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Using a phone is like talking to a passenger. You (and the person you are talking to) need to understand that driving takes priority. This is easier when they are sitting next to you due to the non-verbal queues, but possible with a phone as well. If getting into a tricky situation (traffic...

Operation of phones in CA is legal so long as you aren't handling the phone. Steering wheel controls and voice recognition are still legal, as is looking at the phone if it is mounted to the car in some way.

The good durable cases are made by OtterBox.

All the math has shown that write wear is no longer an issue.

I would have to assume it is related to additional traffic on the disk from the indexing. I would turn it back on and not worry about it.

The solution I settled on is to have a charger at home (next to the bed and next to the computer), at the office, and in the car. It would be better if my phone supported an induction charging system of some kind, but it works fine for me.

Can I change my name to "Food Bank"? That sounds like some awesome meat.

Yup, that is pretty normal. It is basically a computer, and using it like one will drain the battery like any laptop.

We'll have a furnace soon enough, for now 3kw+ worth of resistance heating will keep us comfortable.

Yeah, they call that interior some form of brown. My wife calls is massacre red. 16k strikes me as very low for an '09 (my '09 has 65k) and the '09 A5 has the exact same look as the '11, so the value is pretty strong.

The manual. The last service for my car was @ 25k, and included a firmware update for the transmission that made it bite much harder. Still smooth if you are gentle with the throttle, but wide open it will chirp all four tires going into second.

This really has me thinking.

Wii Fit and Wii Sports are the only ones we play. Had great fun yesterday with the family all getting in on the action.

Personally? None. But family is staying with us through until tomorrow, and that includes my 13 year old cousin and his puppy.

2AM, good time to be returning. We went to bed at 9AM last night, because I knew the kids would be getting us up very early this morning for the gift openings.

CrossLoop if I have to walk them through the setup and the built-in Remote Desktop Client if I can do it in advance.

Of course I would let my cat roam the neighborhood; that is what they want to do, and one of their biggest advantages to dogs (lower maintenance).

There is a big collection of music that I still like, though I know isn't good music. This is just another level of nostalgia I think, remembering how things were; people, places. Same with some movies. If I am sharing something that I like (or remember liking) with my wife, the first time...

It does power down, but pressing the eject when it is powered down causes it to power up and then eject. So it happens 30-40 seconds later when you are less ready for it.

I love Simon's Cat. (What Gary was linking to). Do a Google for Simon's Cat in 'Santa Claws' It is pretty funny.

I have the same problem with my 410. If I had a battery that would fit I'd put it in just to avoid this issue.

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Yup. Grabbed the wrong disk. Just did another install, this time with R2, and no SP2 offered. My bad.

The plot thickens. As soon as I have a Windows install on a drive other then the onboard SSD it boots almost immediately, even to devices that stalled out before. Sounds like the BIOS is trying to do some housekeeping on the onboard SSD before passing on the boot order?

Interesting. When I press F12 to enter the boot selection screen it shows all the right options. When I select a valid option it then goes into "Loading Operating System ..." for 5 minutes without accessing the device, then accesses the device and boots normally.

Disabled all the boot options but the one I'm trying, and have individually tried a single HDD (both the onboard mSATA and a SATA SSD) or a USB stick, or a USB CD-ROM. It isn't even trying to boot (the device shows no activity, regardless of device or position).

Next time you are watching a video on YouTube, click the snowflake button on the control bar. Then un-click it. It is interesting, but only for about 30 seconds. Like the rest of YouTube.

PS is the best, most powerful, most feature complete product in that space. I don't like many things about it (it's product activation scheme for students is awful), but there is a reason I use it every day.

I'll take a look the next time I get to that machine.

I did get a 20GB SSD, and it is being detected correctly. I even have another Intel mSATA SSD that I've tested. It displays as just another drive in the BIOS, but I don't know what tricks they did to it. I would love to just install ESXi or FreeNAS straight onto it and leave the drive bays for...

Single user, dealing with a small amount of data at a time. Should be fine.

Huh. Well, after install it prompted for some updates, then SP1, then more updates, then SP2, then more updates. Honestly I hadn't realized that SP2 was out for R2, but I just said yes. <shrug>

Yup.

Yeah, the problem I think is the onboard mSATA SSD. I want to believe that they simply stole one of the SATA ports from the northbridge and didn't do anything silly, but I'm beginning to doubt it.

Yeah, wish the drives were eSATA. The only computer is a laptop with the drives and a USB hub sitting on a shelf. Not sure if the laptop even has eSATA actually. Perhaps gutting the drives, getting one of these and then connecting via USB?

FYI, the SD card is a colossally insecure place to put stuff on an Android device; there are a million and one hacks to gain full access remotely.

Removed everything but the onboard SSD (that I actually want to boot to). I did disable the onboard NIC, as there is an Intel 2x1GbE card in the machine. Sorry for posting and running, but I won't be able to look at this again until tomorrow ;)

Interesting problem. System posts normally, detects all the drives, then displays "Loading Operating System ..." and sits there for about 5 minutes before continuing on without issue. I've made sure I'm on the latest BIOS, reset the defaults, and had this issue even with all the drives disconnected.

I know this is a bad idea, but I have a need. 4 3TB USB drives in a RAID5 is what I'm after. The drives are already purchased and the user is having issues juggling data between them. Disk management isn't letting me at the moment.

Just ran this on a 2008R2 install that had then had all updates applied (SP1 and SP2). Worked as advertised, with the install shrinking from 53.1GB to 45.9GB. Sweet. Machine was a DC and DNS server and those services were unaffected.

I can't really complain about the compensation; I certainly feel appreciated. It's just that I know I'll have to move further into management in the next 5 years or so; these all nighters are getting harder and harder. My wife wants me to pursue an MBA.

Yeah, I'm salary without overtime.

Another all-nighter. Blah.

Reminds me of one of the first lines in the first episode of "Burn Notice" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064284/quotes

Indeed. They are almost at the point where simply using the build number would simplify matters.

Now that Firefox has reached numerical version parody with IE will they slow their release schedule? Or are they going to race Chrome into the triple-digits?

If you already have Firefox 4.0+, just go to "File->About" and the latest version will start downloading immediately if you don't already have it.

The last day someone will be available to sign for stuff at the office is Thursday, so everything needs to go out overnight tomorrow or it will wait until the new year.

Yours wasn't wrong, and mine means something different, though I think both are true ;)

Just a bad couple weeks in the office. Normal day-to-day stuff (we bid multi-million dollar jobs at least once a week, and state inspectors show up at our plants any time we are working a state job which is about every other day). Normally it's fine, and even if one thing goes wrong at a time it...