After about a month of usage, here are my initial findings on what you can expect in terms of battery life from your Pentax K100D Super digital SLR camera.
Using the set of Alkaline batteries included with the camera I was able to take approximately 90 shots with about 60-75% flash usage.
I also picked up two sets of 4 Energizer Lithium Ion single use batteries. I plan to keep these as the emergency set in my camera bag. I expect this set to perform close to, or exceed the anticipated number of shots in the manual. If I were to take a long trip, I would also consider picking up a set or two of CRV-3 Lithium batteries as these are supposed to yield 1000 – 1100 shots.
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I origionally switched to Linux over 10 years ago because my modest hardware could not keep up with Windows, and I was rewarded with a reliable, stable, and responive system. Fast forward 8 years and I am now a very satisfied Ubuntu user, however, I have never been a fan of desktop enviroments such as GNOME and KDE. I normaly prefere something very light weight such as WindowMaker.However, I found a way to keep a “mostly default” Ubuntu install with a light weight desktop. I had used Xfce a couple of years ago while experimenting with Redhat 8,9 and Fedora, and I quite enjoyed it.
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BlackBerry Curve (8300) Review
Some have called it the best BlackBerry ever, and I tend to agree with them. The curve is only my second BlackBerry, previously I was using a BlackBerry 8700r.
Now there was nothing wrong with my 8700r, and the only reason to upgrade to the Curve/8300 was the fact that the rest of my department was in the process of standardizing our phones.
Its going to sound corny, but the Curve is sleek, its stylish, and its very light. Did I mention that this phone is *light* its incredible. It took a couple of hours to get used to the trackball, having used the famous BlackBerry wheel for a year or so, but now I would have trouble going back to just the wheel.
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After 11 years of faithful service (6 in my possesion) it was time for my Jeep’s factory softtop to retire. It had been getting increasingly harder to see out all of the windows due to the Jeep perma-fog that the windows had aquired over the years. This left me with the choice of getting a new top from the dealership, or using an aftermarket product. So I decided on the Bestop Replace-a-top with tinted rear windows.
Keep reading for my review of the Replace-a-top.
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I recently got a Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 notebook for work, and as a first matter of business I had to check and see and see how well Linux would run on it. I decided to install Ubuntu 6.06 LTS because I need this latptop for work, and on the job I have little time to tweak and fiddle with settings, drivers and hardware. I need everything to work, and in my opinion Ubuntu Linux is the most polished and “finished” desktop available today.
Using the installer on the live CD I was able to resize the current XP Pro partition (just in case), and install Ubuntu. Everything was done in about 30 minutes and I now had a working Linux laptop.
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Wow, I never thought that I would see the day. HD Net is comming to Canada. HD Net offers 24/7 high definition programming. Currently, we have only been able to see HD Net programming in Canada via pay per view on Bell Express Vu.
The reason this is such a huge suprise to me is that the CRTC actually made a decision that is going to benefit viewers like us. Almost all of the Canadian networks (CBC, Global, CTV, SportsNet, etc) were opposed to this. Likely due to the fact that they are finally going to be forced to produce content in HD.
The previous federal liberal government pressued the CRTC to postpone making a decision on HDNet for the past three years.
No idea as to when we will see HDNet in our programming guides, but it is refreshing to hear that they have been added to the “list”.
Good move CRTC, I applaud you.
[via Digital Home Canada]
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The battle of the smart phones. Now my old Treo 600 is about two years old now, and let me tell you it’s the worst phone that I have ever owned. But since I have a bit of a gadget obsession, and the idea of having decent speed Internet at my hip is appealing, so I decided to get another smart phone. This time its a blackberry, and I am starting with one of the nicest Blackberry’s that RIM has released.
I will be writing a review of the 8700r after I have had time to use it for a few more days.
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