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Meh. I finally got some work, so I've been leaving at 7AM and getting home around 9PM. I'm currently preparing to do a brain transplant on my current workstation; anyone want to take a guess as to whether the Vista install survives going from a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 + A64 6000+ to whatever Fry's...

Back when I considered myself a Democrat, I registered Republican so I could have a say in their primaries. I figured that steering the potential alternative was more useful than choosing between a group of people I mostly agreed with. Now I label myself a pessimist and don't vote at all.

So here comes another debate...a pair of 73GB 15K.5s and a SAS controller or a pair of 64GB SSDs....

She is a little old lady that likes to inconvenience other people because it makes her feel important. She is the owner of this 100+ unit complex with average rent in the $1500+/mo range; she could live anywhere, but she lives here on the ground floor. She has owned it since the 60s. She even...

I'd never heard of it before, but it works great. Includes the ability to close the running OS both to a file or to another drive. I'm running a clone right now from one 1TB Samsung drive to another, and it is maintaining over 100MB/sec. Website

It is indeed a part of the property, but I don't want it back. The issue is that she doesn't know about it. All changes are significant improvements and are to code, but she doesn't like me and would evict if she had a chance.

Indeed. I'm looking forward to getting my own place, so I can make worthwhile improvements without throwing my money away.

There is no way a cow could survive standard feedlot conditions unless it was pumped full of chemicals. So I'm guessing the organic beef is decently humane. Whole Foods has excellent meat, but at 4-star restaurant prices.

Our possums aren't nearly as cute, and they are quite vicious. I almost lost a pet cat to one. Attrib. Link

Good idea. Windows (and some programs) don't like not having a page file, regardless of how much RAM you have.

Rebuilding the kitchen sink today. The faucet is so cheap that it can't be serviced; must be replaced completely. The threaded gasket on the back of the p-trap had essentially dissolved and disintegrated in my hand. The apartment manager should take care of these things, but I've violated the...

My personal domain is hosted by google...for free ;)

Still called spudger. Basically a long pointy thing.

I run commit charges higher than that, but not because of Firefox.

Yup. I'm used to the Grey ones as well.

I like squirrels. We have one that hangs out around the complex that is much darker than any I've seen before, almost black. I finally got a picture of him with my new 75-300.

Yup, me too. About 90% of the time now.

It seems random enough. How do you "protect" tabs?

That sucks.

Agreed. Not much you can do as far as a solution. Open Task Manager and go to the "processes" tab. Check the "all users" box at the bottom. Then go to "View" and choose "Select Columns". Add the CPU Time and "Peak Memory Usage" items. After a reboot, take note of the items that use the most of...

Got 3 of the 1TB drives for a server project. Filled them with the same ~850GB of data, compared them. All fine, I'm happy.

Wow, that looks really real.

Those are the big players, but the bulk of the IT sector has been spread out over smaller companies for a long time. Before there was PARC, Bell Labs, and IBM. I can't imagine being that much of a drone. Unless I can at least see the top of the chain of command, I don't want to play.

I'd imagine you would want very tight control of the focal plane, so something fast. You will also want to stay out of the way, so something slightly long. A 50/1.2 would be great, but my 50/1.8 could do as well. Whose funeral?

That would require enough spare space somewhere else to hold the image file.

It will be rough, but I'm sure you will enjoy every minute of it!

That's what expansion cards and big-ass power supplies are for ;)

The only thing Yahoo I have is Flickr. I should have known better than to trust my stuff to a third party. I hope Google allows custom pages on their web hosting soon.

Yep. I believe you, but those numbers seem almost impossibly fast, particularly for small files.

Wow that is fast. Are you sure there was no buffering involved?

That Zeiss 1700mm lens doesn't look that big until you realize that it has a 6x6 medium-format camera attached.

Wow that looks good.

If you are replacing all the drives in the array with larger ones, wouldn't it be easier to add all the new drives and then remove all the old ones?

Nikon 500mm/4 - $7900 Canon 500mm/4 - $5500

I like this shot. You lose all sense of scale on the bean.

I grew up in the "Salad Bowl of the World", where lettuce was grown in fields starting one block from my house and stretching on to the horizon. The best lettuce, celery, artichoke, strawberries, any many more are grown there year round. This produce has never been iced, the tractor towing a...

More to the point...are you sure you are not wasted? ;)

Sorry. I'm cool with silly, but it seems out of character, so I missed it.

OK...who was the first everyone?

All the cards at Fry's yesterday had at least 256MB of RAM. For $109 you could get an 8400 with 512MB.

Neat. That huge aircraft and the amazing width of that cockpit, and they still couldn't give the pilots an easy way in or out of their seats.

Charlie Foxtrot.

I wall-mounted the LCD behind my desk this afternoon. It gives me so much space, it's amazing.

That was from one Slashdot story down...;)

Nope. That is what you get when the dollar sucks.

Depends on what you want to do with it. If all you want is to watch movies than just about anything will do. If you want some hardcore gaming action, get an 8800GT, it is awesome and great bang-for-the-buck. I use a DVI - HDMI converter cable for video and coaxial SPDIF to a receiver for audio.

It does, just to a lesser degree. Someone who makes $1M/yr doesn't use the roads, police, or schools 20x more than someone who makes $50k/yr. In fact, even though they pay for public schools, it's likely that they would pay for private schools as well.

20%? Any guesses on what it would take?

I'll stand behind that.

It is fair. But long ago we decided that instead of just being fair, that taxes would take on a "Robin Hood" role of wealth distribution. It is (a bit) better for the society as a whole. But don't say that the wealthy paying more is fair. It's a good idea, but it isn't fair.