100% Agree with this you want me to pay for it then no ads!! This is the only reason I refuse to subscribe to Hulu-plus no way in hell I'm paying them just so I can watch ads. And this is the reason NetFlix and Amazon Prime have my money No ADS!! As long as HBO goes Ad free then I may subscribe to them as well then I'm done that should be all I need or want.
While I generally agree with you I have to admit that I live in North Pflugerville (between Austin and Round Rock) about 2 miles from Dell in a new neiborhood. I have had Fiber to my house since I moved in 7 years ago. While there is no telling when if ever Google will come to my area as soon as they anounced they were coming to Austin AT&T finally got off there butt and turned on all the fiber they already had installed all over the area. True if you are in an older neiborhood it will be awhile before you get fiber but if you happen to live in a newer neiborhood (less than 7-8 years old) there is a good chance you already have fiber to the home and that means 1Gig from AT&T. So far the service has been fantastic! Yea it's AT&T and I would prefer Google but hey they are matching Googles price and speed so no complaints at this point.
I'm one of the lucky few in that I don't suffer from Allergies spring and fall here in Austin from some kind of Allergies. I mean it is so bad we even have a name for one of them "Ceder Feaver" and if you suffer from it man let me say you don't want to be here!
No even better do like Google and become the ISP Screw AT&T and all the rest of the ISPs and just do it yourself. Lets remember some of these content providers do have Very Deep pockets and the Technical know how to build it themselfs. And as Google is finding out you can make money at it. True maybe not as much as the other buisness but still enough that it pays for itself which is all they care about.
This is the real threat that AT&T and the others have to worry about at night. And as they continue to go down this path of squezzing the content providers the content providers start to look at the costs and really start to wonder why can't we just replace them and do it ourself.
Google Fiber is the opening shoot in this war don't be surprised if they don't have another and maybe bigger gun to aim at the AT&T and Verizons of the world. Just think what would happen if Google got in the bidding war for TMobile they can certinally afford to buy them and it would really shake up the wireless landscape.
... he just doesn't want sign off the ability to boot Linux on UEFI+Secure Boot to some big company.
But I'll be you he would love to have control of it himself. He's done a lot of good for computing in general, but his ego and attitudes often eclipses his accomplishments.
No he does not want control of this or any thing on the users machine. That is his whole point. He wants the user to be in control not some 3rd party.
Just have Calibre import the website then put the resulting E-Pub on your device of choice. It's a great way to read news, blogs and other stuff on the go.
Well you know the typical problem. How can you compete with Hibernate(free) especially when you are charging 3k per dev/tester to essentially do the same thing Hibernate does for you.
Graphics means using a well supported library, so Perl/Tk is the better choice than Java/Swing.
Um...I do not think "well supported library" means what you think it means. Tk is old and crufty. Swing isn't much better, but if you're doing graphics you're almost certainly doing it with SDL or some other accelerated system, and you wouldn't use Swing for that either.
Tk is not as old and crufty as you think. It has been updated allot recently
Java/Swing actually has a very fast fully accelerated OpenGL drawing pipeline that is even supported on Linux. And yes many graphics heavy applications are buildt using Java/Swing The problem with swing is that it takes some heavy study time to learn how to do it correctly and not make your interface suck. But done correctly Java can keep up with most things out there. It's the done correctly part that is hard.
Lets see if I can shed some light on this process. First off I'm an ex process Eng. that worked in a contract SMT manufacturing facility here in the US before every thing moved offshore. Actually started at Compaq the Motorola then did a stint with a little contract house then moved on to one of the big contractors. So what all this means is I know what I'm talking about.
1) The above poster is correct in that the first pic we have is a Screen printer. It's function is to apply solder paste to the PCB. The machine next to it in the same pic is a laser and vision solder inspection station. It's job is to make sure the screen print is good. It checks both the hight, registration and coverage of the past. Approximately 90% of all defects in a good SMT manufacturing process are cause at this point due to clogged solder stencils so in high volume shops you put a solder past inspection system in place to catch those errors while it is very easy to recover from them. You just wash the PCB and run it again plus clean the stencil before you have to many bad boards.
