Re: Let me see that

2014-04-24 Thread John Sessoms
I'm not sure it would be worth it. Start importing that Arabian oil (that foul black sticky stuff is called "oil" btw) and pretty soon you're over-run with Arabian princelings. Next thing you know the place is all cluttered up with discotheques and condominium developments and you can't get ri

OT: Almost only counts ...

2014-04-23 Thread John Sessoms
I'm planning to re-install my Nikon Scanner (CoolscanIV ED) on the system I built for photography. I've been researching how to get the Scanner to work with Win7. I've downloaded a firmware update that is required and fortunately I read the instructions - which is where "almost" comes in. The

Re: PESO - American Buzzard

2014-04-23 Thread John Sessoms
Beaky Buzzard from the Bugs Bunny cartoons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDArauoo2uw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwwoKkIxebk On 4/23/2014 12:50 AM, Marco Alpert wrote: It’s a kids’ play structure at a McDonald’s. (Probably a warning to parents not to leave their children unattended?)

Re: persistant sensor dust

2014-04-23 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/22/2014 6:54 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Apr 22, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Looks more like dust internal to the lens to me, especially if you only get it with moderately stopped down aperature. Is it the same with a different lens? I tried it with another lens and it’s mostly

Re: How to export "full-size" JPEGs from LR

2014-04-22 Thread John Sessoms
Best thing is to talk to her again and find out exactly what she wants. "Full-size" JPEGS is kind of vague. I'd guess that "full-size" means High Resolution, low compression JPEGs - printable at 300dpi. On 4/22/2014 3:06 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Eric, Figure out what she thinks is a 'full-size'

Re: PESO: NYPD Traffic Unit

2014-04-22 Thread John Sessoms
Iso Isetta! On 4/22/2014 1:23 AM, David Mann wrote: I'd love to see it in pursuit of a speeding Reliant Robin :D Cheers, Dave On Apr 22, 2014, at 3:46 am, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: The NYPD has the best equipment in the world. Here is their special high speed pursuit vehicle for apprehendin

Re: OT: STRESSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/21/2014 4:24 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: On Apr 20, 2014, at 20:41 , Jeffery Johnson wrote: Well I noticed earlier today that our hot water wasn't as hot but well didn't think much of it. A few hours ago I went into the kitchen and thought the water pressure seemed a bit low. Well I go

Re: NYPD Traffic Unit

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
In some states certain classes of vehicles (electric carts?) don't require license plates at all. If a vehicle falls within one of those categories, it wouldn't matter who it belongs to. On 4/21/2014 4:53 PM, Ken Waller wrote: I'm not aware of any state that doesn't require plates on it police v

Re: PESO: NYPD Traffic Unit and short rant to boot!

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/21/2014 4:04 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 21/4/14, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: You'll be needing a Carradice Barquantine Special then. They've been making them in their factory in Ebargumsby since the 12th century. Guaranteed to accommodate any size of sailing vessel, plus full rigg

Re: PESO: NYPD Traffic Unit and short rant to boot!

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/21/2014 2:59 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: On 21 Apr 2014, at 19:56, "Steve Cottrell" wrote: On 21/4/14, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: The NYPD has the best equipment in the world. Here is their special high speed pursuit vehicle for apprehending speeders: http://photo.net/pho

Re: PESO: Urban Cowboys

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
work! Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Daniel J. Matyola" Subject: Re: PESO: Urban Cowboys On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:42 AM, John Sessoms wrote: I'm sure there's a story behind that? OK, John, you asked

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
if it bothers me or not. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message ----- From: "John Sessoms" Subject: Re: K-3 & moire I'm glad you posted that. I couldn't see any moire in the two images from the Pentax Forums, and I thought it migh

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
d on Ricoh GXR-M which has a 12MP sensor similar to that of Nikon D300 or Pentax K-x/K-r... On 4/21/2014 6:58 PM, John Sessoms wrote: I'm glad you posted that. I couldn't see any moire in the two images from the Pentax Forums, and I thought it might be my eyes failing me, but the moire i

Re: K10d resale value

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
o encourage new sales. On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:14 AM, John Sessoms wrote: On 4/19/2014 7:13 PM, Darren Addy wrote: Stephen Migol is still doing great astrophotography with the K10D and, looking at his other equipment, I'm sure he could upgrade if he wanted to: http://www.astrobin.com/use

Re: GES0 Mini GESO of mostly unrelated images from today.

