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I want something rather specific, but you never know your luck unless you try. Does anyone have an unwanted 'safe-sync' PC-hotshoe adapter for photography? I've ordered a large flashgun but foolishly didn't check its trigger voltage presented at the PC sync lead. It's 190 volts which will kill my remote radio triggers. I need something like a Wein Safe Sync PC/hotshoe adapter which will reduce the voltage presented at the hotshoe to no more than 12 volts. I have an optical 'peanut' slave which could work at a push, but I'd really like to operate the flash from my radio triggers. Thanks.

Well, I upgraded and it went well. I went for a normal upgrade and had no problems. 12.04 had an annoying pause re-connecting the wi-fi as my laptop came out of hibernation, but now this has been fixed in 12.10. All in all, well pleased.

I looked at the UK site and you have to scroll to see the statement, no matter what the window resolution. The whole matter rests on the European Community Design. Many will know about this, but in a nutshell, a community design registration can be something as trivial as a shape or drawing. It's supposed to protect the look and feel of products, but there are only so many variations you can make on a rectangle. Apple's community design: Community Design 000181607-0001 If a company feels that a competitor 'infringes' this shape, design, etc, it can apply for an injunction to prevent the competitor's product being sold. Read this and weep/laugh. The Community Design: ...and you Thought the USPTO Was Bad

It had to happen. It simply had to happen. For it not to happen would be an impossibility. Patent troll claims it invented the Windows 8 and Windows Phone “tiles” | Ars Technica From Surfcast's website: The complaint: http://news.priorsmart.com/surfcast-v-microsoft-l6Zj/#Complaint

You'd have though that the judge would have set out some points which must be stated verbatim, or at least the tone of the text. As it reads, it's as if the judge is endorsing Apple products. Or at least finds them 'cool'.

May I present the gushing, nay, crowing, take on the outcome from the obviously partisan PatentlyApple UK Apology to Samsung Backfires as Apple Sets the Record Straight - Patently Apple

Here's some prior art. Picard playing Angry Birds.

Now the £620,643.29 question (at today's exchange rate) - did you upgrade or do a fresh install?

Good news. I might take a chance over the weekend. I keep my /home on a separate partition so even a 12.04 re-install won't be a catastrophe. I use a lot of PPAs for my music and photo software, so I must wait for these to appear first.

Removing foot from mouth... Mark Shuttleworth: “I Really Screwed Up” | OMG! Ubuntu!

Has anybody upgraded? I think I'll hold off for a while as 12.04 is running splendidly on my home computers and the bug list for 12.10 looks a bit off-putting.

Apple (the computer company) acquires Apple Corp's (the music company) trademark. Crucially, the newly acquired trademark does not have a bite taken out of the apple. Apple obtains Beatles' Granny Smith trademark for Apple Corps

Don't give it a silly name. You'll get bored of it. That said, we we named our SAN 'Daniel', but it wasn't legally registered. Karate Kid fans will appreciate the joke.

If you're tempted to put everything on one volume - Windows, data files, log files and tempdb files - DON'T! Here's why. "Everything on One Disk Some subscribe to the theory that modern hardware can act like a shock absorber for whatever the worstworkload you can throw at it: just build a single LUN with disk in some type of RAID configuration and just put theentire database on it. This is just not the case. Thoughtful planning and testing is still mandatory. Mixing tempdb,transaction log and data together can and will cause performance problems. There are other considerations in this,too. For example, by putting log and data on the same physical volumes, you have created a single point of failure.Lose one RAID volume and you have lost log and data. What’s more, the performance penalty for calculating theparity bit on the log and/or tempdb can be a significant factor in disk latency (response) times. This can be seen inthe DMV’s and ::FN tables. (We’ll look at this in the monitoring section of the paper.) Effectively when we co-mingle workloads on the same physical disk (mixing log, tempdb, and data)—you are reading and writing to thesame disk at the same time which aggravates the situation. For example, you run a SELECT statement with anORDER BY that is not indexed well. You will be reading off the same disk that you will be writing to with thetempdb. The same can be said for backing up to the same volume that you have your database on: reading/writingto the same disk and a single point of failure (lose the data and lose the backup at the same time). Regrettably, thisis a common configuration we see often enough." Poor Disk Performance, Time Outs, Database and the SQL Server Error Log

Indeed it does. Sometimes it gets greedy, to the detriment of the operating system. In theory, SQL service should release memory on demand when the OS comes under memory pressure. However, this sometimes doesn't happen, and you get the strange situation where an SQL server with a ton of memory is performing unexpectedly poorly. You might need to sign up to sqlservercentral.com to read the articles, but I recommend subscribing to their newsletter. Suggested Max Memory Settings for SQL Server 2005/2008 - SQLServerCentral

As @Greg has said, you can script a backup with code like his or use SQL Management Studio to configure a regular job to backup the database. There's absolutely no need to get anyone out of the system, though. The SQL server is designed to be backed up while it's in full flow with no problems. The only reason to do it out of hours is that the backup might have a noticeable impact on performance.

Watch you don't get any splinters... ... as you rummage around your ark! I crack me up. Just kidding.

Veering wildly back on topic, you can have what you want if you pay for it... Dell Latitude XFR & ATG Rugged Laptops | Dell Laptops for the military or oil rigs may have half a chance of surviving schools.

In which the consummate performer Nicholas Cage plays a truly excellent Nicholas Cage. I rest my case.

The only possible positive outcome of this is that you cremated a Nicholas Cage DVD.

Frost bite? Snow joke, you know. Still, it least the fella in the video remained cool despite everything.

I found this little gem of a chart. Print it as large as you can, it's just about readable at A3. http://www.quest.com/backstage/images/promotions/SQLServer-Perfmonance-Poster.pdf

You can go the whole hog, or at least a partial hog with a home-made steadycam... http://www.edugeek.net/forums/jokes-interweb-things/96928-all-you-amateur-video-makers-cheap-steadicam.html

I've got a Sony NEX camera. The video is good and its low-light capability is very good. Here's a curveball for you... for audio, you could consider a separate field recorder, something like a Zoom H1. Place the field recorder exactly where you want the sound to be picked up, and you'll eliminate the crowd/external noise. Of course, you'll need to sync the audio to the video, but this is what clapperboards are for. If you choose to use more than one video camera, using a field recorder for your audio will ensure consistent sound quality as you cut between cameras during editing.