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Somehow I don't think we'll be seeing people lining up for 5+hours at 3am to see Clinton lying in state.

A copule of the high-end Nikon DSLRs have an optional 802.11b attachment that you can use to automatically upload the pics taken to either your computer or an FTP server etc. I imagine the functionality will dribble down eventually.

Newegg have the NEC 2510a in stock for $93 shipped. It's a DL writer. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-152-023&depa=0 There has been a bunch of 12x-16x burners announced at Computex over the last few days. However they all write at 2.4x to +R DL, so I think the NEC...

FW800 is complete overkill for a DVD burner. Even talking about soon to be 16x DVD burn speeds, at around 15MB/sec, FW400 is more than capable. For HDDs, there is a slight performance increase with FW800, but until the next gen of IDE drives with greater transfer rates is released, I wouldn't...

Out of stock online but may still be available in local stores.

From arstechnica.com "Howard Carmack, dubbed the "Buffalo Spammer," was convicted last month on 14 counts of identity theft and falsifying business records. According to court documents, he stole the identities of two Buffalo, NY residents to help set up a spamming operation that was used to...

Moving to full-time with benefits next week :) No need to hear me bitch about cost of medical insurance in the US anymore, as it's fully paid for. For celebratory purposes I will be having margaritas in a bag, apparently made famous by a marine in a parachute. Ah yes, Captain Blender.

HDTV is a no-go at $400. I would say go to CC/BB and have a look at their range. Flat-screen is nice to avoid too many reflections/distortions. Perhaps a measuring tape to be sure that it will fit the entertainment center. Tivo/Replay is great, once you've tasted it there's no going back.

Perhaps a new Dell printer? http://theinquirer.net/?article=16132

I have a secondhand Lexmark OptraS 1625, got it on eBay for around $150 shipped. I think the page count was around the 80,000 mark. Has duplexer, integrated 10/100. 1200 true dpi, PS etc. Only downside is the toner carts, fortunately I got a 7000 page count cart from JamesW for a fantastic...

Coug would you care to explain the situtation in Switzerland? Millions of guns in the hands of citizens, and crime rates are pretty low. In fact many men of military age have army issued select fire rifles in their houses/apartments. Perhaps compulsory military service and an emphasis on...

Guns can also empower potential victims to defend themselves when previously they would have been at the mercy of criminals.

OK, let us assume that in Australia, there were for example 5 million gun owners. There were also 500,000 criminals who possesed guns (whether stolen, manufactured in a workshop, etc). The government then banned all guns from private ownership. 5 million law-abiding citizens handed their guns in...

We don't know yet. We have sent some images with the artifacts to Canon I believe. We may be getting close to the rated shutter life, but even with a dodgy shutter we shouldn't be getting the green banding we experienced. In any case we got another 1Ds today, when we convert to grayscale the...

Indeed. And recommended by Dr. Carl as well :)

Indeed in the short term I think it was a good thing. Especially since it was a pickup and could only seat three. However I think my next vehicle will certainly have a big V8 in it, there are now lots of cars/trucks with the 350 Hemi in it via the Chrysler/Dodge/soon to be Jeep brands. The Dodge...

Yup if the price of petrol in the US went up to $5 per gallon overnight there would be panic in the streets. Thankfully there isn't so much regressive taxation on petrol in the US like there is in Europe, and to a lesser extent Aus. Assuming a thirsty SUV getting 13MPG, people would be looking...

Criminals commit crimes, whether they have a gun or not. I've never opened up a gun case and suddenly the gun whispered to me *hey man, wanna rob a bank today*. There are people out there who can/do kill with their bare hands. The most dangerous weapon of all is the human mind. Would fewer guns...

Well having seen the price of medical insurance in the US, Australia is definitely free by comparison. If my wife didn't get most of it paid by her employer, coverage for a family of four would cost us over US$600 per month. A reasonable morgage payment. That's still with a co-pay on...

John Lott's work has held up fantastically well compared to the fraud that has been exposed from the like of "Dr" Kellerman etc. If you believe there can be no causal link between more guns and less crime, then you can't have it both ways and then argue that there is a link between less guns and...

Yeah I got me a good olde American job :) It's buried in the Something Random thread. Actually my job for tonight is to spec a nice workstation machine for image processing, the CEO is fixated on dual Xeons and I mentioned that Opterons are both cheaper and have much better memory performance...

Ooops I see you got the 10D, what lens did you get for it?

At work we are having issues with the EOS-1Ds. Green banding in images towards the end of the day. Not good. And of course the one year warranty ran out a couple of week ago :( We are thinking overheating but it should behave better in 72F A/C. Looks like we'll be moving to EOS-1D Mark IIs, 3...

Just avoid the Phillipines Islands/Straits of Mannila (sp?) and you should be fine. You could always go for the high voltage lines around the deck, to prevent boarding in the first place. Crispy fried pirate ayeeeee! That said I was once on the bridge of a supply ship after it had docked, it...

Debt of Honor, is the title I believe. And it wasn't terrorists, but a JAL pilot who's son had been killed by US forces during the battle for one of the islands. Plowed his 747 right into the Capitol building, killing pretty much everyone in the House and Senate, who were there to ratify Ryan as...

