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Office of 50 employees. All running XP and Office 2003, Outlook is connected to an Exchange 2003 on Server 2003. One user has an empty inbox. All other users operating fine. This inbox had many items, now it is empty. The connection to exchange works fine, calendar, contacts, sending, it all...

I will when I get home, I finally have some work ;)

Yup. I finally had time to read the article this morning. I'm using Patriot 8GB SDHC Class 6, which didn't make his database.

Agreed.

The 450D's right-hand grip could be about half an inch thicker. That is my only complaint. It does use SD, but other than the fact I had accumulated CF cards, I have no complaints. They are smaller, not much slower, and hold enough (I'm using 8GB "Class 6" cards).

I was doing 50% overlap (2x image coverage of the whole scene), now it's closer to 15%.

I'll give that one a shot next time I get a chance, thanks!

I've verified that the Ubuntu 8.04 x64 kernel has GPT support, but not LDM. Is there a GUI for choosing options in a kernel compilation? There are at least a hundred options in the command line, and no way I know of to go back to one you just missed.

A CRT made for television is not worth anything, really. The last one I worked with was a top-of-the-line 42" Sony (the biggest they made IIRC). S-Video was the best input it took, and 800x600 on a screen that big looks horrible. I would have preferred a 15" LCD with 1024x768, really. It will be...

Yesterday, actually. And I'm seeing no difference between the last Beta, all the RCs and this one. I suppose that is the way it should be; just fixing corner cases before release.

The biggest one you mentioned above (IMHO) is: The reason for lack of discipline in the schools is fear of retaliation from the parents. So this is really one problem; it used to be parents+teachers vs. students, now it is parents+students vs. teachers. The other issue is that every level of...

I can't think of anything that directly involves people and scales well. People seem to be able to screw up any "optimized system".

You did exactly what I would have done (the speedy choice, and the laptop you picked). Not sure if that is a good thing in your book, but it got me smiling ;)

I think I found a start: That describes what I'm seeing now and what I need to enable. I still don't know how to go about doing it, so that is next.

Quoting from another thread: So, I just took my first stab and managed a kernel panic! Yay! Good to know I haven't lost my touch. What I have learned is that I don't know nearly enough about this subject, but Googling hasn't returned much. Where would I look to see if these features are...

Correct. DVI is fine for everything except (IIRC) protected BlueRay content. Even that is playable, but at a lower resolution.

My work and my family are both 70 miles away. My friends and my hobbies are within a mile or so. If I don't have enough work/money I know why :crap:

Price fixing. But they aren't that expensive.

My suggestion would be to live in between your work and the nearest restaurant/supermarket/theater.

800k? Just a drop in the bucket ;) And I don't know anyone that wants to live in San Jose; though it would be a trade-up from LA :p

The XP drivers always work fine in 2003 for me. The kernel is essentially the same. The only software that doesn't work is when the stupid programmers intentionally break it. Here is a fanless AGP video card with 2 DVI connections.

Correct. They used the spare pins in an s-video connector to sneak out composite cables. They are only accessible with the included composite break-out box. Composite is outdated tech, and it wasn't around long enough to have/keep products in the market.

For only very light gaming, I would get this card. For something more powerful (still not that great) I would get this one.

S-Video sucks (limited to 800x600). So does VGA (looks bad above 1024x768 IMHO) The only acceptable connections are: DVI and HDMI. I use a DVI to HDMI cable (they are essentially the same data, just different plugs). Any video card with DVI out should do fine.

I live in a downtown area now, and am considering moving to the country (10+ acres of land, 0.5 mile to nearest neighbor, 10 miles to town). Suburbs always struck me as the worst of both worlds; you have to interact with your neighbors, but you are still too far to walk to the...

Bozo's suggestion looks fine, but I would recommend this one. *Dual DVI outputs, so you can run multiple monitors if you like. *Fanless, so no noise (and presumably less heat to begin with). *GeForce 8xxx series, so it supports recent standards (DX10 for Vista) *HDMI support for secure video...

