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- Details
- Specs
- Reviews
- Manuals
- What's Included
If you want to get the most out of your home theater equipment and your HDTV, you need to use the right cables to connect your components - and when it comes to quality, nothing is better than Celerity Technologies HDMI cables. Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI is easy to use and requires no external power adapters or extenders. Celerity is designed for single and multiple room HDMI connections where distance between the source and display is extended. For long runs, you will enjoy perfect picture and sound without loss of signal integrity and HDMI specification. For shorter, more common distances, Celerity is also ideal as there is no loss of high resolution picture quality. Color, contrast and brightness characteristics are fully realized with Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI.
Best Picture & Sound
Celerity's fiber optic technology converts HDMI into light signals that support today's high-definition bandwidth demands for 1080p, 3D and 4K resolutions. Supporting 36-bit Deep Color, Celerity offers unparalleled HDMI performance for picture quality, color depth and detail. Only Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI is capable of supporting the huge bandwidth required for today's high resolution content.
Detachable Fiber Optic HDMI Connector (DFO)
A miniature plug is attached to each end of the Celerity fiber optic cable, guaranteeing a perfect connection between the fiber optics and the Detachable HDMI connector. The miniature plug protects the fiber optics and internal electronics and allows for a simple and secure connection. The Detachable HDMI connector makes pre-wiring of the fiber optic cable as easy as plug and play.
Audio Return Channel (ARC)
Celerity is the world's first fiber optic HDMI cable to support Audio Return Channel (ARC). ARC offers the benefit of requiring no additional cables to send sound from a TV to the home AV system for playback through the speakers in the room. For rooms with in-wall, in-ceiling or bookshelf speakers, ARC improves the audio experience tremendously without the need for additional cables or other accessories.
Cable Jacket Material
Professional AV technicians can install Celerity in your home or business with the complete confidence and certification required for safety. In order to safely install cables inside walls, certain UL safety regulations must be met. There are many regulations for different applications and Celerity complies with the most stringent regulations so it may be installed in your home or commercial business structure with confidence. Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI cables meet UL-910 Plenum-rated requirements.
Available in the following sizes:
Fiber Optics - Offers the best picture and sound quality without and interference or loss of signal integrity. Fiber optic cables are thin and easily hidden and Celerity features a detachable HDMI connector making it very easy for professional AV technicians to install the fiber optic cable in walls, ceilings, and small conduit runs. Breathtaking.
Audio Return Channel (ARC) - Eliminates the need for connecting a separate audio cable between your TV and AV receiver. Convenient.
Detachable, miniature size
Advanced electronic technology by Celerity has produced the world's smallest HDMI interface for long distance and best picture quality. Celerity fiber optic cables can now be easily hidden and no "black boxes" are necessary and you get plug and play HDMI. Sleek.
Compatible - Celerity strives for a high degree of HDMI product compatibility to ensure the most reliable connection possible. You can always contact us for assistance. Dependable.
LED indicators - Celerity includes an LED indicator at each end of the fiber optic HDMI connector. These tiny LEDs are really important and convenient. They let you know that the Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI cable is properly working from end-to-end. Confidence.
No external power supplies - Power is easy to connect with Celerity. Power at the source component (TX - transmit) is drawn from the source HDMI connector using the HDMI "hot plug". At the display (RX - receive), power is easily connected via a USB port on the TV and with the Celerity USB power cable which is wired into the Celerity Detachable HDMI connector. Easy.
Low power consumption - Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI is very efficient as its power needs are limited to very low levels. Green.
Interference-free - Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI doesn't pick up interference nor does it create interference to your entertainment system. As all of the signals being carried are optical light signals, they are completely immune to interference and electronic noise. Pure.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Why is a Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI cable better than a copper cable?
- Fiber optics work better for sending digital signals such as HDMI which include audio, video and data information. These signals travel faster and farther without degradation over fiber optics.
Do I need any extra items to use Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI?
- No. It's as easy as plug and play. No power adapters or extender boxes are necessary. Celerity's technology is embedded inside the connectors.
Are fiber optic cables subject to interference?
- No. Interference from appliances, wireless devices, computers and other home and business electronics will not affect Celerity Fiber Optics. You only get the best picture quality.
Are fiber optic cables durable?
- Yes. They are actually quite strong. Inside the cable jacket are a layer of strength members which are part of the fiber optic cable construction to provide durability and pulling strength. They help to protect the tiny, optical glass fibers.
Why is the Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI detachable?
- This is so that the Celerity fiber optic cable between components can be easily installed in tight, hidden spaces and in conduit when required. The detachable HDMI connector is easily attached to the miniature fiber optic plug after pre- wiring.
What is Audio Return Channel (ARC)?
- ARC is a convenient feature that allows an HDTV to send its audio signal to an AV receiver without the need for an additional cable so that the sound can be heard on the loudspeakers in the room.
I want to have a multi-room high definition video system in my home. Can I connect my sources, switchers and HDTV?s with Celerity?
- Yes, this is an ideal application for Celerity. Your Professional AV technician can easily hide the Celerity Detachable Fiber Optic HDMI cables in the walls of your home and connect all of the necessary components for your dream system. Now the picture and sound will be perfect at every location.
I've heard that HDMI signals are complex and may not work at long distances. Is this true?
- Celerity has solved this problem. We are experts at HDMI and fiber optic technology and applied our knowledge to ensure that full HDMI signals may be sent reliably up to 1000 feet.
The Celerity Story
Celerity set out with a simple vision - to provide the very best connection for today's high definition AV components. Their experience confirmed that HDMI is the most robust connection technology for digital connectivity today and for the future. They also learned of the growing demand for whole-home HDMI. Unfortunately, sending HDMI through a whole-home network using conventional copper cables is complicated and unreliable so they wanted to solve the problem. By using fiber optics, they overcome the obstacles of interference and bandwidth limitations of copper cables so that what you see on your HDTV screen is a beautiful picture.
They also put themself in the shoes of the professional AV technicians who know how to turn your home into a digital dream home. They made the Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI cable easy to install through walls, ceiling and floor spaces and even through air ducts commonly found in business buildings. Celerity Fiber Optic HDMI cables meet all of the necessary UL safety certifications for such installations. Professional AV technicians simply have to pull the Celerity fiber optic cable in their pre-wire process and then with just one simpler step, add the detachable fiber optic HDMI connector to the cable when they are ready to connect the components and TV.
Celerity maintains technology and business research relationships around the world to ensure that their products are fully compatible with today's high definition components.
Founded in Southern California, Celerity Technologies will continue to advance the art of fiber optics for the best high definition connection for your home or business.
- Fiber optics work better for sending digital signals such as HDMI which include audio, video and data information. These signals travel faster and farther without degradation over fiber optics.
Specifications Manufacturer Celerity Technologies Manufacturer Product No. DFO-500P UPC 6957065100074 Cable Length 500 foot High Definition Bandwidth Support 1080p, 3D and 4K resolution Deep Color Support Yes, 36-Bit Deep Color HDMI Data Support HDCP, EDID, DDC and CEC Audio Return Channel Yes Certifications UL-910 Plenum-rated (can be safely installed inside walls) LED Status Indicator At TX and RX HDMI connectors, a powered LED verifies system connectivity Power TX: DC5V 0.5W / RX: DC5V 0.5W Humidity 0% - 90%RH Fiber Optic Cable Pull Strength 60 pounds Fiber Optic Plug Dimensions 0.27" x 0.35" x 0.98" (7mm x 9mm x 25mm) HDMI Connector Dimensions 0.31" x 0.78" x 1.10" (8mm x 20mm x 28mm)
- 1x - Fiber Optic HDMI Cable
- 1x - Transmitter (TX) HDMI Adapter
- 1x - Receiver (RX) HDMI Adapter with USB Power Plug
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Bite-Sized Poetry
Poetic gods rejoice--readers sent in more wonderful Haiku for our reading pleasure. For those left cold by Haiku, we return to our regularly scheduled unpredictable gumbo tomorrow.
