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How far apart can/should I space them? 2 stops?

The viewfinder is a new experience for me, all my cameras have had LCD displays (young'un alert!). The diopter adjustment does help, but I also find myself looking at the image review and re-framing sometimes. Not a big deal, IMHO.

I'm definatly not waiting until I'm older to "retire"; counting on a big payoff later sounds like a good way to get ripped off. I already take a 3-6 month vacation every 3-5 years, and try to take 4-10 day vacations every couple months. Seeing the world one bit at a time, and not being worried...

Based on my attempts to take pictures of bronze statues in sunlight, someone mentioned "HDR", which I hadn't heard of before. I looked it up, and liked the concept and some of the images posted around. So today I went back to the statues and tried fooling around. I ended up with 16 pictures...

Everyone in my family have already put on record a list of 10 things, where if we are unableto do half of them, we want to be put down. Mine includes recognizing family members, getting outside, using the bathroom unassisted, etc.

Ugh...I thought I could handle the RAW conversion times on my CPU without having to go quad core. But now I'm doing HDR merges...I need more power!

It looks like they have some neat modes for conditioning and "forming" batteries...I have no idea what that means. I just want a charger that will charge the battery and then stop when they are full, without me having to watch and remove them.

I've never considered age a good metric for having a good life. When my grandfather was in his late fifties, he had a heart attack. The doctor told him to stop having his steak, eggs, and bacon for breakfast. He thanked the doctor for the advice and continued to do what he wanted. He wasn't fat...

69 is young? That beats anyone in my family's history (both sides!). A friend's mother died list week at 58. My condolences to you and your family, but what exactly were you hoping for?

Thanks for the tip, mubs...I'll see if I can get some today.

That is nuts.

At least. I find the the AC is significantly more than the CPU consumption due to efficiency issues. A while back I had a client with a tiny server room (the size of a walk-in closet). As the company grew, 2 full racks of servers went in there. If the AC failed, you were instantly screwed. So...

I'm still imagining all the neat stuff I can do with tiny $200 computers. Granted, they are snail-slow (AMD Geode 500Mhz, 256MB RAM), but cheap and really low-power. I'm temped to replace my VMWare linux test environment with a bunch of these; imagine an entire server room in a lunch box ;)

IIRC, Corsair are made by Seasonic? No, I haven't tried one myself.

Had to work at one of my old clients. They run the oldest hardware that I currently support. Pentium-S 120Mhz systems running a DOS version of Great Plains on Win95 networked with IPX/SPX. I just used my last ISA network card to replace a faulty one. Looks like I'll be installing Via EPIA boxes...

Do you know how many of the video options it can drive simultaneously? DVI, VGA, and HDMI? It would be sweet to drive all three from the onboard video...

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Thanks Will, I had forgotten about the breathing hole. I need to be sure not to block that. Anyone here have a suggestion for thermally conductive foam?

Been there. Posted that. Their solution? Put the drives in a NAS somewhere else. Not really an option for me because a) there is nowhere else I want the noise and b) I like having my array local to my machine, it is faster.

I seem to recall from the old SR days mention that drives were designed to release their heat through conduction of the two long sides to the chassis. Is this correct? If so, if a drive was thoroughly insulated on all sides except the two long sides, where significant cooling was available...

I have one layer of redundancy. Besides the RAID-5/hotspare at home, I have a friend who keeps an exact copy of my array at his place. I paid for the gear, he pays the power and keeps an eye on it. Sync is via the internet, and he has read-only access to the movies and pron.

20 500GB drives is more storage than my 8 750GB drives. Of course, mine are all in one array :p

My first computer was a laptop ;) It was an Epson HX-20(dual procs!), with the optional tape drive! It was mine from 1985 until 1988, when I dropped it. I cried. I was 8.

Yeah, I've been watching. It's been so hard to stay out of the game for this long. I've ordered a Q6600 for myself twice, selling it before it even arrives.

This is my impression as well, thence the recommendation of nVidia. But I suspect the performance difference is small enough to not make much difference if you have a preference/bias. ;) PUI

~50% OC? I haven't seen that since a Celeron 300A

I think the most obvious answer is an 8800GTS 320MB. Unless you still want ATI, in which case an X1950Pro is probably your best bet.

If you go back far enough, there should be the progress of the browser elections. Whether there were too many or too few, which computer had it last, etc.

That was me. At the time, I called 3Ware and bought them. They were put on the site not long after. The prices are still insane. Thanks ;) My current dream is that they will release internal hot-swap racks that hold 4 drives and sport an ML connector.

It does require a permit, but it can be legal. And I wouldn't say "poor bear" until I knew more about the circumstances. There are a number of situations where the cub cannot be released back into the wild.

The event logs should be your friends on this; there should be records of master browser elections in there somewhere.

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GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS4 Rev. 2.0 Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz GeIL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 GIGABYTE GV-NX86T256H GeForce 8600GT 256MB Intel SRCU41L PCI Express SCSI ~$1000$US I know I wouldn't be putting money into what you have, when better performance is that close...

From a quick scan, it seems the 6800Ultra costs about 500$US on their own... Is the 7900GS compatible?

This howto will keep me busy: Ubuntu + Postfix + Courier IMAP + MySQL + Amavisd-new + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + SASL + TLS + SquirrelMail + Postgrey :eek:

LDAP server running, phpLDAPadmin connected, LDAP database populated. SAMBA tied into LDAP, Linux and XP workstations tied to SAMBA including home dirs Next up: ProcMail! It seems that all the how-tos for ProcMail refer to it as a processing tool for Postfix; am I missing something...scratch...

The good drives aren't using RAM, they are using flash (non-volatile).

udaman is not consistently relevant; but such is the way of the "something random" thread ;)

Procrastination is not logical ;)

Lately I've put the computer games away; any time I'm at my computer with spare time, I'm playing with Linux. Any time I need to procrastinate from that, I'm checking the forums. I estimate I refresh this page ~40 times an hour.

$1000 bills are very rare. $100s are all the bank will give you.

This looks very useful for LDAP/Samba integration.

Of course, before you saturate 16 cores with any of the above, you will want more than a single 7200RPM drive. But I/O is cheap these days; for the original cost of your SCSI gear, you could have a complete SSD solution!

2003 Web Server will support 16 cores (4CPUs @ 4 cores each). Saturating 4 cores is easy. Most of the things I do would benefit from more. Scenario 1: Video encoding (DVD to x264/DivX/XviD) Scenario 2: Batch photo processing (RAW with preconfigured settings to PSD with automated level/plugins...

Technical issues?

Heh. I post from client sites, from their computers, while billing them hourly. ;) Long gone are the days where employees are exclusively yours 9-5; though I don't think productivity has suffered too much because of it. The additional productivity offered by computers and the internet has...

More you-tubing... Normally, I think Japanese TV is just stupid. But this is awesome. Live Matrix Ping Pong without CGI

Roddick vs. Pong And amazing wastes of man-hours: Pole Position Pong Space Invaders

No-one ever posts on weekends...do you guys have, like, lives? Or something?

I'm trying to figure out what records are required in LDAP to correctly verify and operate Linux login verification, Samba(including AD authentication) and ProcMail. Does anyone have a location where this information is stored? I've been googling for days, and all the stuff I find is either...