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I've tested on firefox before and saw no problem... What's the screen resolution you use?

Thanks alot~~

I just updated my website layout and would like to have some comments~~ SamuelPhotos.com Just drop me some notes so that I can have some improvement. Thanks!

Sorry, film is also a digital media, using grains as its pixels. So its really not a continous device also.

Good point!And actually your concern is mainly on the person behind who takes photographs, not the tools. Giving an excellent tool to a dumb person, misusing its capabilities wasn't really turns that excellent tool into a crap. Gladly I'm not that kind of person, but really I admit there're lots of them. The bottom line is the photographer's mind that matters, not the tools.

You can ping it??

My hosting at Xisto - Web Hosting, samuelphotos.com (69.50.177.114), doesn't responds to ping. dnsstuff ping and tracert confirms that. Please check.Thanks.Rds,Samuel

Man, I'm using the paided hosting here.... so I still need to apply for the free web hosting?

Hello,I've applied Xisto - Web Hosting account already. In the hosting descriptions of Xisto - Web Hosting, ssh is enabled. But seems I can't connect to samuelphotos.com (my domain) using putty. The shell returns this message:"Shell access is not enabled on your account!If you need shell access please contact support."Pls help.Rds,Samuel

Although it's perfectly OK that the admin is busy, but I doubt there's only 1 person dealing with the whole business, and this I think surely will scare away potential customers...

That means I can't apply until the next week?

Hello, I joined here few days ago, originally planned to get a free hosting here. After posting a few post here, I've found that I'm not feeling quite well for continuously posting just to let my website hosted. I'm quite busy on my works and posting continuously seems not my cup of tea. Since then I noticed Xisto - Web Hosting. After researching, seems Xisto - Web Hosting and this website are from the same company, but for a newbie here, actually I'm not knowing quite well about both sites. What I'm particularly concern is about the stability and service support in Xisto - Web Hosting. Is there anyone here which have hosting in Xisto - Web Hosting? How stable is it? Any downtime so far? You know, for such a low cost web hosting usually stability and support will be compomised. And I'm not very keen on trying something new... Any help will be appreciated.(BTW, I've sent an email to support@Xisto - Web Hosting.com yesterday and so far none have replied. This makes me even hesitate to try it, even though it have 30 days money back...)

Well, if microsoft can really do WinFS what he was originally claimed, then it'll be the best file system since Unix file system. No more directories, file system, totally based on SQL server, catalog using SQL server, can use SQL to query files... etc, really makes me think it's the best thing microsoft have ever invented~~~~~

Can it handle camera raw files? Right now I haven't used any photo management software because no one can properly handle Raw (Adobe Photoshop Album can, but it can't handle my 1Dmk2 CR2 format, so I haven't used that once I sold my D60). If it can handle Raw or Adobe negative format, I may consider using it~

Well, my username is simple, it's just my initials~~ Me, just like szupie, comes from Hong Kong, my chinese name is Yung Kin Fung, so my initials is ykf, and that's my username~~~I also have a nickname called Twister, meaning tonado, in chinese its pronunciation is very similar to my chinese name pronunication. So that's why I'm also called Twister~

Well, first Gb, Mb and Kb in hard disk manufacturar's terms is always x 1000, ie, 1Kb = 1000bytes, 1Mb = 1000Kb, 1Gb = 1000Mb, while in OS terms, it's always x 1024, ie, 1Kb = 1024bytes, 1Mb = 1024Kb, 1Gb=1024Mb, thus the actually capacity is always less than the adventised capacity~The another point is the partition format you use, whether you use NTFS or FAT32 or other formats, added overheads and consume some space inside the hard drive. For example, FAT have file allocation table, NTFS also have it in addition to the security settings. Other formats also have its own overhead. Thus the actual space you can use is always less than the adventised one.