What I like about Haiku is the challenge of squeezing complex emotions and thoughts into bite-sized poetry. You can read Haiku in just a few seconds, but the imagery and meanings reverberate long after. Of the masters, I like Ryokan best, but who cannot like Basho?
Here are readers' contributions, in order received:
Kenneth M.
Biblical Summer (8 linked Haiku)
Bumblebees sniff/hop
spoons of vanilla ice cream
fly away, dripping...
Epic winds don't blow
news down avenues. A pen
detonates cities.
Impeachment speeches
echo off limestone. Dollars
lose the glam of green.
Kites above my bed
are tied to shotgun triggers.
There is no excuse.
Desert dust is wiped
from goggles. Red blood from a
vision cakes and dries.
Divining rods can't
find water or oil. Distant
shores smell of coffee.
No sky for the cat
to lose its cry in. Hymns are
hummed in beggars' cups.
Tonight, the world could
end. We've come a long way since
round stones and slingshots.
silver and gold coins
capitalist ships burning
plundering begins
Doe Lo
the reeling mind aches
waits for beginning of end
mad snake bites his tail
weary head in hand
cries out for much needed rest
knowing end is far
hope is running thin
thinner water runs clearer
clear to the ending
Renee S-J.
Just came across something interesting at work today. Management put out a bar graph showing our annual freight tonnage, inbound and outbound from 2002 thru 2006.
Peak was the year 2004, a combined tonnage of almost 300,000 dollars. 2007? So far about 65k. Ouch!
i work at a factory which has been operating since 1896. We do vinyl, plastics, etc for automtive interior trim, construction, pool liners and the plastic sheets used in Dentist X-ray packets. (The little ones that go in your mouth) among other items. In honor of such a drastic slippage in tonnage, here is my haiku:
Tonnage is fading
I see my lay-off coming
thank the gods I saved.
Renee's 17 syllables contain great wisdom and a sobering view of our collective future. Thank you, readers for a delightful array of creative Haiku.
Here is my weak attempt for the day:
Dow fourteen-thousand
drunken Bulls borrow, heedless
of the cliff ahead
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Bite-Sized Poetry
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|Flaws in OSF DCE
|Text Editor Research Bibliography
|The existance and purpose of Zero
|Computer viruses under Un*x
|Linux on Alpha CPU
|Design of a SPARC Assembler
|Source code
|Windows NT developer's hard choice
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|Business press treatment of Microsoft
|Microsoft shilling and astrotufing
|How to use FTP in a shell script
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|Combinatory Logic interpreter, v1.6
|Combinatory Logic with strong reduction
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|Lambda Calculus interpreter, v1.0
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I updated The Grugq's userland exec for the 20xx's, Linux 3, Glibc 2.15 and GCC 4.x. x86 Source code. x86_64 source code.
I wrote an interpreter for untyped lambda calculus. It does Beta and Eta reductions, you can define abbreviations, and it has support for repetitive structures like Church Numerals.
I wrote an interpreter for Combinatory Logic. I modified it to do strong reduction via the Cβ algorithm. I also wrote an interpreter that does combinatory logic with two different arithmetic combinator bases.
Define your own combinators, bases and even bracket abstraction algorithms with the Generalized Combinatory Logic interpreter. Comes complete with examples of many bases (including 2 λI bases) and abstraction algorithms.
I submit, for your approval, an interpreter for a programming language that closely matches Stephen Kleene's recursive functions.
I wrote a tech report style document about a Perl framework for simulating things like Code Red or SQLSlammer. Read the document, then download the software to try for yourself. Don't just believe the anti-virus companies and the press, try it for yourself.
Why you shouldn't Use OSF DCE
I wrote this article based on my experience with OSF DCE 1.01 and 1.03 in 1994 and 1995. My 1997 experience wasn't any better.
There are alternatives to DCE. Consider using ONC RPC. The ONC RPC system probably performs better than OSF DCE, and it doesn't possess a lot of the flaws that DCE does.
Go way out on a limb and use the Coda filesystem and the accompanying RPC2 remote procedure call system. An introduction to Coda.
Read Comparing Remote Procedure Calls for another viewpoint.
Object orientation may not solve the problem, either. This guy thinks CORBA is bad, too. A couple of CORBA retrospectives seem to confirm this judgement, but maybe not completely?
Andrew Tannedbaum wrote a critique of RPC in general. That might be worth a look. Tannenbaum has a lot of good ideas.
The circa 2000-2010 XML craze hasn't helped things along any:
This whole "web services" or "SOA" thing is just one big, dumb excuse to buy more hardware. SOAP is tied pretty closely to Java and/or the abominable ripoff of Java, C#. Stray too far from one or the other, and you won't have an interoperable relationship. Ha ha.
"The comparison of widely varying text editors has only recently evolved beyond subjective preference and name-calling." - Nathaniel S. Borenstein, 1985.Text Editor Research Bibliography
There Is No Zero
A kooky rant on the existance and purpose of Zero.
Source code for some programs I wrote, including:
Boycott Microsoft. Monopolies are bad. Unregulated monopolies are even worse.
Read why Windows NT developers face a difficult choice, and what I think the bad effects of Windows NT will be. Consider this side-by-side comparison of Windows NT to Sun's Solaris when choosing what OS to use. Consider the factor of 2 to 7 loss of performance that Harvard experimenters documented for Windows NT versus NetBSD on the same hardware. I think the evidence is in. The conclusion has to be that developing for NT is a mistake.
Here's an example of how Microsoft gets soft treatment in the business press.
Monopolies often fail to innovate. Microsoft is no exception.
If you buy a major brand PC, you are required to buy a Microsoft operating system. If this isn't a monopoly shafting trapped consumers, I don't know what is. The Consumer Federation of America estimated $10 billion in Microsoft overpricing due to its monopoly.
If you want to buy a laptop and not purchase a Microsoft operating system, you might want to bear in mind this Australian's experience.
Microsoft fired an auditor for blowing the whistle on certain accounting practices that affect MSFT stock values.
Microsoft paid for newspaper ads that the Independent Institute nominally put out.
Microsoft (convicted of illegal monopoly maintenance) also pays consulting companies to portray Microsoft viewpoints as that company's viewpoint.
On April 10, 1999 the Los Angeles Times reported that Microsoft "has secretly been planning a massive media campaign designed to influence state investigators by creating the appearance of a groundswell of public support for the company". Plans for the campaign included planting articles, and commissioning letters to the editor and opinion pieces written by Microsoft media handlers, but presented as "spontaneous testimonials."
Any pro-Microsoft viewpoint portrayed in a public or advertising-supported forum must be examined carefully. The advocate of that viewpoint may be a paid propagandist, and not at all who or what they say they are.
Microsoft's WebTV subsidiary spys on its customers.
Microsoft Corp.'s WebTV Networks Inc. is quietly using a system-polling feature that can extrapolate subscriber information from each of its 450,000 users to better serve advertisers, said Steve Perlman, president of WebTV.
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Hillary Clinton finally made her way to Congress and testified on the Benghazi attacks this week. She managed to not wipe out again, God bless her. We were treated to quite a spectacle — and a double feature one at that, as Clinton testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
She lied, obfuscated, possibly committed perjury and enjoyed having her ass kissed by every single Democrat prior to their asking her questions the equivalent of, 'so, how's the weather?'. It was less of a hearing and more of a groupie love fest. Clinton took responsibility yet only for what she wanted to. Nothing of any consequence was her fault. Clinton is Secretary of State, yet claimed to know nothing very useful. Instead, we should all look forward to how we can stop this from happening in the future. She referred back to ARB on nearly every question. It was pathetic and infuriating, but typical and expected testimony.
Only a few managed to ask her with any questions of any depth. None of them were Democrats. What a shocker, right? Rep. Rand Paul, Sen. John McCain, Rep. Jeff Duncan and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher were the only ones to land any real punches.
As Bryan Preston at the PJ Tatler notes:
As a result, they never laid a glove on her.
As a result, the Benghazi cover-up remains covered up.
As a result, accountability is dead in Washington. At least, for Democrats. It's still open season on Republicans.
