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I have used a lot of C-stands on sets in the past but never owned one myself. But B&H Photo Video offered to send me one for review and I had the chance to use it on a several projects.Impact Master Century Stand What is a C-Stand?
The C-Stand (also known as century stand) is probably the most valuable tool to a film grip next to there tape and black wrap. Not only ...
This is a review of the Impact Master Century C Stand Kit, used for holding studio lights, softboxes, flags, bounce cards and other accessories. Unlike the multiboom light stand that can only hold light reflectors and cardboard flags, C-stands are almost entirely made of metal and are designed to be very tough and sturdy, capable of holding fairly heavy equipment. The shortened term "C-Stand", which means "Century Stand", comes from the early days of motion picture production. Back then, filmmakers ...Impact Master Century C-Stand Review
This is a quick review of the Impact Multiboom Light Stand and Reflector Holder, used in studio environments for holding lights, reflectors, flags and other light accessories. If you do any studio work, whether it is for photographing models or your clients, it is often necessary to use light reflectors to bounce the main light for softer shadows. Other times you might find yourself in a situation when you have too much light spill and you need to block some of that light with a black card, also ...Impact Multiboom Light Stand and Reflector Holder Review
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Neil Van Niekerk, author of Off-Camera Flash Techniques for Digital Photographers, a lighting book that I studied when I was first learning about off-camera lighting, has just came out with a nice little review of the Impact Quikbox 24×24″ Softbox, which a $135 speedlight pop-up softbox that is virtually identical to the more expensive $190 Lastolite Ezybox 24×24″ Softbox. From his images, it looks like it's a great product for the mobile strobist looking for a quick and beautiful off-camera light. ...Impact Quikbox Softbox Review by Neil Van Niekerk
This is a review of the Impact Background Support System, along with the Impact Muslin Background, used in a studio environment or in remote locations for portrait and product photography. When taking pictures of people or products, it is often desirable to have a smooth background with a certain color. While you can accomplish this with a "Do It Yourself" (DYI) setup using a white sheet secured on a large wall, sometimes it is either impossible (in a tight space) or inconvenient to do that. Other ...Impact Background Support System Review
This is a review of the Impact Digital Light Shed, used for small and medium product photography. Whether you are photographing jewelry, toys, shoes or even lenses, a good light box is essential for creating beautiful photographs of the product. While you can take the DYI route and build a light box yourself from scratch (which is what I did for years before), purchasing a solid light box setup can save you plenty of time, space and frustration.
While I am not into product photography, I occasionally ...Impact Light Shed Review
This is a review of the Impact 5-in-1 Collapsible Oval Reflector, commonly used for bouncing natural light or flash onto subjects when taking their portraits. When working outdoors or in a studio environment, a reflector can be a very effective tool for adding more light to your subject. Often used as a secondary "fill light" to compliment the primary light, reflectors come in different sizes, shapes and surfaces. While the shape of the reflector does not matter as much, the size and the type of ...Impact 5-in-1 Collapsible Oval Reflector Review
This is a quick review of the Impact Posing Stool, used in studio environments for seating clients and models to photograph headshots or half-body portraits. When photographing subjects in a studio, especially when doing corporate photography, a simple posing stool is often required. Regular chairs have backs and arms that are problematic for half-body shots, while bar stools can be too high and inconvenient to use, so an adjustable posing stool is ideal in such situations. While there are plenty ...Impact Posing Stool Review
IMAGING INSIDERConsumer Reports' selection included three other kid cameras—the Crayola 2.1 MP Digital Camera with Preview Screen, $35; the Disney Pix Jr., $50; and the Fisher-Price Kid-Tough Digital Camera, $40. The magazine also assessed a modestly priced regular camera, the Kodak Easy Share C123, $90, to see how it fared. Cameras were put through their paces in Consumer Reports' labs, and the magazine also sought the opinions of 30 kids aged 5 to 12. "Kid cameras can't produce images that compare in quality ... Consumer Reports: VTech Kidizoom and Lego Cameras Stand Out in First-Ever Review of Kids' Cameras
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If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
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A while back, we had a crazy idea.
We're not the kind of people that like to sit still. Or in one place too long. Or do the same things over and over again.
So we decided to sell our home, change our lifestyle, and shake it up a bit. Yes, we've traveled. But it was always more of the "two weeks here" and "two weeks there" style.
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Today's Photography Tips and Tricks is about something that is actually very simple to do, and adds lots of depth to our compositions and is also fun to experiment with! Layering Compositions.
Any time that you can take an image from having 2 layers (which is common in most images) and add another layer, the composition becomes much more 3 dimensional and adds impact. Many images are simply a subject and a background like this shot.
But if we can find a way to add another layer to the composition, ...Tuesday Photography Tips & Tricks | Adding Impact and Drama to Your Images by Layering Shots
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I'm not sure exactly what the physics are for diving, but, I do know that when athletes are doing three-and-a-half spins combined with two-and-a-half twists in about a second and then hitting the water at about 60 kilometres per hour photographers are going to see some pretty interesting faces.
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Spins, twists and impacts : The faces of Canadian diving.
Eric Sehn competes on the ten metre platform at the Canadian Olympic Diving Trials at the Montreal 1976 Olympic ...
PHOTO RUMORSRicoh filed a patent 2012-93611 in Japan for an impact resistant lens cap. Here is the translated description taken from the Japanese Patent Office: Fig.1 is an explanatory view in which showing the outline view of the camera as an imaging device with which the lens cap and lens barrel concerning the present invention are applied, and showing the stored condition of the movable body tube at the time of un-equipping with a lens cap. Fig.2 is an explanatory view in which showing the outline view ... Ricoh patents an impact resistant lens cap
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY SCHOOLHands down, the number one question I get is how to make better landscape images. Many fall into the new-gear trap thinking that when I upgrade to some new DSLR then I'll be able to take better pictures. They buy the gear and suddenly the wind drops from their sails and their images still lack impact. So let's talk about some things you can do to make your landscape photos pop. 1. Fanatically Chase the Best Light What is good light you say? There is really no such thing as bad light, but it's hard ... 5 Tips for Shooting Landscapes with Greater Impact
The Navy's new draft environmental impact statement dramatically raises the estimate of the amount of times that whales, dolphins, and marine animals could be impacted by sonar testing.
They estimate that sonar testing could impact marine animals up to 2.8 million times a year from 2014 to 2018. Compare this to 2009-2013 when they estimated just 150,000 possible instances a year.
The Navy defends this enormous rise by explaining that the size of the area of testing has increased as has the amount of ...
