Yup, the site acts slashdotted 8 minutes after this posted up...
I probably won't be buying one of these anytime soon, but that is only because of my extensive music & stereo collection combined with 7 Linux & windoze machines at home. At this price, they should start selling well, Maybe they'll be the new hot xmas gift this coming season.
It looks like it may soon be time to get the RB67 out of the closet... The back is pricy, and it's 'only' 22 megapixel, but maybe the next generation will be denser & more affordable (I hope)
I sold stereo equipment in the middle of the HiFi revolution (1968-1980) and I can tell you, without a doubt, that most people HEAR but they don't LISTEN. The biggest piece of my job selling HiFi gear was spending time to educate the prospect about sound, what they were hearing, why one was better than another, and why something that sounded 'good' at first blush usually turned out to be craptastic, the aural equivalent of Microsoft's 'eye candy'.
MP3's underreport the low end and sizzle-ize the top end, in addition to losing sound information and generally gargle-izing the entire sound spectrum.
If someone has never heard very good sound, then how are they ever going to tell the difference between good sound and crap ? Just because you give them a good pair of earphones you can't expect them to identify quality reproduction because they don't know how to LISTEN.
Passwords I use are different for each site. Something site related, then a standard piece with Upper/lower/special characters, a non-dictionary combo. I checked with a couple of password crackers until I came up with a pretty tough combo to crack. Good enough for me, they're never written down or saved inside a machine. I know the tinfoil hat crowd might take issue but I feel they're pretty secure & they won't be found anywhere except in my brain. I only have to remember the combo & the rule per site.
I see that same type of problem every day, with front door, side door, and back door (no not THAT kind of back door) attempts each and every day from Chinese IP addresses. Don't think they're trying to get into your system ? Take a look at your log files, you'll see them. If you don't have log files...
Bought an Aeron knockoff (Chinese of course) from Office Max 3 years ago, I think it was around $150 on sale at the time. Best bucks for a chair I ever spent. Comfortable, adjustable, and body sweat evaporates instead of accumulating...
C'mon, post up your standard replies about how we're bashing poor Micro$oft, how every system has gaping holes just like Micro$oft, how if Linux or Mac was king of the hill they would all be as bad off as Micro$oft, and don't forget the 'it's getting better all the time' mantra.
Whose propaganda is it that has programmed your brain ?
Limbaugh ?
O'Reilly ?
You obviously haven't read a newspaper in 5 years. Illegal detentions in Gitmo. Wiretapping everybody & anybody without regard to the FISA act. AbuGhraib. Signing statements that ignore or contravene the law the president just signed. I would continue (there's lots more you've missed) but A) I have to get back to work & B)You're already brainwashed so it's a waste of my time.
Can you say 'Preserve protect & defend the constitution of the United States so help me God'?
If you're looking for the latest drivers/kernel tweaks, it seems like Debian is perpetually behind. Every so often I try installing it (and Ubuntu/Kubuntu also), but with any new hardware it breaks and I end up re-installing SuSE again. Not that SuSE is perfect but at least it works with my hardware better than Debian/Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
After checking out Vista at the local Best Buy & Circuit City (for hours...), I decided that I didn't want M$'s latest & 'greatest'. If running Aero the machines all acted like XP with a 600Mhz Celery processor. Boy, only 20 days after Vista was released & all the retail stores are on the Vista bandwagon, no 'mo XP in sight. Wonder where all the old gear went ?
I wanted a hot laptop, AMD TL-56 64bit DP, 1GB memory, DVD+-, good screen, Nvidia graphic card, etc. Best Buy had one that was everything I wanted but it was Vista. Ugh ugh. So I started cruising the web & found the XP version of the same machine, $100 cheaper too ! At Best Buys web site. Quick, they only have a few left... And SuSE 10.2 installed just fine...
Well, to see just what would transpire if I looked for a Linux ready machine (Laptop), I went on the Dell site & built a D620 Latitude laptop w/ T7200 processor, 1GB, 80 GB, DVD-+, Intel wireless, 15.4" soopah doopah screen.
Guess what ?
The Windoze XP (or Vista...) machine comes priced seven dollars cheaper ! $1538 for Windoze & $1545 for No OS.
