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Got to admit; when Windows fails, it does so spectacularly.
On 10/28/18 9:32 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:46:32 -0700 (PDT), RichA wrote: On Sunday, 28 October 2018 15:10:30 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: On 2018-10-28 17:29:20 +0000, David Taylor said: On 28/10/2018 16:51, Savageduck wrote: [] Rich, why don’t you post your Windows bitching, and stuff to a Windows NG where it belongs, not to r.p.d. where it is off topic? The last time you did this on October 8, the result was a major pollution of 296 OT posts in r.p.d., and your only post in the thread was the first one. I agree in general, but DC/DVD drives are something photographers might use, aren't they? The last time I used a CD/DVD for any sort of image file sharing/archiving was over 15 years ago. The last time I used a Windows machine was at work in February 2009, and then I retired. -- Regards, Savageduck You people have a weird belief in the reliability of cloud or solid state memory. You know what some of the most reliable storage has proven to be? magnetic TAPE. That was never my experience. Store a magnetic tape near a magnet and see what happens. You want reliability? You want punched paper tape! I have some programs that I wrote back in college in the 1970's, and the paper tape is still in good condition. Now where did I put that ASR-33 teletype? -- Ken Hart |
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Got to admit; when Windows fails, it does so spectacularly.
In article , Alan Browne
wrote: I agree in general, but DC/DVD drives are something photographers might use, aren't they? The last time I used a CD/DVD for any sort of image file sharing/archiving was over 15 years ago. The last time I used a Windows machine was at work in February 2009, and then I retired. You people have a weird belief in the reliability of cloud or solid state memory. either of those is *significantly* more reliable than a cd/dvd, which are among the least reliable of any storage media. No. I have tons. I re-write after 5 - 6 years, but I've kept some "test" DVD's that are readable after over 10 years. that doesn't mean every disc will last. i recently migrated old discs to a server. some took a few minutes to read, while some took around a half hour, clearly retrying due to degradation. a few were unreadable. i lost data. Storage conditions (cool, dry, dark) are essential. No parts to fail either. Readers are cheap and will be available (even if used) for a very long time. the dyes degrade over time. A cloud account could go poof and SSM could fail electronically. anything can go poof. amazon, apple, google, microsoft, dropbox and many others aren't going to go poof any time soon. cloud services sell reliability and have *far* more resources than any single person could ever do on their own. the limiting factor is bandwidth. it takes a while to transfer terabytes, but some accept and/or offer seed drives. Even a CD/DVD with some bad areas will be readable in most other areas. unless it's the directory, rendering the entire disc unreadable, but regardless, *any* data loss is unacceptable, no matter how small. murphy's law means the 'bad area' will contain the file you actually want to access. tl;dr discs are *not* archival. |
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Got to admit; when Windows fails, it does so spectacularly.
In article , Ken Hart
wrote: Store a magnetic tape near a magnet and see what happens. why would anyone willingly do that? You want reliability? You want punched paper tape! except in a fire... I have some programs that I wrote back in college in the 1970's, and the paper tape is still in good condition. you're going to need a lot more than just the tapes for those programs to be of any use, namely a pdp-8 computer. Now where did I put that ASR-33 teletype? in the basement. and you don't need an asr-33 to read it either: https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/21/fo...pe-reader-to-y our-pc/ |
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Got to admit; when Windows fails, it does so spectacularly.
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:00:10 -0400, Alan Browne
wrote: On 2018-10-28 17:13, nospam wrote: In article , RichA wrote: I agree in general, but DC/DVD drives are something photographers might use, aren't they? The last time I used a CD/DVD for any sort of image file sharing/archiving was over 15 years ago. The last time I used a Windows machine was at work in February 2009, and then I retired. You people have a weird belief in the reliability of cloud or solid state memory. either of those is *significantly* more reliable than a cd/dvd, which are among the least reliable of any storage media. No. I have tons. I re-write after 5 - 6 years, but I've kept some "test" DVD's that are readable after over 10 years. Storage conditions (cool, dry, dark) are essential. No parts to fail either. Readers are cheap and will be available (even if used) for a very long time. A cloud account could go poof and SSM could fail electronically. Even a CD/DVD with some bad areas will be readable in most other areas. Just consider yourself lucky that we have nospam around to tell us what works for us shouldn't work. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida |
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Got to admit; when Windows fails, it does so spectacularly.
On Oct 29, 2018, Ken Hart wrote
(in article ): On 10/28/18 9:32 PM, Eric Stevens wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:46:32 -0700 (PDT), RichA wrote: On Sunday, 28 October 2018 15:10:30 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote: On 2018-10-28 17:29:20 +0000, David Taylor said: On 28/10/2018 16:51, Savageduck wrote: [] Rich, why don’t you post your Windows bitching, and stuff to a Windows NG where it belongs, not to r.p.d. where it is off topic? The last time you did this on October 8, the result was a major pollution of 296 OT posts in r.p.d., and your only post in the thread was the first one. I agree in general, but DC/DVD drives are something photographers might use, aren't they? The last time I used a CD/DVD for any sort of image file sharing/archiving was over 15 years ago. The last time I used a Windows machine was at work in February 2009, and then I retired. You people have a weird belief in the reliability of cloud or solid state memory. You know what some of the most reliable storage has proven to be? magnetic TAPE. That was never my experience. Store a magnetic tape near a magnet and see what happens. You want reliability? You want punched paper tape! I have some programs that I wrote back in college in the 1970's, and the paper tape is still in good condition. Now where did I put that ASR-33 teletype? Where are petroglyphs when you need them? -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Got to admit; when Windows fails, it does so spectacularly.
