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I have a 6600gt with a fan in my main gaming machine, and I would not want to add that kind of noise - no matter how insignificant you may find it - to my home theater machine.
As such, I went with a fanless Asus FX5200. Turns out that the NVidia DVD/MPEG2 decoder does the best job on this decently powerful system as a PVR box. Plus, the less fans I have, the less "whoosh" noise. Which in a home theater/PVR environment is a necessity.
But, if you do buy a 600 watt power supply that is 10% more efficient than the 300/400 watt power supply you're not necessarily going to use all 600 watts all the time. In fact, if you put the same load on the 600 that you were going to put on a replacement 300/400 watt supply, you'd come out ahead.
So, the SUV comparison isn't exactly valid, unless the 600 watt is horribly inefficient.
RAID5 will fuck you if you depend on it to be your only failsafe on your data.
Repeated again:
RAID5 will fuck you if you depend on it to be your ONLY failsafe on your data.
Your motherboard/controller could screw you. You could delete some files. 2 drives can fail at the same time (power surge,etc.)
There's just no excuse for not backing things up. I personally have a DDS3 tape drive in my file server for once yearly backups. Every 6 months I do a set of rewritables (DVD+RW). Every year or so I make a permanent copy on DVD+ or -R, and I buy decent burnables for that.
I've had instances where controllers, cables, and my own screw ups have lost data. But the cost to my time is minimal since I have backups in place. The way I figure it, the time I spend safeguarding my data is worth its weight in gold WHEN I have to depend on the backup for critical data.
Besides, Corporations back up their data - why can't we?:)
Turned a Sempron 2500+ (socket a) into a SageTV device by buying their dual-tuner Hauppauge PVR-500 and Sage bundles about 6 months ago. After I got the SVideo issues worked out (turned out different DVD decoder providers seem to put out a different signal...?) the box is running by itself, with no attention needed.
Even the wife loves it. To be honest, now I watch more TV than I did before - I'm always catching up on old episodes of Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs....
First off, you do not want to put the UPS in like that for the whole room. I'd say if you really want to put it in in this fashion, make dedicated circuits (like in some datacenters) beside the regular circuits that are UPS'd. That way you have a choice of outlets... Anyways...
You kind of need to specify the kind of loads you'd like to put on the UPS. What you'd need to do is look at how many machines, how many monitors, etc.
For instance, you do NOT want to put lighting (flourescent or otherwise) on a UPS.
I have an older APC 900 that has external modules that I can add battery packs to, if I want a long runtime.
I'm rambling, but a 3000 will power a lot of equipment, for a short amount of time. The batteries for the "higher numbered" UPS's seem to be pretty small, so you don't get much runtime out of them. For a quick-and-dirty of how long, get an estimated wattage you're going to draw from the UPS. Then, take battery voltage, multiply by number of batteries in the UPS, then multiply by the AH of ONE battery. That gives you the watt-hours of your UPS.
If you're going to draw 450 watts from a UPS and the batteries add up to 450 or so, then you'll get about 1 hour - 20%.... Efficiency losses run about 20% (I'm guessing here)...
Anywho. My 900 runs a file server, switch, cable modem, sipura phone box, and the gateway for about 2 hours. It only has one battery pack, but my battery packs are 4x(12v*18AH), which is around 864Watt Hours. So I'm probably drawing 400 watts continuously through the UPS....
There was an episode of Mythbusters on this. They didn't have an anti-reflective plate cover though. What they did do is solder 300 or so infrared LED's around the plate.
Didn't affect the speed gun in the slightest. In my travels, I use a RADAR detector on long journeys, but in most cases, staying within 5-10mph of the speed limit (and driving an old man car! Grand Marquis) helps lots.
Actually, if you're really concerned with it (as you said, but on a twist here....) why not just bathe the SCREEN in infrared?
The screen would reflect on all angles pretty much evenly, but the normal moviegoers wouldn't have an issue seeing the normal projected image.
