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800k? Just a drop in the bucket ;) And I don't know anyone that wants to live in San Jose; though it would be a trade-up from LA :p

The XP drivers always work fine in 2003 for me. The kernel is essentially the same. The only software that doesn't work is when the stupid programmers intentionally break it. Here is a fanless AGP video card with 2 DVI connections.

Correct. They used the spare pins in an s-video connector to sneak out composite cables. They are only accessible with the included composite break-out box. Composite is outdated tech, and it wasn't around long enough to have/keep products in the market.

For only very light gaming, I would get this card. For something more powerful (still not that great) I would get this one.

S-Video sucks (limited to 800x600). So does VGA (looks bad above 1024x768 IMHO) The only acceptable connections are: DVI and HDMI. I use a DVI to HDMI cable (they are essentially the same data, just different plugs). Any video card with DVI out should do fine.

I live in a downtown area now, and am considering moving to the country (10+ acres of land, 0.5 mile to nearest neighbor, 10 miles to town). Suburbs always struck me as the worst of both worlds; you have to interact with your neighbors, but you are still too far to walk to the...

Bozo's suggestion looks fine, but I would recommend this one. *Dual DVI outputs, so you can run multiple monitors if you like. *Fanless, so no noise (and presumably less heat to begin with). *GeForce 8xxx series, so it supports recent standards (DX10 for Vista) *HDMI support for secure video...

I'm not a fan of wide screen either, but it gave me my minimum requirement (1000+ pixels vertical). I love the fact that I can view images @ 100% and still see every pixel; on my 22" 4:3 1600x1200 LCD I had to zoom to 200% to see every pixel; making this one effectively twice as large. It also...

DVI-HDMI cables are very common, I'm using one to drive my Sharp 42".

Well, it was moving along nicely until it filled the 80GB of free space on the Raptor array, it then decided to pick on the RAID-5. It won't fill that one up, but it has already taken a 50GB chunk out of it.

Massive power consumption advantage. 99% of it is becoming heat either way, so you can judge by the amount of heat coming off the device. At that resolution (1680x1050), DVI begins to make a difference. DVI sends the signal digitally, and provides specific instructions to each pixel. VGA is...

I just sent it on it's merry 210 megapixel way...we'll see how long that takes ;) It might take longer because it is outputting as a 32-bit HDR and a 16-bit TIFF.

I do have some decently fast disks to use as scratch, and 4 cores @ 3.5Ghz. That can't hurt. I'm about to buy the Pro version and send it onto the rest of the set (that was only a subset).

Just finished playing with PTGui Pro trial. I threw it 120 images (40 sets of 3 bracketed exposures). Total size of the source files? 6.8GB Total size of the completed pano? 4.5GB. It took 3 hours for my system to chew on it, with the hard drive being the limiting factor (CPU usage was ~13%)...

You are correct. Buying anything today that isn't 1080P is a significant mistake.

LCDs, as a technology, no longer count as new. I don't know of anyone still making CRTs at all. Spectre is a cheap brand, expect cheap quality. I buy either of the other brands you mention for that reason. I also make sure that it has dual inputs (DVI and VGA or 2xDVI).

Agreed. If you are going to use a TV as a monitor, it must be at least 720P (1080P is ideal) and must have a digital input (DVI/HDMI). Anything else is going to suck.

Thanks e_dawg.

That is a pretty monitor, but $5500 is a bit steep. I thought that having hardware color calibration allowed you to get away with cheaper monitors?

Sweet! I have never compiled a kernel, or even looking into it. And the places I was reading said otherwise, but I believe you. I'm using a standard build of Ubuntu 8.04 x64, so I guess that support isn't included? I'll go read up on it. Thanks!

I've seen similar stuff on laptop LCDs, but it was due to mishandling. I doubt that is the case here. Is the line perfectly vertical? How many pixels does it affect?

An awesomely sharp picture. 450D is the body, and the focal length is 400mm@f5.6, but it doesn't say what lens. Is a killer lens what it takes to get such a sharp picture?

Well, we'll both just hold off for a while, and talk about it another time. I'm having enough issues with WINE that I'm not ready to move just yet, anyway.

Alright, interesting walk with some interesting pictures. I was hoping to get some shots of a rattlesnake, but the only one I saw was roadkill on the way in. This one came out weird, any idea why?

