12/31/2023 0 Comments Dxo film pack 6We have been busy working on ‘The Robert Krasker Project’ about the great Australian Director of Photography and his work.Please also consider donating to our favourite charitable cause, Lefty’s Place, via PayPal.Me/leftysplace. If you wish to make a donation to support our work here at Unititled.Net then please do it via PayPal.Me/KarinGottschalk. To provide up-to-date content for you we need to keep our production hardware and software up to date. First photographs with Fujifilm Finepix 100, reprocessed with Fuji Astia Soft in DxO PhotoLab 5 & DxO FilmPack 6 Little wonder that the great Stephen Shore seems to have adopted that camera as his daily carry. This system is also capable of creating imagery with exceptionally smooth tonal transitions that are reminiscent of analog film capture,…” … the Hasselblad Natural Color Solution is designed to deliver images with the most natural color without needing to delve into a variety of presets. When combined with the Hasselblad Natural Color Solution, tonal transitions and skin tones show immense depth, detail, and clarity for lifelike image quality, even in dark shadow and bright highlight regions…. “… the X1D-50c is capable of capturing an extremely wide dynamic range of up to 14 stops along with vivid 16-bit color depth. The ‘Hasselblad X1D’ and ‘Minolta 5D, 7D’ presets in the huge ‘Camera Body’ collection also look promising, especially given the properties of the actual Hasselblad X1D: I’ve yet to compare all three versions of Astia in the latest PhotoLab and FilmPack Elite software, but will keep exploring them with photographs made of a number of subjects under a range of weather, light and colours.Īnother of the many joys of those two DxO applications is their inclusion of camera sensor profiles that can be selected and used like film simulations, so I have added some of both to the gallery above. That version’s rendering of skin under sunlight is impressive and moire realistic than Velvia or Kodachrome, while its depiction of foliage, skies and the objects of the manmade world are rich and can be made even richer by applying some micro-contrast, saturation and vibrance in DxO PhotoLab’s controls. I didn’t have the pleasure of using Fujichrome Astia 100F and can’t recall ever seeing it in the fridge at the suppliers and photo labs I frequented.ĭuring my magazine and newspaper photography career I relied on colour transparency aka reversal aka slide films rather than colour negative aka print films, although I was familiar with the pros and cons of the latter from my years processing and printing colour for a state government department.ĭxO’s Astia simulation in ‘Digital Films’ renders skin beautifully and much more realistically than my usual choices for scenic photography, ‘Fuji Velvia 50’ and ‘Generic Fuji Velvia 100’ in the ‘Color Positive Film’ film simulations collection.ĭxO provides other simulations of Astia in the ‘Color Positive Film’ collection, ‘Fuji Astia 100F’ and ‘Generic Fuji Astia 100’, but I’ve been using the new ‘Digital Films’ version the most lately. In the digital era, that might no longer be the case as I find myself relying more and more on DxO’s ‘Fuji Astia Soft’ film simulation in the ‘Digital Films’ collection of DxO PhotoLab 5 Elite and DxO FilmPack 6 Elite. Konica Minolta Maxxum aka Dynax 5D 6-megapixel DSLR with in-body image stabilization.
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12/30/2023 0 Comments Aim speciality health providerIvan moves on to the second use case, where his team adds Enterprise Agents to the mix. This allowed his team to engineer traffic around problematic circuits, which was very critical in transitioning from PoC to deployment. With ThousandEyes his team was able to benchmark service providers, understanding where and how the remote users transited the network. With ThousandEyes Cloud Agents he was able to gain visibility into service delivery, BGP routing and make informed decisions on remediation once a fault was detected.įigure 3: Path Visualization showing exactly where packet loss was in the network.Īs his team was getting ready to move the PoC system to a real production system, ThousandEyes became an integral part of the architecture planning. With a free trial version of ThousandEyes and setting up tests from Cloud Agents, Ivan says "We very quickly got the information we needed." He points to the ThousandEyes Path Visualization snapshot shown in Figure 3, that shows exactly where packets were getting lost. While researching how to overcome the issue of poor visibility, he says technical forums like NANOG and SLAC led him to ThousandEyes. Vendor compatibility, lack of historical data and unreadable UX were few of the challenges. Solution Part 1: Cloud Agentsįaced with a new problem to solve, Ivan says he quickly realized that existing monitoring tools like Ping, Curl, SNMP or IP SLA were not coming to his rescue. "4.2.2.2 was responding clean and we didn't see any issues from our side" recollects Ivan. Troubleshooting from the datacenter didn't provide a good vantage point as in-house tools showed that the leased circuit was underutilized and DNS reachability was stellar. The PoC system was converted into a soft production system, and Ivan had a new problem at hand.