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75F today. Not normal for mid-Jan.

That is not something I am interested in testing.

Just for this test I put the key in the door for the first time. Hold it in the unlock position and it opens all the windows and cracks the sunroof. Hold it in lock and it closes everything and sets the alarm. Neat.

Yesterday I was feeling like a bit of a smart ass. When faced with something similar to Merc's experience above, my response was "well, if you are too old to learn something new, that Blackberry will do just fine for you." He was within a decade of me, so I figure it was ok.

A friend just paid $175 for a 3TB external.

Awesome. I had three removed at once and they were "impacted" or something. They had me under for at least an hour.

I only have one Z68 board at the moment, and it hasn't been stable enough to even worry about RST. I haven't had a chance to troubleshoot it yet, but it won't even Prime95.

It does, but it is still just a 2-door. To get a hatch and 4 doors I need to go all the way to an A7, and my wife thinks they are ugly.

Guys that temp of -8.9C is the highest temp, not the lowest.

Oh, and I wasn't against 4 doors, I prefer 4 to 2, but I wanted a proper hatchback. The S5 is closer to it than the S4, but with that 4.2l V8 I think I'll pass.

Just tried it and no, but there is a company that flashes Audis and gives you things like that and remote start. I might be interested in such things. I'd need to look them up again. Based on the A4 Avant. Higher ground clearance, wider track, more aggressive body kit (incl. skid plate)...

According to this, the Allroad will be the only A4 wagon in the US, they will be pulling the standard Avant completely. Pussies. So the decision for me is back to Allroad or S4...

The Allroad is looking good, I might go that way instead if I can get the power up enough without voiding the warranty.

You can't really post too much information, can you? It is all relevant to a number of us who are planning on spending a stupid amount of money. Both our cars have that, and it is programmable (intervals, etc) in the standard menu. Other neat options in there include whether to have the rear...

Thanks for the recommendations, they are pretty neat. Found massive error on my part #1: I left the airline adapter (aka loudness filter) on, and that killed the sound altogether. #2 was I just had it too quiet. I couldn't hear anything outside, and the mids and highs were perfect, but I had...

Anji by Chicken Shack sounds just awesome in the UE 10s, but more modern music with more of a low-end fails a bit. Is this a weakness of headphones in general? Of IEMs?

Audi calls their wagons "Avant". No idea why. Shame they are too chicken of poaching their S5 sales to sell it here.

So much better looking, and more of a sleeper. Sigh. I'm fairly certain all the S models here get a flat-bottomed steering wheel. I prefer it. I would also love the seat extenders, but I hadn't heard about them.

I was just going back to the podcast/shocking reference above. There should be no electricity to the head, and there is likely not any uninsulated metal in the headphones.

Smoothwall and UniFi.

If the electricity is going into your head, I don't think that encouraging it to pass through your body by grounding you/your chair is the right direction to go.

Yup. XP 32 and 64, Server 2003, and 7 x64 without issue. Are your machines attempting to sleep/hibernate/spin down disks?

I'm sure the satellite and cable companies would have something to say about that...

74 and sunny here. That is unseasonably warm, even for central CA. The South Pole also recently had a record high.

Any way to check the ground on your computer?

I did (and a dryer, and a refrigerator for that matter) and have been very happy with them as well.

1.5 is current for my phone. Feel fortunate ;)

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I can't check at home where my U2711 is, but I'll test my U3007 at work with my ASUS Transformer.

I do agree that trying to compare directly to our labor isn't really possible, but as the show Merc referenced illustrates, there are many easy steps that could be taken with minimal additional cost that would make things much better. It seems that no one really cares, and that is an...

Interesting that they chose red to show the car, I feel that is the least appetizing color of the bunch. I don't like reds in general, and that one is verging on a pink/orange more fitting of a Lambo.

I heard bits of it. Nothing exceptionally surprising to me, just a bit depressing. Really, Apple has the mindshare and marketshare to do things right. Up the costs by 15%, tout the good working conditions, and get their customers to feel even better about themselves. I don't think anyone else...

Just stirring this pot a little... we are getting close.

I was using my MP3 player via audio jack and phone via bluetooth. It handled that perfectly. Doing both via bluetooth is a great question, I wonder if the phone handles it?

I cancelled the XM immediatly but would keep the Wifi; internet+Pandora is better than XM any day. Also, I suspect the internet plan is needed for the traffic reporting to work?

The Bluetooth voice commands are a nice feature, but at least on my current phone/car it can't handle contacts by name. I can say "dial number" and the number or I can use the steering wheel "mode" switch and scroll through the contacts on the DIS.

I read a lot about Audi and have never heard of Justin Timberlake.

I believe they charge for that site, but it does take .gpx files and does some neat calculations.

Indeed. I've had two SSDs fail so far, an OCZ Vertex after 18+ months and an Intel 5xx after 2 months.

Beautiful ride tonight. Would have been a lot better if I hadn't gotten lost in the abandoned military base barracks at the end; had to climb a chain-link fence while carrying my bike. Hooray for carbon fiber.

Depending on which computer you are using, there are between 2 and 4 USB headers on the motherboard. Using these will add more without needing to resort to hubs and the like, these are native ports of the motherboard.

I remember way back in the day needing a crossover between my DSL modem and a router, (in addition to the NIC<->NIC mentioned) but that has been many years. SD is right on all counts. Anything with Gigabit has auto-MDX in the spec, most modern 100Mbit switches include auto-MDX as well.

I do like the bit about postscript being a turing-complete language and having the PS generate the exploit on the fly to bypass filters. That was awesome.

I don't have any eInk devices, so while I have played with them I haven't tried reading a whole book on one. I do quite a bit of reading on my ASUS Transformer and it works pretty well.

(Oblig. TED link for Nathan Myhrvold)

Making sure our year starts on the right foot? :p

Was it your work that brought you back to that part of the world? Do you anticipate staying there?

Searing at the end is better anyway, the crust comes out better.

Years ago. One of the last of my favorite shows to go HD was Top Gear, and that was in 2009.

Nice. Mine will ask "Can I use you as a man?", this means getting the lid of a jar off...