Shouldn't this machine be 30-70 dollars cheaper ( because of no M$ tax ) ??
I just recently bought a hot new laptop & I can tell you it wasn't a Dell because of stupid pricing issues like this. I mean, c'mon, more $$ for the missing M$ operating system ? Sheesh...
if Oracle had the sense to cozy up to the two commercial Linux distributions, that is, Red Hat & SuSE, make their personal edition freeware for NonCommercial use & have it as part of the base install, or at least part of the distribution CD's.
Rather than combine marketing & market penetration they're going to push 'Yet Another Distro'. What stupidity. The flavor of the month strikes again. Yet another example of Linux/Unix folks not having enough sense to unite in their fight against the dark side...
Although they are a little on the expensive side (for personal use...), there is nothing better. Each drawer holds lots & lots & lots of CD's, you can stack their two drawer & three drawer models, thay have matching accessory racks (for components or CPUs or ?... , and they have a lock setup that's not too bad (but not crowbar proof...).
Have two units at home for the music collection, works great. Gave away those other cd racks that only held 1-200 CD's, they were just such a waste of floor space...
Slashdot Mirror
Yup, the site acts slashdotted 8 minutes after this posted up...
I probably won't be buying one of these anytime soon, but that is only because of my extensive music & stereo collection combined with 7 Linux & windoze machines at home. At this price, they should start selling well, Maybe they'll be the new hot xmas gift this coming season.
It looks like it may soon be time to get the RB67 out of the closet... The back is pricy, and it's 'only' 22 megapixel, but maybe the next generation will be denser & more affordable (I hope)
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/660579-REG/Mamiya_322_022_DM_22_DM_Series_Digital.html#specifications
Adapter plate for RB67
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/567945-REG/Mamiya_310_246_310_246_RB67_Adapter_HX_702.html
in the first paragraph of Mahugh's blog entry ? That one sentence seems to describe it all...
>>That’s why we’ve been looking into the issues and options for Strict support for quite some time.
Looks interesting, and it's certainly cheap enough. Too bad I don't trust the Chinese...
I sold stereo equipment in the middle of the HiFi revolution (1968-1980) and I can tell you, without a doubt, that most people HEAR but they don't LISTEN. The biggest piece of my job selling HiFi gear was spending time to educate the prospect about sound, what they were hearing, why one was better than another, and why something that sounded 'good' at first blush usually turned out to be craptastic, the aural equivalent of Microsoft's 'eye candy'.
MP3's underreport the low end and sizzle-ize the top end, in addition to losing sound information and generally gargle-izing the entire sound spectrum.
If someone has never heard very good sound, then how are they ever going to tell the difference between good sound and crap ? Just because you give them a good pair of earphones you can't expect them to identify quality reproduction because they don't know how to LISTEN.
Passwords I use are different for each site. Something site related, then a standard piece with Upper/lower/special characters, a non-dictionary combo. I checked with a couple of password crackers until I came up with a pretty tough combo to crack. Good enough for me, they're never written down or saved inside a machine. I know the tinfoil hat crowd might take issue but I feel they're pretty secure & they won't be found anywhere except in my brain. I only have to remember the combo & the rule per site.
You missed the "Stuff that matters" part...
I see that same type of problem every day, with front door, side door, and back door (no not THAT kind of back door) attempts each and every day from Chinese IP addresses. Don't think they're trying to get into your system ? Take a look at your log files, you'll see them. If you don't have log files ...
really brings up the MSN page fast. No really. Really really fast.
All of the links are down for me, on Verizon DSL, maybe the phone company is blocking this at the request of the Feds ?
Also, the libertypen link doesn't resolve, it's either a misspell or bogus.
Bought an Aeron knockoff (Chinese of course) from Office Max 3 years ago, I think it was around $150 on sale at the time. Best bucks for a chair I ever spent. Comfortable, adjustable, and body sweat evaporates instead of accumulating...
guest@goosh.org:/web> web bush
Error: Operation timed out (1212457328772).
guest@goosh.org:/web> lucky bush
Error: Operation timed out (1212457338196).
guest@goosh.org:/web> images bush
Error: Operation timed out (1212457346518).
guest@goosh.org:/web> wiki bush
Error: Operation timed out (1212457353991).
guest@goosh.org:/web> news bush
Error: Operation timed out (1212457361272).
guest@goosh.org:/web> blogs bush
Error: Operation timed out (1212457369081).
guest@goosh.org:/web> video bush
Error: Operation timed out (1212457377082).
