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I hate LA. I had a long rant written explaining why, but it doesn't really matter. Just saying it twice should be enough. I hate LA.

My first car (944 Turbo) CEL was never on; it had burned out long before I bought the car ;)

Sounds like HDCP or other protection issues. This is why it is a good idea to strip the protections as early and often as possible. I used to use AnyDVD HD, now I use MakeMKV.

My wife actually has real experience with that at the end of the Soviet Union days. It's interesting, the last time I suspected significant inflation I converted much of our savings to assets (bought a house, some cars, etc) and it didn't happen. Now that I don't have 6 figures of cash lying...

Another flashback. I remember Blazing Saddles being funnier and funnier as I grew up.

Not that I'm a parent, but I was born after some of the Star Wars movies were made, so I have my own experience to go by. My parent's put it and many other things when I was quite young (I don't remember the first time). It was good fun, and every time I watched it I picked up more and more of...

I think we are a long, long way from that happening. We are indeed in bad shape, but look at the alternatives. Euro - worse Yuan - politically driven therefore unstable BitCoin - "The man" doesn't have control so it will be shot down ;)

I'm honestly surprised. I expected Stereodude to be with me on this one; massive government bloat, huge bureaucratic inefficiencies? At the same time I expected the more liberal here to be aghast at the notion that some loss of life is a cost of doing business, a price of our success. While...

I'm so glad I don't have to deal with Outlook anymore. It is such a piece of crap. *Except when helping my wife, who's company thought it would be a great idea to have Outlook 2007 in a Citrix Metaframe session inside a VPN....even when you are in the office.

Chandelier is up and running beautifully. We've chickened out with the colored diffusers, and I've programmed it to run at 15% brightness with bare LEDs. I'll get some pictures tomorrow when the construction stuff/scaffolding around it is cleaned up.

Historical murder rates in the United States (pdf): 1980 23,040 1985 18,976 1990 23,438 1993 24,526 1994 23,326 1995 21,606 1996 19,645 1997 18,208 1998 16,974 1999 15,522 2000 15,586 2001 16,037 2002 16,204 2003 16,582 2004 16,137 2005 16,692...

an iPhone does not sync as well as an Android phone WRT contacts. Those specs are outdated, I'll update shortly ;)

I would get an Android with the biggest screen I could find. Preferably something that the aftermarket ROMs can work with. But if you want something that just works, an iPhone is not a bad choice.

The only problem with that is finding heat pipes that are both flexible and allow for any orientation. Most of the ones that can be arranged arbitrarily have complex internal wicking structures that make them fragile.

I had this weird thought last night about having a single fan in the center and forcing the air through the "legs" and then through candles that are finned on the inside and solid on the outside. That or running heatpipes from inside the copper tubes throughout the main mass of the chandelier...

Just watch out for falling turtles.

I like the (exposed) copper, something about being honest with the materials and the craftsmanship.

Thanks JTR, that is good to hear.

After 8 hours of 100% load in 72F of mostly still air, the base of the copper "candle" was 100F. That is really amazing because the LED itself was only 107F; fantastic heat transfer. The transformer itself was 111F on the outside of the plastic housing. This is now the bit that I am most worried...

That looks awesome, JTR. I've assembled the chandelier, but I'm still waiting for the metal works to return the shortened chain and redesigned ceiling mount. Originally it was for a 4m ceiling and a hook coming out of the plaster.

Looks like the key is about $110 online.

That looks much better than the other solutions I've seen.

No, the 4" thick grease filters cut down the flow substantially. I'd be surprised if it was over 600CFM now. It's just enough that the smoke didn't go anywhere but the vent, and didn't accumulate at all.

Just did the first real test for my in-ceiling kitchen vent. Deeply marinated steaks on a very hot cast-iron grill. It wasn't enough until I cracked a window to provide some supply air, then it was perfect.

I usually don't wake to an alarm...my on-call cell phone usually catches me before then ;)

I agree e_dawg. At work I even combined 5000K and 6500K 4' fluorescent tubes. They both claim 90-95CRI, but it seems that each fills in the gaps of the other. I know JTR combines assorted color LEDs with white ones to level out the spectrum when he can. This fixture is backed by a pair of 75w...

Just running the machine at the office at the moment. Once it gets colder we'll get the rest going.

Perhaps that is the reason they shipped as USB first?

What text does it write? "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" ;)

I don't think so. It would be great if it could just generate the data, then check that it was written correctly a few times, then repeat.

I don't know what effect AHCI has on SSDs, another advantage to having them as PCIe.

No idea. But it worked the first time and doesn't affect me at all, so I haven't bothered looking into it.

I haven't had any of the recent motherboards not take 3TB drives in IDE mode, even on the 3rd party connectors.

I'll get one as soon as a usual suspect begins offering them. I won't put anything important on it, of course, but I will beat the snot out of it and see what happens. Does anyone have a tool for beating the snot out of a drive? Something that could fill the drive, check the integrity of the...

I honestly don't care about the mercury (the amount is trivial, even in large numbers, compared to other sources), but dimming is a must. New technology should not cause me to lose features I already have.

I'll second B³... 500GB external hard drives are <$50 each, and much easier to deal with.

Of the ~50 cans in my house, 9 of them are used enough to make even $50 bulbs worthwhile. I'm just not sure how the light of these would appear next to the halogens.

Wow, that is nuts. I'm certain the LCD displays can't work in those temps?

Those are the first LED screw-in bulbs that I would consider acceptable. 1. Decent brightness 2. Decent Color 3. Dimmable Not an option for my chandelier, though. This fixture was brought in from Russia and does not have a UL sticker. Therefore I needed to keep the whole thing low voltage.

Looks awesome, thanks JTR. Can't wait to get it put together and tested.

Honestly I hadn't even considered an operating enviroment below freezing. My outdoor gear has fans and heaters to maintain a decent temp range (0C-50C).

Yup. 75C sounds like a DVR application. Or maybe automotive.

Interesting that the drives they mention to use 1TB/platters include capacities lower than 1TB.

I don't think so, I'll just be shuffling stuff around. All my money is going into the kitchen at the moment.

I found that a bunch of the controllers on Gigabyte and Intel boards support them, but only in IDE mode, not AHCI or RAID.

Nope. Just got the new systems up and running. I'll take a look at the faulty mobo/CPU/RAM at work tomorrow.

Wife's computer just fried. No post, no video. Just finished putting mine in place as hers. Good excuse to upgrade the home machines.

I can second Samsung's PCL interface. After I got one of our vendors to re-write their interface to work, it still inserts 3 random characters at the top of the page. Sometimes they're there, sometimes not, but they are always different ;)

The other thing to keep in mind is that multimedia files (other than BMP and uncompressed RAW) are already compressed. You're going to burn through a ton of CPU time and obfuscate what files are where without actually saving much space.

I like it, I might have chosen it over the one I got.