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No chance. They have shown that more energetic reactions happen in the atmosphere all the time. And Hawking Radiation has been shown to exist, so it wouldn't last long anyway.

$100k. And although I think the 'Vette is prettier, it is also a very common shape. People who don't know will think you only paid 40k.

McAfee is the world's worst software, second is Norton, third is anything from Apple. AVG may not be good, but it has a long way to go for the title "world's worst"...

Nope. The wood doesn't conduct, and as long as the screws had a bit of space, they didn't warp the board. Worked great through 3 motherboard changes, but I got sloppy this time.

Looks like I managed to screw my motherboard (literally). It is surface-mounted to plywood with wood screws, and I think I put one in crooked. Now the board will only get to POST code 25 and halts, no matter what other components are involved. Bah.

Every once in a while a research firm does a comparison. Some googling might help.

Well, the rig I have now is starting to fill up. Total drive count for the single machine is: 12x 750GB, 2x 74GB, 3x 16GB. My RAID controller is only a 16-port, but the motherboard has another 6 SATA and 1 PATA if I need it. I might need to upgrade from a 700W PS soon....we'll see.

I actually did consider the purchase for several weeks, and even discussed it with the SO 3 hours beforehand. But I fail to see what age has to do with it? Personality, yes. Age?

I purchased 6 750GB drives today. You don't see me complaining (too much) ;)

Nevermind. It doesn't freeze forever, but it waits a long damn time, then boots correctly.

Intel DG31PR Intel Celeron 1.8Ghz single core (32W) 2x Geil 1GB 800Mhz DDR2 160GB Toshiba 2.5" SATA drive (OS) connected to onboard SATA controller Server 2003 R2 When I connect my 3Ware Escalade 9650SE-16 to the PCI-E 16x slot, it locks on post. The Intel splash-screen stays up forever and a...

That 5D II looks fine to me. I will miss the LiveView, but the one I don't understand is this: Can anyone clarify?

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Gorgeous, fantastic lens. Though I'm sure I couldn't do as well with it. Just out of curiosity, who do you trust to take pictures of you?

No AC here, which means I am more likely to work on hot days (most of my clients have AC).

Thanks for the advice, I'll be shopping locally tomorrow and see what I come up with.

I'm planning on buying one for my grandmother. She doesn't have a computer, but I would like to mail her SD cards and have her put them in. The less features beyond that the better. I'm not sure what size to get, either. Somewhere between 8-15", ideally less than $500. Thoughts?

Medium format and only 2.5" drives? They'll fit. Besides, at 300MB per image, you ought to be able to store a few (like, 3000).

The main thing you need to worry about is that when it goes, fragments can cut your inner arms fairly easily. That is why our master destroyer, Coug, uses more professional implements of destruction.

Thanks, I expected the FNumer to be much higher.

Capture rate: 1.2 /1.4 seconds per capture :rofl:

Nice sharpness and DOF. Shooting info?

I have a new retail XP package sitting right here, but I used TinyXP Rev09 on my machine at home. It has every driver on earth already slipstreamed onto it. Both the onboard SATA RAID controller and my high-end 3Ware controller were automatically detected and useable. I know this is possible...

The things I like about DPP for going through large amounts of pictures are: Large thumbnail view Can view all types of files (including RAW) Can flag all files with "1", "2", and/or "3" for sorting Can drag-n-drop as if from explorer (into other apps, around the file system, etc) The only...

<shrug> with my system it loads in a few seconds. It isn't instantaneous, but damn fast. For basic image viewing, I use Canon's DPP.

Why don't you just link to the Flickr page, so we can see the photo properties for ourselves?

All those pictures are beautiful. How did you get long exposures? A filter of some kind? For the last picture, did you throw the rock in? How did you time it?

No worries. It's not like we're going to fire you or anything ;)

For some strange reason, going from 2x1GB of RAM to 2x2GB of RAM causes my Server 2003 install to BSOD. MemTest86+ from the (dual boot) Ubuntu 8.04 install comes up clean, as does Ubuntu itself. No issues, no errors. I'm about to blow away both and go back to XP 32-bit as a single boot. See you...

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I don't think that is a reason to have a DVD-ROM. It is a reason to have 2 optical drives, but I would much prefer to have 2 identical burners.

I was just reading an article in a Photo magazine talking about that area, seemed very cool. I think the best thing to come from me getting into photography is that I am more likely to go to beautiful places. I don't know why I didn't before, but it is a nice side-effect.

Very nice. Where is that?

Interesting Seconded.

It was harder way back when, but it was also harder in W2K than XP. I haven't done a W2K hardware swap in at least 4 years. The most difficulty I envision is doing a sysprep before or a repair installation after. Neither is exceptionally difficult.

There may be some issues, but they will be recoverable without too much trouble. Newegg still has an Intel 975X motherboard as an open box item, but I would try to move forward with the technology. Mercutio has more experience with this than I do, but installing the new drivers in an existing...

All the Intel boards I saw with eSATA onboard use DDR3.

Thanks for the clarification. Here you go.

Intel BOXDG31GL (G31 chipset) Unless you need different expansion options?

That is what it seems like to me. The page loads fast enough, if it loads at all.

Works for me. Thanks.

Wouldn't the easiest method be to not use apps that don't support color management? What does IrfanView offer that PS doesn't?

Did anyone else try to photograph fireworks and end up with fog?

Yup, it's dragging. I'm sure Doug will get us some place better when he can. It has only been unusable a couple times.

Different version of Photoshop, but that look fine to me.

In Photoshop, go to Edit->Color Settings Under "Color Management Policies", is it set to automatically convert your images color space?

Congrats to Lunar for 2k posts! Thanks man!

That is the movie I want to see right now. Unfortunately, the other 20-something geeks wanted to watch Iron Man. I'm not saying it is a bad movie, just that when the tech departs that far from reality I have a hard time suspending disbelief.

Found it. Thanks. Shame there aren't any settings for it, just on or off.

Well, my screen has a 0.5415mm Pixel Pitch, and I'm viewing in "actual pixels" for the resizing. And, for the record, my resizing technique for both was: 1. Open in Photoshop CS3 2. Image size... 3. Change size and resample with "Bicubic Sharper (best for reduction)" 4. Save Nothing else was done.