairly cheap plastic, but it took paint and worked well.

Got a link? That sounds neat.

In my place I'm tearing down sheetrock everywhere and installing conduit. The last time I did it myself without opening the walls, I got a special baseboard that acted as a conduit.

Everything in moderation, including moderation. I am an incredibly light sleeper. So much so that I used to think I was an insomniac, as I could never fall asleep. Then I started staying in nice hotels on high floors. Related: has anyone here tried a sensory deprivation tank?

The screen is fixed and will be in a recessed area at the appropriate height. Due to our active lifestyle, we only watch movies at night. Thanks to everyone for your help.

The screen is already acquired and in use got nearly two years. I suppose I could buy a new one if this one was unsuitable in some significant way, but I'd rather not. The wall unit has yet to be completely designed, much less built, so other than the size and material (hardwood, wall to door...

Nothing good. But on a longer timeframe.

Wow. No?

Much of it beyond what is visible in the attachment is still up for grabs. The couch is facing a full-height wall unit approx 1' deep, including a 110" fixed projection screen and a bunch of drawers/cabinets/shelves whose layout has yet to be determined. The screen is not of the acoustically...

Working on it.

It is for the bedroom. Two purposes, to isolate noise (in and out) and to deaden the acoustics as much as possible inside the room.

My favorite is at our ready mix plants. Powdered cement gets in case, humid morning sets it off, repeat daily. It'll kill a computer in a couple months.

Me neither.

It is a 110" projection screen. It wouldn't fit over the fireplace, much less in it. So where are we with the speakers?

Some compromise is necessary, as it is the living room and not a dedicated theater. That doesn't mean I don't want something that sounds good within the envelope that has been defined by my wife. And putting the speakers on shelves is nothing compared to the obstacle that is the shape of the...

Thanks for all the feedback guys. If I can get away with shrinking the room 4" in each dimension, I'll be doing the 5/8+GG+5/8+1" Fiberglass+Fabric. Owens Corning is still the only supplier I can find whose fabric is large enough to do my bedroom ceiling seamlessly (14'x13').

8' :(

While I agree that it would seem to be an effective solution, I'm having a hard enough time selling the wife on a fabric that at least looks like a normal wall from a distance. I may end up having to going with the dual-layer 5/8 just because it would look normal.

The house is a really big toy, knowing what I'm doing is second to the experience. ;) And I am learning as I go, the last time you mentioned green glue I read about that for an hour. It does indeed look like the best way to stop sound from going through a wall. On my own I had learned of the...

Having speakers that sit in the room on their own isn't an option aesthetically. I can have them built in to the cabinet, flush to the face, or I can put them in the ceiling like the surrounds will be.

I've already blocked massive amounts of sound transmission into the room, using 3" of expanding foam insulation and one of these. Now I want to make it acoustically dead internally. Not good for recording or listening, dead. Anechoic chamber dead if possible. Putting up hard sheetrock will not...

...and Merc blows past 13k... Congrats! And thanks for helping make this place great.

I want to buy this. It is obviously an easy DIY install, but I can't find a single place with it listed for sale. I know the core is just fiberglass panels, but the part I care about is the retention track and seamless fabric. Hours of Googling has gotten me nowhere. Can anyone here help?

The cabinetry will be custom built with spots for the speakers. Where do you stick them if not on a shelf?

Looks like the LSi7 is 10.25" deep. That might be where I go.

Thinking of getting a pair of good speakers for my birthday. These would be the front right/left of the home theater system, and I was considering Polk LSi9 (eBay, ~$700/pair). Unfortunately, the cabinetry that they will be going into was only going to be 12" deep. Are there good bang/buck...

Beyond crucial is one word for it. But our current system is less reliable than any of the servers I've built.

Any bad experiences with asterisk? This advice reminds me of Lunar's that I should skip the 7D and get a 1DIV; the price difference is considerable.

That is cool.

A customer just bought an iPad off eBay, and it has Cydia on it. I believe this means it has been jailbroken? I'm to prepare this for her use, but I know nothing of this, and neither will she. Is there a way to un-jailbreak it? What are the limitations of leaving it they way it is? Will it turn...

Looks like I found all the parts I'll need on Digium's website. About $2k for the custom server hardware. Probably another $1k for the normal server bits. Now I get to start auditioning handsets. Anyone have a preference here?

Our phone system at the office is going south slowly. Even though it is only 5 years old, the product has been discontinued for 2 years already, and parts are getting hard (and expensive) to find. Management is understandably annoyed that we need to replace the entire thing, including all the...

I bet that machine is wicked fast. Would be interesting to see how fast it boots with an SSD.

4800w for just subs? Frigging awesome.

My cell phone has adequate battery if my day starts at 7:30AM, but if it starts at 5:00AM (like yesterday), then it dies by 11:00PM.

I've done the lens reversing thing before, and even looked at getting one of the reversing rings designed for it, but for running around in the field, it doesn't really work for me. That shot was done with the subject on the floor, and the camera pointing straight down (only way to keep the eye...

It is already nuked, I didn't even ask. He wants to know whether he can go after them or not.

Yeow to which part?

First time working with a model* *in the loosest terms. There was a human, I gave her directions, she was inconvenienced but did it anyway. I think that counts.

These guys. Picked up a client that was running it (with a full subscription) and it was killing their computers performance. Combofix removed it completely without even asking. A quick Google brought up very little, including them suing consumer advocates for slander. What I need to decide...

I do agree that using electricity is the way to do things. Essentially all the other solutions are just energy storage anyway. Batteries (or supercapacitors) are the future, because they are the easiest way to store electricity.

That is really cool. I have no idea what I would do with one, but I want to build one ;)

I actually like the beat-up look. Otherwise it would look fake. I first tried with a dirtier one, but then it gets gross at that magnification. I was manipulating the coin by hand, so it took more shots than it should. I think 27 was the final number.

Someone actually wanted a giant quarter printed very large (48"x48"). I've uploaded a smaller (100MP version). Fun project.

So it isn't the toaster. Either the cables, the L-bracket, or a config issue on the motherboard. What happens when you swap both ends of the cables, does the "good" one move or no?

If you swap the two eSATA cables, does the other one work?

No charges have been declared, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least.