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Because it isn't possible to convince a majority of americans (who are, for the most part, morons) to do anything smart. As Jefferson said, a democracy only works if the populace is educated. It just isn't.

You need DX10.1 hardware to support DX10.1 games? Not news.

That I would certainly agree with. Anyone who wants to be president should not be allowed to have the job. Just draft someone every 2 years and call it good.

Waiting at a client site in the middle of nowhere, waiting for AT&T MIS to call back. T-1s can be such a PITA if you aren't in a metropolitan area.

I wasn't sure how to count redundancy. I know several members use multiple copies managed independently. Counting without redundancy is tricky sometimes.

In and out. Total drive actively used for storage at your place (not business). I could have included the 120GB drive in the laptop, and the 40GB drive in the other laptop, and even the 2x74GB Raptor RAID-0 in the desktop; but it didn't seem significant compared to the rest.

I woke up this morning to my computer not on and not turning on. Bummer. It's on a UPS, so I didn't even think about the power. An hour later, it turns out the UPS had simply turned off. No warning, no buzzer, just off. How annoying. It's a Tripp-lite, for the record.

hold music? Ahh....on-hold music, got it.

10x750GB in RAID 5, I'm at 85% full.

How much do you have, how's it set up, and how much of it do you use?

Sounds like a poll...

Thanks for the info Tannin. Uda, The EF-S 17-85MM f4-5.6 IS USM is on my shopping list to replace my kit lens. IS plus a little more reach. Of course, if a FF body is in your future, forget it.

I think more batteries is your solution, Tannin. You already have a good generator on hand (the engine) with a great source of fuel. Adding another (likely less efficient) generator specifically for this purpose doesn't make sense (to me anyway).

A guy I knew a while ago had a second battery connected to his car just for auxiliary camping stuff. It charged off the car when it was running, but could be run completely dead and you could still start the car. Depending on how often you are driving from one place to the next, this could be a...

Not much.

All excellent points, sechs.

Here are my shots for today. Get close? I got close ;) But this is certainly my favorite (click for full-size):

Embarrassed by my bird picture yesterday, I just got back from a decent hike. I intend to show some at least decent images. Let's hope I actually got some.

Thanks guys. The whole time I was out there I was thinking that a 300 is way too much; the objects that a 300 captures well I couldn't even see with my corrected vision. I was scanning the trees with the camera, looking through the viewfinder, trying to find something of interest. After about 2...

My first "real" bird pics (ie. pictures of a bird that wouldn't let me pet it). It's a hummingbird of some kind, I think a Broadbilled or Costa's, but I really have no idea. I know, the lighting is horrible and the noise @ ISO800 is a bit much.

I don't think anyone will be saving us from this. Combining how buried we are (massive exports, massive debt, poor education, corruption and bloat) with our unsustainable expectations (federal assistance for cable TV?) means there is some well-deserved suffering to be had.

I haven't heard anything. All the news of late is in larger 2.5" drives and SSD stuff.

I am and I am. I intend to "settle down" to a certain degree. Marriage is near, as is buying a house and 'securing a future'. None of which are things that I cared very much for when I picked much of my current lifestyle. Most of it is on it's way out. So I'm looking for a stable salary and a...

I've noticed that, too. My thoughts were to get it to render correctly in HTML first, then create PDF, plain text, and RTF versions based on it. It's easier to go from HTML to everything else than from anything else to HTML.

I can get to it now as well. It was just down for about an hour yesterday.

All week I've had 2 this-must-be-fixed-yesterdays and nothing else. 4 billable hours total, in the last 7 days.

Speaking of, can anyone else get to tvtorrents.com?

Quiet around here. What is everyone up to? (I'm working on my resume - in HTML)

I keep finding myself attracted to primes because of their speed. Running around Disneyland at night with the 35/2 and the 50/1.8 I felt really empowered. I would stop and take a picture, happy with the outcome, and someone else would step up with their 40D or XTi and a massive zoom lens and get...

Wow. Why didn't I think 300mm would be enough? That is a hell of a lot. And I'll need it faster than 5.6 for any hand-held action. I could barely manage one clean picture in 10 @ 1/60-1/90.

I borrowed a friend's 75-300 4-5.6 II (non-IS) to see if I'm willing to settle for less than a 400mm long-end.

Heh, I've been running this 6000+ for longer than any CPU since my Celeron 300A.

OK, I'm now sick of the rain.

I wouldn't say LM throws money around. All the stuff he has seems to have been a wise purchase. He just spends more money on photography because that is his profession, just as I spend more money on computer stuff because that is my profession. Tannin, Handruin, and I have no such excuse...

The biggest problem with SoftRAIDs is that only in *nix land can you put the OS on one. Unless you know something I don't (highly likely).

That is exactly what I recommended, and honestly I don't have a second recommendation. These guys have never disappointed. I know that Areca also makes hardware RAID cards. But I've never used them.

On that screen, it seemed* like the dot pitch was considerably worse. Could have to do with the viewing angle, it was my 3rd monitor and was considerably off to the right. Not saying it was, just trying to describe my impressions.

I am very spoiled by 3Ware controllers. They are not cheap, and certainly overkill for a mirrored set. But they do work very well. This is their lowest-end card for $150 If you want SATAII, it will cost you another $50.

Thanks. My sister's friend wrote it (I think) she's a grad student at Cornell.

This is likely what I'll end up doing. But I'm doing some research into Zotero. Perhaps it can get me some of the information I want.

Udaman, I suppose I've just seen the wrong ones then. Those I've seen had virtually 0 difference between the DVD and HD-DVD version. Merc, I haven't been looking in some time to be honest. I suppose I'll look again when more than 2-3 movies I want in HD aren't available in HD-DVD.

Thanks Blake. You've been a great help. I'll need to put this on hold for the day so I can go make some money, but I'll be back.

Awesome. Working code and I feel like I almost know it. I understand the basic concept behind every line of code, I just need to go read up on the syntax. Thanks again.

I got the XBox360 HD-DVD ROM when HD-DVD was first being cracked. I'll get a BR ROM when those are cracked. I like HiDef, I hate DRM. When I can get one without the other I'll buy in. I do appreciate the improved quality on new releases, though releasing older films on "HighDef" is a joke.

The market is certainly there, and I suspect the tech is really darn close. I wonder what is holding it up? Volume production? Lack of competition? Large vendors sucking up the supply at higher cost?

I have a larger number (more than 100 less than 200) of these drives deployed, and I haven't had any fail yet. It could be a bad batch, but I would be more suspicious of a power supply or heat issue. How confident are you in your other components and configuration?

Great idea. What is a logical choice?

I'm having some issues (no kidding) with the makeTags function. function makeTags($id) { // Lookup $result = "SELECT tags FROM movies WHERE movies.index = '$id'"; $result = mysql_fetch_row($result); // Tokenize $tokens = explode(" ", $result); // Loop through tokens foreach($tokens as...

Awesome Blake. That is what I was just coming back to ask. I'm glad I hit "refresh" before typing out my post.

In order to have different links to different searches, I'll need to do the hyperlinks based on the tokenized results? I haven't felt this stupid in a long time.