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Spider Bites

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Hope you never get one, but Termite.com has a good set of descriptions.
Brown recluse
Black Widow Spider. Headache and nausea
Hobo Spiders. Takes 24 hours to become a blister and symptoms are fatigue and there will be immediate redness and severe headache.
Funnel Web Grass

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Nikon D700

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Nikon just introduced a full frame camera that is 12MP and will really put heavy pressure on the Canon 5D. Just like the Nikon 300D really trounces the Canon EOS-40D by being fast, so the D700 is going to put pressure on Canon.
Oh why did I go with Canon lenses???

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Canon XT 350D Parameter settings and correct ISO settings

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I’ve had this camera for two years now and am still finding a new thing or two. One thing to watch out for is the Parameter settings. These are like Picture Styles in the newer Canon XTi (400D) and XSi (450D)
Canon Digital Rebel XT review EOS-350D
There are 2 pre-set parameter sets with Parameter 1 [...]

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MacBook Air SuperDrive jammed and will not eject so shake it!

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Hat tip to TUAW apparently, Tnkgrl has figured out how to open up a Superdrive, replace a part and thus make it universally compatible with all computers. Great geekout. OTOH, why go to all the trouble :-)? The photos are really useful so you can disassemble it. The short version is the black bottom comes [...]

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Windows Boot Drive Crash

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Even when on vacation, you find computers everywhere. Someone asked me, “what do I do? when I try to start my computer, I get a boot drive not found”.
Microsoft has a good discussion about what happens if you get Operating System Not Found or Missing operating system. The long and short of it is that [...]

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