Not only are pentax lenses and bodies massively cross-compatible within their own timeframe, but most modern pentax bodies are backwards compatible to their older lenses, as Pentax kept the bayonet mount when they moved to autofocus lenses. This means that you can take almost any Pentax lens on the market, new or used, and make it work on most modern pentax bodies. Can't say that for Canon, can we?
I have mounted the 50mm stock lens from my mother's K-1000 (older than I am!) on my
MZ-5n (ZX-5n for you americans in the house) and it worked just fine.
For someone who wants manual focus, I would sugest the MZ-M (ZX-M in the states). It is basically a modern version of the K-1000, but it can be used in automatic exposure modes (aperature priority, shutterspeed priority, or full on automatic).
Seriously, I wouldn't recommend buying a new manual focus SLR, unless you're really strapped for cash, or have an asshat professor that insists on it. Almost all SLR bodies can turn the autofocus off, and revert to manual focus. I was considering the MZ-M myself, as I just wanted a new K-1000, but I decided that having the ability to leave it in autofocus might be the difference between capturing a moment, and wasting a frame.
In regards to the ask slashdot, I seriously suggest that you check out your local camera shops. Hit 3 or 4 of them, and talk to a salesgeek. Everyone has their pet brand and favorite camera (I, too, am guilty of reaching for certain brands in our showcase automatically.) There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you end up making a well-informed decision. Any serious retailer should be willing to teach you a bit about how a 35mm SLR works, and break down the differences between the brands and models without expecting you to buy on the spot.
The "recycled idea" was Outland. He started off with a lot of weird characters and strips, and then slowly brought it back to something close to Outland again. The series starts in the book "Politically, Fashionably and Aerodynamically Incorrect".
See here.
I grew up on that stuff. Funny as hell, and definately Aerodynamically Incorrect. (although the book flew better than the penguin did...)
The limb
of the sun is what we preceive to be its edge. Because the sun is rotating (every 2 weeks? 11 days? Too lazy to get my ASTR text atm...) the sun-spots at the base of these flares move across the limb of the sun onto the far side, and will re-appear fairly soon.
I work for a country wide Canadian camera retailer, and one of the most common questions I get RE the digitals is "Why is there such a price difference between media formats?" (although the customers are usually aren't nearly that coherent)
The older formats are usually cheaper, SmartMedia and CompactFlash being as old as each other cost about the same up to 128MB (AFAIK, no SmartMedia beyond 128MB), and the new media formats, SD/MMC and XD Picture Cards, both cost more. I usually attribute this to, as you said, market saturation, along with "Well, these older formats have been around so long that they've already covered the costs of engineering them and building the plants to make it, whereas the new formats are a bit behind, and so still cost more, but prices are falling fairly quickly." With the rate that prices are falling faster on the SD/MMC and XD cards in regards to CF, I can't think of any better explanations.
Did you try running it without any.pr* files in the directory? The first time I ran wastesrv it generated default.pr0 and that seemed to work fine (other than the warning due to a the private key (default.pr4) missing)
I notice that your download path isn't set in the strace output. Perhaps this is what's causing the crash? The auto-generated one that I first used had the download path and the clientid set.
Right now I'm using default.pr0 as generated by the windows version, and it seems to be working fine as well. I still can't get the windows desktop to connect to the linux server, however, I can cause the windows desktop to connect to itself (try running 2 coppies of the windows version, each told to listen to a different IP. Try not to drag the windows over each other, it gets confusing fast;-)
Although gamma rays are probably not visible to any species native to this planet, you should keep in mind that our inability sense something does not mean that it is significantly different from something we can.
Consider this: The human eye cannot percieve ultraviolet radiation. Therefore, for us, it is not "optical", and definately outside of the visible spectrum. However, bees regularly use ultraviolet radiation to differentiate between flowers, which would make ultraviolet radiation "optical" as far as a bee is concerned.