There was so much wrong with her testimony, it is hard to know where to start. Let's hit the high notes. First, let's review:
The YouTube Video being the reason for the Benghazi attack was a lie told by every major mouthpiece of this administration. Got all that? Good. Now, read on.
"What difference does it make?!"
The most remembered part of her entire testimony, and one that will come back to haunt her should she decide to run in 2016, was when she blew up at Sen. Ron Johnson when he dared question her why this administration lied for almost a month about the cause of the attack:
When she came out with this all I could see were flashbacks to Bill and his ring-around-the rosy semantics games, lying and denials of having 'sexual relations with that woman'. Same tactic, just with some judo-chop action to the table and a few crocodile tears.
It makes a big difference to one person I can think of right off the top of my head. Claiming you never saw or heard about the cables from Ambassador Stevens that detailed specific threats and were begging for more security is at best comparable to saying the dog ate your homework. You're Secretary of State. One of your primary job descriptors is to keep our embassies, consulates and personnel overseas secure and safe. You failed. Bang your fists on whatever desks you want, your kabuki theater is insulting.
Madam Secretary, that you seem to think that perpetrating as monstrous a lie as this administration did, blaming a YouTube trailer when you knew damn well that wasn't the case, somehow doesn't matter at this point is beyond astounding. It matters — it was lie willingly and knowingly told by this administration and by you too, madam. It was a lie told in desperation to cover up something bigger or to just cover your own ass for gross negligence of duty and failed leadership. I think it might be both and that's horrific. (Related: Hillary Clinton still refuses to say Benghazi wasn't caused by the Muhammad video » The Right Scoop )
It's the funding
It wasn't overly long before an attempt to blame the lack of security on funding cuts, by Republicans of course. Rep. George Meeks pushed the funding lie back into view after he wiped the drool from his chin. Rep. Engel was eager to pile on. Just ignore the wasted millions Clinton spent on a consulate that will never open. Nothing to see there. (Read: It's True. Hillary Clinton State Department Blew $80 Million on Mazar-e Sharif Consulate That Will Never Open | The Gateway Pundit)
The lack of funding issue had already been debunked in the initial hearings by Charlene Lamb, but why trouble ourselves with facts. You can read Lamb's testimony here. (Related: State Dep't rep: "We had the correct number of [security] assets in Benghazi" « Hot Air) Pretty soon, it wasn't just funding cuts, somehow Bush and WMD's were to blame, courtesy of the Congressional Village Idiot, Dick Durbin.
Two thing stick out to me in her testimony overall. One – Clinton contradicted known statements about watching the siege live. Two – Throughout the two sessions, Clinton denied seeing or knowing about cables from Ambassador Stevens, yet multiple times she refers to all of the critical information she has readily available to her from a variety of sources. Clinton even went as far as to detail several past and current threats. Either she's lying or she's more incompetent than talk show puppet Susan Rice. My money is on lying; there is no way she could have not been aware of the threats posed there given number of them and the history. Colleague and LL1885 Blog author, Liberty Speaks, has sent me a .pdf of the declassified cables dealing with concerns over security in Benghazi which are located on Scribd. I would encourage reading them. Of interest: Pgs. 38, 42-45, 52.
In summary: Dog and Pony Show.
Sharyl Attkisson has her work cut out for her. Still.
- No one has been fired. Clinton is responsible but won't answer any questions; according to her testimony, we just have to make sure this doesn't happen again and stop trying to get to the bottom of it.
- No one has been named as responsible for cutting the security.
- No answer on why no help was sent, just excuses.
- No answer on why this administration chose to push an obvious lie (the video) on the American people and the world, resulting in the jailing of an American citizen.
Key Exchanges:
- Clinton on Benghazi story confusion: 'What difference at this point does it make!?' [VIDEO] – The Daily Caller
- Rand Paul to Hillary: Let's face it, you should have been fired over Benghazi – Hot Air
- Video: Rep. Duncan to Hillary: "I'll tell you what difference it makes…" – Nice Deb
- GOP Congressman To Clinton: "The Only Person That's In Jail Right Now Is The [Mohammed] Filmmaker"… – Weasel Zippers
- Rep. Duncan to Hillary: You let the consulate in Benghazi become a death trap – The Right Scoop
- Rand Paul slams Hillary: If I had been president I would have fired you – The Right Scoop
It's worth noting that there will likely be an all out assault coming forthwith on Rand Paul by the media and the rest of the institutional Left.
The Groupies:
- Barbara Boxer tries to launch Hillary's 2016 campaign at Benghazi hearing – Michelle Malkin
- GOP Congressman: 'I Just Wish You Had Won the Democratic Primary in 2008' – The Weekly Standard
Related Must Reads:
- JW Special Report: "The Benghazi Attack of September 11, 2012: Analysis and Further Questions" – Judicial Watch
- Rush: No 'coincidence' Hillary debt was paid the week of Benghazi hearings – The Daily Caller
- "What Difference Does it Make?" Plenty – Commentary Magazine
- 3 Incredibly Outrageous Evasions by Hillary Clinton About Benghazi – Hit & Run : Reason.com
- 6 Things You Need to Know About Clinton's Benghazi Testimony – Washington Free Beacon
- Why it matters whether Benghazi was terrorism or not. – Moe Lane
- State Dept Does Nothing About Benghazi Attackers, But Algeria Does – Maggie's Notebook
- Sept. 11 Benghazi attackers found among terrorists attacking Algerian gas complex – The Right Scoop
- LL1885's posts on Benghazi and Benghazi-gate


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On paper there are two factors to the D800 that scream out at you: 1080p video and a 36 megapixel sensor. For some, these are enough already to warrant a purchase of Nikon's new full-frame DSLR. Others, however, may be erring on the side of caution at the camera's £2599 price tag.
The predecessor to the D800, the D700, is a highly formidable camera and more than holds its weight in the stills department against the competition. But it lacks any sort of video whatsoever and has only a 12.1-megapixel sensor.
Having said that, there are no problems with the resolution of the D700. It's a brilliant low-light camera and more than up to the task of being used as a professional piece of kit. So why buy a D800? Having lived with one for more than a week, we feel we have an answer.
How does it feel?
The D700 is put together rather brilliantly. Its magnesium-alloy weather-sealed body is really tough and has withstood several years of press trips, being bashed about in our bag. The odd downpour hasn't caused any issues and its 995g weight never really bothered us.
This was until we were handed the D800. Once you pick it up, its 900g weight makes it feel markedly lighter than the D700. There is also a significant difference in the way that every button and dial feels on the camera. Rather than the mushy buttons of the D700, the new Nikon uses a satisfying click for every keypress. Even things like the on/off switch have been beefed-up, presumably to withstand years of hard use. It is very noticeable and gives the D800 a highly premium feel, more along the lines of Nikon's top-end, full-frame DSLRs.
One downside to this button redesign however is the way that Nikon has moved keys about on the camera. Take, for example, the AF-type selector tool on the back of the D700: this was something we used regularly to switch between full autofocus and manual focus point selection. No longer can you do this without going into a menu on the D800, the space being taken up instead by a switch to change between video and stills - something which could definitely have been put elsewhere.
A dedicated record button on the top of the camera is placed too near the shutter key, making switching accidentally to video commonplace - although you can change its function using the camera's options. All in all, we like how the controls feel on the D800; we just want them in the same place as on the D700.
Nikon has been careful to update the menu workings of the D800 without moving too far away from the core of how all its cameras operate. This means that when we picked up the camera for the first time, we were instantly able to navigate to all of our usual settings. The D700 suffered from a slightly 1970s-style menu, looking like one of those early computer programs you used to learn spelling at school. This has been updated for the D700 with higher resolution fonts and an all-round level of polish. Again, it just feels more premium.
The screen has also taken a rather significant jump, going from 3 inches to 3.2 inches. Not a major increase in size, we know, but it appears to be far brighter with better viewing angles and much more saturated colours. It still suffers from viewing problems in bright sunlight but nowhere near as badly as the D700.
