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Some flower pics for Udaman. The 75-300 @ f5.6 blurs the background much better than the 50/1.8 + f1.8 does. I'm sure someone here knows why?

I'm chickening out on that. The bit that is supposed to be 42 for dynamic, that I'm supposed to change to 07, is showing as EE. Not sure what that means, but I like my data too much to be fooling around with it. I'll just hold off for a while.

Actually, under options, you can check "use invisible mode" and not appear on the list at all.

Scary! I'll do some more research before I do the deed.

Flash drives are for the OS and APPs, the RAID-0 of 74GB Raptors are for scratch and games, and the massive chunk of 750GB drives are for data. My car averaged 33mpg, and gas averaged $4.12. About 9700 miles in 2 months. (I was in Russia when the intermediate bill came).

For later integration in my array, I'd stick with 750GB drives. 4000/750 = 6 Drives @ $120 = $720 + Tax = $777 ...and I just got a $1200 gas bill (just my car). I'd like to avoid that for now.

In a late-night moment of stupidity about 6 months ago, I converted my array to a dynamic disk. It hasn't been a big deal, because Server 2003 doesn't care. Now I'm moving to Linux, and it can't see dynamic disks. The only way I've read to "convert" back to a basic disk is to copy the data...

Thanks for the scare ;) I just spent the morning running around focusing on everything I could and learning everything I could find about auto-focus systems. Conclusions? Although the 450D with kit lens is slower to focus than I'd like, mine doesn't have focus issues. Nor do my other lenses on...

None. To be honest, I didn't even think (or know) about pre-approved whitelists. I just show the user how to add their own exceptions, and to be careful.

Ether that or it has some evil cookies of death that are spying on you ;)

NOD32 without question. When a system is infected and running Norton or McAffee, I wipe it clean. When a system is infected and running AVG (frequently happens), installing NOD32 is usually enough to clean it. I consider NOD32 to be protection, AVG to be damage control, and everything else to...

Think of it as add/remove programs, but better. You can add programs as well from the internet master repository, and it has a search feature and a summary of each program. It also tracks and handles dependencies (eg. .NET framework or Adobe Flash)

Nothing to say, except welcome back Merc!

That was the fastest 1.5GB BT download I think I've ever had. Haven't listened to it yet, I don't think Olga is a fan...

Here is the wine app compatability list. Here are the results for the office suite.

There are a few companies that provide cell phone service. Typically, the cell phone manufacturers (LG, Samsung, Motorola) make a slightly different version of all their phones for use on the different networks. Apple signed an exclusive agreement with AT&T, so that if you want the iPhone (no...

It is a phone without any buttons from a manufacturer with massive markup that you can only get if bundled with a service agreement and only with one cell provider.

The thing that has stopped me from deploying Ubuntu in a corporate environment is the inability to niche windows applications (Street Smarts, HardDollar, etc). Things like this seem to either work in WINE or not. I suspect I'll end up retaining a WINE developer at some point to make it happen...

I use Comcast and have no idea what I pay. I'm not trusted with the bills. ;) Russia was...as expected. If I were to use the same standards that I used elsewhere in my travels, it would be nice. But I have interests there, and we even discussed living there. By those standards it is absolute crap.

Actually, they outsource, and the ones I've seen are Prius or Beetle. Link.

Actually, he's talking about the Google Streets car ;)

One of my favorite experiences in Russia was going into this massive church and listening to the choir. They were incredible.

If I thought that likely, I'd stick around and post 24/7 (instead of the 20/7 I do now).

She doesn't need it. Her and the old man combined are comfortably in the #2 seat, and reaching Merc will take a while even if he isn't posting.

A lot of new machines ship with Vista and score about 3.0. I consider these usable. My UMPC scores a lousy 2.1, and even that is acceptable, except for the boot time.

My cable internet has never been down in the 18+ months I've had it. In that time my Vonage telephone has never been down. While I have run out of batteries or been in a bad reception zone, my Verizon cell has never disconnected a call except for those reasons. They may not have 99.99999%...

And the other question is, do most people only have stereos that can output CD-quality sound because that is the quality of CDs? If the quality of the most common medium was much higher, would the average person have a better stereo? (Excluding Tannin, of course)

I thought that both of those were only significantly better if you were outputting in more than 2 channels?

It all depends on your recording quality and your playback device. I don't think I own any audio gear that could do better than what CDs provide.

Doing great now.

Landlines are silly, but I need one for my fax. The only thing hooked up to my landline* is my fax**; no handset at all. *Landline actually is Vonage over cable internet. **Fax machines are silly, too.

I've been running it about as long and having a similar experience. Really loving everything. And as the official release approaches, all of my favorite extensions are coming back on-line.

Well that is frustrating. So what you are saying is that the heatsink that makes it compatible with 3.5" brackets won't make it compatible with 3.5" SATA backplanes? Or that once removed, the 2.5" drive won't be compatible with 2.5" SATA backplanes? And that using the drive as a 2.5" drive...

BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions

I just noticed that my workstation has been up for over 100 days (2413+ hours). Sure I have servers that stay up longer than that, but this is my main desktop. Crazy. Server 2003 SP1, See sig for spec.

Target of? Not that I'm disagreeing, keeping the blinds closed reduces all the chances I can think of. Just wondering...

Yup. My place is not very well insulated, but it is usually better to keep the windows and blinds closed until about 3PM. The inside temperature lags behind the outside provided I'm not making too much heat inside (cooking, lighting, projector, etc).

No idea, I was sitting at the yacht club watching the show.

You nephew is very lucky. Driving into deep water is a pretty rotten way to get killed. [mostly unrelated story] The first day of fishing season is when all the idiots come down to the harbor. Some of these guys just bought a boat, some only come down once a year. All of them drink massive...

No kidding. If I wasn't allowed to buy because there was no danger, I would consider it included for free. ;)

After doing my research on the 450D, I was kind of expecting something like this. They seem to have put all the processing intelligence of the 40D in the 450D, making it physically cheaper (body, AF sensors, controls) but still with all the features in there. That is a pretty powerful package...

I notice comments is already filled out for control panel. Making me think that they don't expose it for us.

Mine too. Sorry.

Some clients have installed it on their own systems without issue. I'm still holding off on an official rollout for another week or so.

I didn't want to derail Tannin's laptop thread, but I hadn't thought of this before. Is it possible to boot from a 32GB ExpressCard SSD? Are there any that are fast enough to see the "SSD benefit"? Has anyone here tried it? Googling doesn't reveal much, and the only ones I see are quite slow...

You mean other than renaming it to something useful? (Right-click, rename)

I agree with everything Fushigi said except this. LCD backlights are on all the time, having the crystals block the light requires additional energy. Having a white background consumes barely less power than black.

My opinion is that the biggest choke points are your RAM and your hard drive, and those can be upgraded in your current system. I would max the ram and get to a 7200RPM boot drive and pocket the change. But on inspection, it seems that there is no 7200RPM drive option in IDE?

Voyager ordered. I'll have some info to share when it is delivered in a couple days. Sucks that I wasn't eligible for a new phone, total cost $440.

You do realize that you are referring to a clearly mac-fanatic site, right? I heard about the new iPhone, and although it is almost cheap enough to be worth it as a regular phone/mp3 player, it is far from a smart phone.