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Cool idea. Just this morning I wall-mounted a VIA motherboard for easy cleaning in a very dusty environment. Not in a case, just the motherboard, CPU, RAM, a PicoPSU, and a CF-IDE adapter for Smoothwall duty. I wish my camera still worked :(

How many of these people have cars? The only people around here who complain of gas prices are those who made stupid purchasing decisions. Trucks and (particularly) SUVs are a luxury item.

How do you figure? Aren't there vehicles for sale right now that meet the standard?

One hell of a stitch... Apparently, they actually printed the thing 180 feet long.

My argument would be that CAFE standards are useless; the auto industry and our very business-friendly administration set the goal so low that free market pressures (as Clocker described) will prevent them from ever being a ceiling. A law that won't affect anything shouldn't be a big deal, but...

Hell yes. More RAM would make a massive impact. I took one of my Vista laptops from 1.2GB to 2GB and it made an appreciable impact, I don't think you can fit "too much" into a laptop these days if Vista is what you have to work with. Last I checked, Dell was defaulting to 3GB on Latitudes with...

Were they hosted here?

Replication was what I had in mind, but I am not a DBA. Replicating the more recent data to another server, and running the common queries off that seems like not-so-complicated answer.

Lunar can save some money by buying the 50-pack ;)

I'm with Handruin on this one. Your attention to maintaining backups and protecting your IP led me to believe that this was your business.

Agreed. But a good eye is something that takes time and experience, and planning and executing a job is not something I can do while on the run with friends. All I'm doing now is building a collection of equipment and techniques, and taking a lot of pictures. Learning what I like/don't and how...

The thought had occurred to me ;)

I'm still finding myself in the linear algebra of focal lengths; banging the corners of whatever I have with me. The first day I was here I must have done two dozen lens changes between the 10-22, 18-55, and 75-300. I'm just guessing, but I'd bet 90% of my shots were at 10, 18, and 300mm. If I...

I did a search on the model number listed, and got this. Seems to be the same model #.

I can get by, but for the last 2 weeks we've been averaging 6 miles on foot, 4 subway rides, 2 bus rides, and at least 3 private cars per day. I'm already leaving lenses at home, and looking forward to the 28-135IS that I plan to get in conjunction with the 40D. That and the 10-22 should be all...

DVNation has been around a long time. When I first started looking at SSDs, they were the only game in town. I have never purchased anything from them, (I bought from rocketdisk.com) but they are a long-standing player.

Whether in jest or not, I was thinking of making on offer on a 1Ds Mk II. I would really like to be able to make large prints without stitching, but that is a heavy frickin' camera.

I got the tickets to Moscow (SFO->JFK->SVO) for under $1k each round trip. I'm sure it took more gas than that to get us here.

Although I would love more dynamic range and exposure latitude (as you put it), I think I'll stick with the big dog for a while. I'm picking up a nice collection of lenses (just 5 so far, with 2 more on the near-term shopping list), and I like the options available to me. Picking a company that...

I don't think he's tired of his 1D-III yet ;). I'll certainly buy a 40D when I get home (unless anyone here is willing to sell me a used model). But I'll likely fix the 20D as well, it would be nice to have a spare body for larger trips.

Looks to be ~$180 for just the shutter, and ~$350 for the shutter, SQ assembly, and cleaning. People are talking about this happening every 70k or so? What is an "SQ Assembly"?

Thanks for the info, I'll get that fixed when I get home. Any idea on the cost? I would go buy a 40D right now, but from what I can tell the warranty wouldn't apply in the states? There also doesn't seem to be an official Canon presence here? Canon.com doesn't include a location in Russia, and...

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Whoops. Uploaded the wrong one. Now my internet connection is so slow it fails the upload.

Looks like my 20D has gone belly-up. Error 99 with constant shooting. It also snaps off a few any time I add/remove a lens, open/close the battery compartment, insert a battery, open/close the CF door, add/remove the CF card - even when the camera is off. The only event that doesn't cause this...

Stupid PhotoStitch can't handle 10mm shots and won't let me override. I have to actually change the EXIF data to at least 20mm before it will even try.

OK. Now I want a TS lens.

Thanks for the link Gilbo. I remember hearing about that software, but hadn't remembered the name.

I use Google to host the mail for my domain, so I have no idea how much SPAM comes in. I actually get about one a month, Google's SPAM filter is the best in the world IMHO.

HP used to offer a decent range of mobile inkjets. This seems to be what they offer now. I have no experience with the new ones.

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I use NoSpamToday with all my clients that require an exchange server. I set up pretty strict rules, and they mark ~95% of the mail coming into any given domain as SPAM.

I wouldn't watch the movie while I had it; there are a number of scenes where the camera work would be messing with you (odd angles, no points of reference, random movement). There is a tango dancer in the community that has it permanently. She can only stand if she doesn't let go of you, but...

Stereodude's links are likely what you are after. Google has a large-scale wireless deployment around my house, but the cellular companies are shooting them down wherever the show up.

The oldest stations are more elaborate than the one I shot, and the newer ones are simple half-tubes. That one was built after WWII. All the lighting is really crap incandescent, with a significant amount burned out. I picked my shot to include the most light I could. There was one corridor...

Some people voiced interest in the Russian Subway system ("Metro"). I took the 35/2 back and attempted some "from the hip" (literally) shots. They aren't framed properly, because I wasn't looking. The color temps are all over the place because the actual temp ranged from ~2000K to ~3000K and...

Some people voiced interest in the Russian Subway system ("Metro"). I took the 35/2 back and attempted some "from the hip" (literally) shots. They aren't framed properly, because I wasn't looking. The color temps are all over the place because the actual temp ranged from ~2000K to ~3000K and...

Just playing around mostly. I was hoping to bring out more details in the clouds and the lake reflections, also fiancée likes over saturated colors and other non-representative stuff (not my style, but she likes it).

Re: High f-values and sharpness. You guys were right, of course. Here is the same shot at f/11 and f/22. They are available at full-size so you can see the difference. The HDR was using shots at f/8.

All my SPAM filters are staying at ~95% SPAM. And hacksaw, Welcome to StorageForum!

Looks like it only affects directories and not files, but it is worth a try. http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/50/

Based on the near-linear $/gb increase for SSD drives, I decided to get multiple smaller ones in RAID0. At the time 3x16GB were just a little more than 1x32GB, and much faster.

Maybe disabling the "last accessed" timestamp for the files?

Still looks like a $600 outlay for that kind of speed I'm afraid. If it is a linear write/read for the temp file, a pair of RAID0 Raptors would five you more speed for less.

I've found NHC to have more features than most pre-installed packages.

That is where my father grew up.

XP with Notebook Hardware Control. I get ~25% more battery time with this thing. It rules.

Tannin, why aren't you supposed to be posting? I'm glad you are, that is a fantastically informative post.

I understand not wanting to list your exact location; anonymity is a wonderful thing. But it does make coordinating meetings more difficult.

I like large prints. How does shooting with a high f-number affect that? I thought it was strictly an exposure time vs. DOF thing?