Don't know or particularly care about the Konica / Minolta lenses, I'm sure with a bit of machining I could MAKE the proper depth and fit to mount them on my EF mount body though... If someone else hasn't already.
Professional photographers are even more loath to change anything more than lenses than businesses are on changing anything. Just like any company they won't change equipment that they know and can operate in their sleep to something new just because it is shiny. Look at how long it took for DSLRs to finally take off, and some pros STILL to this day use analog - and I don't blame em one bit, since digital still can't come close to the color qualities visually that film can. Especially in B&W film beats the living snot out of digital to this day.
I'm a semi-pro photographer, I do some professional photography but don't do it to make a living. I bought a Rebel XT when they first came out ( moving "up" from my film SLRs ) and got some quite stunning photographs from it. I finally traded it in on a T1i when the T2i was first coming out - rather unhappily at the time I might add - because it was starting to malfunction on some shots. Even though the T1i was just an upgraded version of the XT it still took quite a while for me to learn the particular differences between them, not just the different settings but also how light sensitivity changed, differences in the Digic processors and myriads of different things that are just slightly "off" between the cameras. And you think that pros that depend on just "knowing" how their camera works in specific conditions are going to toss those out to something shiny in a short period of time?
If you want to buy into the mirrorless hype then go right ahead, pros are gonna use their DSLRs until you pry them from cold dead hands. lets the average consumer have the hyped up shiny crap. This means more kit for me to find for dirt cheap on craigslist / ebay when eveyone foolishly sells off all their stuff for the new fad... then comes crawling back to DSLRs wanting to replace what they had.
You have a point with the micro 4/3s cams, but what makes an entry-level Canon or Nikon better then the NEX? They're all APS-C sensors.
There's a faction of hard-core camera nerds who adore the NEX, the form factor makes it easy to use old lenses on a modern body.
Funny, a 12 dollar piece of machined aluminum makes the whole range on Pentax "PK" mount lenses fit perfectly on my Canon EF mount body. My absolute favorite lens is an old 50mm XR Rikenon F/2.8. Absolutely beautiful bokeh and sharp enough to capture single hairs in the focal plane from 5-6+ feet away.
The T3 is kinda crap. The T3i on the other hand...
A T1i / T2i can be found for about the same price nowadays as the T3, comes with the same kit lens ( 18-55 IS ), has a 10 times better sensor and can shoot continuous 3-4 shots / second 8+ shots in a row before dropping to 1-2 shots per second ( if you are saving as both full resolution JPG _AND_ RAW, more shots if you just save as JPG ).
They are kind of expensive.... I go through DMEHosting:
Full root shell SSH access to a Linux install that you can customize ( except kernel / swap since it is openVZ + hyperVM )
50GB disk allocation
2 Itanium ( at least my box anyways ) cores with shared time ( and if you bitch about speeds enough they put you on a nice quiet box.... )
768MB ram with ~1-1.2GB burst
1.5TB xfer on shared 100Mbit line ( see above about speeds.... I usually can push at the least 20Mbit / 2 MB/sec out ) and if you exceed 1.5TB they throttle you to 10Mbit
Go with something light and humorous, something that has a series but has each novel readable as a standalone unit. These kind of books are good for when there are a lot of interruptions because they are easy enough to follow along yet have enough - at least basic - plot to keep you occupied.
Suggestions: Terry Pratchett - the Discworld series, Piers Anthony - the xanth series ( quite humorous if you like puns ) or even Michelle Sagara - the cast series.
>If you go the SLR route, make sure you get a few prime lenses (no zoom) -- I find that for quick shots on a decent DSLR, not having to fiddle with zoom until you hit photoshop is actually an advantage. You'll also want a decent zoom lens or two so you can get just the right boka in those artsy shots;)
Primes give you better bokeh than zoom lenses..... you just have to adjust where the lens is in relation to the subject to fill the frame how you want. Zooms come in handy when you want to adjust the frame fill without having to change lenses or get closer / farther away.
