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Thanks DD, these seem to be outstanding for the price! I've saved the info. These are out of range for now, since they need an amp to drive them pushing up the cost, plus there's no space for them near my monitor. Perhaps they'll be good to replace on my main stereo system, which is ~ 28 years...

What Snowhiker said. Also, Nikon has has a sale - 10% off on refurbished stuff. 1/15 to 1/18.

See this for some info on the D5 in the field: http://oleliodden.com/photo-gear/field-reviews/beta-test-report-nikon-d5/

Thanks. I do have Audacity and have used it only to chop off audio that I didn't want. The plugins page you linked to has links to other pages which are frighteningly humongous; it'll take me time to digest all that stuff!

KB2952664 & KB3035583 in the latest updates seem to push the "Get Windows 10" out to Win 8.1 and Win 7 users. I unchecked them.

Sheesh, they were supposed to be one of the better ones, and now this? I'm not running TrendMicro, but thanks for sharing.

Actually this suits my needs better than a discrete hardware device. 99% of my listening these days is at my PC. Most of the music I listen to is either live recordings with makeshift equipment or old - '50s thru '70s professionally recorded songs. In either case the recordings are low-fi -...

Cool, thanks SD. Behringer has a ton of dealers here, very surprising. They have dealers in really remote places, but only one in my metro city! No matter, I'll call around Monday. How does this compare with the BBE series of similar equipment, would you know? BTW, it seems the recommendation...

Question for audiophiles and specifically to SD: How good is the Aphex Aural Exciter? It's about $350, so it better be good. The bulk of my music suffers from lack of bottom and top end because of poor recording. The premise of the Exciter is it puts back what's missing - harmonics. I've been...

That's odd. In India now we have simultaneous release with the US, or a day later. Previously (a decade or so ago) it used to be almost a year. I saw the movie late because my daughter was away visiting cousins and I waited for her to get back home and then have time off at college so we could...

To each his own, Buck, I have no problem with that. I started wearing glasses when I was ~ 12. My head is quite asymmetrical; my ears are also not level. The frames available then used ti bite into my head near the ear one side or the other, and never fit quite right. With the advent of flexible...

Some PJs reg. this hobby. These were inflicted on me, and I'm passing on the favor: I read fifty shades of grey to learn more about white balance Q. What’s the best way to make money in photography? A. Sell all your gear. Ken Rockwell ordered an L-lens from Nikon, and got one

Sorry man, It's been out so long I thought I was the last to see it :( I didn't reveal much, btw.

Saw Star Wars yesterday. Mixed feelings. I saw the original trilogy in movie theaters on release, but haven't seen any of the prequels (Sith, Pith, etc.). While in the trilogy the enormous effort the Resistance puts to achieve their objectives is well portrayed, in this movie I felt everything...

Nice pic! The little one ain't so little anymore! Buy that sawed-off shotgun now; she's a looker and you're going to have boy trouble soon. Your glasses are barely visible. It appears the fashion lately is to have thick-bezel plastic frames like they had in the '40s (about 2x to 2.5x the...

Not the image I had of you. So henceforth you shall be Professor DD...

Wow! What's it go for now, ~ $250?

You'll be redirected to your local google automagically. I know, I've had this for the last so many years and don't care now anymore. If I want to be specific, I'll suffix the country after my search term to restrict to a specific geographical area.

Thanks Coug, Nexus it is. I bought several in 2006 before leaving the US.

Prithee do tell. This Win-10 saga (oops, fiasco) is endlessly fascinating.

Thanks time. I'll let the CPU be, and try to sell the Hyper 212.

Thanks. I can always replace the fan with one of those orange ones (um.. Nexus?). So I guess you're saying I should replace the stock with this cooler? My case is vertical and I'll have to check if there's space to use it, plus I'm worried about the weight.

When I built my present system in late 2012, apparently I purchased a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo for the CPU. But I bought a retail Ivy Bridge Core i5-3570K and ended up using the cooler that came with it. The Cooler Master has been sitting in a box since then, and I found it trying to clean...

Thanks. I hardly use my Sunwayman. What I use everyday (it's on my bed stand) is the Zebralight SC52w Neutral. So small, yet powerful with multiple light levels. Just perfect for my needs.