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
I think that may be the security patches everyone put in place after the Heartbleed bug was revealed don't yet play nice together & the link is timing out when it's loading. With Firefox I get "Firefox cannot find the server at ..." with a button to [Try Again]. Sometimes [Try Again] will work

Re: Pentax Theatre: Our Dumb Robin

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/20/2014 9:31 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I hope he survived! Still flying into the window this evening. We figure he's been at it for about four days now. Tape up one of those paper silhouettes of a hawk on the glass & he'll go away.

Re: PESO - Parallel Interaction

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/20/2014 11:26 PM, Marco Alpert wrote: http://www.alpert.com/marco/photo14/peso8.html Comments, as always, welcomed. -Marco --- http://www.alpert.com/marco Is that a turtle on the ground just beyond the dog on the left? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http:

Re: peso drive by tree fog (with Link)

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
Oh yeah! On 4/20/2014 7:18 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: This IS hillarious - You, moi and Bob! anyone else?? ann On 4/20/2014 19:09, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 20.04.14 22:55, schrieb Ann Sanfedele: I read the subject line as "drive by tree FROG" Funny you should say this. So did I. Pro-sh

Re: peso drive by tree fog (with Link)

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
I read that as "drive by tree FROG" & trying figure out what's going on ... and I already have NEW Glasses. Oh well. It'll all be forgotten in a few minutes. On 4/20/2014 2:53 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: Ok, here’s the link! Yikes! Cheers, Christine http://www.caguila.com/drivebytreefog/co

Re: TEST

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/20/2014 6:28 PM, Jack Davis wrote: TEST!!! Seen in Raleigh, NC Monday 21 Apr 2014 (didn't check email on Sunday). From: "Jack Davis" - If I hover the mouse pointer over the link it shows your comcast email address Reply to: Pentax-Discuss Mail List HTH. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
I'm glad you posted that. I couldn't see any moire in the two images from the Pentax Forums, and I thought it might be my eyes failing me, but the moire is quite clear in the example you post. On 4/20/2014 2:22 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: Zos, this is the blog post I wrote back when I caught moi

Re: PESO: Urban Cowboys

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/20/2014 12:37 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17740984 Comments Invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola I'm sure there's a story behind that? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinf

Re: OT - Snails are not slow. They just appreciate life.

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/20/2014 12:32 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: ... or maybe it is not "OT". I thought these photos are great of a kind that would be enjoyed by the PDMLers. Here is the gooogle-translated page (it has some captions that make photos even more interesting): http://goo.gl/plKQWJ Other photos of the

Re: K10d resale value

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/19/2014 7:13 PM, Darren Addy wrote: Stephen Migol is still doing great astrophotography with the K10D and, looking at his other equipment, I'm sure he could upgrade if he wanted to: http://www.astrobin.com/users/smigol/ In short, I think the laws of supply & demand might make the K10D as p

OT: Anti-Virus Software Again

2014-04-19 Thread John Sessoms
I've been using AVG for several years and up until this very morning I've been quite satisfied with it. But it seems like they've made some kind of deal with Yahoo and the latest update this morning has installed some kind of Yahoo Error Handler & a Yahoo/AVG search page that I can't figure out

Re: K10d resale value

2014-04-19 Thread John Sessoms
On Saturday morning I see a BGN K10D w/battery & charger on KEH for $144.00 So, yeah, ask $225 and if it doesn't sell, lower the price until it does sell. On 4/19/2014 10:01 AM, Darren Addy wrote: Asking prices on eBay are irrelevant. You need to look at the SOLD prices. Are you selling the

Re: OT: maybe I should change my virus protection subscription

2014-04-19 Thread John Sessoms
ian and PJ ann On 4/18/2014 15:09, John Sessoms wrote: On 4/17/2014 7:37 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Trend Micro is what I'm paying for .. Been happy with it.. but then I got their newsletter and an article leads with this: "Microsoft Ends Support of Windows XP Old operating systems that

Re: OT: maybe I should change my virus protection subscription

2014-04-19 Thread John Sessoms
It seems like all of them want to do that. I'm using AVG, and it keeps trying to change my search engine to AVG Safe Search & make AVG my homepage. When I was using Norton it used to tell me what I could & couldn't do as well. On 4/18/2014 8:19 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: I'm using Avast on my small