2) The next machine he takes a picture of is a Pick and Place machine which means he missed one. The actual next step after solder inspection is the chipshooter and as the name implies its job is to place the passive components on the board. When I left the business about 5 years ago the current state of the art was able to place about 10 components per second. This machine is basically a big gattling(sp) gun type of design. In that the placement heads rotate around a turret and the board moves (That is why you can only place small devices with it). After the chips are placed we normally also placed the smaller IC's with the chipshooter as well. You just have to slow it down to do that part or the IC's will slide off the board as it moves (it moves very fast normally about 12 inches per second and from dead stop to full velocity in under.01 sec's).
3) Now comes the pick and place machine that he did take a picture of. It's purpose is to place the larger components on the board. In this machine the placement head moves not the board. All components are both vision tested(leg bend left right test) and laser (for leg flatness or bend up down tested) before the component is placed on the board. Depending on the part and the number of heads on the machine the pick and place can place parts on the board at about the 4 per second range. Larger parts take longer mostly due to there size and or weight. Basically if you move the head to fast the part will fall off or become missaligned.
4) The next machine he takes a pic of he got right it what it does. It visually checks to make sure all of the parts are on the board. It will also check alignment and if the part has some distinctive feature it will make sure it is the right part as well.
5) The next picture is the reflow oven. It is basically a big convection oven the better ones are forced air ovens. The problem with his description is that he states that it heats the board up to 200c which is not correct it gets a little hotter than that. How hot you have to heat the board and components depends on the solder past and the components you are using. Now that most SMT manufacturing has moved to lead free paste it is mostlikly getting closer to 250c.
6) Visual inspection. Yes this is still done by humans. There are many issues with doing this by machine at this point that are not easy to solve. You can machine check components but we already did that before we put the board in the oven so why do that again. What the girls are looking at are the solder joints mostly. If the oven has lost a zone or the air flow is not right for some reason then the solder joints will change in color and how it looks. Again this is a very hard problem to solve with a machine because it is hard to see fillets and hills (the solder wick up the side of a component) with a camera no matter how high of a resolution you have because to see it you have to have light and the light will cause brigh
You hit the nail on the head. MS is really after the cross patent part of these deals. They are getting tired of being sued for patent violations them selfs. So the best protection is to cross license with everyone and there brother. Once they protect them selfs then we need to watch out as they have protected them selfs from retaliation if they decide to go after Linux in a big way. True we have a few companies on our side but still if they can limit the number of companies that can file in retaliation when they go after Linux then it is better for them. So what we have is MS tying the hands of those that might come to the defense of Linux if they start suing Linux people or one of the Free minded Distributions like Ubundu or Debian.
And Just how does the GPL affect commercial JAVA? 1) You will have the Binary Sun Java offering that will still be free for both the JDK and the JRE -- This is the version you use for all of the Appache work and commercial work
2) You will have the GPL version for people who want to change the source and redistribute it. -- This is what you use if you want to hack on Swing or change something else in the core. That you would use for your GPL applicaiton.
By doing this Sun retains the control they want. As the only people that will use the GPL version are those that are already doing GPL work. Every one else will use the SUN Binary version.
But what will really happen I think is this will allow Red Hat for instance to include Standard Java along with GCJ/Classpath. Which would allow everything to just work right out of the Box. I can use the GPL version of Java on my box and run commercial applications on it with out contaminating the commercial software. How can that be? The GPL does not come into effect until I reditribute said software which I can't do because it is commercial so the GPL does not apply. Same goes for Appache software as the end user it does not matter. I can combine Apache 2.0 licenced stuff on my box with GPL software all I want as long as I don't redistribute it.
So you continue to develop your commercial applications as you do today. And you continue to contribute to Apache projects again as you do today. As you are not affected as you are using the Binnary Sun Java package. But for me I can now install a totaly free Java on my Totaly Free Linux and run your software as is. Since I'm not redistributing your software it is not contaminated. The only people this really affects are those that want to hack on the core and redistribute it. And Sun is saying hay you can hack on the core but you have to give the code back to the community if you do. But to get your change in to the core I would bet Sun will require you to sign a dual copyright agreement with them as they do now.
