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ISP quality of service, part 2

July 14, 2013 Jim Leave a Comment

It's been a couple of days, and I haven't heard from AT&T. That's the bad news. The good news is that the dropped packet problem has gone away:         I guess I should be thankful. … [Read more...]

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ISP quality of service

July 11, 2013 Jim Leave a Comment

I’ve noticed recently that more and more big downloads were failing. I bought a bunch of Dobro lessons that were delivered via download; each lesson was about half a gigabyte. The server didn’t support multi-part access or resuming. Over a period of several days, I was able to … [Read more...]

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Porting Lightroom printer templates

July 1, 2013 Jim Leave a Comment

Lightroom (Lr) has a feature that allows you to export and import printer templates. However, if you're going to move a lot of them, it's best to find the folder where they're stored (Edit | Preferences | Presets | Show Lightroom Presets Folder) and copy the files to the … [Read more...]

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Bringing up the new workstation, part 3

July 1, 2013 Jim Leave a Comment

I started a chat session with NEC support. After I emailed the tech a copy of my invoice, she gave me a serial number for Spectraview II. I installed it. The first calibration seemed to go well, but the color gamut didn’t make any sense: Where’s the red? Either the monitor … [Read more...]

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Bringing up the new workstation, part 2

June 29, 2013 Jim Leave a Comment

Yesterday I finally got enough stuff working on the new workstation for me to make it my main workstation. When you get to that point, you don’t want to delay, because it’s complicated to keep two machines in synch. File synch’ers aren’t particularly useful when there are a bunch … [Read more...]

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