The included connectivity options with the D800 blow the D700 out of the water. First up, being able to send video to an external display live using micro-HDMI is very cool. Second, we love that you can record to both SD card and Compact Flash, telling the camera to do things such as send video to SD and stills to CF. It just makes the process of managing images after shooting much easier to handle.
Once we had built up decent muscle memory of the new control layout, it felt just as easy to use as the D700, if not better, thanks to the improved screen and menus. Then again, going back to our older Nikon for a day didn't feel unpleasant, leaving us feeling that, on this basis alone, the design rethink for the D800 really doesn't warrant a purchase. That is if you already own a full-frame Nikon DSLR. If you don't it handles better than pretty much any other camera we have used.
How does it shoot?
So now on to the meat of the thing. Whatever anyone tells you, 1080p video or not, the D800 like the D700 before it, is at its core a stills camera. These are top of the range prosumer or even professional-grade cameras. You should be able to take a picture in virtually any situation and be pleased enough with the results that you could sell it to someone.
For us, the D700 has passed this test a long time ago. Its high ISO performance is stunning, full 16-bit RAW images look beautiful and the frame buffer is, most of the time, more than enough for the most kinds of photography. Not once have we found ourselves thinking: "We wish the D700 could do this."
To impress then, the D800 has its work cut out. Most who will be thinking about buying this camera are the most demanding kind of photographers. They want to be able to shoot in virtually complete darkness with no noise, or blow up images big enough to cover the side of a bus, all the while keeping things wrapped up in a compact and lightweight package. A lot of them may also be considering the 5D MK III, which is a hugely powerful camera. As such in testing the D800 we really made sure we pushed it to its photographic limits.
In the light
Using a combination of lenses, an 85mm f1.4, 14-24mm f2.8, 50mm f1.4 and 35mm f2, we took the D800 with us everywhere. First up was a trip to the park with the Pocket-lint pooch in order to get some daytime shots and test out the autofocus on the dog running.
The full-frame sensors on the D800 and D700 are quite beautiful things. They create a much broader dynamic range while also letting you use a lens to its full capabilities. Take our 35mm f2 for example: it's wider on a full-frame sensor than a DX crop, giving us more room to play with at a lower f-stop. This is very useful indeed, as wide-angle lenses tend to have higher apertures. For video it also makes a big difference, particularly when using our 85mm, which is just too tight on a DX sensor but looks great at f2 on full-frame.
The first difference we noticed between the D700 and D800 when out shooting was when adjusting ISO. It starts at 100 on the D800 and 200 on the 700, but can be scaled down to "low one" and "low two" on the earlier Nikon. Not a major bugbear we know, but it does mean that in bright light you know you are gleaming the maximum amount of detail from the sensor on the D800.
With the 14-24mm stuck on, a very heavy lens indeed, the D800 felt significantly lighter, not causing us the usual backache we get from half an hour of carrying that glass beast around on a D700. We also noticed -particularly when attempting landscape shots - that the viewfinder was a lot brighter and colours appeared more saturated. It's also 100 per cent coverage as opposed to the D700's 95 per cent. This makes a big difference to those who like to compose everything in the finder, which is the majority of professional photographers.
The more shooting we did, the more we noticed how much of an improvement the viewfinder was. It began to annoy us when holding our eyes up to the D700, as images just appeared a bit dull when looking through it. The same could be said for the screen, which in this freakishly good weather we are having, just couldn't hold up in sunlight compared to the D800.
We know that what you really want to know is the difference that 36-megapixel sensor makes. And that question needs to be attacked in two parts. First, in bright light and second in low light, as the latter situation could pose all sorts of issues for so many pixels. Looking back at snaps shot in the park with both the D700 and D800, the resolution jump really didn't bother us unless we zoomed in. Some will say it's useful, as you have more detail to play with should you mess up composition in camera, but most photographers considering buying this camera will likely get it right when they press the shutter. Still it's nice to have it.
What isn't so nice is the absurdly huge RAW files that the camera creates, enough to fill our 4GB CF cards in just a few clicks of the shutter. This became such an irritation in fact that we ditched shooting RAW altogether and switched to JPEG. Because of this, shooting to the full potential of the D800's sensor feels to us like it is reserved for the studio environment, where you have ready access to lots of memory cards. That or you could just blow a ton of cash on 32GB SD and CF cards. So for street shooting, at least in the daytime, it felt like the D700 was more than enough. The cosmetic improvements were definitely nice, but ultimately our D700 did the core job of snapping absolutely fine.
In the dark
This is the part of the comparison we were most excited about. If the D700 could hold up again the D800 in this department, then for most we would think the purchase of the newer model wouldn't be worth it. In order to make things fair as possible, we opted to test the two cameras indoors. It meant we could control the lighting situation a lot better and in theory, push the sensors to their limits.
One of the problems the D800 could face in low light is its 36 megapixel sensor. The higher the resolution, the harder it is for a sensor to cope with high ISO. So if the D800 can match the D700, then that's an incredibly impressive feat. It would also make the camera one of the best-performing high-resolution sensors we have seen.
So, D700 and D800 on a tripod, we proceeded to shoot the Pocket-lint pooch in various situations. The results were fairly incredible from both cameras. We wanted to make sure things were as sharp as possible, so the 50mm f1.4 was the best choice. Shot at F2, on both cameras maximum ISO settings, detail retained in every image was great.
The extra resolution however on the D800, particularly when shot in RAW, just gave us that extra space to play with noise cleanup later on in Photoshop. The result was a win for the D800.
Win aside, we still don't feel the difference between the 700 and 800's performance in this department is enough to warrant a purchase. Unless you are the sort of photographer who shoots everything about 6400 ISO, we just don't see it as a necessary. Then again, if you want the best possible image quality, at any ISO setting, then the D800 takes the win.
This is quite frankly incredible, given the cameras 36-megapixel sensor size. Nothing can even come close to that kind of performance at that resolution. Then again we are yet to properly test the 22 megapixel Canon 5D MK III, which may find the perfect balance between resolution and ISO performance.
It wouldn't be fair talking about the D800 without at least giving its video capabilities some mention. The D700 has no means to record moving images whatsoever, so this isn't so much a straight versus, just more something to muse over should you be wanting to make a purchase.
In a word, the video on the D800 is stunning. Check out our full review if you want to find out more about its capabilities. We absolutely love being able to switch to video and just grab a minute or two of footage. Colours look incredible without any tweaking or editing and the ability to select which card video saves to is brilliant.
Low-light performance is great and things like shutter wobble are kept to a minimum. If you are looking for a way to shoot video on your DSLR and already own a decent body of Nikon lenses, then the D800 is the best in the company's lineup.
So which to buy?
The D700 we used in this versus is our own. We had been hanging on for many months until the D800 came out, anticipating the delights it would bring to our photographic world. Most Nikon fans have been put through quite a serious amount of gear jealousy as the Canon 5D MK II's video became so commonplace. So the D800 had to impress technically in order to keep Nikon fans happy.
And it most definitely does. The sensor is brilliant, video looks incredible, the finder and screen are a big improvement. The problem is, that if you already own a D700, none of it is so great that the £2599 spend is worth it. Even if you were to flog your D700 and then use the cash to grab the new camera, unless you really, really needed video, we still wouldn't do it.
Which brings us on to our final part of the verdict. If you have an eye for shooting video and already own a few Nikon lenses, the D800 is easily our go to camera in the entire company's product line-up. In fact its so good, we would choose it over the more expensive D3s, simply because its more lightweight. So should you buy one? Well yes and no. Its a yes if you want video and a no if you are stills focused and a D700 owner. If you're rich enough to have a spare £2599, then without hesitation, our advice is: buy it and buy it now.
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Insuficient meat products, extensive use of low quality grains, fat of unidentifiable origin.
The first ingredient in the food is a named meat ingredient, and there is a second meat ingredient 8th on the ingredient list.
The primary grain in this food is wheat. The use of wheat is a significant negative however: wheat is believed to be the number one cause of allergy problems in dog food. Two wheat products are used in the food.
Poultry fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this as obtained from the tissues of poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative".
