I started transferring mine away when the elephant story hit the news. GoDaddy sure didn't make it easy - I had to figure out laboriously to unlock a given domain, then to -- for no apparent reason -- disable registration privacy, then figure out where they'd hidden the old contact email address that they'd reverted to, change it, wait, etc. It took days before I could get that all straightened out and get an auth code sent.
Me too, though the mirror slap on my 5D2 and AF issues have led to more than a few thoughts of defection. If only Nikon had a real analogue to the 135L.
Agreed -- and this is an arena where supplies are often thin at the best of times. Nikon shooters might have to twiddle their thumbs for months until Nikon decides to do a production run of a given lens.
Expecting the warranty length to go back up is like expecting the price of gasoline to drop below $3/gal. I'm curious, though, if the reduction in duration applies to "enterprise" models as well as consumer-oriented SATA. Even without a warranty change, I'd be hesitant to buy disks from the first few months of resumed production, just out of paranoia that subtle fallout from the flood might remain -- microscopic dirt, equipment calibration, etc. Even six months from now, there will be some nagging doubt, as I wouldn't expect stock to be FIFO, ie., a unit bought six months from now isn't necessarily going to have been made five months from now.
I had an RZR. Tried the voice dialing about a dozen times, and not once did it get it right. Srini at least gets me right about 70% of the time. Still not enough to be useful, but better.
As for the "whole e-books thing" a few posts up -- what e-books thing is that?
You watch the drivers around you and anticipate what stupid things they might do that would endanger you.
Part of that is noting the make of each surrounding car, eg.:
o Porsche: generally so paranoid about damage that they keep their distance. I park next to them when I can, knowing that for sure that I'm not going to be hit by a door
o Saab: be afraid, be very afraid
Sheep are natural grazers; goats are more browsers and will preferentially eat something taller/other than grass. I was always amazed to see them rear up on their spindly hind legs to pull leaves off blackberry canes, apparently immune to the thorns even without upper teeth.
Systems from everyone but Soracle (who have worked hard to keep away customers) require some grunt on-site to plug in a monitor and keyboard for initial setup, too. In a large DC that can mean multiple FTE's. Now that I'm forced to move away from Sun-class hardware, I'm dumbfounded by the abject lack of real lights-out capabilities from HP, IBM, and Dell.
It's also strongly protectionist of domestic business and hostile to business from below the border. The government wouldn't be inclined to let Apple build a big DC there.
I too roll my eyes and sigh when I see "Unix" and "Linux" portrayed as two wholly different things. Trademarks aside, any real-world rational use includes the latter as an instance of the former, much more so than the madness that was Apollo's Aegis/DomainOS, but I digress...
Linux is better, because it has capabilities.
Eg. a single, integrated utility for listing and managing disks, including their models, serial numbers, controller/target numbers, partition tables, defect lists, etc?
Oh, wait, that's Solaris. Linux has a handful of lame fdisk utilities, some of which work within their limited scope, and some of which don't (yes, cfdisk, I'm talking to YOU). If you have an LSI HBA you can do some things with lsiutil or megacli, if you can manage to find them and not go insane trying to figure out their syntax -- it's a sad day when the most useful document for something is written by DELL. Oh, you have an HP HBA? Use hpacucli. Oh, you have an Adaptec HBA? 1) My sympathies 2) Good luck finding arcconf or whatever. Have some other HBA? Sucks to be you, all you get to know is that the kernel calls disks sda, sdb, sdc, etc. and you have no way of knowing which is on what controller at what target, which is SERIOUS fun when you have to locate a specific disk to repair or upgrade.
Oh, you're talking about mii-tool and ethtool, two utilities for the same thing, except that one of them doesn't understand GigE interfaces and erroneously reports them as 100Mbit, causing you to burn a day trying to figure out what's going on? And as someone else alluded to, WTF is up with the goofy-ass ifconfig?