Curious how it compares to my $80 Sunwayman D40 neutral. As best I can recollect, it's throw is 315 meters, 980 lumens in turbo mode, IPX-8, 4 x AA. I'm quite happy with it, but would have loved to have the spot, flood and spot+flood combo yours has. How is the run time with 3 x AA? Does it get...

Awesome! Please review!

Guess one has to sign up first. I can't even browse their site as a stranger. Thus your link didn't work for me.

Happy Holidays to all!

You've got a storied past, Dave! You should write a book some day.

Ouch, that's so rotten! I've heard of quite a few similar catastrophes caused by "pro" photographers. Over-confidence and arrogance at work.

Since this is serious stuff, I presume MS is working on it frantically and will issue an out-of-cycle patch? I only hope the patch is not half-baked and breaks something else.

I'm on an 8 mbps internet connection. A few days ago I was at my sister's in another city and the internet there was fast as hell (it felt like). I was told it was a 10 mbps connection. Curious, I did speed tests. It actually was a bit less than 10 mbps, but the latency was 6 ms. Mine is ~ 42...

Thanks Clocker & Merc. I am more concerned about what comes out of the wi-fi rather than what the clients are receiving (more clients = less for each). Assuming only one client, 54 mbps / 3 = 18 mbps. Since I get the full 8 mbps of my internet connection on the wireless, I'm inclined to think...

All my references to speed are internet speeds over Wi-Fi. All devices are G or better. No 'B'. There is no LAN traffic other than occasionally to a printer.

What would be the maximum real-life speed of a 'G' class Wi-Fi router? Especially when there's a 2.4 GHz cordless phone also in play? My internet is 8 mbps, and I actually get 8 mbps wirelessly (DSL router connected to 'G' class Wi-Fi). I''m looking into options to get 20 mbps speed with...

Not clear: is this a problem only for LANs / WANs and not single desktops?

The TV I referred to is not pre-historic; CRT it is, but a true flat screen and has decent pic quality. It's LG and refuses to die. The audio is surprisingly good, and if the program is good, sometimes it's difficult to figure out where the sound is coming from, certainly doesn't feel like the...

We're still using a good old SD CRT TV; meets our needs. Our small collection of DVDs (which includes Avatar, Harry Potter series, LOTR series etc.) is all standard DVDs. We rarely watch them anyways. Primary viewing is satellite TV, some sertials by wifey, some by daughter, and me hardly ever...

Yup. AFAIR, Oracle did this years ago.

Yay, it's back to being "normal". Thanks Handy, much appreciated! :bow:

Surprising for a model named "Pro". At this point, I think you should cut your losses; they can always give this one to another / the next employee, and get you a real / proper laptop.

I thought the upgrade happened weeks ago? This change happened only today for me (since Wednesday night your time).

Did the default colors of the forum change? I didn't make any changes, and the forum colors have changed to a difficult-to-distinguish set of pastels. Starting today. My old eyes have to work harder to make out sections that have updates.

If you use the Spybot tool linked above, you won't be forced and can forget Win-10 even exists. On the other hand, if you don't care about the privacy of what lives on it, maybe just given in and go with the flow.

This may be a more recent phenomenon with Dell. I bought my first Dell monitor in 2006 locally direct through Dell and used it till ~ 2009 when it became a hand-me-down for my daughter (her CRT developed problems). At that time I bought a Dell 2209WA for myself. It's been used about 14 hours...

I used VMWare Player to install Xubuntu; easy as pie, actually shocked at how easy it was. I also downloaded Chrome as a browser (didn't know it already came with FireFox) and Libre Word and Calc (didn't know it came with Abi Word). It wanted to install updates; that was pretty awesome that it...

Snowhiker's activity here has stirred me from my photography hibernation. Took the D700 and and the 35 mm f/2.0 lens out of the dry cabinet. The lens is crystal clear; the dry cabinet is doing its job for sure. Battery dead in the D700. My fault, I have not touched it for 2+ years. I had kept...

Practically speaking, I know LEDs get hot, but aren't they supposed to be significantly more efficient (less heat) than other lighting technologies?

Thanks, download almost completed. I'll install it into a VM on my desktop first so I can play with it and get familiar, then put it on a bootable USB drive. Strangely, nowhere could i find system requirements for it in the documentation.

Thanks. Do these come in LTS variants as well?