IMAGING INSIDERThe Curve: Technology and Telecommunications Three-Part Series Features Expert Commentary, Streaming Video and Trend Insights New York – May 8, 2012—Getty Images, one of the world's leading creators and distributors of still imagery, video and multimedia products, today announced the launch of their newly redesigned The Curve: Technology and Telecommunications, a multimedia research report on [...] Getty Images Visual Trend Analysis Reveals Rise of Social Photography and Impact of Fast-Changing Technology
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY SCHOOLA Guest Post by Guy Prives. If you were not on a hot-air balloon for a journey around the world or in a Tibetan monastery on a pilgrimage yet have experienced these images on Facebook then it's likely you've already been exposed to Instagram. "Instagram" the photo-sharing application, recently bought by Facebook, allows participants to shoot, edit and share photos with users of the application through the personal world of each one of us. The network allows us to react and give feedback in the form ... Instagram and its Impact on the World of Photography
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Imagine a world where your family has just arrived at home from a variety of events and places, and they decide they want to have dinner together. Its late – cooking would mean eating late in the evening. So they decide to call up a local pizza place. Yet they don't want "the same old" pizza they always eat. Why not try something new?
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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY SCHOOLI love Digital Photography School, because I love learning. I love understanding. I love pushing through the doubt and insecurity inherent to lack of understanding, to a place of KNOWLEDGE, confidence and the competence that comes from the marriage of the two. It's a thrilling process for me. That said, some of my very favorite images, some of my images that speak to me on the deepest personal level, have thrown out all the rules. Often, these images have ignored hard and fast rules of composition, ... Creating an Image of Impact.
F STOPPERSMy childhood was filled with shooting things and marveling at the aftermath but it took photographer Deborah Bay to capture the results for all to see. Deborah took striking shots (pun intended) of various caliber bullets, after being fired into bullet resistent Plexiglas. Armed with the support of professionals at the Public Safety Institute and [...] [Pics] Striking Macro Shots of Bullet Impacts


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Click above for high-res image gallery of the 2010 Honda Insight2009 is shaping up to be a big year for hybrids as Ford launches the Fusion and Milan hybrids, Toyota brings us the third generation Prius and the new Lexus HS250h and Honda revives the Insight brand. The original Insight was the ...
Click above for a gallery of the Euro-spec 2009 Honda InsightWe're still six days away from the official unveiling of the 2009 Honda Insight at the Detroit Auto Show, but the crew at Carscoop just couldn't wait to release images of the European-spec hybrid ahead of its debut.The Euro model shown ...
Click above for more shots of the leaked 2009 Honda Insight brochureAs is so often the case these days, some early details regarding Honda's upcoming Prius-fighter have leaked out before the hybrid's official unveiling at the Detroit Auto Show. Included among the surprises is a Modulo-trimmed ...

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Classic Chevron Wedding Invitations
All of our designs are customizable – you can adjust patterns, layouts, fonts – you name it! That's just what Salutations suggested to do with Ellie Snow's Classic Chevron design. A new set of fonts, inks, and only one chevron patterned border make this invitation unique.
ink: papaya + pewter | font: meadow + madaline | paper: 1-ply white | invite size: f-8 | liner: classic color pattern in papaya ink | customization #: 15644 |
Glitzy Gatsby-inspired Fitzgerald customization
Inspired by the Great Gatsby remake (and one of our favorite wedding trends of the year!), this customization of our Fitzgerald letterpress wedding invitation (by Ellie Snow) has over-the-top glamour and flair. Featuring both Forest Shine and Gold Shine foils, as well as Black letterpress ink, paired with a Manhattan skyline envelope liner, this customization is sure to wow!
fitzgerald customization = inks: black | foils: forest shine + gold shine | fonts: adelais + sans capitals | paper: white | invite size: f-8 | liner: new york skyline in charcoal + black inks | original design by Ellie Snow | customized by in-house designer Sarah Gluchacki |
embellishment suggestions: edge painting: black
(Photo Credits: Misty Miotto).
Romantic Rose Wedding Details
Soft pastels, romantic rose petals, and a summery breeze create an ambiance for a charming contemporary wedding. A show-stopper cake and a charming letterpress invitation suite to match (like our Rose design by Ellie Snow) makes for a picture-perfect wedding celebration.
(Photo Credits: Style Me Pretty)
True Vintage Letterpress Engagement Party Invitations
Letterpressed in a really sophisticated paring of Black and Sand inks, this engaging version of Ellie Snow's True Vintage invitation design really stands out beautifully. Thanks to Byrd + Bleecker for sending this for us to print!
inks: black + sand | fonts: strana + streamline |paper: 1-ply white | invite size: sq7 | envelope liner: sea stripes pattern in black | customization #: 15741 |
Double-sided True Vintage Letterpress Wedding Programs
Did you know that our wedding programs can be letterpress printed on both sides? Our True Vintage design (by Ellie Snow) is the perfect choice for this day of wedding piece. We always suggest using our 2-ply paper when printing on both sides to make sure that each side showcases the beautiful, deep impression that letterpress offers.
inks: charcoal + wisteria | fonts: streamline + sans capital + danube | paper: 2-ply white | invite size: #10 | customization #: 15669 |
True Vintage Letterpress Inspiration
Dreaming of vintage dresses, ruby red lipstick and a classic red pick-up truck to arrive in style? We are too in this customization of our True Vintage design… add a touch of shimmer in Red Shine foil, it's sure to make dreams more like reality.
true vintage customization = ink: charcoal | foil: red shine | fonts: streamline + minimes | paper: white | invite size: f-8 | liner: modern light in charcoal + pewter + sea-side | original design by Ellie Snow | customized by in-house designer Racheal Decker |
embellishment suggestions: foil edge in red shine
(Photo Credits: mona lisa t.)
Colorful Rose Letterpress Wedding Invitations
Our friends over at the Dandelion Patch – Vienna sent us this beautiful customization of our Rose (by Ellie Snow) letterpress wedding invitation. The fuchsia and papaya letterpress inks coupled with surf edge painting leave the recipient in awe! Another wonderful feature of this invitation is the Maura calligraphy (by Kelle Ann McCarter) used for the names and how the surf edge painting ink is incorporated into the envelope liner.
inks: fuchsia + papaya | font: geometric block | calligraphy: maura calligraphy | paper: 2-ply ivory | invite size: sq7 | liner: rustic woodstock in surf + fuchsia + papaya | edge painting: surf | customization #: 14268 |
Ollie + Amelie Letterpress Wedding Invitations
Mix and match! This custom letterpress wedding invite shares design elements from two different invitations- the Ollie pattern in champagne and the Amelie bird motif in watermelon. Get inspired and create your very own personalized invitations!
amelie + ollie customization = inks: watermelon + champagne | fonts: norah + slim pickens | paper: white | invite size: f8 | liner: rustic woodstock in watermelon ink | amelie original design by Ellie Snow | ollie original design by Aimee O'Boyle | customized by in-house designer Brenda Fox
embellishment suggestions: edge paint in watermelon
(Photo Credits: Bridal Musings)
Rose Letterpress Wedding Invitations are Pretty in Pink!
Our Rose design (by Ellie Snow) looks pretty in pink in this sweet letterpress wedding invitation. The trendy willow font really gives this set some character.
inks: british rose + pale gray | fonts: willow + streamline | paper: 2-ply white | invite size: SQ7 |
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We're pretty excited about Election Day 2011 around here (it's today! Tuesday, November 8), so we've decided to hold a vote of our own! From now through November 30, four of our letterpress invitation designs will be in the running to become the next Bella Figura Design of the Month. The winning design will go on sale for 20% off during the month of December, so be sure to vote! (And tell your friends to vote, too!) The 20% off applies to save the dates, thank you cards, coasters, place cards, menus, programs, invitations, and any other piece that uses the winning design.
