I know a lot of people here are going to recommend the Pentax K1000, but don't listen to them. The thing is, as much as you think you do, you really don't want "manual everything." You just want the option of manual operation. The Pentax ME Super looks and feels very similar to the K1000 (it's a manual focus, classy-looking rugged metal body), but it has better specs in every category, weighs less and is slightly smaller, and has the option of an aperture-priority mode, which you definitely want. As soon as you learn about shutter speed and aperture you will very quickly get sick of having to take your eye away from the viewfinder to get all your settings right, which basically amounts to turning a knob in an awkward position on the top of the camera until a needle floats into the right position. However, for those few instances where you choose not to trust the meter, the ME Super has a fully manual mode as well. Best of both worlds.
Pentax is definitely the way to go, though. The manual lenses (especially the later A-series) are top notch and definitely on par with Nikkor from the same era. It's photography's best-kept secret. And the best part is, if you later want to upgrade to a more serious autofocus body (like the MZ-S) or a digital SLR (like the new *ist-D) the lenses are fully compatible, unlike Nikon which has decided to cripple old lenses on their newer midrange cameras. Old Canon FD lenses won't even mount on the new EOS bodies...
No no, definitely don't buy a older Nikon or a Canon manual focus body if you want to upgrade your system later! Canon manual focus mounts are totally incompatible with the current variety, and modern Nikon autofocus bodies (except for the very very top of the line) won't meter proper lenses. Unless you're going to buy a Nikon F5 later I wouldn't base my decision on upgradability.
Part of the reason the Linux penguin is so recognizable is that it is so consistent. 99% of the times you see it it's shown from the same angle with the same expression and the same shading and proportions, everything.
The Mozilla dinosaur (lizard?) is constantly changing, which is what makes it almost worthless as a branding tool. What they really need to do is decide on one singular lizard picture that will be THE ONE.
The Nike swoosh is recognizable because it never changes. If it was a different kind of swoosh every time, it wouldn't mattered how much they hyped it because concepts such as "swoosh" or "dinosaur" are too ambiguous.
2 hours of footage (I guess that's an antiquated term now, eh?) weighing in at 50 GB, but does anybody know what the resolution per frame might be? Is it the same as 1080i high def.? (1920x1080)
Is there a standard for this yet? Maybe Star Wars II will be higher rez....
I'd hate to see a modem be the only method of net access on this beast. I got DSL for the speed and so my phone line would never be tied up again. It seems ridiculous that I could have 5 machines on a LAN in my home and have an equally powerful box sit on a regular phone line. It's my hope I could drop a regular Ethernet card in the PCMCIA slot, but what's that do to the price point of the whole package (currently about $300) if a modem is included, especially one I won't ever use? Same thing goes for the hard drive, why not keep the price low and not include a hard drive, since you could just hook up a Firewire drive if you really wanted it? I mean, PS2 comes with extraneous hardware, but doesn't even come with a game? Come on.
OK, I fully agree with the fact that masq'n at an ISP is just evil. Some of you might be suprised to learn that ISPs using NAT goes beyond goes beyond three-man operations.
I've got DSL and Internet through USWest (which is huge, and getting even huger merging with Qwest), who used to op for a straight bridging scheme through a Cisco 675 "DSL Modem." No problem. I set it up with a Linux box that I masq'd and put lots of Microsoft boxen behind. Just a couple days ago, though, USWest decides to get freaky and set it up so the Cisco gets a dynamic IP, and then itself acts as a DHCP server for any machines behind it (non-routable private use IPs, 10.0.0.0) and it uses NAT! SUCK! So now, I've got packets traversing two layers of NAT/masq grimore. Almost nothing works.
The moral of the story is, even if you're only going to connect one computer (by the way, USWest does NOT support Unix at all) don't sign up with USWest as an ISP. No lovin' at all. [Well, I guess the actual DSL service is pretty good. Only one outage in over 8 months.]
OK, I be shut up.
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I find it extremely amusing how the RedHat website has no mention of 6.0, except in the list of/. headlines. Then again, they've never been very good about letting people know what's going on...
Why do you think Linux got to be the operating system that "every computer guy" wants to have up to be cool? It's things like Slashdot, and other collections of aggresive geeks who are trying to get the whole world on it.
There exists a major hypocrisy in the Linux community. If you're going to have a OS that's widespread enough, you're going to have stupid users. That's just the way. Celebrities have fans they don't like, but they can't select who's their fan and who's not.
Same thing with Linux. Of course you're going to get stupid users. A lot of times, ambitious people "looking to the future of technology" forget that there's only so many people who can operate a computer with any degree of skill. What I'm is saying that the MAJORITY of users are stupid.
I think that even if the FSF is "credited" for 100% of it, GNU/Linux just plain SOUNDS STUPID. Seriously. Just another thing Linux has going for it -- a cool name. Don't wreck it.
Just in case though, an enterprising person might go register gnulinux.com
It seems that snatching and selling domains is en vogue this season......
