I was in the PC shop today for my weekly routine visit and someone was asking a salesman for some floppies to which he replied "we don't sell those anymore and haven't for a long time".
I can't remember the last time I saw floppies for sale but it certainly was a while ago.
These take CF cards and are supplied with a 4GB microdrive - so if moving parts are not your thing (but spending lots of money is) then you can easily pick up a 4GB Ultra II.
There are two models I'm aware of - one has a 3 CCD pickup sensor which sounds very interesting. From the stuff I've seen, the lense lets the camera down with the previous model (non-3CCD) but this may be different now.
Sorry to deliver the news, but that announcement isn't fake. The paper you link to is inkjet printing paper, not photographic paper which is what the announcement is about (as in, the stuff that works with chemicals that you develop).
Also remember that Kodak no longer produce the digital SLRs you link to. Kodak sales increasing? I should hope not.
If you want to use that telephoto, consider a Nikon D2X - or a Canon 1Ds Mark II. 12 or 16 megapixels will give your telephoto glass a new lease of life:) While these cameras have big sensor resolution, one thing I don't like about them is the price, which is also big.
The first digital SLR was a Nikon D1. That sucker came out about six years ago (or was it 5?). Only 2 megapixels, but Nikkor F-mount glass (manual and auto) works a treat.
Perhaps if you stopped looking at ass all day (referring to your website), then you'd be able to read.
This is what I was thinking. Nowhere do the rumors say anything about x86 - they simply say Intel, who make all sorts of CPUs - the Itanium, RISC-based embedded processors.. and perhaps a PowerPC variation.
If they do decide to use x86 processors - it's just a processor. The chipset, the architecture behind the CPU could be entirely different. For example, this whole BIOS thing for Intel won't appeal to Apple. Hopefully if they take this route, they'll include an altivec accelerator somewhere.... since I'd hate to see that go in any transition that Apple decides to make.
Only individuals who have a registered Australian Business Number (ABN) AND who have registered to charge GST (and thus report on quarterly business activity and pay the GST to the tax office) are required (or allowed) to collect the GST. A business is only required to register for the GST if their turnover is inexcess of AUD$50k/year. An ABN holder who turns over less than AUD$50k/year can optionally register for the GST but they don't have to - and it is not legal to force them to do so.
eBay are only being ordered to enforce those WHO ARE registered for the GST to include it in the final sale price. If you are not registered for the GST (or if you're selling a personal item), these changes do not apply to you.
This is to combat deception where a seller would use the GST-exclusive price to outshine their competitors and then whack the GST on the top when payment is due. This is a result of where all prices quoted in Australia must already include the GST by law.
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Now you don't need to take a day off! It's good for us casual workers who don't get sick leave.
The official requirements are a PowerBook G3 with built-in FireWire, so that means that the Pismo is the lowest-end machine supported by the new OS.
That could possibly mean that there will be a hack to install it on your older hardware - but don't hold your breath.
If I recall correctly, the Lombard came out sometime in 1999? In PC terms, that's the equiv of, say, a P2 400 laptop. That was *top end* in 1999 for mobile systems. XP doesn't run too badly on those, either...
That said, XP doesn't do a lot of things that Tiger, or Panther (supported) does.
Food for thought anyway.
As for your wireless, D-link make an 802.11g NIC in cardbus form which is supported with D-link's drivers. Also, I am told that any Broadcom 802.11b/g NIC will work with the airport extreme drivers - but I suggest borrowing one first.
I was doing a shoot at the Avalon International Airshow about six weeks ago and I met someone who had a D2X. Nobody else could even *get* one, let alone hire one.
So this guy couldn't speak English well at all, but I did manage to find out that the D2X he had was a pre-production model that he'd had for some time. I couldn't work out where he got it, but bets are on that Nikon gave it to him or his organisation.
Yes, but to get pro service with Canon, you need top be a CPS (Canon Professional Services) member. There's no membership fee as such, but to be eligable you need to fulfill two criteria:
* Own at least two Canon EOS pro bodies (EOS 3 or higher for film, 10D/20D or higher (1D, 1Ds etc) for digital) plus three or more L-series lenses (that's their $1K+ lense range) * Be a full time professional photographer.
For anyone in the business, owning two bodies is not uncommon, as well as some good glass - but a lot of photgraphers like to take on the job as a second income or hobby and these people are left in the dark.