I'm not a fan of wide screen either, but it gave me my minimum requirement (1000+ pixels vertical). I love the fact that I can view images @ 100% and still see every pixel; on my 22" 4:3 1600x1200 LCD I had to zoom to 200% to see every pixel; making this one effectively twice as large. It also...

DVI-HDMI cables are very common, I'm using one to drive my Sharp 42".

Well, it was moving along nicely until it filled the 80GB of free space on the Raptor array, it then decided to pick on the RAID-5. It won't fill that one up, but it has already taken a 50GB chunk out of it.

Massive power consumption advantage. 99% of it is becoming heat either way, so you can judge by the amount of heat coming off the device. At that resolution (1680x1050), DVI begins to make a difference. DVI sends the signal digitally, and provides specific instructions to each pixel. VGA is...

I just sent it on it's merry 210 megapixel way...we'll see how long that takes ;) It might take longer because it is outputting as a 32-bit HDR and a 16-bit TIFF.

I do have some decently fast disks to use as scratch, and 4 cores @ 3.5Ghz. That can't hurt. I'm about to buy the Pro version and send it onto the rest of the set (that was only a subset).

Just finished playing with PTGui Pro trial. I threw it 120 images (40 sets of 3 bracketed exposures). Total size of the source files? 6.8GB Total size of the completed pano? 4.5GB. It took 3 hours for my system to chew on it, with the hard drive being the limiting factor (CPU usage was ~13%)...

You are correct. Buying anything today that isn't 1080P is a significant mistake.

LCDs, as a technology, no longer count as new. I don't know of anyone still making CRTs at all. Spectre is a cheap brand, expect cheap quality. I buy either of the other brands you mention for that reason. I also make sure that it has dual inputs (DVI and VGA or 2xDVI).

Agreed. If you are going to use a TV as a monitor, it must be at least 720P (1080P is ideal) and must have a digital input (DVI/HDMI). Anything else is going to suck.

Thanks e_dawg.

That is a pretty monitor, but $5500 is a bit steep. I thought that having hardware color calibration allowed you to get away with cheaper monitors?

Sweet! I have never compiled a kernel, or even looking into it. And the places I was reading said otherwise, but I believe you. I'm using a standard build of Ubuntu 8.04 x64, so I guess that support isn't included? I'll go read up on it. Thanks!

I've seen similar stuff on laptop LCDs, but it was due to mishandling. I doubt that is the case here. Is the line perfectly vertical? How many pixels does it affect?

An awesomely sharp picture. 450D is the body, and the focal length is 400mm@f5.6, but it doesn't say what lens. Is a killer lens what it takes to get such a sharp picture?

Well, we'll both just hold off for a while, and talk about it another time. I'm having enough issues with WINE that I'm not ready to move just yet, anyway.

Alright, interesting walk with some interesting pictures. I was hoping to get some shots of a rattlesnake, but the only one I saw was roadkill on the way in. This one came out weird, any idea why?

Grammatically that may not be accurate but it got two points across. 1. It is too early to be shooting. 2. Why am I doing it? I have reached the age my older friends had warned me about. Here I am, eating and doing the same things I always have, and suddenly I'm gaining weight. Time to find a...

This is the first time that I've noticed, but it has been at least 36 hours. Edit: I'll check the others when I get back from my walk, more mediocre pictures to come. ;)

Is Canon's SLR site down for anyone else? I can get to this page, but going any deeper brings up an error message.

My backup scheme is complex. A friend on the east coast has a matching array, and we agree to store each others data for security (replicating changes over a VPN). So yes, there is a backup, but it would take weeks to get all the data back. Your proposal is actually looking to be the most...

Yup. It has to be a GPT, it is >4TB. Unfortunately, it is also dynamic. I don't know how that trick would play out.

Sounds like it would do very nicely, so long as it could focus close enough.

For that you could ask Splash or Tannin, Tea is clueless about such things.