I love updating the BIOS on hardware devices. I just put the latest version 1.0.5 on my new Canon EOS 5D. It’s actually a fairly easy process – much easier than flashing the BIOS on, say, a computer. I simply take the card out, put the new BIOS image in the root, put it back [...]
Filed under: Photography, Technology on March 29th, 2006 | No Comments »
In my quest to “de-spam” my email server and sites, I had inadvertently broken my comment notification system. So, if you were one of a large handful of people who commented and waited hours or days for your comment to show up, that should not happen again. At least, not while I’m anywhere near a [...]
Filed under: Site News on March 28th, 2006 | No Comments »
Once again I have attempted the long exposure and this time, I waited even longer and the camera came back with this picture. Patience is rewarded and I can now see a circular rotation pattern which illustrates the rotation of the earth in the night sky.
What I now have to learn is to take this [...]
Filed under: Photography on March 27th, 2006 | No Comments »
Today was supposed to have been the “peak” blossom day for the DC area. As you can see from this picture, that is not exactly true. I think we’re more like two days out, but this is really my first season watching this so I don’t really know how all of this unfolds.
Most trees look [...]
Filed under: Life News, Photography on March 27th, 2006 | No Comments »
I have decided to take a swipe at documenting the progress of the local cherry blossoms. So, if you’d like to know how they are coming along, be sure to check in this gallery for any updates. I will try to keep updated photos of the blossoms here at least every couiple of days.
Filed under: Photography, Site News on March 27th, 2006 | No Comments »
For the most part, I am overwhelmingly happy with my 5D. There is one issue, though, that is causing me confusion. I have been playing with long exposures and hoping to do more with star trails and such. Those exposures require sometimes hours of open shutters to really look good. I have tried one for [...]
Filed under: Photography on March 25th, 2006 | No Comments »
I ran some hardware diagnostics for many hours without finding anything, but something told me to look at BIOS and drivers for my SATA RAID conroller. This is the device that controlls the 1.2TB of hard drives. I flashed the BIOS to an updated version, installed a new driver and cleared out another application that [...]
Filed under: Life News, Technology on March 23rd, 2006 | No Comments »
This new server I have is great – until I actually started copying data to it. I think there’s something wrong with either the motherboard or the CPU. It’s hard to tell. It simply reboots with a stop error every once in a while – usually under some kind of load. The stop error is [...]
Filed under: Life News, Technology on March 22nd, 2006 | No Comments »
You know – I just noticed that I put question marks on the topics of the last several posts… I’ll try to stop that… soon?
Filed under: Life News, Site News on March 20th, 2006 | No Comments »
It looks like we’ll actually be getting local cell phone numbers now. I’ve resisted the change, but there have been too many confusions with locals changing the “1″ to a “0″ [the area code where I have my number is presently 713, whereas I live now in the 703 area code]. There are also some [...]
Filed under: Life News on March 20th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
