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I've been wondering about the DO lenses myself. Based on the reviews, they say that there is some optical weirdness, but it is made up for by smaller, lighter lenses. But none of the lenses I've seen are actually lighter than the non-DO alternative, are only marginally smaller, and are much more...

Tannin, Thanks for the tips. I, too, like having the camera in front of me when I'm hiking. The first 10k or so of this walk was through an estuary off San Francisco Bay, there wasn't a single minute where I wasn't trying to photograph something (mostly unsuccessful due to the 55mm lens). After...

No location to speak of, and no timing in mind, either. I brought my Lowepro backback, but from the car decided that it would be too heavy for the hike. So I took just the 18-55 and headed out. I'd never carried the camera for that long, and had no idea. Lesson learned ;)

My disposable income is largely cash and (more importantly) the "instant gratification" is what gets me over the indecision of an expensive toy.

The last time I went for a hike (~9 miles), I carried the following: 20D: 510g 15-55 kit lens: 190g Total is 700g (1.5lbs) around my neck. If I switch to the 100-400 (1380g), that is increasing the weight nearly threefold. Of course, I can keep the lenses I'm not using in the bag, and I could...

Ah, thanks for the heads-up. I have that around here somewhere...

The one closest to me is Wild West themed, and is horrible. They all have clueless employees, so I won't even use that to judge, but this one has the worst layout and poorest selection of them all. I typically go to the one in Sunnyvale, which has no theme at all.

Current lens ponderings: Even with cost out of the way, the 100-400 IS is really heavy. I got to hold it in the store today, and it was just too much to go hiking with. (Tannin, how do you do it?). So I'm back to the 70-300 IS, which weighs less than half as much.

I found the local photography store, called Keeble & Shuchat Photography. Before I went in I was distracted by a sports car I couldn't identify. It was a Tesla Roadster. This store has everything, including the aforementioned Gitzo 6X carbon fiber line (all of them), and all the Cannon lenses...

Got back from a local framing shop. Print? $25 Frame? $400 Ugh.

I know...I've looked around a couple of times in the menu and can't find where the settings are! I should dig out the manual and take a look.

Most of the Fry's around here have that many, but over half of them are closed off most of the time (the back side of the customer service area).

Just received a 12" tall print of this. I really like some of the details around the picture. I'm still trying to figure out how to frame it.

I'm currently digging through all the drivers Chewy linked to.

Belarc provides the following:

Interesting problem: I have 2 Exchange servers. The old one is broken in such a way that the RPC service crashes when the exchange load is high, causing a reboot (no, it isn't Blaster, I checked). I built a nice new shiny Exchange server to take over, but trying to move the mailboxes causes the...

I received an e-mail to join a YouTube group. I checked that the link did indeed go to YouTube, then followed it. No videos, just the group description that I might win a cruise! Just a heads-up...

Nice find, Bung. They make a whole line of PITA bits. This one in particular would be a real bear to work around.

Their sizes are T-<number> if that helps.

Is this the type you need? I still don't know the name of them.

Do you have a link to the enclosure? Or a picture of the screws? I suspect I know what they are, but I don't know the name of them. The same ones hold my ceiling projector mount.

I ditched my grandmother to be with friends for a 22-item menu. Is that wrong? I saw her last weekend instead ;)

Nope. Just a stainless steel canteen. That "small monitor" is a 22" LCD ;)

I played with a Cannon Inkjet the other day and it wasn't bad, but if you have a Walgreens/Kinkos/whatever nearby, I think that is the better solution.

I was thinking about that, but my ideal solution would be an IR transmitter controlled by the computer. Looks like they already have that...neat.

Indeed. 60,000 machines a year; how many on earth actually provide such numbers?

Closer to 8x, actually. I love this monitor.

Incinerate me first, my last contribution to global warming....

I'm such a child. I still get a kick out of disassembling laptops. ;)

Looks good, thanks Mark.

I've been screwing around with a bunch of this stuff, and have the OK to get external assistance. I've used Microsoft's After-Hours Business Critical Support before, and would love to get them involved again. Unfortunately, it seems that they only handle things that are already broken; I want...

Nope. Hadn't heard of it. Thanks for the tip.

Here is a good start.

Thanks for the info, Chewy. I didn't even find that much info in much googling. I have the laptop sitting right here, is there an easy way to tell?

I have one of these laptops and have installed XP on it. Got all the drivers running except the audio, I can't find what type of audio hardware it runs listed anywhere! The chipset is GM965, and UAA is installed. I've been searching for hours, and haven't been this frustrated in quite some time.

You would know if it was photographing, the camera is a large thing on the roof.

So...become a system builder or you won't be able to sell XP after Jan 2008?

Nice shot e_dawg. I don't even know what half of that means...

I hadn't noticed CFLs getting much brighter after the first 5-10 seconds. Do they really get brighter after that?

Yes. Because everyone who follows the FSM knows its BS, where in Scientology, you are never quite sure who knows its BS and who is fooled.

Thanks. Good to know I'm not completely worthless with this thing. I was honestly considering going back to that location to re-shoot it (~2 hours each way)

Nah, still a trial installation of something Norton-ish and some other junk.

I run around with a 4GB Extreme III card in the camera and a 2GB Ultra II card as a spare. I've never had to switch to the spare. 70GB is a lot of shots, what type of photography encourages that? Sports?

There is still haze from the waves, and some glare off the right-side (sun was at about the 2:30 position, low on the horizon). I had the lens hood installed and IIRC my hand was extending it on that side. I don't have any filters, nor do I know how to use them. Looks like I have some more...

Sure hope not. The flower picture linked above was taken after this batch, so it's unlikely that it is damaged. The original one does look quite messed up upon further inspection, please let me know what you think of the second.

Nope. That is nearly full-size. You can check the "all sizes" button to see what the native res of a picture is, I upload them full-size.

Well, I looked through all the shots of that subject and picked the best one. I straightened out the horizon and did very minor exposure tweaks. Have a look and let me know what you think. Coast and Clouds Take 2

Thanks very much for the helpful info e_dawg! I'll be looking into that stuff once I finish my work research for the night.

Oh, and the super-cheap Vostro desktop? Decently fast and very quiet. After the de-crapifier was done with it, it was a very acceptable box (ordered with XP, of course)

...and you can order 2 for the price of a Latitude, so you have a computer after you throw the first out a window.