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Going to try your recipe this weekend. I just love wheat beers. I see that you keg, but do you have any idea of how much priming sugar to add for bottling? Also, have you ever tried making it with DME?
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CROOKEDTAIL are you using hop pellets or leaf hops? I was thinking about brewing your recipe this week, and this would really help
I use hop pellets.
Just brewed this beer and I'm excited to try it! I'm alittle worried as my OG was 1.042 instead of 1.052. I hope that it doesn't effect the awesomeness of this beer though.
Just brewed this and put it in the keg. OG was right on at 1.051, but fermentation stuck and I ended up at 1.017 at the end.
I was surprised using the US-05 that it got that taste I always equate with Belgian beers. Maybe that will change a little after it sits on the gas.
Total fermentation, 16 days. It was stuck at 1.018 since the first 7 days.
Temp is a weak part in my brewing process. My best locale is a dark inner closet with the door cracked to let the house heating-cooling system get to it. Not sure of the temp exactly, but it has been warmer than usual this week.
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Dosing of tobramycin solution for inhalation (TSI) in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients was based on single-dose pharmacokinetic studies. This investigation was prompted by evidence of possible antibiotic accumulation in respiratory secretions with repeated dosing. The objectives were to evaluate whether tobramycin accumulates in respiratory secretions with repeated inhalation, compare total and biologically active tobramycin concentrations in CF sputum, and evaluate sputum induction for obtaining secretions for drug concentration assay.Individuals with CF ?10 years of age were enrolled at the beginning of a course of TSI, 300 mg twice daily for 28 days. Two study visits were conducted, 1-2 days and 24-28 days after initiation of TSI treatment. Induced sputum and expectorated sputum samples were collected for measurement of trough and peak tobramycin concentrations at each visit. Total tobramycin concentrations were measured by high-pressure liquid chromatography and bioactive concentrations by bioassay.Twenty participants completed the study. Trough concentrations were similar at visits 1 and 2, as were peak concentrations. Trough bioactive and total tobramycin concentrations were similar (mean ratio 1.2, 95% CI 0.56, 1.87), but peak bioactive concentrations were significantly lower than peak total concentrations (mean ratio 0.33, 95% CI 0.23, 0.44). Sputum induction was well tolerated.No evidence of significant drug accumulation in respiratory secretions with repeat dosing of TSI was seen. Peak bioactive concentrations, although lower than peak total concentrations, were still generally well within the bactericidal range. Sputum induction as a method for determining airway drug concentrations appears safe and feasible.
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Various news services are reporting that construction has started on a golf course designed by Tiger Woods on Mexico's Baja Peninsula. Ground has broken on the $12 million "El Cardonal" at Diamante Cabo San Lucas, a 1,500-acre oceanfront resort community.
Woods' course will augment an 18-hole track opened in 2009 at Diamante and designed by Davis Love III. Woods send an email to golf.com in which his new course will be suitable for average golfers. "I've played in enough pro-ams to know that not every golfer is a scratch player," he wrote.
"Creating wide landing areas and avoiding forced carries whenever possible allow all golfers, even beginners to keep the ball in play and have more fun."
That said, Woods believes his 7,300-yard design will be playable for all handicaps. "I want to be sure that my designs make individuals think their way around the course," he wrote. "To me, that's an important part of golf and it's what I like to do when I play. I think players like risk-reward opportunities and to feel like they've been challenged in all aspects of the game."
Woods had previously designed courses for projects in Dubai, North Carolina and Ensanada, Mexico. These courses are in various stages of development after being affected by the recession.
His first Mexican project, Punta Brava about 65 miles south of San Diego, Calif., was originally slated to open in 2011, but has since been delayed until at least 2013.
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Fujitsu and Sun arm juttejutsu server with quad-core processor
Earlier this week, John Fowler, the executive vice president of the Systems group at Sun Microsystems, hinted that Sun and server partner Fujitsu would be bringing a new "gap filling" server to market based on the new quad-core Sparc64-VII processor. Turns out, it is indeed an entry server, even if it might compete against Sun's …
Juttejutsu, close combat server
Sounds like Sun and Fujitsu have come up with a close combat server! The war fan is made from iron, and is usually used for signalling troops. The reason that its made from iron is because it can fend off arrows, and even swords.
Of course in the server room, a steel-bladed fan will definitely take somebody's fingers off. "Uh, yes sir, just reach in and grab that wire..."
Not about horizontal scaling
The gap this box fills is all about single threaded performance. While the Niagara boxes are tip top for multithreaded, parallel workloads, if something needs single threaded performance (or "straight line speed"), Niagara isn't the right choice. Since Sun stopped shipping the USIIIi boxes earlier this year, there had been a specific gap: running single threaded applications on an entry level Sparc box.
Yes please
40Gflops about as exciting as lukewarm marmalade
Whilst 'a single Sparc64-VII chip can deliver 40 gigaflops of number-crunching power with all four cores running at 2.5 GHz', so can a single Phenom 9850 of the kind that Dabs will sell you for less than a hundred and fifty of your Earth pounds
a Green machine it is not
I fear Sun is bringing to market yet another offering people will not want.
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
Such a large server for one socket?
"Size matters not, ... Look at me. Judge me by size, do you?"
Is the death of Sun near? Will someone buy us please?
"Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is."
Will I be part of the next RIF? I hear the ROCK team just got hit.
"Soon will I rest, yes, forever sleep. Earned it I have. Twilight is upon me, soon night must fall."
What should we do?
"Around the survivors a perimeter create."
It seems everyone is hiding.
"Always in motion is the future."
Obviously Sun's future is numbered in days, not years or decades.
"When 900 years you reach, look as good, you will not."
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Former Fujitsu customers will recognize the M3000 as a rehash of the PrimePower 250.
It has similarly outlandish power requirements, and is expected to change hardware configuration significantly mid-flight as well. It took some effort to get the 'somewhere around 12A @ 110V' number out of them. Efficiency, yep, sure.
An informal poll of customers found two things: nobody wants it, and everybody knows the gap is in the M5000 to M8000 (10U to massively oversized cabinet with separate power cabinet.) Good luck finding a VAR that knows how to position it; they're getting no support now that Sun's dumped >90% of their customers onto them, and bleeding sales like a stuck pig with no support from Sun.
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Nod to Juttejutsu?
Or perhaps a nod to 'Madarame Ikkaku' the Manga character (no, I've never heard of him either, but Manga's hip with the kids these days, isn't it? Isn't it?)
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About time too!
For all those stuck on Solaris that haven't departed for another OS, this will be a welcomed and much needed gap-filler to replace the old Netra type of Sun server. Just by bringing this out (and I reckon it was an FSC driven development) Sun are admittign Niagara can't fill the old SPARC shoes, let alone compete with Itanium, Power, Xeon or Opteron.