Following this line of reasoning leads us to the conclusion that the visible spectrum varies and is a human-centric (mammal-centric?) arbitrary slice of the electromagnetic spectrum. As long as the electromagnetic radiation in question has similar properties to visible light, the same adjectives as used to describe visible light should apply.
(Although something tells me that there's a few differences between what's coming from my 60 watt bulb and a star gone nova...)
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Not only are pentax lenses and bodies massively cross-compatible within their own timeframe, but most modern pentax bodies are backwards compatible to their older lenses, as Pentax kept the bayonet mount when they moved to autofocus lenses. This means that you can take almost any Pentax lens on the market, new or used, and make it work on most modern pentax bodies. Can't say that for Canon, can we?
I have mounted the 50mm stock lens from my mother's K-1000 (older than I am!) on my MZ-5n (ZX-5n for you americans in the house) and it worked just fine.
For someone who wants manual focus, I would sugest the MZ-M (ZX-M in the states). It is basically a modern version of the K-1000, but it can be used in automatic exposure modes (aperature priority, shutterspeed priority, or full on automatic).
Seriously, I wouldn't recommend buying a new manual focus SLR, unless you're really strapped for cash, or have an asshat professor that insists on it. Almost all SLR bodies can turn the autofocus off, and revert to manual focus. I was considering the MZ-M myself, as I just wanted a new K-1000, but I decided that having the ability to leave it in autofocus might be the difference between capturing a moment, and wasting a frame.
In regards to the ask slashdot, I seriously suggest that you check out your local camera shops. Hit 3 or 4 of them, and talk to a salesgeek. Everyone has their pet brand and favorite camera (I, too, am guilty of reaching for certain brands in our showcase automatically.) There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you end up making a well-informed decision. Any serious retailer should be willing to teach you a bit about how a 35mm SLR works, and break down the differences between the brands and models without expecting you to buy on the spot.
Yes, haven't you heard of the new markup language CBML?
*ducks*
s/something close to Outland again\./something close to Bloom County again\./
The "recycled idea" was Outland. He started off with a lot of weird characters and strips, and then slowly brought it back to something close to Outland again. The series starts in the book "Politically, Fashionably and Aerodynamically Incorrect". See here.
I grew up on that stuff. Funny as hell, and definately Aerodynamically Incorrect. (although the book flew better than the penguin did...)
The limb of the sun is what we preceive to be its edge. Because the sun is rotating (every 2 weeks? 11 days? Too lazy to get my ASTR text atm...) the sun-spots at the base of these flares move across the limb of the sun onto the far side, and will re-appear fairly soon.
Somebody take the pure grain alcohol away from this guy...
Leafblower version: "hey, mcdonalds! i *blow*"
;-P
*ducks*
I work in a photo lab. Please, bring in the camera shell. I just need 3 more capacitors to finish my tazer.
I work for a country wide Canadian camera retailer, and one of the most common questions I get RE the digitals is "Why is there such a price difference between media formats?" (although the customers are usually aren't nearly that coherent)
The older formats are usually cheaper, SmartMedia and CompactFlash being as old as each other cost about the same up to 128MB (AFAIK, no SmartMedia beyond 128MB), and the new media formats, SD/MMC and XD Picture Cards, both cost more. I usually attribute this to, as you said, market saturation, along with "Well, these older formats have been around so long that they've already covered the costs of engineering them and building the plants to make it, whereas the new formats are a bit behind, and so still cost more, but prices are falling fairly quickly." With the rate that prices are falling faster on the SD/MMC and XD cards in regards to CF, I can't think of any better explanations.
Androids?
Argh, what a time to be without mod points!
Only in Soviet...
Meh, screw it...
Must... resist urge... to preorder star... destroyer...
2K bricks. That'll keep me from chasing females for far, far too long.
I'm already in the process of doing that. I'll post here when it's alive.
Oddly enough, my other machines are fender and peavy. Can you guess the naming scheme?
At the time I hadn't read any of William's stuff, although I own all his books now. Go figgure, eh?
btw, you can catch me on ICQ at 270283531 if you want to work this in realtime.
