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Just drove this road in pouring rain at speed (happened to be closed, so no traffic). So much fun.

No idea, but my 6" cables are working just fine at gigabit speeds without any errors logged. There are a bunch of runs that are just outside 6" range, and having a cable that is 40% too long sucks.

Depends on how paranoid you are. I'm seriously considering budgeting about $4k for this project; and I assure you I won't be interested in following you around ;) In theory, if you could identify the right frequencies, you could jam the controls without much power at all. Of course, the one I'm...

Multitasking is a big deal, but being able to stream video is the killer app for lightweight tablets.

Very funny. I can handle dangerous creatures, so long as there aren't many of them to deal with at once and you can see them. That means that you with your spiders and snakes can enjoy without me. I'd rather deal with lions and tigers and bears.

Well, that's what you get for being up when no-one else is...where is Tannin?

I still have 1 of my 3 original 16GB MTRON SATA SSDs...$1200, IIRC.

So I'm told ;)

9 inch cables ;)

Yeah, that wouldn't be an issue. While it is actually an FAA restriction, I consider it more of a guideline. One of the other costs I had factored in was assembly and testing. I know from fine-tuning my own chopper that balancing and calibration can be more than half of the work, and I'm not...

Found one spot, Time. That camera mount doesn't include servos.

Those prices are cheaper than the US distributor is listing. A rare thing. It also looks like I was adding redundant bits in.

Nope. If they are spying, they are at a longer range with a longer lens. Odds are you wouldn't have any idea they are there.

I'm having a hard time imagining any way to damage a model aircraft that doesn't involve it slamming into the ground. That is how my chopper always dies. The plans I'm already making involve GPS managed flying fairly close to the ground. Collision with trees would be a distinct possibility.

Don't know of any off-hand. Any recommendations from experience here?

IMO, Lightroom = lock-in. Since they run their own database, all the effort you put into organizing your files is worthless if you move to a different application. Ideal would be to store the information in an open way as metadata in the file itself. Secondary would be some kind of open database.

So, with the exception of the brightness thing, how is it?

I have been tempted to get some kind of GPS tagger to use with my camera. Combining automatic mapping with the file's own creation date would be plenty, then I wouldn't have to do any sorting at all.

Looking specifically for 9" CAT5e/6 in blue and white. Probably 50 of each. 6" is too short and 12" is too long. I don't want to build 100 patch cables by hand.

I stick each session's photos in a folder named "yyyy-mm-dd <subject>" Typically I don't do anything else to them. If I had videos, I'd stick them in the same place. I use SyncToy to back up the whole thing (and my music, movies, etc) to another array elsewhere.

I was chatting with some friends who happen to be physicists with PhDs. It turns out that they have about the same degree of built-in skepticism about people with PhDs as we do about people with certifications. It seems to boil down to the following: That you felt the effort to get the PhD/Cert...

Sweet! That is where 3D will really take off...

Ouch. I'm still in the process of re-ripping all my movies as well. My previous technique of taking just the movie and re-encoding it was great when storage was expensive, but now it isn't, and my wife likes the other features (making of, etc). So re-ripping everything. I presently have a pair...

They way I would want it would be with an HD camcorder. The current videos online are using the FPV stream and it sucks. Since I can't fly the darned things by hand anyway, I'd just be programming in waypoints and viewing the video afterwards. Looks like octocoper (higher payload), GPS kit...

I have been a big fan of these for a long time, primarily because my RC helicopter skills are so poor. All I want is a stable flying camera platform ;) That one looks really awesome...pricing one out now...

It is indeed unfortunate that you cannot resell your gear, considering that you run the fastest stuff all the time. That is the worst of both worlds. Why isn't resale an option?

Doesn't sound promising to me, but some people just don't interview well. Thanks to virtualization, I've switched to lab-based interviews. 1. Create an environment 2. Break it 3. Show candidate at least one symptom See what happens. Google is of course allowed. For many geek positions that...

I'll be making the move in the not too distant future. My current i7 965 EE CPU will be for sale. ;)

I must just be slow. ;)

That is about spot-on for the current extreme-edition chip. I paid $999 for my 3.2Ghz EE.

Random complaint. The OCZ Z-Drive has a couple capacitors protruding on the top of the card that is preventing me from installing two of them next to my 5870 on a GA-X58-Extreme. RAID-0 nirvana will have to wait ;)

Thanks guys. We've been doing this for a while, haven't we ;)

Your cat could probably make it up to the top. A high spot to sit with a warm breeze from below? Cat heaven ;)

That one actually is pretty cool....

Thanks for the tip. I noticed their site was down about 3 days ago.

It looks pretty good, but as Sol mentioned, there are limitations. Also, I'm not seeing any security certifications on the website, so it might not qualify for escaping data loss notification rules.

The new guy is either a longtime lurker, a sock puppet, or has really been doing his homework.

One of my clients is doing the $150/mo Comcast deal. They are getting about 30/10 and I was happy.

This is the bit I had read. It doesn't mention that one specifically.

I don't know about that one, but there was an article featured on Slashdot a while back that explained that many of those use insecure implementations of secure protocols. I don't know enough about the internals of security, but if I were looking for a secure way to carry around files, I would...

Oh, neither did I...that was 102 posts ago! :pale:

Useless? That 140GB is that important?

I would be looking for 7200RPM and quite a bit more cache.

Are they physically lighter as well? I could be into that for some applications...

Ah, that makes quite a difference. What RAMdrive software are you using?

All the Vertex drives are fine. I have a LOT of them, and I've never had a failure. Some running in servers, in laptops, and in brutal industrial environments. All fine.

I agree with the sentiment, but in my experience it doesn't play out that way in XP. 7 does a great job of it.

OCZ Vertex work great straight out of the box in XP without any tweaking at all. Disabling the defrag service will help with drive lifetime.

Well, that drive certainly is some crap. The CPU (1.2Ghz) isn't exactly a screamer, either. Amazing that those specs would be combined with 4GB of RAM...

Does this machine have the same CPU/RAM/HDD as the machine you are comparing it to?