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/18/2014 4:15 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: I'm actually considering a K-5 IIs right now and that's a real concern. The sharpness differences and fine detail differences between the k-5 II and IIs are undeniable though. I looked through a whole lot of real world, outdoors pictures and couldn't find m

Re: PESO- Empire State by Phone

2014-04-18 Thread John Sessoms
tastic. Some of their car part cutaways are works of art! Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "John Sessoms" Subject: Re: PESO- Empire State by Phone After looking at what they had to do to get the car up there, I hope that

Re: OT: maybe I should change my virus protection subscription

2014-04-18 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/17/2014 7:37 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Trend Micro is what I'm paying for .. Been happy with it.. but then I got their newsletter and an article leads with this: "Microsoft Ends Support of Windows XP Old operating systems that are no longer supported are a BIG threat. After April 8, 2014, ru

Re: PESO- Empire State by Phone

2014-04-18 Thread John Sessoms
After looking at what they had to do to get the car up there, I hope that's not the one you drove home in. ;-D On 4/18/2014 10:06 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Back from the NY Auto Show. It was a three-day marathon: two fourteen hour days and another eight hours in the Javits press room yesterday

Re: PESO: That lonely feeling

2014-04-18 Thread John Sessoms
I suspect the house has been occupied by non-paying "tenants" more than once since the owners moved out. On 4/17/2014 11:02 PM, Mark C wrote: Nice find and very interesting. Fascinating to imagine the residents sitting on that couch with a fire in the stove (which is of course gone) - looks lie

Re: OT--Lightroom 5 mobile app and syncing with desktop app

2014-04-18 Thread John Sessoms
I remember PhotoShop CS3 for the iPhone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aJBYWFwzvE On 4/17/2014 2:15 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: Hi Team: Just downloaded the recent Lightroom 5 app, which now allows me to sync with the iPad Lightroom Mobile app, which I haven’t downloaded on the tablet. Jus

Re: PESO: Opening Up

2014-04-17 Thread John Sessoms
I don't care what you call me as long as you don't call me "late for dinner". On 4/17/2014 11:56 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Is your name Dan? On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:30 AM, John Sessoms wrote: Maybe "Daffs" is the name of the series? On 4/16/2014 6:09 PM, Bob

Re: Cold rain in the Lowveld

2014-04-17 Thread John Sessoms
That sounds like the weather we all knew & loved at Ft. Hood. On 4/16/2014 11:34 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: No, maximum was still above minimum (by definition), it's just that the maximum temperature occurred when the minimum one was expected, and vice versa. But I think you got it. Igor Wed A

Re: "New" Yahoo.

2014-04-17 Thread John Sessoms
any, NameMedia, owns photo.net. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:53 PM, John Sessoms wrote: I didn't know Yahoo owned Photo.net. I was thinking about maybe changing from Flickr, but not if it's going to be the same old Yahoo. On 4/15/2014 9:45 PM, Richard Wo

Re: DNG converter

2014-04-17 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/16/2014 6:13 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: On 16 Apr 2014, at 22:54, "Brian Walters" wrote: Quoting Mark Roberts : Bruce wrote: I Twerk, therefore I Am. Hi ho, hi ho, it's off twerk I go... I didn't think it was possible, but this list has just reached new heights (or is that lows?) of

Re: PESO: Opening Up

2014-04-17 Thread John Sessoms
Maybe "Daffs" is the name of the series? On 4/16/2014 6:09 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Dan, That's very nicely rendered, smooth background, but it's not a Daff. It's a magnolia blossom! Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?phot

Re: Test

2014-04-16 Thread John Sessoms
?) My Geek would not believe me 'til I told him that his emails were doing the same thing. He's very quiet now. Jack - Original Message - From: "John Sessoms" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 11:29:08 AM Subject: Re: Test

I'm back ... sort of

2014-04-16 Thread John Sessoms
I had this idea that I could shut down my computers, disconnect everything and move my desk away from the window air-conditioning unit that gives me a headache when the cold air blows on the side of my head. Swapping tables around to put my laser printer down on that end gives me almost 5' of s

Re: Odd traffic spike on Flickr this evening...