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MRI Measurement of Brain Metabolism Across the Sleep-Wake Cycle
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This study will investigate the spatio-temporal characteristics of brain activity during sleep. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have shown that in the absence of external stimuli, the brain continues to show spatial patterns of activity that resemble those during sensory and cognitive tasks. This phenomenon greatly affects the interpretation of neuroimaging studies based on positive emission tomography (PET) and fMRI, which rely on the contrast between brain activity during a task and activity during rest. In addition, resting state activity in itself may reveal information on the large-scale organization of neuronal networks and on functional abnormalities related to disease.
Participants should represent a broad cross section of the healthy adult population. Any neurologically and psychiatrically healthy male or nonpregnant female between 18 and 65 years old may be eligible.
Studies will be conducted in the In Vivo NMR Research Center. Concurrent electroencephalogram (EEG) and MRI studies will last between 1 and 2 hours. A typical study involves 15 minutes of anatomical MRI scanning followed by a 60-minute functional scan during which the subject relaxes with eyes closed and is encouraged to sleep while the fMRI/EEG are performed. Participants may be scanned 1 to 20 times. No more than 1 scan will be performed per day and no more than 20 scans will be performed within a year. During the last 5 to 10 minutes of the scan, the participant will open his or her eyes and actively participate in a visual stimulation or attention task. The participant's alertness will be measured by a behavioral (button-press) response. The visual stimuli (contrast reversing checkerboard displays, alternated with uniform grey fields) will be presented using the standard projection system available with the MRI scanner. The attention task will involve repeated visual presentation of groups of letters and digits; the participant will be asked about the correspondence between these groups.
Magnetoencephalogram (MEG) scans will be performed on some participants. The precise and undistorted signals available with MEG will be used to enhance the interpretation of alertness and sleep-related characteristics of the EEG signals, which can vary quite dramatically across subjects. In addition, the MEG signals will provide preliminary spatial localization of the sleep-dependent changes more precisely than is possible with EEG. MRI scanner noise will be simulated using tape recordings to allow comparison with the MRI/EEG data. MEG scans will last 45 minutes to 2 hours. At all times during any of the brain scans the participant will be able to communicate the MRI scientist or MEG/EEG technician and can ask to be removed from the device at any time.
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Objective. The objective of the proposed study is to investigate the spatio-temporal characteristics of brain activity during sleep. A number of recent fMRI (Ogawa, Lee et al. 1990) studies have shown that in absence of external stimuli, the brain continues to show spatial patterns of activity that resemble the networks that activate during sensory and cognitive tasks. This phenomenon greatly affects the interpretation of neuroimaging studies based on PET and fMRI, since these rely on differential imaging in which activity during a task is contrasted against activity during rest. In addition, resting state activity in itself potentially contains unique information on the large scale organization of neuronal networks and reveals information about functional abnormalities related to disease processes.
Study Population. To avoid confounding factors related to disease processes, subjects for this study will be recruited from the normal adult population. In addition, subjects will be screened for sleep behavior, and subjects with abnormal sleep behavior will be excluded.
Design. The study is designed to facilitate MRI detection of cerebral metabolic differences between the sleep and awake states. Wakefulness and sleep, and the various stages will be classified in accordance with the EEG criteria, consistent with the guidelines of Rechtschaffen and Kales (Rechtschaffen, 1968). For this purpose, we will optimize the methodology for the concurrent acquisition of EEG and fMRI signals. Using concurrent EEG and state-of-the-art MRI, we plan to establish the precise spatial distribution of changes in brain activity that are associated with changes in the sleep/wake state and the various stages of sleep, specifically early sleep (stage 1 and 2). Secondly, we plan to investigate whether changes in regional brain metabolism as measured by MRI correlates with transitory EEG phenomena during sleep, including fluctuations in band-specific power, sleep spindles, and K-complexes.
Outcome Measure. As an outcome of this study, an atlas of activity clusters in normal subjects will be established, both during waking conditions, as well as during several sleep stages. Further outcomes will be spatial patterns of covariance with EEG band-specific power, spindles, and K-complexes. These data will serve as a baseline for comparison with activity patterns in patients.
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A subject will be excluded if he/she has a contraindication to MR scanning such as the following: pregnancy, aneurysm clip; implanted neural stimulator; implanted cardiac pacemaker or auto-defibrillator; cochlear implant; known absent acoustic reflex; ocular foreign body (e.g. metal shavings or insulin pump) and any pre-existing eye conditions. Subjects who underwent brain surgery, who have a neurological lesion, a psychiatric history or recurrent migraines that require medication will also be excluded from this study.
To minimize potential confounds, subjects with abnormal sleep/wake patterns will be excluded. They should report no sleep problems or shift work, or medications that could impair sleep, no illegal drugs or tobacco. Subjects will be in good health as assessed by medical history, interview and physical exam.
Subjects will be asked to:
Refrain from alcohol and caffeinated products for 1 day prior to the study;
Maintain their habitual bed times and wake-up times for 1 week prior to the study. A wrist-worn activity monitor (Actigraph[R], Precision Control Design, Inc., Fort Walton Beach, FL) may be used to confirm compliance with the latter instruction.
Exclusion criteria include:
Sleep disorder (reported or detected);
Psychopathology, personal or first-degree relative. (They are likely to place the subject at risk for an adverse consequence related to the extended wakefulness portion of the study);
Seizures or head injury with loss of consciousness greater than 5 minutes;
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KDE 2.0 is Out!
It's official! KDE 2.0 has been released! Run, don't walk, to your nearest mirror or go directly to the source.
New KDE Release Is a Major Advance for Linux®
Next Generation of Leading Desktop for Linux®
October 23, 2000 (The INTERNET). The KDE
"With the experience gained from developing KDE 1, we
"KDE 2.0 is an important release," stated Ransom Love, president and
"SuSE Linux views KDE 2 as one of
"As Linux-Mandrake focuses on making Linux easy to use, we are very
"Corel has had a long, successful relationship with the KDE project, and
Kopernicus includes the core KDE libraries,
All of KDE 2.0 is available for free under an Open Source license.
More information about KDE 2 is available in a
KDE 2: The K Desktop Environment.
KDE 2 also ships with the highly anticipated initial release of
In addition, KIO's network transparency offers
KDE 2 introduces a new multimedia architecture based on aRts, the Analog Realtime Synthesizer. ARts enables
KDE's customizability touches every
Besides the exceptional compliance with Internet and file-sharing standards
KDE 2: The K Development Environment.
DCOP is a client-to-client communications
KIO implements application I/O in a separate
KParts, KDE 2's component object model, allows
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Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
By Simon at Mon, 2000/10/23 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Thank you, all of you!
By reihal at Mon, 2000/10/23 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Yeeehaaawww, finally! :-)
Congrats to all involved! :-)
By frerich at Mon, 2000/10/23 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out! - Paaaarty !
Read the announcement !
By thomas at Mon, 2000/10/23 - 5:00am
all i can is SWEET! i know you kde guys got a little bit of crap for delaying it last week, but i'm glad to see that you decided to wait...just goes to show that you care about what realy matters, qualty code, not shoving crap out the door! i just want to say thanks, i don't know how you do it, but thanks! this is great! :)
By nate at Mon, 2000/10/23 - 5:00am
Go Konqi, Go!
What a wonderful day! KDE 2.0 has already made history. I have been using KDE2 forever but this milestone release is really really exciting. Big congratulations and thanks to everyone involved!
Now, let's go Konquer the world!
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By n at Mon, 2000/10/23 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Anyway, besides this problem, congratulations
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Mon, 2000/10/23 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
I've got Redhat 6.0.
By Ernest Spencer at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
From all of us ungrateful slobs who are always
By ne... at Mon, 2000/10/23 - 5:00am
Good work!
By rocketmama at Mon, 2000/10/23 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Just let me THANK YOU ALL for this GREAT piece of software. LINUX/KDE is soooo much fun...
ciao, Marco
(Proudly posted with konqueror)
By Marco Krohn at Mon, 2000/10/23 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
is Out
By samuele catuzzi at Mon, 2000/10/23 - 5:00am
good stuff fellows, really appriciate all the hard work you guys put in. KDE rocks!!!
