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I hate computers. I use them on the road, at work and at home.

When it comes to photography I miss the earthy feel of the wet darkroom. Things were so much simpler then. f/8 @ 15 seconds. Just like that, a picture.

I just spent the last 5 hours backing up my hard drive. Countless discs. Run Adware, HiJack This, Spybot, AdAware, defrag. Remove unused programs and dead end DLL's.

What a ton of work. Yuck. What does any of this have to do with photography?

--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
 
Hemming, mending and laundering the blackout curtains for the darkroom. Washing out the developer cans, fixing and rinsing trays. Sweeping up the film ends. Filing and labelling the negatives, contact sheets and proofs. Etc.
Evil Eggplant said:
I hate computers. I use them on the road, at work and at home.

When it comes to photography I miss the earthy feel of the wet
darkroom. Things were so much simpler then. f/8 @ 15 seconds. Just
like that, a picture.

I just spent the last 5 hours backing up my hard drive. Countless
discs. Run Adware, HiJack This, Spybot, AdAware, defrag. Remove
unused programs and dead end DLL's.

What a ton of work. Yuck. What does any of this have to do with
photography?

--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
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get a mac.



sorry for your woes, rich. i went mac in january, g5 dual proc 2.5ghz for the desktop, and a 15" pb for my roadwork. i'm really happy.

cheers bud

andy
 
You washed your blackout curtains?

You're much more hardcore than I ever was, that's for sure. I did rinse out my bottles and trays, that's about it though.
Safari said:
Evil Eggplant said:
I hate computers. I use them on the road, at work and at home.

When it comes to photography I miss the earthy feel of the wet
darkroom. Things were so much simpler then. f/8 @ 15 seconds. Just
like that, a picture.

I just spent the last 5 hours backing up my hard drive. Countless
discs. Run Adware, HiJack This, Spybot, AdAware, defrag. Remove
unused programs and dead end DLL's.

What a ton of work. Yuck. What does any of this have to do with
photography?

--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
 
my sympathies, i have done the same and more for various of my friends and acquaintances running PCs. This will be interpreted as flame bait but I suggest either a stripped down system with no web access if you want to do photography rather than system maintenance .... or a change of platform. I use Macs and Linux-only on PCs for this very reason; at the least you can cut down your vulnerability by a simple change of browser.

The registry is a mess and will be until MS offers a better solution to avoid conflicts - it's just the way it is :) For more detailed help, I would post in the PC Tools forum where you will get some informed solutions tho' it will be at the expense of yet more of your 'photography' time.

As for the darkroom, mine is still in use and a welcome hands-on experience for many processes that can be approached but not matched by digital.
mark
Evil Eggplant said:
I hate computers. I use them on the road, at work and at home.

When it comes to photography I miss the earthy feel of the wet
darkroom. Things were so much simpler then. f/8 @ 15 seconds. Just
like that, a picture.

I just spent the last 5 hours backing up my hard drive. Countless
discs. Run Adware, HiJack This, Spybot, AdAware, defrag. Remove
unused programs and dead end DLL's.

What a ton of work. Yuck. What does any of this have to do with
photography?

--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
Click to expand...
--
Pixels proliferate but film is more precious.
 
imaloff said:
Mark Oakland said:
Evil Eggplant said:
I hate computers. I use them on the road, at work and at home.

When it comes to photography I miss the earthy feel of the wet
darkroom. Things were so much simpler then. f/8 @ 15 seconds. Just
like that, a picture.

I just spent the last 5 hours backing up my hard drive. Countless
discs. Run Adware, HiJack This, Spybot, AdAware, defrag. Remove
unused programs and dead end DLL's.

What a ton of work. Yuck. What does any of this have to do with
photography?

--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
Click to expand...
--
Pixels proliferate but film is more precious.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Mark Oakland said:
Evil Eggplant said:
I hate computers. I use them on the road, at work and at home.

