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It's finally cool enough to walk to dinner. 1.5 miles each way to a great burger joint, where I'm sure the sweet potato fries will counter any benefit the 3 mile walk will have.

...and exposes you to "Carpet Bombing" Only masochists install Apple software on windows. The only people I know to write worse software for the platform is HP. Edit: Outside the anti-virus business, that is.

My father wrote one a while back that I used, but it isn't for sale anymore. Payroll Companion for Windows

Looks like I also need to clear out the appropriate /lib/modules/ folder as well. Anything else?

I'm still chewing on this and starting to make a mess. What is the best way to go about getting rid of all these kernels that aren't working? I can go into /usr/src and delete the files there, but there are still a mess in /boot Can I just delete those as root? Is there anything else I should...

Your speed argument I can understand, though SD has been making significant strides in that area. But the "small, flimsy, and fiddly" I don't. It is smaller, but that strikes me as a plus. I did some destructive testing with some smaller cards, and they held up quite well. Also the side-contact...

I will later today. It's supposed to be 100F here today (!) so we'll be heading down to Monterey, maybe taking my sailboat out.

I agree with you Fushigi, but I don't think that matters either. The masses have become stupid enough that it no longer matters what the laws say or what the smart people know. I have completely lost hope; and that means that someone way worse than terrorists have won.

Sweet. Thanks Handruin. That was a damn fast turnaround.

Still no love, though the error was now preceded by a number: [22.513299] Kernel Panic - not synching: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)Back to the drawing board ;)

When was the last time that slowed them down?

And that showed up just in time to bump telecom immunity from the headlines. Looks like it's trash day.

I found the "config-2.6.24-19-generic" file in /boot. I'm going to see if xconfig will accept that as a starting point...

Well, that didn't work. I must have failed to include some bits for my hardware: Kernel Panic - not synching: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) The OSes are on a RAID-0 array on a 3Ware RAID controller. Is there some way to say "make the kernel exactly the same as the current...

make xconfig (once I had QT3 installed) seems to be the GUI I was after. Let's see if I can compile a bootable kernel this time...

You don't need to go too high-end.

I stand massively corrected. But I'm sure Merc will mention that kids who can't print in color aren't happy kids.

Thanks e_dawg. Although I do like medium-sized prints (24"x36", and 60" wide panos), most of the time I'll be displaying them on screens with 1920x1080 resolution. So the "presentation" size is typically 1000-2000 pixels high. I've been looking at pano-heads to avoid parallax, but I've just...

For a $50 budget, you are in pure inkjet crap territory. Even the cheapest lasers start at about five times that. I am also impressed, Merc. I've done smaller builds and smaller groups, but that is really awesome.

Thanks for the tip. At one point, I shot the same pano with a 3 shots @ 10mm, ~8 shots @ 50mm, and 100+ shots at 200mm. There is no doubt in my mind that the 200mm capture was sharper and cleaner, but having a pano that is more than 25,000 pixels wide causes issues with JPGs, and is cumbersome...

I just got the e-mail from them an hour ago, and already signed up ;)

My old 24" widescreen CRTs weighed in at just under 100 pounds. They were awesome for gaming.

Because a couple former employees still have e-mail accounts, and I want as little to do with it as possible.

When a friend had this 40" CRT, I had to help him move. I offered to pitch in on a new LCD so long as we could leave the beast where it was.

Damn, well said Merc. Mind if I quote you on that?

I've always had a beast desktop and a basic laptop capable of RDC. When I am in the field for more than a couple days going through batches of photographs on a tiny screen without a real mouse just sucks.

Good to know. I try to use one of my primes (35/2 or 50/1.8) when doing stitching (since the focal length of each shot is less relevant). I assume sharpness is the most important? If I were interested in a dedicated lens for taking large landscape panoramas, what would you recommend? Of...

What extension? Would it be less work to update the extension yourself? I'm still trying to visualize a workflow that involves that many concurrent tabs...

Yup. Turns out she was logging onto a Terminal Server she shouldn't have been and had configured that as POP3 to PST. Of course, she couldn't tell me this, and is still in denial. She just called and said "you won't believe this, but I just logged on to TS3 for fun, and there is my mail! Why...

Actually, working on all these panoramas, the wide screen is beneficial for once...

If all you want to do is watch BR movies, an external player is likely the cheapest way in. I thought the XBox only did HD-DVD, and the PS3 did BR? If you want to be able to copy your BR disks, there is theoretically software that will do it with a PC. I did it with HD-DVD movies, but have gome...

Office of 50 employees. All running XP and Office 2003, Outlook is connected to an Exchange 2003 on Server 2003. One user has an empty inbox. All other users operating fine. This inbox had many items, now it is empty. The connection to exchange works fine, calendar, contacts, sending, it all...

I will when I get home, I finally have some work ;)

Yup. I finally had time to read the article this morning. I'm using Patriot 8GB SDHC Class 6, which didn't make his database.

Agreed.

The 450D's right-hand grip could be about half an inch thicker. That is my only complaint. It does use SD, but other than the fact I had accumulated CF cards, I have no complaints. They are smaller, not much slower, and hold enough (I'm using 8GB "Class 6" cards).

I was doing 50% overlap (2x image coverage of the whole scene), now it's closer to 15%.

I'll give that one a shot next time I get a chance, thanks!

I've verified that the Ubuntu 8.04 x64 kernel has GPT support, but not LDM. Is there a GUI for choosing options in a kernel compilation? There are at least a hundred options in the command line, and no way I know of to go back to one you just missed.

A CRT made for television is not worth anything, really. The last one I worked with was a top-of-the-line 42" Sony (the biggest they made IIRC). S-Video was the best input it took, and 800x600 on a screen that big looks horrible. I would have preferred a 15" LCD with 1024x768, really. It will be...

Yesterday, actually. And I'm seeing no difference between the last Beta, all the RCs and this one. I suppose that is the way it should be; just fixing corner cases before release.

The biggest one you mentioned above (IMHO) is: The reason for lack of discipline in the schools is fear of retaliation from the parents. So this is really one problem; it used to be parents+teachers vs. students, now it is parents+students vs. teachers. The other issue is that every level of...

I can't think of anything that directly involves people and scales well. People seem to be able to screw up any "optimized system".

You did exactly what I would have done (the speedy choice, and the laptop you picked). Not sure if that is a good thing in your book, but it got me smiling ;)

I think I found a start: That describes what I'm seeing now and what I need to enable. I still don't know how to go about doing it, so that is next.

Quoting from another thread: So, I just took my first stab and managed a kernel panic! Yay! Good to know I haven't lost my touch. What I have learned is that I don't know nearly enough about this subject, but Googling hasn't returned much. Where would I look to see if these features are...

Correct. DVI is fine for everything except (IIRC) protected BlueRay content. Even that is playable, but at a lower resolution.

My work and my family are both 70 miles away. My friends and my hobbies are within a mile or so. If I don't have enough work/money I know why :crap:

Price fixing. But they aren't that expensive.

My suggestion would be to live in between your work and the nearest restaurant/supermarket/theater.