2014-04-16 Thread John Sessoms
Could they be activating a new server? On 4/15/2014 11:03 PM, Darren Addy wrote: I don't know where it is coming from, but I have (what is for ME) a ridiculous amount of page views this evening of my Flickr images and the referrer is "Flickr". We are only about 3 hours into the Flickr "day" and

Re: "New" Yahoo.

2014-04-16 Thread John Sessoms
I didn't know Yahoo owned Photo.net. I was thinking about maybe changing from Flickr, but not if it's going to be the same old Yahoo. On 4/15/2014 9:45 PM, Richard Womer wrote: Hmmm. My Yahoo is still the same old s#!%. http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:44 PM, wrote:

Re: OT: Apple doesn't fall far from the tree

2014-04-16 Thread John Sessoms
Haven't bought any of those micro-SD cards for that very reason. I don't trust them to stay securely in the adapter. On 4/13/2014 7:46 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I had my own little panic last week. I was serving as a host for the local shelter for homeless families in a local church. Usual

Re: test

2014-04-16 Thread John Sessoms
It did this time. On 4/15/2014 4:16 PM, Jack Davis wrote: Will my name appear as sender? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: PESO grateful dead

2014-04-16 Thread John Sessoms
I think the symbology came from the Mexican holiday "Day of the Dead" (Día de Muertos). On 4/15/2014 12:24 AM, knarf wrote: Is one of them Jerry Garcia? Cheers, frank On 14 April, 2014 5:59:10 PM EDT, Larry Colen wrote: I noticed these on Valencia in San Francisco this weekend. It took me a

Re: Test

2014-04-16 Thread John Sessoms
Late Reply - I'm seeing the message as From: (your new comcast email address) and Reply To: the list On 4/14/2014 7:40 PM, jdavi...@comcast.net wrote: Thanks, Bruce. I'm now trying to see if my name is appearing as the sender. Still not..I see. Jack - Original Message - From: "Bru

Re: 645Z specs

2014-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/13/2014 2:06 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 13/4/14, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: ? To be able to use existing full-frame lenses ? To have access to smaller/lighter (and Med format) lenses ? To be able to use lenses for the full-frame on both full-frame and APS-C bodies ? To av

Re: 645Z specs

2014-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
No, but I could use my FA lenses until Ricoh came out with "full frame" lenses. On 4/13/2014 8:51 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Can't use all the Pentax APS-C lenses on 24 x 36 anyway. Pentax doesn't have a state of the art lens line for "full frame." Paul via phone On Apr 13, 2014, at 8:14 AM,

Re: OT - New Age Bull@#&t Generator

2014-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
Funny, but it loses its allure fairly quickly. On 4/12/2014 11:26 PM, knarf wrote: C'est fun: http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/ Cheers, frank “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: PESO: Almost

2014-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
I think "Potential" and "Almost" might make make good PUG themes. Although I don't know why I'm suggesting PUG themes, because the only one I ever get a round tuit is "Procrastination". On 4/13/2014 9:56 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17734989 Comments are

Re: PESO - Face Downd

2014-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
Kind of sad. Descendants probably migrated west & there's no one left who cares to maintain family plots. On 4/12/2014 7:01 PM, Rick Womer wrote: I took a photo-walk in the nearby cemetery last weekend. Many of the graves date from the early 1800s, and are not well-maintained. http://photo.net

Re: 2014 PDML Book progress

2014-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
The book will come when the book comes. I hope your "non-photographic circumstances" will not prove to be too onerous or weigh too heavily. On 4/12/2014 7:34 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Assembly of the book is coming along nicely. We're a little behind schedule and I wanted to let The List know that

Re: DPreview: Gold Award for K-3

2014-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
Maybe he's got a simple sense of self preservation no one ever suspected him of before. On 4/12/2014 6:53 PM, Richard Womer wrote: I'm not sure that shame or embarrassment are part of his emotional repertoire... On Apr 12, 2014, at 6:44 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: Yea, I read that, and decided not

Re: PESO: Goes to 12

2014-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
louder. Looks nice. What will you be plugging into it? Chris On 12 April 2014 21:40, John Sessoms wrote: Take *THAT* Nigel! https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/13805576085/ Fender '57 Deluxe 5E3 (reissue); hand wired P-to-P circuitry. The one that got away. I expect I'll be able