Īs it turns out, the carrier that AIM Specialty decided to go with had nationwide BGP issues resulting from blackholing traffic from a couple of their backbone locations. Ivan draws a molded bread analogy comparing how couple of months after the PoC, although very successful, started getting moldy when real users were on it. Ivan remembers the call from the NoC team complaining that the PoC system was breaking down with poor user quality and overall network instability. Ivan says "The increasing need for partners broke down the private cloud model."įigure 2: Proof of Concept architecture for the Telecommuter Program. The network architecture at AIM's traditionally relied on the private cloud but that was going to change with the Telecommuter program. The now remote user base also meant that private cloud was no longer a sustainable option. Ivan recounts "With TCP-based web applications we can account for a lot, but voice gets a little trickier." The data aspect did not worry Ivan, however, voice was a different beast. Named the Telecommuter program, business requirements mandated this network to have a flawless user experience, providing remote users a data and voice experience comparable to that of a campus user. Ivan kick starts the session by recollecting how a little over a year ago he was tasked with building a network for specialized medical professionals connecting from remote locations in the continental US. In his talk Ivan discusses the inception of the Telecommuter program and the parallel evolution of the program alongside ThousandEyes Cloud, Enterprise and Endpoint Agents to monitor AIM's network. Ivan and his team have been working with ThousandEyes for over a year now and use ThousandEyes to gain visibility into service delivery for AIM's Telecommuter program. Figure 1: Ivan Shepherd presenting at ThousandEyes Connect New York. 12/30/2023 0 Comments Refund golden eagles war thunderThe names, logos, slogans and other attributes of organizations recognized by the domestic or international legislation and the courts as a criminal, terrorist or extremist. Graphic and text elements that infringe copyright laws. Īny references or images of narcotic, psychotropic substances and their use Propaganda or discrimination at all levels, including but not limited to political, religious, national, racial, ethnic, sexual, etc. Violence or elements associated with violence Items that violate the rules of conduct on the web server or the Agreement Visual or textual material containing obscene language or obscene elements, as well as violating moral and ethical standards This also relates to Gaijin references as a whole Visual or textual material related to pornography, anything containing a clear reference to pornography, erotic images (including hand-drawn, anime, hentai, etc.) Gaijin have already decided they want to take the Panther II and Tiger II 105 out of the game - but they have also made it clear that anyone who has already researched and purchased those vehicles will still be able to play them if they choose.īut what if Gaijin had instead said that no one could play them at all? What if they just completely removed those tanks from the game? Would the thousands of people who put their hard-earned time, money and research into those vehicles deserve to have their lions and research refunded? Of course they would.Īnd in exactly the same way, every player who has put silver lions into upgrading AI gunners on bombers and attackers should now have their lions refunded - because AI gunners are no longer in the game.It is forbidden to use the name of the game both in the Squadron name and also it must not be used in tags, logos and other graphics as well as text elements. In RB at least, AI gunners are no longer in this game. Now, don't get me wrong - this is Gaijin's game and they can do whatever they want with it. The issue is that now, AI gunners don't fire at all. Yes, Gaijin "nerfed" AI gunners on bombers a long time ago and made them less accurate. The issue is that in RB, a facet of this game that I (and many others) have paid for, has been removed from the game. And that's precisely why thousands of people put silver lions into gunner research - so that they would suck just a little bit less.