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yeah, I could photo mine.

its a 'personal' DECstation 25 (double digits, not triple). I think that pictured 120 was a dog, anyway; the DS200's were the ones to have (when I was using them).

ok, I'll shoot some and submit them. never did that for wiki before - should be interesting..

I actually do quite a bit of photography (http://www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works/sets/) so it won't be a problem to get a decent shot of the system. maybe I'll even do the insides, as well.

thanks for the nudge.

Flickr already has a mobile phone interface, what's the point of building another?

1. 4 x P2 400- 512MB RAM- SCSI Disks running FreeBSD
   
2. 1 x SS10- 384 MB RAM- Quad Fast Ethernet- Dual SM81 Processors (80MHz, 1 meg cache)- Dual NVSIMMS (Non-volatile write cachine SIMMS running Solaris
   
3. 1 x SS10- 512 MB RAM- Quad Fast Ethernet- Single SM81 running Solaris.
   
4. Cisco 2503 Router
   
5. 3 x DEC AlphaSation 4-233's with 256 MB RAM running FreeBSD.
   
6. 3 x IBM Dual proc PPRO 200's with 256 MB RAM running FreeBSD.
   
7. 2 smaller systems that I don't even rmemeber what they are or run.
   
8. Ethernet Hub for traffic dumps.
   
9. Intel 24 port 10/100 managed Ethernet Switch.
   
10. Dual KVM's
    
11. 16 Port unmanaged 10/100 switch for internal network
    
12. 2 x APC SmartUPS 1400RM.
    

1. HP LJ 4050DN with duplexer
   
2. DJ 870 Color inkjet with print server
   
3. Various other computers in the house including laptops, etc.
   
4. Wireless routers and access points
   
5. Various hardare based firewalls
   
6. Etc.
   

and then there is always flickr mobile:

http://www.flickr.com/mob

lol, no, it's got two LEDs in each of its fans. Geek that I am, I took two pictures exclusively for your benefit.
Bright image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/damnednice/101985744/
Dark image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/damnednice/101985741/

my blog: http://blog.damnednice.com/

lol, no, it's got two LEDs in each of its fans. Geek that I am, I took two pictures exclusively for your benefit.
Bright image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/damnednice/101985744/
Dark image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/damnednice/101985741/

my blog: http://blog.damnednice.com/

$150 for 300W? You gotta be kidding me. I spent less than that for a 650 and a 350 on my main machine; a kilowatt of power and the main PSU even glows. For $150 I expect silent, cool, >650W, and modular. I've blogged about this.

My Blog: http://blog.damnednice.com/
Pics of System: http://www.flickr.com/photos/damnednice/99975127/

This is the coolest graph ever.

These guys might disagree with your assessment of it being for "dinky" apps.

You gotta start practicing at an early age to get any good...
And anyway, I always thought spraying some nice paint on a condemned crackhouse was a lot more productive than stealing cars, uziing authorities, and raping prostitutes... but that's just me :)

In the meantime, any IT folks (or pretty much any other occupation, but this is Slashdot after all :) looking for good-paying work, come visit. We're looking at a labour shortage of nearly 100,000 people just in the construction industry alone over the next 5 years. Plus, there's mountains :)

Most /.ers haven't lost their virginity... yet. It'll happen someday. Yeah right! Never fear /.ers you all still have one other thing in common, your first goatse experience. Do you remember your first goatse? I'm sure most /.ers do. Boing Boing reported that Laszlo Toth has been taking pictures of his friends as they lose their goatse cherry. What was your first time like?

Background Material:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/10/flickr_set_of _people.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/firstgoatse/

When, after 4000 photos, the front zoom element jammed on my Casio QV-4000, I removed it and found that the remaining elements were still able to form an image if the camera was in macro mode. The camera has a save presets feature so now when I turn it on, it is in macro mode and since the focal length of the remaining elements is much shorter, I now have a very distorted ultra-wide angle non-zoom camera which can take in most of a room, the entire family or weird artsy photos such as this.

note: this MAY be a dongle. you MIGHT need it connected at all times, for the profiling to work.

still not clear, but some language in the company advertising indicates that you need to always have this connected - and not just to get ambient light, either.

