I have a very nice DeWalt battery powered drill model DW929K2 that I have been using for ten years. The model number is superfluous after ten years. DeWalt has probably created and sold over a hundred new models since then. My problem is the two 18 volt ni-cad battery packs that it came with are now in their final days. One won’t charge at all. I consider that no shame after all this time. The...
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Excel Panic
I saw a Microsoft Office 2007 update upload in one of my auto update sessions a couple of days ago. I have the full office suite on my business/home computer. I am also running Windows seven ultimate as my OS. Yesterday I was manipulating some old Excel worksheets (.xls) which I use for tracking material orders in my store. I immediately became alarmed after I opened the first spreadsheet. I could look at it but...
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I was just sitting on my rear porch playing with my 2yr old Sony NEX-5 camera. I had put a lens adapter on it and connected my Minolta 100-200mm telephoto lens.1:4.5 (22) lens. On the Nex-5 it is equivalent to a 150-300 lens on a 35mm camera. Nothing special as far as subject, just the usual Egret, Mallards, and Russian Geese. The lens is manual focus in this situation. Far side of lake is about...
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I may be paranoid, but I have a suspicion. Probably because I can see doing this myself, strictly as a matter of a business decision. The decision is to not make a software product as good as it could possibly be because I want to protect a more expensive and higher quality and higher profit product that I produce. I am thinking about the consumer market photographic camera business. All the major camera makers have...
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