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 06:56:55 +0000, David Taylor
wrote: On 29/10/2018 04:29, Eric Stevens wrote: [] Now you tell me. I'm currently trying to make my two Windows 10 computer _each_ talk to the other. Corsair gets on fine with Dell but rejects Dell whenever Dell tries to talk back. The instructions on line sound as though they were written by those guys. Check: Share/directory/file security Network public/private Network discovery Try IP addresses rather than names Done all that. My problem is that any attempt of Dell to contact Corsair gets a response of "You are not authorised to ... " or words to that effect. I've been through all the settings that I (and others) can think of and they are identical on both machines. Yet Corsair is succesful in contacting Dell while Dell is unsuccesful in getting a useful response from Corsair. The problem may lie in the fact that Corsair is W10 Home while Dell is W10 Pro. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Got to admit; when Windows fails, it does so spectacularly.
On 29/10/2018 23:42, Eric Stevens wrote:
[] Done all that. My problem is that any attempt of Dell to contact Corsair gets a response of "You are not authorised to ... " or words to that effect. I've been through all the settings that I (and others) can think of and they are identical on both machines. Yet Corsair is succesful in contacting Dell while Dell is unsuccesful in getting a useful response from Corsair. The problem may lie in the fact that Corsair is W10 Home while Dell is W10 Pro. I have Win-10 Pro PCs here happily accessing Win-10 Home ones, so that is not exclusively the problem. You might want to look at disabling password protected sharing, or using the correct username and password with the share, for example: NET USE X: \\server\share password /USER:username -- Cheers, David Web: http://www.satsignal.eu |
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Got to admit; when Windows fails, it does so spectacularly.
On 10/28/2018 3:56 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On Oct 28, 2018, Bill W wrote (in ): On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 09:51:03 -0700, Savageduck wrote: Did you happen to notice that deal for Capture One with Fuji Cameras? I can't remember all the details, but I think you get lifetime Capture One with a one-time $200 payment. There's more to it, but I also think it's limited to working with Fuji photos. What they have is *Free* Capture One Express Fujifilm which is not fully featured, and which i have been playing with. Then there is the fully featured Capture One Pro Fujifilm $199. https://www.phaseone.com/en/Capture-One/Capture-One-Fujifilm.aspx There is also a Sony only version. So, now that 20% of the responses in this topic are yours, perhaps you could retract your original complaint? ;-) -- best regards, Neil |
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Got to admit; when Windows fails, it does so spectacularly.
On Oct 30, 2018, Neil wrote
(in article ): On 10/28/2018 3:56 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Oct 28, 2018, Bill W wrote (in ): On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 09:51:03 -0700, Savageduck wrote: Did you happen to notice that deal for Capture One with Fuji Cameras? I can't remember all the details, but I think you get lifetime Capture One with a one-time $200 payment. There's more to it, but I also think it's limited to working with Fuji photos. What they have is *Free* Capture One Express Fujifilm which is not fully featured, and which i have been playing with. Then there is the fully featured Capture One Pro Fujifilm $199. https://www.phaseone.com/en/Capture-One/Capture-One-Fujifilm.aspx There is also a Sony only version. So, now that 20% of the responses in this topic are yours, perhaps you could retract your original complaint? ;-) Naah! My original complaint regarding Rich’s off topic Windows posts is still valid. All the Bill W thread drift to a Capture One & Fujifilm question did was bring things on topic for r.p.d. and I responded to that. Note that in that digression there was no mention of Windows. As for my post directly in response to RichA bitching about subject change, there was no content at all. Now what do you have to say regarding Capture One & Fujifilm? -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Got to admit; when Windows fails, it does so spectacularly.
On 10/30/2018 9:04 AM, Savageduck wrote:
On Oct 30, 2018, Neil wrote (in article ): On 10/28/2018 3:56 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Oct 28, 2018, Bill W wrote (in ): On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 09:51:03 -0700, Savageduck wrote: Did you happen to notice that deal for Capture One with Fuji Cameras? I can't remember all the details, but I think you get lifetime Capture One with a one-time $200 payment. There's more to it, but I also think it's limited to working with Fuji photos. What they have is *Free* Capture One Express Fujifilm which is not fully featured, and which i have been playing with. Then there is the fully featured Capture One Pro Fujifilm $199. https://www.phaseone.com/en/Capture-One/Capture-One-Fujifilm.aspx There is also a Sony only version. So, now that 20% of the responses in this topic are yours, perhaps you could retract your original complaint? ;-) Naah! My original complaint regarding Rich’s off topic Windows posts is still valid. All the Bill W thread drift to a Capture One & Fujifilm question did was bring things on topic for r.p.d. and I responded to that. Note that in that digression there was no mention of Windows. As for my post directly in response to RichA bitching about subject change, there was no content at all. Now what do you have to say regarding Capture One & Fujifilm? All topics have drift if they're long enough, and it's a safe bet that much of the content will have little to do with the primary focus of the newsgroup. While I don't think Rich's perspective toward Windows is either accurate or useful, his comment was aimed at storage, which is relevant to any newsgroup dedicated to acquiring digital data of any kind. As I don't have a Fujifilm camera, apps dedicated to them have little interest to me, but I don't have a problem with those who find it useful information, even if it hijacked the topic. ;-) -- best regards, Neil |
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