Rocky Mountain national Park
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
On the Road again
Honda Sport Touring Association (HSTA) STAR '06: "HSTA's 24th Sport Touring Annual Rendezvous
is set for June 18-21, 2006 in Avon, Colorado."
Ah yup - heading to Avon, Colorado, then points West (or South or North or . . .)
Watch this space - PCS Phone Photos, audio posts and text messages to come.
See y'all in a week!
is set for June 18-21, 2006 in Avon, Colorado."
Ah yup - heading to Avon, Colorado, then points West (or South or North or . . .)
Watch this space - PCS Phone Photos, audio posts and text messages to come.
See y'all in a week!
Architectural glass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Architectural glass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whee! I should really be getting moving. More than you ever wanted to know about glass...
Whee! I should really be getting moving. More than you ever wanted to know about glass...
The History of the Microwave Oven
The History of the Microwave Oven: "in 1947, the first commercial
microwave oven hit the market. These primitive units where gigantic and
enormously expensive, standing 5 1/2 feet tall, weighing over 750 pounds,
and costing about $5000 each. The magnetron tube had to be water-cooled,
so plumbing installations were also required."
microwave oven hit the market. These primitive units where gigantic and
enormously expensive, standing 5 1/2 feet tall, weighing over 750 pounds,
and costing about $5000 each. The magnetron tube had to be water-cooled,
so plumbing installations were also required."
Accidental Discoveries
NOVA Online | Cancer Warrior | Accidental Discoveries: "A seemingly insignificant finding by one researcher leads to a breakthrough
discovery by another; a physician methodically pursuing the answer to a medical
conundrum over many years suddenly has a 'Eureka' moment; a scientist who
chooses to study a contaminant in his culture rather than tossing it out
stumbles upon something entirely new. Here we examine seven of medical
history's most fortuitous couplings of great minds and great luck."
discovery by another; a physician methodically pursuing the answer to a medical
conundrum over many years suddenly has a 'Eureka' moment; a scientist who
chooses to study a contaminant in his culture rather than tossing it out
stumbles upon something entirely new. Here we examine seven of medical
history's most fortuitous couplings of great minds and great luck."
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Monday, June 05, 2006
Frugal Foods
Tips and lessosn on using commodity-class foods to eat well and cheaply. Bulk food, recipies, tips and more.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
iMac_Disassembly
iMac_Disassembly Removing and upgrading the internal hard drive on an Intel iMac - not easy! Get it as big as you can from the factory . . .
Intel iMac: Easiest RAM install ever - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Intel iMac: Easiest RAM install ever - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): "If you ordered them with one DIMM installed, it will be installed in the OTHER DIMM slot, which is COMPLETELY buried inside the PC. i saw the instructions for upgrading THAT DIMM, and it's extremely involved. You have to take the entire chassis apart.So, if you ordered it with, say 1GB on one DIMM (as I did), your easy-to-use second slot will be empty, waiting for a second DIMM."
Moral of the Story?
Order your iMac with 1GB RAM preinstalled! It's worth the $90. . .
Moral of the Story?
Order your iMac with 1GB RAM preinstalled! It's worth the $90. . .
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Outsourcing Fails Again
Sprint sued IBM last week over millions of dollars worth of unrealized savings:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/052506-sprint-ibm-outsourcing.html
Outsourcing (and offshoring) works great, eh?
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/052506-sprint-ibm-outsourcing.html
Outsourcing (and offshoring) works great, eh?
Monday, May 22, 2006
Schneier on Security: The Value of Privacy
Schneier on Security: The Value of Privacy: "Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny."
Friday, May 19, 2006
How to unstick the DiMAGE software
When you get the "Unknown Error" try this:
Digital Darkroom Forum: Help : Problem with Konica Minolta Dimage 5400 ii: "I have the Dimage Scan 5400,and had similar problems.
In my case the culprits were two files - 'MFSLibinit' and 'MFSButtonCheck'
- which stayed on the system after an abnormal shutdown."
Digital Darkroom Forum: Help : Problem with Konica Minolta Dimage 5400 ii: "I have the Dimage Scan 5400,and had similar problems.
In my case the culprits were two files - 'MFSLibinit' and 'MFSButtonCheck'
- which stayed on the system after an abnormal shutdown."
New Scanner - Minolta DiImage IV
With the divorce, I have to split all the family photos from the past, oh, 12 years or so. My compromise: I'll take digital copies of all of them, and she can have the physical photos. Only problem: scanning photos is a PITA. I started out scanning the negatives at Costco, where they had a Fuji Explorer photolab, which does an amazing job of creating scans from negatives. But, they replaced the Fuji with something else that is faster at dumping prints out, but makes horrid scans from negatives. Macro-blocks 4x the size of the old Explorer lab. Sux0r.
So, about 5 months ago I went on a quest for a negative scanner. Nikon makes a great one, but because of their heavy marketing, it holds its' value in the used market quite well. $450 well, even. Turns out that Minolta used to make a negative scanner, and it was quite highly regarded, too. But they couldn't compete with the Nikon juggernaut, so they got out of the business in the fall or 2005 - right before I started looking.
Fortunately, there's things like eBay out there. Last weekend I found a New in the Box Minolta DiImage IV scanner for sale on eBay, bid on it and got it. Turns out it may have been a store demo or something - the bags and software had been opened. But, none the less, everything was there, including the original box.
Set it up in about 15 minutes on the Mac (I love macs), and scanned in some stuff. After a couple of passes with the settings, I realized that nothing I did was going to matter for my purposes - 4x6 prints and web-page images. So I set it batch scan a while ago, and this is what came out:
The full image (reduced in size for the blog):
And the detail of just the bike:
That's pretty flipping good, in my unlearned opinion. And, that is set to about 1/3 maximum resolution / quality on the scanner. (5 of 15 megapixels).
Now to start feeding it negative strips, and hope my hard drive holds out!
Yr. Hmbl Crrspdnt., etc etc
So, about 5 months ago I went on a quest for a negative scanner. Nikon makes a great one, but because of their heavy marketing, it holds its' value in the used market quite well. $450 well, even. Turns out that Minolta used to make a negative scanner, and it was quite highly regarded, too. But they couldn't compete with the Nikon juggernaut, so they got out of the business in the fall or 2005 - right before I started looking.
Fortunately, there's things like eBay out there. Last weekend I found a New in the Box Minolta DiImage IV scanner for sale on eBay, bid on it and got it. Turns out it may have been a store demo or something - the bags and software had been opened. But, none the less, everything was there, including the original box.
Set it up in about 15 minutes on the Mac (I love macs), and scanned in some stuff. After a couple of passes with the settings, I realized that nothing I did was going to matter for my purposes - 4x6 prints and web-page images. So I set it batch scan a while ago, and this is what came out:
The full image (reduced in size for the blog):
And the detail of just the bike:
That's pretty flipping good, in my unlearned opinion. And, that is set to about 1/3 maximum resolution / quality on the scanner. (5 of 15 megapixels).
Now to start feeding it negative strips, and hope my hard drive holds out!
Yr. Hmbl Crrspdnt., etc etc
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