On 10/20/2010 1:50 AM, paul stenquist wrote:
Can't decide. It's a dilemna.
Paul, I am thinking that if you should drive alone, then flying is a
better option. Thus, I am also thinking, you could try to find an air
route that involves less stops...
Boris
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:50 PM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
Can't decide. It's a dilemna.
Paul
What about leaving mid day, drive for a while then overnight and
continue the next day.
FWIW I don't fly unless its a direct flight, so i drive alot.:-)
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10 hour driving days would would require another day for rehab. ;).
Jack
--- On Tue, 10/19/10, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
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Subject: Re: OT: To drive -- or not
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Date: Tuesday, October 19
the premises. With film, the trip home was always a bit
stressful. The job is a piece of cake. Getting there and back is the only
difficult part.
Paul
--- On Tue, 10/19/10, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
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Subject: Re: OT: To drive
had further anxiety facing you in the form of push or
pull lab trauma?
Jack
--- On Wed, 10/20/10, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
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Subject: Re: OT: To drive -- or not
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Date: Wednesday, October
I have a shoot in Martinsville, Virginia at a race car engine building shop.
I'll be shooting engine assembly procedures, parts and equipment indoors. It
will probably take me the better part of a day.
My travel expenses will be reimbursed whether I drive or fly. My first thought
was fly.
Where do you live?
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:50 PM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
I have a shoot in Martinsville, Virginia at a race car engine building shop.
I'll be shooting engine assembly procedures, parts and equipment indoors. It
will probably take me the better part
On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
Where do you live?
Southeast Michigan, about 25 miles north of Detroit.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:50 PM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net
wrote:
I have a shoot in Martinsville, Virginia at a race car engine building shop.
and Greensboro.
Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
--- On Tue, 10/19/10, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
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Subject: OT: To drive -- or not
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Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 7:50 PM
I have a shoot
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:50:52 -0400
paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
Can't decide. It's a dilemna.
Paul
A driver would be a valid expense. sorry I am not close enough to help
out.
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On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
Where do you live?
Southeast Michigan, about 25 miles north of Detroit.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:50 PM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net
I think Roanoke, VA would be closer to Martinsville than Greensboro
Bill
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:50 PM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
I have a shoot in Martinsville, Virginia at a race car engine building shop.
I'll be shooting engine assembly procedures, parts and equipment
On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Bill Owens wrote:
I think Roanoke, VA would be closer to Martinsville than Greensboro
Thanks Bill. I'll check out flights to Roanoke before I decide.
Bill
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:50 PM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net
wrote:
I have a shoot in
Paul,
A hard place to get to.
Raleigh is probably 2.5 to 3 hours away.
Pick a single flight out of Detroit and drive the rest of the way.
Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:38 PM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Bill Owens wrote:
I think
On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Paul,
A hard place to get to.
Raleigh is probably 2.5 to 3 hours away.
Pick a single flight out of Detroit and drive the rest of the way.
Regards, Bob S.
Thanks Bob. Greensboro is only a bit over an hour from Martinsville, but it has
From: Rick Womer
And the chances of making two connections in the modern age of air
travel are...
Unless I had pressing business, I would drive, take two days each way
(or at least one way), and do some recreational/speculative/stock
photography en route. There's some beautiful countryside
Paul,
Been on business to all those places.
I understand driving with the equipment has advantages.
I-77 down thru West Virginia would be your friend.
Otherwise, pick an airport with good (direct) airservice from Detroit,
then rent a car. Check Raleigh, Greensboro/Winston-Salem, Charlotte,
My oldest external drive failed. It's close to 10 years old and is only about
130 meg. It was fully backed up, so it's not a problem. It's a 3.5 SATA drive
in an enclosure. I'm wondering if I can use that enclosure for any SATA 3.5
drive. I'm going to replace it with a 1.5 terabyte Seagate
On 27/12/2009, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
My oldest external drive failed. It's close to 10 years old and is only about
130 meg. It was fully backed up, so it's not a problem. It's a 3.5 SATA drive
in an enclosure. I'm wondering if I can use that enclosure for any SATA
On 2009-12-26 12:09 , Graydon wrote:
I'm reading Paul's description as the *drive* is nigh 10 years old, and the
enclosure is newer. (I certainly don't remember SATA external
enclosures being available in 1999 or 2000.)