Re: OT: more testing

2014-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
m to have inherited an attitude to use it, mend it, use it again and keep using it until it's all used up ... then pass it along to someone else who can use it. Except that there is no one else who can use it; nowhere to donate it. So I keep nursing the old hardware along. On 4/12/2014 6:1

Re: News from Sigma

2014-04-12 Thread John Sessoms
Don't look like KEH has that one in stock though. On 4/12/2014 4:59 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:52 PM, John Sessoms wrote: On 4/12/2014 4:20 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: Their 50/1.4 lens will *not* be available for Pentax. In case anyone was wondering. Pf

Re: PESO: Goes to 12

2014-04-12 Thread John Sessoms
te: Oh, such a nice picture; made me smile. Is the crop maybe a little tight? On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:40 PM, John Sessoms wrote: Take *THAT* Nigel! https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/13805576085/ Fender '57 Deluxe 5E3 (reissue); hand wired P-to-P circuitry. The one that got away. I ex

Re: News from Sigma

2014-04-12 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/12/2014 4:20 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: Their 50/1.4 lens will *not* be available for Pentax. In case anyone was wondering. Pft! Joke 'em if they can't take a ... There's a well known used kit dealer somewhere down in Georgia that almost always has plenty of "50f/1.4 SMC FA" lens

PESO: Goes to 12

2014-04-12 Thread John Sessoms
Take *THAT* Nigel! https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/13805576085/ Fender '57 Deluxe 5E3 (reissue); hand wired P-to-P circuitry. The one that got away. I expect I'll be able to save up again before Ricoh releases a FF Pentax DSLR. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdm

Re: PESO: Spring Bouquet

2014-04-12 Thread John Sessoms
Everything that's not yellow or dark green appears to have a magenta cast for me. On 4/12/2014 10:46 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: Lovely dafs, Dan. But I'm getting an odd -- turquoise? -- distracting colour cast. Is it only me? On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: http://ph

Re: PESO 2014 - Airport - GDG

2014-04-12 Thread John Sessoms
Those airport departure lounge seats are devices outlawed under the Geneva Conventions & United Nations Convention Against Torture. Add to that, she's probably drained by being forced to take a seat next to a rambunctious 6 year old. On 4/12/2014 9:42 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: The woman looks e

Re: OT: more testing

2014-04-12 Thread John Sessoms
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Re: OT: more testing

2014-04-12 Thread John Sessoms
are you apologizing for actually getting a live techie? :-) ann On 4/12/2014 01:39, John Sessoms wrote: I apologize. I've actually got someone from TWC support level 2 on the line. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

OT: more testing

2014-04-11 Thread John Sessoms
I apologize. I've actually got someone from TWC support level 2 on the line. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-11 Thread John Sessoms
rt for an ethernet hub in the back room. Since doing that, I've had no further problems with random shutdowns. On 4/9/2014 8:59 PM, John Sessoms wrote: And now, it just started getting worse. It's suddenly just logging me off and shutting down. I was in there going through all the power

Re: gmail Spam and the PDML

2014-04-11 Thread John Sessoms
I'd be willing to bet it's still that DMARC thingy. On 4/11/2014 2:17 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: Well, this is thoroughly annoying. It seems that I now have to periodically remind gmail that email from the PDML are not spam. Yet things that are actual spam as in unsolicited advertisements are simpl

Re: Testing.

2014-04-11 Thread John Sessoms
And now (16:27 EDT) I've got problems with RoadRunner's email! On 4/11/2014 12:45 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: Posted a couple of things that don't seem to have shown up. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, plea

Re: Testing.