Even that is a fallacy. A myth of marketing. While true that a canon camera lens can be physically be mounted to any Canon, Nikon lens to Nikon body, etc, that doesn't mean they actually work. Many don't. Nikon has all sorts of levels of unintentional physical and intentional artificial firmware locking to prevent their own lenses from working on their cameras interchangeably. Canon doesn't gimp their cameras firmware, but physical issues still apply with lenses not meant to work on the pro cameras due to optical limitations. Even if you have a lens you can keep and move from a $500 to a $5000 body, by that point you ostensibly no longer desire to use those original plastic, slow, $100 amateur lenses on that pro body. The fact of the matter is that you have to dump your initial gear and lenses (often several times) on that upgrade treadmill, same brand or not. Assuming you even are one of the extraordinarily rare individuals that does eventually climb up into owning 5 figures of pro gear. The 'upgrade path' is a myth, and a useless one to almost every consumer even -IF- it were remotely true.
Only if you are stupid and don't plan ahead. The "lenses won't fit" is ONLY applicable if you buy all EF-S lenses for your entry / midpriced gear without thinking about down the road. Not to mention good luck finding a "L" series GOOD lens with an EF-S mount.... you absolutely have to buy the EF mount lens, which by the way fits ALL of Canons bodies from the last ohh 10+ years, including analog film SLRs, DSLRs with APS-c sensors ( these can take the EF-S lenses), and full frame DSLRs ( pro level EF mount only).
TL;DR version: It's a myth that your lens kits won't work with higher models- only applies to user stupidity IF they buy only EF-S lenses that should NEVER be mounted to a pro level camera anyways.
This assumes there are no non-immediate benefits to the "do-it-yourself" process.
Yes, I could buy a pre-built system that is a buggy piece of shit that costs me time and money (and since time IS money to me, that's money^2) to keep operational.
Or I can build a system myself. Take a couple of valuable hours to do it RIGHT, with components and software I TRUST. Ammortized out over the 3-5 year lifespan of a computer, it's STILL cheaper for me to do it myself.
Not to mention when buying a prebuilt shady machine you have to spend all the time de-crapping it from the massive bloatware installs OEM vendors so nicely shovel on you. Depending on how persistent / how much they managed to shovel in there ( and I have seen some rigs come with MORE bloatware installed than the windows install was.... yes that is GIGS of bloatcrap ) you can spend MORE time either de-crapping the machine or wasting CPU cycles waiting for programs to open because you are running 6+ gigs of bloatcrap in the background.
Good luck with restoring your contact list then buddy.... maybe you keep a hardcopy backup in your tinfoil hat?
BTW nice reading comprehension... no one ever said the phone was "bricked", hell even the summary says you can still use it as a phone and send texts or even email through SMTP / POP / IMAP on your data connection. You will lose your contacts though on a factory reset and the only way I know for sure to get them back is to *gasp* sync the phone to your gmail account! You know, kind of like we have been saying.
My post stinks of anti-android FUD? Fuck... I must be doing it wrong then since I posted it from my android phone.
Your post stinks of either trollshit or not reading even the article summary. Go ahead do a factory reset without having the phone synced with your gmail account, hope you have all your contacts written down and a few hours to input them all back in again....
Your iPhone would still do everything it does, except work with your closed Gmail account.
What am I missing?
You are missing the fact that your iphone won't lose all contact information if you switch to a different gmail account. All contact information on android phones are synced with your gmail account as contacts.
I haven't tried with a locked gmail account but it is quite possible that you could not add or edit contact information on android if it can not sync with the associated gmail account anymore.
You mean like VDPAU or VA-API? I'll use the free drivers when they can use my cards support for in-card video decoding so I can play 1080P back with 1-2% CPU usage. Until then it's proprietary for me... especially on my NVidia cards.
It's all fine and dandy if they are marked properly AND have guard rails with reflectors in the inside circle, unfortunately in Wisconsin it's a mixed bag on if they are marked that the roundabout is coming up or if they have any markings on the inner circle. I actually saw a semi go over the center of one of the unmarked ones that was recently put up.... and 80K pounds of flying truck is not something I want coming at me when navigating one of these retarded monstrosities. It also wastes more fuel than it save when it comes to semi trucks since the driver has to downshift more gears than coming to a complete stop thus running at much higher RPMs for longer periods of time and using more fuel than starting from a dead stop. I have driven trucks with MPG calculators and your average MPG going into roundabouts is much less than if you are at a dead stop and have to accelerate up to speed. As in roundabouts 0.75 MPG versus from a stop 1.8 MPG
That said, another reason I do not like these is because too many of them are made smaller than they need to be. I drive Semi Truck part time seasonally and there are a few roundabouts recently put in on major highways that you damn near have to drive on both curbs just to get through them. The dual lane ones are just as bad because you have to take up one lane ( for your trailer follow ) and part of another with your tractor truck just to get around them without smearing your tires all over the curbs and then leaving chunks of damaged tire all over the road later, for wide loads that rely on these major highways it is even worse. It also pisses the jackasses in the four wheeled cars that " just have to get around the truck no matter what" even if they then go slower than what you where going in the first place.
