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Sorry. To me, workstation simply means that it is part of a larger network. Therefore a large hard drive (or even an optical drive in most cases) aren't needed. If higher-performance is needed, I typically specify what applications are the focus, so specialization can happen.

I'm sorry, I failed to be specific enough. All my corporate clients are looking for cheap boxes to stick at their employees desks. No-one is really willing to pay more than a cheapo dell. The objective is to demonstrate that cost savings due to better efficiency can be had without a larger...

So you are talking about the AC-DC brick? The AC cord that connects to the brick that they offer? Because any 12V AC-DC brick (with sufficient capacity) will work just fine. Any radio shack or online electronics store can provide a replacement.

I thought that one of the big things on SSDs is that random reads/writes aren't significantly slower than sequential?

I don't see how changing form-factor decreases power consumption. But it does increase price significantly. The idea is to stick with standard parts, as maintenance of a fleet of these will be an ongoing concern.

Not yet. I'm hoping to have some by the end of next week, we'll see how it goes...

Exposure times were already nearing 30s, and I didn't trust the wind or my tripod to keep everything under control. Thinking back, long exposure noise reduction was working when I started, but stopped about halfway through the night. That looks to be it, the noise is much better on this one...

Proprietary? Where did you see that? It will use any 12v supply with a barrel connector, which is 99% of them. I've powered it directly from a car battery, or my car for that matter.

I'm getting more noise than I expected in long exposures @ ISO400. I was doing long exposure HDR stuff and the noise got really bad. This is three shots: ISO400 f8 4, 15, and 30 seconds Combining the images did help with the noise, as did Noise Ninja, but it is still clearly visible in the...

Looking for a low-powered yet powerful workstation for a corporate environment. AMD Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core - $77 GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H AM2 AMD 690G HDMI Micro ATX - $69 Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) - $36 SUPER TALENT FTM30GK25H 2.5"...

Thanks sechs (3k) and Howell (2k) for sticking around for another thousand posts!

Tempting, but that half-mile is going over a 700'+ tall hill. Plus there would be ~30 miles a day worth of driving on the job (different sites, house calls, etc).

If you can still get a good deal on a lease. Most of the manufacturers are getting out of that game, or raising the price a lot.

You can get SSDs that small for ~$150

BES does rely on Exchange. The trick is the push technology. If he's willing to push a friggin button whenever he wants to, there are a bunch of solutions.

I've always wondered about that. If the engine is doing basically the same amount of work, how much efficiency do you have to lose by having more potential for work. What about electric motors?

My concern with the 4-speed isn't MPG but the noise associated with high RPM at high speed. My current car has that issue, the noise at 5000RPM for an hour becomes very tiring.

I'm very close to a Subaru as my next vehicle. The only downside is a 4-speed automatic (I thought only the American's still used those) and a SO who can't (won't) drive stick.

The biggest perk for me (if all things go well) is a 0.5 mi commute from the house I hope to buy. Hours will be staggered, but living so close will make things easier. I'm going to make sure it is an exempt position, and they know that many things can only be performed before or after hours, so...

I will be moving more than 50mi, but it is just my regular commute. I'm tempted to avoid one-time compensation, as I plan to be there a long time and would rather negotiate things that will pay off more over time. We have the money to handle the simple things now.

Has anyone here played with MS' Photosynth yet? Looks really cool. (Sorry, no macs allowed ;)) This is my favorite so far.

Typically at this level they ask you what you have in mind. I used to work with a technical recruiting company, and we had people putting together crazy things (motorcycles, golf club memberships, etc). Though I may put a house in the package, as a sign to him that I'm committed long-term.

It is a client I've been supporting for quite some time. A few of my clients have grown to the point where they needed internal support. Typically I just do a full set of documentation, help interview candidates, and then train them on the systems. After that I stay on as a consultant in case...