When it comes to photography I miss the earthy feel of the wet
darkroom. Things were so much simpler then. f/8 @ 15 seconds. Just
like that, a picture.

I just spent the last 5 hours backing up my hard drive. Countless
discs. Run Adware, HiJack This, Spybot, AdAware, defrag. Remove
unused programs and dead end DLL's.

What a ton of work. Yuck. What does any of this have to do with
photography?

--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
Click to expand...
--
Pixels proliferate but film is more precious.
Click to expand...
 
I had my firewall, ran my virus checker... everything to prepare my XP computer for the XP2 update...
... configured my computer the way Microsoft recommended...

... and... 24 hours later (without the XP2 update)...

... I had a computer that wouldn’t boot (registry damaged... needed special HP disc to try to repair

When I backed up my Mac, I connected an external FireWire HD, formatted it with standard Apple software, and used a shareware program called SuperDuper! to back up my internal, so I could BOOT from it. Worked like a charm. Couldn’t do that with my Windows PC.
SuperDuper! is available from VersionTracker at:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22126
SuperDuper is also available from the company’s Web site:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
Evil Eggplant said:
I hate computers. I use them on the road, at work and at home.

When it comes to photography I miss the earthy feel of the wet
darkroom. Things were so much simpler then. f/8 @ 15 seconds. Just
like that, a picture.

I just spent the last 5 hours backing up my hard drive. Countless
discs. Run Adware, HiJack This, Spybot, AdAware, defrag. Remove
unused programs and dead end DLL's.

What a ton of work. Yuck. What does any of this have to do with
photography?

--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
Click to expand...
--
Jon
http://cybermice.smugmug.com
 
Dear Agent,

Apple may have your answer!
--
Joel Kifer
Anacortes, WA
 
Mark Oakland said:
my sympathies, i have done the same and more for various of my
friends and acquaintances running PCs. This will be interpreted as
flame bait but I suggest either a stripped down system with no web
access if you want to do photography rather than system maintenance
.... or a change of platform. I use Macs and Linux-only on PCs for
this very reason; at the least you can cut down your vulnerability
by a simple change of browser.
Click to expand...
Security is a non-issue. I'm behind 2 hardware firewalls, a software firewall, and my virus and adware filters are constantly on. My only problem is the amount of work I did. Mac is better in lots of ways, but as far as I know, it won't back to CD automatically.
Mark Oakland said:
The registry is a mess and will be until MS offers a better
solution to avoid conflicts - it's just the way it is :) For more
detailed help, I would post in the PC Tools forum where you will
get some informed solutions tho' it will be at the expense of yet
more of your 'photography' time.
Click to expand...
Yep, cleaning up the registry is always loads of fun. The intention of my post was not to look for help, it was to vent :-)
Mark Oakland said:
As for the darkroom, mine is still in use and a welcome hands-on
experience for many processes that can be approached but not
matched by digital.
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As far as I go nowadays is developing B&W, from there the negs get scanned. NO room for a darkroom setup with enlarger and trays. It's not quite the same.

Cheers
Mark Oakland said:
mark
Evil Eggplant said:
I hate computers. I use them on the road, at work and at home.

When it comes to photography I miss the earthy feel of the wet
darkroom. Things were so much simpler then. f/8 @ 15 seconds. Just
like that, a picture.

I just spent the last 5 hours backing up my hard drive. Countless
discs. Run Adware, HiJack This, Spybot, AdAware, defrag. Remove
unused programs and dead end DLL's.

What a ton of work. Yuck. What does any of this have to do with
photography?

