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What about the coffee makers in the break rooms of the datacenters where the cloud servers run? *rolls eyes* When calculating the power required by the refrigerator, did they include all the power required to mine / transform raw materials, all the power required to run the factories and...

As a matter of fact, that appears to have been the thrust of the article. "Coal powers the cloud"... all cloud resources required to power the smartphones being included in his calculations.

This report was bought to generate some hysterical-grade headlines in hopes of advertising a clean coal consortium. It doesn't add up at all, because to imagine that the iPhone "uses more electricity," they added up all the use of the datacenters in the US, divided by number of smartphones...

Unfortunately, the current state (according to some online reviews) is that Glass is currently locked in at a fairly strict level of SafeSearch. Even basic anatomical terms for sex organs are returning little to no results.

I managed to get the edit in with the link before you posted the catch! ;)

The PC listed in this thread from Steve:http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1684328 is up for sale on a certain auction site. I just needed to make a post to my favorite [H] modding forum. It did win best casemod at the BYOC LAN area at PAX East 2012! Link...

Thanks, I will move it. For some reason I did not know there was an eBay-specific board! :)

The PC listed in this thread from Steve: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1684328 is up for sale on a certain auction site. The rules say I cannot link to it, and I will abide, I just needed to make a post to my favorite [H] modding forum. :) It did win best casemod at the BYOC LAN...

Thanks for the kind words... I wanted to say, 1) It doesn't look anything like a toilet, and if you think pic 6 looks like a toilet/urinal, maybe you just have to go? :) and 2) It can't hold a large amount of weight. It's just 1/2 inch pine board with poly glue and brads holding it together. It...

Looks like Steve made me front-page worthy via Facebook. :) http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1684328

Thanks, Steve! :) This is for PAX East 2012, I can give you some more pics here... Last Year's PAX East build was the Penny Aracade character, DIV: And PAX East 2010 was an antique radio PC build:

I'm interested in trying some advanced woodworking like this - pardon my ignorance, but what tool(s) do you use to carve out the shape after gluing on a layer of wood?

Very nice, am looking forward to what you do here! :) I did something much smaller scale last year for PAX East.... It's a 1951 Philips radio that is now my 8 year old's desktop PC: I got to re-use the vacuum tubes by gluing them inside the top and putting a red LED strip behind them.

All, This is the PC I brought to PAX East 2011: Wanted to share it here, as it was hidden in the BYOC area at PAX, which meant only 218 PC gamers and select enforcers & media were able to view it. It started as a cheap desktop ATX case... ...until I added some PVC pipe arms...

Crap like this is why I'm happy to be running my iPhone on T-Mobile. /Unlimited Web, and no grief

Not for several years. There was a 4-pin connector next to the headphone jack back in the 4th-gen iPod days, but that went away quickly. You need to plug a remote into the dock port now if you're going to do anything besides the simple inline-headphones-with-inline-potentiometer route.

I got a good copy here: http://digiex.net/applications/175-windows-xp-service-pack-3-rtm-build-5512-download-windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu-exe.html

Yeah with gas at $3.49 a gallon, the Hummers, Camaros, etc. are sucking down the fuel pretty quick eh? :( Even my Hyundai is putting me in the poorhouse!

Yeah, but before the CC company will do a chargeback, the merchant has a "reasonable opportunity" to provide for refunding the money.

4-port SiliconImage cards at dealextreme.com, $19.99 shipped. I'll let you know how mine works when I get it. Cheapest "hardware RAID" (CRUMMY performance) is Koutech for $55 at newegg.com. I have a Highpoint RocketRAID 2220 PCI 8-port SATA2 that has been rock solid for 18 months now...

If you love woot.com (like I used to), you know they sometimes have great deals on drives. I bit on some 250GB PATA drives ($50) back in 2006, and they were DOA thanks to no padding in the box. The next shipment was much better, but right now I'm going through a nightmare-- see this thread...

