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Exactly. It's just a bit of a shame because the buffer overrun protection was supposed to be one of the big reasons Vista's kernel was better. In was actually something that would have been really useful... if it had worked.

Most telephotos are telecentric designs, it's the simplest/best way to build them. It's why nearly every prime in the 75-150mm range is so sharp. The problems with size and weight show up when you try build wides or even normals in that manner. There are other designs which are superior in...

No, I meant that every lens for the mount had to be a telecentric design. Not even extreme wide angles were excepted. To get an idea of the significance of this, look at the small, compact, fast wide angle primes made for range finders. Those designs are not telecentric lens designs, nor is...

]Ars Technica has details on the range of attacks the methods the researchers have developed allow. Essentially, you need badly behaved software to implement the work arounds. These work arounds allow you to load run executable code into memory and run it (they don't detail any new UAC or...

Here's an interesting tidbit I just found out: For Micro Four Thirds, Panasonic and Olympus are dropping the 100% telecentric lens requirement. I guess because of the shorter flange distance. So far as I know this hasn't been mentioned in any of the press coverage. The link I have is to a...

It could've been nice for social photography for example. Put some flashes in the corners of rooms and control them remotely. Also, the electronic shutter would be nice for high sync speeds that DSLRs could never support. Nikon's "Advanced Wireless Lighting". It's the subset of CLS that...

Well, they haven't done their presentation at Blackhat yet. There's no proof-of-concept code available. People could be exaggerating things because they like the attention. If it's a genuine exploit though, one that lives up to the details they've provided, it's going to be a serious issue...

The devastating aspect to the technique they claim to have implemented is that it allows them to guarantee insertion into the correct memory location despite Vista's memory randomization algorithms. I.e. part of developing this exploit was defeating Vista's memory randomization safeguards...

That isn't even the worst thing about the P6000. 1. New, more proprietary RAW format. It only works in Windows, through an engine that ACR/Lightroom can't access. Adobe is being forced to reverse engineer the format. It doesn't even work in Capture NX! This is straight up retarded. 2...

I sorted it out. -e 'ssh -p 22022' That changes the shell. --port refers to the listening port of the rsync daemon, so it's only relevant if you're using the daemon, which I wasn't. Hence my trouble...

Grrr. GRSync doesn't have an easy option for changing the port. I found this blog post which describes what I need to do, but he's doing it with the rsync daemon running. I was hoping to avoid setting up the daemon...

I have port forwarding enabled on the router on the other end. Port 22022 is forwarded to port 22 on the relevant machine on the other end. I thought using the port parameter would make it connect (like with ssh), but it's timing out :(. I'm clearly just doing this wrong; does anyone have any...

What about its network support? I keep the majority of my library on a separate server. So far as I can tell neither Bridge nor Lightroom deal well with that. Drives me crazy, especially when all my Linux applications like KPhotoAlbum have such efficient and relatively magical network...

I just started upgrading my WRT54GL's to DD-WRT v24-SP1, which was just released. It's a very good upgrade. The vast majority of settings can now be changed without rebooting the router, which is a convenience I already miss when I have connect to the routers I haven't upgraded yet.

Thanks Merc. I've started setting up Windows Remote Desktop, and I'll just use rdesktop from the Linux boxes, that way I don't need to run an RDP & VNC server. I only need it to cross-platform on the client side. To connect to Windows boxes, I'm going to keep using FreeNX. Incidentally, if...

It appears I can restrict it to certain users. Posted that before I bothered Googling, sorry...

I've got to do a remote connection to a Windows Vista box. Normally I'm just working between Linux boxes and I use FreeNX if I need a GUI. Now I have to connect to a Windows Vista Box from both Linux & Windows clients. Since NX can't create servers on Windows machines I have to use RDP or...

Oops. Posted without reading... I wouldn't put a flash on the camera itself, hell, the balance would be way off! I would put one of my pocket wizards on it though, and drop a flash or two in the corners of the room to bounce off the ceiling when I was shooting indoors. Well, noise is a...

I'm always reminded of this Keynes quotation when people talk about buying stocks:

Panasonic's excellent LX series (LX1, LX2, & now the LX3) all have RAW capability. The new LX3 has a hotshoe too, which is outstanding. The lens is fast, but I would rather have had more range on the telephoto end. There are a lot of rumors regarding a Coolpix 6000 from Nikon as well.

I'll just be using software RAID. The main CPU can push a couple GB/s ;). The Linux algorithm is designed to easily fit in an L1 cache; I doubt the Windows algorithm is as carefully tuned, but I'm sure it will be adequate.

Me! I'll do it. Oh wait, did I just notice that you mentioned somewhere in there he's a dick? Are you sure he's a dick?

Ya, unfortunately I'm maxed at 8GB. Basically I want to buy a few, very low-capacity drives, with top-performing flash and RAID them.

Exactly. I'll disagree here, a bit. Yes, the most we can ever expect of a corporation is that it acts in the interests of its shareholders, the implication being that when those interests conflict with the public interest, the public loses. However, in most cases, today, you're not even...

Well said jtr. This is a particularly large problem in Ottawa, Canada as well. We've seen property taxes go up and up and up. Even as property values have been rising (so the government has been raking it in in an absolute sense without even increasing the relative size of the tax!). Since...

Bjorn Rorslett is a very poor choice of individuals to select to compare Nikon & Canon glass. He is not exactly a big user of Canon gear. Michael Reichmann is. For comparisons of various Nikon glass --all within the Nikon family-- I would consider Bjorn Rorslett's opinion to be one of the...

