I just got into a heated discussion about Wi-Fi. What does the Fi in Wi-Fi mean? I would have thought potentially "frequency interface" since all network adapters are classified as interfaces. However I'm not certain.
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For reasons unknown (probably a display controller limitation) I cannot profile the third (right) display correctly; the system is unable to distinguish it from the main laptop display. Hence, no further attempts will be made to calibrate it.
Calibration complete. The two displays match up very well.
Main display is much warmer than I'm used to, but the colorimeter can't possibly be wrong :)
I'd use the dell as a baseline, personally. The yellowish tint is based off a different/'more correct' calibration. most consumer monitors are set somewhat too blue out of the box - The colour technology matters too you'll never get a TN and IPS screen identical.
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The main laptop display was, as I suspected, way off on greens.
Two different display technologies. Main display is probably VA while the Acer display on the left is IPS. It's amazing how well the colorimeter can get them to match up.
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Most high-end phone displays are calibrated from the factory. The Nexus 5X has much better calibration than most (which explains the seemingly warmish tone—this is in fact correct).
heh, the tone goes way off on my iphone at night for that night shift mode, to present warmer colors for eye comfort
but it's configurable. toggleable, and you can also adjust the "severity" of it
almost bought a natural light LED tactical flashlight, then figured, hey, if you can get higher lumen ratings from the true white for the same energy, and it's harder on human eyes, all the better to blind potential attackers with
These LEDs do get very hot very fast so most flashlights >500 lm will step down after a few minutes—mine does this after 6 minutes at full brightness—though you can typically override it by turning it down a bit and back up (be sure it's not running too hot).
Truly high-end ones (typically very expensive, multiple-emitter models) have automatic thermal control and throttle based on temperature.
@bwDraco lemme know how it is. My brother is looking at buying one, and I certainly will borrow it.
@JourneymanGeek The color calibration process was very easy and took no more than 10 minutes per display to complete. Results are every bit as good as I expected them to be.
> SSH key only - the virtual machine was provisioned with a certificate (.cer, .pem, or .pub file) or SSH key, but no password. In this case sudo will not prompt for the user's password before executing the command.
The consumer-grade model is the ColorMunki Smile; great for getting consistent colors but not if you need greater control over the calibration process.
@JourneymanGeek and most people skimp on storage; for years I was always a single HDD guy (no RAID, no SSD), until I came around to realizing much faster is possible now
I'd use 500GB-class SSDs. Best value for money, better performance than smaller drives.
250GB drives are generally slightly slower than 500GB drives and may not have enough capacity for most serious use cases.
If it's PCIe, the difference is even more significant but 500GB is still the best value.
I'm very tempted to go PCIe for the desktop rather than SATA but only time will tell. The Samsung SSD 950 PRO is a very attractive choice. 3D NAND, extremely high endurance (5 years/400 TBW is almost 0.5 DWPD!), outstanding performance, very reasonable price.
0.47 DWPD, to be exact. This is high enough for less write-intensive enterprise workloads!
This is well beyond what a typical enthusiast might put on an SSD (10-20 GB per day) and would meet the demands of strenuous workstation usage.
Imagine writing 240 GB a day to the drive, every day, for five years!
@allquixotic I've probably got more HDDs, but it comes out much cheaper cause no $1k RAID card :P
@bwDraco Depends what you consider 'serious'... if it's just software, 250 is enough for the vast majority... and media (video, etc.) don't really benefit from an SSD
- Replace DA* 60-250mm lens. - Get a wide-angle lens. - Get a longer telephoto lens (D FA 150-450mm). - Get more prime lenses. - Get a teleconverter. - Get ND and polarizer filters. - Replace flashgun (mine has a broken battery access door). - Get larger, faster memory cards. - Get a tripod and a Arca-Swiss head to go along with it. - Get the upcoming Pentax full-frame body when it comes out. - Get another camera body as a backup. - Build new PC with fast CPU and lots of RAM for photo editing. - Purchase an Adobe Creative Cloud membership.
