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lol. Already forwarded it to our mayor...yes please.

The graph above breaks it out by capacity. What else would you be looking for?

Yup

A simple web presentation would be useful for me. A graph that displayed $/GB of the different capacities for different mfgrs would be great. Excuse my photoshoped bogus data...

I'll stick with my i7 965 @ 4Ghz, the servers have 5580s in them.

I'll throw in another voice for not bringing any baggage along. Get a Gigabyte or Intel board with an i5 or i7 and a solid video card. Stick your SSDs in it. Connect this system with your other system via GbE.

Try scrolling?

I don't really understand this whole thing. I know that many people don't like Klipsch because of "Horn-loaded tweeters" or something. No idea what that means, or what the deal is. What I like about them is that they sound good down to really low volume.

If it is Socket 775, I have the stock cooler that came with my Extreme Edition CPU sitting around. Compact, fairly quiet, a cinch to install, and capable of dealing with a significant amount of heat.

I have Klipsch at the office, and I do like them.

Thanks for all the advice so far. It looks like I will be trying to acquire some Polk in-wall speakers via eBay as I can. I suspect I'll be looking at the TCi and not the LCi, but compromises are what they are. I'm currently battling to get an RS4, so I can let this slide.

I do. I just haven't used it enough to trust it yet.

Yeah, just filled a Crutchfield cart with $3300 worth of Artison stuff...that isn't going to fly, ever.

My wife has voiced her...concern...over the size and appearance of some of the speakers I'm looking at. What are people's thoughts on in-wall/in-ceiling speakers/subs? This (compromising with her) is one of the ways I can grow my budget.

Yeah. Don't do the Smart Security. It isn't so smart, nor any more secure then the good stuff (NOD32).

I don't think that's right. I think it would be more appropriate to say that we expect progress. When I go to replace an old camera, I expect something comparable to be less, or to get more for the same money. It seems noise is no longer acceptable at all. I know on my XSi I cringe whenever I...

My opinion is that they can stop anytime with this whole megapixel thing. It is very rare for me to get a pixel-sharp image. I know a significant amount of it is lack of skill, with poor lens quality backing that up, but enough is enough. Often I downsample the image before posting, sometimes by...

Yup. 5 speakers and a sub for under a grand. Decent in this case refers to something appreciably better than what I have. The set I have now needs to go somewhere else, so I can't just upgrade some of them. I am not opposed to buying used, but know nothing about speakers or where to get them.

That will definitely be the route to take if it turns out I'll be spending any significant amount of money. The speakers I have now are the ones that came with my $300 Onkyo HTiB kit a few years ago(1). To be honest, these speakers are just fine for my needs, but need to be allocated...

Indeed. Not sharp, funky colors, lots of noise. Is that an artistic thing?

Will do. Not sure where to look at the moment, nor how much I should be considering spending.

Wow, that sounds like a proper mess you have going ;) The modem should still do the modem part, but I haven't used that hardware, ever. I prefer to keep my modem and router as separate devices.

Of course, but only to reflect the reality of the situation ;)

By being born a year later every 365 days. That way you only age a year every 1460 years. Very handy.

Turned out to be a configuration issue. Though I'm now tentatively looking at a complete 5.1 speaker setup. I'll probably start with the fronts and the sub if I don't get them all at once.

I stopped when I hit this one:

ESET makes the good program, NOD32, which is a great antivirus app (IMHO, the best) They also make "System Security" or some such that tries to replicate all the crap that Norton and McAffee do; firewall, app scanning, internet nannying, etc.

I seem to be running into a different issue. Only the HDMI port works. Ever. Even shutting down, disconnecting all the cables, and reconnecting only one of the DVI monitors yields no video. Leaving it on and plugging in the HDMI instantly brings it up. Tempted to order an active DisplayPort...

Quite so: This sucks.

Interesting bit here. I still can't get my 5870 to detect my other monitors. I have three connected (42" LCD via HDMI (detected), 27" LCD & 24" LCD via DVI (not detected)). The other two screens don't appear at all. I just re-installed the latest drivers and Hydravision, and still no luck.

Thanks for the tips, Merc. I had no idea that PSTs sucked that much.

You guys have been dearly missed. Welcome back. What stories of adventure do you bring?

Yeah, if you could squeeze in a 60GB Vertex, that would be a significant move.

As far as bank/buck is concerned, that is a great build. Of course, I'd try to sneak in an SSD, but it would be tough to do that and keep a high-capacity disk under budget.

Scratch that. That is with the whole rig mounted on a Nodal Ninja. Much faster without all those additional levers.

Not sure how to measure that, MLU doesn't work when liveview is enabled. The camera takes about 4 seconds to completely stabilize after my hand comes off it. I'm using a wireless remote, so that isn't that big a deal.

Yup. Thanks.

I'd love to tell you, but I have no idea what you are asking.

I'm fine with e-everything, just do it right.

That actually tracks across the floor and up into a 3-walled mural of the area. I might grab one for show.

Sweet. Time to move the bulk storage from the 1.5s.

This shouldn't be hard, but I can't find an easy way. I have some PST files, and I have username/passwords of the accounts already created in Google Apps. What I don't have is running Outlook installs anywhere. I just want the contents of the PST in Google Apps. Help? Please?

What happens when you're stuck in the office for a long time with a new telephoto lens? 88MP HDR pano images of stuff in the lobby (like a tractor).

I know MACs aren't difficult to spoof, and I'm pretty sure that your traffic is passing through the air unencrypted...

Better support internally? Or am I doing something wrong?

Fully extended it is a little front-heavy, but not bad at all. Right now I have it set up looking significantly down from maximum extension, and each leg has quite a bit of weight on it. Just testing maximum magnification and minimum focus distance.

Very close. Sigma 170-500. Super cheap, quite used from B&H.

New Toy.

That kind of ties in with a conversation I was having with a friend about "the American dream". My argument was that even though the most traditional wording says something along the lines of "if you work hard, you can get a better, richer, and happier life", I think that most people mentally...

An interesting quote you chose, as I picked out the same from the article and almost used it to demonstrate an obvious bias/slant/troll in the article. There is a reason that the words "always" and "never" aren't used in scientific papers, because pretty much nothing is always anything. I also...