2014-04-11 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/11/2014 12:45 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: Posted a couple of things that don't seem to have shown up. I've been getting a lot of "can't find the server at" errors in the last couple of days. I don't know if it's local to my system, local to my area or indicative of a larger problem with the in

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-10 Thread John Sessoms
It's four guys who don't get paid for it. They're all volunteers. One of them made a mistake in revising a section of code that didn't cause crashes or even hiccups, so no one was prompted to look specifically at that bit of code. You don't fix something if you don't know it's broke. Another th

Good news for a change

2014-04-10 Thread John Sessoms
Just to prove that I'm not entirely Mister Grumpy *all* of the time. I had to go out to Radio Shack to get a 100ft phone cord so I can take my desk phone over to my other desk & try to call tech support about another completely different computer problem I haven't even mentioned here yet ... Lea

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-10 Thread John Sessoms
I'm not using Chrome. I was already disturbed with how intrusive Google has become before the whole thing started. On 4/10/2014 12:31 PM, steve harley wrote: on 2014-04-10 7:55 Bruce Walker wrote That site has been swamped with requests and times-out before returning an answer. But this articl

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-10 Thread John Sessoms
Be nice if that was in a printable format. I am *NOT* happy with *ANY* computers, computer companies or software of any way shape or form this morning. On 4/10/2014 9:55 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: That site has been swamped with requests and times-out before returning an answer. But this articles

Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
available power from the UPS. The power management battery icon showed 100% battery. It stayed up for less than 5 minutes & did it to me again. I think it's going to have to go to the shop. To top it all off, Thunderbird just started acting stupid. On 4/9/2014 8:02 PM, John Sessoms wrote

Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
showed the battery as very low when the machine rebooted, but it charged up to 100% fairly quickly. I figured the UPS or the UPS battery was going. Has not happened since. Mark On 4/9/2014 2:57 PM, John Sessoms wrote: I know support for XP was supposed to end yesterday, but I got security up

Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
en. -p On 4/9/2014 1:57 PM, John Sessoms wrote: I know support for XP was supposed to end yesterday, but I got security updates this morning. I'm also having a problem with Windoze7 that I haven't been able to figure out. The only hard-drive failures I've ever encountered ha

Re: On email from Yahoo being classified as spam

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/9/2014 5:31 PM, steve harley wrote: on 2014-04-09 13:16 Bob W-PDML wrote It isn't necessarily their account that was hacked. Suppose my account was hacked and the hacker started looping through each name in my contacts and using that as the from address to send an email to each name in the

Re: On email from Yahoo being classified as spam

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/9/2014 2:33 PM, steve harley wrote: on 2014-04-09 11:22 John Sessoms wrote I'm getting SPAM from Yahoo this morning. Looks like some kind of phishing. Passes the DMARC because it is sent from a Yahoo server. when i get this it is generally from an acquaintance with a legitimate ac

OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
I know support for XP was supposed to end yesterday, but I got security updates this morning. I'm also having a problem with Windoze7 that I haven't been able to figure out. The only hard-drive failures I've ever encountered happened at boot up, so I try to minimize that by keeping my computers

Re: PESO - New Haven station

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
There seems to have been a special architecture from the golden age of train travel & passenger stations. For me this station is very much in the style of the passenger station in Greensboro, NC. There's another style expressed in the old stations at High Point, NC and a station in Raleigh that's

Re: On email from Yahoo being classified as spam

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
I'm getting SPAM from Yahoo this morning. Looks like some kind of phishing. Passes the DMARC because it is sent from a Yahoo server. ASSHOLES! BTW, the only thing you can do is mark it as junk. There is apparently no ab...@yahoo.com address you can forward it to so the spammer can be shut dow

Re: On email from Yahoo being classified as spam

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
FWIW, I am now seeing posts from your new comcast account coming through in Yahoo. On 4/9/2014 12:17 PM, jdavi...@comcast.net wrote: Well said, Steve. Jack - Original Message - From: "steve harley" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 9:09:13 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Switched from jdavisf8 at yahoo.com to jdavisf8 at comcast.net

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/8/2014 11:39 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Tue Apr 8 21:05:38 EDT 2014 John Sessoms wrote: On 4/8/2014 4:53 PM, Jack Davis wrote: My posts are STILL not showing on either account.?? However, Ann did actually see a post of mine. Is she the only one? Thanks, Jack I saw the previous

Re: On email from Yahoo being classified as spam

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
There are two things going on here. I don't know exactly how they are related. But I know that they are. 1. Something in Yahoo's new DMARC policy is breaking email sent from mailing lists. It apparently affects *all* mailing lists, not just PDML. For Gmail users it shows up as a tag of some kind

Re: On email from Yahoo being classified as spam

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
g the Yahoo outgoing mail servers and that should fix the problem without you having to really make any change." ) Igor Mon Apr 7 17:55:28 EDT 2014 John Sessoms wrote: On 4/7/2014 5:30 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: This problem is affecting most of my mailing lists, and it appears to be due t