I have the monaco optix xr and I use it on XP (sigh). but since I use vnc viewer on XP (works really well as a viewer platform) - and then my vncserver runs on freebsd - I have color profiling on all apps that start on bsd (or linux or solaris or ...) and send their output back to the vnc-viewer. that way I can profile/calibrate my screen 'properly' (windows tools - but they DO work) - and yet still get good clean color on all my x11 apps. its a nice side-effect.

here's a link to my dell 24" lcd being calibrated by the optix xr 'puck':

http://www.flickr.com/ photos/ linux-works /sets/ 72057594053570317/

(note that the url above does NOT have any embedded spaces in it)

I can recommend the optix xr but the phooey, I'm not quite sure about yet. if it has a similar 'site license' like monaco does, fine. if its 'one pc, one dongle' then thanks but no thanks.

It looks like one of those ventifacts you see all over this jumbled up formation. Eons of wind erosion can result in weird shapes sticking out, which look even stranger through a wide angle lens.

And here are some GNOME mockups for those who prefer it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gamehack/sets/1506658 /
http://desplesdadotcom.nfshost.com/?p=75

Heh. That makes me think of this. Some folks have way too much time on their hands.

Good point. Example: $3 Million Comcast Cable Bill.

On the cheapest digital cameras with the really small sensors and limited optics/manual controls, the possibilities of night photography are seriously compromised.

However, things improve while moving up towards the high-end equipment. For example, my 20D DSLR can take exposures limited only by the battery life and noise won't be a problem unless your exposure goes in tens of minutes range, which is more than sufficient to shoot with moonlight only.

Some of my favourite night photos in Flickr have been done by this guy and he's using a DSLR:

http://flickr.com/photos/notraces/sets/270103/

I'm not suprised Bono needs tech support to get his Xbox to work...

After all, he doesn't even even know how a U2 ipod works.

;)

A good DSLR (like a Canon 20D) with a high-quality lens can take night pictures without needing a flash:

http://gallery.darkman.de/hannover/IMG_2390

With a tripod I was able to make those images with a Canon Digital IXUS 55:

http://flickr.com/photos/perldude/92075366/in/set- 1628402/

high ISO noise though. The ISO 400 mode of that camera is very grainy.

Google has known for a while.

In the cases where advertising helps create an added feeling of realism (racing games, as pictured) it's a great addition, and more power to them. However the issue seems to be with game like Counter Strike and other first person shooters where advertising is simply corny or distracting. I don't want to be defusing at basement nuke and see an advertisment for Tampax Heavy's on the wall (Yes I know, not the target audience, won't happen, blah, but I'm being dramatic).

If there was a way to make it not as distracting, but still get the message, I'd go for it. But I don't want to ever see this.

There was a related discussion on this subject on Flickr a few weeks ago...

http://flickr.com/photos/tags/eiffeltower/

No comment :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alaskana/93697347/

It is looking extremely bad, look like MS has done nothing !
Guys, you got no excuses, Dean Edwards has done lot of fix on his own with a bunch of JS scripts !!!
See http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ So, why are you not able to do the same with tens of developpers on board and years in front of you ?

Plz mod this up, as IE7 is only a small upgrade and will not improve user experience (but tab browsing, RSS, XMLHttp scripting and a few cosmetics ....) this is a very limited improvement an should be called IE6.1 IMHO !!!

I applaud them for attempting to release even three keys
The only there keys keyboard you will ever need is this one. Of course with this technology you could remap them to CTRL+ALT+^H for Unix/Linux freaks :)

iCab 3 passes the test. See http://vric.free.fr/mac/iCab/iCab3b/ (includes other browser's screenshots as well).