Why do you all hate Sun so much?
Why does every article about Sun or one of Sun's competitors always bring out the Sun haters talking about Sun's death? I'm not sure I understand. I can see not liking a particular vendor, but it's just so darn passionate when it comes to Sun.
It's like Sun dumped you on prom night for that hot chick you were jealous of and you never got over it 25 years and 100 pounds later.
Not that it's really a big deal for me, but I don't see the same amount of hatred for Dell, HP, IBM, Fujitsu, Unisys, EMC, Netapp, RedHat, or Novell. I think the only two that come close or may be worse depending on the article are SCO or Microsoft.
Can someone explain it to me?
You reap what you sow
Years of Scott Mcnealy top 10 lists.
Years of cockiness and better than everyone else
Years of saying SPARC & Solaris is everything and now bragging about how many chips/OS's they support
Years of making millions daily as the stock went to $65...and now under $2
Years of bashing HP, bashing MicroSoft, bashing IBM, yoyoing Linux, using Solaris license to get what they want from Fujitsu.
Understand now?
Yoda was right on....Sun is near death
Re: You reap what you sow
And how is that different from anyy other vendor?
Re: Re: You reap what you sow
It isn't.
He just drinks a different flavour of Kool-Aid
Great Scott
Some marketing drone who posts anonymously (or is it Matt?)
Sun has a gap in its product portfolio, they are positioning a new box to fill it, standard marketing practise. If anybody esle does it, it is business as normal.
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Mine is the jacket with the Sun Kool-Aid in the pocket.
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Matt - as usuall you do not know what you are talking about - the Netra's is a range of servers build to specific technical requirements - and you are the telco specialist?
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User-friendly: Analyzing your first BSoD!
So this will be a little bit different guide for analysing dump files and hopefully figure out the cause of a BSoD. It'll be userfriendly for sure, and I will share my own experience. The tutorial will start off with the very basic things, and will probably get a little harder, but not that hard at all!
So there you have it! Read it through a couple of times if you misunderstood something, or just ask in the thread itself.
Happy analysing!
If your Windbg shows errors related to the symbol path, you should read the Windbg tutorial again and check up on it.
Delete the bunch of dumps you're analyzing once a month or so. It can run up in Gigabytes!
Get the Windbg ready!
Windbg stands for Windows Debugging as you probably guessed, and it's the visualizer for the dump file. It works a bit like a command prompt, a bit different though; you enter a command, you will get it. But we will get to all this later, first let's get your Windbg ready. The tutorial below covers it all, return when you're ready!
Configuring the Debugging Tools
What is a dump file?
A dump file, also called a crash dump, is created when a BSoD appears. It'll make you able to see what the BSoD caused in many cases. It'll tell you what kind of events that has been happening till the BSoD took place. Bigger dumps takes longer to load. If the user doesn't have this included in the zip file, you should link to the page below.
Posting Instructions
Let's get started
If you followed the "Configuring the Debugging Tools" you're able to simply double-click on a .dmp file and Windbg will open. Let Windbg load the dump, it can take time. If it takes more than 2min or so, the dump is in-complete. If this is the case, you should pick another dump in the .zip.
Probably caused by
So in the very first beginning there's a lot of text just when you open the dump. That's actually information about the symbols you picked earlier. When you see a text field where it says:
Probably caused by: (something)
If the dump points to something else, go to a driver reference (Carrona), and search for it. A dump is fairly easy to analyse if this is the case.
The Bugcheck is probably something you know by own experience. It's a number and some text which shows what kind of BSoD the user has been experiencing. Here's an example of a Bugcheck.
STOP 0x1000007F: UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP_M
In this case, it could be the CPU.
So, where's the Bugcheck?
the command '!analyse -v' will give you a more detailed analyse-dump. You can't really miss it. It's surrounded by stars and says Bugcheck.
In a lot of cases, the Bugcheck says it's caused by a memory corruption, and you should inform the user to run a Memtest86+.
Check for old drivers.
i) click Debug
ii) click Modules
iii) sort it by date
Wrap the old drivers in a [CODE][/CODE ] and post it for the user. If the user wonders how to find the drivers make a [QUOTE][/QUOTE ] saying:
How to Find Drivers
search Google for the name of the driver
- compare the Google results with what's installed on your system to figure out which device/program it belongs to
- visit the web site of the manufacturer of the hardware/program to get the latest drivers (DON'T use Windows Update or the Update driver function of Device Manager).
- if there are difficulties in locating them, post back with questions and someone - will help you search Google for the name of the driver
- compare the Google results with what's installed on your system to figure out which device/program it belongs to
- - if there are difficulties in locating them, post back with questions and someone will try and help you locate the appropriate program.
- The most common drivers are listed on this page: Driver Reference
- - Driver manufacturer links are on this page: Drivers and Downloads
To remove any left over driver remnants, especially from graphics cards, use driver sweeper
Guru3D - Driver Sweeper
When the Probably caused by function ends with .exe and the Bugcheck informs a process, you know it's a process, for now. It'll likely be a worm also known as Malware. For that we have the awesome tool for a scan. You should link to the following:
It could also be a broken system file in that case, they should run the 'sfc /scannow command in a command prompt. It'll likely restore some Windows 7 files. Tell the user to run it 2-3 times as it won't likely repair at first run.
Antivirus error
If you discover a Antivirus error, you should ask the user to uninstall their current Antivirus, and ask them to install Microsoft Security Essentials. An antivirus should be uninstalled with the manufactures' software. Here's a list of uninstallers.
There are much more ways to analyse dumps, much more advanced too, but this is just the general things I look for first. Somehow I find the pattern analyses quite irrelevant. Of course it can be used if the dump is a bit harder to analyse, but in most cases you can just pick another dump from the zip. I will probably make more detailed guides next time. For now, I hope you enjoyed it, and i'm sure that you can use it sometime. I totally understand if you find this hard and thinks there's a lot of writing, well, even the professionals can have trouble with all this.
- added malwarebytes option - added sfc /scannow command - added anitivirus - added antivirus-uninstallers - added goodies in the conclusion - added lmntsm instead of lm t n - added tip/warning
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Very interesting FredeGail especially for someone who doesn't know where to start like me lol
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Cheers Fred, BSOD analysis left me cold as I didn't know where to start.
Now I know where to start I need to find a road map for the rest of the journey!
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Nice tut Fred, good information.
It's actually pretty easy once you do it a couple times.
When looking for causes and clues, open the Event logs, $evtx_app_dump and $evtx_sys_dump, these are application and system event logs.
These are usually big files, so use the 'Find' in the 'EDIT' tab, enter 'error' (no quotation marks).
This will take you to all the errors and usually you will find some interesting information.
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Nice work !
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Is there any such thing as a leak-proof container? I like make soup on Sunday to take to work during the week, but as a car-less urban dweller, carrying it around in my bag can be problematic. Rubbermaid containers are so-so -- I have to enclose them in plastic and be careful about keeping my bag upright. There must be something better, I was thinking campers out there might have some suggestions. Thanks!
re: Katie Nell
Katie Nell, are you referring to a pint size or some odd size?
