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Explain to them that, being a proper computer specialist, you always begin a count with 0, not 1. That gets you a freebie off the tee. It's not much, but every little helps. Air shots, of course, should be regarded in the same manner as pre-release betas, which do not increment the version number.

I may lose a little weight. I just opened the last can of beans. That will get us through today. After that, it's only 3,652,499 days to go until we can afford groceries again.

Help! Tannin has gone mad with the credit card and I don't know how we are going to be able to buy groceries for the next 10,000 years. At first he just bought a 7D II, a 600EX II, and a couple of Mark III teleconverters. But then he got the taste of blood in the water and ordered a 100-400...

A while back, I bought a Seagate Archive drive, 8TB I think it was. It was slow to fill up but not unbearably so. My impression (untested!) was that it would be somewhere between unpleasant and extremely unpleasant to use in the regular way. I did a single big backup onto it, then stuck it in a...

So I skim-read this thread and it's all about flip phones, 20-day battery life, and Nokia. I really hate it when I accidentally click on a thread and it turns out that the last post in it was 2003.

Hi folks, I have a customer who had had to switch from Thunderbird (which she liked) to Microsoft Outlook (which she hates). (Don't ask why. Long story. Let's just say it has to do with a brain-dead service supplier (not us) and an abortion called Exchange.) Anyway, we have dealt with that OK...

According to my crystal ball, it would look like an elongated cylindrical object about 50mm long and 14mm in diameter, probably finished in an attractively coloured semi-metallic gloss. Next question please.

You are not checking your mailbox in the right way, Mubs. You are probably just clicking the button to "check for new messages". This won't work. You need to check for messages arriving last century.

Thanks guys. I've chased down the maximum res of the graphics chip on my T530, which is 2560 x 1600 if I use the Display Port interfaces. So anything higher than that is out of the question. Your LG, Doug, which looks very nice and has a RRP in Oz of $1400 (probably get one for 1300ish, given...

One of my much-loved Samsung 21 inch screens is dying. Now you might think that 21 inches isn't very special, but these are real 21 inch screens - 4:3 aspect ratio, 1200 pixels high: better resolution than any Full HD / 1080p monitor ever made (1200px makes a significantly more detailed picture...

No problem now. http://www.pestsmart.org.au/pestsmart-factsheet-carp-herpesvirus/ Err ... they do have herpes in Valhalla don't they?

Thankyou all for useful answers. My question was poorly phrased. I was actually looking for an Android app to run on an Android tablet to emulate an Android phone, simply on the theory that it's probably going to be a closer emulation than anything running on a PC can be. Among other things, you...

No, Howell. It flicks past pretty fast so I didn't get to read it. I certainly don't have any MS home pages set. I just tried again, but it's blink and you miss it stuff.

Never heard of it! A bit of Googling tells me that it "Provides tunnel connectivity using IPv6 transition technologies (6to4, ISATAP, Port Proxy, and Teredo) and IP-HTTPS. If this service is stopped, the computer will not have the enhanced connectivity benefits that these technologies offer."...

It opens a new tab in the default browser and flicks through a microsoft address before winding up at mygateway.gateway, which equates to the router's IP address.

My old Internode NBN connection was sluggish. I blame Internode. My new Skymesh NBN connection at the shop is much faster. Then I switched providers at home and - at the same damn time to confuse everyone! - a bloody mouse chewed the fibre-optic cable and took my service off-line! Who'da...

I have a new web connection with, of all people, Telstra. When I plug in the network cable or switch on the fancy new ISP-provided router, a page opens on my default browser. Depending on which browser that is, it either provides a router login and status page, or a cross networking security...

I'm using Pale Moon. Haven't noticed anything unusual.

PS re "any normal human". One out of three is OK isn't it? I mean, I probably qualify as "any".

Does anyone know of a phone emulator for Android tablets? I want to check some websites for look and feel and I don't have (or want) a smartphone. Opera (among others) provide this for desktop. Do people just assume that any normal human with a tablet has a smartphone too?

Anyone who can own four casinos and lose money isn't a businessman, he's a bloody miracle. And I don't mean the nice sort of miracle.

I reckon the GOP is getting it all wrong. They should draft in a well-known, perfectly qualified outside candidate with suitable experience and policy views compatible with those of the majority of mainstream Republicans. Her name is H. Clinton.

Defrag a drive to prepare to move the data? Great thinking there Mubs! (Remind me to carefully sand down, fill, prime and paint that old shed of mine to prepare for next week when the chap with the bulldozer arrives to knock it down and build a new one.) Your best plan: just do a nice, clean...

The country can't sustain it, JTR. Relentless population growth has smashed quality of life, produced vast, unlivable cities where gridlock is a way of life, reduced our average standard of living, and wehat it's done to our once-wonderful environment would make you cry. Don't even ask about...

