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I doubt I'll use the whole width, it's just that I client got a new wide-format printer for plotting, and it turns out to have 6 color cartridges and a "photo" mode. Photo paper of those sizes is insanely expensive, mounting is impossible, and where the hell are you going to hang it? I want to...

I agree, but that wasn't the question. My dad drives a convertible with a crappy stereo. Anyone know?

Thanks e_dawg. Some of these panoramas are bigger than that. I found access to a 64" wide by 100' long color printer, and am getting ready to try it out.

I'm still working on my "gutter light" design. Start with a piece of aluminum gutter and appropriate ends. Line the inside with reflective, heat-resistant materiel (aluminum foil?). Install lighting solution of your choice. Mount ~2 feet from the ceiling. Lots of indirect lighting. I'm...

I often think it would be good to live close to some of the folks here. My closest friends are 40 and 120 miles away, and not in the direction of my commute. We are going to visit Olga's best friend for dinner, 100 miles away, tonight for the first time in about 6 months.

Anyone know whether it is legal to drive with both ears covered? Headphones or the like?

Always a good thing. I found that whenever I was single I was almost desperate to get out and do something. When I was sick or stuck at home I would start climbing the walls after about 12 hours. Strange considering I get fairly anxious when I'm around large groups or even small groups of...

I have always found the common calculation (viewing distance/2=screen size) to be too small. I find a 1-1 ratio works much better with my crappy vision.

I would blame it more on the F@H people. They have never made user-friendly-ness a priority, even on their Windows apps. There are many mainstream apps that install easily in Ubuntu.

Get the biggest that fits. Look at how long you held onto your last TV. I really like my Sharp AQUOS 42" 1080p. The colors are great, and the brightness automatically adjusts to the rooms ambient lighting (good for a bedroom). It looks to be going for about $1200 new right now, which is what I...

Photoshop won't install on my machine because I can't get SP2 installed for some strange reason, GIMP won't deal with 16-bit TIFF images, and PAINT.NET just pukes on images this large. GIMP has it open, which is nice.

Any suggestions for applications that can edit images in excess of 20000x10000 pixels? Recommended file formats?

That sounds pretty crappy Lunar. Typically, if something was bad and it is over, things get better sooner or later.

Some content is protected so it won't display unless the signal from source to screen is encrypted using HDCP. HD-DVD and BlueRay both require this, but can be bypassed with appropriate software. I haven't heard of online video sources locking it down in a similar fashion. Where did you read...

15 per 100k doesn't sound too bad to me. Lower the weight of the cars and increase the speed limit until it hits 50 or so (0.05%).

Honestly didn't know. Though I do love cars, I was never a gear-head. I'll read up on it when I get home.

Funny. Including YouTube videos from Richard Branson, Sergey, and Larry

This one I don't understand. Either the fuel is being combusted for power or it is going out the back end, no? The only way to reduce the amount going out the back is to burn it more completely in the engine (hence, more power)? Or is it something in the delayed valve timing?

I have some of the 1TB version in software RAID-1 under Server 2003 R2. They are just normal drives to me...

Sorry to hear than Handruin. I hope they gave you some good drugs ;) It actually hasn't been bad recently, but their long-term performance warrants an eventual switch anyway.

<nitpick> It is not a nuclear clock if it needs to receive a signal. It is a receiver for the national nuclear clock, yes?

Why would a hydrogen vehicle explode?

I've used OnTrack, but they are not cheap.

Hydrogen is an energy storage medium. It is inefficient in the production, but it will hold that same amount of energy forever (unlike batteries). It only has to be maintained near absolute zero if you want it in liquid form, it can be stored in a larger volume and pressure as a gas without...

I actually thought hydrogen would be a good distributed fuel. Quality is a no-brainer, storage is relatively easy, and I'd read about solar panels that converted to hydrogen as they went.

Looks good, thanks Mubs!

A whole lot. I used to hope we actually run out of gas before global warming gets too bad, then I heard talk of going to coal for everything if that happens...WTF?

Unless the speed limits go up, I see no need for even safer tanks. I agree with Bozo that driver education is the way to go. How much better milage would a Mk.V VW Golf get if it weighed as much as a Mk.1? (half the weight). The absurd number of airbags and crumple zones in my car and the weight...

I regularly assign VMs their own real hard drive and a chunk of real RAM, but I don't think you will see that much speed improvement trying to out smart the CPU scheduler. Besides, one of the cost savings in VMs is the ability to assign more VM resources than you actually have, letting different...

The first thing I thought was: "End-to-End vendor lock-in"

...or use indirect lighting (my favorite). Of course, this requires even more lumens to be generated to compensate for the loss against the ceiling/wall.

I've tried it three times, it has worked once. Depending on the value of the data, consider a professional recovery service (2 of 3 drive success with them so far).

I thought the setting in the motherboard enabled certain CPU code that helped with virtualization performance. I haven't seen a setting in VMWare (Workstation or Server) that would allow you to specify a core, but in task manager you can right-click on a process and "set affinity" to a core or...

I've always wondered about battles between the carriers, if their backbone interfaces are as smooth as we would hope.

Yup. Keeps the hard to clean side from getting dusty.

I have Comcast.

MemTest86+ has a law of diminishing returns thing going for it. Typically I run it for 2 passes and call it good. Prime95 is good for trying to crash a system as well. During RAW conversion for a batch? Or just a single image? After how long @ 100% CPU?

>600KB/s here.

Do you have some sort of temperature monitoring program running that you could check? If it is an nVidia chipset, they have the "nVidia Monitor" program that shows CPU, GPU, and NB temps along with all the voltages and clock speeds. Other programs that do the same are Speedfan and the...

Nope. The complex is old enough that it has a building-wide meter. Therefore utilities are included in the rent. The only thing stopping me from going crazy on power consumption is a bit of guilt for this whole global-warming thing*. *Which is almost completely canceled out by sticking it to my...

Yup, she is Russian. But she currently has a green card and is already on her way to filing for citizenship. I need to get all my financial affairs in order, or the IRS will take all her money. ;)

Thanks for the words of encouragement, guys.

How big a solar panel would you need on these to keep them topped off? Of course this wouldn't work when they were in a drawer, but a little panel on the bottom of the remote control might work.

I agree, but that means that the reader must perform due diligence to evaluate the credibility of the site. Considering a sites reputation lasts far longer than their quality, it makes it difficult to sort out.

Well, you can either have a small screen really close or a large screen farther away. Unfortunately for me, my vision gets worse at any distance more than one foot; so the size does not scale linearly. The 42" 18" away is about the same as the 22" 6" away.

Well then we are in luck. I think the headcount will be 10-20.

I'm not paying for electricity and have a significant UPS. If I could get FiOS I would build a server for you right here.

She knows my (rather extensive) history, and that my relationships average 6-8 months. I figure going three times that with no desire to bail is enough of a "test".

I'm, uh, engaged. ;)

Just finished Call of Duty 4. Good game with a solid storyline and decent variety for a FPS. Quite short, but enjoyable. I also thought it was more convincing graphically than Crysis while using one and a half cores. Crysis was fairly lacking in variety, and all the major turning points in the...