Thanks~ The technique is to use a twin flash or ring flash, set exposure mode to M mode, f/16 and 1/250sec (or the X-sync speed your camera offers) to ensure that the depth of field is as deep as possible while trying to prevent shaking and any kinds of movement by setting a high shutter speed. Then wait for the fly (yes, that's a fly, but it's not house fly of course~) to feed the flowers... when they're feeding they'll tends on stay still (relatively... after all they still move, but that's easy to fozen it using a high shutter speed). With enough patience, luck and lots of trial-and-errors, you'll finally get it~ Of course, you'll need to have the right equipment to do the job. Macro always needs patience, if you don't have enough of it then better don't play macro~ you'll be frustrated to death~~~

Are you kidding?? That must be some kind of joke...How can someone remember such a long domain?! It's ridiculous~~~

It's look like some kind of stock photos agency which buy photos from you and put them on the web or some other place for the customers to buy. They will get some agency fee for that service. Well this one seems lots of marketing crap and makes my bad impression from them~~~

In the real world applications, usually there will be a requirement gathering stage. After gathering the requirement, the architect will transform the requirement into a set of use cases for the entire system. From each of the use cases, he will built a sequence diagram and/or state diagram if needed. Then based on these diagram the architect will build the component diagram using the some well known design patterns, such as session facade, command pattern, DAO (data access object) pattern, and maybe O/R mapping also. Usually those diagrams and the entire architecture will be discussed with team members for knowledge transfer and maybe further tuning based on feedback from the teammates. A class diagram will then be created from the architecture and code development will then be started. Further refinement will be needed usually in the implementation phase, because usually the first iteration of requirement gathering stage is not enough.

It must not be Java... most probably it's Javascript~

Equipment used:#1: Canon D60 + Canon 70-200 f/4 L @f/6.3 #2: Canon 1D mk II + Canon MPE65 f/2.8 1-5x macro photo @f/16 + Canon MT-24EX twin flash #3: Canon 1D mk II + Canon 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 DO IS @f/8 #4: Canon 1D mk II + Canon 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 DO IS @f/16 I take them all in Hong Kong, because I live in Hong Kong~ For the #2 insect closeup, I use a special Canon macro lens (Canon MPE65 f/2.8 1-5x macro photo) which can take an image from 1:1 up to 5:1. The image shown was set on 3:1 magification. Because the loss of light problem (macro lens always have light loss, the more magification the more loss of light), I need to use a special Canon flash called twin flash, which is specially designed for use in macro photography. These kind of > 1:1 photography is called extreme macro, or micro-photography. You can have look at this lens and flash at Canon EOS website: MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro Photo Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX

Your concepts are totally wrong. First if you put the logic in DB stored proc, your program design is not OO anymore... You'll need to abandon all the OO pattern stuffs and UML... etc. THAT's a NIGHTMARE!Second, in clustered environment, it's the app server to handle the configuration, not the EJB domain model or Toplink POJOs. Your applications should be totally transparent to the system hardware architecture, so whether it's single app server or clustered app server it'll still run fine. Only app server configurations will be changed. And maybe some crosscutting concern like Toplink caching, need to set for clustered environment too... but that should not change the code. (But for Toplink I'm not quite sure... I use Hibernate btw )I think the typical design should be:MVC Web layer -> Stateless session beans as a session facade -> DAO -> Toplink/hiberate/JDO -> DBRemember, putting the logic inside stored proc is always bad, except that your application is data-centric.

For transaction control in entity bean, it depends on whether you use CMT or BMT. If you use CMT (container-managed transaction), you need to write deployment descriptor on the concurrency access model for the container to use. This setting haven't specified in EJB spec, so it is now container specific (Websphere, Weblogic, JBoss... all use different descriptor syntax to deal with this). If you use BMT, you need to control it using JTA UserTransaction object, which is obtained from JNDI.

This comparison is funny. It's just like comparing apple to orange.... Will apple wins orange?? Let me say it that way....BTW, Java and flash are completely different things. If you compare Java applets and flash, that makes more sense, because applets is only a small SUBSET of Java. Java includes J2ME, J2SE and J2EE, and applets is just a small part of J2SE~Also, Sun already abandoned applets concept (you really notice they still develops applet since Java 1.2?) because it just don't work, and largely because they don't make $$ when comparing to J2EE.