Sorry to burst your bubble but they don't have a working reactor design to date that will just go "ok my cooling is gone I'm gonna go into instant cold shutdown right now by defying the laws of physics".
The reactors themselves still have not "failed", they are still to this point ( as far as even the IAEA knows ) containing the damaged cores - just as they are designed to do in the case of either a controlled meltdown ( what happened in japan ), or an uncontrolled meltdown ( can't get any cooling to the cores and melt through the reactor vessel onto the "core catcher" concrete pad under the reactor and spread out enough to cool and prevent criticality ).
Not even the failsafes failed in Japan, the infrastructure and engineers are what failed. Infrastructure - was destroyed by the tsunami making it difficult to get needed items to the plant. Engineering - wrong / odd hookups for secondary external generator as well as having a single control room that can act as a single point of failure in their electrical system ( was flooded preventing the patching in of the generators they did manage to get there and patch into the feed lines despite the wrong connections issues they had). The original generators ran until they got hit with the tsunami, then the backup battery power ran long enough that they SHOULD have been able to patch in external backup generators if basements would have been properly drained.
"It's possible that it's a group, though with copyright assignment only going to Tim Jones I tend to doubt it."
That is not uncommon. It makes it much easier than assigning copyrights to each photographer@group if you ever have to go to court. Court isn't only for people who try to reprint / copy / claim the work as their own, it is actually more common to have to take someone to court over non-payment for services rendered. I should know, I have a photography business I do as a side job. 9/10 clients are great, they pay on time, don't bitch about every tiny thing and don't try do weasel out of paying for services in any way they can. The last 1/10 is what the courts are for, at least as a last resort.
What happened to scripting the installer to write up a simple HAL / UDEV rule for persistent interface names? Even two cards that are the same model and manufacturer have enough unique IDs at kernel level to have them named persistently.
Most times the devices won't even be the same manufacturer much less model making it even easier. I have named mine that way for quite a while already....
It's not impossible, not even HIGHLY improbable. Over the years we have had more than a few close calls on having nuclear strikes sent out live when it was SUPPOSED to be a drill.
All you need for one screw up is the ones relaying the orders to screw up giving "test" launch / order codes and accidentally give "live / real" launch codes. It HAS happened.... you can never take the human element out of things so you can never have 100% accuracy.
The whole point of the the story is that she got caught up in her search adn lost track of the years gone by.
I don't know about you, but I am not a narcissistic vain peacock that I have to constantly check and update my own body image in my mind. I don't think most people are like that even.
- Asking to have a photograph deleted is a perfectly legitimate request. I could ask you to do the same thing and you'd have to comply, most people just don't bother.
Nope, wrong buddy. I would "have to" consider your request before telling you to piss off. Anybody and anything is fair game as long as they / it is visible from a public location OR a private location that I have permission to be on. Nice try though.
Nope, no shit warnings, just beautiful 1080P movie right from launching the H.264 file. kind of funny how the 720 and 1080P versions where out on launch day ( the TS files anyways, @ 50GB ) and people can't play the damn disks in their legit players, way to go movie companies, way to go.
NO, this is a DNS problem. Chartercom started pulling this shit with their DNS servers years ago, after switching to openDNS routerside and bypassing charters DNS servers the issues stop and location bar searching works as expected.
Sounds insane, but I was having some problems with my ATI card with KDE4 under Debian squeeze a week ago so I plugged my NVidia 6200LE in. Low and behold HAL brought X into a sane state, and just for the heck of it I tested for direct rendering.... it came up "yes". Needless to say I wasn't expecting that, so I grepped my X log..... it was using the "nv" driver. I have no idea HOW it was getting direct rendering out of that driver but even glxgears was playing smoothly, something that it has never done with indirect rendering on that card.
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Well now, this only took me all of 2 seconds to find. http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Optic-Canon-Adapter-Correction/dp/B00009R7ZR mount ring for FD / FL glass for manual focus on EF mount bodies.
Don't know or particularly care about the Konica / Minolta lenses, I'm sure with a bit of machining I could MAKE the proper depth and fit to mount them on my EF mount body though... If someone else hasn't already.