This would probably cost more however. The typical installation I'm imagining would have a 1/2 disco ball mounted above or below the screen, throwing a bath of IR all over the place.
The only way I've found to get rid of the "Wanna reboot now? How about now? Now?" idiot box is to turn off automatic updates in services once the updates are "complete".
What I'm not sure of is whether the service needs to run on shutdown to finish anything it needs to do...?
The problem with that is that PSTs can be big and it might take awhile to do the copy. I have to ensure it won't run when the user is on dialup or VPN.
This will just require you checking to see what subnet the laptop is currently on before copying. That's what my current systems do - it won't copy the files unless you are in the "office network" environment, based on the subnet.
You've obviously never worked in a situation to where a user has taken advantage of the situation time and time again, and there's no real AUP in place to CYA.
AUPs, SLAs etc are all needed in order to be able to say "I told you so", albeit in more polite words. The only way you will cover your butt is to have it signed, in writing. Heresay doesn't count.
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Hell yea!
Developers developers developers developers developers....
Developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers!!!
YEEAAAAAARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!
(little bit of Howard Dean thrown in there for flavor...)
I have a 6600gt with a fan in my main gaming machine, and I would not want to add that kind of noise - no matter how insignificant you may find it - to my home theater machine.
As such, I went with a fanless Asus FX5200. Turns out that the NVidia DVD/MPEG2 decoder does the best job on this decently powerful system as a PVR box. Plus, the less fans I have, the less "whoosh" noise. Which in a home theater/PVR environment is a necessity.
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jeeesh.
My wife likes to sleep with the TV on.
I find that after a few nights of "TV-on" sleep, I feel like total crap. Almost like I haven't slept.
Now I turn the TV off when I go to sleep.
"I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin' but that's some hot shit right there!"
Your statement reminded me of the quirky camera dude in Orgasmo.
But, if you do buy a 600 watt power supply that is 10% more efficient than the 300/400 watt power supply you're not necessarily going to use all 600 watts all the time. In fact, if you put the same load on the 600 that you were going to put on a replacement 300/400 watt supply, you'd come out ahead.
So, the SUV comparison isn't exactly valid, unless the 600 watt is horribly inefficient.
Neither 2000 or NT had a "consumer-friendly" userbase, I'm assuming. More for the business side... and the geeky side.
RAID5 will fuck you if you depend on it to be your only failsafe on your data.
:)
Repeated again:
RAID5 will fuck you if you depend on it to be your ONLY failsafe on your data.
Your motherboard/controller could screw you. You could delete some files. 2 drives can fail at the same time (power surge,etc.)
There's just no excuse for not backing things up. I personally have a DDS3 tape drive in my file server for once yearly backups. Every 6 months I do a set of rewritables (DVD+RW). Every year or so I make a permanent copy on DVD+ or -R, and I buy decent burnables for that.
I've had instances where controllers, cables, and my own screw ups have lost data. But the cost to my time is minimal since I have backups in place. The way I figure it, the time I spend safeguarding my data is worth its weight in gold WHEN I have to depend on the backup for critical data.
Besides, Corporations back up their data - why can't we?
SageTV then. It's a "software based" PVR, but only uses hardware that can handle the MPEG-2 encoding without help from the CPU.
I bought their PVR-500 bundle, Sage TV and remote. I've invested probably 10 hours in the machine to get it wife-approved.
Now, she won't watch TV any other way!
Gnomad2. Haven't used it with my Zen Xtra yet - but says will work with your Sleek (without some playforsure upgrade???)
http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/?
Seconded.
Turned a Sempron 2500+ (socket a) into a SageTV device by buying their dual-tuner Hauppauge PVR-500 and Sage bundles about 6 months ago. After I got the SVideo issues worked out (turned out different DVD decoder providers seem to put out a different signal...?) the box is running by itself, with no attention needed.
