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At $300 over invoice, I don't think even the nastiest of surprises would push you above an optimistic MSRP.

Best of luck. I have no experience with either, but have occasionally desired some Cisco knowledge.

That is awesome. I am quite envious at the moment.

Vodka and Tonic is excellent, Vodka and fruit juice is fine. Vodka and Red Bull should be considered highly destructive (worse than many controlled substances) and should not be stocked at the same time.

If you really want to show sophistication, and happen to find the right girl, I just started a bottle of Macallan 15yr that is excellent. Every girl I know who knows Single Malts has been worth knowing.

It depends on how you want to go. The good news is that most of it never goes bad (and in fact may get better). Since you won't be consuming it regularly, you may as well get good stuff and represent a solid collection. Wine: Cabernet Sauvignon (red) Chardonnay (white) Beer: Ask someone else...

Nope. Went to one of the team members houses (who lived in Belgium at one point). One of the other team members actually competed there last year, so his commentary on the course was interesting.

Paris-Roubaix race was today, went out with the bike team to watch and drink Belgian beer. Worshiping a zombie does not interest me.

Thanks to time, timwhit, and sechs for contributing 4000+ posts to the community. Your insight and knowledge are much appreciated!

Following in the age-old internet tradition of not answering the question you are asking and instead questioning the premise, I'll point out that your requirements: Low price Won't travel Primary for family Take abuse ...really calls out for a desktop. Keep the expensive bits away from the...

I think it is further downstream than that. Even giving the host 20GB+ of RAM and making the drives SSDs doesn't change things much.

Nope. A number of the other cars remove that interior option when you select the Ibis White.

That performance hit is in line with what I encountered even with much faster hardware. If pure IO is what you need, VM will not help the situation.

Grr...they even offer the Black/Silver Alcantara with the Ibis White...

It plays in my office whenever I am there: 45 hours It streams to my cell phone whenever I'm riding my bike: 12 hours It plays at home when I'm surfing (like now): 10 hours? I'm awake about 120 hours a week, listening to music just more than half that time seems about right.

I listen about 60 hours/week...that is a penny an hour. I'm OK with that.

The only encryption software I use (and not that often) is Truecrypt. Free, open-source, and fairly certainly unbreakable. I wouldn't bother with anything else.

We have them here as well.

Many things (including TVs, BluRay players, etc) have gotten so cheap and so good that most users couldn't go wrong scanning the feature list and buying on brand/price. I don't think it matters for the average customer any more.

People like us? I (and I'm sure Merc) have a decent inventory of bits, and have owned/held/fondled all the relevant tech from a big box store. My clients and friends no longer go to places like that for stuff; they call me and ask for a recommendation, and I either send them a link to...

If you intend for all your devices to connect at 5Ghz, just turn off 2.4Ghz at the router.

Does your router support bandwidth usage reporting? Mine is a bit more advanced than many need; I use a computer running Smoothwall. But I suspect that many of the aftermarket firmwares for normal routers support it as well. You could also start at a small plan and monitor usage after the fact...

Not sure if it has one. Mine (ASUS Transformer, just updated to 4.03) has an item called "data usage" in the settings menu, but I think it is only for cellular data. If I wanted to check WiFi usage (not sure why) I would pull the data from my router by MAC address.

It's just that it doesn't get you much that you can't already get with a normal i7. If you want the main thing that you can't get with an i7 (8 real cores), you still get squeezed for a workstation class board.

Nah, only the E3s are on the HCL.

Got a link? Or a model number?

Probably just protecting the margins on their "server/workstation" parts.

Of course, the one that would make a difference for Lunar would be the E5 (octo-core).

I do Amazon and their cloud service if I want to buy, but I have a Pandora Subscription and 90%+ of my listening is there. If I really like something the "buy" link on Pandora sends me to Amazon anyway.

For the record, I've moved my machines from GTX580s to AMD7970s. I was getting an nVidia driver crash about once a day (more if I was gaming) on every single machine. It would kill my Civ5 game, Youtube video, or FSX mission and then carry on. Saying something about the driver not responding and...

Only in the evening. During the day I watch documentaries. But I probably only do an hour of video watching a day, including Youtube and the rest.

But there is the problem. Life itself is like that. There are enough things that I experience in life that I don't like. I have no need for instant-replays of the un-fun bits. This is why I avoid most (all?) fictional programming.

Not only would he not know, but I didn't install any software on the machine that would tell him. And he's too far away to make a visit for this.

I thought it was 7200RPM, but it is in the field with a customer now.

I'd just turned 11 :p IIRC, it was the first one my parents let me see in the theater.

Indeed. Anyone finds one let me know!

Is that a really obscure reference to Star Trek VI?

I'd never heard of this plastidip stuff before, but Googling shows YouTube full of videos for car rims. I can't imagine the weight being that significant, much less the variance across the surface.

A fine point. More to think about.

Wondering what hole I've been hiding in. Just read about XBMC now and downloading it for the first time. Looks interesting.

$2576.35 after CA sales tax. I was ballparking it in my head...taxes weren't as bad as I'd guessed. For sure powder coated. Still debating between Matte Black and Gunmetal to match the paint.

From what I understand about lithium ion batteries, yes. But the difference there (25% vs 30%) is probably not significant.

Not that this will help, but I just got rid of my last KVM in my server room. I have a cart with a USB keyboard, USB mouse, and monitor that supports VGA/DVI/HDMI/DP. I just plug them directly into servers as needed. The cabling mess alone made it not worth it, and when the variety of connectors...

Yup. Once a month for $10. No official races, but they tend to break out spontaneously around this crowd. My favorite is the downhill challenge; start at the top of the corkscrew and no pedaling. Whoever makes it the furthest wins.

Response from Sonic Motorsports: So 2600-2800 depending on options. Anyone here have an opinion on the Hankook tires?

One of the things I liked about SimCity was the single-player nature of it. Just poke at it a little each evening without having to compete with kids who are on 24/7.

Not unless you did a 50km bike ride in it.

It was also on the exact same spot on the lap. I rode there again today, and took two bees to the chest; it is just a bee dense area I guess.

Yup. My ride tonight was pretty cold as well. 20mph headwind and pouring rain. You know you are cold when a steaming hot shower is cold by the time it reaches your feet ;)

I've joked with friends around here that I single-handedly jump started the local economy. Between the cars, bikes, boats, planes, house, computers, cameras, and miscellaneous other toys when everyone else had their hands stuffed deep in their own pockets. But understand, this is the cheaper...