By rusty leper at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Thankyou KDE, I promise to try and help do something for 3.0. Just goto to figure out what to do :-)
Now if Mozilla would just get to V1.0 !
By Richard Shaw at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
I promise to try and help do something for 3.0. Just goto to figure out what to do :-)
By gis at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
I might try and do some documentation, I'm not an overly accomplished coder at this point.
By Richard Shaw at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Now if I could only manage to find a decent connection to download the sources...!!!!
I'm excited!!
By Okeo at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
partaay over here!
By n at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Tackat's picture (here) almost brought tears to my eyes :-)
What a great project.
Darn straight, posted with --=( K o n q u e r o r )=--
By Jason Katz-Brown at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Allthough there are not that many sensitive oppinions here, you should be carefull to publish IRC-channel content. People may acctually sue you for exposeing their privacy(like tapping a phone-conferance). Not that I think any of those will, just a reminder...
Anyway, great job KDE-people!
By Andreas Joseph Krogh at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Thank you for the Great Project
Greetings from Bulgaria
KDE will always be the best!
Thank you guys for not giving up. You won the users and the support of free open source community. Now hope that soon or latar Gnome and others will join KDE, in order to unite and cooperate the free open source forces.
We are with you, you prove your selfs and won the first battle, many non-KDE users will now join you. Next battle is to won Gnome and others to join the KDE and unite in power free open source alliance which will destroy the EMPIRE.
Good luck!
By Anton Velev at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
I am dying since yesterday to waiting the official announcement of KDE2 release. I check dot.news and kde.org homepage so many time, but could not find it. FINALLY, IT's HERE....
By jamal at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Yesterday..I went so crazy as to press the reload button everytime, hoping the release announcement would be there...Finally it here..I always wonder how such wonderful things can be given away for free but thats what the movement is all about..KDE is the excellent piece of software..Thanks to Mathias for leading the team in such an effective manner and all the developers,documentors and translators who have made this possible..KDE will surely KONQUER Windows
By Aravind Sadagopan at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Great work!
I've just seen many screenshots and the slide show you are referencing in your announcement, but I must say that KDE2 seems to be a milestone in Unix (especially Linux) Desktops. THANKS A LOT KDE-TEAM FOR THAT GREAT PIECE OF SOFTWARE! I'm sure, that people, like me, who were not involved in programming that masterpiece, couldn't even estimate how much work it was to release KDE2!
THANKS AGAIN! I hope, that many Linux distributors will support the KDE project and its team (financially)!!
By CH at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Congratulations KDE Team, thank you for this revolutionary platform, and my most sincere admiration for keeping kool and focused despite all the recent FUD and vaporware announcements.
Congratulations again.
By Carlos Miguel at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Now put some new screen shots up!
By James Clarke (R... at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Yes, screenshots are important...
By thomas at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
PR and Lobbying
Now! Make sure you have someone in San Francisco to go lobbying with the Big Irons. Seriously!
No matter how good your product is, without efficient PR it will not survive. Look at a geek company like Ericsson vs the marketing oriented Nokia. Nokia makes $1,500,000,000 in revenue on cellulars alone, whereas Ericsson makes a loss.
Don't be like Ericsson when it comes to marketing, please! It will never be enough with a superior product.
Go get yourselves a nice, but politically correct scandal (who is willing to have perverted sex with some Hollywood Star? Pamela andersson, anyone?). Use the tabloids (and I don't mean www.theregister.co.uk ...) to your advantage (and I don't mean the tabloids of Belgium, Poland, or Norway). Go for the Big! New York, London, Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.
USE this opportunity! Make people aware of KDE!
Don't be such nerds ;)
By Arnold at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: PR and Lobbying
Silly arguments, but true.
T Skolde
P.S. Great job!
By Torben Skolde at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Nokia & Ericsson...
Well, I don't think that Ericsson is the "geek" company, and Nokia is the "marketing" company. The reason why Nokia does so well, is because they make the kind of phones people want. If you want to talk about geek-phones.... Well, Nokia had the worlds first phone/PDA-hybrid in 1996 (if I remember correctly), Ericsson just released their first phone/PDA. Nokia also had the worlds first WAP-phone. Only thing Ericsson has that Nokia doesn't have, is the plug-in MP3 accessory for mobile phone.
But enogh about cell-phones, today is the KDE-day =)!!!!
By Janne at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Congratulations; experiences installing SuSE RPMs
Congratulations to the whole extended KDE team: designers, coders, artists, documenters, translators, packagers, testers and supporting organizations.
I'm interested to know about other people's experience of installing KDE 2.0 from the SuSE 6.4 and 7.0 i386 RPMs. If anyone doing either of these particular installs has any problems with the installation or with starting and logging in via KDE 2.0, please let the SuSE packager know, but could you also post your experience to either the suse-linux-e or the kde-user mailing list, or even (as a last resort) here. Your problem may be with the RPMs themselves, or with the documentation for the installation process.
As stated above "the KDE team is not responsible for these packages as they are provided by third parties" but someone has to report problems, so that these third parties can fix them.
By Paul Leopardi at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: Congratulations; experiences installing SuSE RPMs
the SuSE 7.0 rpms work smoothly. No warnings, no errors. The only question remaining is if they were built without the QT-Exceptions (which should make KDE2 a lot faster as discussed on ./ or the mailing list). I am working with old hardware Pentium 133 and need every kind of speed-up I can get.
However, KDE 2 runs really fast (faster than KDE1) on old hardware (given 'enough' memory i.e. 80 MB in my case). Thanks a lot for the good work.
By Chris Naeger at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: Congratulations; experiences installing SuSE RPMs
no problems encountered
By ferdinand gassauer at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Congratulations to all KDE developers (we must not forget Thorsten & Mosfet for their contribution to KDE look'n'feel). KDE2 is not only a great desktop environment, it is a great platform for further development. I am sure that within 6 months we will see many contributions from non-core KDE developers. Opera is going QT,
By Zeljko Vukman at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Nice Picture, thanks :)
By Matthias Ettrich at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Mandrake RPM:s?
Congratulations to all of you who have worked very hard with this relase the last months!
As a Mandrake 7.1 owner I was wondering wether there are and 7.1 RPM:s anywhere? The KDE mirrors do carry RPM:s, but only for 7.2. The small README that can be downloaded says I can use the RPM:s on other distros too (I presume he means older Mandrakes), but "I need to upgrade 4 packages and probably a few others too". Well, I started on the upgrading of the 4 packages, and it all boils down to a complete system upgrade, with a new version of glibc, rpm and everything. Not something I want to do to a stable system.
I hope MandrakeSoft plans to support their current distributions too, as 7.2 is not even out yet. I don't want to run 7.2 just to get KDE2, as my last attempt at getting 7.2 installed resulted in a system that hardly even booted...
Can I rebuild the packages myself from the src RPM:s on a 7.1? I could try of course, but if someone has better knowledge I could save the needed hours of compilation! :-)
By Jan Ekholm at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake RPM:s?
I just installed those RPMs on my wife's Mandrake 7.1 system....
glibc was fine (if you upgraded when the security alert came out... its only a few rpms and they don't do anything bad), but RPM needed to be upgraded, along with another half dozen or packages. (just upgrade RPM to figure out which ones =)
yes, it is tedious but nothing breaks and the results are amazing!
be brave!
By Aaron J. Seigo at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake RPM:s?
Hmm, I get this when I try to upgrade my rpm from 3.0.5 to 4.0.3:
# rpm -q glibc
# rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0-3mdk.i586.rpm
How can something like menu conflict with rpm? This sounds weird. And I don't want to upgrade a fundamental package like glibc to some experimental version just for this.
I think I'll abandon Mandrake soon and go with a distribution which has sane dependencies and packaging systems, such as Debian.
Thanks for the hint anyway, I'm glad you had better luck with your upgrade!
