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I'm sure I'll make it up somewhere, but as things are, I'm just covering my own responsibility.

My datacenter was sold to a new party last month. The way that I found this out is that the new owner did not pay their bill to Cogent, which disconnected hundreds of servers, including mine, and forced just shy of three days worth of outage before an agreement to re-peer was put in place. Of...

How do you decide among your various bodies which one you use?

The only other country I've visited is Canada. I was supposed to travel to Vietnam with a friend in 2020 but we had to put that off. I have a brother who lives in Prague, so that's another option. Fortunately, there's enough going on in Chicago that I have plenty of reasons to keep gear handy.

If you're working with 100MP, maybe losing a little off the top isn't such a big deal? The red ring around the lens is what made me look closer in the first place. I don't see people with ILC cameras of any sort very often. My R6 and camera bag go almost everywhere with me, but other than the...

There will almost certainly be something similar.

Here's an interesting project: Windows 10 Ameliorated. The project can be built from hand or from a provided ISO, but the idea is to make a contemporary Windows installation with every single thing pulled out that would normally connect back to Microsoft. The down side to this is that users lose...

Fuji has had larger-than-full-frame with high MP readouts for a while now and they seem to do OK. I have no idea who uses those guys. I think I've only ever seen a Fuji GFX out in the world one time and that was some Asian guy taking pictures of marble statues at the Atlanta Museum of Art. And...

Canonrumors has an "all but confirmed by multiple sources" story that Canon will have 100MP+ full frame sensor camera in early 2023. That seems excessive to me, but maybe there's a newer CF Express format on the way that can deal with whatever absurd burst rate that thing will support. It's...

I can't think of a single time in the last 30 years when anything branded AMD or ATI didn't have bad drivers. Although to be honest nobody really had GOOD graphics drivers in 1992 anyway.

I would also be very happy to see 10TB for $100, even if it's stupid SMR.

Windows 11 has been poorly accepted by the corporate world thusfar. This might be one of those things where the features get backported before too long. The AMD RX6700 is an awful lot of video card and seems to finally be available below retail price. It's still a bear to find nVidia stuff at...

I also have an enormous media collection, though my stretches to include substantial collections of a number of non-video formats as well.

I'm not at a point where I can pick the no compromise option in equipment. I'm mostly using EF lenses as it is. I've found them to work as well or better on my RF bodies than they did on my 5d2. Even my RP focuses faster and even with older third party lenses. The sensor in the R7 certainly...

They might not want to break 30 year old functionality, or they might be operating under the (probably correct) assumption that users generally aren't going to use it anyway.

The guys at my datacenter swap out and sell drives after three years of 24x7 operation. They've been my main source for drives larger than 8TB and to date I've had good luck with them, although I'm typically getting SAS drives with ~18 months of remaining warranty. I have a couple dozen drives...

UBNT stuff lives in its own software ecosystem. If you're using pfSense as your foundation, you're probably going to run it on some or other mini-PC, like a NUC or Thinkstation m-series, or on something with a bunch of extra network ports to dedicate to a VM. The big problem I have with...

We have very different shooting needs. The R7 looks like a great choice second body to me. I'm most curious to know if I can switch the video profile easily, since that's a sore spot on both my RP and R6. I'll be sorely tempted if it does.

32MP sensor with IBIS and the fantastic AF tricks the R5 and R6 have? No overheat in 4k? No video recording limits? Digital hot shoe? There's A LOT to like in that R7 body.

Everything Everywhere All At Once is the best kind of trippy.

The Epic Games freebie this week is all the Bioshock games. Not my thing but my roommate was thrilled about it. While I'm at it, Humble Bundle has a huge collection of ORA Programming cookbooks for $20. The Powershell Cookbook has been really handy for me over time.

Almost everything I have is on Ubiquiti, but it's actually a pain point right now because probably 90% of the dozens of APs I have deployed are currently considered legacy hardware by the latest controller software and I don't feel like there's a big enough groundswell of Wifi 6 clients to...

A comedian named Bill Engvall. OK sed, this Youtube channel is basically a breakdown of all the weird crap I've done in my life as a techie. Half-hour long breakdowns of old UNIX workstations and tours out outdated network tech. You'll love it. The newest A+ exam requirements were released at...

I could in theory look at it but I'm out. Apparently the person who makes the video does get to see the recipient's response but it doesn't get shared with anyone else. Also, it's REALLY inexpensive to get a lot of well known voice actors to make one, but shockingly expensive to get a lot of...

There's a web service called Cameo that lets users pay small amounts of money to get video messages from a celebrity. I just used it to fire my most annoying customer.

I almost never tax the buffer in my cameras to the point that it becomes an issue. It's just not how I shoot. I've found the R6 can shoot for over 5 seconds at 20fps with an RF lens, or about 12.5 seconds at 10fps at 10fps with an EF lens. I've been able to do that with the Extreme Pro UHS-I cards.

Unattended setups haven't changed much since the release of Windows NT also 30 years ago. I think they already know about it.

