From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Sat Oct 1 21:19:27 2022 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 14:19:27 -0700 Subject: [Leica] Warning to iPhone users..... Thanks Apple...... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <381b0e5f22eb7ddc8da26fdb8759f26e@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> An iPhone 13 is probably still under warranty. The people who answer 800-275-2273 (the Apple telephone support line) can definitely help you. On 2022-09-30 20:51, Robert Baron via LUG wrote: > I have an iPhone 13 Pro Max. I am happy with the colors it produces > because I am semi-color blind and it works for me. > > However, I did recently upgrade the operating system to iOS16 and that > (or > something else) caused my contacts to divest much of the information > they > previously contained, such as street addresses for contacts and other > needed information. I have been working with some folks on the Apple > support forums to figure out what happened and how to fix it but I am > not > happy....but I think I was at least subliminally forewarned because I > remember Kyle Cassisdy have some sort of a similar problem some years > back > with his itunes library. From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Thu Oct 6 13:31:42 2022 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 06:31:42 -0700 Subject: [Leica] Brian In-Reply-To: <66D647E2-8B94-4306-B8CE-53253EA01ECC@att.net> References: <66D647E2-8B94-4306-B8CE-53253EA01ECC.ref@att.net> <66D647E2-8B94-4306-B8CE-53253EA01ECC@att.net> Message-ID: <131b45f2ce88afbedf1d81e11e5db07e@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> That means that Jim is also having a birthday today. Or maybe yesterday. I am 73 today, and I think he is 76. On 2022-10-06 00:03, JAMES HANDSFIELD wrote: > If memory serves, Brian is having a birthday today. Many happy > returns of the day, Brian! > > Jim Handsfield > jhandsfield at att.net From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Mon Oct 10 10:57:18 2022 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 06:57:18 -0400 Subject: [Leica] Masai Mara In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <281afe7f707f4b7cba6e6dc5a59e397a@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> Awesome, as always. Thank you. On 2022-10-09 22:17, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > The second and last instalment of photographs from Masai Mara in Kenya > which I visited in early 2022: > > Some Cheetah shots to start with: > > Cheetah in the grass: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220902-1218-Edit.jpg.html > > On the Mound: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220902-1292-Edit.jpg.html > > Coalition: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220903-1531-Edit.jpg.html > > Duo: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220903-3127-Edit_001.jpg.html > > Now, it is the lion's turn to take over!: > > Eyes: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220902-971-Edit.jpg.html > > Geometry: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220902-2859-Edit.jpg.html > > On the Prowl: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220906-4143-Edit.jpg.html > > Environmental Portrait: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220906-3442-Recovered.jpg.html > > Some miscellaneous subjects: > > Masai Giraffe in Colour: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220903-1693-Edit.jpg.html > > Masai Giraffe in B&W: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220903-1693-EditBW.jpg.html > > Lilac-breasted Roller: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220903-1675-Edit.jpg.html > > African Sunset: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Mara22/Mara2022-20220904-3791-EditNoiseless.jpg.html > > Please see LARGE. > > Comments and criticism, as always, welcome. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Wed Oct 19 16:29:45 2022 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:29:45 -0700 Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Louis with the Irish Times In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <42cc5be5aa817d54637eaff4f6595a19@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> Wonderful. On 2022-10-18 17:04, Douglas Barry wrote: > I've been blitzed with a lurgy, so photography has been limited to > home. It also ensured I couldn't travel the short 8k to the > International Leica Society meeting in Dublin. A bummer indeed as I > would have liked to meet the few Luggers travelling over the pond to > attend- c'est la vie. > > Here are two shots of my nearly 16 month old grandson Louis. > Amazingly, he is not moving. > > Louis takes the Times > My grandson likes the tactility of paper to keep up to date. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Louis+takes+the+Times.jpg.html > > Louis Times Two > My grandson looks up from his perusal. iPhone. Can be seen larger if > wished. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Louis+Times+Two.jpg.html From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Tue Oct 25 19:46:33 2022 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:46:33 -0700 Subject: [Leica] about NAS devices Message-ID: The term "NAS" stands for "Network Attached Storage". But NAS boxes are being used in other ways. Here's some background and explanation. NAS boxes provide 3 core functions: 1. Aggregation. You can have a bunch of drives but talk to them as if they were just one drive. This way you don't have to remember which drive you put something on. A NAS is seen by your computer as just one drive, regardless of how many drives are actually in it. 2. Access. This is the "NA" part of NAS, and is why they were invented. If you have a NAS box and it is connected to an ethernet, then more than one computer can access it without you having to move any wires. 3. Safety. NAS boxes can (if you want) combine multiple drives in such a way that if one fails, you haven't lost any data, and theoretically you can replace that one failed drive and keep going. Doing this gives you less overall storage (you have to store multiple copies of data in order to make this work) but more reliability. There are dozens of other non-core functions that add stress, complexity, and marketing advantage to a NAS box. You don't have to use any of them, but some are awfully convenient. If two computers are trying to access the same storage, they need to take special care to make sure they don't trip over each other. If Computer A and Computer B are trying to update the same storage at the same time, it will make a mess. To prevent this from happening, software programmers use a technique called "file locking". Unfortunately, standard file locking techniques don't work with ethernet, so many applications (such as Lightroom) just say "sorry, you can't do that". Lightroom won't let you access a catalog across an ethernet because it doesn't want to be responsible for getting the locking done right. If you use a NAS box but access it by a USB cable, then you are not using it via a network and therefore are not subject to network file locking problems. You get functions 1 and 3. I use NAS boxes extensively, but I am a sufficiently jaded computer systems person that I will never trust them to do simultaneous shared access because of the inherent complexity of those file locking protocols. But this is just me and my family. When I managed the IT department for a big company, I couldn't make "no sharing" rules, so instead I had to make and enforce rules for sharing. I am long gone from the big companies whose IT departments I managed, but my rules remain pretty much as I wrote them, which is: * Never edit on a NAS. Make a local copy and edit that, and put the edited copy back when you are done. Even though a NAS can be used as a virtual drive to edit in place, don't do it. * Devise, use, and enforce a system to coordinate your updates with other people. I always use a "check-out/check-in" model. To edit a file, check it out of the library. When you are done editing and have uploaded the revised version, check it back in. The check-out process must prohibit the checking out of a file that someone else has checked out. My personal process to manage my files (including photographs) is to keep the master copy of everything on a NAS at my house, to have that NAS automatically copied every night to storage that is not in my house, and to do check-out/check-in of files from the home NAS to my computers. The reason I use check-out/check-in even though it's just me doing it is that I have more than one computer. If I start an edit on my laptop, and then try to edit from my iMac, it will not let me do it. Because I am paranoid and suspicious, I actually have 2 NAS devices from different manufacturers at my house, and replicate the master copy to the mirror copy by an automatic means. (Master is ReadyNAS, mirror is TrueNAS). I also run Time Machine service on my master NAS device. Time Machine data is part of what is copied every night to offsite storage.