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Just to grab some envy from JTR, I rode the Maglev in Shanghai 2 years ago. It was really, really smooth. At the time, I didn't know it was a Maglev, until the conversation got boring and I looked out the window. Holy cow! We were positively flying!

Sweet. What kind of stereo do you have at work?

I would raise the point that a 1TB 7200RPM SATA drive is actually something to want for performance as well. Higher data density increases STR and essentially short-strokes the drive if your needs are more modest, helping seek times as well. Not as much as an SSD, but it likely does as well as a...

Others will have stronger opinions on this, but I think it is more crap for being 5400RPM (which it is) than for being WD. I actually bought 2 of these 1TB drives over the weekend. I got them, copied a data set to them, and put them in a safe. I will never use them again. When I first saw the...

That would be about 9 hours worth? Taking the day off?

Are you actually spending less? Or spending the same elsewhere?

Is the card detected in the OS after you boot to an IDE drive?

They eventually got it. After 4 hours to fix what was essentially a single faulty entry in a very simple DNS tree and another 6 hours to fix what was essentially a registry key. Of course, after fixing the registry key you got to stop, restart, dismount, and mount services and stores in what...

I'm about to go to sleep for the first time in 32 hours. Why? F**king AD and it's DNS integration, F**king Exchange and it's easily corruptible message stores, and both of their ability to store important configuration information in AD, Exchange, File Permissions, the Registry, and in some...

All the older stores around here do. The few most recent don't.

Well that didn't work. I'm now on my second $500 phone call to MS tonight. The first was for a borked DNS/AD and now it's for migrating some corrupted message stores. Their getting $1000 tonight because they write overly-complex, hard-to-support software. Bah.

If you figure out how to schedule SyncToy, post it here. I'm curious about that as well.

One of the things that attracted me to the belt concept was that I could do lens changes while standing. Another was that I could wear it on more intense trips, when my backpack was full of tent/sleeping bag/climbing gear/etc. And of course, that the camera could be in front of me always...

I use the free program from Microsoft called SyncToy and it works really well. It is fairly smart in that it looks at the source and destination first and only copies over the files that have changed. Of course, even this requires the destination to be read for comparison purposes. This may be...

The first thing I would do is benchmark the NAS' write speed. Some of those things are really slow. If the backup to your other local drive is quick, I don't think different software would help you.

Practical question. What is the best method for doing a lens change in the field? It seems I'm constantly wishing for 4 hands, and Tea isn't often on my hikes.

I wasn't using Exmerge, I was using the "move mailbox" tool in System Manager, the one for 2003 is multi-threaded and handles 4 boxes at a time. This would work long enough to handle a single small mailbox, but a larger one (some well over 2GB) or a batch of smaller ones would crash it out.

Thanks Chewy, that is what I had in mind if I couldn't get RPC up; still troubleshooting that one.

Nope, no love. But thanks for the suggestions.

I've been wondering about the DO lenses myself. Based on the reviews, they say that there is some optical weirdness, but it is made up for by smaller, lighter lenses. But none of the lenses I've seen are actually lighter than the non-DO alternative, are only marginally smaller, and are much more...

Tannin, Thanks for the tips. I, too, like having the camera in front of me when I'm hiking. The first 10k or so of this walk was through an estuary off San Francisco Bay, there wasn't a single minute where I wasn't trying to photograph something (mostly unsuccessful due to the 55mm lens). After...

No location to speak of, and no timing in mind, either. I brought my Lowepro backback, but from the car decided that it would be too heavy for the hike. So I took just the 18-55 and headed out. I'd never carried the camera for that long, and had no idea. Lesson learned ;)

My disposable income is largely cash and (more importantly) the "instant gratification" is what gets me over the indecision of an expensive toy.

The last time I went for a hike (~9 miles), I carried the following: 20D: 510g 15-55 kit lens: 190g Total is 700g (1.5lbs) around my neck. If I switch to the 100-400 (1380g), that is increasing the weight nearly threefold. Of course, I can keep the lenses I'm not using in the bag, and I could...

Ah, thanks for the heads-up. I have that around here somewhere...

The one closest to me is Wild West themed, and is horrible. They all have clueless employees, so I won't even use that to judge, but this one has the worst layout and poorest selection of them all. I typically go to the one in Sunnyvale, which has no theme at all.

Current lens ponderings: Even with cost out of the way, the 100-400 IS is really heavy. I got to hold it in the store today, and it was just too much to go hiking with. (Tannin, how do you do it?). So I'm back to the 70-300 IS, which weighs less than half as much.

I found the local photography store, called Keeble & Shuchat Photography. Before I went in I was distracted by a sports car I couldn't identify. It was a Tesla Roadster. This store has everything, including the aforementioned Gitzo 6X carbon fiber line (all of them), and all the Cannon lenses...

Got back from a local framing shop. Print? $25 Frame? $400 Ugh.

I know...I've looked around a couple of times in the menu and can't find where the settings are! I should dig out the manual and take a look.

Most of the Fry's around here have that many, but over half of them are closed off most of the time (the back side of the customer service area).

Just received a 12" tall print of this. I really like some of the details around the picture. I'm still trying to figure out how to frame it.

I'm currently digging through all the drivers Chewy linked to.

Belarc provides the following:

Interesting problem: I have 2 Exchange servers. The old one is broken in such a way that the RPC service crashes when the exchange load is high, causing a reboot (no, it isn't Blaster, I checked). I built a nice new shiny Exchange server to take over, but trying to move the mailboxes causes the...

I received an e-mail to join a YouTube group. I checked that the link did indeed go to YouTube, then followed it. No videos, just the group description that I might win a cruise! Just a heads-up...

Nice find, Bung. They make a whole line of PITA bits. This one in particular would be a real bear to work around.

Their sizes are T-<number> if that helps.

Is this the type you need? I still don't know the name of them.

Do you have a link to the enclosure? Or a picture of the screws? I suspect I know what they are, but I don't know the name of them. The same ones hold my ceiling projector mount.

I ditched my grandmother to be with friends for a 22-item menu. Is that wrong? I saw her last weekend instead ;)

Nope. Just a stainless steel canteen. That "small monitor" is a 22" LCD ;)

I played with a Cannon Inkjet the other day and it wasn't bad, but if you have a Walgreens/Kinkos/whatever nearby, I think that is the better solution.

I was thinking about that, but my ideal solution would be an IR transmitter controlled by the computer. Looks like they already have that...neat.

Indeed. 60,000 machines a year; how many on earth actually provide such numbers?

Closer to 8x, actually. I love this monitor.

Incinerate me first, my last contribution to global warming....

I'm such a child. I still get a kick out of disassembling laptops. ;)

Looks good, thanks Mark.

I've been screwing around with a bunch of this stuff, and have the OK to get external assistance. I've used Microsoft's After-Hours Business Critical Support before, and would love to get them involved again. Unfortunately, it seems that they only handle things that are already broken; I want...