AMD typically restricts their Integrated graphics to midrange at most and I believe they rely on die shrinks to keep the thermals under control. In the past they also used more modest core counts to keep a lid on heat.

It depends on your definition of well, to be sure. If you have a 3080 and move to a 4070, you're probably saving somewhat on your power consumption and getting somewhat better performance than you had. If your only goal is to at least double processing output on video renders, it's probably not...

I had to figure out why my experiences vis a vis SD Cards wasn't lining up with LM's last post. I've been buying Sandisk Extreme cards that I thought were UHS-II, but it turns out that SanDisk has a proprietary enhanced data transfer protocol that comes into play when you use one of a small...

Windows 11 will also do whatever an autounattend.xml file tells it, which will also bypass install defaults. I've been rolling my own Windows installers for years anyway but this is the first time I've bothered to try it on Windows Home edition.

A lot of my dancer friends absolutely swim in money but can't get a lease on their own to save their lives. And I also know a lot of kids who have finished college but wound up in low-paying jobs due to other factors, like industry reliance on contract workers who don't get insurance benefits...

It should probably be pointed out that pretty much nothing in the gaming world is going to fully use all the horsepower those 600W+ cards want because current-gen consoles won't have comparable hardware and more or less all game dev work is going to target those first and foremost. It'll be nice...

My big problem with Windows Home is the insistence on putting everything in OneDrive. 15GB isn't a ton of space and it makes people think they have to start paying to store data on their own computer. Also, a lot of people don't particularly want MS password requirements on a home machine. Also...

Current chatter in the GPU rumorsphere holds that Ryzen 7000 APUs will approximately on par with a 3060 Mobile part. If that's the case, that's a big step forward for integrated graphics. I was able to go to my local Best Buy and get an RTX 3070 (not-Ti) for MSRP today. It's getting used in a...

CFExpress cards are awfully expensive. The type Bs aren't as galling, but even those cost 5x what the SD equivalent does. For the rest of SF, these are the equivalent of nVMe (1.5GB/sec+ transfer rates) vs basically HDD speeds. UHS2 SD cards usually top out around 200MB/sec writes if you have a...

The R7 specs according to CanonRumors: 32MP APS-C DPAF, 15/30fps shutter, IBIS, 2x SDcard, 4k60, 1080p120. No word on cost or what the actual processor or sensor will be, official announcement in the next few weeks. There's a lot to like there, especially if it's priced about where the R body...

If OneDrive is active and not prevented from doing so during the Windows install phase, the default save locations in Windows get set to c:\users\username\onedrive\documents etc. It's highly obnoxious to fix it while leaving Onedrive installed, and many users who DO use Onedrive will find that...

What amount of storage did you get with it? From what I've heard, it's extremely difficult to get the high capacity models.

I've just had to deal with the updated Windows 11 installer for the first time. There is no longer an option in the default setup to prevent Windows, even Windows Professional, from redirecting user data to OneDrive, and there's no way to skip signing in with a Microsoft account. You CAN...

Really the idea of quick and dirty runs counter to keeping the integrity of secure applications intact. A quick check does show that I can install Chase Mobile on either a relatively current Samsung S6 tablet or a 2021 Lenovo Duet, either of which can be found for around $150. You could also...

You can root your current device and run a proper, rooted backup if you want, but yes, when you install an image, it'll overwrite what's there. I have a Samsung S4 that I'll periodically dig out and upgrade, more out of curiosity than anything else.

You may find that any custom ROM you install will not work for certain apps because the boot signature won't have a recognized digital certificate from Samsung. This mainly impacts finance-related apps and streaming video services, so for example you might only be able to watch Netflix in 480p...

Have you tried any of the higher model Rs? The R5 and R6 really are substantially better cameras.

One of the things I love to photograph when I can is cosplay at comic book conventions. Today I went with a bunch of dancers to Exxxotica Chicago, which is quite literally a sex worker convention, held in the same convention center as most of the other nerdy convention events I've been to. I was...

I respect the landscape people but the only time I'm going to be up early enough to be out for those dawn shots is when I've already been up all night. My weekends tend to run to 3 or 4AM as it is but sunrises are asking too much. Landscapes are also frustrating because someone can take the best...

Pretty sure you can watch Youtubes in a private window. I don't have social media either and while I do have Youtube content, it's all unlisted videos I've shared with maybe five people. In any case, I've summarizing the chatter that's out there as I see it.

The guy posts a lot on Twitter and Youtube as well.

I suspect very strongly that they were reference designs, as the OEM cards in consumer and fleet desktops that shipped with low or mid-spec GPUs of the time weren't particularly different from branded cards from the usual suspects. It's all ancient history now, but I think the small HSFs that...

Everything is focused on the high end and below that is just relying on the traditional placement of the lower-tier SKUs in comparison. They're saying the fastest GPUs will at least double 3090 and the mid tier (4070-ish) will be somewhere between 10 and 30% faster than a 3090 for most...