Now I am with the idea of a good quality vacuum type of Thermos, however you should bring your soup to a boiling point prior to filling. It should be considerable hot for eating several hours later and you would be ready to dig in at lunch. (saves fighting over the microwave, if that is a problem)
Back some years ago, I used to keep old squat glass mustard jars for soup at lunch purposes. Eventually I exhausted my supply when the mustard companies went to squeeze bottles.
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I'm actually not sure what size they are, but I see them around a lot, so they can't be too odd of a size. I have some of these squatty ones here, http://www.homeandbeyond.com/prod-000... that I used for small amounts of dressing and things like that. But the ones I originally was talking about are taller and have a wider mouth on them... could be a pint, I guess?
re: RShea78
With the thermos, if you fill it with boiling water first for a few minutes and then empty quickly and fill with the soup (or any hot food), it stays warm for hours.
I found that Tupperware makes the best storage containers, never had a problem with any of them. The designs are well thought out and I believe that they come with a lifetime warranty. I have some that are more than twenty years old and stil are as good as new. They cost more but you do get what you pay for. You can get them online at:
I had the same issue and went looking to replace my "Ziploc" brand plastic containers. I found containers from Starfrit that have four locking sides and a silicone sealing ring. I freeze a lot of stuff and want to m.wave it in a fix, so glass was out for me. I've used them for a while now and they are holding up. they also have no grooves so it makes cleaning easier. http://www.starfrit.com/Products/kitc...
Ziploc also has a new line called Twist & Lock which are pretty good for soup as well - they have a twist on sealing lid that is pretty sturdy too. I prefer the slicone sealing ring in the Starfrit ones though. Much cheaper than Tupperware. I make a lot of soups & sauces with tomotoes and find that every year or two I need to recyle my old containers as the acid from the tomatoes breaks them down and I worry that the plastics are getting into my food.
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> I freeze a lot of stuff and want to m.wave it in a fix, so glass was out for me
I'm pretty sure the Pyrex glass containers are freezer, oven, and microwave safe, and the lids are pretty tight. I haven't frozen mine yet, but the Pyrex site says it's fine, even to go directly from freezer to oven or microwave.
re: will47
I alway microwave stuff that I've frozen in mason jars with no problems... obviously, I leave off the lid, but why shouldn't you microwave?
re: will47
I looked at the Pyrex brand and Corningware and they said they are freezer, oven and dishwasher safe, but right on the packaging they said they did not recommend going straight from freezer to m/wave or oven b/c there is a risk of shattering. They are also incredibly heavy compared to plastic and I often bring leftovers straight from the freezer to work for lunch. So, I went with the Starfrit - they are the Lock & Lock Korean containers - I guess Starfrit sells them (at least in Canada)
Lock & Lock (Korean) brand containers have rubber gaskets in the lid. I think Amazon carries them, though I've bought mine a Asian groceries.
I use one of the click and lock type with a rubber gasket thing and it's fine, but for soup it's more often a cleaned out drinks bottle with a wide neck. Pepsi used to do a really good one that was easy to pour into, doesn't leak and can be shaken. Clearly this needs re-heating in something else (mug) in the microwave!
re: ali patts
ali patts;
Pepsi bottles in my neck of the woods come with too small of an opening as the 1 Liter "wide mouth" bottles haven't been marketed here for some time. However Gatoraid has plastic bottles do have even a slightly wider mouth (than the 1L found elsewhere) and seem to be 3 times the thickness of the plastic material. (although recently, I noticed a new bottle design in the makings, that are not as thick of plastic. They come in 20,24, and 32oz sizes.)
re: RShea78
ok, first, I'm in the UK, over here they used to do a 500ml bottle with a wide neck. They don't anymore - but others do. I guess all I was trying to say was you don't need to get into fancy containers when a drinks bottle can work fine - if you can find the right one!
re: ali patts
ali patts wrote: "I guess all I was trying to say was you don't need to get into fancy containers when a drinks bottle can work fine - if you can find the right one!"
Oh- I am with you 100% on your idea, as here in the US, you are more likely to have that rather pricy ($50) Thermos disappear from the lunchroom. (I had 2 that was stolen myself, over the years.)
I got my leak-proof containers at container store. they have a whole wall and the ones that are labeled "water tight" work great. As someone noted, they can be more expensive, but I think it's worth it for one or two nice, good containers.
I swear by tupperware. I've used it for years, nothing seems to compare. I use it camping to marinate things, even bangs around in the cooler for days before I use it, never leaks. I freeze with it, never worry about it being upside down, sideways, tosses around, etc. If I'm concerned about space then I used zip lock bags and double up for safety but I prefer tupperware. Always burp it.


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ESTERO, Fla. - Governor Charlie Crist and Democrat Kendrick Meek still face an uphill battle against Republican Marco Rubio in the polls for the U.S. Senate race. Saturday, the Former Florida House Speaker brought his campaign to Southwest Florida.
A warm welcome for Republican Marco Rubio- Southwest Florida supporters packed an Estero restaurant to listen in on the candidate's outlook on the Senate race.
"This election is literally a referendum on the our identity as a people, and our identity as a country," Rubio said Saturday.
Rubio talked to the packed house about one of the toughest issues facing Florida and the nation: unemployment.
"Jobs and economic growth is created by everyday people, who start a business or expand an existing business. The job of government is to create an environment where people are encouraged to do that, where we make it easier for people to grow businesses, not harder," Rubio said.
Some protestors also showed up for the rally, voicing their concerns on Rubio's tough stance on U.S. border control. But supporters say Rubio has what it takes to tackle the tough issues.
"I've been laid off twice, so I know exactly where people are coming from. We need someone who will fight for us and fight hard," Rubio-supporter Mary Gagnon said at the rally.
Rubio says that's exactly what he plans to do.
"This election's a pretty straight forward one. If you like the way things are going in Washington, I'm probably not your candidate. But if you want your next US Senator to be someone who will go to Washington, DC stand up to the direction their taking our country and offer an alternative, I'm the only one running who will do that," Rubio told WINK News.
Marco Rubio will continue campaigning in Southwest Florida on Saturday. After the Estero event, his campaign planned a stop at the Fort Myers Gun Show at the Lee Civic Center.


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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) -- French President Francois Hollande has criticized the United States' spying practices involving its allies.
After meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Hollande said through an interpreter Tuesday that the U.S. National Security Agency should not be monitoring the communications of such countries and their leaders.
Hollande said the U.S. is cooperating with Europe on fixing this eavesdropping problem but declined to give details.
Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have pledged to press the U.S. to end this year the alleged spying on foreign leaders, businesses and innocent citizens.
The French leader said that it is necessary for Europe to have measures in place that would protect its citizens.