By Jan Ekholm at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake RPM:s?
Why are you doing that?
Install KDE2, but don't install rpm2.
Instructions for installing 7.2's KDE2 over 7.1 are here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/10/12/0828220&cid=108
By Mike Hunt at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake RPM:s?
By Mike Hunt at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake RPM:s?
The binary RPM:s need it. I needed to update the packages menu, Mandrake_Desk, OpenSSL, pam, and qt2 according to the README in the directory for Mandrake in one of the KDE mirrors.
The instructions you posted were for the old pre-release.
Ah, well, I don't think this will work out. Thanks for the help anyway, but I'll switch distro to something which provides support for old customers.
By Jan Ekholm at Wed, 2000/10/25 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake RPM:s?
I also run Mandrake 7.1 and am reluctant to upgrade just yet. I guess it is too much to expect the KDE maintainers themselves to provide Mandrake 7.1 RPMs. I am slightly bewildered that Mandrake look like they won't, especially as 7.2 isn't even out yet. Is there any chance of someone who knows what they are doing (i.e. not me) providing 7.1 RPMs?---Or, failing that, is there any chance of someone giving step by step instructions about how to install from source. Ideally this would need to include instructions on whether the installation should overwrite KDE1 or not, and also how to make any changes to kdm and gdm (I use the latter) that are needed.
In Mandrake KDE is so integral to the distribution that I really would prefer to install KDE2 from RPMs, and ideally one's provided by Mandrake.
By D. D. Brierton at Wed, 2000/10/25 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake RPM:s?
I'm currently running Mandrake 7.1 with kde2. It was a bit of a struggle to get it working, and in fact, a big part still doesn't work. But I'll tell you what I did anyway:
Download the mandrake 7.2 rpms. I currently have the following installed:
Now, quit kde and close your x server.
Now install all your rpms. I'd probably do qt 1 and 2 first and then the kde stuff.
Ok, now if your system is anything like mine, kdm will crash on startup. I have no idea why. Just live without it. Use gdm or xdm or just plain old startx. Right now, I'm living with gdm. Select a KDE session type and it should work just fine.
Once you get stuff working, you can install the devel rpms and the extra stuff (which is mostly unnecessary anyway).
Good luck, and it's definitely worth it... kde2 is amazing.
By sesquiped at Thu, 2000/10/26 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake RPM:s?
Extra packages that you should get: htdig, menudrake, Mandrake Cooker's latest version of rpm (3.0.5, not 4.0, BTW), and--get this--Lesstif. Yes, Lesstif. The kdebase RPM from Mandrake has a dependency on the file libXm.so.1, a.k.a. Motif. I think this has to do with Netscape plugins in Konqueror or something.
And make sure to get the latest version of pam from Mandrake Cooker, which should hopefully get kdm to work. (kdm works on my system; I know that much.)
By J. J. Ramsey at Thu, 2000/10/26 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake RPM:s?
Thanks for the advice. I followed it and am now posting this from Konqueror. However, there are a couple of things not quite working ... does anyone have any advice?
I am using Mandrake 7.1 with all security updates installed, the
Thank you in advance,
By D. D. Brierton at Fri, 2000/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake RPM:s?
I have solved the first problem. It seems that the installation of one of the
Any help with the kdemultimedia problem would be a big help.
By D. D. Brierton at Fri, 2000/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Mandrake RPM:s?
try here:
the rpm is at
uninstall the old rpm first tho
By matt at Tue, 2001/06/26 - 5:00am
About KDE-2
Can't find the words to thank you! :))
By Claudio at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
I am also running an earlier version of Mandrake - 7.0.
I did not see any readme file or any information anywhere about which system(s) the mandrake rpms work for. (except that they claim to be for the UNRELEASED 7.2)
(also, people say that the rpms will overwrite KDE 1, if so that is just PLAIN STUPID!!!)
By Erlend Boe at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 2.0 is Out!
Well, you could use the generic version of KDE 2.0 at ftp.kde.org, or you could try one of the Redhat-versions, if Mandrake doesn't release packages voor Mandrake 6.x and 7.0/7.1 KDE is not responsible for the packaging of third party packagers, so contact Mandrake for more details.
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A mother who was picking up her 4-year-old son from soccer practice on the Fort Hood post when Wednesday's frightening shooting occurred said the "only thing I could tell him was somebody's not playing nice."
Charlotte Spencer said her son had just climbed in the car when a woman came over a loudspeaker telling everyone to shelter in place immediately.
NBC News reported an active shooter at Fort Hood at about 4 p.m., and the sirens sounded soon after.
The latest news from around North Texas.
"The siren came over and she was like, 'This is an emergency. Get in your homes, lock your doors, lock your windows, turn off your AC units and turn off your heaters if you have them running. Just stay in place. This is an active emergency,'" Spencer described.
Three people were killed, and the shooter, who has been identified as 34-year-old Ivan Lopez, is dead, according to NBC News. Officials said as 16 others were injured.
"It was very scary because my initial thought was OK, they don't know where the shooter is," Spender said. "So it was like, OK, I have to protect my kid, so what do I do? So, we just got in the car, rolled up the windows and we just stayed in the car. We tried to drive off base, but it was already closed."
NBC 5 spoke to Spencer on the phone as she was still sitting in her car taking shelter.
"All we see is police officers driving by us up and down the road non-stop, telling us to stay in our cars," Spencer said. "There are helicopters. I've seen a few med-evacs go by and we really don't know anything yet."
Spencer said she tried to delicately explain the situation to her son.
"And the only thing I could tell him was somebody's not playing nice, so we have to wait for them to play nice," Spencer said.
"You know, that's the best way I can describe it because I can't tell him, 'Hey, somebody's shooting at another person,' because they're not going to understand that," she said.
Spencer lived in Killeen during the 2009 Fort Hood massacre and said Wednesday's events are all too familiar.
"It's very scary having to live something like that again," Spencer said. "Because not only do we have this, we had it 2009 and then I also have a husband who was killed overseas. So it's very emotional and it's just hard to deal with. Because it's like okay, you're at a point now where is this going to be the norm here? How do I cope with this? How do I deal with this? How do I explain this to my children? It's very hard to deal with!"
Spencer was able to leave the post at about 9 p.m. after spending more than four hours locked in her car.


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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Hurdle mentioned that the most important ingredient for a successful ball club was - wait for it - trust. And as ridiculous as it sounds, I kinda sorta bought into it (a little).
Now, hold on. Wait. Stop rolling your eyes. I am not so dense to ignore the fact that the primary - and maybe only - ingredient to a "successful ball club" is, uh.....talented players, maybe? But the statement, right or (probably) wrong, seemed entirely fitting with regards to the state of the Jays, so here we are.
Hurdle's "trust" assertion followed that the players had to have trust within the dugout and with the coaching staff, the staff had to have trust in the front office, and the front office had to have trust in ownership. And by extension (this portion mine), the fans had to trust in it all.
Now do you see where I'm going with this?
Paul Beeston's recent assertion that the team had a plan - to be revealed, of course, "in short order" - holds very little currency with those of us invested in the team (that's right, invested - emotional totally counts!) because any semblance of trust has been completely eroded by the constant state of inactivity by management, and the perceived disinterest of ownership.
So how does the organization get it back? Well, let's start by hearing about "the plan". Thoroughly discussed earlier by the Tao, I suppose at this point we can wait for the offseason to see what's in store - but it had better be something - anything - by design. Sink money into payroll in order to be competitive now, or make a concerted effort at rebuilding and committing to youth; we can debate the prudent action ad nauseam.
The key here is DO SOMETHING. Goddamnit. Something! And stick to it. Fuck all this slugging away (poor choice of words) with retreads and roster fillers just to maintain a lock on fourth place. Why? What's the point? Who wins here? The team 40% of the time? the 11,000 fans showing up to home games? The red ink factory when the financials get printed? No. Nobody is coming out ahead under the current course of action. So fuck this noise.