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I know a lot of people here are going to recommend the Pentax K1000, but don't listen to them. The thing is, as much as you think you do, you really don't want "manual everything." You just want the option of manual operation. The Pentax ME Super looks and feels very similar to the K1000 (it's a manual focus, classy-looking rugged metal body), but it has better specs in every category, weighs less and is slightly smaller, and has the option of an aperture-priority mode, which you definitely want. As soon as you learn about shutter speed and aperture you will very quickly get sick of having to take your eye away from the viewfinder to get all your settings right, which basically amounts to turning a knob in an awkward position on the top of the camera until a needle floats into the right position. However, for those few instances where you choose not to trust the meter, the ME Super has a fully manual mode as well. Best of both worlds.
Pentax is definitely the way to go, though. The manual lenses (especially the later A-series) are top notch and definitely on par with Nikkor from the same era. It's photography's best-kept secret. And the best part is, if you later want to upgrade to a more serious autofocus body (like the MZ-S) or a digital SLR (like the new *ist-D) the lenses are fully compatible, unlike Nikon which has decided to cripple old lenses on their newer midrange cameras. Old Canon FD lenses won't even mount on the new EOS bodies...
No no, definitely don't buy a older Nikon or a Canon manual focus body if you want to upgrade your system later! Canon manual focus mounts are totally incompatible with the current variety, and modern Nikon autofocus bodies (except for the very very top of the line) won't meter proper lenses. Unless you're going to buy a Nikon F5 later I wouldn't base my decision on upgradability.
Part of the reason the Linux penguin is so recognizable is that it is so consistent. 99% of the times you see it it's shown from the same angle with the same expression and the same shading and proportions, everything.
The Mozilla dinosaur (lizard?) is constantly changing, which is what makes it almost worthless as a branding tool. What they really need to do is decide on one singular lizard picture that will be THE ONE.
The Nike swoosh is recognizable because it never changes. If it was a different kind of swoosh every time, it wouldn't mattered how much they hyped it because concepts such as "swoosh" or "dinosaur" are too ambiguous.
I don't understand how glowing laptop screens aren't going to be a distraction to other patrons.
And you wouldn't you be too busy, you know, watching the movie to use an 802.11b device in the theatre?
it's a nice article, but there's nothing really about his strategy for staying on the island.
2 hours of footage (I guess that's an antiquated term now, eh?) weighing in at 50 GB, but does anybody know what the resolution per frame might be? Is it the same as 1080i high def.? (1920x1080)
Is there a standard for this yet? Maybe Star Wars II will be higher rez....
"Linux is not Red Hat", not the other around?
I'd hate to see a modem be the only method of net access on this beast. I got DSL for the speed and so my phone line would never be tied up again. It seems ridiculous that I could have 5 machines on a LAN in my home and have an equally powerful box sit on a regular phone line. It's my hope I could drop a regular Ethernet card in the PCMCIA slot, but what's that do to the price point of the whole package (currently about $300) if a modem is included, especially one I won't ever use? Same thing goes for the hard drive, why not keep the price low and not include a hard drive, since you could just hook up a Firewire drive if you really wanted it? I mean, PS2 comes with extraneous hardware, but doesn't even come with a game? Come on.
I want my PS2 to have a static IP.
Guess what the 'x' in xmms stands for?
Who said it's a server?
Yeah, it's designer, and one should expect to pay for the design. I want to know if they're going this as a case-only, too?
OK, I fully agree with the fact that masq'n at an ISP is just evil. Some of you might be suprised to learn that ISPs using NAT goes beyond goes beyond three-man operations.
I've got DSL and Internet through USWest (which is huge, and getting even huger merging with Qwest), who used to op for a straight bridging scheme through a Cisco 675 "DSL Modem." No problem. I set it up with a Linux box that I masq'd and put lots of Microsoft boxen behind. Just a couple days ago, though, USWest decides to get freaky and set it up so the Cisco gets a dynamic IP, and then itself acts as a DHCP server for any machines behind it (non-routable private use IPs, 10.0.0.0) and it uses NAT! SUCK! So now, I've got packets traversing two layers of NAT/masq grimore. Almost nothing works.
The moral of the story is, even if you're only going to connect one computer (by the way, USWest does NOT support Unix at all) don't sign up with USWest as an ISP. No lovin' at all. [Well, I guess the actual DSL service is pretty good. Only one outage in over 8 months.]
OK, I be shut up.
/ c l o c k w o r k /
I find it extremely amusing how the RedHat website has no mention of 6.0, except in the list of /. headlines. Then again, they've never been very good about letting people know what's going on...
Why do you think Linux got to be the operating system that "every computer guy" wants to have up to be cool? It's things like Slashdot, and other collections of aggresive geeks who are trying to get the whole world on it.
There exists a major hypocrisy in the Linux community. If you're going to have a OS that's widespread enough, you're going to have stupid users. That's just the way. Celebrities have fans they don't like, but they can't select who's their fan and who's not.
Same thing with Linux. Of course you're going to get stupid users. A lot of times, ambitious people "looking to the future of technology" forget that there's only so many people who can operate a computer with any degree of skill. What I'm is saying that the MAJORITY of users are stupid.
I think that even if the FSF is "credited" for 100% of it, GNU/Linux just plain SOUNDS STUPID. Seriously. Just another thing Linux has going for it -- a cool name. Don't wreck it.
Just in case though, an enterprising person might go register gnulinux.com
It seems that snatching and selling domains is en vogue this season......
So when will major distributions (Red Hat, Slackware, Debian) start shipping with the 2.2 kernel?
Red Hat + 2.2 = Red Hat 6.0??