27 February 2003

Possible good news about the 10D www.dpreview.com have the UK list price at £1500. If this is true, then I'm buying one! What other blogs are saying about this post. 4:28:42 PM    comment []  trackback []

Canon 10D This post claims to be a press release for the new Canon digital SLR that's going to replace the D60. I don't know if it's authentic or not, but if not the specs are pretty plausible except for the fact that photos of the camera that turned up the other day show the standard looking EOS black finish, while this release says it'll have the newer style EOS silver finish. If that release is true then it means that my biggest hope, that Canon would reduce the price a bit, isn't going to happen. I doubt Canon really want to start selling these things in the 1000-15000 range anyway, but it would be nice to be making some headway on the price. I'd be willing to bet that if you could get a $1000 basic model out then you'll sell an awful lot of them to the serious amateur crowd. OK, you may have to drop features and the resolution but that shouldn't matter to people as much as having a digital SLR will. My big debate at the moment is whether to buy a tablet PC, a digital SLR or save my money. Tough choice. What other blogs are saying about this post. 1:34:52 PM    comment []  trackback []

Windows Update Windows Update and SOAP. An interesting article (here's the most interesting page) on how Windows Update uses POSTed SOAP to send information about your computer to Microsoft.  Since the data is SSLed you can't network sniff for details, so these guys hooked into WinInet's HttpOpenRequest() and InternetWriteFile() to check out the data before it's encrypted.  Interesante. Personally I don't think that dumping a system inventory of installed hardware drivers, how much ram, etc is an invasion of privacy.  What I don't want happening is a listing of my installed non-OS software...I'd rather not have Windows Update informing me about updates to anything other that Windows.  I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway... [Scott Hanselman's Weblog] I want Windows to tell me about updates to all my software, but I want to be able to select which of that software I actually want to be able to go through Windows Update from the client side without any data being sent to Microsoft. What other blogs are saying about this post. 10:40:53 AM    comment []  trackback []

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