Wow, that guy is an idiot.
Professional photographers are even more loath to change anything more than lenses than businesses are on changing anything. Just like any company they won't change equipment that they know and can operate in their sleep to something new just because it is shiny. Look at how long it took for DSLRs to finally take off, and some pros STILL to this day use analog - and I don't blame em one bit, since digital still can't come close to the color qualities visually that film can. Especially in B&W film beats the living snot out of digital to this day.
I'm a semi-pro photographer, I do some professional photography but don't do it to make a living. I bought a Rebel XT when they first came out ( moving "up" from my film SLRs ) and got some quite stunning photographs from it. I finally traded it in on a T1i when the T2i was first coming out - rather unhappily at the time I might add - because it was starting to malfunction on some shots. Even though the T1i was just an upgraded version of the XT it still took quite a while for me to learn the particular differences between them, not just the different settings but also how light sensitivity changed, differences in the Digic processors and myriads of different things that are just slightly "off" between the cameras. And you think that pros that depend on just "knowing" how their camera works in specific conditions are going to toss those out to something shiny in a short period of time?
If you want to buy into the mirrorless hype then go right ahead, pros are gonna use their DSLRs until you pry them from cold dead hands. lets the average consumer have the hyped up shiny crap. This means more kit for me to find for dirt cheap on craigslist / ebay when eveyone foolishly sells off all their stuff for the new fad... then comes crawling back to DSLRs wanting to replace what they had.
You have a point with the micro 4/3s cams, but what makes an entry-level Canon or Nikon better then the NEX? They're all APS-C sensors.
There's a faction of hard-core camera nerds who adore the NEX, the form factor makes it easy to use old lenses on a modern body.
Funny, a 12 dollar piece of machined aluminum makes the whole range on Pentax "PK" mount lenses fit perfectly on my Canon EF mount body. My absolute favorite lens is an old 50mm XR Rikenon F/2.8. Absolutely beautiful bokeh and sharp enough to capture single hairs in the focal plane from 5-6+ feet away.
The T3 is kinda crap. The T3i on the other hand...
A T1i / T2i can be found for about the same price nowadays as the T3, comes with the same kit lens ( 18-55 IS ), has a 10 times better sensor and can shoot continuous 3-4 shots / second 8+ shots in a row before dropping to 1-2 shots per second ( if you are saving as both full resolution JPG _AND_ RAW, more shots if you just save as JPG ).
They are kind of expensive.... I go through DMEHosting:
Full root shell SSH access to a Linux install that you can customize ( except kernel / swap since it is openVZ + hyperVM )
50GB disk allocation
2 Itanium ( at least my box anyways ) cores with shared time ( and if you bitch about speeds enough they put you on a nice quiet box.... )
768MB ram with ~1-1.2GB burst
1.5TB xfer on shared 100Mbit line ( see above about speeds.... I usually can push at the least 20Mbit / 2 MB/sec out ) and if you exceed 1.5TB they throttle you to 10Mbit
Nice fast support and only pay 9 / month.
Go with something light and humorous, something that has a series but has each novel readable as a standalone unit. These kind of books are good for when there are a lot of interruptions because they are easy enough to follow along yet have enough - at least basic - plot to keep you occupied.
Suggestions: Terry Pratchett - the Discworld series, Piers Anthony - the xanth series ( quite humorous if you like puns ) or even Michelle Sagara - the cast series.
>If you go the SLR route, make sure you get a few prime lenses (no zoom) -- I find that for quick shots on a decent DSLR, not having to fiddle with zoom until you hit photoshop is actually an advantage. You'll also want a decent zoom lens or two so you can get just the right boka in those artsy shots ;)
Primes give you better bokeh than zoom lenses..... you just have to adjust where the lens is in relation to the subject to fill the frame how you want. Zooms come in handy when you want to adjust the frame fill without having to change lenses or get closer / farther away.
Even that is a fallacy. A myth of marketing. While true that a canon camera lens can be physically be mounted to any Canon, Nikon lens to Nikon body, etc, that doesn't mean they actually work. Many don't. Nikon has all sorts of levels of unintentional physical and intentional artificial firmware locking to prevent their own lenses from working on their cameras interchangeably. Canon doesn't gimp their cameras firmware, but physical issues still apply with lenses not meant to work on the pro cameras due to optical limitations. Even if you have a lens you can keep and move from a $500 to a $5000 body, by that point you ostensibly no longer desire to use those original plastic, slow, $100 amateur lenses on that pro body. The fact of the matter is that you have to dump your initial gear and lenses (often several times) on that upgrade treadmill, same brand or not. Assuming you even are one of the extraordinarily rare individuals that does eventually climb up into owning 5 figures of pro gear. The 'upgrade path' is a myth, and a useless one to almost every consumer even -IF- it were remotely true.
