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That's where the camera came from. The setting is in there somewhere, I just haven't gone digging yet.

Yep. I spent over an hour attempting to get good shots of some of the pieces. When I realized I was screwed I snapped that shot to illustrate my problem to you guys and came home.

Seeking advice: The Rodin Statuary collection near my house (Stanford) is impossible to get good exposures of. It is dark, and always has blown highlights. Do I need to wait until after sunset? What tricks will help?

Been out of touch for a bit, Lunar? This is a fast-moving thread ;)

Sweet. Time to blow everything away and see if I can do it without googling and bothering you over every little thing.

Thanks again. There is sooo much I still need to learn. In this environment I've been building separate servers for each task. Other than adding CPUs, or seperating DMZ from LAN, is there a reason to do this? Will I have issues running LAMP, OpenLDAP, ProcMAIL and SAMBA on the same server? What...

These are all indirect effects. The moment someone buys an incandescent bulb you do not suffer. Indirect effects need to be followed down the chain until the direct cause is identified (power consumption), and then methods can be applied towards that. Example? Add a fat tax on power producers...

Spamassassin and Dovecot on the mail server, check ;) This is already a real bear. I haven't really studied for anything in about a decade.

I take that back. When you use aptitude to install phpLDAPadmin on an ubuntu server that has the LAMP preconfigured package already on it, no configuration is required. http://serverIP/phpLDAPadmin automatically takes you to it. I must have botched the Apache installation. I hate sucking at...

Should there be a ban on anything that doesn't directly and significantly harm someone other than yourself? No. Are incandescent bulbs sub-optimal for most applications? Yes. I hate this nanny-state BS.

Thanks Merc. This is day 2 of this attempt to learn Linux. In past attempts I've tried to memorize commands and file structures, and just got frustrated. This time I am just trying to build a linux-based network from the ground up: Directory Services (OpenLDAP) File (SAMBA) Mail (ProcMail) Web...

Ugh, phpLDAPadmin is my first experience with poorly documented software. After apt-get'ing it and it's dependencies I don't know where it went. Considering it requires apache, you would think it would install to the default www path...

Thanks Merc. I'll give phpLDAPadmin a try. I'm using Ubuntu Server (CLI-only) because I was used to using Ubuntu workstation before. Since I'm doing everything via CLI and installing the packages myself, what makes the distribution desktop-focused? Thanks for the tip on the structure, I just...

Based on a comment from Merc in another thread, I have now installed an OpenLDAP server in a VMWare enviroment. I have also installed Luma on a Ubuntu workstation and sucessfully connected to the OpenLDAP server. 1) Luma is super-slow at just about anything. Is it really the best GUI solution...

Yeah, yeah. I learned enough to use vi before I researched anything else. As soon as I read that it was the one editor guaranteed to be on any *nix system, I knew I needed to know the basics on it. But then I started looking for an editor that made more sense. :p

After looking at quite a few, I think I've settled on nano. WYSIWYG with Control-key functionality, and it is included with the server and workstation variants of Ubuntu.

Thanks Merc. vi is a PITA...is there something more straightforward for basic editing of config files? I don't need to script or program, just edit /etc/network/interfaces and the like.

Thanks for the info, e_dawg. I hate inkjet with a fiery passion, I just didn't know any of the reasonably-priced alternative technologies were up to the task.

Is there a favorite linux-based e-mail server program out there? Is Sendmail "the one"?

Does anyone have a good recipe for Sweet and Sour Pork? I'm going to be gathering some from the 'net, but if anyone has a favorite, I would be interested. I've been going out to Chinese at least twice a week for a month now, can't seem to get enough of the stuff.

I've purchased a number of SATA optical drives, including several from Optiarc, and haven't had the issues you mention. I'm thinking it is a Win2k issue. I'm trying to remember if you have to set the DMA mode manually, perhaps it is still in PIO mode?

Just to make sure I understand... You burned a DVD with the SATA burner in your computer and the speed was good. But when you copied files from your DVD to the hard drive the speed was bad? I'm afraid I haven't used Win2k in a LONG time, so that part is an unknown.