I'd just like cheap, low-capacity ones that I can RAID for a Photoshop scratch disk. Panoramas hurt my computer too much :(.

Well, like I said above, the government does need to unravel this carefully - in this specific circumstance. Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae can't just go under like any normal banks - they've gotten too huge. Like I said they insure & manage nearly 5 trillion dollars in debt, an amount equal to the...

This article cites some good data illustrating that most of the really bad loans were done by private institutions. Of course, it doesn't clear the GSEs (Government-Sponsored Enterprises, i.e. Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae), but it does illustrate that they didn't single-handedly cause the crisis...

The biggest problem is that, disregarding whether or not more home ownership is good or bad, Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae drove home prices up, in retrospect it's an inevitable consequence of giving people access to cheaper credit! They created a massive property bubble. So, in the end, they did...

I don't think there's anything wrong with renting. Whether it's financially better in the long run though, depends on your particular market conditions. There are several areas in Ottawa where it would be better for me to rent than buy, if I invested the balance as retirement savings -I'd also...

I agree. The entire misadventure that has been the U.S. Governments attempts to enable more people to own homes has been a disaster. The credit bubble is partially due to the cheap credit the government consciously made an effort to provide. And obviously, said cheap credit is going to drive...

I'm not for socializing or nationalizing in general, but if a company is too big too fail, you don't bail it out at taxpayer expense, you let the people that assumed the risk to make the profit they deserved take the hit. That's capitalism at it's most basic. If you assume the risk, you get...

Unfortunately, that's not the case. It's not a liquidity or capitalization crisis; it's a solvency crisis. These companies made highly-leveraged investments and they packaged the associated liabilities into a variety of off-balance sheet vehicles (to keep them off their books so investors...

I really like this quote from William Ackman (in a CNBC interview) on the implicit guarantee that everyone bet on: That sums up everything important about the situation. The Government gave them a special sanction to go way past the leverage ratios typically required of enterprises of their...

Now the Fed is planning outright Socialism for the Rich fucks who got all of us into this mess. It doesn't get much more disgusting than this. Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae should be nationalized and all the holders of outstanding Agency MBS's & Agency Debt need to take a haircut. The debt needs...

I've read a lot of reviews, few of which offer any useful information other than the anecdotal musings of random photo forum people who probably don't even own cameras --let alone the lens they're discussing--, seeing as how much time they manage to spend arguing about silly things. Michael...

They've announced a full set of three now, all targeted to the Canon equivalents. The 45mm f/2.8 & the 85mm f/2.8 will be available in August, the 24mm f/3.5 has available since Jan. I haven't really seen any serious comparisons. I've heard talk that the Nikon 24mm is better than the Canon...

[root@Wittgenstein ~]# cat /var/log/secure | grep WARNING [root@Wittgenstein ~]# There doesn't seem to be any mention of the user there. How can I check if they're a real user (and it's not some wierd bug in the Samba Config GUI)? There's no mention of the user in /etc/group, nor in...

I've got an odd thing going on in one of my servers. A user named "WARNING" has become available in the Samba Users dialog of the graphical interface for Samba. "WARNING" does not exist in /etc/samba/smbusers. The Unix name is apparently also "WARNING", but the user does not have a home...

I've had good experiences with LG DVD Burners over the years. I must have installed 20-25. I've had one failure but it was on deliver, and it rattled when I picked it up; I blame it on the shipping trip. Originally I bought them for the DVD-RAM support. DVD-RAM discs were very useful for...

Anyone try Weave. I'm using it to replace Google Browser Sync since that extension doesn't work with Firefox 3, and won't be updated. The main problem I have is that it doesn't seem to sync tabs. If I have another instance of Firefox open somewhere, it notices those tabs, but when I get home...

Wine & Pizza is even more awesome than Pizza. I'm hungry now. Bluesfest in Ottawa was last night so I'm a little hungover and sleepy too...

If you go to the administration page, hit the "User Accounts" tab, in User Accounts sub-tabs (don't know what else to call them) you have a choice between "Users" & "Settings", under "Settings" you should find the contact sharing options. I didn't get to try it yesterday. IMAP wasn't sticking...

Google Apps for Your Domain has contact sharing between domain users. I wish there was more granularity to it so you could have private & public contacts, but oh well. With respect to your IMAP-like protocol. The KDE Personal Information Management program Kontact, which I use on Linux (and...

Thanks a lot Merc, I'll run a test as soon as I can - hopefully later today. Right now my boss' Blackberry went for a swim and I have to reset all the email & contacts stuff on the replacement...

The SPAM mechanism in place here is already just like that. They have to go online to a special webmail folder. Since they can't access it from Outlook it may as well not exist. I don't think any setup would be convenient enough for the users here to actually use; they're highly...

Grrr! I need a Premier account again. Can I subscribe for a free trial, upload everything, and then cancel? That seems too easy...

An additional question. POP doesn't support folders, so if I migrate using POP everyone will lose their folders correct? To fix this I can: 1. Migrate using IMAP. We might need Google Apps Premium to do an IMAP migration. 2. Export PST files folder by folder, and apply labels by source POP...

Alright, I think this a complicated one; I've been doing a lot of googling and am looking for some recommendations. I want to migrate the existing email of several users to Google Apps for your domain. I can't do IMAP migration because we have Exchange 2000 on a Windows 2000 server. Exchange...