--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
Click to expand...
--
Pixels proliferate but film is more precious.
Click to expand...
--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
 
I ran my business on an old Quadra (It wasn't old at the time). Switched to a PC when my hardware would only go as far as OS 7.2. What a mistake that was.
cybermice said:
... and... 24 hours later (without the XP2 update)...
... I had a computer that wouldn’t boot (registry damaged... needed
special HP disc to try to repair

When I backed up my Mac, I connected an external FireWire HD,
formatted it with standard Apple software, and used a shareware
program called SuperDuper! to back up my internal, so I could BOOT
from it. Worked like a charm. Couldn’t do that with my Windows PC.
SuperDuper! is available from VersionTracker at:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22126
SuperDuper is also available from the company’s Web site:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
Evil Eggplant said:
I hate computers. I use them on the road, at work and at home.

When it comes to photography I miss the earthy feel of the wet
darkroom. Things were so much simpler then. f/8 @ 15 seconds. Just
like that, a picture.

I just spent the last 5 hours backing up my hard drive. Countless
discs. Run Adware, HiJack This, Spybot, AdAware, defrag. Remove
unused programs and dead end DLL's.

What a ton of work. Yuck. What does any of this have to do with
photography?

--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
Click to expand...
--
Jon
http://cybermice.smugmug.com
Click to expand...
--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
 
Mr. Eggplant:

I thought I remembered you posting a while back about Large Format. Did you ever go down that road and have you done any scans?

For me, the good 'ol days just were not that good. Workin' the soup never gave me the kind of results I get with 8 megs and EZ prints. : )

--
Nate Parker

 
I had two of those last week. Moved all my photos (6 years worth) to a different folder, and I'll never do that again. Had to move them back and in the process some disappeared, others were "read only", so luckily I had them backed up on CDs - 36 of them. (Were in jpg format - I'm bad, didn't save originals because of hard drive space.) Went out and bought a 120gb external drive. I think I'll back up the whole 40gb computer and then use automatic updates once a week. I hope that is feasible???
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Muriel - 5 4 0 0, Sony W-1, 9 9 5, SB22s, Sony W-1, C-6 3, T C-2 E,
DPR and Pbase supporter
FCAS Charter Member

 
Evil Eggplant said:
I just spent the last 5 hours backing up my hard drive. Countless
discs. Run Adware, HiJack This, Spybot, AdAware, defrag. Remove
unused programs and dead end DLL's.

What a ton of work. Yuck. What does any of this have to do with
photography?
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Let's see... I spent a week last year going through a cabinet full of old prints. Not to mention the storage bins I bought, loaded and organized at least three times in the last three years. Or the 5-high cubby cabinet I just bought to store my larger prints, mattes and frames.

Or the cases, totes, portfolios I have bought over the last few years to organize presentations, storage, delivery of projects, etc....

What does ANY of this have to do with photography? :-)

Can't do ANY kind of pictures without organization, culling, cleaning, storing and delivering. Hey...... sounds just like a computer!!!

At least you don't have to rent storage space..... :-)

aak
http://luminouseye.com
 
Evil Eggplant said:
I ran my business on an old Quadra (It wasn't old at the time).
Switched to a PC when my hardware would only go as far as OS 7.2.
What a mistake that was.
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Hey Rich, you're tongue's usually so well planted in your cheek that I genuinely need to ask what you intended by "mistake" ;-)

So was your mistake the switch to Wintel, or the original Quadra acquisition?

I've been burned by both camps in various ways, and I've always been ready to give plenty of stick to each as well as praise where it's due. Mine was (still is, actually) a Quadra 840AV, one of two identical systems (with a colleague) acquired on Christmas Eve 1993 for a defence dept. tech editing project of which they did a marvellous job and gave us a marked advantage over a very large contractor doing complementary work.

We selected the 840AV after much chewing of nails over whether it would be better to wait a couple of months for the PowerMac. But we went with the personal assurance (at a rather swank seminar) of one of the top Apple people in Australia that it would be fully upgradable. So guess which was the only model from that era of Quadras that in the end turned out to be not upgradable? Grrrrrr........!!!

On the productivity side, I recall feeding a 1.5 MB Quark file on it, with over 250 MB of linked photographs, into a LaserWriterII that had all of 2 MB of installed RAM. An hour or so later there was the job, with no fuss at all.

