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[jmwills]

How about a Canadian icicle ikon?

Nice jmwills. There is a little quirk with the shaping. While you can create your own ques, doing so will break some of the graphs. So, I create a bunch of ques in the Traffic Shaper Wizard and then rename them to what I want. I then delete any rules and ques I don't want.

I really only use a few protocols out of the norm (DNS, NNTP) and even this morning I can tell my downloader is zipping thru those files. But, I want it done right so it looks like I need to study this weekend.

[ikon]

How about a Canadian icicle ikon?

An icicle? Wow, I haven't seen one of those is a long time. All the houses are so well insulated these days that they virtually never have icicles hanging from the eaves. I remember, as a kid, seeing some that were 3 or 4 feet long, but that was a lonnnng time ago.

[jmwills]

I thought you all live in igloos up there ?

[pcdoc]

I should add that I could give each que a minimum amount of bandwidth because I want to make sure they had enough to at least do something. For example, I might give VOIP a minimum just to make sure calls can go through. Something like 512Kb should be more than enough.

In a completely saturated situation, you spend some time tweaking these settings and the allocation of bandwidth. BTW, Crashplan is completely saturating my upload bandwidth and I just played Call of Duty. Never noticed a thing, no lag at all. Yesterday before I updated the Traffic Shaper, Crashplan was causing some serious lag in Call of Duty.

Have you thought about throttling CrashPlan. You can adjust that in the setting of the software.

[ikon]

That's just what we tell the girls when we vacation in Florida, so they'll try to warm us up (man, that was a few years ago).

[geek-accountant]

Have you thought about throttling CrashPlan. You can adjust that in the setting of the software.

I have, but wanted to see how it would work when I let CrashPlan run at full speed. Once I get everything uploaded, I will most likely throttle it for the ongoing uploads. At the rate it is going now, should only be another week or so.

[ikon]

I have, but wanted to see how it would work when I let CrashPlan run at full speed. Once I get everything uploaded, I will most likely throttle it for the ongoing uploads. At the rate it is going now, should only be another week or so.

Blessed be the uncapped internet service, for it shall inherit the vastness of the data.

[jmwills]

or at least suck you into a black hole

[ikon]

meh, whatever

[geek-accountant]

Blessed be the uncapped internet service, for it shall inherit the vastness of the data.

Exactly what I was thinking. Now that I am looking at picking up a Nikon D800, those 36mp files are going to take up a LOT of space. Each RAW file is about 70Mb+ and I take as much as 40,000/year.

[yodafett]

Exactly what I was thinking. Now that I am looking at picking up a Nikon D800, those 36mp files are going to take up a LOT of space. Each RAW file is about 70Mb+ and I take as much as 40,000/year.

Price check on an AX4 for Mike, or maybe dare we say it but a 8 bay drobo.

[ikon]

Exactly what I was thinking. Now that I am looking at picking up a Nikon D800, those 36mp files are going to take up a LOT of space. Each RAW file is about 70Mb+ and I take as much as 40,000/year.

The D800 is 36Mp??? really? yikes.

Expensive!

[geek-accountant]

Well if I sell some of my current gear it should be close to a wash. I have a Nikon D2x, a Nikon D2h (2 of them actually), a Sigma 70-200 f/2.8, Sigma 100-300 f/4 and a Nikon 300mm f/4 that I really don't use anymore. If I can get anywhere near a decent price for that gear, the D800 will be paid for.

Yes, the D800 is a 36MP full frame camera!

[yodafett]

I expect you to be moving to http://www.gigapxl.org/

Edited by yodafett, 06 April 2012 - 08:07 PM.

[ikon]

Well if I sell some of my current gear it should be close to a wash. I have a Nikon D2x, a Nikon D2h (2 of them actually), a Sigma 70-200 f/2.8, Sigma 100-300 f/4 and a Nikon 300mm f/4 that I really don't use anymore. If I can get anywhere near a decent price for that gear, the D800 will be paid for.

Yes, the D800 is a 36MP full frame camera!

The pixels must be dang tiny.

I expect you to be moving to http://www.gigapxl.org/

Ronnie Miranda posts a fair number of panos on http://gigapan.com

[geek-accountant]

The full frame helps and Nikon has done some amazing things with digital noise to the point that the D800 with it's 36MP is on par with the D700 which only had 12MP (both full frame sensors). Now when you downsize the image, the D800 will kick the butt of the D700 in terms of noise. The D800 also sets a new record for dynamic range and has been tested as the best camera sensor to be sold in a consumer camera to date, even surpassing digital medium format sensors!

[ikon]

improved sensors will eventually make a huge difference. It will be a landmark day when the first digital sensor that has more dynamic range than film is released.

[geek-accountant]

Well, isn't the dynamic range of most film around 12 stops and slides even less than that. The D800 has right around 14 stops of dynamic range, so I think we are there now.

[ikon]

You may be right. 14 stops is a lot. If they keep it up, we may yet get to my dream goal: a sensor with so much dynamic range that it can do single-shot HDR. By that I mean you can take a single frame, and the camera then processes the data into 3 or 5 different exposures which you can then tone map and so on in LR or PS.

[jmwills]

Okay Mike....do the math....70k pictures a year? That's an average of 200 a day. That is one itchy trigger finger.....just kidding. You take some nice photos and have a great eye for composition.