That said, if it is your primary income, then CPS offers a lot for the pro - including product evaluations (Want to buy a 70-200 F2.8L and not sure whether to get IS? Try them both on your gear and see what you think). I know of someone who dropped their 1Ds Mk II during a near-nude model shoot and the lense mount actually broke. Not only was it a speedy turnaround but there was NO CHARGE for the repair....
I find this interesting given that the Canon 1Ds Mk II (their competitor, announced two days after the D2X annoncement) is fully supported by Adobe Camera RAW. In addition, Canon have their RAW software freely downloadable. That said, the 1Ds Mk II is considerably more expensive than the Nikon, but Nikon don't offer a nice equiv. of Canon Professional Services, especially here in oz.
iPhoto (released in Jan, both the Canon 1Ds II and the Nikon D2X) were announced several months prior and the 1Ds Mk II had *shipped* well and truly before the latest version of iPhoto was announced. So when they said they had RAW support, I was excited at first but then disappointed to find out that I still don't have an easy to use library system for those 16.7 megapixel RAW images.
iPhoto 5.0 does support the D100, D2H and the D70 - the D2X NEF format isn't claimed as supported but I haven't tried it. The CR2 files that come out of the Canon don't work with iPhoto 5 - although the other Canon cameras do (1Ds, 1D Mk II, 20D, 10D, D60, 300D etc - no mention of the 350/Rebel XT).
So how many people have the D2X anyway? A friend of mine is still waiting for his D2X (*nobody* has stock) yet he's had his Canon 1Ds Mk II since December last year. Remember that the Canon announcement was after the D2X announcement. It's a pity that his glass is Nikon and he's quite attached to his D1X.
Then we need to look at things like Nikon Capture. A wonderful peice of software that it seems few people here have used because this sucker is memory hungry. I'm told that if you work with the 12.1 megapixel size D2X NEF images, you had better have 2GB RAM. Consider 4GB RAM if you're running other apps (eg Photoshop) - and good luck getting that on a tier-1 notebook computer - and yes, there is a Nikon Capture port for OS X.
In conclusion, I've often found that Canon support their professional users moreso than Nikon do and this is why many pros shoot with Canon or are turning to Canon - irrespective of their technology.
I love my unix. I love my Windows, too. I run several WIndows servers, FreeBSD machines, Solaris machines and Compaq Tru64. I've done the lot.
As a desktop, my PowerBook G4 15" 1.5Ghz fits the bill perfectly. I love it. It's a computer that's fun to use - I can access the unix stuff when I need it and I can tuck it away when I've simply had too much and just want to use my PC, without spending ten hours to set up (hello Debian users). Sometimes us geeky types like to use a computer to do other stuff other than tinker. The Mac is brilliant at that.
That said, if I want real Linux, dual boot is there and PPC arch handles it gracefully.
My gripes lie with iPhoto - it won't support the Canon 1Ds Mk II camera nor will it support the CR2 raw format that's been available from the 20D and the 1Ds II for several months prior to iPhoto 5's release. iPhoto won't support the Nikon D1X or the D2x for that matter, so it's a major hit for pro photographers. iPhoto can do wonderful things with my raw shots from the 10D however.
iMovie HD is kinda cool, but I've yet to get my hands on an HD camcorder to give it a test-run.
I still have a Dell P4 mobile 2Ghz notebook that I use for my imaging and gaming purely because the support exists. The Mac is not the holy grail, although it's a good fit for most people. Tiger and the Mac Mini would be the perfect suggestion for any unix geek to pick up an alternate architecture though.
I work at a large Australian university which has an IT policy that explicitly outlaws any use of peer to peer applications, including bit torrent. Any violation is quickly identified with snort and we get kicked off within minutes of the torrent being started. Paperwork has to go through in order for staff to be approved to download a torrent - per torrent. Students need written faculty permission.
In addition, torrents are sucky here because they block all the high-range ports as a "security" measure (ever seen >1024 ACLs on an L3 Cisco switch? I have). This also prevents us from running servers on our desktops, or seeding torrents ourselves. The net result is that if we do torrent, the torrents will run so slow, that you might as well use a dialup modem to an external ISP.
My workplace won't let me download torrents. We have an anal Network Access Control Policy that not only blocks the ports that bittorrent requires (on a globally routable subnet) but we have snort configured to detect any use of bittorrent. Peer-to-peer applications (all) are banned under our IT access policy and if it's detected, we get our network port disabled.