If that is the case, *and* if the enclosure is one of the solid hunk of
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's not an SATA. I'll pick up another
enclosure. The last one I bought isn't really an enclosure, it's just
a dock. It's called EZ- Dock, and it's made by a company called
Kingwin. The drive plugs into a slot and stands up vertically. With no
enclosure it seems to
On 27/12/2009, P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's not an SATA. I'll pick up another enclosure. The
last one I bought isn't really an enclosure, it's just a dock. It's called
EZ- Dock, and it's made by a company called Kingwin. The drive plugs into a
slot
eSATA is absolutely fabulous when it works. My laptop has a good
hot-swap support for eSATA. My stationary is a little more quirky,
allowing dismounting an remounting if the disk was present at startup,
but not otherwise. But that's Windows. I recently read somewhere that
OSX does not support
On 27/12/09, AlunFoto, discombobulated, unleashed:
I recently read somewhere that
OSX does not support eSATA hotswap. It may have been outdated
information, but it could be worth the bother to check out before
buying.
This page may be of help:
http://www.macupgrades.co.uk/store/faq-esata.php
On Dec 26, 2009, at 6:10 PM, AlunFoto wrote:
eSATA is absolutely fabulous when it works. My laptop has a good
hot-swap support for eSATA. My stationary is a little more quirky,
allowing dismounting an remounting if the disk was present at startup,
but not otherwise. But that's Windows. I
On 27/12/2009, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
I turn drives off or unplug them all the time. OSX issues a warning that a
device was removed and data may have been damaged. Data is never damaged. Not
once in probably 1000 removals. I also plug drives in or turn them on
I remember there was a lot of discussion here about hard drive backup
a while ago. Someone sent me this link earlier today:
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=56286087244h=jM2rvu=MnqHk
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Bruce wrote:
I use Acronis TrueImage Home software. I have been very satisfied with
it. They have a trial version you can try. http://www.acronis.com/
I've read good things about that program. I think I'll give that trial a
shot.
Thanks,
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John Celio wrote:
I'm looking for some hard drive backup software. I've been using the one
that came with Vista Ultimate, but it doesn't allow me to backup individual
disks by themselves. I used to have Norton Ghost when it was included with
SystemWorks, but I swore off that Norton
Mark Roberts wrote:
John Celio wrote:
I'm looking for some hard drive backup software. I've been using the one
that came with Vista Ultimate, but it doesn't allow me to backup individual
disks by themselves. I used to have Norton Ghost when it was included with
SystemWorks, but I
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Celio wrote:
I'm looking for some hard drive backup software. I've been using the one
that came with Vista Ultimate, but it doesn't allow me to backup individual
disks by themselves. I used to have Norton Ghost
P. J. Alling wrote:
Mark Roberts wrote:
John Celio wrote:
I'm looking for some hard drive backup software. I've been using the one
that came with Vista Ultimate, but it doesn't allow me to backup individual
disks by themselves. I used to have Norton Ghost when it was included
Hello John,
I use Acronis TrueImage Home software. I have been very satisfied with
it. They have a trial version you can try. http://www.acronis.com/
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Saturday, April 26, 2008, 10:03:31 AM, you wrote:
JC I'm looking for some hard drive backup software. I've been
I'm looking for some hard drive backup software. I've been using the one
that came with Vista Ultimate, but it doesn't allow me to backup individual
disks by themselves. I used to have Norton Ghost when it was included with
SystemWorks, but I swore off that Norton bloatware a long time ago.
Getting strange indications that my ISP is rejecting some messages -
sorry if this appears twice.
John -
A couple cheap suggestions - not exactly full-fledged back-up software
but they work in a pinch.
If you have Nero for CD/DVD burning the suite normally comes w/Nero
BackItUp. It defaults
Hi!
John, if it helps at all, the external hard drive that I have came
bundled with EMC Retrospect software. There are various versions of it.
The one I have is not offered for sale and it is tuned down. However it
does what it is supposed to do. For instance, I had to restore files
several
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
John, if it helps at all, the external hard drive that I have came
bundled with EMC Retrospect software. There are various versions of it.
The one I have is not offered for sale and it is tuned down. However it
Need help, please.