Overall view of the network and server racks: Patch panel: Switches: My server, dual 2.8GHz Xeon with 8x320GB in RAID5: In the server rack, starting at the bottom: UPS, Monowall router (runs on 16MB CF card), CentOS 5 test server (RHEL-workalike), CentOS 4 server...

FWIW, I'm been a Unix SysAdmin for a year, and one of my coworkers has been one for 12 years. I spent a half an hour the other day trying to describe a Hypervisor, and explain the differences between paravirtualization and full virtualization. Everyone has different levels of expertise and...

I'd just like to point out that NOT TECHNICAL does not equal "DUMB." There are plenty of smart people who have paid me in beer and gift certificates to teach them how to use their technology, even at the most basic levels. As an extreme example... I taught my 80-year-old grandmother how to...

I have been using the Belkin Nostomo controllers for my PC games for a few years now, and love the n50/n52. Very comfortable and yet flexible. For consoles-- I only have a Wii, which is awesome, but definitely won't have the CPU/GPU horsies to run this game like the 360 and PS3 will. I have...

Google Auctions-- Request it frequently and often. Ebay will go under in 7 quarters. Seriously, Ebay has the best search functionality and most eyeballs because of volume-- no competition because nobody wants to dig through multiple sites. If you had a search function across mutiple sites...

So you're saying you got twice as much RAM and/or CPU by telling the retailer and shipper that you never received the first shipment???

If we're not careful, this is going to become Dead Thread country. :) Maybe I could go down to my basement and take some updated pics?

Shouldn't be an issue then. :) I'm sorry I quoted your post, I was just replying to a whole bunch of them that had been popping up, like- "Here's what my company is doing." :)

I've posted pics of my home network here, and it's always interesting to see what people are working on... but on some of these? I work for a large company with a big datacenter, and it's been crystal clear that something like taking pictures of equipment on our raised floor and publically...

It's worse for me. I'm primarily Linux now (after 12 years as a Windows SysAdmin) and our environment is Linux, AIX, Solaris and HPUX. Seems we let our clients choose which platform we were going to support for them for a long time... finally we have some oversight to hopefully change that...

I can understand P2P, but no GAMING? Cmon, it's low bandwidth and a requisite leisure activity for many college students. WTF?! Riot against the IS Dept! /Used to work IS at a state Uni...

Median and Average are two different things. Median is a datapoint in the middle of the range, and average is the average of all the datapoints.

Exactly... as long as you are aware of the limitations of the potential configurations, your budget may be different than mine. More power to you. I just didn't want you to waste a perfectly good gaming card to run an aux display, which at my budget, it would be a waste. /I paid $14.99 (no...

Wait, so you'd but a second 8800GT just to run the second monitor with TS, Firefox and WinAMP? What's the logic in that-- Aero can use any other nVidia card that uses the same WDDM driver for a second display, and if you're not using it for gaming, why not just an FX5700 or 6600LE card? If...

I wish I had apples-to-apples performance numbers to compare this against my SLI'ed 7900GSes, to know how much I'd be losing but... If anyone is interested, I am willing to trade my TWO Leadtek 7900GS / 256MB cards straight-up for a new Radeon HD 3850. The 7900s are great (single-slot, but...

I have a question. Why do you write like you are in seventh grade?

This was a great article. Logical layout, good methodology, nice analysis, great open-ended conclusions. Unfortunately, both the author and the editor managed to miss several instances where an apostrophe was used for pluralization instead of possession. This is a fourth grade grammar...

So Sun sold you on their blades, huh? We looked at them, but their presentation was thin, and they had a strike against them going in with two different chassis models. Plus they were still not price competitive with HP, especially after support costs. We're thinking HP so far for our...

I love the way you guys do things now, and I must admit I still do get a little bit of "mental value" out of the Apple-to-Apples at the end, comparing framerates at identical settings. :) The best playable stuff is GREAT, my only beef has been "we'll throw in an 8600, a 2900XT, and three 8800...