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Microcontroller indeed. I've been in charge of a massive LiteTouch installation for a while now, though I haven't gone to their 3-day training in London. I totally agree that, even for a multipurpose room, more than 4 settings would be crazy. At the same time, programming a bunch of stuff would...

Even recessed, T5 tubes have some ugliness going on. I was thinking of building soffits, so I could stick the tubes in shining upwards, but that would cost a fair amount as well...

Thanks for all the numbers JTR, this will definatly be a direction I will be going. The current offer on the house expires in about 4 hours...we'll see. As an interesting aside, I was planning on putting in an air-source heat pump water heater. The fun part about that is that any waste heat I...

Color quality is important, but I've found that CRI is a pretty poor indicator thereof. I'm currently running 12 high-CRI 6000K linear tubes in my office, and my wife and I both like them. There is glare, but that is because it is direct light, not because of the source itself. I plan to make...

Dell also has a pink chassis. I have one on my desk right now ;)

I've been studying a bit on lighting design, and the the biggest cheat I've been told so far is to break up the light into as many distinct sources as possible, and make each group independently dimmable. Even if I were to count on T5s for the bulk of the light (60%?), they would likely not be...

I'm not sure where to aim on power/lifetime of the LEDs. Considering I plan to over-spec the lighting of the space considerably, 90% of the time they will be dimmed quite a bit. Also, how long will it be before efficiencies and light color have made major jumps again? Would I do better to run a...

Thanks for the really quick and in-depth response! I'll do more research before my next questions (now that I know which directions to look).

Looks like I'll be buying a house soon. And in my price range, that isn't a house you can move into. Since I'll undoubtedly be doing a fair bit of demo, and reworking the electrical and plumbing already, it has me thinking about LED lighting. I'm sure that JTR will be the star here, but I...

Very much. Don't do it. 7 is supposed to be smart enough to know when you have an SSD and disable all defrag activities. It detected fine on my machine.

I've been lurking at CPF for years now, but will be starting a thread here about wiring a house explicitly for custom LED lighting. A little bit later...

That is a pretty through test...I'll need to put some machines through it and see what I get.

I'll update my 160GB G2s tomorrow if I have time.

You need something on screen from the beginning, just so people don't think it's broken. Also, some of your slow fades seem to be a little jittery...perhaps you are using too much compression?

You mean "can it happen"? Sure. Was it raining during their delivery? Does your mailman do your route on foot? Are you near the end of a leg? Did his bag fall in a puddle while he was running from a dog?

Very true, but your recorded voice is nearly identical to how other people hear you. Such a shame.

Sounds like you need a better mailbox.

Ugh. Working on it. I'd love to get the house and cars sorted first, but I don't mind the practice ;)

Indeed. My agent did some research, and found that he is in pre-foreclosure on another house already. Looking at what he owes on all of them, he will need to pull all the equity he has out of the other 4 houses to cover the additional debt on this one to complete the sale. Otherwise he might...

Congratulations! My sister had hers last week, and our best friends had theirs two weeks ago. As a matter of fact, about 7 (70%?) of our friends have had kids in the last year.

We were, but what I want isn't in our budget at the moment. My wife is also reluctant to commit so much money to something that doesn't exist. I'm hoping to calm her fears by vaulting the main room in the new house and replace the kitchen myself.

Yup. We now live about 25 minutes away, and might be moving about 15 minutes away (about 10 from the ocean).

Put in a low-ball offer on a house today. Fingers crossed.

Got to play with a Porsche Panamera Turbo today in Carmel-By-The-Sea. The exterior is undoubtedly Porsche, but it is a huge car. The interior is the best I have ever seen in any car, including Bently and Maybach.

ER can't be a fun experience. I've never had to go (never even had to bring someone else), so I have no idea what it's like.

This is my fourth ;) Bad teeth run in the family, something about my saliva being incompatible with the enamel on my teeth. My wife was awesome, and spent most of the morning looking for a dentist that was open and breaking into the house stash of painkillers.

Almost bought a 7D this morning. Instead, I got an emergency root canal. Same price, but a lot less fun.

If you click the "HD" button in the bottom-right, it toggles between 720p and 1080p.

Yup, that'll slideshow it. Though, to be fair, it also takes 10%+ of my 4Ghz i7 and that is way higher than the resolution of the screen. It does manage the 720p with about 85% CPU utilization and 2 instances of skipping.

COD:MW2 looks like $60 on steam? Is there a discount somehow?

Give me a youtube link that you feel challenges an Atom, and I'll give it a shot. Mine also plays xvid DVDs just fine.

Look, I installed it as well. I evaluated whether it is worth it, and decided that it is. But that doesn't mean that you aren't giving up more freedom and information and control than you should have to. It doesn't mean that they aren't evil, just as DRMed music (and therefore iTunes and all...

How about this? Where do you tell Steam not to use all your bandwidth? There is a drop-down for what speed your internet connection is, but even if you specify 56k, if will use more if you have it. I understand that it operates at a lower priority, and surfing on that machine won't be affected...

Yes, they are. I've never owned a console, but now that they are internet-attached agents of their manufacturers, I certainly won't.

I haven't used any of the machines listed, but I have reservations about Intel GMA and Aero. I'd actually take the 4510s even if the costs were equal.

I'm pretty religious about going back to stores I have accounts and opting out of everything. Most of them respect it.

Steam is the devil. If you sell your soul (agree to them knowing everything about every game, and requiring their permission to play), then you get cheap games and a convenient delivery package. I have an account, but I only install it on new systems out of weakness.

I don't remember the last time I got a SPAM in my inbox. Google Mail is my friend.

Just bought an HP 4014N, we'll see how it does.

That is the play at the moment, then.

Anyone need an account on Google Wave? I have a couple, just PM me an e-mail address.

You have to be a geek to enjoy something so dry. I know I did.

That is a heck of a price, thanks.

There are those plug timers... Or you could use a home automation system of some kind...

I do, so my non-native english-speaking wife can make fun of me. I will escape that she beat me in English scrabble.

Lunar, what are you doing that is allowing you to even notice the difference? I can find it with a stopwatch, but when I went from a RAID-0 of X25-E to X25-M to Vertex and back I couldn't tell.

I've used a few, but none that I was happy enough to recommend.

Meh. They didn't include the most important test (4k random write). I don't think it will be that much better than an Intel drive on that. For a while I went from a pair of 120GB Vertex to four, and the performance difference was essentially zero. Maxing out the RAID controller.

No idea. My installs don't have this issue.

133/64 is already depreciated. No one is targeting that market, just as no one is targeting OS9 or 8-tracks. The platform is dead.