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Obama taps new NASA boss
Seriously, some of you guys expect an engineer to have the skills needed to run an organisation the size of NASA? Running NASA isn't an engineering problem, it's a management problem. Now, it's quite true that to do that job well you'll need engineering experience - but Bolden has that. It's true that you'll need a science background - but Bolden has that. It's true that you need experience of the space programme - but Bolden has that.
Exactly what is the objection to this appointment? Or did you really expect an engineer with no management background to get the post?
Beeb pushes major new iPlayer release
But will the Wii be able to take advantage? It makes for an excellent iPlayer box for the TV, except that the quality is a little poor.
Apple preps Jobsian magic wand
There's almost nothing in there that isn't already implemented in the Wii, including that "dock" idea - just like Opera's toolbar on the Wii. About the only new thing is being able to rotate photos, and that would surely not qualify as non-obvious.
Barnes & Noble muscles Kindle with e-book buy
Fictionwise not DRMed
Fictionwise does sell DRMed ebooks, yes. But they also sell lots of open formats, too (PDF, HTML, RTF etc.). Which format an ebook is available in depends on the publisher.
I've bought and acquired a _lot_ of books from Fictionwise - they also do lots of giveaways at various times. And I find their e-subscription service great for magazines. I desperately hope that B&N don't break Fictionwise. It's one of the best ebook distributors that I've found, precisely because of their willingness to distribute open formats, and their huge catalogue.
Italians boffins prove plausibility of spam-javelin spam
Surely measuring flaccid length isn't the important issue, and you were silent on the more important issue of, ahem, rigid length. Inquiring minds (not in any way desirous of sending money to spammers) want to know.
UK opposes copyright exemptions for mash-ups
Don't assume everyone's a music executive
The first few comments (maybe more by now) repeat the old line that copyright protects big business against consumers. Now, this is true, but it's only part of the picture. Copyright also protects the small-time musician from exploitation by the big companies!
More than that, it's not all about music. Don't forget video, and plain old writing. If there were exemptions to copyright law for everything, it guts copyright law. There must be a balance between protecting the creator (which is NOT the same as the company that's licensed the content) and ensuring that public culture grows. And this is, after all, the whole point of copyright law - to protect the creator so that they will create more, benefitting everyone.
iPhone surfs to mobile web domination
It'll be interesting to see what happens when the Palm Pre launches. I want me one of those!
Is Twitter actually making money?
Why the rage?
I'm always amused by the rage against Twitter here on El Reg. Sure, some content is undoubtedly peurile and pointless - but the same could be said of many (most?) blogs, websites, IM, email etc.
However, if you follow interesting, sane people, Twitter can actually be useful (as useful as any other communciations technology, anyway). You can even get educational info this way - there are robot feeds that send info like when asteroids pass the Earth and how far away. Sure, it's not world-shattering, but it's genuinely interesting.
Debt collection can be harassment, rules court
Good for her
It's good to see someone being able to stick up for themselves.
Shame you need to be rich to take the chance. :-(
Yes! It's the cardboard PC!
And how would a cardboard PC meet EM emissions regs?
Asus Eee PC S101 luxury netbook
Not cheaper than Toshiba
It seems to have been a very low-key announcement, but Toshiba have launched an SCC of their own, Ubuntu Remix powered, for £249 inc. VAT (http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/product/Toshiba-NB100-11R/1058543/). I had a play with one last month at a conference and it's a rather nice thing. If I was still in the market for an SCC (I was an early Eee buyer), this would be a serious contender.
But that does mean that the S101, pretty as it is, is not cheaper than equivalent Toshiba PCs. Sony, though, seem to be sticking to the expensive side of the street!
Wacky Jacqui's £12bn gIMP could be unleashed by 2012
Lying toad
<i>"We are not proposing that data that have never been collected are held,"</i>
Nice bit of spin there, deftly sidestepping the fact that these data have been collected by ISPs, phone companies (etc.). They have never been held by the Government - that's a rather sizeable change, surely?
Plus, these data used to be collected (insofar as they were collected) only so that the companies could continue to provide their services in an efficient fashion - including for billing. Starting to use the data for spook investigations is a rather significant change of use, I would think.
Miscreants hijacking machines via (freshly patched) Adobe flaw
The problem with Foxit is that it doesn't support all of the PDF format. Any file that makes use of the interactivity features of PDF will fail on Foxit - it renders the PDFs as a flat file (just as GView does).
In other words, the reason that Foxit is smaller and faster than Adobe Reader is that it does a lot less. So, use Foxit if you like for simple PDF rendering, but you'll need Adobe Reader for advanced PDF files.
US admiral wants pain-rayguns for Gulf fleet
Surely the rationale for the microwave weapons is that people run away if they get hit by it. But if you're on a speedboat, you can't get away unless you're the driver. And even then, it'd be pretty trivial to put a metal mesh in front of your windscreen and so shield yourself! Just like in a microwave oven, it's pretty easy to see through.
Altogether, that sounds to me like a recipe for cooking any folk on the deck of the speedboat, as well as any innocent sailors encroaching on the ship who simply don't understand what's happening to them.
Asus sexes up Eee line
Lost the plot?
So Asus, who effectively created the laptot/SCC craze, seem to have lost the plot. At that price, this isn't an SCC at all - it's just a small laptop with a solid-state drive (but only 1GB for that price?!!).
Asus adds HDD to Atom-based old-style Eee
Some folks seem to be forgetting the Reg's own advice when these things first came out - they make the most sense when thought of as appliances, not full-fledged laptops. That is, they're not really meant for the user to mess around with but simply to use.
Now, OK, I've tweaked my original 7" 2G Eee quite a lot. And, despite all the assertions above, I've had very few problems. There is (again, despite the assertions above) a very active Eee community. I had no trouble at all installing OOo3 and Opera on my Eee, and they work very nicely, thank you.
The newer machines may have the grunt to make make Windows work (although all the benchmarks show that in the real-world examples it runs about 25% slower) but the Linux versions are still faster. And most users really wouldn't know which OS they're running, which is pretty much the idea.
Germans give peeking Google one in the eye
"Google says it doesn't need permits"
I think they'll find that, in a legal argument between a law-making entity and themselves, they'll lose on that question! If the law says they need a permit then they do. Google really are losing sight of things. Just because they _want_ to do things, it doesn't follow that they can or should do them.
New hydrocarb X-51 scramjet ready for flight
"DARPA, the renowned Pentagon crazyscience bureau whose nuttiness can only be properly expressed in terms of a conceptual Tardis-style hyperdimensional fruitcake"
I've been enjoying the exaggerated descriptions of DARPA but I think you may be reaching the very peak of available hyperbole here! Where does we go now? You may need to read some E.E. 'Doc' Smith - a true master of excess!
Sony PRS-505 Reader e-book
@ John Latham
"E-books should be a couple of quid a pop."
Only if you believe that most of the cost of a book is made up of printing and distribution. In reality, a lot of the cost is made up paying the author (!), editing, copyediting, typesetting and marketing it, plus some profit for the publisher.
Which isn't to say that ebooks are overpriced (they are). But that asking for ebooks of new content for almost no cost misses the point. Ebooks still require the same production values as print, and still have some (albeit much reduced) costs for production and distribution.