Curent Trunk buids of Firefox (and other Gecko browsers) are getting real close. Here's a screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11294384@N00/93741157 /. This one was taken with Camino, but Firefox' rendering should look just like this.

While some consider Yahoo to be behind in tech, with the purchase of Flikr and del.icio.us Yahoo actually seem to be on the cutting edge of so called Web 2.0 services. I hope Yahoo keeps the names of these services without adding Yahoo to them. Its less sickening then organizations that just add a "G" or "K" in front of every product they offer.

Web2.0 and tagging will evetually dominate the internet searching, here is the ultimate list: website: http://del.icio.us/ photo: http://flickr.com/ news: http://digg.com/ locations: http://www.rrove.com/ video: http://youtube.com/ music: http://myspace.com/ Put them together... how does this compare to what google is heading ...

http://flickr.com/photos/75978095@N00/91721678/

You can look here and here if you are curious.

And the iMac internals have barely changed since the last round (G5 with iSight).

Flicker's CC material has over 8 million pictures now, all CC categories summarized. Even if you restrict yourself to the CC license subset Wikimedia uses, there's still more pictures on Flickr. However, Wikimedia possibly has a more "professional" set of pictures, rather than "here's me and my girlfriend on vacation" pictures, but with Flickr's powerful tagging system, I still recommend people looking for CC pictures suiting their license needs to check them out. I've found a surprising number of high quality photos there that suits Wikipedia perfectly, but keep in mind Wikipedia prefers CC material that is NOT restricted to non-commercial use only. When I use images from Flickr on Wikipedia, I usually use the most free license -- the Attribution license. Then it's a simple matter to attribute the picture with a link and author in the image description when you upload it.

Of course, don't forget Google's Advanced Search which nowadays support searching for CC licenses material too. If you're still looking, Wikipedia's public domain resource list is another good starting point.

You're glossing over where the billions of quarterly revenue is coming from: the ads! ... At their core, Yahoo! and Google are advertising companies

Err.. except that I, as an end user, directly pay Yahoo for their premium email service. I provide them with significantly more value than just being a target for advertisements.

They also have millions of other customers who also potentially pay Yahoo for services - email, internet access, streaming music, website hosting, online bill pay, realtime financial data, sports broadcasts - and a bunch more (and Flickr is likely to get money from me next).

They also offer some advertising supported versions of those services - but I greatly admire that they're not relying on advertising to stay in business.

Google largely ignores end-users - well.. maybe except for downloading video, but Google Video is an absolute joke.

That markup is probably about right - in the !Apple ecosystem, it's split between mfr, retailer (which are the same for direct sales OEMs like Dell) and OS vendor(s).

Oh, plus of course, Apple's strategy is to be high margin, low volume. Do we really need to haul out the auto brands metaphor again, or can we work it out without for once?

Really folks, in launching the original iMac, Apple very smartly realised that in the PC market, no mfr can consistently compete on price - you'll always be beaten. Same for performance - there's always a better one coming out from competitors. So the only way to continually make good margin is to compete somewhere *else*. Which if you're selling machines running the same software as everyone else is *very* hard to do. Only Sony has had the remotest clue about this - the Vaio range were entirely built as a high status, cool brand. And Jobs is on record as wanting Apple to be very Sony-like.

Apple differentiate by cool branding, like Sony. But because they have much greater control over hardware & software, they can also differentiate through ease of use, demonstrated not only in software, but also in build design (every tried to open an apple desktop tower? One button: pop. And the inside is all perfectly laid out, neatly and tidily).

Did you really think that the "Think Different" slogan was chosen on a whim?

Mum = mom, but spelt, well, correctly.

Because Fuji ISO-100 35mm film yields negatives of the same informational quality regardless of camera.

