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I have enjoyed a few in the last few weeks: "The Bank Job" had a rivetting story and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" was good for some laughs.

hehe-hahaha, we've got a German geek with a mexican accent. on topic: hmmm, I'd want a Samsung 1Tb for Christmas. but the Pentax arrived last Sunday and the missus might say "that's enough Christmas for you this year" And I'd say, yeah but early next year I'll need space to put all the pix.

I recommend "Taken" and "Traitor" Nice stories. have watched them both two times. Also liked Iron Man. Haha, no physics tutorial at all.

I still suspect there could be a virus or malware even if Avast cleaned it (2 viruses) using the boot scan. I tried the attrib -r from the command line and I get a nonrecognized command error message. I am logged on as administrator. sorry for the late response, I was onto something else...

the work computer downstairs was virus infected 3 weeks ago. I reformatted Now all the folders in 3 partitions are marked 'read-only' in properties. if i uncheck the 'read-only' box and click apply, it asks if I want it to apply to all sub-folders and files. I say yes. But after "ok"ing, then...

Hello Bozo, glad that you are mending. Even if open-heart surgery has advanced far beyond Christian Barnard's time, it still is a frightful thing to undergo. And unless you have insurance, something that would really traumatize the wallet, too. Here, many people would just lie down and ...

I have read Airframe (good read) and Andromeda Strain. I used to read a lot when I was younger. Now I am reading again, this time courtesy of a portable mp3 player which also displays text files. So when I find myself in queus, in the bank, waiting for customer service, or in public transport, I...

I would agree. those insisting on larger sensor MUST have specific needs the current popular sensor sizes can't provide; or they take lousy pictures and NEED to blame that on the sensor size; or they don't take pictures for pictures' sake, they just want to be seen with the big camera.

Which reminds me, I have to have a checkup for my prostate. I'm 54 now. There are times when I have to strain to keep up a stream. Is that worrisome? Or is this too morbid to post here? er, what do they do on a colonotomy? do they remove anything?

thank you will try those

My sister's friend apparently forgot or mistyped something when changing the password on a Vista laptop. Now she can't access Vista. Any suggested solution? I asked her to access Vista through safe mode hoping there was no Administrator password. But there is an Administrator password and they...

Thanks, e_dawg. I was aware of that. But the excitement of acquisition got the better of me and I went ahead inspite of the negative possibilities. Now looking for a way to instruct my sister in Edmonton on how to find out if the camera/lens has issues. Hopefully before it leaves Canada in...

Don't have a camera (yet), but I hear that "sigh". Very good letout for your frustration. I wonder where the E3 and "friends" are going to end up? I have a used Pentax K100D and a Sigma 24-60/2.8 arriving end of October. I have read a few posts elsewhere about owners complaining about mediocre...

a run-in with the Texas Ranger will ensure that happening ;-)

hahaha, thanks for the tip Mercutio. I always was a fan of Doogie. And it was a blast seeing Captain Firefly again.

IMO, the pic was worth the day. But, of course, the photograper is always wanting more. I would be content (if I were the photographer) for a week.

If it's a solid choice, at least it's something she has already chosen. I think that takes the casing out of your options. If it were not a good choice, then there would be reason to dissuade her.

This is truly amazing. What would normally happen when a family is started is that all resources would go to keeping the family together and reasonably functional. What I usually see in my country is the breakdown of any future plans, especially completing school. And most often young couples...

Thanks once again for the insights. Gives me an idea of what adjustments I can make prior to exposure. Of course, RAW will have to wait until the DSLR, if ever.

question again, Can any of you please comment on the orange cast of the photographs? the sun was setting so the colors would be that way. But would it have been more desirable to have changed the white balance at the time of exposure to lessen the orange cast?

Thank you for the quick answers. so it's 1.5X on the fov and unchanged aperture.

question: If someone uses a Nikon D40 or a Pentax K100D Super And uses an old non-AF 50mm 1.4 or 50mm 1.8 with the body. what would be the effective focal length and aperture of such lenses? Would a non-AF 28mm F2.8 be sufficient for night street shooting w/o flash? say at 800ISO?

I continue to be impressed, Merc. What you are doing is (at least in this part of the world) a recipe for white hair/baldness, wrinkles, hypertension and sore vocal cords. Congratulations! What, I didn't comment on the hardware? Doesn't Xerox have a budget laser printer. I know they sell one...

I use an Oly C750UZ 4mp camera. Very good images. And then again, I may not actually know what a good image is. Has full manual controls. ISO 50 and 100 are good but ISO 200 noisy and one should never use ISO 400. Still my only real rant is its inability to focus in low light. One can not...

Great comeback, Merc! Hoo! Haa!