If it burns at full speed, I don't think the interface is the problem. If the interface were only capable of a lower speed, nothing would be fast. Can we have some hardware and OS/software information? Relevant bits: Motherboard Any SATA expansion cards used OS (including SP) Program used for...

It would not be difficult to put together a simple document detailing their negligence. Depending on the damages, might be worth a malpractice lawsuit of some kind?

Around here all the taxis are either Prius or specialty (minivan/SUV). It's been like that for a while now. Singapore was cool, all the taxis were Mercedes.

Thanks for checking, Merc.

In active directory, there is a single "Domain Admin" password. You can change the username (as described in MS' "Best Practices"), but once you have that, you have control over every server and workstation in the network. Combine that with the "hidden/system shares" (c$, d$, etc), and you have...

At one point I got into a "pissing contest" with a GF's father while we were on vacation. Dip a wooden toothpick in Dave's Insanity sauce and put it in your mouth; see how long you can keep it there. After that we were cutting up and eating habaneros (sp?), washing it down with tequila. He was...

I suggest my method: don't care.

Reminds me of a joint in southern China (Near Guangzhou). We couldn't pronounce the name, but it rhymed with "ring of fire".

Don't ask me, I think the only thing we can all agree on is that I lack self-control.

I didn't know any car companies were based in Canada or Mexico? If you mean assembly, my VW was made in Mexico.

Coincidence? I think not.

Damn. That is insane. How many did you have to eat? What did they use to spice it?

I've laid down the law on a few things. None. Everything is internal-only. If they want to have external access (e-mail, for example), I'll find a hosted service that I trust and let them worry about it. I think having all the servers and printers on the same subnet is fine, everyone has...

Yup. I have T-1s to all the sites, and none of them have more than 20 users (most around 7-10), so some performance loss would be acceptible. All servers are at the main office, but some of the workstations also host resources that other users might need to access.

Disclaimer: die-hard import lover ;) I've never seen a domestic interior that could hold a candle to a BMW or Benz. I've never seen domestic power/mpg figures that could match a GTI, Evo, or WRX

One of my clients has 10 offices, all connected via point-to-point VPN. Each office has been given a class C (192.168.0.xxx, 192.168.1.xxx, etc) The main office is outgrowing it's class C; 50 servers, 40 network printers, and 125+ users. I'd like to get the Servers and other static-IP stuff...

For homes, a Linksys router. For businesses, a Smoothwall. Connecting production machines to the internet is stupid, you get far more control with something filtering traffic in between. 1. Install Smoothie 2. Nuke the servers 3. Scan the crap out of every machine on the network; who knows...

Merc, with you being a Linux guy, you should really try Smoothwall. Particularly with the newly-released 3.0 and the user-written plugins, it is the most capable firewall I've ever used.

Based on my brief playing with the 50mm 1.8, the DOF is plenty at f1.8. It also seems that I can hand-shoot decently as low as 1/6s if I haven't had caffeine all day.

I wonder how many people saw how cheaply they could get a wireless remote, only to discover that the RC-1 (free with some other stuff I bought) doesn't work with the 20D. And that the LC-5 (that does work) is $450. FTS.

Sandisk Extreme IV 4GB CF in Sandisk Extreme Firewire Reader, File Copy in Vista: 22MB/s Write 28MB/s Read Not bad. Now time to play with the lenses ;)

Sweet OC Bozo.

Can too! I even got it to boot on a thumb-drive! Of course, making an enterprise-grade communications server that integrates with Active Directory is still out of reach...

Useful. Thanks Merc.

That is a hell of a sales pitch e_dawg...you have any full disclosure goodies to reveal? ;)

Indeed. I hope they come back at some point.

Congrats Clocker! I just got home from a 40-hour network troubleshooting marathon. 5 buildings (300+ users), all connected by fiber, one rouge DHCP server. Giving out IP addresses in the correct range (so conflicts were occuring) but with a different(bogus) DNS and GW, so no networking actually...

upgrade? ha! :p