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It was a disk, actually, not a wheel. The weight was seat-of-the-pants approximation, based on what I could reasonably get into my garage, but the flywheel was a handy online calculator. Edit: Revisiting my math, that dimension was for an earlier, lighter flywheel.

Don't like sharing your porn? ;)

That looks like it would do the trick, though I am not an AV expert.

5.8MHz would be terrible for transmission. 5.8GHz is better technically, but it really matters what other devices you already have and what frequencies they are using.

Not a product, just straight math. Purely hypothetical.

Yup. Balance would be critical. A wheel of that size made from Steel would be about 6 inches wide. There would need to be one hell of a CVT for both the drive and generation. A vacuum would be necessary as the outer portions of the wheel would be going many times the speed of sound. Considering...

Haven't gotten there yet. It isn't an energy producer (like a generator), but more an alternative to batteries or hydrogen production/storage. Storing 5.5KWh in batteries would get expensive pretty quickly, particularly considering that, to avoid deep discharges, you would need a significantly...

I can store 1.5 months power consumption for my house in a 20 ton flywheel 6 feet tall if I can get it up to 20k RPM. Who needs batteries ;)

It's more about not wanting to stop the activity I was doing before I went.

Lunar, I think the geek solution is to hook your cable to an HD Homerun and then stream it via the network to any device you have. Using a dedicated wireless transmitter to a dedicated display device seems...inelegant.

I've been thinking of an iPad for that purpose, but holding out in hopes that a larger Android 3.0 device will be available soon.

Missed the Thinkpad, but the current review is just awesome. It ends with "this is probably just crap."

Wow. I had heard about it on the news, but they never give enough numbers to understand the scale. That is massive. Best of luck. It flooded here when I was a kid, but the area is so flat that it would need to spread for a hundred square miles before it rose from my street to my house. By then...

Depending on how mild the steel is, you might have luck with tin snips.

If it is anything like here, you have access to the website and can download iso files for everything and get all your program keys. I don't even bother with the physical disks from MS.

On the workstation. Even MS Backup would be able to do it. Have the backups run on the workstation, then take the daily diffs, encrypt them, and stick them in the share to be copied. There is no way to have the server do the diffs if you don't want the server to have knowledge of the data.

The only way it would work is to make the backup a differential, then compress/encrypt that for upload. I know the compression/encryption would be slow, that I why you would do it in advance.

With the server changing IP address and being unavailable, the server will need to initiate the connection. I would probably have the server power up on a timer, automatically connect via VPN, and then start pulling the data from a shared folder. I would make that shared folder contain a...

RAID controllers usually play nicely as you mentioned, but I've had some SoftRAIDs mess around with the beginning of the drive.

As an additional note, Chewy is correct, and it also works with the OS drive if you feel like it.

If it is only B&W and without features (duplexing, etc), you would probably have better luck.

I tried a few years ago. They were so much trouble that I've since just bought printers with network capability in them.

Gotcha. Thanks.

Excuse my ignorance, but how would you bi-amp with a 608? It doesn't have active crossovers or the ability to assign extra amp channels to L/C/R?

I will, in time.

MS Office, most OS/App files, most program data files, some databases. The only files where major effort has been put into compression is multimedia.

If you are working with compressed RAW and JPEG, I don't blame you.

Interestingly enough, my new rig is running the CPU at 41C using a cheap-ish ZeroTherm cooler. I also have some Zalman CNPS9900NT coolers here that I might play with.

My new home system (sig) is based on this build, and is amazingly fast.

Which of your cameras allow dual CF cards in backup mode? I know of a few with CF/SD backup support.

Yes.

My cards are already 90MB/s. I think I'm good.

That's actually where I was going, but I'm nice ;)

I share Merc's distaste for Facebook. All of his points are valid, but the one that annoys me the most is the following: Facebook has recently surpassed Walmart as the thing that reduces my faith in humanity the most. That sense that the bulk of the populace are merely cattle, acting in their...

At one point I built a(n) (R)AID-0 from 8 2TB WD Green drives. Worked it hard for about two weeks without issue, before I chickened out and went RAID-10 ;)

There will be 6-core chips later on, 8-core will only be the in the Xeons. Neither will be out for a while. You still have the fastest CPU (980X).

Intel's controller is faster than the Realtek, USB will likely stay more prevalent than eSATA, the rest doesn't matter. I still don't like ASUS boards. They have never worked the way I expect them to out of the box; changing some random setting in the BIOS or doing a full BIOS upgrade has been...

Nope. I believe the acronym lost it's meaning at some point.

BS. And it isn't specifically MS. My Oracle/Sun rep called today to offer training on cloud-something. Normally I'm not so short with him.

The R in RAID stands for redundant. Therefore, the R does not belong. I leave it to avoid confusion.

What is your concern?

Being able to run with a single drive (or a RAID-1 of them) would be nice.

Grrr. Back in stock with free shipping for about 30 minutes. Not long enough. :(

Ram prices @ 1 year low.

Sold out. Crap.

So that is what is required, no? The TX-NR708 is only $550 @ Newegg right now. In the cart as we speak.

The amp is 100W @ 8 ohms per channel, and the speakers are 125W @ 4 ohms. Not sure how that works.

The Onkyo site has a semi-decent way of explaining what you get with every upgrade. The next version up gives Pandora and USB support, which would be a waste considering the primary input is a computer. The one I'm looking at already has 7.2 support, HDMI 1.4a, Faroudja DCDi upconversion, and...

Looking for a place to buy them, and there is a massive price difference between vendors, with the usual suspects being on the high end (Crutchfield - $450, Safe and Sound - $220). Any tips?

Wow, what a coincidence. It makes sense to have a pair in the center, but while I don't have anything in the center, is there a trick to make my surround sound stuff work through just the stereo set?