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I don't think Windows is the right OS for a low-powered, touch-operated device. Too CPU intensive, and fundamentally designed to require a mouse and keyboard. Your battery life will suck, and functionality will be reduced.

Oh, and the bike I have here is actually older than me (1979). Here is the original catalog. The spec sheet says the frame is 25.5 lbs, which is a bit heavier then the one I was drooling over. But that just means I get a better workout.

The bike is actually in amazing shape. Not only no rust, but the paint is completely intact; racing stripes and all. It doesn't look like it was used much, the tires still had the rubber knobs on them but had rotted through. As you say, the brakes don't inspire confidence, but I don't plan on...

My everyday clothes are jeans and these (literally everyday - I must have a dozen of them). I'm concerned that jeans might be a little heavy to ride with long term.

Thanks for the tips, timwhit. Pants are a must; for one I like the idea of having something (anything) between my legs and the asphalt should something go wrong and for another my wife will want me to minimize my skin's exposure to the sun.

A buddy just fixed up a Motobecane Grand Touring for me to get some exercise on. Did all the adjustments and maintenance, and put on a pair of Specialized Armadillo 27x1-1/4" tires because I have no interest changing flats. The distance between our houses is about a mile. I did it flat out and...

Now it has been a while, and there are a few Android 3.x tablets out there. The two big names seem to be the Motorola Xoom and the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer. I'm looking to mount one on the dash of my car for navigation and music. If it works well enough I'll replace the head unit permanently...

The SPOF of the Metadata Server would concern me.

Looks cool. Are you considering merging your different file servers into a single namespace? Would you worry about that interconnection reducing your redundancy?

Yup, the 5110 was a tank. I had users trying to break them so they could get upgrades without luck. If a phone you want has a slick back, take a look at the aftermarket. Many have textured battery covers available.

That is what I meant. I wrote it both ways and couldn't decide which meant what I meant. I should have said increase duration.

For very small form factors or industrial installations where drives and cables aren't an option. Or, my favorite, the wall mounted computer. Combined with a PicoPSU would make simply screwing the motherboard to the underside of the desk feasible.

I must say, I find 2.9GB/s reads and 2.7GB/s writes fairly impressive.

AFAIK, ND filters just increase the shutter speed.

Do they run the risk of damaging other equipment? Or just adverse effects on image quality?

We have fairly capable anti-monopoly laws here, should one decide to enforce them. Of course, the best they've chosen to do was with Microsoft. Having even two players seems to be good enough for them.

It starts with an uneducated and unmotivated populace, and is combined with a political system highly conducive to bribery at all levels. Combine that with voters that punish those who speak hard truths, and you're there.

Thanks Will. So there is Marvell HyperDuo - similar to Intel Smart Response (no RAID) We also can't forget the Seagate Momentus XT and Samsung Hybrid FlashOn - both laptop HDDs with SSD cache. Both too low capacity for my needs.

Well, they wouldn't be above US law, if the US gave a damn.

We need a place to dump these, as there are more and more on the market. My interest stems from accelerating large file shares. Getting 100-500GB of SSD in front of 2-6TB of HDD would be something I could sell a lot of. OCZ just announced the RevoDrive Hybrid. An all-in-one solution that would...

We need a place to dump these, as there are more and more on the market. My interest stems from accelerating large file shares. Getting 100-500GB of SSD in front of 2-6TB of HDD would be something I could sell a lot of. OCZ just announced the RevoDrive Hybrid. An all-in-one solution that would...

Thanks to Chewy509 for contributing over 1000 posts in his time here. Much appreciated.

Awesome. I suspect out of my budget; but I would take one in a heartbeat.

Most likely lighter fluid, but line voltage would be cooler.

While I'm sure that these companies have a presence all over the globe, none are headquartered in the EU? (Japan, S. Korea and two in California, IIRC). While they could theoretically play "hard ball", these mergers include every hard drive maker there is, so banning their products would be...

SR or SF? I haven't been to SR in ages.

IIRC, peak efficiency for a PSU is at 50% load? So my 1200W PSUs sucking 580W of juice are ideal? Good to know at least two of these things are being used where they should be.

That is unfortunate. Sorry if I was picking on you too much... As a matter of fact, I think Taco Bell is in my near future...

That Intel drive is SLC, so you would think it to be fairly durable. It better be performing that kind of task. I wonder if mSATA is SATA 3.0 compatible? If larger drives are available? It makes perfect sense for SSDs to mount directly to the board.

TeraCopy was significantly slower than the default windows copy in my scenario. 6x 3TB Hitachi "R"AID-0 on both ends, connected via Intel PCIe server NICs and a crossover cable. The arrays are capable of 630MB/s reads and 450MB/s writes; windows copy "pull" was able to do 98MB/s while Teracopy...

Ah. As opposed to the impersonal taco, prepared with the feet.

That is what the internet is actually made of. And why safesearch exists ;)

Thanks for that. I'll be reading up.

Yeah, no idea. I'm not a web guy at all. The company has a friend who is doing some repairs, updates, and restoring backups when it gets hit. But I don't think they are up to doing anything beyond that. It's hosted. I'm not even sure where yet. I just got the call when I posted here, I don't...

I've been given a role in cleaning up a hacked webpage that was running an old version of wordpress. Cleaned it up, updated to the newest version, but it is still getting vandalized about once a day. Other than changing all the passwords to accounts, what else should I be doing?

Actually looks good in black.

Or build an ESXi box. It takes more hardware but is also free.

And now an even easier and cleaner way to get storage on a board. Designed for Intel's Smart Response Technology, it can also just be used as the main drive. This makes single-board high-powered workstations a reality. Sweet!

Ideally, I wouldn't know any passwords. I do have the ability to change them, and would use that if I have to. Because this is required for backup, I set the passwords and inform the users. This has the advantage of being good passwords on a reasonable rotation that aren't duplicates.

An app that logs into each mailbox and syncs with a local message store. I don't remember the name of it, I just googled for something. Yes, I need to know the password to every mailbox, and yes, that is a PITA.

On many of my RAID cards they have LED connectors per channel, but I have no idea how to make it work with the onboard stuff. My only thought would be to write a custom bit of software that monitored for activity and sent it out the serial port header or something.

Indeed. A T3i and an EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS would probably do you well. Though a 60D and an EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM would be better.

I have an on-site copy of all my "cloud" data in an open and accessible format. I could re-create all the services and data locally in half a day. I could get all the clients redirected and staff trained within a week. This disaster recovery plan has been approved by the boss. I'm thinking that...

Glad to help. I don't use them myself; I can't stand the extra bulk and haven't actually broken one yet. However, it did keep a Droid alive after being stepped on by a horse.

These guys make the best protective cases I've seen so far. Not cheap, though.

Sorry, LiamC, I see that we are agreed on the matter. I find it difficult to get mad at the tools though, the middle managers are the target of my frustrations. Implementing more and more expensive patches and upgrades to cover their butts when the first decision didn't pan out is my least...

IPOy?

You are the first I've heard use the phrase "one size fits all" referencing hosted software. I also don't use the term "Cloud", as it glosses over many of the particulars. There are servers somewhere, run by someone else, that provide us a service. As you have alluded to, this is not the...

Is a "good" number of dead bodies high or low?

Still beats the heck out of administering those services/servers myself. Google's longest outage was was shorter than my longest call with MS on an Exchange issue by at least 12 hours.