Today's trip to the photo equipment dealer ticked a few of these boxes (but click through for the full list which extends beyond what is shown here).
The DA* 60-250mm lens did get replaced by the service center and the new unit has been performing as expected.
There's no obvious need to replace the flash unit as I've finally gotten a roll of gaffer's tape to hold down the battery cover (this is what pros do to keep damaged equipment working)
I'm actually a semi-pro. Employed with the local college (my alma mater, CUNY College of Staten Island) for part-time sports photography. Off-season but expect to be back on the job when the next semester begins.
It's not a substitute for a proper professional-grade display but dramatic improvements were observed on consumer-grade hardware, bringing two mismatched displays of completely different technologies within very close tolerances (slight differences can be observed but they're within acceptable limits).
@Rikai 120 GB is not sufficient. I'd recommend a minimum of 250 GB. You'd probably need a larger disk for photo editing (even if it's just working space) so I'd recommend 500 GB. PCIe is not strictly necessary here.
@Bob depends if you have all the runtimes installed and such -- one of the challenges on my 128 GB SSD in the Surface Pro is keeping the OS footprint down... all these .NET framework versions, C++ library versions, random dependencies that get dragged in from various programs like SQL Express, blah
@Rikai As working space. Photoshop will need to use the system disk as a scratch disk. (It can be configured to be a different or multiple devices but I'd just stick with the system disk for your setup.)
don't think you really need any kind of RAID; that just complicates things, unless you really want the redundancy to be resistant against hardware failures -- but keep in mind that RAID is not a backup, and it's very easy to lose data due to software (FS corruption, malware, etc.)
@Bob You can shrink it a bit (down to 50%). The memory image is compressed when the machine hibernates. If it somehow doesn't fit, you'd get a BSOD (and that's rather unlikely unless you're using most of the RAM).
why do you insist on having a dGPU? are you doing some kind of 3d rendering with photoshop? I really don't think the load of photoshop is enough to peg an iGPU for airbrushing wedding photos or something like that
there will be internal duplication between the two drives, a local backup on an external hard drive, remote site backup on my server, and saved on her site
Processor notes: i5-6600K is about 20% faster than i5-6500. The improvement is more substantial with the i7-6700K as you get even higher clocks and more significantly, hyper-threading (which alone would add another 15-35% performance in highly-threaded workloads), but it may not be worth the much higher cost.
@Bob Atwood having his (much smaller now) role in things still, I see :P
I can understand the passion of wanting to create something new and go on a new adventure, but really, the biggest impact he could've made would have been to remain at SE
SE is a huge global strategic resource for IT (and other subjects, too) now.
Be sure to get color calibration equipment! I just got a colorimeter and the difference is very striking. It's less of an issue with pro-grade displays but color accuracy still matters.
@Rikai I think the scratch spaces we used to use on PS at my last job were pretty big. We used to stick em on a 1tb HDD since our main drives were 37gb SAS.
Ran into a bug after calibration using the ColorMunki software. If I calibrate the same display twice in a multi-monitor setup, it seems to apply the color adjustments twice resulting in incorrect colors. If I unplug the second display and plug it back in, the color adjustments are applied correctly.
...or perhaps this is a Windows color system issue?
@JourneymanGeek Funnily enough, there's actually limited support for something like that in CS:GO :P
By that I mean there's a public API to get some limited match info, so it's perfectly possible to run a program on another monitor that displays said info.
the crossover's ~350USD. Needs a little caliberation (By hand in my case) and has a pretty good array of ports (1x DP 3XHDMI 2.0 one VGA). THe dell's IPS, and much nicer
I just got into a heated discussion about Wi-Fi. What does the Fi in Wi-Fi mean? I would have thought potentially "frequency interface" since all network adapters are classified as interfaces. However I'm not certain.
Hopefully this is considered an appropriate question to ask on superuser.
