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I'll try that as soon as I get back to work. Thanks!

Agreed, except that the AC->DC brick itself can be quite inefficient and unreliable. If anyone has a source for high-quality bricks I would be very interested. If it really matters I get a scientific/lab power supply on the inside of a Voltage Regulator (that may or may not be inside a UPS).

It shows stable in Memtest86 and some others, but I don't know how to test within Linux. Nope. I went to the beta download page, downloaded the three modules there pertinent to Ubuntu and AMD64, and installed them. During install it asked for my username, team number, and passkey. It also...

Of course, and my car got pretty good safety ratings and has a million airbags, but I'd rather not be in an accident in the first place.

My brain translates this to "If you were a sitting duck you might need your seatbelt when someone hits you" No thanks.

I would take a 2000lb car (with my amenities) any day. Active safety (avoiding an accident) has served me much better than passive safety (airbags, seatbelts, etc).

Don't forget all those amenities that folks like me insist on. I don't know what a heated seat or a navigation system (or even air conditioning, power steering, assisted brakes, etc) weigh, but I'm sure it is a bit.

Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit, fully updated. Got the client, control, and viewer installed. Got the credentials input. Choose the SMP client. It succesfully downloads a project, and then immediatly fails with the following error: It then continues to retry and return the same. Googling returned so...

I'm not 100% on the physics of transistors, but I suspect that these "light writes" would have a smaller impact on the drives longevity. IIRC, it is all about building an electrical differential, and this differential leaks over time. Building less of a differential should have less of a...

My favorite supplier of boxes (Lenovo) ships with some Norton nastiness, but it doesn't slow the machine that much for the single reboot it takes to have it removed.

I did a bunch of research on these and the Synology devices looked nice, but I didn't get one. The performance loss compared to DAS SSDs was too great. I'll also second Merc's main comment. No matter what, having your data at one location isn't a backup. Accidental deletion or virus or...

That is a great way to remove a service a particular machine doesn't need. Don't remove it, or even disable it, just remove some of the files and let it time out on every startup. That is simply awful.

I've been of the opinion for quite some time that offline/unmonitored storage of any kind isn't really safe at all. For me a backup is another machine at another location on another RAID array with SMART support and monitoring/email reporting. For me to guarantee someone's data it must be on...

For reference, download the ISO yourself first. I had a high failure rate of the files if I let the app do the download, but it worked fine with images I'd gotten independently.

Yup, they will be in either IDE, RAID, or AHCI mode.

But of course the problem with a background refresh is that if the drive is powered off and stored it won't have the chance. At the moment it would be crazy to use SSDs to archive data long term, but people are crazy.

I don't see this as a loss of long-term reliability. So long as the drive is still able to accept writes and perform reads the drive isn't broken. It just means a change in usage/perception. SSDs weren't for archive storage anyway; that would be nuts.

Quite. Running the engine above ~3500RPM in traffic is uncivilized, particularly when ~2250 is all you need to pull away from the unsuspecting suburban. Massive torque at low RPM is why I'll be adopting electric earlier than most. Any engine that requires multiple tiers of guard rail is...

Probably in the same way we in California like the earthquakes. If it wasn't for that everyone would be here.

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Very interesting. I wonder if the new general purpose SSDs will be going this route, with the controller being required to "stir the pot" every once in a while if data has in fact not been altered for a month or so.

I am 6'3". Now considerably more in shape and only 200lbs (it ballooned to nearly 250lbs before I got it under control). Mostly in the legs, though. I know a number of people who are taller/bigger than I. Two of them are 6'6"+ and 250-280lbs in decent shape.

Yup, normal heatsinks fit just fine. The BIOS for that board is not as straightforward as I would like; I still haven't found the XMP memory profile setting location, though I haven't looked that hard. No OC'ing yet, either. I hope to get a Linux install going tomorrow, then get some F@H action ;)

I have a fundamental objection to filters of any kind, mainly that nobody I support ever cleans them. Not one, even the people with particular need, even when I take the time during installation to point out where they are, how to clean them, and how often it should happen. Due to this, and...

I spent a winter in Boston and New York, and a month at altitude in the Himalayas. I've also been punched really hard by someone bigger than I. I know real cold, but that doesn't mean anything less than that (being punched really hard by someone my size) doesn't suck.