Oh, I just realized that you're talking about the badass modern filesystem used by Linux systems, which maxes out at 16TB and is a separate layer on top of the lame-ass volume manager, which is in turn a separate layer on top of the lame MD system for RAID. It's sooooo nice to have three layers of stuff to build and destroy rather than the annoying integration, flexibility and downright awesome-on-a-stick that is ZFS.
I agree that I'm in disbelief that we're actually getting visuals like this of friggin' ASTEROIDS and COMETS and we're going to see Pluto in a few years, but I must admit that I fear that we discovered all the cool stuff years ago and will just see more pix of rocks henceforth
Have you actually been to Germany?? There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of regional beers. There are monasteries that have unique brews. There are many brands that are found only in a single city! There are more styles of beer than you can possibly name
... yet they're all still yeast piss, and taste accordingly.
Exactly. When someone on another continent sends me a list of serial numbers, IP addresses, rack locations, etc. I'd reeeeeallllyy rather have that in an email message that
1) Doesn't suffer from transcription errors
2) I can cut/paste from (see #1)
3) We don't have to be awake and working at the same time for
4) I can reference two years from now when I need to
If this jackass hasn't sent a work email message in years, I'll bet an assistant or someone else has done it for him.
Video on "servers" pisses me off to no end. The answer is not to integrate the graphics, but to not have them at all. A "server" needs a working serial console that can be used to bootstrap from bare metal. Sun has done this for years, even on today's latest Sun/Oracle x64 servers. Systems from Dell, IBM, HP, etc. all effectively require that someone plug a monitor and keyboard into each physical server to set it up, and it sucks big fat hairy rocks.
Except on the 37th shot, though -- the P&S gets that one much faster than the film SLR that needs to be rewound and a new roll stuffed in.
Advanced compacts like the Canon S100 allow great degrees of manual control in a smaller form factor that's easier to pocket, but the small sensor size and fixed lenses that are often slow at the tele end limit it's utility to an extent.
As with so man things, there are tradeoffs -- what's important to a given shooter, and what isn't. Don't ever ever shoot stuff that moves? Then AF features don't matter, etc.
I've demos that indicated that Pentax AF tends to be on the slow side, and as indicated above, *modern* gear for Canon or Nikon systems is much, much more available than for Pentax, Sony, Olympus, Samsung, etc. This also means that when one wants to sell gear, it's correspondingly easier to find a buyer.
One sees decades-old gear used by some shooters for several reasons -- inheriting a set of lenses is one. Another is that even Nikon's current lens portfolio is kinda thin, and it can be difficult to actually find a new instance of some lenses, and they haven't manufactured others for years. Nikon's mount hasn't changed incompatibly since 1959 or so, so there are millions of old lenses out there that can be used as well on a new D3 as they ever were with film. Canon changed from the FD mount to the EF mount in 1986, which means that older FD gear is of limited value.
That said, a zoom lens from any manufacturer from the 70's or 80's isn't going to make many modern shooters happy, nor are quality prime (single focal length) lenses that have to be focused manually. Sure, people used them back then, but there are notable wrinkles:
1) Photography on any level wasn't nearly as widespread. Wedding photos shot medium format film, and mostly staged portraits. Mass-market photography was something like a Kodak Disc or 110 format, so even poorly-focused film shot through a crappy early zoom was better by comparison. I submit that widespread availability of digital cameras and quality glass has raised our standards substantially.
2) People today readily shoot stuff that nobody would have dreamed of back in the days when ASA 100 film was common, and ASA 400 was fast and grainy as hell, eg. indoor candids, people dancing at weddings.
But when you used it, you limited the offers to be sold to a number you could handle, right? Failing to do so would seem to be the fault of the article's subject. From what I've seen, every groupon deal is limited in this way, or at least can be by client businesses with at least a fragment of a clue.
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"No stadium seating" .... lemme guess, you're tall so you never have a problem with some dumbass in front of you blocking your view?