īut it is now no longer a question of whether or not AI gunners suck, or how long they have sucked, or how much I suck. Yes, AI gunners have sucked for a long, long time. The point is that I (and thousands like me) have paid to upgrade our AI gunners. It doesn't even have anything to do with the AI gunners being good or bad. It has nothing to do with me being good, or bad. If you have to rely on a bot to defend yourself when the game automatically marks enemies within 5km while you have full control of your plane while in gunner mode, what can I say? But you can thank all those that cried when they were tail sitting a bomber (Bv no doubt) complaining about how OP the gunners are. Well, those upgrades still help even if you man the gunners yourself. Refund my silver lions and golden eagles please. Why are those options still even listed as a crew upgrades? They are completely usless and may as well be disabled. And even if they DID do that, I still deserve a refund for all the lions and gold that I spent upgrading their fire accuracy and spread. It's maddeningly frustrating.įor those who say "you have to control your own gunners dude" - well, that's fine if the gunners would at least warn me that an enemy fighter is approaching. AI gunners now simply sit passively and watch while the enemy fighter approaches and shoots them straight in the face. 6km - they will never come close enough for gunners (even fully upgraded gunners) to begin firing back. 2km! Since enemy fighters typically start firing from 1km away, and have their gunsights set between. I've spent untold thousands of silver lions upgrading gunners on my bombers - and now they no longer open fire at any enemy beyond. I would like a refund for all the silver lions and golden eagles I've spent purchasing premium bombers and upgrading all my gunners. 12/30/2023 0 Comments Black or stainless steel appliancesThis dishwasher also has a two-stage filtration system to remove particles from the water washing your dishes. It has a four-level PowerScrub wash system that cleans dishes thoroughly, removing all food particles and stains on your cookware. If you are looking for a white dishwasher that matches the other items in your home, consider this model. GE is an affordable brand that is also known for its quality appliances. Here are a few of our top appliances currently available in our inventory with black and white finish options. 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12/30/2023 0 Comments 127.0 0.1 ip meaningThe two traits of coolness and uniqueness were ones that our company possesses, so it was felt that the company should have a name that reflects this. (From: Linux Documentation Project) The reason it was chosen as our company name is because PING is a really cool command and secondly, the address 127.0.0.1 is known throughout the world as the test loopback address, making it unique. (From: Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia) 127.0.0.1 is a Class A Address. 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 10.x.2xx. As you can see Class C is the most suitable for a home network, in fact its suitable for most networks, as a good network architect should be able to split the network up to sections so that the broadcasts dont slow down the network. Hence, the end user cannot search for computer security help while dealing with malware. For most all OS data travels across the network kernel services until the IP stack. It never hits the OSI Model Layer 1, as any local traffic. This traffic is routed by kernel to a a special network adapter called loopback adapter. It also sees its use in malware approaches to block access to legitimate websites. The 127.0.0.0/8 is a CDIR netblock reserved by IANA and its called Loopback. A loopback address is an address that tells the computer not to test its connections to another computer, but to test its own basic network setup. Class C 192.168.0.0 192.168.255.255 have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and support 254 hosts. IP address 127.0.0.1 is usually found in the Hosts file on computers that are assigned a plain English localhost address. The reason is that this address has been reserved as what is known as the loopback address. However, there is one address that cannot be used by any computer in the world, and that address is 127.0.0.1. A computer on the network is identified by what is known as an IP address, which consists of four numbers separated by dots, such as 127.0.0.1. A process that is listening on 127.0.0. For a complete rundown of what PING is, please goto The Ping Page. Its often used when you want a network-capable application to only serve clients on the same host. In brief, PING is a command that is used on computer networks to verify connections to other computers. At a previous job we had a firewall that was running close to be overloaded and one way to notice this was by simply pinging localhost - when you got > 1 ms to localhost, you knew trouble was near. Check local host then check your NICs ip. Why PING 127.0.0.1? Visit our online store at CafePress for items with the PING 127.0.0.1 Computer Services logo! What is PING 127.0.0.1 and why was it chosen as the name for the company?