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New workstations all 'round, some new laptops, some tablets and phones, bunch of Kindles as gifts. New machine for my mom, plus some other random bits (switches, wireless, firewall, UPS, power conditioner, etc). Well into the five figures, but quite a bit of the stuff that was replaced was...

Just went on a bit of a buying spree at Park Tools...Wall mounted repair stand will also serve as primary storage. And a full tool kit that will take me a while to familiarize myself with, but the drivetrain cleaning bits will be useful right away. I know many things require a torque wrench, and...

I know it is a minor thing, but the all-weather floor mats are a must have IMHO. I got them with my wife's car, but decided to go with the aftermarket WeatherTech for mine. Mixed bag, but I prefer the factory ones.

This morning was my first ride in the rain. It was also the first rain in a while, so mud was everywhere. The clothes are in the washer, but my bike is going to require some serious attention.

Lego, Brio, and Lincon logs for me in the '80s.

Indeed. Thanks Handruin for making this place such an easy place to be. Free and low-stress hangouts are very few on the web. That should keep the place hosted for a while, or add an option on the S4...however you want it. ;)

I've used it quite a bit; many of my VM servers were once physical and went without issue. I've also used it to preserve old workstations and their programs before an upgrade. I encountered one glitch, where a licensing server detected the change somehow and required reactivation, but many such...

Cool. Didn't they let you special order all the parts you need to build your design?

That should be enough for smaller burst transfers (2GB+? How much free RAM does the machine typically have?) I've seen Win7 report bursts up to 127MB/s, but I do not trust those numbers too much. I am not having good luck with trunked GbE lines, performance is not always there. 10Gb is getting...

This is 2008R2 Standard, with the "File Server" and "Indexing" roles added. I plan to also make it an iSCSI target for more VMWare foolery. Edit: If that caching works with the VMs it could finally get me off my SSD DAS thing.

It seems MS Server 2k8 is also happy using all the RAM it has as cache. Even though the RAID5 array I'm writing to is only capable of 35MB/s, the transfer goes at 117MB/s up to the biggest files I have kicking around (~30GB). The server has 32GB of RAM and GbE.

I'm using the vSphere client to connect to a vCenter server, so it is all there.

The last hardcore gamers rig I built was for someone well over 60. She ran a WoW clan.

As all my servers are VMs, I just have the vSphere client running on a workstation with the "performance" tab displaying some pretty graphs.

99.99% of the electricity you put into it is converted directly to heat. Close enough to perfect that you are at a 1:1 ratio of electricity in and heat out. Heat pumps don't create heat, they move it from one place to another. As such, you can get 3 or 4 times the heat out that you put in as...

Actually, the problem is carbon monoxide. Odorless and colorless, you won't know anything is wrong until you pass out, and then die a bit later on. In order to vent well enough to prevent it, you'd be letting in enough air to make the heating irrelevant in the first place.

Electric resistance heaters are all 99.99% Efficient at heating. This is also the efficiency of a computer or lightbulb at heating. The problem is that no electric resistive source of heat is very efficient. You need to go gas or heat pump or insulate to bring your bill down considerably.

It hadn't started raining yet.. That's when I slowed down.

Today was a tough ride, for no other reason than a 30mph sustained wind gusting to 45mph. Slogging against it on the way out was a bear, but I was able to maintain 60mph for 30 seconds on the way back. That is pretty intense at night on country roads with overcast skies.

Buckey Balls

Did Samsung really release a technology called HomoLED? That might not be the best marketing strategy...

Me too. I haven't had any PCIe SSD fail, but I would feel better if it were an intel drive.

...or not.

The Patriots made three nearly consecutive screwups in the last minute of play. They clearly didn't deserve to win.

Yes, but at least he's been self consistent.

That is actually a really nice ride. If they weren't so expensive I'd be considering one. As most of my flights are over land I don't worry so much about engine failure; from 5k+ feet in the air with a little planning, there is always somewhere safe to put down. People don't seem to realize...

If they didn't price-in the habits of the CEO, they were idiots. This isn't even the first time he's crashed a plane.

He liked to fly experimental aerobatic aircraft that he built himself. That is not a sport for the timid.

The roads here are pretty good, and my bike has a built in suspension of sorts (Roubaix). So it wouldn't get that much of a workout.

I'd agree. I would even consider it bridging from below the stem to the top of the fork in a vertical arrangement. I have access to a full machine shop (and skilled people to use it), so would likely talk to those guys about it anyway. I ride about 2 hours a night every night, so the charging...

One of my clients has migrated essentially to a work-from-home arrangement. They still keep their office, but no one is ever there. The combination of GMail-based e-mail, remote desktop to their workstation, phone forwarding to their cell, and faxes delivered as PDFs to a folder on a share mean...

The space inside is basically a cylinder 1.25" tall and 4" in diameter. I can lose the dimming, and the enclosure is machined aluminum, so no heat sink necessary if it is laid out right. Does this get me closer to possible?

I have a temporary 300lm Light&Motion unit arriving in a week. If you want to test some units in the field, I can certainly oblige. Or I can wait for a production unit (if they are good, knowing you they will be, then I can try to sell the team on them (~30 units).

Another LED lighting project. This one isn't nearly as complex, as I plan on building them from scratch myself. The only trick is that I still want the source to be dimmable via a regular 120v dimmer. The fixture is going to be very compact and only have a single bulb (something like this...

Just checking in again, I hope all is well?

Yeah, I've only got 2. There's your 18 drives right there ;)

...says the guy with tons of L glass :p

$420 is a bit steep ;)

That I am interested in.

Indeed. Here we just say that someone "pops" if they've tried a break and couldn't pull it off. The main reason for having a heart-rate monitor is to make sure you don't pop. Of course, on this ride, I wasn't wearing it. The problem was that I wasn't listening to my body; I just knew that I...

Today's ride hurt quite a bit. Decided to ride out to a friend's house for some computer work. Only 15 miles each way, but the ride there was just brutal. For some reason I was out of breath and working super hard while going super slow. I didn't notice until the return trip that is was...

Or they are pedophiles. It used to be that you had to be a priest or coach, now you can be TSA.

He stated it in another thread.

Happy Birthday Greg!

Mobile doesn't necessarily mean airborne ;)

A physical Apple store can take care of initial setup for you. If you e-mailed yourself a .cbr, did it recognize and let you do anything?

Sounds good to me.

I have a user with no computer at all (thence no iTunes). It seems like a nice way to go. Not good for a hacker or a geek, but if that is the case you don't want an iThing anyway.

This would get my vote.

My money is on the 6128.