Freelancers might be taxed as employees after High Court ruling
Stop complaining
So, he owes £99k in tax and NI for 3 years' work? He must have been pulling in at least, what, £70k a year for those 3 years? My heart truly does bleed for this "little" man and his tiny income.
I worked as a freelancer for 6 years (in publishing, in case that matters) and it's trivial to avoid being hit like this. The rules are basically the same as they always were - work for multiple clients and always retain control over how you work. If you work for just one client and do precisely what you're told, when you're told, then you can't be surprised that you're treated like an employee by the tax office. If you feel that a contract is likely to be treated as employment by the Revenue then do the honest thing - talk to the Revenue and see what they say, then talk to the client.
Stop evading taxes and pay up like honest folks.
Mens mag debuts e-ink cover
Not at fancy as it looks
I quite like the way they've done this - they've clearly used a (relatively) cheap monochromatic e-ink display and overprinted it (or possibly underprinted it) with a colour picture. The result is that it looks like a colour display, but it's not.
Notice that the colour parts (the photos on the front and the car on the inside ad) don't move - they just flash as the display moves from dark to light. The grey text appears and disappears, but the colour parts stay.
Still, as I say, it's a nice use of the technique. But I have to agree with some of the above comments: permanent publishing has definite advantages over electronic. I can't imagine much worse a fate than books and magazines becoming as full of popups and flashing ads as the Internet. At least on the net we have NoScript and AdBlock!
Burned by Chrome - Fire put out
EULA copied from Google Docs?
Sounds like they've copied the license text from another service where it might have been vaguely sensible. It doesn't make any sense at all in a browser. Shame - Chrome has some nice features and is certainly very fast, in the brief play I've had with it. The Google folks just need to sort their heads out.
Wind farm wound down on air traffic fears
@ Alexis Vallance, AC et al.
I've always wondered about this "windmills are ugly" argument. Personally, I think they're a beautiful example of minimalist engineering. I love the look of windmills turning in the breeze. There are some perfectly valid arguments against wind farms on the grounds of efficiency and capacity, but IMO the aesthetic argument is hugely in favour.
And, yes, I would be most happy for a wind farm to be built by my house.
Toyota unveils Segway rivals
Strong thighs?
I suspect that the smaller two models have you holding the central column between your knees or thighs. So skateboarding might be a close analogy - hands free, anyway!
Scrabble knock-off reborn as Wordscraper
Scrabulous still working...
I made a move just this morning! Something's odd - has it been removed in the USA only?
Hacker murders Facebook word game
Back again...
Now here's odd - Scrabulous was gone from Facebook yesterday evening (UK time) but was back again this morning.
Elonex shows off second Small, Cheap Computer
It'd better be cheap
With that spec, the Elonex One T will need to be really, really cheap. Given that the Acer Aspire One will be £230 for an Atom-powered laptot with a 9" screen, I'd suggest that the Elonex offering will need to be well down towards £100 to sell.
And if it is £130 or so, it could be rather tempting - provided the OS is well designed and hackable. I don't know whether we've seen the interface yet, and this was one of the big plus points of the Eee. You had a good, quick, easy interface, coupled with easy access to a proper desktop.
Asus Eee PC 901 Linux Edition
@Craig Ringer - SquashFS
There's one thing you've missed - with the existing FS arrangement on the Eee, one can easily do what I have: log in without unionfs (so that you're just using the system partition in read-write mode) and do a true uninstall of the dross you don't need, and do a true install of stuff you do need. That means I have a 2G Eee with a full TeX installation, and still full free space on the user partition.
Aspire One vs Eee
The one thing that worries me about the One compared with the Eee is the community support. The Eee is based on Xandros, which means that lots of Debian packages work on it. But the One uses Linpus, of which I've never heard. The interface doesn't look as usable as the Eee's. In particular, the Eee's interface can be used entirely from the keyboard (which is good, given the size of the trackpad!) but it doesn't look like the One's will allow this as easily.
OK, so these are basically appliances, but one of the nice things about Linux is being to set it up exactly how you want. And I guess that a lot of the market for these devices is geeks. So, if the One isn't as 'hackable' as the Eee it could well be a strike against it.
For example, on my Eee 701, I've installed Opera instead of Firefox, and use LyX instead of OpenOffice. And I've installed various games and utilities, too. I don't fiddle with it a lot, but I did do a lot of fiddling initially so that it's an appliance that does what I want.
Adobe launches 'free' Flash-only media player
Odd name choice, given the long-standing music player WinAmp. Plenty of choice for confusion there, methinks.
Wal-Mart stores drop cheap-as-chips Linux PC
@Mike Habel
What on Earth would they put 2GB of RAM into this box for? Setting aside for a second the fact that this is unashamedly a budget box, how would you ever use that much RAM? I've run Linux for years on 512MB and have almost never started swapping, not even when using the Gimp.
You're not the target market for this box. It's a low-power system that will do the web, email and word processing perfectly well, plus the occasional casual game. (OK, the Via processor's a bit weak but, still, a desktop system for £99? Not bad!)
Minister wants more mashups
I read this article's title as...
'Minister wants more mishaps'
IPCC's 'evil twin' launches climate change sceptic's creed
@ Graham Dawson
You ask why we should we try to stop it. How about the fact that, if sea levels rise, they'll swamp quite a lot of (a) important and expensive cities and (b) important and expensive agricultural land? Climate change is a very simple proposition. If it happens, the consequences for human beings, especially those of us dependent on sophisticated and complex industrial systems, will be dire.
The basic science is incontrovertible. CO2 is a greenhouse gas - it prevents heat leaving the Earth. More CO2 therefore means a warmer climate. This isn't the question. Only the extent of the effect is debatable.
"Are you going to claim that we know the ideal temperature of the planet?"
Well, we know that changing the temperature of the planet far from what it is now would be very bad for us. Sure, Life would go on, but human beings would have a rather less pleasant time of it than we have for the past couple of hundred years.
Sure, it's a somewhat selfish viewpoint but why shouldn't we act to make our tenure on the planet sustainable? Or do we not care what our children will inherit?
Re: like what is the causing it?
Science is based on people coming up with new and radical ideas - with the facts to back them up. If there was this mysterious conspiracy building castles of climate change in hot air then, without a shadow of a doubt, there would be hordes of young scientists publishing acres of results showing that this was fraud. They'd be out there, making their reputations.
But they aren't there at all. Because the evidence we have points to anthropogenic climate change as real. The real question is about the _size_ of the effect, not whether there is one.
"This goes right up to the top 10 of the most stupid things I have ever read! If the sceptics are right and human influence is so so weak that it hardly registers then it would be absolutely pointless to waste resources trying to lessen the overall effect."
Really? Then you haven't thought about it much.
If climate change happens then our society is in serious trouble. The greater the change, the greater the trouble. And we're not talking 300 years from now - we're talking 30. In our lifetimes, potentially.