Īn excellent question! The name PING 127.0.0.1 is derived from the computer command PING. Start checking the software stack at the bottom. 12/29/2023 0 Comments Inherent vice vioozThompson referred to the Summer of Love in 1967 as, in retrospect, the point where the great wave of the counterculture "broke and finally rolled back." In his gonzo epic " Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," Hunter S. (Exhales smoke rings.) It's set in Los Angeles circa 1970, after Tet and Altamont and Manson so many other time-and-place names that viewers of a certain age will recognize as markers of the point where '60s Utopianism morphed into '70s numbness. The phrase "Inherent Vice" refers to "the tendency in physical objects to deteriorate because of the fundamental instability of the components of which they are made, as opposed to deterioration caused by external forces"-a mouthful that refers simultaneously to the characters, their city, their nation, and the particular historical period that has defined all of it, and that is already passing into memory when "Inherent Vice" begins. As such, it's a great people-watching film, showcasing a diverse cast whose performances are the acting equivalent of self-caricatures rendered under the influence: the line goes where it goes. Mostly it's a long, shaggy, knockabout comedy about eccentrics who pursue their own appetites and manias and indulge their private demons while remaining oblivious to their effect on others. As adapted and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, it's a historical and political picture about The American Soul, though not too strenuously so. films such as " The Long Goodbye" and " Cisco Pike," but it never makes too big a deal of that lineage. It owes a great deal to laid-back, character-and-atmosphere driven 1970s L.A. But " Vice" is a richer, deeper, sweeter, equally funny movie. This is just one small part of what makes it distinctive.Īdapted from Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, the movie has been compared by many to the Coen brothers' " The Big Lebowski," a drug-fueled LA comedy with a similarly labyrinthian mystery (or "mystery") and some shared themes. Which film has topped your own list? Tell us in the form below, and we’ll round up your favourites in a readers’ choice list."Inherent Vice" is a film about a stoner which itself seems stoned. A separate, 2014 UK release specific top 10 will appear in Film&Music and online on 12 December. The Guardian’s top 10 of the year is based on the 2014 season of films as measured by the Oscars, Baftas and Golden Globes, according to US release dates. Inherent Vice is released in the UK on 30 January. Anderson takes his bits of shell and shattered glass and fashions them into a wild mosaic. All of them are wonky, broken all of them are purely perfect. The rogues’ gallery of supporting players finds space for Owen Wilson (as a deep-cover double agent who bamboozles even himself), Martin Short (satanic dentist) and Josh Brolin as the straight-arrow cop who longs for the respect he never received from his mother. Is there time to name some fellow travellers inside Anderson’s rambunctious California circus? Here and there, amid the haze, one catches a glimpse of Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye maybe even a glimmer of The Big Lebowski in the film’s wackier flights of fancy. And yet Inherent Vice proved one of the most fragrant and pleasing American pictures of the year. Now Gordita Beach is under the influence of Uranus, “the planet of rude surprises” and Doc wafts about on karmic thermals like a “patchouli fart”. Because if the director’s previous film, The Master, charted the quest for meaning in affluent Eisenhower-era America, then this one shows where the search fetched up, in the fracturing counter-culture of southern California, where LAPD cops moonlight as B-movie actors and the Nation of Islam makes common cause with the Aryan Brotherhood. But wait, stick with it, because there is a logic to Anderson and Pynchon’s illogicality a clear-sighted sense to all this swirling, whirling chaos. Possibly it doesn’t matter maybe it’s an invitation to simply turn on and drop out. |
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