It's a medium-sized company (400 employees), so I would be a one-man-band, though executive-level decision making and paperwork would be involved. There are a significant number of sites to support, so driving would be part of the job. Everyone except the executives have company vehicles, and...

A number of cars have that capability. Clocker should be able to provide some info, as a number of GM vehicles can do it. My car can't, because it only has 4 cylinders to start with...

I've been asked to put together a compensation package by a potential full-time employer. Besides the usual salary, insurance, 401K, and profit sharing, what should I be looking at? Company cars are fairly common, but I'd like to buy my own. What is a company car worth in cash? What resources...

...every 10 to 20 minutes...

Just talking to a guy here who I kept talking to about having 3GB+ in his mail store. When I finally got to his workstation, he had 2k in his inbox, 1GB in his sent, and 2.2GB in his deleted. That was the easiest fix of all time.

I'm driving the same 2003 VW Golf (2L I4, non-turbo). It has larger diameter tires, minor weight reduction (no spare, no back seats, no interior at the back) and minor aero changes (smaller sideview mirrors, removed spoiler, a bit of underside body work). It currently has 178k miles, but this...

In the last 2 days I have driven 749 miles and filled up twice. Averaging 31.5MPG.

I always just reset the trip meter when I refill.

I'm at a client dealing with the same problem right now. 6GB is the largest mailbox, and I'm targeting everyone over 1GB. PST is really the only way. If they don't want a second folder, you can have all the mail delivered to a single PST on their local machine. The downsides being that web...

When I've done fail-over, it has been the entire storage stack. 2 Fileservers with a bunch of SATA ports connected to a bunch of 1TB SATA disks. Then get redundancy further down the chain by using DFS or something else. Hardware redundancy (Fail-over RAID cards or power supplies) gets really...

Gymnastics isn't something I watched anyway. The pursuit of perfection is clearly not healthy for the participants. Watching children who have had their lives taken for years, and whose skill will be useless in less than four, is just sad. What happens to these kids? And what happens to the...

TV Torrents has a better engine for dealing with TV shows. They give each show their own page, that is managed by someone, and has a single torrent for each episode and each complete season. It also has an enforced ratio, so your bandwidth is better. If you donate (become a member) they will...

Looks like some Chinese Gymnasts are 14 (legal competition age is 16)

Cool. Signed up (ddrueding).

Neat find. I don't think multi-core is efficient in a general performance/watt sort of way, and a single core is quick enough for what these will be asked to do.

Unfortunately, my ratio is blown at the moment. Those recommendations in the other thread fried my credits. I will keep you in mind ;)

I know he has a BluRay player, and was looking for something to do with it. That would be it, I think.

I highly recommend the BBC coverage available on TPB. It is Brit-heavy, but at least you can pick your events.

64GB is plenty for workstations. Even with a decent sized music collection. Typically if people need bigger than that, they need much bigger. Like no-way-an-SSD-will-work bigger.

For my purposes, I don't care about the weight or the battery life. It would constantly be plugged in at home, the office, or my car. Being able to do some serious post-processing on the road would be awesome. It would help me avoid issues like this.

Bring on 7680x4320!

I sit about 24" away from my 42". I use it as a computer monitor, so the whole thing doesn't need to be in view at the same time. I treat it as multiple monitors, with different windows tiled across the space. If I could have a wall of desktop at 3840x2160 I would take it.

2,560 x 1,440? Sweet. That would be a great upgrade to my monitor. To keep near the same pixel pitch I'll need to go to about 56", though. That might not fit on my desk.

I suspect it is a creative decision. IIRC, Lawrence of Arabia was shot wider than anything before (2.2:1); and that wasn't to sell HDTVs ;)

Sweet. Can you RAID-0 those three (SSD) hard drives? That would rock.

I do listen to Car Talk regularly. How It's Made is informative, but the host is terrible. Smash Lab is fun but missing something.

If they aren't interested in helping you, I suggest you help yourself. Or give up on it, which would be the healthier decision...