Is there an FTP or non-P2P method of which I can grab this file?
They've pissed off their lanners, too. The net cafes, the network gaming events (including world-class competition events such as World Cyber Games) and so on. We can't get net connections at public LAN events that easily - and if we do, we have to pay some serious dollars for it (not everybody lives in the states you know).
We can't run our competitions unless we promote the cracked copy of the game (which violates the license agreement, but I guess you can't break something you never agreed to).
Silly, silly, valve. They pissed us off with CS 1.6 and Steam and only recently introduced a way to run LAN servers, - like within the past month or so.
Umm, yes, I'll just download the 4.1GB on my broadband connection here in Australia, where I get 12GB a month for AU$74.95 per month.
It's cheaper and more effective to spend the extra money to get the physical media - and I can always re-install this release as opposed to having to download it again.
That's all I want. I want my gear to talk to each other. I've got three laptops (powerbook, two PCs) , a PDA, a mobile phone, a NetMD walkman, a digital camera, a MiniDV camera and various desktop server type machines here.
My phone doesn't have bluetooth so it'll only talk via IR and since it's a Nokia, it'll only talk to my PCs (not my PDA or Apple). My PDA has bluetooth but it's tricky to get it syncing to multiple machines at once. My e-mail resides on my Dell notebook and I'd like to sync it all to my Apple. I want photos to automatically sync when I plug the camera in, not to be prompted or have to worry about it. I want my music to be transferrable from the Mac or my PDA ro my NetMD.
I believe in the right tool for the job, but I just wish that all my devices would be able to share information together without having to jump through hoops to do it.
It seems that computer science, as a whole, is on a steady decline as far as popularity goes. Here in Australia, most computer science courses are now easier to get into now than they were three years ago only because nobody is interested in that field anymore.
Coding can be stressful. I've seen computer science students (female, incidentally) burst into tears because they can't get their code working and it's two hours to the due date of a two week assignment. Teaching standards are declining and most research topics are uninteresting for a final year project. I've found not one CS graduate who has thought that their computer science degree was worth it.
While we only have two ears, these ears are designed to process information from multiple directions - not just two sources. While it's possible to create a good two channel mix to play tricks with your ears where sounds are processed such that your brain *thinks* they're coming from behind, it's no easy task. It requires a strict amount of high precision, which is where and why two channel SACD, DVD-Audio and high quality DACs come into play.
Multi-channel surround mixes aren't exactly simple to produce, either - but they do offer a more immersive experience than your average two channel mix and it's easier to reproduce in the home. Mind you, I've heard some awful multichannel mixes out there, too, but there are some mighty good ones (Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, Tubular Bells, most of the Queen multichannel mixes, The Corrs In Blue and the REM mixes).
I should also note that the REM DVD-Audio disc "Automatic For The People" is only pressed in 24bit/48khz and not 24/96.
To elaborate on this, you'll find that most audio is recorded in multi-track. It's the way it's always done and it's why we're lucky to get some great stereo mixes. It's not just a pair of mics in the studio - there can be several dozen in the case of a complex recording and it's all in the production stage that it's all thrown together.
This is how we got the quad recording of Dark Side Of The Moon and Tubular Bells - DSOTM was remixed for 5.1ch SACD (the mix is substantially different to the quad) and Tubular Bells was simply restored and remastered from the original recording and kept in its original 4 channel mix.
I'm running the service pack 2 beta release. Microsoft have a different chain of updates for SP2 beta and they don't have a patch available.
The killer is that there'll be a whole stack of users out there running the SP2 preview release with automatic updates turned on and they'll think they're safe.
The killer is with mobile machines, machines that live behind a firewall most of the time but they might be taken to a different location (eg, a work machine taken home) and plugged directly into a DSL or cable connection.
THen the system gets infected and is plugged into the work network. Blammo.
It seems that for anybody running the Service Pack 2 preview release (which has a lot of nice features such as IE popup blocking, better wireless client etc), there's no hope of patching your system as Microsoft has not made an SP2-compatible patch available yet. The downloadable patches won't install and Windows Update v5 doesn't show the new patches there.
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I was in the PC shop today for my weekly routine visit and someone was asking a salesman for some floppies to which he replied "we don't sell those anymore and haven't for a long time".
I can't remember the last time I saw floppies for sale but it certainly was a while ago.