I should add a clarification here. Oz has zero illegal immigrants arriving by boat and only a small number arriving by air and overstaying. It's the vast number of legal ones which is the problem. Most people have been opposed to this mad policy for decades, but our crooked politicians...

Ahem. Little place called Australia. Perhaps you've heard of it. Australia's open slather immigration policy has resulted in the worst and most unsustainable rate of population increase in the Western World.

Now that we have had the Lenovo Tab 2 Merc mentioned for a few weeks, I'm in a position to start mentally constructing the ideal tablet. (Ideal as in "the one I'd like.) Screen: this one is excellent in evety way except size. 10 inches isn't enough. 12" would be much nicer. Wouldn't mind 14...

Just set it for manual updates only. Much easier, and less chance of losing important work.

Not much of one, Dave. Not when you consider the soolid, contiguous nature of the disc. On something constructed like a bicycle wheel, there is a lot of centrifigual force on the spokes because they are so narrow, but a solid disc has so much metal/glass in it that the force is distributed away...

There are certainly fatigue effects associated with temperature cycling of any solid material. (At least any that I can think of.) Generally these become significant where the material is a load-bearing structure, such as a gas turbine blade or a bridge span. I can't see it being significant in...

But what past of ahard drive weasrs out? Spindle bearings esentially last forever because there are no moving parts in contact. The key, I shoild tbink is bearings for tbe actuator arms. I can't think of an easy way to wear-proof those.

No, yes, and (to Merc's point) no it isn't. That, in fact, was a World First. Yes, espevially for you, that was the first time I have ever tried to copy-paste on a tablet. It took more than one Google search tnough, first I had to do a search to find out how to copy-paste when you don't have a...

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

When do we get to the weird bit?

If I remember correctly, lead-acid batteries are less efficient at ^80% - you get less charge per unit of input. On the othrr hand, they degrade rapidly because of crystsl formation on the electrodes at lower charge ratios, and of course they really hate going below 20-odd percent. Several new...

Hacker's keyboard seems vastly better than the standard one. Any opinions?

Amazing project Dave! Back to the home power theme, lithium is way too fashionable. It's not by any means the be-all and end-all of battery techs for anything that isn't portable. LEad-acid is looking like a much better liong term tech, given the huge advances being made, the looming shortage...

There is an R30 (?I on my bench at present, Merc, but it seems to have deeper troubles.

I'm thinking Microsoft are getting tired of the activation millstone for old versions of Windows. (It must be a significant expense for them after all, and one that doesn't generate any income at all. And they have to provide that service, by law, pretty much forever.) Over the last few days...

Are we running new software? On a new server? Storage Forum has always run well for me but it seems especially nippy now. Nice work Doug!

Microsoft have completely borked Windows Update, that's why. This has been going on for months, and it's getting worse and worse. I am assuming that it's part of their policy to make all Windows version except 10 so unusable that everybody downgrades to 10. I see this problem all the time now...

Nailed it, Merc. I'd love to do something with a Pi, just such a totally cool machine ... but what? I can't think of anything I particularly want to do that I can't do much more easily on one or several of my assorted motley full-size existing systems. Well, nothing that seems worth the...

Main lappy: Win 8.1 pro (Newish T-Series Thinkpad, 16GB) Main desktop: Win 8.1 pro (Pentium-G, 8GB, five (ish) 4TB hard drives Workshop mule: XP Pro (Can't even remember what the CPU is! Doesn't matter, the 2TB HDD is what it's there for. Gets used a lot.) Netbook: XP Home (Some tiny Atom...

Been doing that for a while, Merc, with WSUS, but not with any great success. Quite often I apply 184 updates (or however many it is now) only to have the machine insist on downloading and applying the whole bloody lot again. I don't know why it does this. On the whole, the time I'd spend...

Sometimes it works practically instantly. Sometimes it takes ages. Sometimes it doesn't work at all. Rule Clint applies.

That's just Microsoft's downgraded update service. Welcome to 2015. The Windows Update servers have frequent timeouts these days. There is no error message, you just sit there for anywhere between a minute and a day watching it say "checking for updates". There is nothing you can do about it...

Yes Lunar, I am thinking of Nikon's pay-for raw converter, which was apparently pretty good at the time but cost quite a bit. I'm pleased to hear that they have stopped the reprehensible practice of requiring Nikon camera owners to ante up for something that is an essential part of the basic...

No. In fact, Canon's free raw converter is excellent. Many people use it as their first choice ahead of Lightroom, DXO, Caoture One, and Camera Raw. It's a plain-looking package and deceptively simple; you won't find lots of clever trick stuff in it, but it does the vital fundamentals very well...

^ Which is completely useless because the operating system doesn't support it. Right click anywhere: nothing happens. How stupid is that?

What's wrong with fell out of the tree laughing? Everybody knows that you old fogey.