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Fortunately, that is after penalties and interest.

Not as quick as my 16GB Mtron parts; they went from $1300 to spares on my shelf in about 8 months.

I use the double-sided tape with foam in the middle. It made more sense when I was doing it with spinning 2.5" HDDs (vibration isolation), but I still use the same stuff now.

I've grown into my 80GB Intel SSD, and my current install is about 60GB. There is no way I'm scaling down to 32GB. 64GB, maybe, but I don't know if the mothboard soft-RAID could handle the 400MB/s of a RAID-0.

I actually meant the 14-24/2.8, though he also had the 28-70/2.8, and the already mentioned 85/1.4. I think he shot about 30GB of 12MP RAW while he was here.

When I said, "only guy around here" I meant literally around here. I knew two others who had Canon gear, and we would swap lenses and try out stuff, but one got out completely and the other switched. I still think the 5DII is the right camera for me, but I don't know when I'll be able to try one...

Bah, the guy ditched all his Canon gear and brought a pair of D700s and an army of lenses I wasn't familiar with. There was an 18-something F2.8 and an 85/1.4 that were very good. Now I'm the only guy around here with Canon gear. He specifically said that Canon can do 80% of what Nikon can do...

Bah, the guy ditched all his Canon gear and brought a pair of D700s and an army of lenses I wasn't familiar with. There was an 18-something F2.8 and an 85/1.4 that were very good. Now I'm the only guy around here with Canon gear. He specifically said that Canon can do 80% of what Nikon can do...

I actually offered to sign the equipment over to the company at no charge; I'm going to be there for a long time, and I want a nice place. The policy we settled on was that you cannot bring in personal stuff that can store data, but everything else is OK.

There is a virus called "XP Antivirus 2008". It is not microsoft software of any kind. That is part of the trick. XP comes with a firewall, but not AV.

Yay, I'm married. This is my wedding night. Here I am. (Merc, it isn't all it's cracked up to be) ;)

Don't worry, I'm already weird...;)

This is my first, and her second. I'm still working in jeans and a t-shirt. Photos are in 30 minutes and the wedding in 2 hours. No sweat ;)

Probably not, but considering I currently owe the IRS ~$25k, that is rounding error.

Yep, that is about how our is going. The list above is more normal, but we've managed to not have anyone that isn't a friend attend. The total guest list of 19 includes the caterer, photographer, videographer, DJ, minister, bartender, and fixer. All of those were free. The location is my new...

Don't tempt me! How many did you get?

If you are only using VMWare Server, than it is absolutely worse. If you are using their whole suite of applications, then it is nice to have the same interface for all of them. I didn't have the "clunky" experience, or the crashes, so I can't comment on that.

That is interesting, here is what happens here. You hire someone to start spending money for you (wedding planner), because it goes out the door way too quickly for you to do it alone. You prioritize a guest list, and adjust the sliding scale to the size of wedding you want (full list >200...

That was last weekend. I knew I would be damaged, so we made it a week early. I ended up going through a complete 750ml bottle of Belvedere before drinking an entire bottle Coppola's Director's Cut. Let's just say I still haven't recovered.

Wait, it's 11PM on the night before I get married...why am I camping the forums? 'night all!

So the Logitech Fusion and Skype? I'll have to get some and try them out before I make the recommendation. Thanks for the info.

I'm getting a bunch of requests about webcams and simple software. People want to talk to grandma or the grand kids. I'm hoping for recommendations on the best cheap cameras (under $50), and the simplest software to use. I have never done it, so I'm hoping someone here has. Thanks.

He also has some 50Ds, but I'm looking forward to playing with the 5DIIs. And he isn't a pro, just a (fairly rich) friend.

We'll see if my $13k UPS shipment arrives today.

All the stuff was from my home office, so it was deducted already. I'm the one that manages the inventory system, and my stuff isn't tagged, so it's pretty clear.

I brought in pretty much my entire office; chair, monitors, stereo, art, even keyboard and mouse. I sold it to the other employees as me setting the precedent that they, too, could bring in their own stuff.

The new software more closely integrates with the rest of their software (ESXi, Virtual Infrastructure, etc). And if you are using them, then using the VMWare converter was already happening.

Correction: My boss obviously knows how to have fun. ;)

Here is Gigabyte's board. Thanks for the tips on Vista optimization, I'll roll them out on future machines.

The Samsung is purely a staging area for backups. All the running VMs will be on the SSD, with scheduled clones to the Samsung at night. This is part of a successful backup strategy I've used for a while. Every machine backs itself up to a local store during the "maintenance window" at night*...

All great comments, Coug. And by the time I get aproval for this project (another month or so), Gigabyte will likely have a motherboard that supports i7. In the meantime, this can be a price placeholder. I picked the twelve hundred because of airflow and looks; I'm tempted to get the skeleton...

It is for entertainment. There will be at least two of these, and you can race against your friends.

Here is my current worksheet with parts and links. Something similar to this is being sold as a package for $25k+. This doesn't include the frame for everything. Fortunatly, I have a fab shop at my disposal ;)

Video on DSLR is an afterthought, but a rig like this seems to make it less kludgy. It is, of course, still video. And therefore not what I am interested in. But it doesn't seem specifically worse than any other 1080P video camera.

A friend who will be shooting my wedding Saturday will be doing so with some 5DIIs. I'm almost looking forward to playing with them more than the wedding. ;)

Thanks for the info. It looks like the product I'm looking to beat uses the TripleHead2Go, as their supported product list is identical. I consider the lost resolution unacceptable, so I'll likely be going to a single 65" and calling it good.

If I had 3 52" 1080P screens in front of me, and I wanted games to play across all three (driving simulators specifically), what would it take? Is this only possible with software that is designed for it? Most gaming cards only have two outputs, would games support a pair of cards? Is ATI or...

Looking to consolidate our servers to a pair that could each handle everything in an emergency. I'm looking at these: TYAN B2933G14S2M 1U Barebone Server - Retail 2x AMD Opteron 2376 Shanghai 2.3GHz 45nm Socket F 75W Quad-Core Server Processor 8x Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM...

Thanks for the tip, blakerwry. The 223M is the most bad-ass surveillance camera I've seen yet.

I followed the link and started reading. My first thought was "this sounds like a press release"...check the headline...doh, too early. But a resolution of 6048 x 4032 would be pretty awesome.

I suspect it depends on your emergency room, or more specifically, your neighborhood. If there are a significant number of people without health insurance, they go into the emergency room for anything, so they get flooded with patients who don't pay, so the hospital stops putting resources into...

Nah, just mount another TV on the ceiling ;)

LOL

Then you have a network; unless the connection to your machine is USB. All you would need is a switch.

So you were going to be uploading via dial-up?

Kevin Smith is great, I don't know why I didn't hear about that one. Oh yeah, because I don't go to the movies...

The ones I linked to can really be that simple. You don't need a laptop at all. Plug the camera into power and the network, configure it to send directly to FTP via the web interface, and be done.

While I agree that those are some fine selections, they aren't really conversation starters.

UPS typically does alright for us, our usual driver is great. Of course, with that being the day after thanksgiving, it wasn't our usual driver. Here is the story. I called our vendor at around noon, asking for the tracking number and other info. It was being shipped directly from their depot...

Went to the movies once in the past year (Iron Man). And even that was just to pass the time before a dinner reservation. Most movies that the SO and I can agree on I can only watch if I'm allowed to vent. Venting usually involves pausing the movie 2-3 times to explain to her how stupid the...