80 Plus Platinum power supplies are still 90% efficient at 20% load. I do wish there were more efficient PSUs at the lower ratings (SeaSonic only offers Platinum ratings at 860w and 1000w), but I don't think the gap either way would be that significant. I would suspect idle draw to be closer to...

No beer, but one of the couches is nice. The projector is down, but the guest suite has a 42" LED-LCD. Bring the cat ;) This place will be much warmer once we have a heater installed, but even now I just turn on some more of the 75w halogen cans to make it nice and toasty.

Exactly. But if this car is able to perform as advertised, mainly keeping up with cars that have twice the power, than it will indeed be sipping gas.

It is very cold and wet out there, so bad that I cancelled my bike ride. But the house is air/moisture/sound-tight, so we can just watch it through the windows.

After IndyCar was too short-sighted to go for it, I'm glad they've found a new route for this car.

Seconded. 15+ minutes sometimes ;)

For optimal battery life, you should be keeping the battery near the middle of it's actual capacity. But I'm sure that the battery displays on the device are lying to you.

My wife helps herself to anything in my pockets smaller than a C-note, so those are typically all I have.

That CPU is fine for most workloads, but it isn't the sort of thing that I do. I suspect that you could feel the difference even on basic office tasks.

Alright. More time. Here would by my build: GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 Intel Core i3-2120T Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) 1600Mhz 1.35v CT2KIT51264BD160B Antec EarthWatts Platinum Series EA-450 450W SAMSUNG 830 Series 256GB Antec KUHLER Shelf 120 mm Antec Sonata Series SOLO II Black Optical About a...

This is the primary reason I'm excited to get my garage cleaned up. It is currently pouring down with rain outside, and spending the afternoon in a warm garage with some tunes cleaning up the ride sounds like fun.

Another video that shows the gear they used for that video.

For cases I still go big, this allows bigger, quieter fans. I's still partial to the P180 if you have the space. With this low-powered a machine, it will be near silent. Based on what expansion cards you need (probably not any), a small motherboard from my favorite manufacturer (Gigabyte) is in...

The board also has 14 SATA headers on it, and 7 PCIe (physically 16x) slots. One for video, one for a fatty RAID card, 5 for Revodrives. ;)

Yeah, it wouldn't go unmodified. At the very least a duct from a 120mm fan.

Sorry, I forget that everyone here doesn't always read every thread all the time. ;) Yeah, showing off a bit...not my rig, but I do like to play with the big toys...

It hasn't gone back yet...this machine is drawing some attention from my other customers, and I might have use for it yet.

Sorry. There is an attachment. It shows the windows task manager and 32 cpu windows (2 CPUs x 8 cores x 2 for hyperthreading). As the count increases, they switch to two rows of CPU counters.

They go to two rows. I saw a screenshot online somewhere where there were 4 rows.

I've officially stopped paying attention. I feel that they are all crap and within the margin of error on their crappiness. I don't even look at the brand anymore, it is purely a price/capacity thing now.

Thank you chbarg and sdbarwick! Great info! I, too, couldn't find a source for the Dynatron "Narrow ILM" heatsink. The CNPS11X works fine in the ASUS board that arrived today. Perhaps I'll just make some brackets that will allow these heatsinks to go on the narrow ILM sockets? Just a couple...

I suppose I should clarify on that 64GB system. My dad is a developer, and regularly has an entire ecosystem of VMs running in the background on the same machine he is coding on. That is why he likes (not needs) 25% of his entire disk capacity as RAM.

I've never had FF request a restart. Perhaps it was your 1password plugin causing issues? Some other shenanigans?

Ordered. I read a number of reviews, and it seems this unit is competitive with the other high-brightness projectors in this price range. If I had a proper home cinema with complete control over lighting I would have gotten the JVC, but there is an entire wall of glass doors that don't have...

My home theater guy raves about the JVC technology (D-ILA) and their base model (DLA-HD250Pro) is in my price range. But it is only 1000 lumens and doesn't support 3D. The Projector People rate the Panasonic PT-AE7000U highly, but it is a bit pricey. After looking at this video, I think I...