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I've also just about settled on some Polk LC80i speakers for the home theater. This avoids the cabinet depth issues we had discussed earlier. They seem to get good reviews, and are just far enough out of my budget that I might be able to swing 2 channels soon, a center in a while, and surrounds...

Look on the bright side; it will take that much longer to reach any cap by your ISP ;) I've decided to run a pair of torrent machines, a "high risk" that runs through BTGuard and a "low risk" that doesn't. Not exactly sure what criteria to use, but recent releases of anything are certainly high...

I've found myself in possession of two Onkyo TX-8255 stereo receivers that I would like to use to power the speakers in the rest of the house. I'm planning on just stacking them on top of each other, and on top of the TX-SR507 and another surround capable unit (TBD) for the rooms with video. Of...

Got BTGuard, but I've encountered some issues. 1. Using their encryption, speed sucks. I'm managing 8kB/s instead of 2MB/s. Are you confident that the proxy is sufficient? 2. No incoming connections, so any service that is ratio based (TVTorrents, for example) won't work. What is your experience?

But there is a difference between 2TB and 3TB and there isn't one between 3TB and 4TB. Were you to produce a matrix of technologies which support each capacity, the list would have significant differences between 2TB and 3TB, and no differences between 3TB and 4TB+. IIRC, there isn't another...

Except that it has. Just because they don't have a good excuse seems irrelevant. Home server can't handle drives larger than 2TB, many RAID cards can't handle them either. But I suspect that you knew this, so the position you took in your last post seems curious.

Indeed. I wish you the best. Siting here playing pictionary with family and friends. Good times.

A thanks to time for all of his...time.

May the next year be better than the last for everyone here, even Merc ;)

Time to step up, Coug. That looks like a permanent investment on his part.

AFAIK, SATA is a subset of the SAS command set.

That would be a waste.

My ink vendor includes a 1lb bag on M&Ms (peanut) with any order over $200. It isn't marketed anywhere, it just shows up.

If the new heatsink requires a back bracket other than stock, and the chassis doesn't have a rear cutout for such things, you will need to remove the motherboard. Be careful about how much pressure is required to remove the HSF; I've had older ones stick so tightly to the chip that it pulled...

The aux port in the trunk turns off, but the one in the console stays on in my cars.

The input on all of the dedicated GPS units suck. The best item I've found for the task is an iPhone/Pad.

I like the original, I suppose this one could be interesting.

I meant that you have to pay a massive amount to overcome those hurdles.

This is why I've practically given up on zooms; every step is considerably more money: First the quality is poor, then the speed, then the weight. I still haven't gotten the 100-400 because it is so darn heavy.

That does look like a neat toy, but not fast enough for me.

I have many friends with contractors licenses who are helping me out, and hopefully, they know what they are doing. Also structural engineers, electricians, plumbers, roofers, etc. I'm doing the work, but to their specification and with their inspection and sign-off.

We'll see :bleh:

I've only had the money to do it for ~10 years ;)

The house had a laundry room, which was wired for an electric dryer, and which we are turning into a bathroom. Our washer and dryer were too large to fit there in any case, so I had to put them in the garage. Because this is an older house, and we plan on fitting both cars in the garage, space...

Sorry. Scrambling to get the laundry working. Had to change the orifice to run on natural gas instead of propane, plumb the natural gas, plumb the water, drill through the stucco for the dryer vent, run the electrical, etc.

Yup. Just plug them in and off you go.

It is. This particular piece of equipment has been failing for a couple weeks, and is backordered all the way to the factory. Typically simply cycling the power will get it going for another couple weeks. This time I cycled the power and it didn't come back up at all, so I got to rebuild a power...

Mine happens to be an X58, so you are in luck ;)

It wasn't supposed to be a full day; called in for an emergency that I thought I had already diagnosed as a 5 minute fix. It wasn't.

The ICH on some newer Intel boards.

The closest I ever got to there was taking the night train from Bangkok to Chiang Rai to do some trekking near the Cambodian border. Rode some semi-wild elephants, made a bamboo raft and took it down a river for the better part of a day, smoked some opium and hashish, kissed a cobra. Ah, to be...

Nothing but house is happening for me for a long time. Though, to be honest, I pretty much have a set of lenses (10-500mm and macro). And it's not like the hardware I have is the limiting factor in my pictures.

When I went to work (6AM) it was 38F and dark. When I came home from work (9PM) it was 46F and dark. I'm told it was a lovely, sunny day. :(

I have 3 USB drives and 4 internal. All working well, though I'm not exactly thrashing them (mostly backups).

I really enjoy the islands past Phuket, and the areas near the northern border.

No, they just don't work that well as stools. One failed during window installation, the other during sheet rocking.

It can't be that important if precipitation exceeds a foot a month.

During construction I managed to break both toilet seats.

Indeed. I'm in the process of sending some backups of my data to 3TB USB drives. At 100MB/s it still takes forever.

It is still far from ready. No interior doors, no blinds, no kitchen, no flooring, no closets, a bunch of plywood where a french door should be, and a bunch of stuff isn't painted. But we are out of money, so we move in.

Moving into the house we bought today. Our offer for the house was accepted 363 days ago, and we got the keys 6 months ago. Since then $80k+ has gone into the place.

I didn't have any issues adding a bunch of 3TB SATA drives to my system quite a while ago.

I've found that the best bang for the buck at the moment is 23" wide screen monitors for about $160 at Costco.

Oh, I've finally have some live users in my sights. Watch out Dan (9.5mos) and Pradeep (9.9mos) ;)

Laramie is beautiful, the least objectionable part of Wyoming, IMHO. Snows less, pretty country, near CO.

Wow. I suspect that I would notice some time before a tumor reached even 10% of my body weight.

That is an excellent shot. I was thinking of driving up to Fremont's Peak Observatory that night, but it has been storming like crazy, and that road is sketchy enough in the dry during the day.

I heard an interesting idea yesterday on NPR; make savings rates part of your credit score.

Nope. Just RAID0.

Still crossing my fingers. Dozens in place everywhere, including servers, without any failures.