Re: OT: MacBook Air seems to be working unusually hard

2017-07-20 Thread Igor PDML-StR 



For the most part, I mentally filter out the ads that are on the page.
And I understand that many sites live from advertisements.

However, some ads are ridiculously "heavy". At this day and [Internet] age
if a serious professional website wants to be supported by ads, they need 
to make sure those ads are not slowing down my browser/computer to a 
crawl. And if the ad starts showing a video, producing sounds,

those are gross offenders in my book.

BTW, IIRC, it was Google who first imposed limitations on the "Google Ads" 
- that they must be light-weight, etc. And Google ads are considered some 
of the most successful.


I also know that, e.g. flyertalk.com , which has heavy pages and rather 
large number of ads on their forum pages, - they have been encouraging to 
report ads that were slowing down their pages.
Still, their pages are very heavy and overload the browser, so, I am 
reluctant to whitelist the in the ad-blocker.


Igor




Eric Weir Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:57:25 -0700 wrote:

Thanks, Zos. I contact the website’s support group. The attributed the 
difficulty to a “rogue ad,” over which they said they had minimal control. 
The suggested an ad blocker. I use one, but I had whitelisted the site to 
support the magazine They offer “ad free access,” which I’m checking into. 
Eric




On Jul 19, 2017, at 8:36 PM, Zos Xavius  wrote:

Some websites are just poorly coded too. If they have videos and lots
of embeds running its pretty easy to eat up your processor quickly.
Chrome often surprises me with how much CPU it uses.

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Eric Weir  wrote:


Thanks, PJ. I use an ad blocker, too. I may have white listed the Atlantic
site.


On Jul 19, 2017, at 7:12 PM, P. J. Alling 
wrote:

Malformed adverts.  I've had web pages with such horrible scripts that they
hang the web browser and require a restart.  That's the main reason I've
employed an ad blocker.  I can ignore the ads.


On 7/19/2017 6:07 PM, Eric Weir wrote:

Recently—a day or two ago—I noticed that my MacBook Air was emitting a
low-pitched hissing sound, as if a fan were running. I first noticed this
when I had been processing photos in Lightroom for a while. But I’m
experiencing it now and all I have open are Safari and Mail.

I ran Activity Monitor and found two tasks that were using a high
percentage of CPU. One was a kernel task. The other showed the web address
of The Atlantic Magazine, which I had open at the time. The percent of CPU
it was using ranged between the mid-50s and the mid-90s.

I killed that process, the Atlantic page was reloaded, and the fan noise
has stopped. Why would a web page use so much processor capacity?

Thanks and apologies for being so wildly off-topic,




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travel plans - Italy and Greece

2017-07-20 Thread Stanley Halpin 
Meg and I will be in Venice 25-28 August, then again 7-14 September. I have 
already alerted Dario and Gianfranco and we may work out a get-together in 
Venice and/or Ravenna. Anyone with overlapping travel plans is more than 
welcome to chime in with time & date & location suggestions for a small or 
larger PDML meet-up. 

In between our stints in Venice we will have two days in Athens (1-2 September) 
and brief stops in Santorini, Mykonos and Corfu. Any PDMLers in that region at 
that time, contact me…

stan
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PESO - The Inn

2017-07-20 Thread Rick Womer 
Last from Jim Thorpe, PA:

https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/PESOs-2017/Jim-Thorpe/i-GW5nwVs/A

(K-5, DA 17-70)

Comments appreciated.

Rick

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Re: PESO - Wasp beetle

2017-07-20 Thread Stanley Halpin 
OK, another bug. A really well done bug, but still, another bug.  
However, the overall photo is wonderful! I agree with others’ comments - the 
composition and the lighting/shading in the background really transforms this 
shot into something quite special.

stan

> On Jul 17, 2017, at 9:04 PM, Jostein  wrote:
> 
> http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/vepsebukk/
> 
> This one is a pollen eater as an adult, the larvae live under the bark on 
> dead twigs of various trees. Its wasp mimicry is not limited to colours, it 
> even buzz at the same frequency as wasps during flight.
> 
> 645D, FA 120/4 macro, stacked from 165 exposures.
> 
> On the post-processing side, I tried "slabbing" or sub-stacking this time. 
> Some extra work, but I'm quite happy with the end result.
> 
> Jostein
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Re: PESO Connecticut Zen XX

2017-07-20 Thread Rick Womer 
I like it a lot, on its own merits and as one who grew up near New Haven.

Rick

> On Jul 18, 2017, at 8:16 PM, Larry Colen  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> P. J. Alling wrote:
>> I had nothing better to do today, so in between doing noting, I decided
>> to tweak my PESO HTML template. It being a bit hot though not as hot as
>> yesterday, I decided to share a winter scene from a few years ago to
>> test the page. So here's part to the Connecticut Zen series I was
>> putting together back then.
>> 
>> https://pdml.updog.co/webster26/PESO%20--%20connecticutzenxx.html
>> 
>> Equipment: Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax FA 20-35mm f4.0.
>> 
>> As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored.
> 
> Very nice.  I could find niggles to comment on, but I'm one of those sorts 
> that can always find something to niggle about.
> 
>> 
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Re: OT: MacBook Air seems to be working unusually hard