I don't know about Canada, but at least in the UK the rate of violent crime (non gun-related) is actually higher than the US. The rates for home invasions, assault etc is higher there, in the safe "gun-free" utopia many would try and advocate for the US. Cartridge-firing handguns have been...

Actually I believe the stats show that states that have introduced concealed carry have shown a marked drop in violent crime. More guns, less crime. You are more likely to die in a violent confrontation if you rent a house rather than the mere presence of a gun in there. Is there a risk? Sure...

Mu mornign is going like this: Run a batch of images thru an editing program. 30-60 mins later, with a bit of luck the program or Windows hasn't crashed. Then go thru and find pages with images in them. Do image segmentation. Convert to PDF, 5-10 mins. Run thru FineReader. 10-20mins. Save as...

1) Batch processing on a Sat night is a bitch. Fortunately my Dunkin Iced Latte makes it bearable. 2) Dual Xeons make things go by much faster. Now if they would only upgade the 17" LCDs to 20" Dell 2001FPs.

Very nice :) More power than a several thousand dollar standby generator.

Hooray, my man Rupert got the second mill :)

Pair currently has setup fees waived for web "refugees", i.e. people moving from another web host.

Clocker, any idea on how much power can be drawn from the power outlets on the GM trucks? Motorweek had a guy running a circular saw, just wondering if it could handle say 5000W like a portable generator.

www.pair.com You pay a premium, but it's worth it. However it's not so good if you run DBs, say for hosting a forum such as this one. They have limits on the DB sizes etc on their smaller plans, however this does help to keep the script kiddies from taking the server down every day :)

They did a semi-review of alternate vehicles on Motorweek on PBS last Sunday, apparently the new Chevy hybrid pickup uses regenerative braking to charge a battery, then when the truck stops at say a red light the engine turns off and the electrical system is powered by the battery. When the...

I was watching the PBS newshour yesterday, and one of the guys that new Rumsfeld said he was a man of the highest honour, and would step down if he felt it was best. We'll have to see what happens. But his admission that there were hundreds/thousands more disturbing photos floating around is not...

If your CardBus card doesn't work with any device, then it's either the cable or the CardBus card that's buggered. If the external FW drive does work, then it's your configuration of FW networking that's probably at fault.

Only prob with the cheap Tiger/Tomcat K8W is that it only has 32 bit PCI, if that isn't a problem then the value for money is awesome.

In your case, you couldn't have chosen Tyan as I don't believe they make the K8W (workstation board with AGP) with built-in SCSI as an option. And the K8S with SCSI doesn't have AGP. But given that most have 4 port SATA RAID, and imminent arrival of SAS, I don't think I would want built-in SCSI...

Does the CardBus card work, when hooked up to your external FW Lacie, using a 6pin-6pin cable, and the Lacie hooked up to AC power? I dunno about FW networking between PC and Mac, definitely try between PC and PC laptop only at first.

I've been running dual XP1700s on a TigerMP for a couple of years now. Combined with 15K SCSI drives performance is snappy. Actually I haven't turned mine on in a month or so, been having stability problems. For dual Opteron with AGP then a Tyan K8W or whatever should fit the bill just fine...

Does the card work when used with other FW devices? Is it a normal PCI card? Or a CardBus card? And are you using a 6pin->4pin cable? I haven't had any probs with OWC FW gear.

Most PC laptops only have unpowered (4-pin) FW ports. So they can't be used to power bus-powered FW devices (mostly 2.5" HDD in enclosures, FW CF readers, iBot webcams etc.) You would need to use the device's AC power adaptor, if available. Or there are some rare FW PC Cards that you can plug a...

Firstly, anyone who uses .png to compress a full colour image must be f$$$$$$ crazy. My cellphone modem isn't that fast. :( Anyway, looks like a Canon of some type with a Canon lens, perhaps a 400mm 2.8? Is that your gaming center in the background by any chance? Some kind of FPS I guess...

Sounds like those Croatian roads can be a bit hazardous. Here's another very lucky man, check the link for the x-ray photo: LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A construction worker had six nails driven into his head in an accident with a high-powered nail gun, but doctors said Wednesday they...

In addition to your mirrroring I would recommend something like an 8x DVD burner, for proper backups. Remember a mirror doesn't protect you from user error/system crashes etc. You could use a couple of DVD+RW discs for daily backups of your scanned docs, and then perhaps weekly or whatever put...

Brasso should do the job OK.

So your choice is between quiet HP printers where the drivers are fuXored and won't let you use them over the network, or slightly louder Epsons that have drivers that do work. Well I guess nothing is more silent than a printer that doesn't even print :) I think for photo printing you can't...

Right now I have my rear speakers behind the couch, facing in to me. Once I get an extra speaker or two, I will put them directly behind me, for the center rear channel. I find I get a better sense of depth when the surround speakers are behind me, as opposed to being directly to the left and...

Well if they fiddle with the Toslink spec etc, that would mean you would need a new receiver to understand it. In which case you might as well get one with FW inputs. With the introduction of the HDMI connector I believe most CE manufacturers will prob switch to that or i-link as the digital...