Actually there site is not too bad just select keyboards and input devices and you go direct to the keyboard section. What is hard is finding more detailed information on thier keyboards. This is where google is your friend search for this (exactly) cherry_katalog2004_engl.pdf (one hit) and get it. It is basicly there keyboard catalog and it explains all of the keyswitch tech as well as which keyboards come with what and what the model numbers are. Then go back to google and search for the part number of the keyboard you want. But again only POS (Point Of Sale) providers carry most of the cherry keyboards and a few of them have them in stock. They have another keyboard that looks very interesting as well its the G84-4100 which is a mini (or space saving ) keyboard that uses the Mechanical ML switch ( get the katalog it explains the differance between the MX and ML switches ). I'm very tempted to by one. Think small slim mechanical keyboard. The main diff between the MX and ML switches is the travel. Anyways once I get my G803000 (LUNUS-0 for USB LPMUS-0 p/s 2) I will write up a review of it..
Personaly I like the Das as well but I really prefer to have the keys marked so I got the Cherry G803000LPMUS-0 which is the same keyboard as the Das (gray instead of black though). They are still expensive but $67 for a good keyboard is not to bad. All the new high end keyboards or you could say quality mechanical keyboards are using the Cherry MX Liner keyswitches so why not buy from the source and save some money. The only problem is they are hard to find basicly only POS providers have them here in the states. If you live in the EU though they are allot easer to find.
Why do you think that this is racism? I have worked places where the job openings are specificly tailored to hire the visa holder over a local workers.
I personaly think if there is any racism going on it is the other way around. But companys are not really practicing racism they are practicing cheap labor and to an extent indentured labor at that. Once this cheap labor figures out that they should be getting more money their visa is not sponsered by the company next time it comes up. So they are stuck and either have to find someone that will sponser them or go home.
So I really think H1-B visas hurt both the foreigner and the local. The foreigner is exploted and the local can't get a job.
My server is still getting hit by code red infected servers on the avarage of every 5min. It would seem that after all of this time people would clean up their servers. What really bothers me is some of the machines hitting me are commercial web sits verses the home machines.
Scanning at 4000dpi gives you more than just larg prints. As you stated a print only has 240dpi of information it but the neg itself has much more than that and my monitor can display much more than that. Also some newer printers can produce images with far higher resulotion. Now if you go to pro paper you can also get more than 240dpi out of it as well. But this is all besides the point.
What I'm really after when I do neg scans is the detail. You would be amazed what your camera will actualy capture especialy when you scan the neg then zoom in. For instance I took a picture of a castle while in Scotland and in the image I can see a tea pitcher sitting on a table in one of the upper rooms. This shoot was taken from about 100 yards from the castle. What is really amazing is the shoot was taken with a cheap lens. The other thing you get from a neg scan is a much better digital image again because you loose so much information going to paper then scan.
Fist things first if you really do plan on converting your photos to a digital format make sure the photo lab you use is not using a digital process. The digital mini-labs use a digital printer to print out the picture. Now when you go and scan this digitaly produced picture it will look like crap ( you can see the ink dots used to produce the print ). So find yourself a good old chem process mini-lab or do the 3 day turn out service. You will be much happier with the results.
Now on to actualy scanning them. While you are scanning be sure to scan at a high enough resulotion so that they will work well with future high res printers. I normaly do 600-1200dpi when scanning a print.
On the other hand if you are really serious about it don't even bother with a flat bed scanner. Go out and get yourself a neg scanner that will scan the neg at the 4000dpi range. This will get far more information from the image than a flat bed will. If you are doing this on Linux go get VueScan as you will need it to make your neg scanner work.
Personly I have both a neg scanner and a flat bed scanner. General stuff I do on the flat bed but for those images that I really want to save for the future or that have allot of detail I use the neg scanner. You can't bet the neg scanner for getting every little detail out of a neg as you do loose some things when the image is transfered to paper.
I work as a process engineer building the circut boards that go into your computers. Now when we ship stuff we really ship BIG stuff.
