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Compass and maps are primary? You are nuts. Sure having them as a backup is nice, but why do it the hard way to start?

Now that everything has so solidly stabilized on something with hot-plug standards, I'm waiting for Shuttle or Antec to pre-wire the drive bay and integrate this feature into the case.

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Looking just at games, I don't see them going massively multi-threaded anytime soon. That and going i7 in a Shuttle increases price significantly.

Considering I was putting it all in a Shuttle SFF chassis, I wanted as little heat as possible. I even went so far as to slightly undervolt the CPU. I'm looking into doing the same with the GPU right now.

How did your belongings hold up?

I just built a gaming system for a friend. System specs below: Shuttle SP45H7 (LGA775) Intel P45 SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4770 512MB Intel Core2 Duo E7500 Wolfdale 2.93GHz @ 3.5Ghz mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 OCZ Vertex Series 2.5" 120GB SAMSUNG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner SATA Running great so far...

I certainly wouldn't call it 'ashamed'. In fact, I couldn't say why I like it that way. I am under no misguided belief that my actions here couldn't be matched to me in the real world. Not sure, really.

I have thought of telling local friends about this place, but I like having two separate spaces.

If it does ship with one, you'll be able to see the difference yourself. Quick example: Logitech diNovo sitting on the boardroom table isn't even detected by the machine in the closet using it's own packaged BT dongle. The Linksys not only detects that keyboard, but the boss' cell phone 2 doors...

At one point my car was broken into and quite a bit was stolen. I was informed that the contents were only covered up to the value of the car :(

It probably doesn't, but even if it did, the bundled ones always suck.

I've always worried about doing low-level stuff with an adapter in place. You haven't had issues?

No doubt.

Depending on your insurance, it has less to do with what you paid and more to do with what it takes to make you "whole". The last time I totaled a car, they paid out more than I paid in. I was just playing last week. I remember when we were kids, drooling over Power Nine cards. Now we all roll...

...or screws to hold the thing together. The number of times screws are being replaced with snap-in, snap-off plastic clips is sickening. It makes some things irreparable.

I used a single file, so it wouldn't have mattered too much, even if they hadn't been SSDs.

Damn, that is really bad. Borderline totaled, I suspect. Have they already towed it? Did you get all your stuff out of it? If it was raining after the tree fell, how much water is in the car?

I have had drives fail due to heat in aluminum fanless enclosures. Make sure there is a good thermal interface between the drive and the case.

We've had some birds nesting above the entryway at the office. I've been taking pictures of them that can be found here, if you are interested. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddrueding/tags/officebirds/

Because there is very little barrier to buying one at $80? Price fixing?

That's how I did mine, but I used a larger sample (to minimize human error). 40.1GB in 203 seconds = 197MB/s

I get 197MB/s over SATA, from one drive to another. ;)

I'm thoroughly happy with it. The only thing I can think of is some sort of real-time updating within the page (like Slashdot is currently working on) that would eliminate the need to refresh periodically (possibly saving bandwidth). Considering Slashdot can't even get it right, and the piddly...

Agreed. If it landed on top and managed to break the windows, there was likely structural damage. That typically totals a car by insurance standards.

I have a 1000' box of Plenum rated CAT6 here next to my desk. It says it is 23 Gauge.

Wow, that (and that) sucks.

That really sucks Merc. IIRC, it was a quite new Honda? I would be interested in the story and some pictures as well...

Oh, they are. When we lived in Palo Alto, they were a mile walk away. The prices, however, were truly outrageous. I've never been raped so hard by someone so happy and helpful to do it. It is also where I spotted my first Tesla Roadster. I did play with the Gitzos when I was there (they do have...

I have a chain of firewalls in place, that somehow combined are blocking some seemingly random traffic. Just work.

I've run a hundred times more IDE/SATA drives than I have SCSI drives, and had about the same percentage fail. Calling SATA "so flaky" would be an overstatement.

That is a neat idea Will.

I've always used my ballhead to do the leveling?

I knwo several public school teachers, and this is exactly what happens here as well. One teaches in Salinas and has said her class shrinks by a third for half the school year. Then they get back just in time for the testing that these scores are derived from.

There will be more decent brands as vendors figure it out. The issue is that only 2 companies make good drive controllers at the moment. Once More companies make the controller chips, the price on that will come down, and the other vendors will start to make use of them.

I wouldn't, because I don't know the insides of FreeNAS or Linux. If I knew Linux half as well as I knew windows, I would use it.

Wow, no idea here...

I think all the others mentioned are cheaper. The PS3 Bluetooth looks like a fine idea. There really is no substitute for the Linksys Bluetooth adapter if you want long range, it blows everything else away.

That answers it for me. No EX it is. Thanks.

I'm using a Logitech DiNovo Edge...very sweet looking, and works great with a Linksys Bluetooth Adapter.

This looks like it would be a great upgrade for these systems. Built-in power supply, too. Now i need to go back to looking for good chassis in this form factor.

That is very interesting. I would certainly choose to run LiPo most of the time (lighter and more life), having a AA fail-over option would be sweet. The internal USB port for stashing your 3G card makes a lot of sense as well. If it could take full advantage of the faster SD cards, that would...

Ah, I need to read up on that more. Will it be more complex day-to-day? Or will the added features stay out of my way until I need them?

The problem with an ATX power supply is it is quite literally the same size (and weight) as this entire machine. It's not like you or I don't have at least one spare of everything we use sitting around...

For me, this will already be my third tripod. I know I like them and use them a lot. I know the shots I take will benefit from a better one. The only things that bother me about my current one is that it isn't particularly stable, sometimes isn't tall enough, and takes too long to extend and...

From what I could tell, the EX was a healthy bit taller extended and not much taller compressed, while being about the same price. So the question would be, why not?

That Buffalo actually does ship with the drives...not a bad deal, really. But not very fast. Even upgrading your chassis or adding a simple SATA card is still the simpler/cheaper solution.

Kirkphoto.com looks to offer what I am looking for, for a bit more than I am willing to pay. BH-1 Ballhead - $355 Gitzo GT2540EX Tripod - $650 XSi QR Plate - $55 They have other neat toys, as well. Like this cool window mount and low pod.

I have my primary storage local on my primary system, just faster that way. I then have it backing up to my other system. With 2TB drives so cheap and easy, "normal" amounts of storage don't need dedicated machines anymore. Here is what I would do in your shoes: 1. 2x2TB drives in local machine...

These systems are plenty fast for their purpose, not to mention practically silent and very energy efficient (hint, turn the fan from "very low" to "low and it runs cool as well). I think the Atom is getting a bad rap because of the systems it is going into. This rig boots very quickly and is...