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But look on the bright side; the internet connections suck and there are tons of deadly animals ;) I only tease on the internet because you are the only one with worse or more expensive connections than us.

That second one is great, and includes the first.

I believe it is spelled "dooty" in that usage ;) Unrelated: I was listening to AWOLNATION - Sail at work at a fairly high volume, and there are a couple places in that song that hit me with blasts of air from the ports nearly as powerfully as the ThinkGeek Airzooka. Some strange combination of...

I'm not disagreeing with anything you've said, but I will point out the sillyness here. Allowing a maybe-couple-times-a-year event control your decision is a really bad idea. It is the same reasoning that causes millions of people to drive trucks and SUVs alone and empty 99% of the time. Even if...

The thought is that if you aren't in a hurry you can use the supercharger for free, but if you are in a rush $60 isn't bad. I was even hearing talk of them tracking the remaining life of each battery backing and offering credits/debits on the one you get vs. the one you gave.

No new battery tech in the near future (anyone with a tech "3-5 years away") is vapo(u)rware. The Tesla battery swap is an interesting idea. Tediously slow video here, but it does prove a point.

I have no doubt that this glaring oversight will be resolved very quickly. In fact, Elon Musk has already said that he'll have self-driving cars within 3 years. I was planning on taking advantage of his resale price guarantee and get in on some of that action as well. This time around I was...

No adaptive cruise? That is a deal-breaker to me :(

According to their site: It also says that it can be added later, so I wouldn't worry about it to start.

I was planning on getting a P85+ (or equivalent) in a couple years, but if I am going to buy sooner it would need to cost less than $100k. Looking at the base with only the "High Power Home Charging", "Tech Package", and "Rear Facing Seats" puts it at just under $70k in CA. Trying to decide...

Thanks. The only part that worries me is when the CEL is blinking, indicating that fuel is being dumped down the exhaust and igniting in the cat causing damage. That and having to keep the laptop and cable in the car to clear the EPC codes from time to time. I spend half my time looking up...

My wife isn't a fan. Apparently their Russian sucks (Connery and Baldwin). Though some of the others on the Russian sub were actually Russian.

I thought they only kept track of the SSBNs ;)

A friend's Android phone doesn't have a native app for managing files. In particular I'm looking at moving stuff from onboard memory to the SD card. If it could retain app functionality while moving music/video/pictures that would be awesome.

Replaced the plugs even though they looked fine. Swapped the coils and the misfires are still on cylinders 1 and 3. I'm noticing that it only happens when the engine is cold, particularly when it is humid/damp out. My mechanic is suggesting that we might try a portion of the wiring harness...

"The Hunt for Red October" is one of my favorite films, nearly as good as the book (RIP Tom Clancy).

Privacy is a nice concept, but if you are under the impression that Google doesn't already have everything they could want and more, you are more optimistic than I. It's like trying to keep your SSN secure from the NSA.

I haven't seen that question. Is it because I'm already signed in using a Google account? Now that the majority of my "TV" watching is YouTube, I really like the subscription and recommendation systems.

That is the fastest business plan available. No caps or limits on hosting, which is nice. I would kill for Google to move in, though.

I'm fairly certain it is just a BIOS revision issue. Once I get the original CPU freed up (3970X) I'll see if I can get the Gigabyte board to boot.

Interesting. At the moment I just use the Strava app on my phone in my back pocket. No display in front of me at all. The one thing I would like to have is instantaneous speed; when you are in a paceline it is bad form to deviate from the agreed upon speed as you take over the front position...

Nope. Got the 4960X running in the ASUS for now. Planning on flashing the BIOS on the board I use at home (just noticed it is another ASUS P9X79) and swap it with the Gigabyte board at work. Then I will have three bootable systems for my 3 CPUs. Gah.

Freakonomics Guide to Parenting I love that show.

I started a bit of a row with some friends when I said that medicine is a subset of biology which is a subset of chemistry which is a subset of physics. I didn't think there would be a dispute on this, and no-one was able to provide a different starting place. Thoughts?

My wife recently went back to work, and I can promise you she had a much easier time at home with the kid. Is being a stay-at-home parent 100% vacation? Nope, but if it is as draining as working a full-time job you're doing it wrong. The days that I take off to spend with the kid (about once a...

Thanks for the update. And a reminder to always have a recent copy of ComboFix around.

And thanks to LunarMist for sticking around to see 10,000+ posts! Most have been informative, and many unintentionally humorous.

That website is home to two of the most useful computer clean-up tools around. The humorous name is just a bonus.

Is bleepingcomputer.com down for anyone else?

You are the man. Now you can do me one more favor and say that you had a hard time finding it yourself ;)

We've often talked about how awesome Amazon is, and how they offer just about anything. I'm looking for a copper pipe fitting, specifically a tee where the straight-through bit is 1" and the tee bit is 3/4". This is a very common part, but I can't seem to find the bugger. Even the way more rare...

I wouldn't expect it to fall so far below 100MB/s, but I haven't tested one myself.

I'm glad you do, 'cause I don't see a relation ;) I was just stuck on someone else's machine, and hating that they were too cheap to get the real deal. Actually has nothing to do with the GigaPan.

Just borrowing it from a friend. I'm doing some photos for work of large-scale construction projects we're involved in. Large buildings, highway overpasses, large strip mines, etc.

I'd forgotten how infuriating Lightroom is. There should always always always be an "open" and a "save" option in the "File" menu. Just took me 15 minutes to open a CR2 file from a CF card, make basic changes, and save it. Gah.

So jealous. I'm at 100/20 for $200/mo :(

Playing with a GigaPan Epic Pro. 7D / 180 Macro @ F11 Low-res full image: Original-res crop: I might have some fun with this...

I think Merc has it. A big tablet with the best screen you can find and a data plan. Not sure what VoIP provider to recommend. I can only get the Vonage Extensions app to work on a device that already has a phone number, then it charges you for minutes (not megabytes) if you use it over 3/4G...

Testing with the following: i7-4960X @ 4251MHz 1x Titan

...and over a kg. This one always amazed me: 50mm f/0.95

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.d._lang

Thanks to Bozo for being part of this community long enough to have accumulated over 4,000 posts! Your contribution is much appreciated.

I completely believe what Merc has posted above, but I've run Vertex drives in RAID10 off 3Ware controllers without performance penalty; in fact it was pretty darn quick. Haven't done anything like that in a long time, the drives are big enough now that I don't bother. What sort of total...

I can second Coug's comments. JTR has build several fantastic projects for me. But none of them were cheap ;)

Interesting. I'm assuming some fancy device driver or some such would be needed to present this to the OS as storage. It almost sounds fast enough to use as actual non-volatile RAM in a system for instant boot-up or the ultimate in power savings.

Following that link may have an effect on my Amazon recommendations that will be difficult to explain. ;)

Yeah. Tempting, but I just dropped my photo budget for the rest of the year on that 35/1.4 before your message.

I'd agree that this is where the concern is greatest. I haven't looked into VPN connections from a mobile device, but that would be the only way I can think of. The device itself might as well belong to them, and the pipe out also belongs to them. Hiding your location is impossible, and hiding...

It looks like they've done their homework and are in fact offering a very secure experience. That also by definition makes it a very clunky experience. I know people who will consider it a worthwhile compromise, but I'm not one of them.

Thanks Bozo, I've seen that list. The only things on it say "F4", and it includes the 4960X and the 3820. This makes me think that the board I have is running some BIOS older than F4, and it has no listing of which CPUs were supported on F3, F2, or F1. Looks like I should take apart my home...