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It could be a laptop..."say hello to my little friend..." ;)

My InFocus X10 finally died after many years of intensive use, now I'm looking for a replacement. As we're spending my money and not my boss', the top-end JVC is out. I have a budget of $2000-2500, would like a little more light than my current one (1200lm) and if it could be quieter that would...

I'm using a modified Antec 4U chassis so I can get some decently large fans, heatsinks, and a standard power supply in there. No standard HDDs, only one Revo and one GPU. Not even an optical drive.

I don't know how I would identify a PCIe bottleneck. I buy these drives because they are the last (even remotely sane) word in speed. Because of that I simply put them in and don't worry about it. On systems like those in my sig and my other recent creations there seem to be delays that can't be...

Same here. We started with The Jungle Book and then went into the Tom Sawyer series (Twain) and then the I, Robot series (Asimov). My parents are still sci-fi junkies (their library is 90% SciFi)

That is what the guy I was riding with said. Of course, the advice I'd received from teammates included knowing the size of the hill and pacing your ascent. But any of these are big enough that I'm just lucky to live through. One of them is called "the wall"; it is actually on the local "Sea...

I too look at ASUS like this, but it looks like I'll be sending the board back and going that direction. Grr.

I know, I'll be going with the silver alcantara.

Nope. Now that I am a member of a team, I have the sponsored spandex look going. What a difference; I'd say that was worth another 5-10% right there.

My progress with Supermicro Tech support: <1 Hour> <2 Minutes> <2 Hours> <2 Minutes> We'll see where this goes. Did they really build a non-standard socket/mounting plate? Do they not offer a heatsink that isn't bundled with one of their high-density super-noisy expensive chassis?

All the US A4s have heated rear seats as an option at the Prestige trim. For the interior, I can't stand black seats; they get so hot in the sun. Black headliner, black dash, Alcantara anywhere they'll put it, and everything else as light as possible. I have the light beige leather in my car and...

After getting my butt kicked on Saturday, I now have a riding partner and he's set us up with a new route for practicing hills: http://www.trainingpeaks.com/sw/4LJ6NUIZ2LRVQYQFWFO6DYDKBQ All those roads are closed to vehicle traffic, and the scenery is beautiful. A fox was pacing us for a...

Considering the motherboard and CPU combo alone cost >$4k, I don't think it is on the list of anyone that worries about money. I may have it fold for a week or two before delivery, though ;)

It's alright, that helps in it's own way...;)

Amazon: Usually ships within 1-2 months....WTF?

The 295 is in the first 16x slot, IIRC there is an 8x or 4x slot above it (Revos are 4x cards and will work in anything 4x or bigger)

I'm trying to remember which 295 card that is, and what the heatsink/fan looks like. Any of them will fit in the slot closer to the CPU than the GPU, and the lower PCIe slots would work as well. As we had talked about before, I wouldn't worry about getting one for speed; they are all fast. Get...

Coug seems to be the resident expert at such things, but I would appreciate anyone's input. Supermicro X9DRD-iF (Rev 1.02) It takes Socket 2011 chips, but when I try to connect the Zalman CNPS11X Performa (which states 2011 compatibility) the mounting plate holes are in the wrong spot (too...

I was going to mention the same. Particularly if you are there at off hours,

Did my first every group ride (which was also my first long ride during the day, and my longest ride ever). http://www.trainingpeaks.com/sw/IOJDC4QJQ7D5TAMHICIXXOQAKI Held up alright to the top, then lost the chain and snapped some teeth on the big ring midway through the decent. Then got...

B3, chill out. Nowhere in my post did I insult anyone. I wasn't labeling a group, just a unit of measurement. People don't drive for a predetermined amount of fuel, they drive for a predetermined distance. And while GPM can be derived from MPG, looking at a graph of 1/x shows the problem. It...

I think we can all agree that MPG is a stupid way of measuring and comparing these things. We don't drive until we've consumed a gallon of gas. And gallons per mile provides a less exaggerated gap in consumption: My car does 32MPG = 0.031GPM A good 600cc 45MPG = 0.022GPM Chewy's 250cc 78MPG =...

Agreed. Bitrate is what we really need. If they just gave up on the concept of fitting episodes onto arbitrary media sizes, and allowed it to be variable at some quality, everything would be better.

Any guesses on when the scene will start releasing actual 1080p content? 720 is fine, but everyone has the bandwidth these days...

Ouch, so you had to go through the back of the cabinet to access the control? That looks like a job for a contortionist. What saw did you use to get such a straight cut in such a tough reach?

Yes. There is no link and no model number, but I'm sure that is it.

But surely even the Coug must agree that friendship is magic! LOL

In that scenario you aren't too worried about the condition of the bike afterwards, so you can just ride the CRX to bits anyway. Besides, only in Hollywood would a 250 be enough to outrun anything but your dog. ;)

I suspect that the CBR will also give you a better ride on-road, with more damping and less travel. Not sure if it is adjustable as it was on my CBR600F4i, but it made a huge difference. Of course, taking the CBR offroad would provide a very bad ride, but you weren't going to do that anyway.

I can't answer your questions on System Restore because I don't use it. In fact, I disable it as one of the first steps of configuring a new machine. Since you have two OSes, you can just use Clonezilla to clone the drive you aren't currently booting from. It also makes a convenient place to...

I don't like system restore. It isn't a backup per-se, because it is on the same drive and can be effected by viruses, etc. It also doesn't give me the kind of control that I like in such things. Get disk imaging software of some kind and keep complete drive images offline in removable storage...

I have had good luck with Kingston RAM, but I have never has issues with a Crucial stick ever. I simply don't consider anything else at this point.

If you want a low powered machine, build one around a 35W Intel CPU, 1.35v RAM, and a single SSD. That will be a low draw machine.

Sure. Pano stitching is awesome, generating thumbnails on RAW files is great, and level loading in games positively rocks. But I've also made considerable changes in CPU since the X-25 days.

I'm hoping to sort out some financial issues and move when they become available...but it's looking 50/50 at this point.

I think this guy would take the D800 in a heartbeat, so I suggest you just go and trade when the D800s arrive ;)

Not enough data.

Interesting. I had a VW sales dude go nuts on me once as well, though it was in person. The manager ended up sending him home until I was finished buying the car. That is a weird business to be in.

Give or take, depending on which one you are running. They'll do 1600MB/s on the high end.

It is still likely the slowest part of your IO stream, but the percentage of time that your system is waiting on the drive has shrunk massively. The gain from further improvements is nearing zero as soon as you go SSD in the first place (for normal usage).

Sorry. Couldn't help it.

It is. I've done it with the Revo and Velo drives. It was quicker, but not by as much as I was hoping for. The benches should be around here somewhere.

I do like the color, but those wheels look like the old A3 Ti wheels....24.7lbs without the cap ;)

Hot during the day (75F today) but cold at night. Dry air has that effect.

The number of rounds of updates for .Net 4 is utterly ridiculous. From an SP1 install I think it has asked for 4 reboots.

Freeze warnings here yesterday and tonight. Meh.

I really like it. Something about the relationship between the rear fender and the transition from roof to D-pillar.

I've done that and other tricks, but they always seem to find some way or some software that screws it up. This would be as foolproof as I could make it. As it stands I've stuck a 120GB Vertex in as the system drive and will simply make regular housecalls to make sure it isn't going bad. Some...

My normal build for HTPCs is a smallish SSD for the OS and apps, and then a large array for data. The main service call I get on HTPCs is people filling the system drive with large media files. My thought was that this would solve that issue.

This looks awesome.