Notes from the Balloon Fest…

It has been kinda annual visit…but, this time i can see a remarkable increase in awareness and most importantly, everybody out there seem to have a DSLR…are they cheap now? And everyone out there had good awareness as well – with Sturdy Tripods, Long zooms…felt like visiting a race track actually…in the pit area…with professionals…but, they were not…why else would they be with us commoners? Read more

OMG – I just ordered a DSLR!

Like most desis, living in the US of A, i have been doing my part of justice in participating in the “usual” desi things…..piligrimage to the usual places such as Niagara Falls, NYC, DC, SFO, LA, Disney World etc…and play tennis…and dabbled in photography….and did my MS….and so on…

And desite not saving up (thank god for credit cards), managed to watch the B&H website like a hawk, and ordered one soon as the much anticipated D70s showed up in the used section. B&H gives it a 9+, so i am happy….looking forward to sell my G3…any takers? See pictures below!

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Hacking my NetDisk

Netdisk, for people who dont know about it, is a consumer grade, cheap network storage device. The problem is how cheap is it? With internal harddisk now as cheap as $100 bucks for a half terabyte capacity (look out for it…on Black friday day sale) i would rather hack my old 80G drive. You can get these on eBay for $40-$60 bucks – in a sense cheaper than their enclosure.

Well..now that you have it, here is how you hack it. Note that you lose warranty if you do this on a new device. If you say warranty schmaranty…proceed…

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