From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Wed Jul 9 17:41:18 2025 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:41:18 -0700 Subject: [Leica] How to make Lightroom Classic run faster on your Windows PC In-Reply-To: <0cf48467-95a6-40bf-b5cc-21fae1cd2b88@gmail.com> References: <0cf48467-95a6-40bf-b5cc-21fae1cd2b88@gmail.com> Message-ID: I agree with everything Frank said. If your computer has a Thunderbolt port, I highly recommend these external SSD drives. They are shockingly fast. https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-express-1m2 From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Wed Jul 9 18:07:40 2025 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:07:40 -0700 Subject: [Leica] Color film processors? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 2025-07-09 10:48, Ric Carter via LUG wrote: > Have you guys any film process companies you like and recommend or > avoid? I am extremely happy with the service from this company, which is a nationwide mail-order service that happens to be 2 miles from my house: https://northcoastphoto.com Before I moved to Carlsbad I always dealt with ?The Darkroom? in Los Angeles, https://thedarkroom.com They are equally great. From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Sun Jul 20 03:43:01 2025 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:43:01 -0700 Subject: [Leica] Fwd: LUG subscription notification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <77e55af7cab397af9b0fee268917b772@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> Gosh. I wonder if this is fraudulent :-) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: LUG subscription notification Date: 2025-07-19 20:31 From: mailman at leica-users.org To: lug-owner at leica-users.org Laura has been successfully subscribed to LUG. From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Mon Jul 28 12:21:09 2025 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:21:09 -0700 Subject: [Leica] LUG Gallery being swamped by AI bots Message-ID: Some AI system that I cannot identify has been overloading the LUG Gallery for the last couple of days. It appears from the logs that it is trying to extract every photo. The gallery software is too primitive to have any means of blocking it; I don?t see any choice but to let it finish. From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Mon Jul 28 19:10:47 2025 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:10:47 -0700 Subject: [Leica] LUG Gallery being swamped by AI bots In-Reply-To: <49DF0CC1-C0C9-49E8-A3E6-A5699A08D5AE@mcmaster.co.uk> References:

<16377161-8261-4361-AB8E-80BB3FEA4C67@frozenlight.eu> <49DF0CC1-C0C9-49E8-A3E6-A5699A08D5AE@mcmaster.co.uk> Message-ID: Those addresses 20.171.207.* are all owned by Microsoft. On 2025-07-28 12:07, John McMaster via LUG wrote: > Web logs, +1GB of transfer from a similar range of IP addresses. > > Top 30 of 4346 Total Sites > # Hits Files kB F Visits Hostname > 1 382727 35.58% 191603 34.69% 293133 10.41% 2644 8.92% 20.171.207.90 > 2 90236 8.39% 45556 8.25% 106515 3.78% 638 2.15% 20.171.207.110 > 3 72181 6.71% 37981 6.88% 454871 16.15% 485 1.64% 20.171.207.118 > 4 71925 6.69% 36094 6.53% 75167 2.67% 488 1.65% 20.171.207.251 > 5 50956 4.74% 25438 4.60% 33603 1.19% 355 1.20% 20.171.207.52 > 6 45118 4.19% 22376 4.05% 29615 1.05% 310 1.05% 20.171.207.160 > 7 37043 3.44% 18490 3.35% 24426 0.87% 247 0.83% 20.171.207.72 > 8 32144 2.99% 16065 2.91% 21214 0.75% 232 0.78% 20.171.207.108 > 9 27972 2.60% 13980 2.53% 21018 0.75% 193 0.65% 20.171.207.94 > 10 27062 2.52% 13430 2.43% 33955 1.21% 189 0.64% 20.171.207.217 > 11 17982 1.67% 8991 1.63% 11871 0.42% 118 0.40% 20.171.207.21 > 12 17556 1.63% 8777 1.59% 11602 0.41% 129 0.44% 20.171.207.65 > 13 15660 1.46% 7830 1.42% 10369 0.37% 106 0.36% 20.171.207.132 > 14 12686 1.18% 6343 1.15% 8400 0.30% 94 0.32% 20.171.207.87 > 15 11234 1.04% 7140 1.29% 55942 1.99% 43 0.15% 20.171.207.244 > 16 10638 0.99% 5319 0.96% 7044 0.25% 70 0.24% 20.171.207.20 > 17 4808 0.45% 2403 0.44% 3183 0.11% 32 0.11% 20.171.207.248 > 18 4036 0.38% 2018 0.37% 2664 0.09% 30 0.10% 20.171.207.176 > 19 3910 0.36% 1955 0.35% 2589 0.09% 8 0.03% 20.171.207.63 > 20 3672 0.34% 1836 0.33% 2424 0.09% 26 0.09% 20.171.207.6 > > 20.171.207.0/24 is a Microsoft block of IPs....... > > john > > ?On 28/07/2025, 20:01, "LUG on behalf of Nathan Wajsman via LUG" > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, how do you detect that? > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > @nwajsman.bsky.social > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > > On 28 Jul 2025, at 14:35, John McMaster via LUG > wrote: > > > > I have had my website sucked in to several Ais ? > > > > On 28/07/2025, 13:21, "LUG on behalf of Brian Reid" > on behalf of > reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us > wrote: > > > > > > Some AI system that I cannot identify has been overloading the > LUG > > Gallery for the last couple of days. It appears from the logs > that it is > > trying to extract every photo. The gallery software is too > primitive to > > have any means of blocking it; I don?t see any choice but to let > it > > finish. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug > for more information > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Thu Jul 31 23:37:29 2025 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:37:29 -0700 Subject: [Leica] LUG group on FB In-Reply-To: <14D660ED-9F86-4432-A3EE-A3DA6F4A6368@frozenlight.eu> References: <14D660ED-9F86-4432-A3EE-A3DA6F4A6368@frozenlight.eu> Message-ID: I believe that Jim Handsfield is the creator of the Facebook LUG group On 2025-07-31 11:49, Nathan Wajsman via LUG wrote: > I usually post my PAWs and galleries (like the recent one from > Barcelona) here and in the LUG group on Facebook. But for some reason > my last two PAWs and the Barcelona gallery post are stuck in ?pending? > status. There is nothing objectionable in any of those posts. Does > anyone know what is going on with that group? > > TIA, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > @nwajsman.bsky.social > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information