One of the best ones I've had the experiance of reciving is a ChipShooter ( Big gatling gun type of machine that places R's and C's at about one every 0.08 seconds ). One of these big babies weigh in at the multi ton range and is about 24' long by about 12' wide. Now it should be noted that our shipper did strap this babie in. But the truker did hear a loud bang in the trailer just as he was leaving New York. But decided to not go and investigate. You need to remember the truker gets paid for delivery so he decided to not inspect seeing that the cargo was insured. Any ways he arives at our dock and we open the back doors and it seems that the staps had snapped. So for the entire trip from New York to Austin this very big machine was basicly sliding around the back of the truck. It actualy poked a hole in the side of the truck at one point. So we take pictures of it as recieved and unload it ( which takes multiple fork lifts as just one can't handle the length/weight ). After opeing the crate up it was descovered that the machine was bent all out of shape. So our supplier shipped us another one and filled a insurance claim on the one that shipped. The insurance ended up paying out a 600K claim!
Another funny one! We ordered a pick and place machine this time ( used to place flatpacks and BGA's ). The supplier decided to ship the unit to there local warhouse and uncrate it them selfs. From there warehouse they shipped it to us on a flatbed trailer. Well as the truck is pulling in to our drivway he cut the corner and the trailer hit a tree. Well Seeing that trees have these things sticking out of them called limbs. One of these limbs became loged into the machine and ripped the machine right off the truck. And the truck driver did'nt even notice this. he pulls into our recieving dock gets out and has the dumb struck look on his face (he can't seem to figure out where the machine was ). We point him toward the drive way and the totaly destroyed machine laying on the ground! I think this por truck driver got fired over it.
I've been using Gentoo for a few weeks now and you just fall in love with it. Now that I have one box done it's time to migrate all of my boxes to it. But seeing that my boxes are pretty much the same I will most likly creat my own binary packages and use those to install the other boxes. No need to compile it on every machine when they all have the same processor type. Which is nice. I can have compile box and the rest can just grab the new compiled package from it.
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100% Agree with this you want me to pay for it then no ads!! This is the only reason I refuse to subscribe to Hulu-plus no way in hell I'm paying them just so I can watch ads. And this is the reason NetFlix and Amazon Prime have my money No ADS!! As long as HBO goes Ad free then I may subscribe to them as well then I'm done that should be all I need or want.
While I generally agree with you I have to admit that I live in North Pflugerville (between Austin and Round Rock) about 2 miles from Dell in a new neiborhood. I have had Fiber to my house since I moved in 7 years ago. While there is no telling when if ever Google will come to my area as soon as they anounced they were coming to Austin AT&T finally got off there butt and turned on all the fiber they already had installed all over the area. True if you are in an older neiborhood it will be awhile before you get fiber but if you happen to live in a newer neiborhood (less than 7-8 years old) there is a good chance you already have fiber to the home and that means 1Gig from AT&T. So far the service has been fantastic! Yea it's AT&T and I would prefer Google but hey they are matching Googles price and speed so no complaints at this point.
I'm one of the lucky few in that I don't suffer from Allergies spring and fall here in Austin from some kind of Allergies. I mean it is so bad we even have a name for one of them "Ceder Feaver" and if you suffer from it man let me say you don't want to be here!
No even better do like Google and become the ISP Screw AT&T and all the rest of the ISPs and just do it yourself. Lets remember some of these content providers do have Very Deep pockets and the Technical know how to build it themselfs. And as Google is finding out you can make money at it. True maybe not as much as the other buisness but still enough that it pays for itself which is all they care about.
This is the real threat that AT&T and the others have to worry about at night. And as they continue to go down this path of squezzing the content providers the content providers start to look at the costs and really start to wonder why can't we just replace them and do it ourself.
Google Fiber is the opening shoot in this war don't be surprised if they don't have another and maybe bigger gun to aim at the AT&T and Verizons of the world. Just think what would happen if Google got in the bidding war for TMobile they can certinally afford to buy them and it would really shake up the wireless landscape.
... he just doesn't want sign off the ability to boot Linux on UEFI+Secure Boot to some big company.
