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At a place where I used to work CFLs were thrown away, and regular fluorescents were intentionally broken so they would fit in the trash. I remember watching the maintenance guy breaking more than a dozen and sweeping all the fragments into the trash.

Good comment from slashdot:

If I were to wire a house with the intent of lighting with LED, what would be the best option? 12V DC? 120V AC? IIRC, LEDs need very stable and precise voltage and are dimmed via amperage changes? Is converting from AC to DC better done in bulk or per fixture?

That is really not a bad price for a DVI KVM. When I was last looking they were $300+

Interesting Uda and thanks for the explanation Gilo. Trying to dissect the focal plane is fun! It seems to me that the focal plane is very narrow and following the row of holes in the top shelf most closely.

Dupe.

Low energy efficiency vs. Mercury....where are my cost equivalent LED fixtures? If energy efficiency is better than incandescent, that is enough for me to switch.

Good to hear. Thanks for the mini-review MaxBurn.

Finally got the last of my old CDs copied into my system. For grins I put on Green Day - Platypus (I Hate You) from their Nimrod album, and suddenly, my stereo isn't loud enough.* *Alright...headphones. It's late and I live in an apartment.

Linking to something that is in the "Public Relations" folder of the manufacturers website is about as biased as you can get.

Yup. I like it. It has that F-1 inspired Enzo look with more sanity. Though I would take a Ferrari 430 Scuderia instead...

Too true...

I would think automatic updates would make the uptake rather fast, as soon as it hits...

Interesting. I think the industry may have jumped the gun a bit. Everyone was marketing SSDs as unbelievably fast, but the first ones available were only directly competitive with their traditional counterparts. This is going to hurt the reputation of the product and slow sales in the future.

Thanks to the master planner, Handruin, for choosing a BB package that wasn't compromised. Hurah!

But this "drive by" isn't the same level of physical access as previously required. I no longer have to steal the machine, or even have 5 minutes at the keyboard. Their sys admin or security could be in the room and not see me plug and unplug a device.

I think a cage is the best thing. I already have full drive encryption on all workstations and servers (using the latest TrueCrypt). The password policy is sane but capable, and every employee goes though a decent screening policy and security talk by me before they are given a username and...

That is what I keep telling my clients. Any suggestions for physically securing a server in an environment too small for a server room? There are 4 servers in the supply room, and I'm investigating chain-link fence...

You are correct! Zalman Hard drive cooler ZM-2HC2. That is where the Raptors are. Behind them in the black boxes are 5-in-3 hard drive cages with 120mm fans in the front, they are full of 750GB drives.

In searching for bottlenecks, I've found having the "My Documents" folder on one of the other arrays causes it to hang while the array spins up. Moving

Just downloaded ATTO, and it's analysis more closely fits my sense of it's performance. Write 130MB/s Read 240MB/s

I have no doubt of that. Considering we are now seeing arrays where the bottleneck is the controller, that will likely be the theme of the next few years.

I really like the G15. The backlit keys are wonderful, the black really does make it easier. I have the LED display folded down because it doesn't work in Server 2003 without SP2 installed and I still can't make that work(!). The Razor Copperhead is also the best mouse I've ever used, at full...

To be honest I didn't even bother checking. I knew I didn't want anything slower than my existing array in any category, and ordered to achieve that. That said, I have no doubt that one of these would have given a better user experience as an OS drive than my Raptors. Even with the lower STR...

Durability was solved a long time ago. These days the drive can be read and written continuously for 10-30 years.

Vista is fine, provided you do things where performance isn't an issue. When I rolled the main machine at home back from Vista Ultimate to Server 2003 Standard, she missed a number of features including the better thumbnails for multimedia files and more intelligent search capabilities.

Until my new case is finished, I have functioning computer guts all over my desk. eww....

Meh, cloned my Server 2003 install from the raptors to the SSD array. Same thing as Ubuntu. OS boot in seconds, and when it is up, it is ready. Every app loads instantly. In Supreme Commander, Crysis, and Railroads! level load times are easily a third of what they were before.

Thanks for the info, e_dawg. Shame about the 30/1.4, that would be a great Tango lens...

I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 because, frankly, I couldn't get XP or Vista to install and Server 2003 is at my office. This is really incredible. Literally 2 seconds to desktop, everything is immediate. No delays anywhere.

I just wanted to see how quickly Vista would boot off it; and the answer is: it won't. Even though the system requirements state 40GB minimum, it simply refused.

Agreed.

That's right, I forgot the Canon 10-22 was an EF-S. I have no doubt it would be challenging, and I have no doubt that I would take horrible pictures with it. But it would be a fun toy to play with.

Windows XP 32-bit retail CD BSODs any time the SSD array is attached. It boots to the CD, I press F6 to load controller drivers from floppy. It prompts for which driver to load from disk, I tell it. It finishes loading all the drivers and says "Starting Windows..." Then it BSODs telling me to...

Thanks for the tips on the 17-50/2.8. I'll have to have a closer look at it. The 5D II looks promising. Going to a FF sensor would help my lenses on the wide end (10mm + FF = goodness).

There is nothing like rumors of a bank being financially unstable to make a bank financially unstable. Whether they were or not, this is the environment that runs on banks require.

Tamron's 17-50mm f/2.8 is a $450 lens. Canon's 17-55 IS is a $175 lens.

The cropping of that image makes it particularly suggestive...rule of thirds, anyone?

I didn't mean to sound defensive or anything, I was just under the wrong impression when I read the headline. You do, however, make a valid point.

Some stopwatch work indicates about 100MB/s for both read and write.

Unfortunatly the free version of HDTach won't tell me. Though I suspect it is similar to the read graph.

Here are some basic stats from HDTach 3.0.4.0 for all the arrays currently in my system: 10x 750GB 7200.10 in RAID5 Access: 11.3ms Burst: 201.7MB/s Average: 122.5MB/s 2x 74GB Raptors in RAID0 Access: 8.1ms Burst: 201.9MB/s Average: 117.3MB/s 3x 16GB MTron MSD-6000 in RAID0 Access: 0.1ms...

Just arrived still in the box forwarded from Korea. The UPS guy informed me they were insured for $5k+ <shrug>. Bringing the system down now to drop the array in.

I think the headline is a bit sensationalistic. The US economy is not as large as all 15 countries that use the Euro. When a single other country has an economy the same size, let me know. Granted, our economy is in the can and not getting better any time soon, but the title is a bit much.

It would be a replacement for my current 18-55 (non-IS). It is a great general purpose "walk around" lens, the IS would help because these are all handheld shots. The 10-22 is the next lens on the list. I'm trying to put together a list of lenses I want in Russia, so far it looks like this...

I ended up just buying the program M2Convert for Zen. it works quite well.

Drives should be arriving today, any particular tests anyone would like run?

The Canon 18-55 IS kit lens is getting pretty good reviews...I'm thinking about it.

I just don't know what the big deal is...when I first heard about this I thought: let his wife deal with it. Then I heard about what a hardon he has been to the people he's prosecuted, and figured he deserved to go down; not for this in particular, just for being a jerk.

Damn....I wonder what it would take to be able to play Crysis @ 1920x1080....