I started transferring mine away when the elephant story hit the news. GoDaddy sure didn't make it easy - I had to figure out laboriously to unlock a given domain, then to -- for no apparent reason -- disable registration privacy, then figure out where they'd hidden the old contact email address that they'd reverted to, change it, wait, etc. It took days before I could get that all straightened out and get an auth code sent.
Because somehow liquid meat is seen as different from muscle tissue. Can't believe I once thought that myself.
Me too, though the mirror slap on my 5D2 and AF issues have led to more than a few thoughts of defection. If only Nikon had a real analogue to the 135L.
Agreed -- and this is an arena where supplies are often thin at the best of times. Nikon shooters might have to twiddle their thumbs for months until Nikon decides to do a production run of a given lens.
Expecting the warranty length to go back up is like expecting the price of gasoline to drop below $3/gal. I'm curious, though, if the reduction in duration applies to "enterprise" models as well as consumer-oriented SATA. Even without a warranty change, I'd be hesitant to buy disks from the first few months of resumed production, just out of paranoia that subtle fallout from the flood might remain -- microscopic dirt, equipment calibration, etc. Even six months from now, there will be some nagging doubt, as I wouldn't expect stock to be FIFO, ie., a unit bought six months from now isn't necessarily going to have been made five months from now.
I had an RZR. Tried the voice dialing about a dozen times, and not once did it get it right. Srini at least gets me right about 70% of the time. Still not enough to be useful, but better. As for the "whole e-books thing" a few posts up -- what e-books thing is that?
You watch the drivers around you and anticipate what stupid things they might do that would endanger you.
Part of that is noting the make of each surrounding car, eg.: o Porsche: generally so paranoid about damage that they keep their distance. I park next to them when I can, knowing that for sure that I'm not going to be hit by a door o Saab: be afraid, be very afraid
... and this chair
That said, I wonder what sort of party affords enough subject distance to use an 85mm prime and have enough DoF at larger apertures.
Canon's 85mm prime was also designed 20 years ago and doesn't need a friggin steampunk screw to focus.
Sheep are natural grazers; goats are more browsers and will preferentially eat something taller/other than grass. I was always amazed to see them rear up on their spindly hind legs to pull leaves off blackberry canes, apparently immune to the thorns even without upper teeth.
Systems from everyone but Soracle (who have worked hard to keep away customers) require some grunt on-site to plug in a monitor and keyboard for initial setup, too. In a large DC that can mean multiple FTE's. Now that I'm forced to move away from Sun-class hardware, I'm dumbfounded by the abject lack of real lights-out capabilities from HP, IBM, and Dell.
It's also strongly protectionist of domestic business and hostile to business from below the border. The government wouldn't be inclined to let Apple build a big DC there.
Linux is better, because it has capabilities.
Eg. a single, integrated utility for listing and managing disks, including their models, serial numbers, controller/target numbers, partition tables, defect lists, etc? Oh, wait, that's Solaris. Linux has a handful of lame fdisk utilities, some of which work within their limited scope, and some of which don't (yes, cfdisk, I'm talking to YOU). If you have an LSI HBA you can do some things with lsiutil or megacli, if you can manage to find them and not go insane trying to figure out their syntax -- it's a sad day when the most useful document for something is written by DELL. Oh, you have an HP HBA? Use hpacucli. Oh, you have an Adaptec HBA? 1) My sympathies 2) Good luck finding arcconf or whatever. Have some other HBA? Sucks to be you, all you get to know is that the kernel calls disks sda, sdb, sdc, etc. and you have no way of knowing which is on what controller at what target, which is SERIOUS fun when you have to locate a specific disk to repair or upgrade. Oh, you're talking about mii-tool and ethtool, two utilities for the same thing, except that one of them doesn't understand GigE interfaces and erroneously reports them as 100Mbit, causing you to burn a day trying to figure out what's going on? And as someone else alluded to, WTF is up with the goofy-ass ifconfig? Oh, I just realized that you're talking about the badass modern filesystem used by Linux systems, which maxes out at 16TB and is a separate layer on top of the lame-ass volume manager, which is in turn a separate layer on top of the lame MD system for RAID. It's sooooo nice to have three layers of stuff to build and destroy rather than the annoying integration, flexibility and downright awesome-on-a-stick that is ZFS.