Re: Switched from jdavi...@yahoo.com to jdavi...@comcast.net

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/8/2014 4:53 PM, Jack Davis wrote: My posts are STILL not showing on either account.?? However, Ann did actually see a post of mine. Is she the only one? Thanks, Jack I saw the previous post that Ann replied to in my RoadRunner email. It did not show up in my Yahoo email. Your curren

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
I do remember a few stories from after the fact where there were billing errors due to the date not rolling over correctly. Mostly (99 and 44/100%) it got fixed in time and the few instances where it did slip through were easily & quickly corrected after the fact. On 4/8/2014 3:45 PM, P.J. Alling

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/8/2014 2:06 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Gosh, there are a bunch of paranoid folks on this mailing list. G It's not paranoia if they REALLY ARE out to get you. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, plea

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/8/2014 1:22 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Apr 8, 2014, at 9:51 AM, John Sessoms wrote: PS: I'm pretty sure there's a Lightroom clone for Linux - can't remember the name of it off the top of my head right now - that works a bit better than Gimp does as a Photoshop clo

Re:

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
I can see your replies to Jack on my Yahoo email, but I cannot see his original messages. I can see Jack's message on my Roadrunner email, but for some reason, your last reply to Jack (this one) hasn't come through on Roadrunner yet. I think all of us who have email addresses ending in "Yahoo.co

Re: New PDML ID

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
I think you're going to have to get a completely new email address that does _not_ come from Yahoo. This message came through on my Roadrunner feed, but not on the Yahoo one. On 4/8/2014 2:24 PM, Jack Davis wrote: Test -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
That does bring up some interesting questions: 1. Why won't Adobe make versions of Lightroom & Photoshop for Linux? 2. IIRC, there used to be a windoze emulator for Linux called WINE that was good enough that some earlier versions would run on it. Whatever happened to that? 3. Mac OS is based o

Re: Test from Philly

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/8/2014 9:00 AM, Rick Womer wrote: PESO post last evening didn't go through; let's see if anything got fixed overnight. Came through on RoadRunner, but not on Yahoo. I haven't been able to send from Yahoo since some time yesterday. I'm back to getting the error that says I need to enter

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
d got in there and stole some keys and stole some credit card numbers and wreaked havoc, before the good guys re-locked the barn door last night. But we won’t know for a while. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:22 AM, John Sessoms wrote: Do those secrets include CREDIT CARD DATA from on-line purchases?

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
That's the Windows Firewall that's built in to Windoze. It's better than nothing. Windows XP Click Start -> Run -> Type firewall.cpl into the Run command box Click OK Set Windows Firewall to On Click OK It's pretty self explanatory. On 4/8/2014 10:10 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
The NSA ain't all that clever, but some of the contractors they hire might be. On 4/8/2014 11:20 AM, Tim Bray wrote: Yeah, you’re right; e.g. my own tbray.org server is fine because it’s been up for 1080 days and has openssl 0.9.8. My estimation of NSA’s cleverness is a little lower than yours

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
ard ). On 4/7/2014 11:27 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: I should have said update your hardware and OS to win7 On 4/7/2014 11:17 PM, John Sessoms wrote: The hardware I'm running XP on might just barely meet the minimums for Win7, but it wouldn't run worth a damn. On 4/7/2014 7:32 P

Re: Test

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/8/2014 2:20 AM, mike wilson wrote: Started 5th April. I've been telling my spambot (or whatever it is that governs this at my ISP) that you are not spam but the rule is not taking, for some reason. Same for Rick and John Sessoms. Brian's seems to have been an aberrant message.

Re: Now I'm testing too...

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
I'm *NOT* looking forward to switching from Yahoo. I *AM* going to be doing so. But, I'm not going to worry about it until I see what the real fall out from the end of XP support is going to mean for me personally. I've still got a while before my years subscription to Yahoo Plus runs out. I def

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
bad the damage has been. On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:14 PM, John Sessoms wrote: Just out of curiosity for the rest of us ... WTF? On 4/7/2014 8:13 PM, Tim Bray wrote: In the unlikely event that any of you run https-enabled web sites and haven’t visited heartbleed.com today, get thee over there

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