Only if you are stupid and don't plan ahead. The "lenses won't fit" is ONLY applicable if you buy all EF-S lenses for your entry / midpriced gear without thinking about down the road. Not to mention good luck finding a "L" series GOOD lens with an EF-S mount.... you absolutely have to buy the EF mount lens, which by the way fits ALL of Canons bodies from the last ohh 10+ years, including analog film SLRs, DSLRs with APS-c sensors ( these can take the EF-S lenses), and full frame DSLRs ( pro level EF mount only).
TL;DR version: It's a myth that your lens kits won't work with higher models- only applies to user stupidity IF they buy only EF-S lenses that should NEVER be mounted to a pro level camera anyways.
It's only free if your time is worth nothing.
This assumes there are no non-immediate benefits to the "do-it-yourself" process.
Yes, I could buy a pre-built system that is a buggy piece of shit that costs me time and money (and since time IS money to me, that's money^2) to keep operational.
Or I can build a system myself. Take a couple of valuable hours to do it RIGHT, with components and software I TRUST. Ammortized out over the 3-5 year lifespan of a computer, it's STILL cheaper for me to do it myself.
Not to mention when buying a prebuilt shady machine you have to spend all the time de-crapping it from the massive bloatware installs OEM vendors so nicely shovel on you. Depending on how persistent / how much they managed to shovel in there ( and I have seen some rigs come with MORE bloatware installed than the windows install was.... yes that is GIGS of bloatcrap ) you can spend MORE time either de-crapping the machine or wasting CPU cycles waiting for programs to open because you are running 6+ gigs of bloatcrap in the background.
"pidof bluefish" is probably the simplest of the simple for BASH.
Now lets say you wanted to KILL that process with fire ( and you only have one / want to kill them all )
kill -9 `pidof bluefish`
VS
Some long string of perl that looks like you sat on your keyboard.
Good luck with restoring your contact list then buddy.... maybe you keep a hardcopy backup in your tinfoil hat?
BTW nice reading comprehension... no one ever said the phone was "bricked", hell even the summary says you can still use it as a phone and send texts or even email through SMTP / POP / IMAP on your data connection. You will lose your contacts though on a factory reset and the only way I know for sure to get them back is to *gasp* sync the phone to your gmail account! You know, kind of like we have been saying.
My post stinks of anti-android FUD? Fuck... I must be doing it wrong then since I posted it from my android phone.
Your post stinks of either trollshit or not reading even the article summary. Go ahead do a factory reset without having the phone synced with your gmail account, hope you have all your contacts written down and a few hours to input them all back in again....
Your iPhone would still do everything it does, except work with your closed Gmail account.
What am I missing?
You are missing the fact that your iphone won't lose all contact information if you switch to a different gmail account. All contact information on android phones are synced with your gmail account as contacts.
I haven't tried with a locked gmail account but it is quite possible that you could not add or edit contact information on android if it can not sync with the associated gmail account anymore.
You mean like VDPAU or VA-API? I'll use the free drivers when they can use my cards support for in-card video decoding so I can play 1080P back with 1-2% CPU usage. Until then it's proprietary for me... especially on my NVidia cards.
It's all fine and dandy if they are marked properly AND have guard rails with reflectors in the inside circle, unfortunately in Wisconsin it's a mixed bag on if they are marked that the roundabout is coming up or if they have any markings on the inner circle. I actually saw a semi go over the center of one of the unmarked ones that was recently put up.... and 80K pounds of flying truck is not something I want coming at me when navigating one of these retarded monstrosities. It also wastes more fuel than it save when it comes to semi trucks since the driver has to downshift more gears than coming to a complete stop thus running at much higher RPMs for longer periods of time and using more fuel than starting from a dead stop. I have driven trucks with MPG calculators and your average MPG going into roundabouts is much less than if you are at a dead stop and have to accelerate up to speed. As in roundabouts 0.75 MPG versus from a stop 1.8 MPG
That said, another reason I do not like these is because too many of them are made smaller than they need to be. I drive Semi Truck part time seasonally and there are a few roundabouts recently put in on major highways that you damn near have to drive on both curbs just to get through them. The dual lane ones are just as bad because you have to take up one lane ( for your trailer follow ) and part of another with your tractor truck just to get around them without smearing your tires all over the curbs and then leaving chunks of damaged tire all over the road later, for wide loads that rely on these major highways it is even worse. It also pisses the jackasses in the four wheeled cars that " just have to get around the truck no matter what" even if they then go slower than what you where going in the first place.
