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I assume he is talking about the Photomerge or HDR options under "File->Automate". At least those are the ones that crash for me at about 150MB per image.

Normally would be in the horizontal orientation, the position that all these cameras are shown in. The 2.2k vertical was the result of a significant amount of cropping due to perspective, and a little based on what I wanted to show. I didn't say use longer lenses for landscapes, I believe I...

Lunar, I would love to know all that stuff. But for me, the only way to take days at it would be to do something, stare for half an hour, and undo it. When you say "turn the camera in the appropriate orientation", which orientation do you mean? This picture was taken holding the camera...

I haven't found an area microphone yet that works well in the car. Only the headset-type seem to avoid all the road noise.

I agree, and I would welcome such a change. But I would likely still be driving, as my work and the locations of my clients practically requires it.

I've been looking at Mazdas recently myself. The Mazdaspeed3 seems to be the best bang-for-the-buck in the <30k market. It's strange. When I am in my car driving and thinking of what I want, all I want is a couple year-old benz with adaptive cruise control and a quiet ride. When I'm at home...

What is the most powerful a/g card that you could install in a laptop? Ideally USB.

Looks good Lak. What enclosure do you intend to use? I've used a dozen or so of the VroomPC enclosures, and they all manage to use really loud fans that aren't well positioned based on the motherboard layout. I'm still waiting for an alternative that uses an 80mm fan on the larger side. I'm...

Excellent rant, Tannin. Made my morning much happier.

If you are going to stick to XP (not a bad choice for casual use), than 32-bit is probably the place to be. As Merc said, 64-bit XP is "a magical land where no one has written device drivers", and will continue to be so as power users move on to Vista. That being the case, planning for >3-3.5GB...

Thanks Tannin, those are the things I've been playing with so far (in the CS3 RAW importer). And I've seen the potential disasters.

With 2GB DIMMs selling as cheap as they are, I wouldn't consider 4 slots to be that significant.

32-bit XP will only handle ~3GB of RAM. If you put in more, it will be co-opted by the OS, and not available for your use. I'd stick to 2GB for now.

All of Merc's recommendations here (and pretty much anywhere else) are excellent. *except nVidia ;)

Do be careful, Paugie. I've found myself in the middle of a few riots in Asia (Thailand, Tibet, etc), and they have a way of sneaking up on you. Be sure you keep a clear path away from the batons and riot shields. I appreciate you wanting to take a stand and show your support, but try not to get...

Thanks for the comments, Tannin. One of the reasons I like the way that shot came out is that it is real, I've been there lots of times and that is how it looks on the best days. At the same time, I would love to know how to control what it looks like. That I like how it came out is pure...

Mine crashes on photomerges of files that large as well. I'm running with 4GB of RAM and 16GB of Page, so I don't think it's actually a memory limitation (even though the error says it is).

That works. Thanks Merc.

Poking at it some more, sub-forums actually isn't that great from a usability standpoint. If they were top-level forums, you would see what the last thread was and who posted it. If they were consolidated with other top-level forums, there would be less lists to look at to see all the posts. As...

Merc, Let me know if I missed this. What it sounds like you are saying is that performance of hard drives really doesn't matter for most users. And what I'm saying is that the only times hard drive performance does matter for users, they are STR-limited.

Looks good to me. The cleaner the better.

Didn't dissapear, just compressed. Look at the sub-forums.

Yup, you read me correctly. I was just curious whether that was seek bound or STR. My general impression is that seek always helps everything a little, but STR helps big things a lot. I'm welcome to any comments either way.

IIRC, 800/1200RPM. Same as the Slow/Medium Scythe.

That is still STR, no?

I don't think it's that overexposed, but what do I know ;) The composition is odd but intentional. That is the stretch of SF bay (called "City Front") where all the big sailboat races are held. It has more significance than just being pretty.

If you are looking for fans with built-in speed controllers, the Antec are the ones to get. If you don't need fast fans, you can get the low-speed S-Flex 800RPM version. IMHO the 1200RPM version is too loud.

Or Server 2003

...other than booting (OSs optimize for STR during boot) and Gaming (level loading) and linear AV applications and Photoshop virtual memory stuff. But if it weren't for those, I would be using a laptop drive to save on energy, heat and noise. Is hard drive performance really a factor in anything...

A buddy did 1100 miles each way for a week in Mexico... Hell, I did 800 miles in a weekend on vacation....

Just to grab some envy from JTR, I rode the Maglev in Shanghai 2 years ago. It was really, really smooth. At the time, I didn't know it was a Maglev, until the conversation got boring and I looked out the window. Holy cow! We were positively flying!

Sweet. What kind of stereo do you have at work?

I would raise the point that a 1TB 7200RPM SATA drive is actually something to want for performance as well. Higher data density increases STR and essentially short-strokes the drive if your needs are more modest, helping seek times as well. Not as much as an SSD, but it likely does as well as a...

Others will have stronger opinions on this, but I think it is more crap for being 5400RPM (which it is) than for being WD. I actually bought 2 of these 1TB drives over the weekend. I got them, copied a data set to them, and put them in a safe. I will never use them again. When I first saw the...

That would be about 9 hours worth? Taking the day off?

Are you actually spending less? Or spending the same elsewhere?

Is the card detected in the OS after you boot to an IDE drive?

They eventually got it. After 4 hours to fix what was essentially a single faulty entry in a very simple DNS tree and another 6 hours to fix what was essentially a registry key. Of course, after fixing the registry key you got to stop, restart, dismount, and mount services and stores in what...

I'm about to go to sleep for the first time in 32 hours. Why? F**king AD and it's DNS integration, F**king Exchange and it's easily corruptible message stores, and both of their ability to store important configuration information in AD, Exchange, File Permissions, the Registry, and in some...

All the older stores around here do. The few most recent don't.

Well that didn't work. I'm now on my second $500 phone call to MS tonight. The first was for a borked DNS/AD and now it's for migrating some corrupted message stores. Their getting $1000 tonight because they write overly-complex, hard-to-support software. Bah.

If you figure out how to schedule SyncToy, post it here. I'm curious about that as well.

One of the things that attracted me to the belt concept was that I could do lens changes while standing. Another was that I could wear it on more intense trips, when my backpack was full of tent/sleeping bag/climbing gear/etc. And of course, that the camera could be in front of me always...

I use the free program from Microsoft called SyncToy and it works really well. It is fairly smart in that it looks at the source and destination first and only copies over the files that have changed. Of course, even this requires the destination to be read for comparison purposes. This may be...

The first thing I would do is benchmark the NAS' write speed. Some of those things are really slow. If the backup to your other local drive is quick, I don't think different software would help you.

Practical question. What is the best method for doing a lens change in the field? It seems I'm constantly wishing for 4 hands, and Tea isn't often on my hikes.

I wasn't using Exmerge, I was using the "move mailbox" tool in System Manager, the one for 2003 is multi-threaded and handles 4 boxes at a time. This would work long enough to handle a single small mailbox, but a larger one (some well over 2GB) or a batch of smaller ones would crash it out.

Thanks Chewy, that is what I had in mind if I couldn't get RPC up; still troubleshooting that one.

Nope, no love. But thanks for the suggestions.