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    Windows 7 nonsense

    I have a number of clients that keep a list of everyone's passwords. Hard copy only, in the boss' safe. I think that is good enough. Here I've gone a different way. No-one knows any other passwords but their own, and every person can change their password any time they want. There are no...
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    Thoughts about educational systems

    No essay 1540/1600.Only took it once. Lowest in my family. (Dad 1580, Sister 1600)
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    Thoughts about educational systems

    An interesting footnote is that MIT and Berkeley would both have had me, apparently they had room for "troubled kids with potential" or something like that...
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    Thoughts about educational systems

    0.7GPA plus 1540SAT != Stanford.
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    Costco's Film Developing / Scanning

    That does look slick. Reminds me of OCing Celeron 300As...
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    Thoughts about educational systems

    I lived less than a mile from there, and I was also not admitted. I think I'm OK with that. I'm against affirmative action as well, but I'm also not particularly for nepotism. :shrug:
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    Random help

    We do, but it is tied into the system at the office, and maintained by them.
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    Windows 7 nonsense

    I've already made the decision that XP will be the last MS OS at my company. Every new app must: 1. Run in the cloud through a hosted service compatible with Firefox. 2. Support running locally on a LAMP server as a backup. 3. Ship me hard copies of our data regularly as a backup. Our two...
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Just to underscore/highlight this more, I actually bought both. I had both a X58/i7EE and that crazy ASUS dual-proc board with a pair of Xeon 3.06Ghz chips in it. Both were sitting on my desk, both had a RAID-0 of Vertex SSDs in them, and both had an identical build of Windows 7 installed. After...
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    Where is the next CPU?

    Where does an X25-E fall behind a spinning disk? All the benches I've seen show them extend their lead under heavy I/O.
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    Random help

    Yeah, I was being cheap. I have access to the companies construction crew, but (of course) they don't have specialty parts.
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    Random help

    Nope. We are out in the boonies. Septic systems and propane tanks.
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    Random help

    Sears was able to find/order it for me, though it isn't on their website. Thanks for the help.
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    Random help

    You friggin rule. I've been googling for about an hour without success; I even submitted a bunch of stuff to Samsung... ...but it looks like I can't order that part? I can order a new dryer and include that part, but it isn't available on it's own? I'll keep looking...
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    Random help

    This has nothing to do with computers, but you guys are a resourceful bunch. ;) I just purchased and had delivered a new washer and dryer (Samsung WF448AAW and DV448AGW, respectively). The dryer is gas, and my local handyman found notes in the install guide that a LP conversion kit needs to be...
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    Drive imaging software

    Acronis has finally jumped the dolphin. The new version of their software not only has massive bloat, but hasn't worked properly for me yet, and has the "normal" tasks hidden. I'm looking for a simple app that can copy a drive or RAID array to a file or another disk/array. If it can do it while...
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    dSLR thread

    I haven't done any "studio" shooting in over 4 years. Studio is in quotes because it was with a PnS, but one of my pictures did win an award and was published.
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    dSLR thread

    I would comment, but this thread has remained remarkably on-topic ;)
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    How to use a wireless router as a bridge?

    Option a is also the best option. If it was also cheapest, that is a win-win.
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    dSLR thread

    Because all the writing would be backwards? Because the lighting would become even more difficult? Because alignment of the photo would be more difficult?
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    Browsers speed compared

    I figured as much, so my response was in the same vein (I actually copy/pasted it from something I send o the new users.)
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    problem Correcting Chromatic Aberations (CA)? [DSLR Related]

    I haven't had that many issues with the 10-22. It isn't exceptional, but challenges me ;) There is no ca correction in this one.
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    dSLR thread

    You could take a picture with your phone ;) Or buy some Nikon kit to photograph the Canon stuff...
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    That looks very cool. I haven't played MechWarrior in a really long time.
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    Browsers speed compared

    It is an online office suite. E-mail/contacts/calendar, documents, spreadsheets, presentations all online as webpages. Including the storing of documents. Whatever machine you are using doesn't need to have your data or any apps (other than a decent browser) and you can do all your office work...
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    Browsers speed compared

    You are a stick in the mud sometimes. How would you write a Google Apps equivalent?
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    I treat them as a direct replacement, only depending on price.
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    Virtual Box

    Wait...it messed up the video drivers outside the VM? That is inexcusable.
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    Costco's Film Developing / Scanning

    Yeah, that looks pretty slick.
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    Chrome OS

    I'm interested in the answer. Chrome browser isn't good enough for my needs, but getting a super-thin OS behind Firefox interests me.
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    Chrome OS

    If it is based on Linux, I don't see why not. I may take some tweaking, though.
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    Chrome OS

    Could be great for the TechCrunch Web Tablet. I would be suprised if they weren't already collaborating.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Nope.
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    Virtual Box

    I played with it for a while, but I stopped once I had VMWare ESXi servers lying around.
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    dSLR thread

    I only have one on the 75-300 (came with it, bought it used). The rest I am shooting bare glass.
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    Where is the next CPU?

    I'm running SSDs on Win7 at work and the same SSDs on XPx64 at home. XP is still faster, the TRIM command doesn't give you as much as MS has taken away.
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    dSLR thread

    It wasn't solid shade, so there was quite a bit of over/under exposure going on. The filter seemed to tame that down a bit.
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    dSLR thread

    I've never had any kind of filter before, and wanted to see what effect it had. It also seemed to help when there was a lot of mixed shade.
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    dSLR thread

    Looks good. I shot all day yesterday with just the 10-22, and a new 4x medium density filter.
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    Where is the next CPU?

    WinXP x64 loves SSDs, particularly the fast ones. Vertex or X25 are still the way to go.
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    Something Random

    Got it. I suspected as much, but felt like being a smart-ass (beats the alternative).
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    Something Random

    I doubt Chicago tastes very good.
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    Where is the next CPU?

    The author of that article seems confused. He showed benchmarks that said one thing (Summit sucks, particularly hard if dirty) and then recommended them at the end of the article...WTF?
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    Where is the next CPU?

    The slow down over time issue won't be resolved. It is a fundamental performance characteristic of flash-based storage. The only "solution" I can think of is to have partially-used pages consolidated and wiped during idle time. Otherwise just consider the "dirty" speed as the actual speed of the...
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    >500GB Drives

    One of the dogs was huge. I'd consider it a pack animal.
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    Something Random

    My econ teacher used to spend every summer riding his bike non-stop. He said the objective was to drink as much beer as possible and break even.
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    >500GB Drives

    Walked out to where my wife and I got married yesterday (Capitola Beach). There was a guy sitting there with his dogs and a 1DsIII with 70-200/2.8. No camera bag, just out for a walk. I'm really not a jealous person, really ;)
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    Where is the next CPU?

    A single SSD will give you around 200mb/sec. My secondary system has a RAID-0 of SSDs in it, but that is because the ones I had weren't large enough.
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    Something Random

    Ahh...thanks. Didn't even think to search for a phrase without the quotes.
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    Something Random

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