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For regular DVDs I rip using Ripit4me and encode to XviD using AutoGK. I'm still searching for an easy method of getting BluRay movies into h264. In hindsight, grabbing them directly as ISOs is a pretty good idea. No need to worry about compression issues, and it makes special features and...

Just lost the motherboard on my wife's desktop/our file server. An XFX i780 from several years ago. Hangs on post code 25 even after BIOS reset, RAM change, GPU change, etc. Ordering up a Intel BOXDP45SG and CORSAIR CMPSU-620HX (just in case) to replace it. This machine is our primary file...

Mine wasn't self-leveling, but all I did was block it into place and then lower the feet until they took the weight off my tech books (MCSE for Server 2000) ;)

How about at the beginning of the trailer when the car parked on top of the garage is bouncing on it's suspension for every step the mech takes? Cool.

My bad. Sorry.

Internal. The bearings wear and the motor is strained.

Yup. (PDF)

He actually used my wife's climbing harness ;)

The guy belaying me was wearing a hard hat. I was using my personal climbing gear, and gave my belay a quick training on what to do. We were safe, provided the tower stayed up.

I'm really looking forward to MW5, but I am enjoying Crayon Physics Deluxe in the meantime...great on a tablet ;)

Two in one: Test of my Blackberry's camera, and me on a tower... We measured it this time...75'. The guy belaying me said the top was swaying over 4'.

I did enjoy it.

We got the pedestals with ours, and they include much better feet for adjustments.

My delivery was quite the opposite. Placed the order on Sears' website, booked the delivery (two days later) on the website as part of the order. Received a voicemail the night before from an automated system giving the delivery window. They got lost and called my cell, I talked them through...

The washer does shake a bit as it gets up to speed, but only because the floor isn't sturdy enough to stop it. I am very pleased so far, just be sure to use the "HE" detergents that don't sud up so much, it makes a pretty big difference in a front-loads ability to rinse effectively.

My wife and I each have a desktop and laptop at home, and one projector. The desktops are 1920x1080, but only 23". The temporary projector we are running is only 1024x768, with awful brightness and contrast. No actual TVs anywhere.

We all make compromises when we enter a relationship. Some people believe that you shouldn't have to make compromises or that those compromises aren't worth it. Those are normally the people that aren't in a relationship (at least for very long). The rest of us take our licks with a smile; it...

JTR, you managed a 96.1%....mine was closer to a 56% (just passing the absolutely mandatory classes with the minimum grade while not even attending those that were not required for graduation - I did the math. I was able to work 40hrs/week through my last 2 years (age 15-17)

11 doesn't. Just crashes at boot.

Waiting for the RMA exchange of my 1080P projector....:(

My wife thinks I'm weird that I've monitored several loads, and wished for more precise control. Tapping a laptop into it and building my own program would be sweet.

Re: Burn Notice - There were several weeks where no new episodes were released, but they just resumed last week (Season 3, Episode 5). No idea why.

Finished Fallout 3. My experience was much the same as Merc; I had a completely capped character very quickly, and when I finally did decide to pursue the main quest, it was over in under an hour. Oh well.

I ran a test load, and the dryer...dried clothes...so it seems to be working.

Nah, still thinking that I want a FF camera...just no money. Thinking about a 5DI, actually.

You are right, that math is off. Just send one this way and all will be better. :)

An interesting note, the washer includes "vibration reduction technology". I wanted to test it out so I put in some unbalanced stuff and had a go. The vibration reduction seems to be adding water during a slow spin to change the balance, then ramp it up to 1300RPM. At that speed vibrations were...

Revealing info such as where I work isn't really revealing anything. This info is already out there for those who care to look. This picture was taken halfway through my "commute" zoom enough and you get the company name. Diagram is attached.

I had similar financial circumstances and ended up starting my own company. You can guess the timeframe ;)

These were definitely specialty parts, tiny machined brass fittings. The smartest guy in their crew (the foreman's son) and I just dismantled the whole dryer ($1300) and managed to do the swap ourselves. Very rewarding when it fired up and didn't explode.

I have a number of clients that keep a list of everyone's passwords. Hard copy only, in the boss' safe. I think that is good enough. Here I've gone a different way. No-one knows any other passwords but their own, and every person can change their password any time they want. There are no...

No essay 1540/1600.Only took it once. Lowest in my family. (Dad 1580, Sister 1600)

An interesting footnote is that MIT and Berkeley would both have had me, apparently they had room for "troubled kids with potential" or something like that...

0.7GPA plus 1540SAT != Stanford.

That does look slick. Reminds me of OCing Celeron 300As...

I lived less than a mile from there, and I was also not admitted. I think I'm OK with that. I'm against affirmative action as well, but I'm also not particularly for nepotism. :shrug:

We do, but it is tied into the system at the office, and maintained by them.

I've already made the decision that XP will be the last MS OS at my company. Every new app must: 1. Run in the cloud through a hosted service compatible with Firefox. 2. Support running locally on a LAMP server as a backup. 3. Ship me hard copies of our data regularly as a backup. Our two...

Just to underscore/highlight this more, I actually bought both. I had both a X58/i7EE and that crazy ASUS dual-proc board with a pair of Xeon 3.06Ghz chips in it. Both were sitting on my desk, both had a RAID-0 of Vertex SSDs in them, and both had an identical build of Windows 7 installed. After...

Where does an X25-E fall behind a spinning disk? All the benches I've seen show them extend their lead under heavy I/O.

Yeah, I was being cheap. I have access to the companies construction crew, but (of course) they don't have specialty parts.

Nope. We are out in the boonies. Septic systems and propane tanks.

Sears was able to find/order it for me, though it isn't on their website. Thanks for the help.

You friggin rule. I've been googling for about an hour without success; I even submitted a bunch of stuff to Samsung... ...but it looks like I can't order that part? I can order a new dryer and include that part, but it isn't available on it's own? I'll keep looking...

This has nothing to do with computers, but you guys are a resourceful bunch. ;) I just purchased and had delivered a new washer and dryer (Samsung WF448AAW and DV448AGW, respectively). The dryer is gas, and my local handyman found notes in the install guide that a LP conversion kit needs to be...

Acronis has finally jumped the dolphin. The new version of their software not only has massive bloat, but hasn't worked properly for me yet, and has the "normal" tasks hidden. I'm looking for a simple app that can copy a drive or RAID array to a file or another disk/array. If it can do it while...

I haven't done any "studio" shooting in over 4 years. Studio is in quotes because it was with a PnS, but one of my pictures did win an award and was published.

I would comment, but this thread has remained remarkably on-topic ;)

Option a is also the best option. If it was also cheapest, that is a win-win.