The 2 year report: I purchased the Sony NEX-5 camera slightly over two years ago. I liked the design as it was very similar to the Sony camera I bought about 11 years ago when I went to Alaska on a work assignment. More history HERE. <Link> I liked the feel of the NEX camera body and lens very much when I first received the camera, it was like an old friend. But I became...
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OS Speed Lesson Learned
I have been a bit frustrated on the performance of my super bad, 64 bit quad processor, 3.2 GHz, 8 GIG RAM, and 4 Terabytes of Storage, WIN 7 Ultimate. Pretty hot hardware specs and better than almost everything else made today. Re-built about 3 or 4 years ago after a lighting strike, I can’t make her any better today except add more processor cores and maybe a bit faster GPU video card. But almost...
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I usually leave my desktop computers at home in the standby (sleep) mode when I am not using them. It is an extremely low power level but provides for a nearly instant on when I want to use the machine. The screens go into a sleep mode as well. I don’t have them set to go into that mode automatically as there are times when I have a very lengthy processing job running that may...
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I did an install of Drupal7 on my web server last night. It is a CMS (Content Management System) software system for building and publishing a great many different kinds of websites. I have been wanting to take a look at Drupal for some time and a possible use for it at my work made me load up the latest version for a look-see. I works quite a bit differently than the Joomla CMS which...
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