2017-07-20 Thread Eric Weir 

Thanks, Zos. I contact the website’s support group. The attributed the 
difficulty to a “rogue ad,” over which they said they had minimal control. The 
suggested an ad blocker. I use one, but I had whitelisted the site to support 
the magazine They offer “ad free access,” which I’m checking into. Eric

> On Jul 19, 2017, at 8:36 PM, Zos Xavius  wrote:
> 
> Some websites are just poorly coded too. If they have videos and lots
> of embeds running its pretty easy to eat up your processor quickly.
> Chrome often surprises me with how much CPU it uses.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Eric Weir  wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks, PJ. I use an ad blocker, too. I may have white listed the Atlantic 
>> site.
>> 
>>> On Jul 19, 2017, at 7:12 PM, P. J. Alling  
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Malformed adverts.  I've had web pages with such horrible scripts that they 
>>> hang the web browser and require a restart.  That's the main reason I've 
>>> employed an ad blocker.  I can ignore the ads.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 7/19/2017 6:07 PM, Eric Weir wrote:
 Recently—a day or two ago—I noticed that my MacBook Air was emitting a 
 low-pitched hissing sound, as if a fan were running. I first noticed this 
 when I had been processing photos in Lightroom for a while. But I’m 
 experiencing it now and all I have open are Safari and Mail.
 
 I ran Activity Monitor and found two tasks that were using a high 
 percentage of CPU. One was a kernel task. The other showed the web address 
 of The Atlantic Magazine, which I had open at the time. The percent of CPU 
 it was using ranged between the mid-50s and the mid-90s.
 
 I killed that process, the Atlantic page was reloaded, and the fan noise 
 has stopped. Why would a web page use so much processor capacity?
 
 Thanks and apologies for being so wildly off-topic,
 
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Re: PESO - Wasp beetle

2017-07-20 Thread Jostein Øksne 
Thanks Jay!
I use some hardware automation too. I have a motorised macro rail that moves 
the camera in tiny steps, trips the shutter and stops after prescribed number 
of exposures. 
Jostein 

Den 19. juli 2017 05.30.31 CEST, skrev Jay Taylor :
>Very nice job Jostein!With the program do you still have to manually
>focus each shot?
>Thanks ,JayT
>
>
>Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad
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>
>On Tuesday, July 18, 2017, 10:18 AM, Jostein  wrote:
>
>
>
>Den 18.07.2017 16:23, skrev Rick Womer:
>> I agree with all of the plaudits.
>> 
>> I am wondering what "slabbing" is. A stack of thick slices?
>
>Thanks Rick.
>A stack of thick slices is actually a good description.
>Instead of instructing the software to stack all the single exposures
>in 
>one go, it is instructed to stack them in groups of say, 15. Then when 
>it's done, the groups (slabs) are stacked again to produce the final
>result.
>It's a technique to get better results from deep stacks.
>Jostein

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Re: PESO; Biberbunker

2017-07-20 Thread Jack Davis 
Interesting and well recorded, Henk.

J

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> On Jul 20, 2017, at 5:53 AM, Henk Terhell  wrote:
> 
> Some shots taken last night at the Biberbunker nearby. This was one the few 
> radar stations of the Germans during WWII at the coast of Holland. This was a 
> very secret area run by the German airforce and was not part of the Atlantic 
> Wall. No shot was fired from here, but many allied airplanes from England 
> were located by radar and awaited inland.
> Also special of this place now is that this bunker is one of the very few 
> open to the public a couple of times a year for excursions.
> There is an exposition inside of German equipment and other material of WWII.
> Thought some of you may find this of interest.
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/albums/72157684247591110/with/35652671770/
> or https://goo.gl/xXLB1C
> 
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Re: PESO; Biberbunker

2017-07-20 Thread Daniel J. Matyola 
Interesting documentary images.  I was not aware of this site.

Thanks for posting them.


Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Henk Terhell  wrote:

> Some shots taken last night at the Biberbunker nearby. This was one the
> few radar stations of the Germans during WWII at the coast of Holland. This
> was a very secret area run by the German airforce and was not part of the
> Atlantic Wall. No shot was fired from here, but many allied airplanes from
> England were located by radar and awaited inland.
> Also special of this place now is that this bunker is one of the very few
> open to the public a couple of times a year for excursions.
> There is an exposition inside of German equipment and other material of
> WWII.
> Thought some of you may find this of interest.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/albums/72157684247591110/
> with/35652671770/
> or https://goo.gl/xXLB1C
>
> Henk
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PESO; Biberbunker

2017-07-20 Thread Henk Terhell 
Some shots taken last night at the Biberbunker nearby. This was one the 
few radar stations of the Germans during WWII at the coast of Holland. 
This was a very secret area run by the German airforce and was not part 
of the Atlantic Wall. No shot was fired from here, but many allied 
airplanes from England were located by radar and awaited inland.
Also special of this place now is that this bunker is one of the very 
few open to the public a couple of times a year for excursions.
There is an exposition inside of German equipment and other material of 
WWII.

Thought some of you may find this of interest.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/albums/72157684247591110/with/35652671770/
or https://goo.gl/xXLB1C

Henk

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August PUG Countdown

2017-07-20 Thread Brian Walters 
G'day all

One submission so far.

Theme: "City Transportation" 

Submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/submit/ 

Submission Guidelines here: http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html 

Nom. closing date 31 July. 

Cheers

Brian 

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Western Sydney Australia 
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/

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