Grammatically that may not be accurate but it got two points across. 1. It is too early to be shooting. 2. Why am I doing it? I have reached the age my older friends had warned me about. Here I am, eating and doing the same things I always have, and suddenly I'm gaining weight. Time to find a...

This is the first time that I've noticed, but it has been at least 36 hours. Edit: I'll check the others when I get back from my walk, more mediocre pictures to come. ;)

Is Canon's SLR site down for anyone else? I can get to this page, but going any deeper brings up an error message.

My backup scheme is complex. A friend on the east coast has a matching array, and we agree to store each others data for security (replicating changes over a VPN). So yes, there is a backup, but it would take weeks to get all the data back. Your proposal is actually looking to be the most...

Yup. It has to be a GPT, it is >4TB. Unfortunately, it is also dynamic. I don't know how that trick would play out.

Sounds like it would do very nicely, so long as it could focus close enough.

For that you could ask Splash or Tannin, Tea is clueless about such things.

Some flower pics for Udaman. The 75-300 @ f5.6 blurs the background much better than the 50/1.8 + f1.8 does. I'm sure someone here knows why?

I'm chickening out on that. The bit that is supposed to be 42 for dynamic, that I'm supposed to change to 07, is showing as EE. Not sure what that means, but I like my data too much to be fooling around with it. I'll just hold off for a while.

Actually, under options, you can check "use invisible mode" and not appear on the list at all.

Scary! I'll do some more research before I do the deed.

Flash drives are for the OS and APPs, the RAID-0 of 74GB Raptors are for scratch and games, and the massive chunk of 750GB drives are for data. My car averaged 33mpg, and gas averaged $4.12. About 9700 miles in 2 months. (I was in Russia when the intermediate bill came).

For later integration in my array, I'd stick with 750GB drives. 4000/750 = 6 Drives @ $120 = $720 + Tax = $777 ...and I just got a $1200 gas bill (just my car). I'd like to avoid that for now.

In a late-night moment of stupidity about 6 months ago, I converted my array to a dynamic disk. It hasn't been a big deal, because Server 2003 doesn't care. Now I'm moving to Linux, and it can't see dynamic disks. The only way I've read to "convert" back to a basic disk is to copy the data...

Thanks for the scare ;) I just spent the morning running around focusing on everything I could and learning everything I could find about auto-focus systems. Conclusions? Although the 450D with kit lens is slower to focus than I'd like, mine doesn't have focus issues. Nor do my other lenses on...

None. To be honest, I didn't even think (or know) about pre-approved whitelists. I just show the user how to add their own exceptions, and to be careful.

Ether that or it has some evil cookies of death that are spying on you ;)

NOD32 without question. When a system is infected and running Norton or McAffee, I wipe it clean. When a system is infected and running AVG (frequently happens), installing NOD32 is usually enough to clean it. I consider NOD32 to be protection, AVG to be damage control, and everything else to...

Think of it as add/remove programs, but better. You can add programs as well from the internet master repository, and it has a search feature and a summary of each program. It also tracks and handles dependencies (eg. .NET framework or Adobe Flash)

Nothing to say, except welcome back Merc!

That was the fastest 1.5GB BT download I think I've ever had. Haven't listened to it yet, I don't think Olga is a fan...

Here is the wine app compatability list. Here are the results for the office suite.

There are a few companies that provide cell phone service. Typically, the cell phone manufacturers (LG, Samsung, Motorola) make a slightly different version of all their phones for use on the different networks. Apple signed an exclusive agreement with AT&T, so that if you want the iPhone (no...

It is a phone without any buttons from a manufacturer with massive markup that you can only get if bundled with a service agreement and only with one cell provider.

The thing that has stopped me from deploying Ubuntu in a corporate environment is the inability to niche windows applications (Street Smarts, HardDollar, etc). Things like this seem to either work in WINE or not. I suspect I'll end up retaining a WINE developer at some point to make it happen...

I use Comcast and have no idea what I pay. I'm not trusted with the bills. ;) Russia was...as expected. If I were to use the same standards that I used elsewhere in my travels, it would be nice. But I have interests there, and we even discussed living there. By those standards it is absolute crap.