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I bought a couple of the 255W and have seen the 255WT for $80 recently in a retail store. Some of the newer auto GPS units are a bit thinner, but I'm not sure the xx5 series qualifly as clunky. Normally I run a GPS on battery power and avoid the 12V cigar adapter except when driving long...

Do you mean an SFF type breakout cable? A single channel SATA connector is the same as that for SATA. Some embedded controllers support both SATA and SAS, but some don't. Normally if it supports SAS that will be indicated in the literature.

Quality of which are poor? The 100-400 has significant limitations, but the 70-200/2.8 II is an exemplary zoom for example. The 70-200/4 IS is excellent as well, and none of the 70-200 L lenses are anything like poor.

There are no 70-300 fixed f/4 lenses. There was a Sigma 100-300/4 that I do not much like. Some other fast zooms in that range are the three versions of 200-400/4 Nikkors and a few varieties of Sigma 120-300/2.8. They are all useful for some purposes, but none are less than 6 lbs. I disposed...

Actually this may be next on the list. :) I'm not so thrilled about the $250 tripod mount ring. :mad: I think the old lenses will have to suffice for the D7K initially. I'm curious to see if something like the 16-85 will hold up to more pixels.

I think that would be useful for redacting business docs, e.g., for distribution to 3rd parties.

...and then the children???

I very rarely send anything back to the manufacturer for service. If the retailer won't accept it for a refund and value is not high, usually it is off to the bin. ;) In your case it was ~$70 IIRC, which has caused more pain and suffering.

So you have a contractors license and know what you are doing?

I have not had a problem with Windows version 2.0.6.0 in ~6 computers and they all have a RAMDisk. I have not tried it with Win 7 yet, if that is a potential source of the problem.

No. I don't have any way to boot DOS to a computer with too much RAM.

Damn that sounds complicated. Normally I just have the guy come with the units, hook them up, and take away the old ones.

So all I need is the Win7 x64 and nothing special on a Gigabyte board?

Buchner, Buchner... Slow days.

Is 6500K usual nowadays? Where I work the lighting is all 4100K.

Normal staff were only working ~40 hours, not on weekends as I was. Access to daylight was a ridiculous requirement for every room. In some cases it just was not possible, e.g., a tiny 6 m2 final process room, so procedures required that nobody could be in the room more than 2 hours per day or...

I bought an X58 mainboard in November, so it is probably not supported any more. :lol:

What are you using for the controllers?

Years ago I worked in enclosed or semi-underground buildings. In some winters I rarely saw the sun for weeks on end. In Europe there were some crazy laws about access to daylight, which made facility design difficult. It was my second facility and first that I had full control over the...

Sure. I tested a 32GB X25-E in my ultraportable back in 2008. ;) That one had the 1.2GHz ULV C2D (4MB L2) from April 2008. It was faster with the SSD than a HD, though not exactly fast at anything. Today it would be considered slow for the UP class. However, the permanent modification to...

Sure. I tested a 32GB X25-E in my ultraportable back in 2008. ;) That one had the 1.2GHz ULV C2D (4MB L2) from April 2008. It was faster with the SSD than a HD, though not exactly fast at anything. Today it would be considered slow for the UP class. However, the permanent modification to...

Why does a 4-pack of WD 3TB drives cost more than four times as much as a single drive? It makes no sense. :elephant: Does anyone use the 3TB drive successfully?

It's not happening this year. :compress:

Meh.

That was in the war only or also more recently?

Definitely not an Intel X25-M. Definitely not.

OK. I thought it might be a Rickroll. 8)

The HD is definitely better and inaudible in the laptop. I noticed only 1GB of RAM - should have upgraded that too. :???:

Who is it? I'm not clicking until I know first. :brilsmurf:

Is that an entry level job or not? "Understanding of" has a broad range of meanings. I don't hire anyone with less than 5 years of experience anymore (preferably 10-15), but an established company should have a process for entry level employees and some sort of training program.

Thinking of Thailand, does anyone go there on vacation? I'm kind of bored for 2011 travels.

That is not so much if only for several months per year.

Of yeah, now I remember all those 2001, 2003, etc. and sometimes getting IPS and sometimes not. What was the point again? :D

Heh. Around 1977 I stood on a closed toilet while trying to do some interior finish work. The seat broke and rotated, and I hit a glass partition with the full force of my body. I was in pain for three days and damaged it in the process. Of course now I'd probably be in hospital. :)

Well this thread started with Thai food once upon a time. :cherry: That will do it too. :)

No, but sometimes ellies stand on their hind legs and reach up into the trees with their trunk. Total reach is surprisingly high. Obviously they don't do that unless there is a food shortage or something interesting up there. Something is reminding me of Amarula tonight. Wish we had some.

The drive was rather warm when the 231GB of data was being written to it, but temps are much cooler at idle. I'm not calling it a Hibachi by any means. :razz: I guess we'll see if it is reliable over the next year.

Mostly they walk sideways or angleways.

The Western hemisphere is not important then?

My 21.3" display is IPS and it was not quite new in 2005.

I thought most of the 1600x1200 monitors were 21.3" about 5 years ago.

This is a new one on vacation. I broke a toilet seat. Now on Christmas eve I have to replace it. :(

Damn it, Merc. Please try to enjoy the holidays. :reindeer: :santa: Do you have family that can be visited?

I got the single-platter 250GB Hitachi TS7K500. I hope they are as good as any nowadays. It's smooth and fairly quiet but warmer after constant use than I would have thought.

None of that is end-user friendly. :mad: I should pass on any future SSD purchases until there are some faster ones with new firmware.

:santa::bsmurf::cheers:

I know that article, but May 2010 was long ago. :cyclops:

Using planar lenses and single images, there is no free DOF lunch. The useful DOF and image information is still limited by the same laws of physics as always.

SSDs in general are not very mature and not so unreliable, excepting perhaps the latter Intel drives. What choices are there in HDs? One of every five Samsungs is deefctive from teh get go, Hitachis are noisy, hot and have low STR, and Seagate is just teh suck. :(

Sandstorm has been around for a long time and the drives are fairly new. Why don't the fools have a production firmware yet? Of course I read complaints about the Corsair force, but I only had problems in RIAD. Are the Callisto 40 SSDs bad too?