Sorry to burst your bubble but they don't have a working reactor design to date that will just go "ok my cooling is gone I'm gonna go into instant cold shutdown right now by defying the laws of physics".
The reactors themselves still have not "failed", they are still to this point ( as far as even the IAEA knows ) containing the damaged cores - just as they are designed to do in the case of either a controlled meltdown ( what happened in japan ), or an uncontrolled meltdown ( can't get any cooling to the cores and melt through the reactor vessel onto the "core catcher" concrete pad under the reactor and spread out enough to cool and prevent criticality ).
Not even the failsafes failed in Japan, the infrastructure and engineers are what failed. Infrastructure - was destroyed by the tsunami making it difficult to get needed items to the plant. Engineering - wrong / odd hookups for secondary external generator as well as having a single control room that can act as a single point of failure in their electrical system ( was flooded preventing the patching in of the generators they did manage to get there and patch into the feed lines despite the wrong connections issues they had). The original generators ran until they got hit with the tsunami, then the backup battery power ran long enough that they SHOULD have been able to patch in external backup generators if basements would have been properly drained.
"It's possible that it's a group, though with copyright assignment only going to Tim Jones I tend to doubt it."
That is not uncommon. It makes it much easier than assigning copyrights to each photographer@group if you ever have to go to court. Court isn't only for people who try to reprint / copy / claim the work as their own, it is actually more common to have to take someone to court over non-payment for services rendered. I should know, I have a photography business I do as a side job. 9/10 clients are great, they pay on time, don't bitch about every tiny thing and don't try do weasel out of paying for services in any way they can. The last 1/10 is what the courts are for, at least as a last resort.
What happened to scripting the installer to write up a simple HAL / UDEV rule for persistent interface names? Even two cards that are the same model and manufacturer have enough unique IDs at kernel level to have them named persistently.
Most times the devices won't even be the same manufacturer much less model making it even easier. I have named mine that way for quite a while already....
It's not impossible, not even HIGHLY improbable. Over the years we have had more than a few close calls on having nuclear strikes sent out live when it was SUPPOSED to be a drill.
All you need for one screw up is the ones relaying the orders to screw up giving "test" launch / order codes and accidentally give "live / real" launch codes. It HAS happened.... you can never take the human element out of things so you can never have 100% accuracy.
Nay, good sir, you are the one being stupid.
The whole point of the the story is that she got caught up in her search adn lost track of the years gone by.
I don't know about you, but I am not a narcissistic vain peacock that I have to constantly check and update my own body image in my mind. I don't think most people are like that even.
- Asking to have a photograph deleted is a perfectly legitimate request. I could ask you to do the same thing and you'd have to comply, most people just don't bother.
Nope, wrong buddy. I would "have to" consider your request before telling you to piss off. Anybody and anything is fair game as long as they / it is visible from a public location OR a private location that I have permission to be on. Nice try though.
Nope, no shit warnings, just beautiful 1080P movie right from launching the H.264 file. kind of funny how the 720 and 1080P versions where out on launch day ( the TS files anyways, @ 50GB ) and people can't play the damn disks in their legit players, way to go movie companies, way to go.
NO, this is a DNS problem. Chartercom started pulling this shit with their DNS servers years ago, after switching to openDNS routerside and bypassing charters DNS servers the issues stop and location bar searching works as expected.
Thats actually 4 words. I can sum it up in 2 words though " Western Digital"
Sounds insane, but I was having some problems with my ATI card with KDE4 under Debian squeeze a week ago so I plugged my NVidia 6200LE in. Low and behold HAL brought X into a sane state, and just for the heck of it I tested for direct rendering.... it came up "yes". Needless to say I wasn't expecting that, so I grepped my X log..... it was using the "nv" driver. I have no idea HOW it was getting direct rendering out of that driver but even glxgears was playing smoothly, something that it has never done with indirect rendering on that card.