Image optics vary dramatically between amateur and professional lenses, not to mention that without bright (expensive) lenses one often needed to use faster film, accepting the compromise of visible grain. Alternately they could accept motion blue (which was more prevalent), or they had to accept the terrible compromise that is flash photography.

If you spent the money in the 35mm space, there were a lot of things you could do to vastly improve the quality of your work. Even simply buying better film, and then getting better (more expensive) processing hugely altered the quality.

With digital cameras, however, no matter how much work the amateur is willing to do, he cannot make a 3 megapixel camera take 10 megapixel pictures. Other things being equal, a 10 megapixel picture is simply superior to a 3 megapixel picture.

Take a look through Flickr's interesting picture catalog, paying attention to the camera used to take the pictures. More often than not it's an almost disposable low-end camera, not an ultra-expensive pro camera. It really is eye opening that the equipment isn't as important as some people imagine it to be.

I like doing that too! Funny how my current cellphone has a better camera than the one used to take that picture.

Is what's in the keyboard.

it's just an operating system.

and kernel rebuilds make it hard for an enterprises to accept.

screen shot of a linux kernel panic:

http://static.flickr.com/38/79844669_3368c9d8a5_s. jpg

I like to play it while Paco lies next to me.

I'm a bit surprised as many as one in five feel commuting is a source of stress, actually.

I find it relaxing. In the morning, it gives me some time where I can't really work, and can't rush around looking for things, or doing last-minute household stuff. Instead I can sit (well, stand) on the train and sort oease into the day by reading a book or a bunch of saved webpages on my computer, or just listen to the radio.

In the evening, likewise, I can sit and wind down, again with a book or radio. I get some time to go over the work in my head, in a sense summarizing it and deciding what to do the nesxt morning. By the time I get home, I've left my work behind and can relax.

Here's somebody with the right idea: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannem/22329391/

I started with film and abandoned it almost 20 years ago because I never got a good working feel for all of the settings. I "went digital" with the first Quickcam when it came out in what, 1993? After that, I've had at least a dozen digital cameras ending up with my last, a D100, several years ago. I still love it and use it every couple of days. The D100 allowed me to learn photography without going broke on film.

Eventually, I had a bag full of good lenses and got myself a cheap Nikon FE film body that they fit. Now, after having learned on the D100, I waste a lot less film and I'm far happier with my shots. I do mostly B&W now and develop it all myself. After that I scan it and I then have massive digital images to work with.

Nikon can kill off their film camera business and it won't really affect me. I have seven Nikon film bodies and lenses that will last a lifetime, including a couple of Nikon F bodies that I doubt I could ever wear out.

The thing is, once you figure out how light works and learn how to really operate your camera manually, not only will your pictures be better, you'll be far less dependent upon the "features" they add to cameras.

Here's a shameless plug for the "Full Manual" group I created on Flickr. (Applies to both digital and film.)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/manual/

Jim

I recently sold my (mind buggeringly expensive) Canon 1Ds and went back to all-manual film cameras. Not 35mm, though. In larger formats film still has huge advantages over digital in terms of quality and enlargability. The lack of battery dependence is also incredibly liberating. It is horribly expensive though. With the exception of my Panasonic LX1 digi, I now don't own a camera which isn't completely manual... a Linhof 4x5, a pair of Fuji 6x9 rangefinders, a Rollei SL66, a Noblex 6x12 and a Leica M4-P. The Leica is the only one that doesn't get used on a weekly basis... but the last time we had a huge power outage I was enormously grateful for it.

Pix here, here and here if anyone's interested.

Turn in your geek badge.RIGHT NOW.

Check out his Christmas tree. He does not need to turn in his geek badge.

A less obscure source of "inspiration" might be flickr's photostream.

Flickr has exactly what you describe, but it's for photos only.

Stewart Butterfield, the founder of the5k, went on to develop gameneverending (now defunct) and flickr, and he's now a wage slave to Yahoo!.

-- yeoz

p.s.: yo ;o