Did you try running it without any .pr* files in the directory? The first time I ran wastesrv it generated default.pr0 and that seemed to work fine (other than the warning due to a the private key (default.pr4) missing)
;-)
I notice that your download path isn't set in the strace output. Perhaps this is what's causing the crash? The auto-generated one that I first used had the download path and the clientid set.
Right now I'm using default.pr0 as generated by the windows version, and it seems to be working fine as well. I still can't get the windows desktop to connect to the linux server, however, I can cause the windows desktop to connect to itself (try running 2 coppies of the windows version, each told to listen to a different IP. Try not to drag the windows over each other, it gets confusing fast
Not sure why it would be crashing for you. Does it not compile or is it crashing when you run it? Can you post an error?
I can get it to run, and I've figgured out how to load the private key, but beond that I'm stumped. I'll post as to my success should it happen.
I suppose I should also mention:
/etc/debian_version; gcc -v /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
jurie@gibson:~$ uname -a; cat
Linux gibson 2.4.18 #1 Sun Jun 9 00:54:56 MDT 2002 i586 unknown
3.0
Reading specs from
gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
Closer than you think...
// The below seems to be from the win32 API. I'll just comment it out and hope it doesn't break anything. // Jordan R. Urie // if (!RemoveDirectory(s)) break;
I haven't used C in 3 years and I managed to get it to compile with a bit of hacking. As for stability, your guess is as good as mine...
diff -r waste/Makefile.posix waste_port/Makefile.posix
4c4
< RSAOBJS = md5c.o nn.o prime.o r_random.o rsa.o
---
> RSAOBJS = rsa/md5c.o rsa/nn.o rsa/prime.o rsa/r_random.o rsa/rsa.o
7,8c7,8
< CXXFLAGS = -O2 $(DEBUGFLAG) -pipe -march=pentiumpro
< CFLAGS = -O2 $(DEBUGFLAG) -pipe -march=pentiumpro
---
> CXXFLAGS = -O2 $(DEBUGFLAG) -pipe
> CFLAGS = -O2 $(DEBUGFLAG) -pipe
diff -r waste/connection.cpp waste_port/connection.cpp
771c771
< if (::getsockname(m_socket,(struct sockaddr *)&sin,(socklen_t *)&len)) return 0;
---
> if (::getsockname(m_socket,(struct sockaddr *)&sin,(unsigned socklen_t *)&len)) return 0;
diff -r waste/listen.cpp waste_port/listen.cpp
85c85
< int s = accept(m_socket, (struct sockaddr *) &saddr, (socklen_t *)&length);
---
> int s = accept(m_socket, (struct sockaddr *) &saddr, (unsigned socklen_t *)&length);
diff -r waste/srvmain.cpp waste_port/srvmain.cpp
31c31
< #include "md5.h"
---
> #include "rsa/md5.h"
diff -r waste/xfers.cpp waste_port/xfers.cpp
812c812,814
< if (!RemoveDirectory(s)) break;
---
>
>
>
It's not the spoon that bends, it's the wa...
There is no sp...
Never mind...
Not quite what you're after, but it's close...
As mentioned in earlier posts, this thing, or that thing.
Although gamma rays are probably not visible to any species native to this planet, you should keep in mind that our inability sense something does not mean that it is significantly different from something we can.
Consider this: The human eye cannot percieve ultraviolet radiation. Therefore, for us, it is not "optical", and definately outside of the visible spectrum. However, bees regularly use ultraviolet radiation to differentiate between flowers, which would make ultraviolet radiation "optical" as far as a bee is concerned.
Following this line of reasoning leads us to the conclusion that the visible spectrum varies and is a human-centric (mammal-centric?) arbitrary slice of the electromagnetic spectrum. As long as the electromagnetic radiation in question has similar properties to visible light, the same adjectives as used to describe visible light should apply.
(Although something tells me that there's a few differences between what's coming from my 60 watt bulb and a star gone nova...)
Feed that one to the travelling salesman!
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