But I'll be you he would love to have control of it himself. He's done a lot of good for computing in general, but his ego and attitudes often eclipses his accomplishments.
No he does not want control of this or any thing on the users machine. That is his whole point. He wants the user to be in control not some 3rd party.
Just have Calibre import the website then put the resulting E-Pub on your device of choice. It's a great way to read news, blogs and other stuff on the go.
Well you know the typical problem. How can you compete with Hibernate(free) especially when you are charging 3k per dev/tester to essentially do the same thing Hibernate does for you.
Graphics means using a well supported library, so Perl/Tk is the better choice than Java/Swing.
Um...I do not think "well supported library" means what you think it means. Tk is old and crufty. Swing isn't much better, but if you're doing graphics you're almost certainly doing it with SDL or some other accelerated system, and you wouldn't use Swing for that either.
Tk is not as old and crufty as you think. It has been updated allot recently
Java/Swing actually has a very fast fully accelerated OpenGL drawing pipeline that is even supported on Linux. And yes many graphics heavy applications are buildt using Java/Swing The problem with swing is that it takes some heavy study time to learn how to do it correctly and not make your interface suck. But done correctly Java can keep up with most things out there. It's the done correctly part that is hard.
Lets see if I can shed some light on this process. First off I'm an ex process Eng. that worked in a contract SMT manufacturing facility here in the US before every thing moved offshore. Actually started at Compaq the Motorola then did a stint with a little contract house then moved on to one of the big contractors. So what all this means is I know what I'm talking about.
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1) The above poster is correct in that the first pic we have is a Screen printer. It's function is to apply solder paste to the PCB. The machine next to it in the same pic is a laser and vision solder inspection station. It's job is to make sure the screen print is good. It checks both the hight, registration and coverage of the past. Approximately 90% of all defects in a good SMT manufacturing process are cause at this point due to clogged solder stencils so in high volume shops you put a solder past inspection system in place to catch those errors while it is very easy to recover from them. You just wash the PCB and run it again plus clean the stencil before you have to many bad boards.
2) The next machine he takes a picture of is a Pick and Place machine which means he missed one. The actual next step after solder inspection is the chipshooter and as the name implies its job is to place the passive components on the board. When I left the business about 5 years ago the current state of the art was able to place about 10 components per second. This machine is basically a big gattling(sp) gun type of design. In that the placement heads rotate around a turret and the board moves (That is why you can only place small devices with it). After the chips are placed we normally also placed the smaller IC's with the chipshooter as well. You just have to slow it down to do that part or the IC's will slide off the board as it moves (it moves very fast normally about 12 inches per second and from dead stop to full velocity in under
3) Now comes the pick and place machine that he did take a picture of. It's purpose is to place the larger components on the board. In this machine the placement head moves not the board. All components are both vision tested(leg bend left right test) and laser (for leg flatness or bend up down tested) before the component is placed on the board. Depending on the part and the number of heads on the machine the pick and place can place parts on the board at about the 4 per second range. Larger parts take longer mostly due to there size and or weight. Basically if you move the head to fast the part will fall off or become missaligned.
4) The next machine he takes a pic of he got right it what it does. It visually checks to make sure all of the parts are on the board. It will also check alignment and if the part has some distinctive feature it will make sure it is the right part as well.
5) The next picture is the reflow oven. It is basically a big convection oven the better ones are forced air ovens. The problem with his description is that he states that it heats the board up to 200c which is not correct it gets a little hotter than that. How hot you have to heat the board and components depends on the solder past and the components you are using. Now that most SMT manufacturing has moved to lead free paste it is mostlikly getting closer to 250c.
6) Visual inspection. Yes this is still done by humans. There are many issues with doing this by machine at this point that are not easy to solve. You can machine check components but we already did that before we put the board in the oven so why do that again. What the girls are looking at are the solder joints mostly. If the oven has lost a zone or the air flow is not right for some reason then the solder joints will change in color and how it looks. Again this is a very hard problem to solve with a machine because it is hard to see fillets and hills (the solder wick up the side of a component) with a camera no matter how high of a resolution you have because to see it you have to have light and the light will cause brigh
You hit the nail on the head. MS is really after the cross patent part of these deals. They are getting tired of being sued for patent violations them selfs. So the best protection is to cross license with everyone and there brother. Once they protect them selfs then we need to watch out as they have protected them selfs from retaliation if they decide to go after Linux in a big way. True we have a few companies on our side but still if they can limit the number of companies that can file in retaliation when they go after Linux then it is better for them. So what we have is MS tying the hands of those that might come to the defense of Linux if they start suing Linux people or one of the Free minded Distributions like Ubundu or Debian.