The sceptics are in the great minority in the scientific community. Not because everyone else has been bought off or something, but because the evidence points rather strongly in the direction of anthropogenic change. If it takes extraordinary measures to influence the climate then we'd better prepare to take them. And there are serious proposals for extraordinary schemes - orbital sunshades, dust clouds to shade the Earth, atmospheric seeding and more. It's just that these are even more expensive than cleaning up our emissions.
At worst, you can accuse those trying to do something about it of optimism.
That's better than fatalism or apathy.
Standard climate change denier stuff, then. They basically say that all climate scientists are stupid or corrupt - they apparently don't include negative feedbacks or solar irradiation in their calculations or models.
It's nonsense that there is no consensus. However, "consensus" doesn't mean "unanimity". The world's scientists are almost never unanimous. There are even some that disbelieve General Relativity, or Quantum Mechanics etc. That doesn't mean that these aren't good, accurate models of the world. Just like climate change.
Besides, if the sceptics are right and the world is warming because of non-anthropogenic factors, that's actually a bigger problem. If human influence is so weak, it means that we're going to have to make _greater_ efforts to stop climate change, not less. That is, if human-caused CO2 levels have a smaller effect than is generally thought then we have to reduce emissions by a lot more than is generally thought if we want to stop a particular amount of warming!
Why you should care that Jimmy Wales ignores reality
"We're talking about something more like The Hitch Hiker's Guide than Encyclopedia Galactica"
Indeed - as the great man put it: "in cases of major discrepancy, it's always reality that's got it wrong."
How Phorm plans to tap your internet connection
Won't this slow down all requests?
By hijacking all requests, won't this slow down the users' browsing? OK, not by much per click, but what happens when Phorm's servers get overloaded and slow? Will they intercept multiple attempts? What if this F5 thing goes down? Will the users be left without Internet access?
Or, in other words, is this not just another weak point waiting to cause misery to the user?
Security boffins unveil BitUnlocker
Don't forget the TPM issue
All these comments about the transient window for attacks misses the final point. If a PC has a TPM in it then the window is as long as you want it to be. Nick the PC and cold boot it. You'll have the encryption key loaded freshly into RAM, ready for stealing.
*That* is the "when we say gaping, we mean gaping" hole.
Elonex punts £99 Linux laptop
Re: Here's more details...
I don't think that is the same machine - it's similar, but the ports down the side of the screen look different.
However, if it is the same, the spec is disappointing. A 300MHz x86 processor coupled to max 256MB of RAM isn't going to light any fires, even running lightweight Linux. I have a 2G Eee, whose processor runs at 570MHz and which has 512MB RAM, and it's fast enough running a browser and OpenOffice. But I don't think you'd want to go much less powerful.
Adobe Reader Trojan predates mystery update by two weeks
Defending Adobe Reader
OK, so "reading PDFs" is easily done by lots of other software that's a lot leaner. But I work in publishing and there are lots of features of the PDF format that are only supported properly (or at all) by Adobe Reader, such as layers, scripting and animations. Now, these aren't necessary in many applications (a software manual is a software manual, and a form is a form) but they are extremely useful in many others. A lot of our new publishing for schools is taking advantage of these features of later PDF versions - and hence of Adobe Reader.
Adobe Reader isn't just a "PDF rasteriser", as many other programs are. It's a full PDF engine. Yes, it's big but that's because it's powerful.
(It may be bloated as well, I couldn't comment on that. But it's not all bloat by any means.)
Palm to bring latest Palm OS smartphone to UK
@Reg @Keke
Well, the graphic at the top of that page says 320x320, even though the text says 240x320. However, it can't be 240x320 because it's square.
Virgin Media trashes patent infringement accusations
Virgin's Guide
@Mike Hunt:
Have you ever actually looked at the Virgin/NTL guide? You've always been able to rearrange the channels so that the ones you want are arranged together in whatever order you like. It'll also move all the channels you're not subscribed to out of the way all by itself in one easy step.
It's not the best guide in the world, but it's not as bad as you make out. (Actually, I preferred the old NTL one, because they actually took away a few features in an update early last year.) Indeed, I'm now on Freeview instead of Virgin, and the Guide on my TVonics box is definitely superior to the NTL one.
ID cards delayed until 2012
Teachers, doctors etc?
<i>The third priority outlined in the document is "to issue cards to those who are employed in positions of trust where identity assurance is critical to determining their appropriateness for that employment".</i>
So, are they suggesting that teachers, doctors and so forth will be the initial subjects of ID cards? Because I can see problems with expecting such opinionated and highly organised (i.e. with strong unions and associations) folk to be your vanguard.
VBA-free Office for Mac debuts
Dropping VBA totally?
If MS drop VBA support totally from Office, surely they'll lost a huge portion of potential upgrades? Many (most?) commercial users of Office have an extensive collection of macros for MS Office written in VBA (and even legacy macros in WordBasic). If the scripting engine drops VBA support, these business will need a very compelling reason to "upgrade", given the extra cost of implementing all their macros!
US switches off the incandescent lightbulb
"wasted heat"
For all those banging on about the heat from incandescents helping your heating bill - don't forget the summertime, when that heat actually raises your air con bill...
Plus, those who bemoan the long startup times of CFLs are way out of date. The current crop are instant-on (or, at least, most are).
The brightness is also fine, provided you buy the right bulbs. After all, you don't complain that incandescents are "too dim" because you tried to light your living room with a 60W bulb, do you?
Kindle, Eee PC top Amazon.com 'most wanted' list
It's just struck me (and possibly Simon above) - that image we've been seeing so much of is a Photoshop job. The Eee isn't really there. That poor lass.
Rockstar to battle BBFC over Manhunt 2 ban
"Rockstar said it believes gamers should be allowed to decide for themselves the level of horror they see in a videogame, just as they do in the movies that BBFC classifies for UK viewing."
Which translates as "Who cares what UK law says - we want to sell this game anyway, just as it is."
And even their sentiment (as quoted) isn't consistent. They accept that people should only have to choose between films that the BBFC approves for release. The same situation applies to film as to videogames: some are too gory for release. If they are too nasty, they can't be seen in this country. That's the law, like it or not.
Please ignore the start-up stealing the OS from Microsoft
@Anonymous - Reboot?
Putting a computer in standby has two issues, both related to power drain. The first is the green issue - why leave a computer in standby, drawing power and running up an electricity bill when you can shut it down? My iMac boots and lets me log in in well under a minute, so it's not a huge issue.
But the second issue is the big one - leaving a laptop sleeping is a recipe for a dead battery. The power drain is small but real. And if you do a safe sleep (i.e. store state on disc), it still takes a while to wake up. Indeed, Windows laptops seem to take tens of seconds to wake from sleep!
A true instant-on computer would, given marketing etc., be very successful IMO.
Sun to blame for yin-yang Moon's dark side
Re: Tidelocked
Tidal locking isn't necessary. As the article explains, if part of the moon is darker, it will get warmer than the rest given _even_ heating. This produces the runaway effect described in which part of the moon gets warmer and darker, even though all of the moon gets the same amount of sunlight.
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