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Oh... I'd have to pay tax (6%), and drive ~45 minutes each way to get there. With the quantity I want (~10) it'd be slightly cheaper to get 'em online from http://www.excaliberpc.com. And, the local store only has 4 anyhow.

What's special about December that you can delete them then?

There was a very cool episode of World's Toughest Fixes where they had to replace the antenna on top of a 2000 foot tower. They actually had to make their own crane attached to the side of the tower at the top in order to remove the old antenna and bring up the new one. link

They were $130 at the egg. How did you get 'em for $110?

I guess I don't exactly see the problem if people are being told up front what the processor is when they will run it out of the box. If the customer can later do what I assume is a BIOS update that unlocks more capability of the chip... Well, then more power to Intel and Gateway. Now if...

Well, they did show up back in stock today at Newegg. But at $130 each they can keep 'em. And, they only seem to have 2 in stock anyhow. :-?

Yahoo put it up: http://video.yahoo.com/network/101149635?v=8244494&l=5144241

You need to fold the braided shield over the insulation on the RG6. I'm not sure you're doing it right based on your description. I'd recommend watching this video.

I don't know. I don't have my amp on the cable line. I'd recommend getting a MoCA capable one (pdf) now. You can get an 8 port with passive reverse or active reverse. You're thinking to about this a little too hard. :nono: You don't connect the cable modem to the switch. Put the cable modem...

And they stop leaks. :cheers:

I'm really glad this isn't my job. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_hFNjNuGP4

Yeah, I noticed :( I'm not sure I'm quite ready to buy 8-10 of them. I'd like to get back to work and get some paychecks coming in first.

I don't think so... Other places have them in stock. I would expect it to come back in stock.

What the heck do I need sound for via remote desktop?

Well, it works. :salut: I'm able to Remote Desktop into my HTPC running Windows 7 Home Premium now.

I agree... Hence my comment about buying a pile of Samsung 2TB HD203WI drives. :sunny:

Well, they apparently are doing something about it. link

Yeah, it's kinda craptactular. :-x

I did some more digging after I posted and it seems the guys over at overclocker.net say the 4k sector drives don't play nice with RAID cards even when the 512k compatibility jumpers are set (and of course there's a performance hit) from the lack of alignment by the cards though I didn't see any...

I'm not sure. I saw people bemoaning the fact that the WD 4k drives don't allow a native interface. I'm not sure if that's accurate. I would have expected the jumper to switch between 4k native and 4k with internal 512kb emulation. I don't think the caching would need the update. I suspect...

Has anyone seen any data on what the impact of the newer 4k sector drives is on HW RAID cards? Can they be used as normal? Do they need the jumper set to put them into compatibility mode? Does anything special need to be done to align the partition on the resulting array? My gut feel is that...

FWIW, today it seems quite quick. :confused:

Nope, that was my thought.

Thanks guys!

I've been getting long waits for the past few weeks at times myself.

Compression all the way. I have the Ideal OmniSeal Pro and use compression ends. link (pdf) I got it from HD or Lowes (don't recall which). Monoprice also sells a compression tool and compression ends.

Hah, I don't think that's gonna happen. I'm sorta burned out on that for a bit anyhow. I want a vacation from the theater.

Is there any reason to consider them over Samsung?

The same as the last job. Engineer for a company selling products to the automotive industry.

So, I accepted a job offer today. Not sure on the start date, but it will be nice to get back to work. I actually received 3 job offers and got to pick between 'em. They were all a bit different. So at least in my case the job market wasn't totally dead.

It uses 5-8% on my Q6600 @ 3gHz.

That's odd. I didn't have any such issue with any of my runs. They all worked a 1Gb. What's it do if you force it to 1Gb?

You need a framing nail gun. ;)

I've got 7 speakers. I might as well use them. Oddly enough the receiver can apply PL IIx on top of Dolby TrueHD and 5.1 LPCM audio (and of course DD5.1, DTS5.1, etc). But, apparently applying PL IIx on top of DTS-HD MA is a no-no.

He better be. Screws are not allowed per the building code for load bearing elements.

Maybe... Who knows... I'm pleasantly surprised. Now to see if people have figured out how to enable the Remote Desktop Server in Win 7 Home Premium. Looks like they have. link

The fact that there's a Blackberry Torch commercial before it plays add to the entertainment. The visualization of Steve's RDF is just one of the funny elements.

Aren't they encrypted?

Not that I've ever seen.

In a shocking twist of events the ATI 5570 actually just worked out of the box. I installed Windows 7, loaded the drivers for the hardware, and got HDMI bitstreaming to work. No EDID issues and the video levels are right too. I've never had such a positive experience with an ATI produce...

So, who thought iterative drive FW flashing was a good idea? You can't immediately go to the newest version. You have to stop at each intermediate step along the way. Idiots! :bstd: You also can't flash the drive if you have an nVidia chipset (even if it's in the required IDE mode). Idiots...

We haven't had a good OCZ rant in a while. Stay tuned. I'll be posting my thoughts on their SSD firmware updating procedure shortly. :cursin: This of course assumes that I am successful in following their inane and unbelievably piss poor method.

Oooh, let me order 2. :owneddnce:

Don't waste your time watching The Fourth Kind. It was horrible. I would have been a tad bit better if the they hadn't tried to portray it as based on real events, when it's actually a complete fabrication down to the "actual" audio and video. The Blind Side was pretty good though.

Too bad they're not going to drop the power consumption along with the price. :p

It's pretty large. It's maybe 1.5"w x .75" thick. I'm not sure on the conductor count or configuration. I'll have to pay attention next time I have the cover off.

Oh, I know that one... I meant during activities that could be otherwise entirely mouse driven. I typically have my hands on the keyboard when at the computer. So, I was asking where a shift click is valuable assuming the task you're doing is otherwise entirely mouse driven. The only...

My subsequent research on this indicates that it's 200A of split phase 240V, so there's really 400A total of 120V power available in the house, although no leg of the split phase 240V can exceed 200A. So that means my 200A service is 4x what ddrueding has.

I never shift click. Where is that useful?

Usually they have an internal circuit breaker that will trip if you're pushing them too hard for too long. They also can pull more than 20A, but they do so in short transients that won't pop breakers.