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I have a number of clients on both DSL and Cable in the area. The best DSL plan will get you around 7mbps, Cable will do 42mbps down and 2mbps vs 15mbps up. Not sure why, but DSL just sucks around here.

Yup, not happy about it. But the speed difference compared to DSL is significant (in my area at least). I've heard that people have had good luck keeping their promotional pricing long-term if they make a bit of a stink, and all I want is internet, so we'll see how it goes.

Holy crap.

250GB is an awful lot.

I wouldn't worry about the wire strength, the electronics box will be in the attic directly overhead and I'll have complete access.

Really? If we were to have the flicker LEDs flicker independently, wouldn't we need an independent wire to each of them? How many and what gauge for the power LEDs?

I'm fairly certain I want everything in the chandelier to be low voltage DC, which would involve even more equipment in the attic and even more wires heating into the fixture.

I gotcha. You mentioned the flickering being out because of the dimmer. Could we make the flickering a seperate light mounted to the same fixture with an independent on/off switch?

Ah, yes, pictures. I'll do those tonight if I can. If we were using aluminum tubes for the candles, couldn't we run the wire inside the tube? The fixture is designed to take the wires inside the tube and then through the inside of the fixture to the top, if we can use small enough gauge.

That does look ideal. Now that the sheetrock is up, we can start to worry about this again. After looking more at the chandelier, I'm thinking it might be a better idea to put all the controls and electronics in the attic and feed power down to the LEDs in the unit. Would the extra wire length...

Just some neat pictures from a previous project JTR has done for me; LED lighting embedded in the bottle racks light the bottles from below. These pictures were taken during the day, and I'm not so good with a camera, and the chair was moved during an exposure, but you get the idea. Images on...

Reality does have a liberal bias...

From what I understand, the most recent batch of docs was released to a number of papers around the globe for analysis and redaction before anything was released. This means that the decision to release the docs was a fairly common one. If the press felt the need to release the docs as well (and...

? So knives are bad because they can stab people? Fire is bad because it burns down people's homes?

After doing battle with sales prices, price matching, and a massive stock shortage of some killer deals, this is what I will hopefully be ordering tomorrow.

Just ordered Comcast for the house. The rep kept trying to talk me into adding tv to my internet order and seemed amazed that I wasn't interested in any number of channels at any price.

This is an important point. Wikileaks is a tool; a way for people to anonymously publish information. A tool that performs this task is invaluable in modern society, corruption and cronyism exists at such high levels that no other technique will get this information out. The value of this...

There are special ends for solid cable, I use it for my outdoor antenna stuff.

No appreciable difference for GbE between 5e and 6. If there was a kink, the concern is that it damaged the cable, not that the kink slows communication. I would probably make a holes a bit bigger, and use great stuff to seal them up when you are installed.

Depends on the NIC, but Intel NIC software will give you stats WRT transmit errors.

Did you put the ends on in the correct order? The different pairs have a different number of twists per foot, making that significant.

That is awesome. Props to TSA and NYPD for not freaking out.

I'm a big fan of cutting spending on everything else as well, but if the Iraq war cost (conservatively) $3T+ and wasn't paid for, that is gross financial negligence.

Something like this?

I'll give it a shot when I get home, thanks.

Wow. That is absolutely nuts. Glad I only have to deal with 110 most of the time; it is only a minor annoyance.

I haven't gotten anything new since we last spoke about this.

Ultimate

See image. Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H57M-USB3 I'd like to use more than half my RAM.

Miss me yet?

Clinton had it fixed. That wasn't all that long ago...

Because we fought two wars without paying for them? Not particularly responsible, but one would hope that, had their been proper disclosure to the people, there wouldn't have been enough buy-in to get us there. Another argument for transparency.

Because working with your arms extended to a vertical work surface is as uncomfortable as working with your head bent looking at a horizontal work surface?

Not sure. I do occasionally hit the edit button instead of the quote button, but canceling doesn't make the "edited by" thingy show up.

I just eyeball them. Keeping the drive against the back rail, and "feeling" it in. I don't think I'm busting it up too badly; of course, anything plugged/unplugged enough times will break.

What are you mounting 2.5" disks into? What thickness of drive is expected? What drive are you using?

It really is all about the screen size. A friend bought a blueray player and was disappointed as he didn't see a quality improvement. I introduced him to 1080p on my 120" screen. He now has a 120" screen.

I think it was more about what Iran's neighbors had to say in those cables, letting Iran realize it is far more lonely than it thought.

This is very useful, thanks. Torque is easy to demonstrate with a torque wrench. HP, not so much.

Congrats to Lunar for 6,000 posts!

The one I have has a pair of eSATA ports on the back, one per drive. No PM required.

Do you happen to have a howto on that somewhere?

There's a pill for that. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

My local news is from my local NPR affiliate. The weather is easy enough online.

One of the things I like most about torrenting is that it prevents me from burning hour after hour not watching anything in particular. I find a show I like, download all of them, and then watch them over the next months when I feel like them. TVTorrents will even add your favorite shows to a...

I've never seen IDE ones, but I have several of these. Some here have had reliability problems with them, however.

I wouldn't have to at all if it weren't for DRM. That still sucks.

They all are some level of crap; particularly the audio connections (front audio connections always suck) and the SD slots. But I've had several that worked for over a year, and they are quite cheap.

Wow. I've never re-benched the things, or kept the original data for comparison. Where does it settle out to?

I'm looking for a good analogy/explanation of horsepower. Torque is easier because it can exist in a static-ish system. Does anyone have a suggestion?