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jtr, my condolences.

What you need to satisfy your insatiable thirst for more computing power, DD, is a Cray. :owneddnce:

DD: Costco hides them, you really have to look. At the Costco I got them from, there was a massive display of Duracell disposables. Way underneath, almost out of sight, were the Eneloops. The plastic case is an ink-blue, but most of the case is obscured with a cardboard jacket that's a cyan...

I picked up the Eneloop combo at Costco yesterday: 8 x AA 4 x AAA 1 x charger 2 x 'AA' to 'C' size adapters 2 x 'AA' to 'D' size adapters all in a nice carrying case for $26. Should have bought two of these instead of one.

Aaah, thank you, gentlemen, for the responses and for sharing your wisdom! As always, I am much obliged! So you're saying it's going to sell at list for a long time? :( Aaw, that's too bad :( That, sir, is because of the following logic. On my long, slow road to penury, I wish to buy one...

Pretty prog. But slower than molasses - not in burning, but the UI. Turion 64 X2 Mobile CPU, 2GHz 2 GB RAM 7200 RPM hard disk, fully defragged On startup, takes about 20seconds to paint the screen properly Selecting a check box or radio button takes 10 seconds to happen During burn, 50-70% cpu...

My description was of an IBM 1401 mainframe with 16k of core memory. It was a data center on which we did jobs - general ledger, payroll, BoM, etc.

Questions for the gurus here: 1) What is likely to be the street price of the new Nikon D300 once the hoopla dies down after it's released? 2) Canon does not seem to have a lens to match the Nikkor AF-S DX VR Zoom 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED. The best I am seeing is two lenses to match it, the...

The first computers I worked on had no disk drives; they were too expensive to have. All data storage and processing was done off tapes; the system had 4 tape drives. Read master file from drive 1; read transaction files from drives 2 & 3, and write updated master file to drive 4. Of the 4...

Is that legal? Poor bear, being carted around like that.

Paugie: mine is a bit different. I don't pay them (why should I? they deserve the bashing) after bashing them with my indestructible SUV; they grovel in front of me in remorse. :-D

Article here.

Just got a new Latitude D531 from work. Nice machine, but heavy! I'm disappointed with the screen; a 15.4" widescreen. Viewing angle could have been better, and brightness more uniform across all parts of it. My Dell 20" widescreen at home is leap years ahead.

You should use it (feed power). Many motherboards require the additional power at this point. The manual for my DFI motherboard says if I don't plug this in, there will be stability problems.

A friend sent me an email loaded with picture attachments. In the body of the mail, he repeated, about 15 times, "I will not complain about my kids anymore". I understood why when I looked at the pics. It's unbelievable what people do to themselves. Eg. one guy had pierced his ear lobes and had...

I always thought the top to bottom sequence was Lincoln, Mercury, Ford.

IIRC, it doesn't matter what disc you put in the drive; the firmware is set to limit read speed.

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?