These take CF cards and are supplied with a 4GB microdrive - so if moving parts are not your thing (but spending lots of money is) then you can easily pick up a 4GB Ultra II.
There are two models I'm aware of - one has a 3 CCD pickup sensor which sounds very interesting. From the stuff I've seen, the lense lets the camera down with the previous model (non-3CCD) but this may be different now.
Sorry to deliver the news, but that announcement isn't fake. The paper you link to is inkjet printing paper, not photographic paper which is what the announcement is about (as in, the stuff that works with chemicals that you develop).
:) While these cameras have big sensor resolution, one thing I don't like about them is the price, which is also big.
Also remember that Kodak no longer produce the digital SLRs you link to. Kodak sales increasing? I should hope not.
If you want to use that telephoto, consider a Nikon D2X - or a Canon 1Ds Mark II. 12 or 16 megapixels will give your telephoto glass a new lease of life
The first digital SLR was a Nikon D1. That sucker came out about six years ago (or was it 5?). Only 2 megapixels, but Nikkor F-mount glass (manual and auto) works a treat.
Perhaps if you stopped looking at ass all day (referring to your website), then you'd be able to read.
This is what I was thinking. Nowhere do the rumors say anything about x86 - they simply say Intel, who make all sorts of CPUs - the Itanium, RISC-based embedded processors.. and perhaps a PowerPC variation.
If they do decide to use x86 processors - it's just a processor. The chipset, the architecture behind the CPU could be entirely different. For example, this whole BIOS thing for Intel won't appeal to Apple. Hopefully if they take this route, they'll include an altivec accelerator somewhere.... since I'd hate to see that go in any transition that Apple decides to make.
Only individuals who have a registered Australian Business Number (ABN) AND who have registered to charge GST (and thus report on quarterly business activity and pay the GST to the tax office) are required (or allowed) to collect the GST. A business is only required to register for the GST if their turnover is inexcess of AUD$50k/year. An ABN holder who turns over less than AUD$50k/year can optionally register for the GST but they don't have to - and it is not legal to force them to do so.
eBay are only being ordered to enforce those WHO ARE registered for the GST to include it in the final sale price. If you are not registered for the GST (or if you're selling a personal item), these changes do not apply to you.
This is to combat deception where a seller would use the GST-exclusive price to outshine their competitors and then whack the GST on the top when payment is due. This is a result of where all prices quoted in Australia must already include the GST by law.
As per subject.
Now you don't need to take a day off! It's good for us casual workers who don't get sick leave.
The official requirements are a PowerBook G3 with built-in FireWire, so that means that the Pismo is the lowest-end machine supported by the new OS.
That could possibly mean that there will be a hack to install it on your older hardware - but don't hold your breath.
If I recall correctly, the Lombard came out sometime in 1999? In PC terms, that's the equiv of, say, a P2 400 laptop. That was *top end* in 1999 for mobile systems. XP doesn't run too badly on those, either...
That said, XP doesn't do a lot of things that Tiger, or Panther (supported) does.
Food for thought anyway.
As for your wireless, D-link make an 802.11g NIC in cardbus form which is supported with D-link's drivers. Also, I am told that any Broadcom 802.11b/g NIC will work with the airport extreme drivers - but I suggest borrowing one first.
Lots of photos over on airliners.net for those who want to get a bit more of a perspective on it:
r cr aftsearch=Airbus%20A380-841&distinct_entry=true
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?ai
I was doing a shoot at the Avalon International Airshow about six weeks ago and I met someone who had a D2X. Nobody else could even *get* one, let alone hire one.
So this guy couldn't speak English well at all, but I did manage to find out that the D2X he had was a pre-production model that he'd had for some time. I couldn't work out where he got it, but bets are on that Nikon gave it to him or his organisation.
Yes, but to get pro service with Canon, you need top be a CPS (Canon Professional Services) member. There's no membership fee as such, but to be eligable you need to fulfill two criteria:
* Own at least two Canon EOS pro bodies (EOS 3 or higher for film, 10D/20D or higher (1D, 1Ds etc) for digital) plus three or more L-series lenses (that's their $1K+ lense range)
* Be a full time professional photographer.
For anyone in the business, owning two bodies is not uncommon, as well as some good glass - but a lot of photgraphers like to take on the job as a second income or hobby and these people are left in the dark.