Remember that USB hard drive that I ordered? I will need to
format it to NTFS (I use Windows XP Home). Rummaging through
Microsoft's Knowledge Base, I am finding only instructions for
formatting drives that are in the computer, and only for
formatting them to either FAT 16
I believe... it's been a while since I've done it... that you will be
offered the choice of file systems after you've indicated you wish to begin
formatting.
Tom C.
From: Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
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If it's larger than 40GB you won't get any options on how to format it,
it will only offer NTFS.
It is formatted the same way as an internal drive.
-Adam
Joseph Tainter wrote:
Need help, please.
Remember that USB hard drive that I ordered? I will need to format it to
NTFS (I use Windows
On Apr 27, 2006, at 12:21, Tom C wrote:
I believe... it's been a while since I've done it... that you will
be offered the choice of file systems after you've indicated you
wish to begin formatting.
I'll go along with Tom on this one.
It is also possible to CONVERT an existing FAT drive
Sorry, I don't know the links, but it is rather simple.
From a command prompt:
format F: /FS:NTFS
where F: should correspond to the letter assigned by windows to the
drive you want to format.
You can check it by opening My Computer and seeing the letters
corresponding to the drives.
done it... that you will
be offered the choice of file systems after you've indicated you
wish to begin formatting.
Tom C.
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11
will be
offered the choice of file systems after you've indicated you wish to
begin formatting.
Tom C.
From: Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:09:06 -0600
Need
you've
indicated you wish to begin formatting.
Tom C.
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:09:06 -0600
Need help, please.
Remember that USB hard drive that I
A warning:
My external drive was formatted FAT32 and I decided to reformat it to
NTFS. A bad idea if you carry the drive around and connect it to other
computers. I lost some valuable files. I formatted the drive again as
FAT32 using the format utility from western digital and my problems
are
Joseph Tainter wrote:
Need help, please.
Remember that USB hard drive that I ordered? I will need to format it to
NTFS (I use Windows XP Home). Rummaging through Microsoft's Knowledge
Base, I am finding only instructions for formatting drives that are in
the computer, and only for formatting
See Article ID 309000 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309000
-Paul
Joseph Tainter wrote:
Need help, please.
Remember that USB hard drive that I ordered? I will need to format it to
NTFS (I use Windows XP Home). Rummaging
at
your available drives and then plug in the new drive and watch for it to
appear under disk managment.
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Need help, please
I'm not sure the PD7X enclosure will work. The PowerBook drive is
formatted for Mac OS Extended file system, not FAT32. I don't know
what firmware's in the PD7X.
Safer to get yourself a FireWire enclosure. They're not expensive.
Godfrey
On Oct 23, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Juan Buhler wrote:
Hi list,
My Powerbook seems to have died today :( Probably too much vibration
while riding in the helmet compartment of the Vespa. It won't boot,
and a burnt smell comes out if I plug it in.
I'm positive that the drive is OK though. Anyone know of a place that
will recover the contents of the
Ugh. Do you have a well-padded case for it? I suspect a neoprene
sleeve and a nicely padded outer case would kill off most of the
nastier vibrations. Might want to consider putting in a courier bag
instead, however. Less direct vibration that way, your body is
absorbing it.
Regards the
If the drive itself is okay, you can get a firewire enclosure, take
the drive out of the machine, put it in the FW enclosure, and plug it
into another machine.
I've seen some fairly cheap enclosures designed for 2.5 laptop
drives. You'd just need another mac that could read the disk and copy
the
I have a very nice neoprene sleeve for my iBook from Marware. I use it
when I put the iBook into the tailbag on my motorcycle. Got it from
MacYummies, I think.
-Mat
On 10/24/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ugh. Do you have a well-padded case for it? I suspect a neoprene
sleeve
Yep, I use a Booq bag, made for the PB 12. It wasn't the first time
the Mac rode in there. I usually hang the bag from the helmet safe, in
front of the seat, but this weekend I was riding up north to Petaluma,
so I didn't want to have loose bags...
I'll do as you guys say, take the drive away. I
On 23 Oct 2005 at 21:28, Juan Buhler wrote:
I'll do as you guys say, take the drive away. I can probably even just
use the PD7X as an enclosure to recover the data...
