I’ve been thinking about complexity vs. simplicity, and I’ve decide that the general issue can be described with these two statements:
1. No issue is so complex, that it can’t be reduced to a meaningless yes/no question
2. No issue is so simple, that it can’t be made to complex to decide on.
Not totally happy with the phrasing, so suggestions are welcome….
I’ve finally gotten around to building a new box.
My old was an AMD Athlon 2200+, with 512MB ram and a couple of 120Gb Drive. Still up to most tasks, but getting a bit hard driven in some cases.
New one is build around an Intel Duo 2 Core E6320 (running 1.86Ghz), with 2Gb ram and a 400Gb Samsung hard drive. I’ve mainly build it to be silent, but it can be over clocked if I so choose (an Asus P5B motherboard helps with that). I tried running it at nearly 3Ghz for at bit, but haven’t tested it extensively.
One benchmark
LightRoom 1.0: Export 16, Dng files to Jpeg. 10MP.
New: 47 seconds (33 seconds overclocked)
Old: 345 seconds
Yes, the SSE2 instruction set is really important for LightRoom and makes all the difference.
Inspired by a much ruder site, I’ve created a homepage with the simple address of:
Just something to send to people who are bugging you, explaining the nature of being busy.
(if you can’t seen the page, it’s because the Domain Name Servers need to be refreshed – try again in an hour or two)
I’ve started to use google sync, to syncronize my bookmarks between my machines (Desktop XP, Desktop Ubuntu, Notebook, Work XP, Work Vista). When I installed GSync on the new Ubuntu installation it … crapped all over my bookmarks and everything from my “bar”, where I keep the most important things, was gone.
Luckily Firefox keeps series of backups of the bookmarks in a sub-directory below your profile directory. Look for around for c:\documents and settings\yourusername\application data\mozilla\firefox\profile\default.xyz\bookmarkbackups – note that the “Application data” directory is hidden, so you have to have “show hidden files” turned on, in the explorer settings.
Just open the bookmark organizer in Firefox, and import an old file. Find the old “ToolBar” root and select “edit->Set as bookmarks toolbar folder” in the menu.
My first round with Ubuntu Linux didn’t go to well, I really couldn’t get anything to work. And ended up calling it a piece of crap. I’ll stand by my conclusion that it’s not ready as “Normal Joes” desktop OS, but … well, here’s what happened.
“what we need now is coffee” – Google Search
It’s in the middle of the night and we are getting ready to go to the hospital to have our second son delivered. I have the phrase “what we need now is coffee – lots of coffee!” stuck in my head. Strangely the first part of that sentence is only found two places in the web. Both copies of “fear and loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thompson. But that wasn’t what I was thinking of, so I guess that not everything can be found on the net. Not sure where it comes from, but I thinking Lucky Luke…
I’ve been using the LR beta for quite a while. This is my first impressions of the final release, version 1.0. I’ll walk through the most interesting (to me) features and try to include any insights that I may have. Enjoy.
Get it from: Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Available for both Mac OS and Windows (XP/Vista).
30 day trial is available from Adobe, so you can download from Adobe and run at once, while you wait for the CD and printed manual to arrive.
To balance my recent Vista exploits, I decided to try out the latest Ubuntu Linux. I downloaded version 6.10 and burned a CD. The Ubuntu cd is a “live-cd” which means that you can boot on the CD and run the operating system without installing anything or changing your current installation. Here’s what happened:
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I’m currently looking for some faster glass for my set of Pentax dSLR cameras. I already have a 43mm ltd 1:1.9 (auto focus) and an old Ricoh 50mm 1:1.7 (manual focus). What I would like is a 1:1.4 or faster. I’ll use this blog to get an idea of the marked. I’ll focus on fast glass and fairly cheap glass. It needs to be as short as possible – 50mm is okay. I may sell the 43mm towards this lens…
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I love my Pentax K10D. Very worthy replacement for my *ist DS.
As everything else, these days, it does have issues. I’ll try to keep up to date with them in this post, so that new owners for the K10D can be made aware of them and hopefully find help in here.
I’ll mainly list the issues that are firmware related (and there for fixable), but I’ve included a couple of issues that are, probably, not fixable by firmware, or even something you really want fixed. Things like the Jpeg Edge issue is not really something that should be fixed, it’s just about knowing that you need to switch from Natural to Bright mode if you want sharper jpegs.
This blog has a thread at DPReview.com – where I’m trying to get help to make the list complete.
Please try to keep further discussion about specific issues to the linked threads. This blog is not really a good platform for discussions (a real forum is a lot better for stuff like that).
Update Jan. 20th 2007: There’s a version 1.1 firmware to be found. It seems to be the real deal. It changes this. From what people have reported on dpreview and my own experience it fixes what’s the change document says and nothing else. I’ll move all the issues that a fixed my 1.1 to a separate section..
Update Mar. 6th. 2007: There’s a version 1.11 firmware. Only a couple of minor issue fixed.