Re: Photo Hosting Site - Flickr or.....?

2021-10-12 Thread Henk Terhell
I fully agree with Godfrey on the value of Flickr Pro for image storage and easy presentation with private access or by friends, family or general public. However I cannot store my DNG RAW files on Flickr so these I keep on local disks. Henk Op 2021-10-12 om 03:13 schreef Godfrey DiGiorgi:

Re: cameraphobia and terrorism?

2021-10-12 Thread Bill
On Tue., Oct. 12, 2021, 4:49 p.m. Ralf R Radermacher, wrote: > Am 13.10.21 um 00:06 schrieb Larry Colen: > > > Speak for yourself, having cops pull guns on me and cuff me because > someone saw me photographing airplanes with my bushhawk was a blast. > > I've been chased by the notoriously

Re: cameraphobia and terrorism?

2021-10-12 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 13.10.21 um 00:06 schrieb Larry Colen: Speak for yourself, having cops pull guns on me and cuff me because someone saw me photographing airplanes with my bushhawk was a blast. I've been chased by the notoriously authoritarian French police from my favourite spot in Dunkirk where it's

Re: cameraphobia and terrorism?

2021-10-12 Thread Larry Colen
> On Oct 12, 2021, at 2:49 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > > Now, everyone with a camera is either a paparrazzo, a pedophile or a > terrorist. You forgot poseur. > > It's just no fun anymore. Speak for yourself, having cops pull guns on me and cuff me because someone saw me

Re: cameraphobia and terrorism?

2021-10-12 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 12.10.21 um 18:32 schrieb Igor PDML-StR: Some of you might have heard about this incident - it's been on the national news. But just in case you didn't hear what was the culprit, - that was a "vintage" style camera and human stupidity. I'm old enough to remember the golden days when a

Re: cameraphobia and terrorism?

2021-10-12 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
"Make them afraid, divide them up, and conquer them." Same old horse droppings... Old news in another era of fear and instability. And yes: it can affect all of us (and everyone else) directly. Read "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis ... written in 1935. G -- No matter where you go,

Re: cameraphobia and terrorism?

2021-10-12 Thread John
> I guess they decided that stupidity that caused the scare is not criminal. It should be. But the guy with the camera is NOT the one whose stupidity caused the incident. I think he should sue the airline, the flight attendants, the pilots, the TSA and that ASSHOLE BUSYBODY for libel, false

Re: OT: I have a new computer

2021-10-12 Thread John
The fundamental problem is this *IS* a system using UEFI bios and a 64-bit OS, so it *SHOULD* be able to partition a 4TB drive as a single volume. And it did so for the first 4TB drive attached to SATA 1. It had no problems formatting that volume and it did so NTFS. BUT, it would NOT DO SO

Re: OT: I have a new computer

2021-10-12 Thread John
Thanks Larry, It doesn't have a CD-ROM or DVD drive. I might be able to make a bootable thumb drive, but ... Today NOT being a Federal Holiday and it being AFTER 8:00 am out there on the west coast, I was able to talk to their customer support, and they're sending an advance replacement

Re: cameraphobia and terrorism?

2021-10-12 Thread Bill
On 10/12/2021 10:32 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Some of you might have heard about this incident - it's been on the national news. But just in case you didn't hear what was the culprit, - that was a "vintage" style camera and human stupidity. I am quoting this article from PetaPixel: "The

cameraphobia and terrorism?

2021-10-12 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Some of you might have heard about this incident - it's been on the national news. But just in case you didn't hear what was the culprit, - that was a "vintage" style camera and human stupidity. I am quoting this article from PetaPixel: "The incident reportedly occurred after a woman

Re: OT: I have a new computer

2021-10-12 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 01:08:40AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > > > > On Oct 11, 2021, at 8:22 PM, John wrote: > > > > This is *NOT* a computer that I put together myself. > > > > This is a computer that I bought pre-assembled with the OS pre-installed. > > It only came with a 1TB SSD M.2

Re: OT: I have a new computer

2021-10-12 Thread Larry Colen
> On Oct 11, 2021, at 8:22 PM, John wrote: > > This is *NOT* a computer that I put together myself. > > This is a computer that I bought pre-assembled with the OS pre-installed. It > only came with a 1TB SSD M.2 module (which I have not touched). But I knew I > would have to add additional

Re: OT: I have a new computer

2021-10-12 Thread John
This is *NOT* a computer that I put together myself. This is a computer that I bought pre-assembled with the OS pre-installed. It only came with a 1TB SSD M.2 module (which I have not touched). But I knew I would have to add additional drives. I've never had these kind of problems with the