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Yup. The boss liked it and I was told to "continue building inventory". So I'll be buying more lights in January. I'm still trying to figure out how to go bigger; even this equipment required a special permit, we were clearing power lines by inches, and needed people walking both sides to make...

Went well. Set up in ~60 man-hours. Torn down in about 6. Run for about 1. Not the best ratio, but we were awfully popular with the few thousand spectators.

I bought it from Amazon for $0.99. I'm pretty sure it's ok. ;)

I should have put in a disclaimer; that was not my choice. But I'm sure you knew that. I even presented different options, and was working on putting together an event track for Rodrigo y Gabriella's Viking Man. Next year I'll be doing a 30,000 sqft. building with 40,000+ lights across 32+...

The bulk of my abuse ended years ago, now it is just maintenance.

Too tired to edit. Here is the (very) raw shoot.

More progress, had to stop with only ~9,000 lights; it was maxing out the 4.8kW generator. I don't think it liked going from nothing to max and back several times a minute. Got some video on the 7D, now I need to figure out how to make it Youtube-able.

Thanks for the well wishes, it really wasn't a big deal. They just had to remove some stuff from my back and run some tests. I have no practical experience in 3D design, but that usually doesn't stop me. ;) If you have the dimensions for the relevant bits, I'll start putting something together.

Didn't mean to rush you, just checking in. I just got my stitches out on Wednesday, so I haven't been riding (they were right down my spine). If the enclosure is going to be a lot of work, you can skip that portion and I'll make it part of my eMachineShop project.

That is awesome.

I've never had any go bad, but others have so the potential is certainly there. I've only bought maybe a dozen, so the stats can't be settled just by me. It has its own RAID card built in, and that driver isn't built into Windows 7 or Server 2008, so you get to download the driver and add it...

Nope. Legally, your old keys expired, though they still work. It might be best if you let one subscription expire and then created a new one.

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Also known as Wall-mart customers. Really, just don't do it. You should know better.

Ahh...just remembered that that isn't a RevoDrive. Let me run it on another machine later. But yes, you will see some faster write speeds.

Yup. This is from "Home 1"

I don't actually have the need or the money at the moment anyway...too many other things going.

If I were planning on supplementing my 7D, it would be with a 5DII. But I would absolutely wait until the 5DIII came out, to see if it's worth it or at least drive down the cost of the 5DII.

I had missed it as well. Congratulations.

Started last night. That thing is huge; I need to lower the rotating beacon or it is more than 14' tall and not legal on the highway. It is also about 2.5' wider than the flatbed, so I need "oversize load" signs and magnetic navigation lights all over it. I had a crew of 2 for most of the...

He's just happy to see us. ;)

Not a fan. Being able to use the card should at least require physical possession of the card without exception. From what I understand, there are ways to read the NFC in cards the same as passports and standard RFID keys.

I don't know that much about clustering, but the guy who is interested in a "beast system" says his load is "massively parallel". I figured 64 cores for under $10k would be the way to go. His work is something scientific, mathematica? Something like that.

How did you get such a nice screenshot? With a camera or via HDMI?

I have the same problem as Handruin; my gear is better than all my friends with the possible exception of the boss. I should put together a list of the bits there for SD and the other experts to look at and tell me what I'm working with.

Hardware and electricity. The crowd sourcing thing is helping all kinds of fields, turning peoples hobbies into actual productive work.

Thanks for the link. It looks like the 6100 would work better for the client as well, but it seems the secret is out. The 6100 2.2Ghz 12-core chip is twice the price of the 6200 2.2Ghz 16-core chip.

I wonder what a quad AMD Opteron 6274 Interlagos (64 2.2Ghz cores) would do with the -bigbeta units? It's only going to have 64GB of RAM...

Thanks. In the Netflix queue now.

Indeed. I'm sure a few thousand simultaneous games would positively kill my rig.

I don't keep up with the card releases, just buy something a few ticks down from the top and call it good. If someone had news about new cards, I would be interested as well.

We did the "Support your local Sheriff/Gunfighter" double feature last night. Not James Garner's best work, but a decent cast and some mild laughs.

One of the things I like is that they have turned up the max viewing distance, so you aren't living in a foggy world. You can move slowly and carefully through the world, spotting baddies and avoiding confrontation.

On "Home1" it plays at 2560x1440 on Ultra quite smoothly. It does demand more CPU than any game I've seen before.

Just put 2 hours into Skyrim...it was pleasant.

The biggest day to day hurdle would be the VMWare vSphere Client. It would also be simply too much work to re-install my entire work environment. If that was required I wouldn't do it.

Grr. Perhaps if I ran my actual work stuff in a VM on a Linux machine?

Hmm...that is a thought. I don't know if I can get away with making my work machine native Linux...do you think I could get away with a Linux VM?

I think it needs white polka-dots to finish the look. That way he can be properly camouflaged in it's natural environment.

I get to do this to one of these on one of these for a parade on Sunday that will run for a total of 15 minutes. We are moderately confident that it can make most of the corners on the parade route, and we'll have two days to set up and one evening to tear down. Stressful, but darn fun and...

I was able to get my work machine to 4.4Ghz stable if I turned the RAM down to 1400Mhz. Thoughts?

Other than RAID-0, I don't see a compelling need in the SSD space at this time. The cost/GB is still high enough that your redundancy should be in HDDs wherever possible.

If you are considering upgrading video later on, I might recommend simply starting with a low-end discrete GPU and evaluating upgrades later. You'll save nearly enough on the video card to cover it, end up with some better performance in the meantime, and have a more clear upgrade path for the...

Photoshop and the rest of my workflow can easily use all 24GB if I don't only keep one application open at a time. Closing them is massively time consuming.

Keep in mind that Windows 7 can only support 192GB of RAM. That is probably the sane maximum at this time.

At least my hot spot is claiming 4G ;) The only direct flight to Moscow on the west coast is out of LA. Mom's English isn't good enough to manage a transfer on her own.

if was here, i remember it as well.

At the Crown Plaza next to LAX. Dropping my mother in law off tomorrow morning. This is a nice place, but charging $11/ day for WiFi is dumb.

I shipped that Sim2 projector back to the US repair center in Florida for $350. They "repaired the fan motor" for $25 and shipped it back. While they were at it they cleaned the whole unit and flashed to the latest firmware. Awfully nice of them.

Country western bars.