kevin_schoedel

James Philopena, can you cite any instance of recovering multiply-overwritten information from a contemporary disk?

Dan, it's not ARM, it's Fujitsu FR. A few people have started looking at it, but no one has had time to get very far yet.

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<a href="http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Pentax_K10D_Firmware_Fun">Pentax K10D Firmware Fun</a><br>

<a href="http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1036&thread=25261172">Of firmware and some images</a>

For purchases across borders it also keeps the tax man from getting his cut.

Fresh eggs have more spherical yolks; old eggs have wider, flatter yolks. (My parents once kept chickens.)

"<i>Perhaps you'd like to buy a nice Apple ][ for $6000? What? No?</i>"

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No... but if you have a nice Apple I for $6000, drop me a line.

GS, Pentax is, for some strange reason, using an archive format that was popular years ago on pre- OS X Macs. Download Stuffit Expander from <a href="http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/index.html">here</a> and use that to open the file (K10E130M.hqx).

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  - OR -

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Download DropUnLHA from <a href="http://www.fan.gr.jp/~sakai/lha.php">here</a> and use it to open the <i>Windows</i> version of the firmware (k10e130w.exe).

"<i>I compose in the finder and when look in the finder I don't "see" a potential crop.</i>"

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At least one of the focusing screen vendors will do custom crop marks.

If you wish, replace "Mac" with "Solaris / AIX / Linux / <i>old</i> Mac / etc." Or replace Palatino and Book Antiqua with Frutiger and Segoe UI -- third verse, same as the first. The point is: designs are not protected, files are.

<blockquote><i>Typeface designs themselves are copyrighted.</i></blockquote>

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Typeface designs are not copyrightable (at least in the US), but digital font files <i>are</i> copyrightable.

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If you have a Windows box handy, take a look in the Fonts directory: 'Book Antiqua' is an exact rip-off of Hermann Zapf's Palatino, for which Microsoft paid Zapf not a cent. But it's illegal for you to copy that file to your Mac.

Just a reminder to NEVER use UPS ground (non-expedited) for cross-border shipments, because of UPS' extortionate "brokerage fee".

"Perhaps suicide bombers are just frustrated performance artists."

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If I could find a way to sell front-row seats to postmodernists, <i>everyone</i> would win.

Now how am I going to procrastinate? Oops, I mean <i>here</i> how am I going to procrastinate?

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Seriously though, this doesn't change the predicted useful lifetime of the universe, it just provides a possible explanation for it.

<i>Still the code isn't 'overly' readable.</i>

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Hah.

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<blockquote>[T]he determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language.<blockquote>-- Ed Post, <i>Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL</i>, 1982</blockquote></blockquote>

You could use something like InkAid to print directly on the MDF, if it'll fit in your printer. I don't know whether MDF comes thin enough, but I know you can get rolls of wood veneer that should fit in any consumer printer than can take CDs.

<i>... and doing all that without any battery !</i>

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The XR-S is K-mount...

The Canon A630/A640 focus to 1cm, have a tilt LCD, and with third-party free software can do automatic focus bracketing for <a href="http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK/Samples:_Unlimited_DOF">extended DOF</a>.

Well, y'know, aluminum vs aluminium, mesmerize vs mesmerise, poutine vs vindaloo, the usual.

Oh. Right-click in a text box (e.g. the one below) to bring up the context menu, and look for the 'Languages' sub-menu.

How 'bout all the α β & γ rays from radioactive lenses?

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<li>Round sensor (to match the image circle).

<li>Auto-focus and aperture with old lenses -- a little robot arm should turn the rings for me.

<li>GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, and GigE with built-in web and ftp servers.

<li>MP3 player.

<li>Full QWERTY keyboard.

<li>A pony.

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<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3">Firefox dictionaries for non-American languages</a>

<li><a href="http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/ize?view=uk">Are spellings like 'privatize' and 'organize' Americanisms?</a>

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Pete, I meant here, in the photo.net forums. (I've seen the linked article.)

<i>"The issue is the the basic right of the child to be free from exploitation or victimisation."</i>

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Is it? Jill Greenberg walks free, and my google-fu uncovers no protest here.

<blockquote><i>The reason that I put forward that its silly is that irrespective of the sensor being linear or not in its output there is no reason why these levels need to be encoded in a linear fashion when being transcribed as DATA</i></blockquote>

 

Yes, there is -- the output of the ADC (analog-to-digital converter) hardware is linear. If you store it otherwise, you waste space and/or throw away information.

<i>So if Pentax were going out of business...</i> I could afford good glass again.

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And it's a dyne <b>centimeter</b>; what happened, John, ya get demoted to management?