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Sorry to hear than Handruin. I hope they gave you some good drugs ;) It actually hasn't been bad recently, but their long-term performance warrants an eventual switch anyway.

<nitpick> It is not a nuclear clock if it needs to receive a signal. It is a receiver for the national nuclear clock, yes?

Why would a hydrogen vehicle explode?

I've used OnTrack, but they are not cheap.

Hydrogen is an energy storage medium. It is inefficient in the production, but it will hold that same amount of energy forever (unlike batteries). It only has to be maintained near absolute zero if you want it in liquid form, it can be stored in a larger volume and pressure as a gas without...

I actually thought hydrogen would be a good distributed fuel. Quality is a no-brainer, storage is relatively easy, and I'd read about solar panels that converted to hydrogen as they went.

Looks good, thanks Mubs!

A whole lot. I used to hope we actually run out of gas before global warming gets too bad, then I heard talk of going to coal for everything if that happens...WTF?

Unless the speed limits go up, I see no need for even safer tanks. I agree with Bozo that driver education is the way to go. How much better milage would a Mk.V VW Golf get if it weighed as much as a Mk.1? (half the weight). The absurd number of airbags and crumple zones in my car and the weight...

I regularly assign VMs their own real hard drive and a chunk of real RAM, but I don't think you will see that much speed improvement trying to out smart the CPU scheduler. Besides, one of the cost savings in VMs is the ability to assign more VM resources than you actually have, letting different...

The first thing I thought was: "End-to-End vendor lock-in"

...or use indirect lighting (my favorite). Of course, this requires even more lumens to be generated to compensate for the loss against the ceiling/wall.

I've tried it three times, it has worked once. Depending on the value of the data, consider a professional recovery service (2 of 3 drive success with them so far).

I thought the setting in the motherboard enabled certain CPU code that helped with virtualization performance. I haven't seen a setting in VMWare (Workstation or Server) that would allow you to specify a core, but in task manager you can right-click on a process and "set affinity" to a core or...

I've always wondered about battles between the carriers, if their backbone interfaces are as smooth as we would hope.

Yup. Keeps the hard to clean side from getting dusty.

I have Comcast.

MemTest86+ has a law of diminishing returns thing going for it. Typically I run it for 2 passes and call it good. Prime95 is good for trying to crash a system as well. During RAW conversion for a batch? Or just a single image? After how long @ 100% CPU?

>600KB/s here.

Do you have some sort of temperature monitoring program running that you could check? If it is an nVidia chipset, they have the "nVidia Monitor" program that shows CPU, GPU, and NB temps along with all the voltages and clock speeds. Other programs that do the same are Speedfan and the...

Nope. The complex is old enough that it has a building-wide meter. Therefore utilities are included in the rent. The only thing stopping me from going crazy on power consumption is a bit of guilt for this whole global-warming thing*. *Which is almost completely canceled out by sticking it to my...

Yup, she is Russian. But she currently has a green card and is already on her way to filing for citizenship. I need to get all my financial affairs in order, or the IRS will take all her money. ;)

Thanks for the words of encouragement, guys.

How big a solar panel would you need on these to keep them topped off? Of course this wouldn't work when they were in a drawer, but a little panel on the bottom of the remote control might work.

I agree, but that means that the reader must perform due diligence to evaluate the credibility of the site. Considering a sites reputation lasts far longer than their quality, it makes it difficult to sort out.

Well, you can either have a small screen really close or a large screen farther away. Unfortunately for me, my vision gets worse at any distance more than one foot; so the size does not scale linearly. The 42" 18" away is about the same as the 22" 6" away.

Well then we are in luck. I think the headcount will be 10-20.

I'm not paying for electricity and have a significant UPS. If I could get FiOS I would build a server for you right here.

She knows my (rather extensive) history, and that my relationships average 6-8 months. I figure going three times that with no desire to bail is enough of a "test".

I'm, uh, engaged. ;)

Just finished Call of Duty 4. Good game with a solid storyline and decent variety for a FPS. Quite short, but enjoyable. I also thought it was more convincing graphically than Crysis while using one and a half cores. Crysis was fairly lacking in variety, and all the major turning points in the...

Yup. Really beautiful. Shame I was in a 2-stop exposure bracketing mode when it began to take off; trying to get the individual shots to match was a pain. Also on that trip I got some pictures of Night Herons in Palm Trees. Another guy who was out let me try shooting with his 1Ds-III and EF...

Although the pictures aren't technically any good, I think the thing that I was trying to capture is beautiful in this series of photos.

I'm afraid you have me confused with someone else. My displays are a 42" 1920x1080 and a 22" 1600x1200. The 42" is almost big enough for that resolution. Photo editing on it is awesome (queue color accuracy comments). You can actually see every pixel; so working on images at 100% zoom is plenty...

Yup. I've been scanning CPF and came to a similar conclusion (close, but not yet). I like a LOT of light when I work, cook, clean, and read. It seems that the best bets are still fluorescent tubes; but those aren't dimmable either.

Ugh, thanks time. I missed that in the spec.

I didn't learn to type well until I started doing Linux command line stuff. Having to type long lines of crap for hours on end is a great way to learn.

I'm thinking of replacing the bulbs in my track lighting with these LED bulbs. The thought is that instead of running 12 50W halogen (600W max on the track and dimmer), I can run many more of these (up to a theoretical 200!) and still save power. The downside is that even if I only get 12 of...

It is busy, but runs just fine on Firefox 3 beta 5 ;)

The most common cause is a poor VGA connection. Are you using VGA or DVI?

OT, but I can't help myself. I watched my first 15 minutes of Soccer yesterday, and it was very boring; even though there were 2 goals (one each) in that time. No sport where the scores often exceed 100 can be as boring as a sport where scores rarely exceed 2.

The new STI seems highly practical (wagon).

EC2+S3?

My mere chance, I wasn't using any power. I was asleep. I suspect they would have a much higher acceptance rate if they did this during the day.

My sister and brother-in-law live in the country near Ithaca. They have been trying to figure ways to power the blower in their pellet stove without electricity for years. We experimented with generators that used gravity and the exhaust heat, but that thing sucks a LOT of power.

Good job Stereodude. Someone has to keep the baseload power up, or we'll have issues with the nuclear reactors...

Sexy and cheap. Good info. Thanks.

I can appreciate the argument made in the article, but the counter-argument was that this will be the last disk format. Even if it isn't the format for all movies and games, it will the the cheap format for small-ish amounts of data for a really long time. Anyone care to guess how long it will...

They were consistent in quoting the RAID card and case fans for both systems, which is where it matters IMHO. I don't think that issue makes much difference in Mark's argument; that socket-771 CPUs require FB-DIMMS and they suck huge amounts of power, removing the benefit gained by the more...

I just watched that episode 2 days ago...