By contrast, one of my early encounters with Windows (3.1) needed me to routinely print an 11-page spreadsheet (of about 450 kB) on a LaserJet III, also with 2 MB of on-board RAM. It choked completely, requiring the print job to always be split in two. And that's not to mention that greater curiosity of the day known as "page protection"! ;-)

If there was ever a word that encapsulated the Mac system advantage, right from the beginning, that word has to be "seamless".

Cheers,

Mike
Melbourne

 
Evil Eggplant said:
re constantly
on. My only problem is the amount of work I did. Mac is better in
lots of ways, but as far as I know, it won't back to CD
automatically.
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yup it will
 
Oh, forgot to ask. Macs are 100% safe from viruses, adware and spyware. Are they also 100% secure ? You Mac guys make me laugh. If they even had half the share of computer users out there they would be more of a target. who wants to waste time putting together malicous software for a platform that has only a handfull of users compared to PC users. Trouble makers only want to try and affect the popular most used systems and thats the reason viruses, spware and other problems are more prevalent on the PC. Not because its better or safer. If someone wants to cause problems for the Macs, there would be no stopping them.

Thank you
Jason
Jason Edwards said:
Jason
totemjoe said:
Dear Agent,

Apple may have your answer!
--
Joel Kifer
Anacortes, WA
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Mike

I had the original Mac, The Mac Plus and the Mac classic. Then the quadra. Mac was good to me for a long time.

I always knew betamax was better than VHS, but I believed the hype about the future of the PC. I jumped on the bandwagon.

Ahhh, the PC. Built on the premise that a personal computer would never need more than 640k of ram, and a HD that would never exceed 10mB.

My sisters mac runs windows faster than any pc can.

If I had to do it all over again it would be a mac. Sadly, I have too much invested in software, and I know windows pretty well. I'm not ready to learn a new platform.

Cheers
Mike Fitzgerald said:
Evil Eggplant said:
I ran my business on an old Quadra (It wasn't old at the time).
Switched to a PC when my hardware would only go as far as OS 7.2.
What a mistake that was.
Click to expand...
Hey Rich, you're tongue's usually so well planted in your cheek
that I genuinely need to ask what you intended by "mistake" ;-)

So was your mistake the switch to Wintel, or the original Quadra
acquisition?

I've been burned by both camps in various ways, and I've always
been ready to give plenty of stick to each as well as praise where
it's due. Mine was (still is, actually) a Quadra 840AV, one of two
identical systems (with a colleague) acquired on Christmas Eve 1993
for a defence dept. tech editing project of which they did a
marvellous job and gave us a marked advantage over a very large
contractor doing complementary work.

We selected the 840AV after much chewing of nails over whether it
would be better to wait a couple of months for the PowerMac. But we
went with the personal assurance (at a rather swank seminar) of one
of the top Apple people in Australia that it would be fully
upgradable. So guess which was the only model from that era of
Quadras that in the end turned out to be not upgradable?
Grrrrrr........!!!

On the productivity side, I recall feeding a 1.5 MB Quark file on
it, with over 250 MB of linked photographs, into a LaserWriterII
that had all of 2 MB of installed RAM. An hour or so later there
was the job, with no fuss at all.

By contrast, one of my early encounters with Windows (3.1) needed
me to routinely print an 11-page spreadsheet (of about 450 kB) on a
LaserJet III, also with 2 MB of on-board RAM. It choked completely,
requiring the print job to always be split in two. And that's not
to mention that greater curiosity of the day known as "page
protection"! ;-)

If there was ever a word that encapsulated the Mac system
advantage, right from the beginning, that word has to be "seamless".

Cheers,

Mike
Melbourne

Click to expand...
--
rich
http://www.photoallure.com

'I'm not such a bad guy
once you get to know me'
-Agent Smith
 
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