What do you find when you view the properties of the CD drive and select the AutoPlay tab? The "Actions" settings may be different for each item in the drop-down list. What action is highlighted for "Music CD"?

I had "take no action" selected. In any case, I went back into that screen to make sure, and the next time I inserted a CD, I held down the shift key. After that, the problem seems to have fixed itself. t waves hands

For CS2, he'd probably suggest creating a Hue/Saturation adjustment level, and then taking the saturation (ie the color intensity) down to 0.

I haven't done really any monkeying around with images other than a random click here and there in iPhoto, but selecting iPhoto's simple b&w option, then "enhancing" really beefs up the saturation and contrast. I are simple.

That seems to give me the same results as just going with Desaturate, and that's awfully flat.

For this original, desaturation in either CS2 or PSP gives about this, whereas by splitting into RGB channels and tweaking how I can recombine them I can get something more shapeful like this. And there are a number of different ways to tweak.

One criticism is the original image, but even if I tweak it so that I love the colours, it's not doing service to the B&W within. And I never had this much trouble exposing B&W on film.

eta: and enhancing using PSP's autocontrast option after the greyscaling isn't wonderful either.

I don't suppose there are any consumer B&W digital cameras... any non-consumer models?

ION, CES New: JVC adds iPod docks to LCD TVs

David Lynch on the iphone.

His whole rant would carry a lot more weight if he didn't shoot his films in SD video.

Anyone have an idea why PDFMaker would just stop working when attempting to convert files to PDF from Microsoft Word and Excel?

Nope, but I've used cutepdf for the last two years on everything and it's been flawless.

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Problem is, it's my work machine and I'm just trying to put off calling desktop services.