And Just how does the GPL affect commercial JAVA?
1) You will have the Binary Sun Java offering that will still be free for both the JDK and the JRE
-- This is the version you use for all of the Appache work and commercial work
2) You will have the GPL version for people who want to change the source and redistribute it.
-- This is what you use if you want to hack on Swing or change something else in the core. That you would use
for your GPL applicaiton.
By doing this Sun retains the control they want. As the only people that will use the GPL version are those that
are already doing GPL work. Every one else will use the SUN Binary version.
But what will really happen I think is this will allow Red Hat for instance to include Standard Java along with GCJ/Classpath. Which would allow everything to just work right out of the Box. I can use the GPL version of Java on my box and run commercial applications on it with out contaminating the commercial software. How can that be? The GPL does not come into effect until I reditribute said software which I can't do because it is commercial so the GPL does not apply. Same goes for Appache software as the end user it does not matter. I can combine Apache 2.0 licenced stuff on my box with GPL software all I want as long as I don't redistribute it.
So you continue to develop your commercial applications as you do today. And you continue to contribute to Apache projects again as you do today. As you are not affected as you are using the Binnary Sun Java package. But for me I can now install a totaly free Java on my Totaly Free Linux and run your software as is. Since I'm not redistributing your software it is not contaminated. The only people this really affects are those that want to hack on the core and redistribute it. And Sun is saying hay you can hack on the core but you have to give the code back to the community if you do. But to get your change in to the core I would bet Sun will require you to sign a dual copyright agreement with them as they do now.
Actually there site is not too bad just select keyboards and input devices and you go direct to the keyboard section. What is hard is finding more detailed information on thier keyboards. This is where google is your friend search for this (exactly) cherry_katalog2004_engl.pdf (one hit) and get it. It is basicly there keyboard catalog and it explains all of the keyswitch tech as well as which keyboards come with what and what the model numbers are. Then go back to google and search for the part number of the keyboard you want. But again only POS (Point Of Sale) providers carry most of the cherry keyboards and a few of them have them in stock. They have another keyboard that looks very interesting as well its the G84-4100 which is a mini (or space saving ) keyboard that uses the Mechanical ML switch ( get the katalog it explains the differance between the MX and ML switches ). I'm very tempted to by one. Think small slim mechanical keyboard. The main diff between the MX and ML switches is the travel. Anyways once I get my G803000 (LUNUS-0 for USB LPMUS-0 p/s 2) I will write up a review of it..
Personaly I like the Das as well but I really prefer to have the keys marked so I got the Cherry G803000LPMUS-0 which is the same keyboard as the Das (gray instead of black though). They are still expensive but $67 for a good keyboard is not to bad. All the new high end keyboards or you could say quality mechanical keyboards are using the Cherry MX Liner keyswitches so why not buy from the source and save some money. The only problem is they are hard to find basicly only POS providers have them here in the states. If you live in the EU though they are allot easer to find.
Why do you think that this is racism? I have worked places where the job openings are specificly tailored to hire the visa holder over a local workers.
I personaly think if there is any racism going on it is the other way around. But companys are not really practicing racism they are practicing cheap labor and to an extent indentured labor at that. Once this cheap labor figures out that they should be getting more money their visa is not sponsered by the company next time it comes up. So they are stuck and either have to find someone that will sponser them or go home.
So I really think H1-B visas hurt both the foreigner and the local. The foreigner is exploted and the local can't get a job.
My server is still getting hit by code red infected
servers on the avarage of every 5min. It would seem
that after all of this time people would clean up their servers. What really bothers me is some of the machines hitting me are commercial web sits verses the home machines.