I miss VMS vaxen sometimes.
"Vaxen"? Seriously? Are you Nomad?
Looks like ConvexOS didn't rate.
I agree that I'm in disbelief that we're actually getting visuals like this of friggin' ASTEROIDS and COMETS and we're going to see Pluto in a few years, but I must admit that I fear that we discovered all the cool stuff years ago and will just see more pix of rocks henceforth
This just in: Google responds by accusing Europeans of being tobacco-smoking pussies.
Have you actually been to Germany?? There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of regional beers. There are monasteries that have unique brews. There are many brands that are found only in a single city! There are more styles of beer than you can possibly name
... yet they're all still yeast piss, and taste accordingly.
Exactly. When someone on another continent sends me a list of serial numbers, IP addresses, rack locations, etc. I'd reeeeeallllyy rather have that in an email message that 1) Doesn't suffer from transcription errors 2) I can cut/paste from (see #1) 3) We don't have to be awake and working at the same time for 4) I can reference two years from now when I need to If this jackass hasn't sent a work email message in years, I'll bet an assistant or someone else has done it for him.
Am I the only one thinking of Cleopatra 2525?
Video on "servers" pisses me off to no end. The answer is not to integrate the graphics, but to not have them at all. A "server" needs a working serial console that can be used to bootstrap from bare metal. Sun has done this for years, even on today's latest Sun/Oracle x64 servers. Systems from Dell, IBM, HP, etc. all effectively require that someone plug a monitor and keyboard into each physical server to set it up, and it sucks big fat hairy rocks.
Except on the 37th shot, though -- the P&S gets that one much faster than the film SLR that needs to be rewound and a new roll stuffed in. Advanced compacts like the Canon S100 allow great degrees of manual control in a smaller form factor that's easier to pocket, but the small sensor size and fixed lenses that are often slow at the tele end limit it's utility to an extent. As with so man things, there are tradeoffs -- what's important to a given shooter, and what isn't. Don't ever ever shoot stuff that moves? Then AF features don't matter, etc.
I've demos that indicated that Pentax AF tends to be on the slow side, and as indicated above, *modern* gear for Canon or Nikon systems is much, much more available than for Pentax, Sony, Olympus, Samsung, etc. This also means that when one wants to sell gear, it's correspondingly easier to find a buyer. One sees decades-old gear used by some shooters for several reasons -- inheriting a set of lenses is one. Another is that even Nikon's current lens portfolio is kinda thin, and it can be difficult to actually find a new instance of some lenses, and they haven't manufactured others for years. Nikon's mount hasn't changed incompatibly since 1959 or so, so there are millions of old lenses out there that can be used as well on a new D3 as they ever were with film. Canon changed from the FD mount to the EF mount in 1986, which means that older FD gear is of limited value. That said, a zoom lens from any manufacturer from the 70's or 80's isn't going to make many modern shooters happy, nor are quality prime (single focal length) lenses that have to be focused manually. Sure, people used them back then, but there are notable wrinkles: 1) Photography on any level wasn't nearly as widespread. Wedding photos shot medium format film, and mostly staged portraits. Mass-market photography was something like a Kodak Disc or 110 format, so even poorly-focused film shot through a crappy early zoom was better by comparison. I submit that widespread availability of digital cameras and quality glass has raised our standards substantially. 2) People today readily shoot stuff that nobody would have dreamed of back in the days when ASA 100 film was common, and ASA 400 was fast and grainy as hell, eg. indoor candids, people dancing at weddings.
But when you used it, you limited the offers to be sold to a number you could handle, right? Failing to do so would seem to be the fault of the article's subject. From what I've seen, every groupon deal is limited in this way, or at least can be by client businesses with at least a fragment of a clue.