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From what I understand, CFL means not dimmable? I consider that a must-have for domestic lighting, particularly in multi-purpose rooms and bedrooms, which is all I have.

Um, yes....yes....that is what I meant. I'm exhausted. Between doing demo all day and reading lighting specs all night...I'm toast.

Not 100% applicable, as I visualize all my servers (even if it is a small business with one VM). I now have a half-dozen servers with a Z-Drive and a spinning disk backup. Depending on what they are willing to spend on ESXi licensing, I either do 30-minute snapshots or every night backups...

Thanks for the tip. What should I be looking at? They offer LED lighting, but it is 3200K, ~80CRI, dim, and crazy expensive.

It is time for me to begin wiring and purchasing fixtures. Unfortunately, the budget for the fancy lighting got sunk into other aspects of the house, so it will need to be fairly normal to start. Looks like we'll be installing about 50 recessed lights throughout the house. It seems that...

Wow. I haven't heard of that before, but I only have experience with the older 3Ware RAID cards.

Thanks for noticing, Coug. What do I get to do for my birthday? Demolish more walls! At last I'll have help, anyone foolish enough to ask what I wanted for my birthday will be there...

Really cheaper? My CDW guy gives me some pretty awesome breaks sometimes.

I would have expected a freeBSD zfs appliance by now. Anyone seen one?

That is very cool.

Even if you are willing to order in significantly large numbers (<50), newegg still often has the best prices. I know they beat out my Ingram Micro pricing, even when I was doing $250k/yr.

I used to work for a big box computer retailer, and to think that they handle the merchandise better than UPS would be a mistake. Further, thinking that because you can talk to someone face-to-face you will get satisfaction is a mistake. The managers there are trained to be cold as ice and deny...

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Wow. That really couldn't be any bigger, could it?

Shade I'll have some of, though I'm hoping for overcast. If I don't have an assistant for the reflector, what are the best tricks for positioning it?

That fisheye zoom also looks pretty interesting. I also like the "by-the-way" mention of the 60D.

Probably some great glass, though. I've got an outdoor portrait shoot coming up in a few weeks. Wondering what additional lighting support I should have? Secondary flash (I have a 430EX at the moment)? Reflectors?

A and B are just for legacy reasons.

The 5970/4GB is here...for $1200.

Something went wonky with my little corner of the world today. It was 80F before 10PM and it's 100F before noon. My task for the day? Repair lighting in the attic. Sucks.

Isn't that past the JPEG size limits? I wonder what the RAW file size would be.

Confirmed here. Never noticed before as my laptops all have physical switches to disable wireless that I use regularly.

I am a fan of UNKLE, but the snippets off the website sound...wrong. Like the reverb has been tweaked?

I start by giving them the choice. Something that is easier to use, easier to access, cheaper, and easier to share documents with, that might not be able to do some obscure stuff. I've also noticed these guys put out better documents, because they aren't spending all day screwing with fonts and...

The company is used to just handling RAM RMAs, looks like they just don't understand what they are doing.

MSI is much the same. That doesn't mean I stop buying them, I just evaluate their product as if it had no warranty. The 40GB Intel with warranty vs 30GB Vertex without @ $100 - no brainer. The 80GB Intel @ $200 vs 60GB Vertex @ $130? - maybe.

100+ installs without issue.

Merc, My grandfather was exactly like that, and I do look forward to learning all the required skills. However, my wife has been warned by my mother already that every meal when she was growing up tasted like sawdust or plaster. I'm also trying to keep her involved in the process; she knows...

The city does have buses, but they don't go anywhere you would want to go, and they don't get there in any reasonable amount of time. I could sell the boat ($6k) and all the camera gear ($8k?) and my gaming rig ($6k?) AND sell the car and get a designer kitchen...or not.

He was discussing mounting them to some kind of offroad vehicle whose onboard power system couldn't handle the additional load of normal lights. Compared to automotive stuff, it is both light and cheap.

Coug, I can't afford an elevator. The Audi is worth $25k (with 55k miles), the GTI (with 230k miles) is perhaps $2k. The house was $260k. We aren't poor ($6k/mo combined?) but a new kitchen is >$50k. We will get one, at some point, but putting something together for the next ~5 years will allow...

Someone was asking me for my opinion without additional information, so judging it based on what it is (weight, power, cost) does it look like a decent light? Is there something with those rough specs that performs better or costs considerably less?

What are people's thoughts on this one?

A bit? ;) The demolition that has started, and needs to happen before we can move in, requires the destruction of the current kitchen. The final kitchen isn't in the cards for quite some time.

Google Docs does everything I need it to, I only have the MS suite when I'm dealing with other people's stuff.

Indeed. I even have a couple of them as clients, and they have been advising me. Of course doing it yourself, particularly solving a problem in a way no one else has, can be quite fun. Besides, I can't afford their solutions.

Much like Vista and 7. Better than 2007, but significantly different than '03. It will probably be fine in the long run.

OmniForm's detection isn't any better than Acrobat's; they both suck. Really, for a one-off form, use a typewriter.

Geeking out...evaluating the feasibility of using 80/20 as the skeleton for kitchen cabinetry.

Depending on the number of fields to fill in and how often you have to do it? Photoshop, Acrobat, or a typewriter.

The best idea was in a Slashdot post. Provide an update that completely uninstalls the product, offering a 300% CPU performance gain immediately.

I read that as well, and am anxious as to how they will do it. If there is even the slightest thought to making it playable on a console, the whole idea is toast. The accuracy/realism/difficulty was what made it fun. You really did have the sense that you were developing a skill.

Got it. Thanks. I've never needed OCZs support, let me know how it works out.

So if a different drive connected with the same cables also won't post, doesn't that mean it is the cables or the board?

Just my opinion, but I prefer to use boxes over rings as it gives some strain relief.

Will it post with a different drive connected using the same cables?

You could always just strip the entire house. Now that I've worked on my technique, I can do 15' of wall down to the studs in under an hour. Only about 100' of wall left to do. ;)

That is the tool. Adjustable doesn't really matter. Once you get the hang of it you'll never want to terminate your own RJ45s again.

You'll need a punchdown tool for the patch panel anyway, so you might as well get the same for the wall jacks. They are faster once you get the hang of it. I would get some "old work" (remodel) wall boxes to mount the plates to; they have tabs that open inside the wall and hold the box to the...

Well I'm now in the market for a 32GB fast one. The 8GB it is replacing was a Flash Voyager, and price isn't significant. Anyone know what the fastest is? Ha! Voyager GTR Not cheap, that. But 34MB/s reads and 28MB/s writes