Scanning at 4000dpi gives you more than just larg prints. As you stated a print only has 240dpi of information it but the neg itself has much more than that and my monitor can display much more than that. Also some newer printers can produce images with far higher resulotion. Now if you go to pro paper you can also get more than 240dpi out of it as well. But this is all besides the point.
What I'm really after when I do neg scans is the detail. You would be amazed what your camera will actualy capture especialy when you scan the neg then zoom in. For instance I took a picture of a castle while in Scotland and in the image I can see a tea pitcher sitting on a table in one of the upper rooms. This shoot was taken from about 100 yards from the castle. What is really amazing is the shoot was taken with a cheap lens. The other thing you get from a neg scan is a much better digital image again because you loose so much information going to paper then scan.
No it was not a Fuji Frontier that was causing the problems. I don't right off had remimber the name of the mini lab they were using.
Fist things first if you really do plan on converting your photos to a digital format make sure the photo lab you use is not using a digital process. The digital mini-labs use a digital printer to print out the picture. Now when you go and scan this digitaly produced picture it will look like crap ( you can see the ink dots used to produce the print ). So find yourself a good old chem process mini-lab or do the 3 day turn out service. You will be much happier with the results.
Now on to actualy scanning them. While you are scanning be sure to scan at a high enough resulotion so that they will work well with future high res printers. I normaly do 600-1200dpi when scanning a print.
On the other hand if you are really serious about it don't even bother with a flat bed scanner. Go out and get yourself a neg scanner that will scan the neg at the 4000dpi range. This will get far more information from the image than a flat bed will. If you are doing this on Linux go get VueScan as you will need it to make your neg scanner work.
Personly I have both a neg scanner and a flat bed scanner. General stuff I do on the flat bed but for those images that I really want to save for the future or that have allot of detail I use the neg scanner. You can't bet the neg scanner for getting every little detail out of a neg as you do loose some things when the image is transfered to paper.
I work as a process engineer building the circut boards that go into your computers. Now when we ship stuff we really ship BIG stuff.
One of the best ones I've had the experiance of reciving is a ChipShooter ( Big gatling gun type of machine that places R's and C's at about one every 0.08 seconds ). One of these big babies weigh in at the multi ton range and is about 24' long by about 12' wide. Now it should be noted that our shipper did strap this babie in. But the truker did hear a loud bang in the trailer just as he was leaving New York. But decided to not go and investigate. You need to remember the truker gets paid for delivery so he decided to not inspect seeing that the cargo was insured. Any ways he arives at our dock and we open the back doors and it seems that the staps had snapped. So for the entire trip from New York to Austin this very big machine was basicly sliding around the back of the truck. It actualy poked a hole in the side of the truck at one point. So we take pictures of it as recieved and unload it ( which takes multiple fork lifts as just one can't handle the length/weight ). After opeing the crate up it was descovered that the machine was bent all out of shape. So our supplier shipped us another one and filled a insurance claim on the one that shipped. The insurance ended up paying out a 600K claim!
Another funny one! We ordered a pick and place machine this time ( used to place flatpacks and BGA's ). The supplier decided to ship the unit to there local warhouse and uncrate it them selfs. From there warehouse they shipped it to us on a flatbed trailer. Well as the truck is pulling in to our drivway he cut the corner and the trailer hit a tree. Well Seeing that trees have these things sticking out of them called limbs. One of these limbs became loged into the machine and ripped the machine right off the truck. And the truck driver did'nt even notice this. he pulls into our recieving dock gets out and has the dumb struck look on his face (he can't seem to figure out where the machine was ). We point him toward the drive way and the totaly destroyed machine laying on the ground! I think this por truck driver got fired over it.
I've been using Gentoo for a few weeks now and you just fall in love with it. Now that I have one box done it's time to migrate all of my boxes to it. But seeing that my boxes are pretty much the same I will most likly creat my own binary packages and use those to install the other boxes. No need to compile it on every machine when they all have the same processor type. Which is nice. I can have compile box and the rest can just grab the new compiled package from it.
To top it all of 2000 is the year of the Dragon! All of you non Dragon's beware.