We have no choice but to wait, friends. Let's see what's in store for the organization come the close of game 162. I think we'd all love to hear that Rogers has decided to roll the dice on a payroll investment, but even a complete rebuild would be an improvement over the current sad state of affairs.
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Given the proximity to the border here in Windsor, I'm happy to report that I'm going to 3/4 games this weekend. Sat right behind the Jays bullpen last night and I learned a few things.
1. Shawn Camp is awesome...no seriously... bear with me here, after walking into the 'pen at the beginning of the game and giving it back to a heckler immediately (Shut it FuckFace!), he then proceeeded to be a kind-hearted soul who passed out baseballs to a couple of kids during the game a few innings later.
2. Jesse Carlson is terrified of bugs. I watched Janssen and a few others catch one in a paper cup and make Carlson run all over the bullpen in fear of its contents.
3. Dirk Hayhurst is a nice guy, who after giving away all the baseballs at the end of the game, noticed me and my girlfriend in full Jays gear at Comerica and tossed us a couple of Red Bulls that he had in the cooler bag.
Go Jays, we'll see what Shenanigans I'll witness tonight from Detroit! Go Richmond!
- September 12, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- QJays said...
Nothing wrong with checking out the other teams - I even do it DURING Jays games. The reason for doing so is ... watching teams fight for playoff spots is really enjoyable. Funny thing that.
I buy the "trust" thing (to a point) - knowing what you are up to makes it a lot easier to do what you are doing.
- September 12, 2009 at 8:56 AM
- The Ack said...
Chris from Windsor, you just made my day with that post. Nice work, dude.
- September 12, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Nice comment, Chris.
Although as a Windsor native, you should know that you never go looking for shenanigans in Detroit. You hope that they don't find you.
- September 12, 2009 at 10:20 AM
- Jayszone93 said...
Well said man. Although I feel JP has gotten far too much heat, some of it is warranted and the team has been floundering this season.
Honestly, should we put all our of efforts together and try to lure Jim Balsillie to BUY the Blue Jays???
- September 12, 2009 at 10:34 AM
- Mattt said...
Chris-I'll be checking in tomorrow to see what else you can learn. That was some of the most interesting reporting I've read on a Toronto team in some time...
- September 12, 2009 at 12:44 PM
- Ty said...
I just saw a surprisingly interesting tidbit from a comment Jamie Campbell posted following his latest "blog" post:
Incredibly, they're worse off than last year, and yet our television ratings have been exceptionally strong. Go figure.
If Rogers is getting "exceptionally strong" TV ratings for one of the worst teams the Jays have fielded in years, then maybe there are more people like us - dissatisfied with management and this clusterfuck of a season, but still passionate enough about the team to still watch the games (just not enough to pay to see them live) - than I thought.
Maybe I'm reading into it more than I should, but to me that little anecdotal statistic seems to suggest that the crowds really WILL return if/when the Jays put a decent product on the field - even after what's happened this year. Still, I'd be interested to see the actual ratings numbers compared to those from the past few years before jumping to any conslusions.
- September 12, 2009 at 1:25 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
You make a great point, Ack. There can't be much trust in that clubhouse. How can there be, when The Cito is telling the media that Barajas won't be back?
Chris's comment was nails. Looking forward to more stories. I love Shawn Camp even more now.
- September 12, 2009 at 3:15 PM
- Jayszone93 said...
I had season ticks for Detroit for 3 straight years, though I am a Jays fan, just love baseball.
The atmosphere at Comerica is awesome, seats filled (when the team was good).
I even met Dave Stewart and got his autograph (when he was Asst GM) he was a nice guy. I asked him if he was gonna take over for Gord Ash, he was PC about it and said "Gord Ash is the GM."
I also met Scotty Bowman, who was sitting 5-6 rows behind me the whole game. I saw him as the game was ending and we were exiting the stadium, I gave him a pat on the shoulder!
- September 12, 2009 at 3:58 PM
I gave him a pat on the shoulder!
I'm sure he appreciated that. (creep)
- September 12, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Picked up a pair of seats just past 1st base for tonight's game. Less with the players and their in-game shenanigans, but plenty of very joyful moments.
The part where the Tigers fan in front of me called Wells a useless piece of shit, and me laughing at him after Vern took away a pair of hits and jacked one over the fence.
The realization that I've been to 3 Jays games this year now, and I've seen Rod Barajas go yard 4 times (Check it, April 22nd vs. Texas, last night and tonight vs. the Tigers). Rod should probably hire me as his personal assistant to carry his gear, be his good luck charm and feign interest in Kevin Millar's jokes.
I sometimes feel like less of a diehard living 4 hours down the 401 and not making it to the ballpark every night. But the past two nights have been a steady reminder that you have to be a true fan to sit in a powder blue jersey in the middle of the other teams park and cheer the game winning home run by Aaron Hill.
The catch is after the elation of the home run, dealing with the slew of witty attacks on your personality from the jackoff Tiger fans who don't know how to take a loss.
Hey dipshits, I sat through a few games for fun during the 119 loss Tigers season in '03, you weren't there, but the people that were had a lot more class.
I'm missing the Rookie Ricky game tomorrow, but I am making it out for the Monday Night finale. The return of Ginger Purcey!
- September 13, 2009 at 2:07 AM
If this isn't throwing JP under the bus, what is? No way in hell this offer is true... Check this link.
Toronto media is better than this...
- September 13, 2009 at 11:45 AM


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Wil Wheaton was a hero. Online porn was primitive. His parents got him a computer when he was a kid that had 8K of RAM. Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island co-creator Ron Gilbert is on stage at PAX reminiscing.
Choice quotes from the keynote:
-"I remember when 16 colors were more than enough and I remember when 16 colors were not nearly enough."
-"Monkey Island's budget was $135,000, and that was a AAA game back then."
-"I have the job our parents tell us does not exist."
-"We should always live in a state of discomfort of fear about what we are creating. It means you are making something different and special. It means you are making something unique."
-"This is what excites me about [today's] indie games: they have the freedom to fail... they have the freedom to be better."
-"People ask me to prove that games are art. I ask them to prove me them they're not."
When he mentions that he created SCUMM a thousand gamers in attendance cheer. That's PAX.


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Then there are, of course, the historians. I'm always mildly amused by (though also empathetic towards) the historians. They have a devil of a time because no one else knows how to engage with them:
"So, do I understand you correctly to be saying that, in the period 1776-1788, some farmers in New Jersey exported grain to New York. Is that right?"
"That's right."
"Well, that's wrong. They didn't."
"But . . . But they did!"
"Well, let me ask you this then: What would you say if I said they didn't?"I'm not sure that the optimism implicit in Adam Kolber's How to Ask Questions at Conferences and Colloquia, posted earlier this year over at Prawfsblawg, will survive a reading of Schlag's one-paragraph catalog of standard workshop questions. Anyone who's still unwilling to give up on the faculty workshop ought to give Kolber a look.


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Picked out these boots after seeing Fritha wearing them at the Missguided Press Event. I completely forgot to ask where she got them from and then I saw she did a outfit with them later that day, Was so surprised to see they were from Clothing at Tesco. I had a press day voucher left over so I thought I'd get them too. At a surprising £19.50, They have the perfect ugly to awesome shoe ratio which I love. I admit they look a little odd without my coat on (I wore this one, but the photos with it on came out terrible!) but I do really like the way they look with a dress and the pink. The tough/girly combo looks really nice.They are so comfy as well as they only have a small block heel, Highly recommend them if your looking for a pair of chelsea boots with a heel and without a platform!
Also I adore this Missguided Blazer too, Its surprisingly thick and high quality, perfect for spring summer! I think I'm going to buy it in another colour as I like this one so much. The Neon pink is definitely a statement blazer colour, but something more subdued like the black or burgundy would be more daily appropriate for me. The dress is quite old as I've had it a while now, Trust me its not as short as it looks in the photos, I have a terrible habit of things riding up as I pose!
Had a pretty chill out day today, Caught up on some blogs and emails, Ran a few errands and sorted out some projects I'm working on with brands. Strange having a whole day sitting at my laptop after last weeks fun filled times!