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Looks like I'll be buying a house soon. And in my price range, that isn't a house you can move into. Since I'll undoubtedly be doing a fair bit of demo, and reworking the electrical and plumbing already, it has me thinking about LED lighting. I'm sure that JTR will be the star here, but I...

Very much. Don't do it. 7 is supposed to be smart enough to know when you have an SSD and disable all defrag activities. It detected fine on my machine.

I've been lurking at CPF for years now, but will be starting a thread here about wiring a house explicitly for custom LED lighting. A little bit later...

That is a pretty through test...I'll need to put some machines through it and see what I get.

I'll update my 160GB G2s tomorrow if I have time.

You need something on screen from the beginning, just so people don't think it's broken. Also, some of your slow fades seem to be a little jittery...perhaps you are using too much compression?

You mean "can it happen"? Sure. Was it raining during their delivery? Does your mailman do your route on foot? Are you near the end of a leg? Did his bag fall in a puddle while he was running from a dog?

Very true, but your recorded voice is nearly identical to how other people hear you. Such a shame.

Sounds like you need a better mailbox.

Ugh. Working on it. I'd love to get the house and cars sorted first, but I don't mind the practice ;)

Indeed. My agent did some research, and found that he is in pre-foreclosure on another house already. Looking at what he owes on all of them, he will need to pull all the equity he has out of the other 4 houses to cover the additional debt on this one to complete the sale. Otherwise he might...

Congratulations! My sister had hers last week, and our best friends had theirs two weeks ago. As a matter of fact, about 7 (70%?) of our friends have had kids in the last year.

We were, but what I want isn't in our budget at the moment. My wife is also reluctant to commit so much money to something that doesn't exist. I'm hoping to calm her fears by vaulting the main room in the new house and replace the kitchen myself.

Yup. We now live about 25 minutes away, and might be moving about 15 minutes away (about 10 from the ocean).

Put in a low-ball offer on a house today. Fingers crossed.

Got to play with a Porsche Panamera Turbo today in Carmel-By-The-Sea. The exterior is undoubtedly Porsche, but it is a huge car. The interior is the best I have ever seen in any car, including Bently and Maybach.

ER can't be a fun experience. I've never had to go (never even had to bring someone else), so I have no idea what it's like.

This is my fourth ;) Bad teeth run in the family, something about my saliva being incompatible with the enamel on my teeth. My wife was awesome, and spent most of the morning looking for a dentist that was open and breaking into the house stash of painkillers.

Almost bought a 7D this morning. Instead, I got an emergency root canal. Same price, but a lot less fun.

If you click the "HD" button in the bottom-right, it toggles between 720p and 1080p.

Yup, that'll slideshow it. Though, to be fair, it also takes 10%+ of my 4Ghz i7 and that is way higher than the resolution of the screen. It does manage the 720p with about 85% CPU utilization and 2 instances of skipping.

COD:MW2 looks like $60 on steam? Is there a discount somehow?

Give me a youtube link that you feel challenges an Atom, and I'll give it a shot. Mine also plays xvid DVDs just fine.

Look, I installed it as well. I evaluated whether it is worth it, and decided that it is. But that doesn't mean that you aren't giving up more freedom and information and control than you should have to. It doesn't mean that they aren't evil, just as DRMed music (and therefore iTunes and all...

How about this? Where do you tell Steam not to use all your bandwidth? There is a drop-down for what speed your internet connection is, but even if you specify 56k, if will use more if you have it. I understand that it operates at a lower priority, and surfing on that machine won't be affected...

Yes, they are. I've never owned a console, but now that they are internet-attached agents of their manufacturers, I certainly won't.

I haven't used any of the machines listed, but I have reservations about Intel GMA and Aero. I'd actually take the 4510s even if the costs were equal.

I'm pretty religious about going back to stores I have accounts and opting out of everything. Most of them respect it.

Steam is the devil. If you sell your soul (agree to them knowing everything about every game, and requiring their permission to play), then you get cheap games and a convenient delivery package. I have an account, but I only install it on new systems out of weakness.

I don't remember the last time I got a SPAM in my inbox. Google Mail is my friend.

Just bought an HP 4014N, we'll see how it does.

That is the play at the moment, then.

Anyone need an account on Google Wave? I have a couple, just PM me an e-mail address.

You have to be a geek to enjoy something so dry. I know I did.

That is a heck of a price, thanks.

There are those plug timers... Or you could use a home automation system of some kind...

I do, so my non-native english-speaking wife can make fun of me. I will escape that she beat me in English scrabble.

Lunar, what are you doing that is allowing you to even notice the difference? I can find it with a stopwatch, but when I went from a RAID-0 of X25-E to X25-M to Vertex and back I couldn't tell.

I've used a few, but none that I was happy enough to recommend.

Meh. They didn't include the most important test (4k random write). I don't think it will be that much better than an Intel drive on that. For a while I went from a pair of 120GB Vertex to four, and the performance difference was essentially zero. Maxing out the RAID controller.

No idea. My installs don't have this issue.

133/64 is already depreciated. No one is targeting that market, just as no one is targeting OS9 or 8-tracks. The platform is dead.

The towers are in Kuala Lumpur (sp?) IIRC. The thing I noticed first in Singapore were the Mercedes Taxis, and the crazy clean-ness of everything. That is also where I went to my first computer gaming center...friggin awesome. Zerg rush FTW!

The new firmwares for the OCZ drives do garbage collection without needing OS support.

Price, mainly. The Vertex is 97% of the X25-M for most users. I'm not seeing any difference between my two machines (one with a RAID0 of X25-M, the other with Vertex). Instant is instant, and the Vertex is enough to get you there. Availability is another argument, and that you can buy 30GB...

Greg, The benefits of a SCSI SSD would be exactly zero. None of the advanced features are exclusive to SCSI anymore, and the transfer rates aren't anything to be excited about, either. I'm pretty sure that the future of SSDs is in PCIe direct attached drives. The other part of what I'm saying...

I think a single OCZ Vertex (not to mention the X-25M) would smoke any number of any spinning disk for desktop use. The significance of access time is THAT huge.

Congrats to Stereodude for hitting 3k!

Funny you mention that. Last weekend I went down to visit my 90-year-old grandmother. Ended up painting and exterminating the whole time, working harder and longer than usual to complete the work so I could get back to my desk and rest.

Actually got some sleep last night, nearly 8 hours, but I still feel super tired. I might get a few days off after Christmas, that would be nice.