///M5

Another PITA I've dealt with. For my father we copied his calendar into a Google account, and synced with that, but it wasn't reliable. We finally ended up copying the calendar over to an exchange server. If you find another solution let me know. He has AOL & Gmail....I don't know of an exchange server solution for either of those. Not opposed to that if there is. Gsyncit is $19 Google App Sync is a monthly or $50/yr AOL has an app that supposedly does some syncing. Seems spotty after a few tries. Also requires a key push and he won't remember that.

Since you are making my life fricking easy, I have another question regarding it. Any of these make it so that another person might be using the PC you are VNC'ing into to? ie, can my wife facebook on the home pc while I log in and alter the home automation system settings?

I love being able to look at all my porn from my desktop on my Ipad while at the same time being able to use mspaint or calculator. It's handy when I have something going on the desktop and I'm in the living room on the laptop, or if I'm out of town and need to check something on the desktop where SSH won't suffice. Other than that I don't use it that often. When do you use the SSH instead? My common use will be altering something on the house PC while I am at work. I always multitask and have a ton of shit to do that would be great on another monitor. I'd rather add an output and monitor and keep my desk otherwise, but have my home pc in the office. Same thing when I am around the house dicking around on the PC. Being on the home pc free's up a lot of redundant programming and fuckery to get other shit sync'd to my laptop or other pc's/tablets around the house.

Windows vista/7/8 is fucking stupid with all the owner permissions. Total royal pain in the ass. If for some reason it's still being problematic after changing owner settings download a Linux live-cd to a usb drive, boot from the usb-drive, and use it to copy and paste over, it won't give you any grief. It's a bit of an over the top solution, but downloading, copying to usb drive, and booting would take less than 15 minutes. After 5 minutes of searching I just realized that downloading one will be the lengthiest process....when it includes figuring out which one.

Not so unamusingly I actually use this as a regular piece for backup; however, when you use a SATA drive it allows an e-sata connection which rips pretty decent.

Windows vista/7/8 is fucking stupid with all the owner permissions. Total royal pain in the ass. If for some reason it's still being problematic after changing owner settings download a Linux live-cd to a usb drive, boot from the usb-drive, and use it to copy and paste over, it won't give you any grief. It's a bit of an over the top solution, but downloading, copying to usb drive, and booting would take less than 15 minutes. It's even more fun since it is an old IDE drive. I have no IDE ports but one of my old ass USB HDD enclosures does. I've seen a high of 9MB/s

Sync being to Outlook on a pc

Trying to get a Droid to sync calendar and phone contacts without an exchange server is not working for me. Of course, caveat being without cost. I'm sure I've burned more time on this than a pay solution is worth but fuck going back now!

Just sort of an abstract need.

If it is real code I comment it, fake code? Fuck it

Not ready for a migration in operating system though as it sets me back a good 30 hours to get the automation system all dialed. In particular since I am too stupid to log what I do so it is back to square one.

Although using dad's new machine makes me not like mine

Makes me feel like I am copying something on an Apple. Sad day

Guess I'll remove the read only, change the owner, and then assign new priveleges. Even dumber since I am obviously the admin of my own machine.

And ugh, wtf Windows. Trying to mirror my dad's old pc drive. The Documents & Settings/Windows/Program Files folders don't copy so nice. ie, I copy them and the source is WAY larger than the end location. I want it all off IDE so I can scrap the drive but backed in case he forgot something (like backing up his Quicken file - ). I know if I don't, it'll be a headache later.

Not sure what you'd find in the Nikon world but a used 50d or 40d with nicer glass would be my pick for a budget buy

Don't get me wrong, the bottleneck on the G camera was me; however, the flexibility and power of the SLR is nutso in comparison. The lens is crap at resolving in comparison, it has a much better ISO performance but STILL lacks more in low light, and has more shutter/focus lag. In hindsight, my camera is only 5.5/6yrs old not 7 but still that says a shit ton.

A HARD piece of shit

Perhaps like a piece of shit

I should have clarified. I was referring to caulking when I mentioned sealant, not a paint or something. I was talking about the crack you were referring to. The epoxy works great on concrete as does polyurethane paint which is essentially truck bed lining. If you have a local Line-X, see if they have a portable unit and have them come out and spray your shit. You just like to say cock-ing. I am curious to see what a line-x'd piece of shit would look like.

Stefan, curious how you found tightvnc and why you selected it. Only ask because I feel like an absolute computer idiot on here regularly although in regular life my friends consider my knowledge in that regard in a complete opposite light.

Ha, strange feeling. My wife is in Nashville for work. Talk about role reversal

Defeats the purpose. Point & shoot or DSLR. Of course the caveat being if you can live with a single prime. Can you go into detail more on living with a single prime? Wife already is balking on the idea because we don't "need" one for what we do. Drop ~500$ or so on a point and shoot and be happy. New P&S cameras are seriously good. Couldn't disagree more. Used a G1X while on vacation and even though it had some advantages on my 7 year old SLR, the pictures even taken focused on those advantages were horseshit in comparison. For the same dough a used 40d and 17-85mm can be had which kills ALL p&s camera's on the market by a landslide. Step up to a real piece of glass like a 50 1.8 for the same dough and you have an awesome machine. Only downfall then is that the zoom you need will be via crop, but considering that not so many of us print 16x20's that isn't all that big of a deal either.

clamp tests don't show shit. Under or over won't be audible as well. Still not interested in the brand though

Of course between that and a 17-55 youd be golden