That said, if it is your primary income, then CPS offers a lot for the pro - including product evaluations (Want to buy a 70-200 F2.8L and not sure whether to get IS? Try them both on your gear and see what you think). I know of someone who dropped their 1Ds Mk II during a near-nude model shoot and the lense mount actually broke. Not only was it a speedy turnaround but there was NO CHARGE for the repair....
I find this interesting given that the Canon 1Ds Mk II (their competitor, announced two days after the D2X annoncement) is fully supported by Adobe Camera RAW. In addition, Canon have their RAW software freely downloadable. That said, the 1Ds Mk II is considerably more expensive than the Nikon, but Nikon don't offer a nice equiv. of Canon Professional Services, especially here in oz.
iPhoto (released in Jan, both the Canon 1Ds II and the Nikon D2X) were announced several months prior and the 1Ds Mk II had *shipped* well and truly before the latest version of iPhoto was announced. So when they said they had RAW support, I was excited at first but then disappointed to find out that I still don't have an easy to use library system for those 16.7 megapixel RAW images.
iPhoto 5.0 does support the D100, D2H and the D70 - the D2X NEF format isn't claimed as supported but I haven't tried it. The CR2 files that come out of the Canon don't work with iPhoto 5 - although the other Canon cameras do (1Ds, 1D Mk II, 20D, 10D, D60, 300D etc - no mention of the 350/Rebel XT).
So how many people have the D2X anyway? A friend of mine is still waiting for his D2X (*nobody* has stock) yet he's had his Canon 1Ds Mk II since December last year. Remember that the Canon announcement was after the D2X announcement. It's a pity that his glass is Nikon and he's quite attached to his D1X.
Then we need to look at things like Nikon Capture. A wonderful peice of software that it seems few people here have used because this sucker is memory hungry. I'm told that if you work with the 12.1 megapixel size D2X NEF images, you had better have 2GB RAM. Consider 4GB RAM if you're running other apps (eg Photoshop) - and good luck getting that on a tier-1 notebook computer - and yes, there is a Nikon Capture port for OS X.
In conclusion, I've often found that Canon support their professional users moreso than Nikon do and this is why many pros shoot with Canon or are turning to Canon - irrespective of their technology.
I switched..sort-of.
I love my unix. I love my Windows, too. I run several WIndows servers, FreeBSD machines, Solaris machines and Compaq Tru64. I've done the lot.
As a desktop, my PowerBook G4 15" 1.5Ghz fits the bill perfectly. I love it. It's a computer that's fun to use - I can access the unix stuff when I need it and I can tuck it away when I've simply had too much and just want to use my PC, without spending ten hours to set up (hello Debian users). Sometimes us geeky types like to use a computer to do other stuff other than tinker. The Mac is brilliant at that.
That said, if I want real Linux, dual boot is there and PPC arch handles it gracefully.
My gripes lie with iPhoto - it won't support the Canon 1Ds Mk II camera nor will it support the CR2 raw format that's been available from the 20D and the 1Ds II for several months prior to iPhoto 5's release. iPhoto won't support the Nikon D1X or the D2x for that matter, so it's a major hit for pro photographers. iPhoto can do wonderful things with my raw shots from the 10D however.
iMovie HD is kinda cool, but I've yet to get my hands on an HD camcorder to give it a test-run.
I still have a Dell P4 mobile 2Ghz notebook that I use for my imaging and gaming purely because the support exists. The Mac is not the holy grail, although it's a good fit for most people. Tiger and the Mac Mini would be the perfect suggestion for any unix geek to pick up an alternate architecture though.
I work at a large Australian university which has an IT policy that explicitly outlaws any use of peer to peer applications, including bit torrent. Any violation is quickly identified with snort and we get kicked off within minutes of the torrent being started. Paperwork has to go through in order for staff to be approved to download a torrent - per torrent. Students need written faculty permission.
In addition, torrents are sucky here because they block all the high-range ports as a "security" measure (ever seen >1024 ACLs on an L3 Cisco switch? I have). This also prevents us from running servers on our desktops, or seeding torrents ourselves. The net result is that if we do torrent, the torrents will run so slow, that you might as well use a dialup modem to an external ISP.
My workplace won't let me download torrents. We have an anal Network Access Control Policy that not only blocks the ports that bittorrent requires (on a globally routable subnet) but we have snort configured to detect any use of bittorrent. Peer-to-peer applications (all) are banned under our IT access policy and if it's detected, we get our network port disabled.
Is there an FTP or non-P2P method of which I can grab this file?
