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I remember reading that some models/brands of drives have read speed limited to deter ripping. Third party (hacked) firmware usually gets around this limitation. You may want to check out CRFreaks.com.

Keep talking, e_dawg, I like what I'm hearing :-D What impressed me most was the indoor lighting performance of the Nikon's. Color is perfect, exposure is perfect, white balance is perfect. More and more, my camera use is indoors, and I am realizing I need a system that performs well indoors...

You're in the minority then, Merc, to like spicy food. I wonder what it would be like to eat this - the hottest pepper grown.

For the few businesses I've consulted for, Sonicwall. First time was mid-nineties. For home use, consumer grade routers with NAT and some kind of firewall. That guy is off his rocker. What I'd do in this situation is: 1) Stick a Sonicwall on the Internet connection first 2) Rebuild the servers

My niece got married recently and they had professionals shooting both stills and video. I was an extra still photographer with my Canon A620, and my troubles with the batteries being unable to service the demands of the flash prompted all that agonizing in the P&S thread. The pro still...

Bur how well does a desktop OS that was designed for a max of two CPUs (physical in those days) scale with > 2 cores??

What protocol do these devices use? Got any links for the curious?

Gaaaaah! Bad Tim - hitting below the belt! :rotfl:

Never mind.

Another one goes over to the dark side ! :( Congrats, Deadwood! Happy for you. :thumbleft:

Thanks for the exhaustive write-up, Tannin. For those of us who don't have a furry little helper who orders the toys we wouldn't dare get on our own, it means a lot to know which one camera to get eventually when we're done selling both immediate and extended families.

Never heard of this guy till today. His story makes for fascinating reading. News / story on Cnet.com

Tea, Tannin: Congrats! Who did you sell this time to finance the purchase of the new toy?

Aah, I was going to ask about wind. Anytime I've tried flowers, wind has always been a real problem for me. Never shot in a greenhouse.

Seasonic 650 Watt, $160 + shipping

Will: The Eneloops have a lower rating - 2000 mAh as opposed to the 2700 mAh or so you can get now. But according to jtr, and live use proves he is correct, cells > 2000 mAh suffer from high internal resistance, and are unable to sustain high current outputs for long. That explains why my...

I ain't buyin anything but some Eneloops. I've had the benefit of having a PM chat with jtr, and his awesome advice has clarified my thinking and what I have to do - like a severely myopic guy who's now wearing glasses and sees clearly. Thanks everybody. But most of all, thanks jtr for the...

Thanks for the replies, guys. I read thru this entire thread, read some reviews at dpreview, and am totally confused. There's nothing but compromise after compromise. Going the dSLR route appears to be like signing an agreement to set aside 15% of my income for the rest of my life. First the...

Will, Thanks. I suspect any camera with a Li-Io battery will be able to handle the task. I am using good NiMH batteries - I have from 2300 to 2500 mAh Maha Powerex, Sanyo and Energizer batteries, but none of them can handle the task. They will last a week+ in cold temperatures for non-flash...

I was wrong. The new Energizer Lithium AAs I have put out 1.8v each. Thats 20% over spec: 7.2v instead of 6.0v (compared to Alkalines). And NiMH batteries put out 4.8v, 20% under spec (compared to Alkalines). So the Lithiums will be 50% over the voltage of the NiMH AAs. The manual says the...

Congrats, Will, and look forward to many more 1000s from you!

I'm not going to bother to reply, nor will I read this post any longer.

I didn't read all of it, just the headline. In this day and age, when the most private of body parts are pierced and otherwise tortured, a rabid Blackberry user altering the thumbs isn't so far fetched. I'll bet somebody will actually be "inspired" by this story to follow suit.

This idiot made my day: Surgically alters thumbs to better use iPhone

Tim's experience exactly mirrors mine. Maybe the reason for the contradicting experiences people have with Newegg is because their different warehouses pack differently. IIRC, my drives came from Tennessee.

The copyright acknowledgment in my post must have got deleted accidentally.

Is there a chance of static in the brush killing the sensor?

Sheesh!

Migrating from Exchange 5.5 to 7 broke some things for us. 16+ hours on a support call to MS (US --> India --> back to US --> back to India --> back to US) did not fix anything, and we hung up on them and implemented a kludgy workaround on our own. It's still that way (Exchange 5.5 is running on...

I stand corrected, gentlemen.

Thanks DD & Merc.

I? I have a problem? I think you meant to refer to Coug. DB has already answered on my behalf. Actually, I think you meant to address your post to Coug. It was he who made sustained personal attacks. He automatically assumed (because the opportunity is in Dubai) that the "company" was Indian...

Doesn't make sense. The current one is good looking, is he not?

AFAIK, that's true for XP Pro; XP Home sees only one socket/two cores.

Keep us informed on your experiences!

If the vulnerability is known, why does the worm have to wait till the patch comes out? Why isn't it released ahead of time?

The problem many times is that the insides are packed so loosely that the contents shift around quite easily. I won't be buying disk drives from Newegg again. In my experience, eWiz and Directron consistently package drives better.

Wouldn't there be a performance hit from the reduced number of spindles?

You don't have to be a member? Then will they charge extra for not being a member?

The second two have no resolution. Keep worrying.

I was addressing the situation where wealthy people move to Switzerland, Belgium, etc. The singer / movie star / multi-national businessman type. Once upon a time, they would move, not file any U.S. taxes when they were abroad, and then renounce their U.S. citizenship as soon as they acquired...

Merc, Everything I would say has been said more eloquently by others. Don't disappear again, please. e_dawg: I'm sorry to hear of what you're going through. Hang in there.

They caught that as well. If you want to give up your U.S. citizenship, you have to submit the last 5 years of tax returns to prove that you've been paying taxes, regardless of where you lived in those last 5 years.

I don't see how you can laugh away offensive remarks.

Your "PC" would be the size of a refrigerator.

Coug: I agree with Mark's second two paragraphs 100%. You can make your points without being so offensive. And I am distressed with your attitude towards the East. I am Indian. So am I a scumbag?

Even the God with all the answers, Google, draws a blank, as you must be aware. How about one of those "Ask the expert" type sites where you pay for the answer?

That's unlike him. I hope he's ok.

AFAIR, that combo should work. Have you disabled XP's built-in burning sw?

No, it's the Baby fella who's messin with our heads.