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Slower write speeds, if that matters, would be a reason to pass on the 840, but endurance is not really an issue even for TLC. People tested it already and even at 100GB/day, it's going to last 20+ years...

Uh, good luck. All that for around 400? They can advertise IR out to any range, but the general effective IR range is maybe 15 meters. Beyond that, these cameras just don't have the juice for it. If you really need the long range, you probably have to get a separate IR/white light that's...

They have IP cameras which basically have a built in web server in the camera so you can access the video remotely. Typically, you hook them up to your Internet router and it mostly works after the port forwarding. There's a really wide variation, though, from under $100 to a few thousand...

Yeah, I saw that post. The reason I'm asking for specifics is that I'm in the market for a new monitor. No matter what kind of monitor that I get (16:9, 16:10, 4:3, 5:4), one size won't fit all. If I get 16:9, it'll need to try to scale 4:3. If I get 16:10, it'll need to scale 16:9,4:3, etc...

I haven't personally had issues with black bars but of course that doesn't mean it wouldn't or couldn't happen. Technology works different for everybody. However, how would proper scaling of 4:3 content on a 16:9/16:10 be any different than trying to scale 16:9 onto a 16:10? Do you have a...

What exactly would you be using black bars for on a 1080p monitor? I did look up the Asus in your sig and it doesn't support 1680x1050, if that's what you tried. I don't know about all monitors but some of the more popular and newer 24" 16:10 monitors, like the U2410 list correct support for...

I suppose you could do it with software drivers but that never really occurred to me. The last few 16:10 monitors that I've had had some sort of 1:1 or aspect setting on the monitor itself. So the computer/console/device feeds in the 16:9 resolution (e.g. 1920x1080) and the monitor will black...

I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case too. I run NoScript and Adblock+ with 20 tabs. They leak badly. I can't imagine Adblock being written efficiently. FF starts around 300M. I have gigs of spare memory but once FF gets above the 800M-1GB mark, it just gets very sluggish even...

Try Cobain Backup? It has the Shadow Copy and can work across a LAN, which seems to be what you want.

Xcopy works fine, but I use Cobain Backup. It's free and basically does the same thing in a GUI fashion. The bonus is that it does the multiple copies thing (new copy once a month or whatever) automatically if you decide to configure it that way. It has the shadow copy and other basic stuff...

Newegg/Amazon reviews aren't really the most reliable things if there's a general PR issue going about. In this case, OCZ got raked over the coals for silently switching to slower parts in the Vertex 2 without notifying anyone or changing the SKU. They've since decided to use new SKUs and swap...

Probably not for most residential networks since that would require 2 IP addresses from your ISP. For your situation, though, you can plug 1 router into the other and have the 2nd bridge the connection to get the basement access that you need. I would say a lot people use this type of switch...

Anand's review of the C400 is up: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4253/the-crucial-m4-micron-c400-ssd-review As expected, writes are up, reads are down. Interesting point that the collector is slow. Too bad he didn't delve more into it. As in how much writing to trigger the slowness and how...

You mean what happens when an SSD completely runs out of extra chips to write to because all of them are all used up? In theory, the write will just fail and the SSD will turn into a read-only device. I don't know how much this has actually been tested, though, since it takes a long time to...

The trophy is for mastering 16 courses. The game comes with 16, so it works out just fine. Agreed though that it's annoying for them to put the DLC front and center so you have to skip the tournament if you don't buy the DLC. Gameplay is pretty much the same as 11 anyway. They changed up the...