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My Sprint Overdrive Pro was able to maintain at least 3G service all the way from San Francisco to Los Angeles streaming Pandora and Google Maps the whole way. Not that I don't have service issues elsewhere, but the last place I had issues Verizon and ATT were down as well.

I won't let any of my users put their machines on the floor. The additional dust/etc the machine picks up is unacceptable. I've gone SFF where possible, and if the machine needs to be under the desk I block it up at least 8" using bricks or whatever else I can get my hands on.

Perhaps just buy from the 'Egg in bulk and resell? Even when I had reseller accounts with many distributors and did $250k/yr+ I couldn't get their pricing on a bunch of stuff.

We got it slowed to 55MPH balanced on the prop, but at that point we were very high-alpha and she wanted to keep dropping a wing. Something tells me that still won't get us close to 50mpg, maybe 7 ;)

It was given a false piece of data (that I was on a bicycle). Based on that, any error in the reporting or analysis is not surprising. Particularly considering the performance recorded was so far out of the reasonable envelope for a bicycle.

The calculation happens in software after I get back and upload to the PC. I suspect that the values it received were outside their prediction model.

I used my Garmin 610 cycling watch to capture the route. It was configured to calculate calories based on speed and elevation changes (I didn't wear my heart rate monitor in the plane). So according to the Garmin software, had a rode a bicycle at that speed over that profile I would have burned...

Getting my pilot's license as well ;)

Used my Garmin GPS watch to record my flight. It thinks I cycled for an hour, covered 148 miles and burned 5572 calories with a total ascent of 11197 feet. Damn I'm good. ;) Google Earth viewable track attached.

Yay Penny Arcade. Nice office.

The Wrangler just got a new engine/transmission that actually looks decent. The high-end configurations look relatively comfortable as well.

At the moment he's playing with "Windows DVD Maker" that ships with Win7. In the past I familiarized him with Format Factory for use with his iThings. I'm just not sure what settings in Format Factory will land him with optimal DVD quality.

It isn't a firetrap if the breaker is the lightest-rated component. 12/2 is 20A, as is the plug, so the breaker is 20A. Trying to put a 50A load on that circuit, even if I resort to modding cables, just invites tripping the breaker, not starting fires. That said, I chose the 2kva unit over the...

Yup. I have three dedicated circuits for my home computers/entertainment stuff. One for "home1", one "home2", and one for accessories.

I'm certain the wiring is solid; there is a single 12/2 from a dedicated GFCI 20A circuit breaker to a single GFCI 20A outlet that only has this single UPS connected to it. As soon as the replacement arrives (Liebert GXT3 2000RT120 shipped 10/5) I'll take this one to work and try to make it...

I took care of it.

I logged in and changed the "power quality sensitivity" to "low" and the high/low "transfer voltage" to 128/105 respectively. Of course, the voltage is 121.6 +/-0.5v and has been for as long as I've had the unit (3 months?)

Unplugging the UPS Stops the psycho AVR and it just enters battery mode. I noticed it doesn't just happen when it's raining anymore, and now it is happening even with the lower load. What a piece of crap. I'll try and log into it and check the logs, maybe widen the range for the AVR.

I ran liquid cooling for quite a while. The only reason I stopped was that I was tired of rebuilding the whole thing every time I swapped out some bits. I was very paranoid about leaks, so I ordered top-end bits and did everything myself.

I have a friend who wants to take some .MKV files and create DVDs that will play in a standard DVD player. He isn't tech savvy, and I don't know anything about the .MKVs in question. No fancy menus or other authoring stuff, just a disk that will play in a DVD player. Thanks!

I called him jobs (as in plural of employment) to his face and he didn't correct me. The others did the same, so I'm pretty sure that is correct.

I'll try that. I've noticed that it does calm down if I reduce the load significantly (from ~600W to ~200W. When it isn't screwing up, even with the full load, it shows as ~50% capacity.

Because of that, I don't feel that a particularly efficient unit or configuration will ever really pay for itself. Even using electric space heaters, our annual heating costs are ~$1200. Even if the new unit cut that in half, it would take thirty years to pay for an $18k unit.

The climate here is very mild, and the house is incredibly well insulated and very air-tight. Here is what the Trane zone calculator said for my place: Average days per year above 75: 0 Average days per year below 40: 0 Average high...

Nice. Ardunio UNO - $25 Ardunio Ethernet Shield - $40 PoE Adapter - $22 6x LM35 temperature sensors - $6 Plus wire, some soldering, and some programming. So $100 plus whatever it takes to get someone to write the relevant code? That sounds very tempting...

Indeed. I was reading somewhere recently about mega cheap tiny linux PCs that were powered off USB or something. Might be cheaper just to connect some sensors to one of those.

Grr...for some reason when it rains my APC 1500 alternates rapidly into "Advanced Voltage Regulation" and back to normal. Sounds like it's doing it at 60Hz. The reported load on the device triples (taking it beyond 100%) and the battery slowly depletes. I now have an Emerson/Liebert GXT3 2000VA...

Not always. Sometimes it is a hard drive, UPS, router, PoE injector or camera. The enclosures themselves and any climate control they require is the responsibility of others, and I want to be able to hold them accountable. I need to be able to state that the recorded temps are the ambient in the...

Thanks. Still trying to work out the technical details. Switched it to 2560x1440 and now it won't let me back in to change it to something else. My machine should be able to handle just about anything on a several year old game.

Which server should I use for CoH?

I meant, perceived by his customer base. That mostly rules out "real understanding of technology".

Thanks. I don't know why my searching didn't find it, I was actively searching for devices like this on Smarthome's website.

They do, but it is pretty far from ambient in most cases.

Wow. That is a bit pricey... I'm stunned there isn't a little PoE SNMP ethernet dongle for this kind of thing...

Don't forget these are apple products, the majority of the margin is in the perception. Jobs was, at the very least, perceived to be the grand visionary.

Will Steve's death make them more or less evil? I know it will make them less profitable.

This looks perfect, but I can't find a place to buy it?

I am doing several goofy (and a few sane) things. I'm having hardware failures in equipment cabinets in the middle of nowhere and I'd like more information about what the cabinet is going through. For the goofy, I'd like to put in a computer controlled multi-zone HVAC system for my 1400sqft 3...

Interesting. Similar, and a little cheaper, but still painful.

I have a few places where attaching a thermometer to my network would be useful. Logging to a text file would be fine, an integrated web server could be interesting. POE is a practical must. A. The server room could use 3 B. Many equipment cabinets could use 2 (inside and out) C. My house could...

If it is supposed to be transparent to the client, doesn't that mean that the problem must be with the server implementation?

I use the Boxee with SMB, but don't use mount points. Works perfectly for me.

I hear it is very pretty. Is there a demo so I can just have a look?

Never even installed an MMO before, much less played one. But I did just create an account, and it will be downloading while I'm at work. I'll poke around when I get home tonight.

I don't know about the rest, but I'm certain this is wrong. In every heat engine I know of, efficiency increases with size and maintenance costs per unit energy don't.

My opinion of those two is exactly as you have described them. I do really like my ASUS Transformer, but not enough to recommend it above those you mentioned.

Not as well as Android. If you are using Google stuff, you will be better off on an Android.

Glad to hear it, paugie. It has been a while since we've heard from you...

Indeed.

That was the cheap way to fill the urge if you don't actually need anything. If you do have a need, get this and call me when it's full ;)