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I never mentioned RAID-5 or RAID-6. Those, as you say, waste space. I mentioned RAID-0, which is not far from JBOD in terms of reliability and much faster. You still get to use all your space and consolidate drive letters. The only drawbacks are that you need to use drives of the same size and...

I have built perfectly good dual-core atom machines with healthy amounts of RAM and SSDs to good effect. Very quiet, very low power consumption, very small. Depending on the video options, it could hold it's own. I don't know what the current winner is in the low-power CPU, but I think it is AMD?

Is 10 enough?

It is a lot of work. And that house has two full racks, not including the phone and lighting control system which fill a 20'x6' wall in the attic with equipment cabinets.

DNS

This is one of the home theater rigs that I handle. Note that the satellite receivers didn't fit in the rack and are buried in the back.

Can't do it. Companies require infrastructure and cost the state and feds money. They should cover those costs. And to restate what I wrote earlier, we will never have the lowest corporate tax rate so long as their are countries who will collect some tiny amount of money (practically a bribe)...

She knows ;) She actually set up that arrangement when I told her I was working on my Pilot's license.

An hour after my ride today it was still 78bpm ;)

According to that calculator, my highest sustained power output was ~530W for 5 minutes.

Probably a glitch in the data then, the speed (and heart rate) were peak numbers, with the wind pulled from the local airport a few minutes later. My wife has set a limit for me at 160bpm.

Saying we have the highest is not particularly relevant. Evasion is so widespread, common, and socially acceptable that the corporations can practically pay whatever they want. Honestly, I think we could get away with a really low rate so long as everyone had to pay their share. In the end this...

Got the watch and my wife is pissed. Something about my pulse exceeding 190bpm... Mental note, don't exceed 24mph into a 30mph headwind...

Very sweet.

Tax evasion (the legal kind, at least) is a byproduct of a complex tax system. If we git rid of every possible deduction, write-off, and discount, they will have nowhere to hide. This has 4 advantages: 1. Makes the wealthy (who can afford all the accountants and tax lawyers they want) pay their...

Balancing a household budget is possible because you are making decisions based on your own interests, and they aren't changing for most of your life. The problem with politicians is that they are acting in their own best interest (I would argue that this is impossible to avoid), which isn't...

I agree Will, but how then do we fix the problem? We cannot count on politicians to fund their own projects.

This. But the problem is that politicians can't be trusted to make good long-term decisions. Hell, they can't be trusted to think beyond the next election (every 2 years). Because of that, and because spending money is far more popular than collecting it, I feel the budget should be kept always...

The sludge at the bottom of a cookies-n-cream milkshake is awesome.

The kludgy thing to do it mount drives as directories off an existing drive structure. I am not a fan of this technique. The most straightforward thing to do is use RAID arrays. You can go for JBOD, just be sure you have a backup. And if you are going to be sure to have a backup anyway, just go...

Assuming you mean JBOD ;) Files can be recovered from individual drives, but there are no guarantees which files are on the good/bad drives, and any files that split a drive are certainly toast. This uncertainty makes it really not dependable as a redundant array. Best to assume that the good...

I've got a bunch of the older versions, some of which have been pushed really hard for quite a while without issue.

To go larger than 2TB, you need to make sure the partition table is GPT and not MBR.

My ride last night got a little rough at the end. I started an hour later than usual, so it was pitch-black on the last 6-mile leg. Something was going on in Monterey, so the traffic was unusually high, and there must have been some work going on in the fields that day as the shoulder was...

An addendum to my #5 would be that each law can only address one topic. No riders or pork. If the topic is too complex to be explained in a one page summary, it should be multiple laws anyway, with each getting a separate up-or-down vote.

I think we have web 2.0 to blame for this one. Once people could publish their cat food choice on the internet, they felt that their opinion on everything mattered. (not sure if I mean this as a joke or not) I know a few of both (smart/stupid, local/federal), and everyone having their hand in...

Just ordered a Garmin Forerunner 610 watch and compatible cadence sensor. If I rode with a group, I wouldn't bother. But since I ride alone I need data to know how I'm doing.

Yeah, but it won't let you play from there. And many of the creatures are set up in such a way that there is basically a moving bulls-eye that you need to hit and the turrets won't aim for it.

And there are plenty of ways around it. It may as well not exist. 5. No single bill can be more than 100 pages, a 1 page summary must be at the front, and any language in the bill that isn't mentioned in the summary should be struck down.

I think more than anything the system needs to be simple and transparent enough that we can actually have informed debate based on facts. I'm fairly certain that these jokers don't actually know the numbers much better than we do. Even if it leads to inefficiency or is slightly unfair, the best...

I recommend that the computer stay on 24/7 and I schedule updates, defrags, drive image backups and AV scans one a night.

This is what I need: The number of times I've had my drive submerged in aircraft fuel and not been able to retrieve it for a couple days...

Indeed. Not their "security suite", just NOD32.

All 100% optional, and hardly a monopoly. I haven't given any of the people you referenced much (if any) of my money.

I honestly believe that the "sweet spot" in public/private allocation of services is pretty massive, with the slow-moving inefficiencies of a government bureaucracy countered by greedy and corrupt private industry. It's little wonder that people feel strongly about the issue, as neither of these...

No different. Exact same bulbs. Damn.

I feel like rolling back a bit and making sure there are some basic points we can all agree upon. 1. We should pay our bills (pay the agreed amount for services and goods consumed). 2. We should collect enough money to cover our expenses (balanced budget). 3. Debt is bad (we should eventually...

When was the last time cutting spending created jobs? When was the last time reducing taxes on the wealthy and corporations caused them to hire more people? Fairly certain the answer is never.

Turns out they were 98CRI 5000K bulbs. $400 for a case. I have half a case left if you are interested.

Just finished putting in 14 x 32W 5500k 99CRI in my 20'x25' garage. It seems....sufficient ;)

An interesting theory, but damn that is a lot to gamble with.

That has nothing to do with the debt ceiling. Deciding how much money we should spend going forward is a very important debate, but it has nothing to do with paying our outstanding debt. Not paying people from whom we have already accepted goods or services is economic malfeasance, and would be...

When you look around the world and see that only one broadcast network doesn't completely disagree with you, it might be time to re-evaluate your definition of "the truth".

Yup, so long as the oldest OS you use is XP x64, and you don't use a 2TB+ disk to boot, you are fine.

Is that using the USB 3.0 reader you linked above?

Of course you are right time, and my intelligent republican friends agree; the spending limit should never have been on the table in the first place. Fixing the budget is not done by refusing to pay outstanding bills, but by not racking up future bills.

Agreed. You need a USB3 connection to be able to access all the drives in XP 32-bit. Or you could use ethernet.

The DLL hack is the easy way.

Technically, neither do I, but I meant it metaphorically.

1. Different kind of RAM 2. Backwards Those are the only reasons.