So long as the soft formatting of the drive is FAT32
Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel +61-2-9554-4110
UTC(GMT) +10
On Apr 14, 2005, at 2:53 PM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote:
On a workstation? Sure. That's what the file server is for.
%innocent look%
In my university days we managed to find a publically writable scratch
directory somewhere on one of the servers, so we put some game files
there to make it easy
in my experience, Doom has never been a problem for getting good
grades. I had an SGI Irix port, and I am not sure I would have ever got through
the grad school keeping my mind intact, hadn't it been for it.
best,
mishka
On 4/14/05, David Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 14, 2005, at 2:53
Last night someone mentioned that you shouldn't use more than 50% of the
space available on a hard drive. I've never heard such a thing, and was
unable to get an explanation as to why. Anyone care to comment?
Shel
Last night someone mentioned that you shouldn't use more than 50% of the
space available on a hard drive. I've never heard such a thing, and was
unable to get an explanation as to why. Anyone care to comment?
Well, then I've been breaking that rule about 97% of the time. It doesn't
matter
Last night someone mentioned that you shouldn't use more than 50%
of the space available on a hard drive. I've never heard such a
thing, and was unable to get an explanation as to why. Anyone care
to comment?
If you're using Windoz you need a certain amount for the swap/paging file (or
On Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at 07:47AM, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Last night someone mentioned that you shouldn't use more than 50% of the
space available on a hard drive. I've never heard such a thing, and was
unable to get an explanation as to why. Anyone care to comment?
Sure, but that's all part of the disk usage. I'd think that most people
would use a swap/paging file of a set size based on the machines setup.
That way the file remains unfragmented and can be placed at a specific
location on the disk. Absolutely best on a separate drive, or at least a
Sure, but that's all part of the disk usage. I'd think that most people
would use a swap/paging file of a set size based on the machines
setup. That way the file remains unfragmented and can be placed at a
specific location on the disk.
Yes thats true to some extent, the machine I use at
Have you thought about doing a boot time defrag of the swap file and system
files - much simpler than all that xferring back and forth, imo.
Shel
[Original Message]
From: John Whittingham
Yes agreed, I use a seperate drive, when it comes to defrag I move the
swap
file to the primary
Have you thought about doing a boot time defrag of the swap file and
system files - much simpler than all that xferring back and forth, imo.
I do but always change the location first, always works better that way for
me.
John
That remembers me of that rule of thumb that all hard disks are the same
size, just some 3M free left...
pancho
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Last night someone mentioned that you shouldn't use more than 50% of the
space available on a hard drive. I've never heard such a thing, and was
unable to get an
Quoting Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Absolutely best on a separate drive, or at least a
separate partition.
Using a separate partition on the same spindle can actually slow things down,
increased head movement when going to and from swap. This is well known and
documented in the Win
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Last night someone mentioned that you shouldn't use more than 50%
of the space available on a hard drive. I've
Remember the good old days when you couldn't imagine how you'd ever
fill up that 20MB hard drive?
-P
John Coyle wrote:
I'd only begin to worry when I had less than 10%, or 100MB, left nowadays.
Hey, the first hard drive I ever had was a whole 5MB and cost about $1000
per MB!!
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:39 AM
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Remember
Paul Sorenson mused:
Remember the good old days when you couldn't imagine how you'd ever
fill up that 20MB hard drive?
-P
Nope - I always knew I could fill up that sort of space. The first
PC I actually purchased for my self (a 386/20) came with a 40MB drive,
and the first thing I
John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you sure you've got that right? Only 1GB total disk space?
On a workstation? Sure. That's what the file server is for.
%innocent look%
(Though come to think of it, the last time I was in a computer
store, it was hard to find drives as small as the
D. Glenn Arthur Jr. mused:
John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you sure you've got that right? Only 1GB total disk space?
On a workstation? Sure. That's what the file server is for.
%innocent look%
OK - I'll give you that. When I was resurrecting an 'old' PC
(a mere 800MHz
SNIP
John Coyle wrote:
I'd only begin to worry when I had less than 10%, or 100MB, left
nowadays.
Are you sure you've got that right? Only 1GB total disk space?
I've got around 25GB just of images on my notebook (60GB drive),
and a 100GB USB drive with a few more images.
No, I did _not_ say
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