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Worth posting here. Originally a slashdot comment.

DNS propogation is a lot like wireless, which is a lot like magic. There is a reason for everything going on, but there is no way to know enough about the situation to be able to explain why everything happens the way it does. The last freakish DNS issue I had was that a local ISP had the idea...

www.handruin.com - 67.222.3.121 www.franticdownstream.com - 67.222.3.121

I'm just trying to think of features the OS could have that change geographically. Having an incredibly accurate system time is nice, geotagging all my pictures could be good. Is it making the location information available to apps through some API?

The Subcontinent, IIRC.

This is a new control panel item. Has anyone else seen/played with this? Still trying to get it to work with the GPS built into my R2Hv, but I'm curious what it can do.

Hey, I painted mine with the textured black stuff...it looked sweet.

All mine are ripped as well (as are my music CDs), but keeping the disks as backup is cheaper than backing it up some other way.

I've done something like this and hung it from the ceiling before. I was paranoid, and bridged several joists...don't think it was necessary.

Thank you uda, Lunar, and e_dawg...all good stuff that I will need to review when I'm not late for work.

I wish mine used an SATA drive...it would have an X-25M by now. Mine has the PCI-e as well for the cellular card.

Yeah, I would leave it in the "possible, but only if you need it" pile. Going +/-2 stops works great.

67MP PSD with 17 Layers, Final Size 550MB - 1 minute 41 seconds. It is even more frustrating on an i7 (4 cores, each with hyperthreading)...13% CPU utilization!

Um, yeah...not well. There is additional detail to be had, but you would need to mask out the rest; the response curve goes goofy and neither CS4 or Photomatix can handle it.

I prefer "fully utilized" ;)

It really depends on how much time I have. If the clouds are blowing quickly or it is getting dark fast, 10-20% overlap is it. If I have the time and I have the tripod and Nodal Ninja with me, 50-70% overlap easy.

My company managed to make some contribution to profit sharing this year, but it was 20% of what it was last year.

I don't have a BR reader, either. My HD-DVD reader is in storage. Back to regular DVD for me until the ripping/compressing gets as easy as AutoGK.

Running great, thanks Handy!

And the answer is...yes, and then some. -4, -2, 0, +2, +4 all included additional information. Holy Crap.

We have a rather hefty copier/printer that does 35ppm, and I have done 8k pages/day for a week before. As is usually the case when not enough information is provided, it is because the person asking doesn't know what they don't know. In these situations, multiple rounds of...

The striping in some (most :( ) of my panos is the result of some pretty bad vignetting on my 10-22 and my 35/2. What is the best lens in this range (at a sane price) to avoid this specific issue? I don't think my 50/1.8 is as bad, does it happen more with WA lenses?

A client asked me to help print a document that might be large. Here is my response.

I should give that a shot, but is there really enough info in a RAW to make 3 16-bit TIFFs? Would simply moving the "exposure" slider in the RAW conversion be the best way to do this?

I would, except there is no way to hold all those people still for three shots. That is the one reason I would want a 50D (frame rate). But I would have done some local adaptation to change the energy back to the kids. Something like this. Edit: I do like most of these pictures, but this one is...

That is a cool screen, is it part of Vista? I just installed 7 RC onto my R2Hv, I'll look for something similar.

Well, I'm about to make a fairly big file...I'll leave in all the adjustment layers and do some saving.

I can put together some large files and test them? Most of my biggest are .psb (13GB) and .tif (2.2GB).

Yup, I've since corrected for that in the "advanced" mode.

I have quite a few cheaper MLC SSDs, they really only annoyed me during software installs/updates and when doing more complex stuff.

The AQUOS was only off in the shadows (funny that) ;)

I had this vision of Obama going around my office, machine to machine, installing IE8...

Boots are the one thing I really care about in netbooks and small machines. Any of these do fine with Firefox once they are up. Worst case, I do some tricks with a RAMDisk to speed that part up.

I think the bunny can do same-day service. Jesus was the tortoise in the relationship.

It's a dead Easter bunny, risen from the grave ;) Kinda fitting, actually...

But it's a critical update! The world will end unless everyone has it, like, now! How else can we count on Microsoft to guarantee our safety?

MLC, and likely have the small write performance issue, but that will still beat a 4200RPM drive during boot (95% read) and light use.

Neither of my small toys take 2.5" drives. One takes a mini (like the one I linked) and the other is a 1.8" ZIF. I hope more vendors adopt smaller form factors (something the width of the SATA data/power connector would be nice).

That is why I get the OEM copies and put the little stickers on the chassis. And why I tend to re-use chassis ;)

I know! I'll take a picture of my screen and post that! Ha!

I bought RamDisk Plus 9.x, mainly because it supported using RAM beyond 4GB on 32-bit OS's (when using 64-bit capable hardware) and that it supported RAMDisks larger than 4GB.

Got some of these coming for the netbooks in the office. Boot time just isn't acceptable with a 4200RPM drive.

Where is the smiley that is flipping the bird? :nono: Close enough.

The last VLK that I had ended up on the "Not Genuine" list.

Installing IE8 via Windows Update caused me to have to re-activate my windows install on reboot. Weird.

Oh, apparently I did. And it isn't just out of stock, it is completely deactivated. I must have bought the last of the old product. Crap.

I find that when my posts get eaten, my second draft is more to the point. It may lack information that may be of use (and if the post loss has caused that to happen, sorry), but it is always shorter.

I have a Toshiba D-VR660KU. I've only used it twice, but it worked fine both times. The dubbing is at real-time speed, and finalizing the disk afterward took forever, but I was then able to rip the video using AutoGK and play it with MPC without issue. Keep in mind, I haven't tried anything...

Hiding, no doubt ;)

I'll have to find my Q9550. What tests would you like to see run?