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Yup. Spent 6 months in Manhattan, another one in DC. Won't be doing either again.

I really miss my CBR600F4i. That was a great machine. If I were to get another bike, it would probably be something a bit more comfortable. Not a Gold Wing or anything, but probably a BMW F800ST or similar.

I cannot tolerate humidity. Here it is actually a little high today (60%). Normally it is closer to 50%. I hate that sticky feeling you get everywhere.

Google has a special tool for it.

http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/california/salinas-12797069/ Not to brag or anything...

Thanks for the tip, time. Creative Zen Touch 2 16GB with GPS on its way.

Indeed. The one I ordered also stated 1080p clear as day. It wasn't until I viewed the EDID information directly that I found out what it actually wanted.

The company's website does not list this model, but all the screens I saw smaller than 42" were 1366x768 native resolution.

Yup. I bought a panel that claimed 1080p but was in fact 1680x1050 or thereabouts. It is now running at that lower native resolution as a monitor, but I do not trust it do properly display 1080p video. I forget the make/model, but it is somewhere here in the last couple months.

I would have agreed until yesterday when I actually used one. Would it be easier to use if it were larger? Yup. Is it usable the size it is? Quite. Is it worth making the whole damn thing bigger just to make the interface easier? I don't think so. I'll take a look.

Can't find anything with hardware nearly as sexy. Looks like I'll be trying to run an Apple device without iTunes...this says it can do it.

I'm looking for an iPod nano competitor. Only requirements are: 1. Direct file-level access over USB (no iTunes or other proprietary app) 2. Small with screen and browsing capabilities.

Yay generator backup. Or, if you have an electric car, just use that ;)

DVI + audio = HDMI The signalling is basically the same, and all digital. So that it the best the picture will look.

Thanks, Bozo. I'm familiar with tower cranes in general, but if you look closely at this one it appears to have been built at least partially from parts that were in the scrapyard to begin with ;)

20Wx2 or 50W single. Should be plenty for your purposes, no? Those things got considerable praise from a number of audio sites when they came out a number of years ago.

I thought this looked cool, almost hand built.

The one I linked above:

I'm glad I didn't have that image in my mind when I was doing it...

Yup, and it gets even worse once you install DD-WRT, turn up the CPU speed and increase the transmit power. ;)

The PC-P80 is big enough that I installed a PCIe card without cracking the side, just opened up the front door and undid the thumbscrew holding the bracket in. Of course, in order to reach the thumbscrew from the front of the case I was sunk halfway up my bicep. But it was a neat thing to try.

Heat. For all my failures, #1 is the power brick getting too hot and #2 is the unit itself getting too hot. For 54GLs in critical positions, I replace the power brick with a regulated power supply and crack the shell, installing a heatsink and sometimes even a fan. I'm hoping the Routerstation...

Get one cheap and break it?

As do I. I have a bunch of Ubiquiti hardware that has held up well (outdoors for years). No Routerstations, though.

Pulling the optical and putting in the spare battery/blanking plate would be choice #1 for me. Of course, if I needed an optical and didn't have one, I'd just use a USB. That is why I superglue all the USB ports on "secure" systems.

That HEC does look nice, but Googling for it before the purchase I didn't find anything. I may have had the name wrong (89R9) I hope that doesn't discourage you. I really do appreciate all the advice and suggestions, and I do take them into consideration, I just value some things differently I...

Lian-Li PC-P80 Check the dimensions first, it is the tallest and deepest case I've ever used.

Quite plausible. The heat buildup in those things must be pretty intense. They don't give a platter count on their PDF Spec.

According to their website, they are offering a 5400RPM version and a 5200RPM version.

Just did a clean install from a pre-SP1 OEM 7-x64 disk. Upon startup, it made it through 98 of the 107 updates successfully, hanging on KB2560656. I told it to cancel, and that hung. Then I told the machine to reboot. The last thing the update window said before the reboot started was the...

Just an observation: If you remove the part with the vendor's name on it from a computer component, it usually makes it better. I'm specifically thinking of Gigabyte motherboards and video cards where they put a Gigabyte-branded shroud or sticker over part of a heatsink.

PC-P80 us a beast. Those 3x140mm fans in the front do an amazing job very quietly. It would also hold a fantastic radiator, considering the whole front can be opened up. The biggest downside is the thin aluminum that it's made of. Becasue of that the 18x/19x Antec line is still my choice for...

What is the cost of a new piece of glass?

This was a ThinkStation, not a ThinkPad (I know, the subject says ThinkPad). Of the 7 I've opened up, all had 320GB or 500GB 7200RPM WD HDDs.

A joke from a Russian website: "Mr. Brin, we bought Motorola" "Great! Which model?" "Uh....model?"

This machine got an Intel X25-V 40GB as a replacement.

DingDingDing! We have a winner on the first try... Not that hard, I guess...

Just had my first hardware failure on a Lenovo product. Anyone care to hazard a guess on the manufacturer of the offending part?

...that I know of. I'd imagine the ride is pretty plush. How much does it weigh?

Certainly useful for Google. They needed the patents. They really had two options: 1. Kill the patent system quickly enough to avoid the issue. 2. Get a crap load of patents that everyone is licensing already to keep them off your back.

The Scott is more like the Specialized Tarmac, which is a hardcore racer and not comfortable at all.

With my current bananas and white toast diet, I will easily make my weight loss deadline, but this isn't the way I had planned.

Wow, what a failure: I can imagine. However, Carbon-reinforced plastic could do some neat stuff.

My brother-in-law has one and swears by it. It's out of my price range as well, I'm considering one of these for comfort.

Have you considered wood?

'Fraid not. If he were to stop making noise on this issue it would disappear from the news. No-one else making that kind of money has the balls to step up and point out the gross inequities of the system.

Just a guess, but his belief is probably that the system is broken, not that he should single-handedly fix the debt problem. You don't fix a massive budget imbalance by cutting a check, you do it by balancing the budget. You do that by spending the same amount of money as you collect. That he...

The remote is the tricky bit...otherwise just get one of these.

Honestly I'm not sure if it does everything in the building, but I know it does the lights.

He disagrees with you, so obviously that must be the case.