Even the wife loves it. To be honest, now I watch more TV than I did before - I'm always catching up on old episodes of Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs....
there's be some jackass waiting to reply with "what if it's a girl?"
Then I'd kick said jackass in the nuts. Problem solved!
Actually, his UPS uses the RBC-11, which you can get full packs for (4x12v, 18ah batteries) from Ebay for around 100$ shipped.
And yes, they are brand new batteries.
Additionally, the batteries used in this UPS are bigger than typical rack-mount setups (in terms of energy and size.)
if your UPS is rated at a maximum, of, say, 2500W, then you can only have just over 10 amps on it.
Keep in mind that the UPS the submitter referenced is a 120V solution, which will be around 22-24 amps for the 3000 VA......
When you say "shins", I think you actually mean "nuts".
First off, you do not want to put the UPS in like that for the whole room. I'd say if you really want to put it in in this fashion, make dedicated circuits (like in some datacenters) beside the regular circuits that are UPS'd. That way you have a choice of outlets... Anyways...
You kind of need to specify the kind of loads you'd like to put on the UPS. What you'd need to do is look at how many machines, how many monitors, etc.
For instance, you do NOT want to put lighting (flourescent or otherwise) on a UPS.
I have an older APC 900 that has external modules that I can add battery packs to, if I want a long runtime.
I'm rambling, but a 3000 will power a lot of equipment, for a short amount of time. The batteries for the "higher numbered" UPS's seem to be pretty small, so you don't get much runtime out of them. For a quick-and-dirty of how long, get an estimated wattage you're going to draw from the UPS. Then, take battery voltage, multiply by number of batteries in the UPS, then multiply by the AH of ONE battery. That gives you the watt-hours of your UPS.
If you're going to draw 450 watts from a UPS and the batteries add up to 450 or so, then you'll get about 1 hour - 20%.... Efficiency losses run about 20% (I'm guessing here)...
Anywho. My 900 runs a file server, switch, cable modem, sipura phone box, and the gateway for about 2 hours. It only has one battery pack, but my battery packs are 4x(12v*18AH), which is around 864Watt Hours. So I'm probably drawing 400 watts continuously through the UPS....
Durrr. This has only been speculated on for the past I don't know how many weeks.
Bad Karma Whore. Bad.
...
Doing that to you with a chainsaw, I'm sure, would suck for you.
Now that might cost even more.. but oh dear lord, just imagine the look on the cammers' faces!
Ew.
There was an episode of Mythbusters on this. They didn't have an anti-reflective plate cover though. What they did do is solder 300 or so infrared LED's around the plate.
Didn't affect the speed gun in the slightest. In my travels, I use a RADAR detector on long journeys, but in most cases, staying within 5-10mph of the speed limit (and driving an old man car! Grand Marquis) helps lots.
Actually, if you're really concerned with it (as you said, but on a twist here....) why not just bathe the SCREEN in infrared?
The screen would reflect on all angles pretty much evenly, but the normal moviegoers wouldn't have an issue seeing the normal projected image.
This would probably cost more however. The typical installation I'm imagining would have a 1/2 disco ball mounted above or below the screen, throwing a bath of IR all over the place.
The only way I've found to get rid of the "Wanna reboot now? How about now? Now?" idiot box is to turn off automatic updates in services once the updates are "complete".
What I'm not sure of is whether the service needs to run on shutdown to finish anything it needs to do...?
The problem with that is that PSTs can be big and it might take awhile to do the copy. I have to ensure it won't run when the user is on dialup or VPN.
This will just require you checking to see what subnet the laptop is currently on before copying. That's what my current systems do - it won't copy the files unless you are in the "office network" environment, based on the subnet.
You've obviously never worked in a situation to where a user has taken advantage of the situation time and time again, and there's no real AUP in place to CYA.
AUPs, SLAs etc are all needed in order to be able to say "I told you so", albeit in more polite words. The only way you will cover your butt is to have it signed, in writing. Heresay doesn't count.