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Lenovo ThinkPads (T- and W- series in particular are my #1 pick for laptops. Above Dell Latitude, perhaps equal to Dell Precision in terms of build quality. But the Precision is available with 32GB of RAM.

We are currently in negotiation. At the moment we are holding the position that we will waive the monthly "rent" that landowners usually charge. We'll see where the negotiations end, but I want this pretty bad. I haven't had a decent phone for years, and I've had it. There will probably be a...

Here is the summary for the BlackHat lecture I referred to:

Here is the Samsung page for their TecTile product. I'm really digging this concept. One question I haven't been able to find the answer for is whether other NFC tags with writable space (like these) can be used for this purpose, or if the Samsung "TecTile" brand ones are required. There will...

This phone and the Sprint service were so bad that I'm moving the entire company to Verizon (120+ handsets) and having a new cell base station installed (~$150k?) so that we can get decent phones on a decent network. My S3 should be here on Friday.

Only if you really mean bathtub. If you have a second one for the toilet you have too many. If you meant bathroom, I'm right there with you ;)

Some of the shuttle machines would hold up fine to that Q6600 so long as you didn't also try to stick a gaming GPU in there. Specifically I'm thinking about the ones that use heatpipes to a radiator on the exhaust fan. If it doesn't require an optical drive it would be even better.

In Denver it was actually an appreciable difference, particularly after drinking ;)

Done. And the $60/oz goodness as well. Should this orbital work well?

Awesome. Why did you need Decon Gel? How radioactive was it? ;) I know nothing of properly washing or detailing a car, but soon mine will live in the garage, and I will care more. Any additional notes on tools/products/techniques are appreciated.

If I looked hard enough, I'm sure I remember a post where you said you would never make 1k.

The i7 is the fastest, but the mobile versions are the slowest of the i7s. If you are going to be doing that kind of hardcore computing, you might consider bringing along a small form factor desktop of some kind.

Despite Lunar's predictions to the contrary, he has in fact managed 9,000 posts. Yay.

The more powerful processor will certainly be busy for less time, and will therefore produce less heat. If you are going to be logging hours doing 36.3MP RAW conversions, getting the fastest processor and hard drive seem like no-brainers. In fact, you would likely be much better off having...

I've found the Windows Experience Index to matter on scores between 4 and 6. Above that it doesn't matter, and below that they system is unusable.

My power washer has a specific compartment for detergent and a special nozzle for foaming. Haven't tried it with the car, I used it for the house before painting and it worked pretty well.

I also feel that they are notorious because they are so common. You are more likely to hear horror stories if more units are sold. And they are common because they are a pretty good deal.

On average, you'll need to buy ~1.05 based on my reliability numbers.

Indeed. I know I wouldn't be able to wait.

I suspect that Comcast is throttling my link constantly due to torrent traffic. At the moment I'm at 1.8MB/s down and 0.5MB/s up, but that is sustained for days at a time.

I have more OCZ SSDs than the rest of you combined. I've had one failure and, knowing how bad their RMA process is, I just threw it away. In my experience their failure rate is fairly low and their prices are awesome. You do need to be OK with simply taking it as a loss at some point if the...

I've noticed that Coug's character seems to be trying harder than anything to prove that he isn't gay. Not that I think he is gay, but anytime there is a question involved, his answer is also the most "manly" answer conceivable.

The APC SmartUPS SMX 1000 with two 2U battery add-on modules will give all my gear (~3A) 200+ minutes of runtime according to the interface. If there is an outage that lasts longer than that, I have more to worry about than not being able to surf the web or listen to music.

I plan to use my actual aviation headset. I have an adapter that will allow me to jack that into the computer. The mic is sound activated with an adjustable cutoff.

I've experienced success when using them in any way that makes the hardware think they are individual drives. This includes Windows Home Server and Windows Dynamic Disk Arrays. I suspect ZFS would be much the same. Anything where the array is configured in some kind of BIOS has never worked well.

Not where to buy, what encoding to use, or what to listen to it on, but music itself. Bands, recordings, combinations/mixtapes/playlists. Now that anyone with an internet connection can hear at least a snippet of many songs through Amazon's preview section or Pandora, or something else, this...

Pretty much everything cool and/or fun does.

Just bought some music on Amazon MP3 (<200 songs). They appear in the cloud player correctly, and that part plays fine. But the downloader seems to be choking. I've decided to acquire a legal copy of the music I listen to, as they seem to have actually found a way that is easy and cheap enough...

Sold. Looks interesting. Registered already, same handle as here.

You could still use windows, it just won't matter what you use. And x86 won't matter if the OS runs on RISC or whatever else. When it doesn't matter, MS and Apple will have a hard time justifying their prices to many people.

Hmm....Thinking about it. Wouldn't be able to even start until the weekend probably.

Don't make me bring over that picture from the RIM thread...

We will be creating work products on "The Cloud" from whatever generic platform happens to be in front of us. I suspect it will be running Android, but that doesn't matter too much.

I would love to play a MechWarrior game. I refuse to play an MMOG. Conflicted, but I certainly don't have enough time to "keep up with the Joneses" or commit to a time to group raid.

What level of RAID is required before Merc will trust data to WD drives? 61? 11? 111?

One of my boss' favorite local charities is selling fireworks as a fundraiser. He is offering to subsidize a chunk of any purchases made there. I'm tempted to go big.

Also, a lot of the brit techs I worked with used the phrase "knock it over" to mean reboot it. They did not mean to literally knock it over. That took me a while to figure out.

My wife and I tried something different today. Normally I do a massive ride and meet her after, so her ride is my cool down. This time we started at the same place at the same time and I took off on my own pace. My route was 40 miles and hers was 16. On my return I caught up with her about 7...

That is pretty awesome. I'm going to be lucky to beat that on my road bike this morning...haven't ridden in a week.

And as such, we are talking about the performance improvements you can achieve in a standard office cubicle by applying stickers.

I have a few 32" Visio screens that I use for the playstations and they play BluRay disks just fine. This would not be possible without HDCP support.

Not nearly as expensive as I was thinking during the production video. The market for these things must be larger than I thought.

Yup. The cheapest thing you can do is delete everything as quickly as possible. That way when you are asked you can just say you don't have it. Some ISPs used to have this as a selling point, but there are many laws in many countries requiring they keep logs.

Good tip. Thanks!

Nope. But they seemed to work ok for the 3 miles I had to drive. Should I be anticipating damage?

I didn't have it weighed, but I will when the new tire arrives. The screw went all the way through the tire and exiting just outside the bead and chipped the wheel. If you look at the first and third picture you can see the exit wound in the tire aligning with the nick in the wheel.

Now for part 2 of the story. This happened 70 miles after I installed the tires and wheels, and is pretty self-explanatory. Needless to say my replacement tire arrives tomorrow.

Part 1 of the pictures... I really don't deserve to have them look this good. I eyeballed the color from the Forgestar site and matched from memory a stock color based on what color my car is.

I thought it was funny ;)