I have a controller that stops functioning when the weather gets down into the 20s. A 60 watt incandescent on a thermostatic outlet is perfect. For my use, it's a 90% efficient heat source.

Also that brings to mind the biggest problem with Window$.

VIRUSES, MALWARE and TROJANS hiding in a .exe file which requires Administrator access to install.

Uhm...................... why is it bad? You could get nightingale directly from your dist, or a PPA.

I agree there should be an easy way to add PPA's, though.

While he's at it, he may as well install some Twinax in case someone with an AS/400 comes for a visit and needs some Token Ring love.

Sure, they are expensive, but the auto-away feature alone (motion sensor sensing no movement for a set amount of time) has saved us a lot of cash over the past two years. It also knows the outside temperature and learns how long it will take your house to warm up/cool down based on that and adjust its on-times accordingly.

Quite the nice piece of adaptable hardware which has seen our energy usage drop ~15%. Of course it's impossible to say that was all Nest that can take the credit for that.

We have a Nest and love it. The only problem I had until now was the lousy central humidifier support.
Even with the recent cold snap here when temperatures 'as cold as Mars' our Nest never failed to start the furnace.

Ha! Well done!

Raises hand.

My last company decided to Googleize just as I was leaving. The VeeP who set it in motion had a list of services he wanted. Thing is, we already provided nearly everything he wanted and none of the things he wanted were unique to Google's offerings. Even back then, there was a pretty significant list of services that Google had shut down and it was clear that it would be risky to heavily integrate anything beyond docs and email into our business practices. I have no idea how it turned out because my last day was in the middle of the transition.

Holy smokes, I never thought of that. Good catch!
We should start a company and get a few million on Kickstarter next week... ;)

Yeah I know, but it is 2014. Surely even a conservative business like a bank could use case sensitivity. They don't even allow special characters and have a limited size (8 chars iirc)

That's the best kind of legal.

Err, sorry, not specifically the app, their actual site. Case insensitive everywhere.

TD Canada Trust appears to not use case sensitive passwords or allow special characters. Try it with your password using UPPER, lower and MiXEd case.

Then you must be doing it wrong.

Wait for it...

60Hz is just starting to show up. Dell's got two monitors available now and 1 that should be available real soon now that do 4k at 60Hz over DisplayPort 1.2a. There are a couple other monitors out there that also do 60Hz and a TV with HDMI 2 that'll be out soon. Unfortunately there aren't many video cards that support it yet and firmware/driver issues are just starting to get ironed out. Give it another 6 months and you should be able to get a good setup for gaming. (Of course, then you might have trouble with 4k support in existing games.)