Don't the Chinese Communists do the same type of traffic inhibit with RST packets ?
I read that posting over a year ago ! How about some current items FCOL ...
all of those Chinese ISP IP's to show up in my connection attempted logs...
Isn't it Vernor Vinge ?
C'mon, post up your standard replies about how we're bashing poor Micro$oft, how every system has gaping holes just like Micro$oft, how if Linux or Mac was king of the hill they would all be as bad off as Micro$oft, and don't forget the 'it's getting better all the time' mantra.
Whose propaganda is it that has programmed your brain ?
Limbaugh ?
O'Reilly ?
You obviously haven't read a newspaper in 5 years. Illegal detentions in Gitmo. Wiretapping everybody & anybody without regard to the FISA act. AbuGhraib. Signing statements that ignore or contravene the law the president just signed. I would continue (there's lots more you've missed) but A) I have to get back to work & B)You're already brainwashed so it's a waste of my time.
Can you say 'Preserve protect & defend the constitution of the United States so help me God'?
Just bought an HP laptop with K56 AMD and Nvidia. They're out there, you just have to look...
If you're looking for the latest drivers/kernel tweaks, it seems like Debian is perpetually behind. Every so often I try installing it (and Ubuntu/Kubuntu also), but with any new hardware it breaks and I end up re-installing SuSE again. Not that SuSE is perfect but at least it works with my hardware better than Debian/Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
I don't want Dell to hold my hand. I don't want HP to pre-load Linux.
I want a machine without the M$ tax ($80 dollars cheaper) and I want drivers available for all of the hardware in the machine.
I'd be happy with just drivers...
Drivers drivers drivers drivers drivers !
After checking out Vista at the local Best Buy & Circuit City (for hours...), I decided that I didn't want M$'s latest & 'greatest'. If running Aero the machines all acted like XP with a 600Mhz Celery processor. Boy, only 20 days after Vista was released & all the retail stores are on the Vista bandwagon, no 'mo XP in sight. Wonder where all the old gear went ?
I wanted a hot laptop, AMD TL-56 64bit DP, 1GB memory, DVD+-, good screen, Nvidia graphic card, etc. Best Buy had one that was everything I wanted but it was Vista. Ugh ugh. So I started cruising the web & found the XP version of the same machine, $100 cheaper too ! At Best Buys web site. Quick, they only have a few left... And SuSE 10.2 installed just fine...
Well, to see just what would transpire if I looked for a Linux ready machine (Laptop), I went on the Dell site & built a D620 Latitude laptop w/ T7200 processor, 1GB, 80 GB, DVD-+, Intel wireless, 15.4" soopah doopah screen.
Guess what ?
The Windoze XP (or Vista...) machine comes priced seven dollars cheaper ! $1538 for Windoze & $1545 for No OS.
Shouldn't this machine be 30-70 dollars cheaper ( because of no M$ tax ) ??
I just recently bought a hot new laptop & I can tell you it wasn't a Dell because of stupid pricing issues like this. I mean, c'mon, more $$ for the missing M$ operating system ? Sheesh...
if Oracle had the sense to cozy up to the two commercial Linux distributions, that is, Red Hat & SuSE, make their personal edition freeware for NonCommercial use & have it as part of the base install, or at least part of the distribution CD's.
Rather than combine marketing & market penetration they're going to push 'Yet Another Distro'. What stupidity. The flavor of the month strikes again. Yet another example of Linux/Unix folks not having enough sense to unite in their fight against the dark side...
Although they are a little on the expensive side (for personal use...), there is nothing better. Each drawer holds lots & lots & lots of CD's, you can stack their two drawer & three drawer models, thay have matching accessory racks (for components or CPUs or ?... , and they have a lock setup that's not too bad (but not crowbar proof...).
Have two units at home for the music collection, works great. Gave away those other cd racks that only held 1-200 CD's, they were just such a waste of floor space...