Posted 08/04/2009 at 10:04:14pm

Are there any plans to do similar testing with other memory card formats? In particular I'm interested in Compact Flash since it's another big one for still photography, especially in the higher-end models which rely on speed for professional shoots. At 4-6MB for JPGs and 25-30MB for RAW (and 30-40MB for the RAW+JPG mode) on my Canon 50D I'd love to know what the best option is for a memory card.

Posted 07/26/2009 at 10:41:37pm

The people in the Left 4 Dead costumes are people from a website that I frequent. They are completely over-whelmed by the attention they've gotten for it. It wasn't expected at all and they're extremely excited!

Posted 02/06/2009 at 05:45:25pm

I'd never do an upgrade anyways. It's much cleaner and less buggy with a fresh install. I tend to keep my files on a separate partition anyways, so re-installing programs doesn't take more than a few hours. I can deal with that.

Posted 01/10/2009 at 10:43:25pm

This week I plan on purchasing an additional hard drive for my laptop so I can install the beta and dual-boot with XP. In the meantime I've installed it on a virtual machine and I'm even surprised at how speedy it is in that environment. I haven't really used Vista that much but from what I have used, Windows 7 is very similar with several great differences.

I played around with Windows 7 all afternoon and so far I'm very impressed. I like it. If they can end up with a very stable product and the next few months prove to be fruitful in its use, I might actually consider purchasing it as an upgrade. It will definitely be going onto my new desktop I plan on building in another year and a half.

Posted 10/28/2008 at 11:23:45am

That's the one! Thanks!

Posted 10/27/2008 at 11:41:12pm

There's a program that I'm pretty sure has been featured in MPC long ago but I cannot for the life of me remember what it is called. It was a Windows Explorer type utility that showed a graphical layout in colored blocks of the files/folders contained on your PC. The larger the file the bigger the block. It was incredibly useful in terms of figuring out what was taking up the most space on your HDD in order to do some house keeping. I'd love to get my hands on a copy of it again.

Posted 09/15/2008 at 07:39:27pm

The campus doesn't end at Urbana.....the two cities split the campus in 2.

 Anywho, as a grad student at UIUC I'm surprised I haven't heard about this from the campus itself. I'm sure they're getting funding from elsewhere besides the state but it's disappointing they can't use that much money for something a bit more useful. The University has a bunch of other things they could use that kind of money for, especially since the past two years have been a pain getting a budget approved by the state.

Posted 09/08/2008 at 06:42:37pm

Nvidia does not specifically support most notebook GPUs and instead relies on OEM vendors to create their own drivers. The link you've listed is for desktop GPUs only. If you look at the products supported list you'll notice the GeForce Go 7900 GS is not listed.

Posted 08/29/2008 at 12:36:46am

I understand why some would want Wi-Fi enabled SD cards but I just don't understand why anyone would actually want to use it. In my case if I have my laptop available to upload the pictures to than I'd rather save the camera's battery and take the few extra seconds to just plug the card into my memory reader. Maybe I'm missing some other catchy feature that comes along with Eye-Fi that would make it more worth it.

Posted 08/13/2008 at 11:39:05pm

Upgrading to Blu-Ray just isn't worth it to me. It costs to much to me and I have too many DVDs that I think still look great and wouldn't want to spend the money to replace. I won't deny the superier quality of BR, but honestly I don't think it's that huge of an improvement to make me spend what little money I have on it. Perhaps when the price of players come down (sub-$100 range) I might get one just so I can play movies I borrow from others.