I have no proof except hearsay and experience with older cheap digital cameras but will still say that I doubt you will get satisfactory results from any cheap digital camera when it comes to astrophotography. Even a prosumer digital camera won't cut it for the long exposures that astrophotography needs. The main problem is noise exaserbated by their tiny sensor sizes (the average size of a sensor in a prosumer or lesser digital camera is that of a small postage stamp). Also you will find their batteries won't last and most won't have an option to keep the shutter open longer than 30 seconds. You really do need a DSLR or film SLR for astrophotography. My 10D for instance lasted 4 hours with the shutter open and came up with a usably noise free astrophotograph. Same goes for the 300D and I imagine the Nikon D70 and up. I am not sure the Olympus or Sigma DSLRs will suffice though as both have had noise and other problems that only get worse over long exposures. But then $800 is not cheap. You can get a Canon EOS 300D (Digital REbel) for $700 and then a reasonable lens for $100 more. If you push your budget a bit then you can get a Nikon D70 body for $900 and I'd recommend that over the 300D. Apologies if this is not what you want to hear but I wouldn't want you buying a $800 prosumer digital camera and then finding it's long exposure capabilities are worthless. regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "

Oh please - not another 0.99c.9 "we rewrote the CAD software from scratch because you can't run free music on soundcards designed with proprietary software" FooZilla we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr. boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist | doxygen

Thanks, I hated it and loved it at the same time.

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Cool. I'll download it and try it out. I am very pleased with FireFox 0.8. Only problem with Firefox is that on CP, the reply-to-message page is severely reduced (no quote option, html formatting buttons gone :( ) Aaron Eldreth TheCollective4.com My Articles While much is too strange to be believed, Nothing is too strange to have happened. - T. Hardy

I still think the theft of the source code is a poor excuse for the delay in the release of the game. IMO they saw what ID was doing WRT Doom III and got scared. ;P Ant. I'm hard, yet soft. I'm coloured, yet clear. I'm fuity and sweet. I'm jelly, what am I? - David Williams (Little Britain)

I have both an internal wireless adapter (in my Dell Lat D600) and a PC card wireless adapter (I had for my old laptop). The internal one is significantly slower. I haven't measured it, but I have compared them by copying the same file from the network using each one. The signal strength on both is the same, so that's not it. It seems different enough that I think there's something wrong with my internal (I hope). There are others at my work with the same laptop, so I'm going to do the test with another computer someday... Josh

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I did actually think of that! Doesn't seem to work though. :( Simon Walton Sonork: 10024 P

Same here - a Linksys WRT54G, located in the middle of the house connected to my Cable modem - I was able to still get a good connection across the street on my Laptop which has a Linksys WPC54G. The WRT54G is a four port wireless router, so besides wireless access, you can connect multiple wired computers to it too. I believe there is a rebate available for the unit, which means you should be able to find one for about $80 Linksys just came out with new models that have something called SpeedBooster technology which claims to increases Wireless-G performance by up to 35%. Steve

Sorry, my bad. I did not mean that Centrino is a processor :-O I work at Intel and I should have been more careful about my company's products :) Ok, let me put it this way then: Centrino mobile technology allows extended battery life and smaller designs. Power management options in Centrino provides 2 or 3 times more battery life in most usage scenarios. hotlemonade wrote: A laptop with a pentium-m and a third party 802.11x adapter has just as good battery life as a centrino based laptop with better 802.11x adapters (in theory) That is correct. The advantage of Centrino laptops is that they use Pentium-M processors, instead of 4M processors. There is a very significant difference between these two in terms of battery life. Anyway, thanks for corrections... Mustafa Demirhan http://www.macroangel.com "What we do in life echoes in eternity" - Gladiator It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I just don't care

LOL, Should I Stay didn't get much airplay where I was. So I still like the song. But Casbah makes we want to puke now. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

I guess it's to do with how big they've gotten. Althought that shouldn't be used as an excuse. Personally I haven't come across many problems with Amazon but I haven't spent all that much time there. Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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This is so incredibly cool! :cool::-D Software Zen: delete this;

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KaЯl wrote: It's perhaps an explanation but never an excuse, or you should allow for example Israel to kill 6 millions germans. Moreover, the ratio of killed civilians between UK and Germany is more than 1 for 10, what a retaliation ! I agree with you. I offered an explanation. :) KaЯl wrote: refused, arguing he was not an assassin A noble man! -- If I had the ability to smooth talk like John Simmons, this post would be less sarcastic and more to the point.

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