Scott Eaton

One of my biggest gripes about my 60D is it's bad habit of blowing strong reds, which Dx0 confirmed in their sensor tests and can be illustrated on Dpreview's test studio scene. I hate to agree...

>>If not, he is entitled to post his opinion just like anyone else. And being a mod nobody is going to disagree with with him for fear of being bullied and threatened just like every other mod who...

With all due respect, get a life. Anytime old photographs are displayed on Dpreview we have an onslaught of film zealots picking away at digital -vs- analog and otherwise using their computer to...

For some odd reason the sales division of the company I work with likes to push the Terrastations because they are cheap. Personally I prefer the synology units because they run on much better...

>>I'm inclined to think that RAID is the most misapplied technology ever invented! Yeah, all those engineers from NetApp, EMC, Nimble, Equalogic.....all stupid and should be using ZFS instead,...

Obviously the OP is in the former category. Having to take 'lessons' to learn a stupid GUI purely is on the retail side of things. I'm a systems admin who has his head in over a dozen companies and...

If it's the 4th Gen I7 model by all means snag one. A lot of us here have the same box and love it. Mine's nearly two years old and is *still* faster than most desktops I deploy. Hell, it's faster...

>>>But the OS will use all of the RAM you install to reduce disk reading activity. Only if you have Superfetch enabled, which I don't. In fact, I tell most people to disable it because it's only...

Disable all power save features on the printer, especially if they are HP's. Do not use PCL 6 universal drivers. Make sure all machines are in the same workgroup. If it's a mix of Win7 and 8 make...

Rumour has it the camera is using Canons new 4:2:2 codec, but until I see writing on Canon's site I'm skeptical.  Sample videos I've seen with the 70D show vastly improved video focus, but colors,...

PC sales are in freefall, and those computer users moving to tablets are going to do so anyways. Contrary to propaganda put out by Linux and Mac users those platforms aren't doing so well on the...

Clonezilla is less consistent than ImageX in my experience, and totally over-rated by the rather nutty Open source crowd. I've had better luck with Windows Back-up for cloning, which works...

Having both OS's on a single drive is asking for trouble, and all to often I've seen partitions get screwed up, or drive letters hosed, or swap files get moved, or profiles corrupted, etc. The...

>>I think that is an extraordinary, and unnecessary step to take. More like pointless. First, the free version of Avast, while a decent program, is likely to not be functional unless it can be...

For laptops....yes. Win8 does a better job with power mgmt., and especially resuming from hibernation over Win7. I know several large point of sale network that are drooling all over Win8 because...

>>This is the core issue with Microsoft at present; they appear to have no mission and/or strategy. They have a mission, and that mission is to keep as market share as possible in the mobile...

A Linux based forum certainly gets my approval because the particular technical nuances of the platform can be discussed there without getting diluted in the PC forum.  I disagree with a dedicated...

>>>>a reluctance mainly at an emotional level. Sounds like somebody who doesn't use their computer for real work. At one time today I had RDP sessions open on Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2012,...

>>>Raid 5 is more for uptime all the time. RAID 5 uses a parity algorithm to allow three drives to store the same data as four drives. While in some instances you have hot swap / rebuild capability...

For tight macro work the articulated screen is priceless when crawling in the weeds. You can then engage live view, and zoom in to check a very narrow depth of field with a macro and focus on a...