Yeah, at less than 1 Gb, anybody who buys it would be a fool, never mind his money. I wonder how much WD would be short-stroking the thing? Or is it supposed to be 800Gb. :-)

Very humid in our place. We are supposed to be entering our Rainy Season and have had 3 typhoons already, 2 of them very destructive. The Weather Service says we will have around 10 more before the year is over. Normal temp here is 30-32 deg C. Bearable unless humid. When its humid, people...

Holding my breath. Waiting for Mercutio to start posting shortly.

The kind of thread (minds and hearts clearly shown in the posts) which makes SF unique. Maraming salamat (many thanks) Just to say, still here, enjoying myself, albeit with nothing much to say. And then again... I'd really like to be able to pluck a K100D Super out of the air for portraits. I...

I was thinking Kim Novak was the female lead, unless you had a different version in mind.

Spoken like a photographer. Wait! You ARE a photographer! Maybe photographers are wordsmiths, too. 'Cause I could imagine Tannin using the words "unpleasant-looking", "awkwardly" and "horrid" in a sentence. I would agree with 2 out of three. She's asian so not unpleasant-looking to me. Of...

yep, blessings are wherever you find them and how you look at things. the family of one of my wife's friends was in a jeep which turned turtle around 2 weeks ago. The woman had a broken arm, the husband had a concussion and a large gash in his head and the 4 year old daughter had both a broken...

Been somewhat busy. Just got back from another teaching gig at a retreat for ex-street kids, who have gone back to the streets. Rough time.

If I ever get there, I will try to remember all these brand names and get one of each from the grocery and try them out. We have very few beers here. The best selling one is San Miguel Pale Pilsen. And the next best selling one claims it has San Miguel's taste at a lower price. The next best...

the last thing I built for a client was: Intel E2180 dual core MSI 945GCM7F motherboard w/ on-board everything Samsung 160Gb (8mb cache) Samsung 20X SATA DVD writer w/ lightscribe (there was no non-lightscribe available) 2 Gb PQI DDR2-800 Generic 450W PSU on Generic Casing It cost less than...

how could I have not noticed this thread earlier! Congratulations. that smile is really sunny. so you're getting pretty good at changing diapers? In our time (wife's and mine) we still had cloth diapers and even with the sunny weather here and 40 diapers, there were times we would run short...

Only times I've been to the theater in the last 10 years were for the Matrix trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring trilogy

I saw 3 movies supposed to be good over the last 2 weeks: 1. No country for old men 2. There will be blood 3. Atonement I accept the movies were very well made but I like No Country the least. Was impressed by Daniel Day-Lewis' acting in Blood But Atonement really moved and awed me. Looked...

if anyone bought the new WD-2.5"-SATA-in-a-3.5"-heatsink-thingie and said something really good about it would that work?

hahaha. i like this. let the soap opera unfold. I'm waiting for the next episode.

Yeah welcome back Coug! (hmmm the avatar is familiar. but it seems the Coug we've known handled hardware with heavy boots!) probably an incarnation. it's been enough time for a new terminator sequel

I liked their Cambridge Soundworks 2.1 speakers. the small ones. They sounded well enough for the price. But yeah, the last Creative sound card I had was based on an ensoniq design. I still use a Sta Cruz. But I heard Realtek on-board is good enough nowadays. Should I ditch the Sta Cruz to...

If I had 100+ tabs, I probably would be duplicating at least a third of those. I'd forget what I would have on. And it's not just in Firefox. I don't laugh anymore at jokes about elderly people stopping in the middle of the stairs trying to figure out whether they were coming up or going down...

hahaha, DD. 2 seconds to the Desktop? That's an Arthur Clark moment there. Gone, truly, are the days when Storage Review's reviews of new drives were awaited eagerly to find out which was the new Champion. Funny, I was always waiting and reading but never was able to buy those "old" blazing...

I remember one night, maybe 25 years ago when somebody did just that to us. My friend was driving and I was along for the ride, we came up to this Mitsubishi Colt and while we were deciding whether to overtake him or not, he suddenly lit this giant halogen lamp which was angled up to shine right...

Too true. I have a friend like that.

If any of my friends asked me today to build a PC and recommend a printer, I'd recommend a cheap laser printer. Samsung, HP and Brother have some in our market. Reason being that the laser printers sport P4,xxx price tags and are reasonably cheap. Whereas if they bought a cheaper inkjet, they'd...

As of a week ago, Merc was all right.

I'm here now. Later, I'll be up in a hilly place, resting and working. Tomorrow night, I'll post again.

I prefer the acquisition of knowledge through the centuries than torture. Can I jump now? uh, ok. I'll wait. Now? Later? Just tell me when. Sit? Yes, yes.