As per subject, What's wrong with DVD-Audio encryption? It works just fine, it's already there and nobody has broken it yet.
They've pissed off their lanners, too. The net cafes, the network gaming events (including world-class competition events such as World Cyber Games) and so on. We can't get net connections at public LAN events that easily - and if we do, we have to pay some serious dollars for it (not everybody lives in the states you know).
We can't run our competitions unless we promote the cracked copy of the game (which violates the license agreement, but I guess you can't break something you never agreed to).
Silly, silly, valve. They pissed us off with CS 1.6 and Steam and only recently introduced a way to run LAN servers, - like within the past month or so.
Thanks Valve for giving me headaches.
*goes back to UT2004*
Umm, yes, I'll just download the 4.1GB on my broadband connection here in Australia, where I get 12GB a month for AU$74.95 per month.
It's cheaper and more effective to spend the extra money to get the physical media - and I can always re-install this release as opposed to having to download it again.
That's all I want. I want my gear to talk to each other. I've got three laptops (powerbook, two PCs) , a PDA, a mobile phone, a NetMD walkman, a digital camera, a MiniDV camera and various desktop server type machines here.
My phone doesn't have bluetooth so it'll only talk via IR and since it's a Nokia, it'll only talk to my PCs (not my PDA or Apple). My PDA has bluetooth but it's tricky to get it syncing to multiple machines at once. My e-mail resides on my Dell notebook and I'd like to sync it all to my Apple. I want photos to automatically sync when I plug the camera in, not to be prompted or have to worry about it. I want my music to be transferrable from the Mac or my PDA ro my NetMD.
I believe in the right tool for the job, but I just wish that all my devices would be able to share information together without having to jump through hoops to do it.
It seems that computer science, as a whole, is on a steady decline as far as popularity goes. Here in Australia, most computer science courses are now easier to get into now than they were three years ago only because nobody is interested in that field anymore.
Coding can be stressful. I've seen computer science students (female, incidentally) burst into tears because they can't get their code working and it's two hours to the due date of a two week assignment. Teaching standards are declining and most research topics are uninteresting for a final year project. I've found not one CS graduate who has thought that their computer science degree was worth it.
No wonder nobody wants to do it anymore.
Actually, the 20GB doesn't include the remote, either.
In fact, nor does the 40GB model anymore.
While we only have two ears, these ears are designed to process information from multiple directions - not just two sources. While it's possible to create a good two channel mix to play tricks with your ears where sounds are processed such that your brain *thinks* they're coming from behind, it's no easy task. It requires a strict amount of high precision, which is where and why two channel SACD, DVD-Audio and high quality DACs come into play.
Multi-channel surround mixes aren't exactly simple to produce, either - but they do offer a more immersive experience than your average two channel mix and it's easier to reproduce in the home. Mind you, I've heard some awful multichannel mixes out there, too, but there are some mighty good ones (Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, Tubular Bells, most of the Queen multichannel mixes, The Corrs In Blue and the REM mixes).
I should also note that the REM DVD-Audio disc "Automatic For The People" is only pressed in 24bit/48khz and not 24/96.
To elaborate on this, you'll find that most audio is recorded in multi-track. It's the way it's always done and it's why we're lucky to get some great stereo mixes. It's not just a pair of mics in the studio - there can be several dozen in the case of a complex recording and it's all in the production stage that it's all thrown together.
This is how we got the quad recording of Dark Side Of The Moon and Tubular Bells - DSOTM was remixed for 5.1ch SACD (the mix is substantially different to the quad) and Tubular Bells was simply restored and remastered from the original recording and kept in its original 4 channel mix.
I'd patch my system... ..if I could.
I'm running the service pack 2 beta release. Microsoft have a different chain of updates for SP2 beta and they don't have a patch available.
The killer is that there'll be a whole stack of users out there running the SP2 preview release with automatic updates turned on and they'll think they're safe.
The killer is with mobile machines, machines that live behind a firewall most of the time but they might be taken to a different location (eg, a work machine taken home) and plugged directly into a DSL or cable connection.
THen the system gets infected and is plugged into the work network. Blammo.
It seems that for anybody running the Service Pack 2 preview release (which has a lot of nice features such as IE popup blocking, better wireless client etc), there's no hope of patching your system as Microsoft has not made an SP2-compatible patch available yet. The downloadable patches won't install and Windows Update v5 doesn't show the new patches there.