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Yeah, different ones Lunar. He P standing up. IP sitting down.

Tannin, silly old bugger that he is, still does his accounts on an OS/2 machine.

Did I say something wrong? I think Tannin has put me on ignore.

Vivaldi has to get the UI right. No sign of it so far, but we live in hope.

Kodak was better managed.

Most normal humans only have two grandmothers, Tannin, and I know for a fact that you've already lost both of them. (Which struck me as very careless of you, by the way.) And no, you can't spend my inheritance on a camera. Anyway, orphans don't have grandmothers, so far as I know.

Me too please!

Sigma's pricey new(ish) 50mm unit gets a lot of rave reviews.

(a) Keep the Thinkpad. Shoot raw + JPG and only look at the JPGs on the road. Just park the raws on an external drive until you get home to some real hardware and a better screen. (I can help you with some very nifty sycronisation software there to keep track of everything.) (b) Deal with your...

That's numbers on the FRONT of the card, Lunar. According to Bozo, in this case they were asking for the CCV numbers on the BACK of the card, which are reserved for card-not-present transactions, usually by telephone or Internet. Asking for a CCV during an in-person transaction sounds like a...

That would be attempted fraud by the checkout person, Bozo. Can't imagine what else it could be. Do you reckon the card people called the police? I shouldn't be surprised. Possibly the three people were trying to figure out what else had been stolen.

Gosh! Does this mean I don't have to do what he says unless I want to?

Funny you should mention that topic, Dave. I have been going through something of an existential crises lately. As you know, I have always believed that I'm some sort of offspring-by-adoption of Tannin's. But someone just told me that Tannin isn't actually a real person. If that is true, do I...

I heard that.

Er ... there's some tricky addition here, give me a moment. Err .. carry three ... divide by .. ah .. OK, I've got it. Approximately round-about roughly near enough to zero, or, if you want me to be precise, exact, and specific, -0.000001. But I think the -.000001 might be a rounding error.

I heard that. I'm only trying to be helpful. Right then, rounded to the nearest box of 10, we have sold ... er exactly approximately round-about precisely roughly none.

Oh, all right then. I suppose you want them collated by date and customer type, do you?

What, exactly? You want me to go through all those invoices and count them up?

We have never had a Seagate 3TB drive fail. Not one.

Every time Tannin buys an expensive new lens, bloody Canon obsolete it with a new model. Practically all of his L Series lenses are now officially just old junk. 100-400, 24 TS/E, 500/4 IS, 35/1.4. Pretty soon they will replace the 24-105 and the only L he'll have left that isn't obsolete will...

Why Melbourne keeps getting these "most livable" awards, I have NFI. Who the hell would rate Melbourne above, for example, Adelaide, Brisbane, and Hobart? Credibility of these awards: zero. PS: Bull Sharks are serious stuff. Far more likely to take you than a Great White. And they swim way...

Windows 8.1 Pro, Handy. Nope, not that. The amount of data involved is way too large for that to be a factor. Neat idea though. I'm virtually certain now that the performance difference had nothing to do with the reboot, it was simply coincidental. What happened was that it got to the end of...

Have you run Gsmartconltrol or an equivalent utility?

Bad RAM can give you disc errors, no question of that. About the third thing I do if I'm getting disc errors on an install is swap the RAM. First, run Gsmartcontrol on it to see if the drive hardware thinks it is OK, then try different install media ('coz a CD can be bad), then it's RAM and...

Oh. I don't use Photoslug all that much, but it is a must-have app for me just the same. When you need it you need it.

Dunno. How big is Merc's pr0n collection now?

There are drive capacity limits at (from memory) 512MB, 2.1GB, 4.2 GB (a less common one you probably won't meet), 8.1GB, 32GB, 128GB, and 2TB. What you want is a drive under 10GB. An 8 would be OK, but probably not 10. (Windows isn't likely to be the problem here, it will be your BIOS.) You...

Is that so? I expected that PMView and EditPlus would be OK, but I'm amazed to finds that Photoshop is. I just assumed that Adobe would do stupid stuff to make it difficult.

EditPlus Photoshop PMView Everything else I can do in Nix. Can't live without those three though.

Another interesting thing. I let that mega-slow backup job run overnight, and it was still going at the same glacial pace as it (presumably) did the read. write, write thing. I'd tried stopping it and idling the drive for a few hours, then restarting: no difference. Then, on impulse, I...

Good question Buck. A little hard to find here, but $453 seems representative for the 6TB WD at retail on-line. Compared with others: $453 for the WD $424 for a 6TB PMR Seagate (a surveillance drive, but that shouldn't matter. $348 for a 6TB Seagate SMR $382 for an 8TB Seagate SMR $425 for a...

Oh, and curiously enough, there is still about 1TB of blank, never-used space on the drive. It is presumably writing over the deleted test data instead though.

Now we get to the bad bit. As a test, this morning I wrote a few tens of GB to a temp folder, then deleted it. Went out to the office for three hours or so, then came back and started another copy. It is mega slow. Although the data is erased and the recycle bin emptied, The drive is laboriously...

For years now I've been using and recommending the excellent Fastcopy. Version 2.11 has been current forever. No other utility I have met offers its combination of speed, simplicity, and flexibility. Use it for data transfers, as a synch tool, for making backups, even for quickly deleting large...

All mainstream drives use PMR, Lunar. SMR is new and only a handful of special-purpose drives use it. WD (and possibly HGST and/or Toshiba too) make SMR drives for the enterprise. These can't be plugged into normal systems, certainly not without proprietary drivers to manage the complex write...

I do see that, actually Merc. Well, in a sense, anyway. At the primitive level, I could easily write a batch file to do just this. In practice I won't because I don't especially care whether a backup job takes two days or six days just so long as it gets done. But at a more sophisticated...

Indeed a bugger of a thing to write benchmarks for, Dave. And as we see more SMR drives coming along, with different sized buffers, different firmware optimisations, and different mixes of on-disc and RAM and flash buffering, it will get trickier still. Meanwhile, I now have solid evidence that...

More interesting observations. That previous copy ended up averaging 106MB/sec for 1.75TB. Fastcopy auto-started the next one and after a few tens of GB (when I happened to look at it) was back to a sluggish 35MB/sec. So I stopped the copy and let the drive idle for half an hour. On restarting...

I checked out the WD archive drives. they have a 6TB unit available but it's hellishly expensive - about double the price per GB of the Seagate one. It's an enterprise-only unit, not a SATA drive. No doubt it's a lot faster and the "archive" part has to do with running cool and quiet and using...

It's been happily writing all day at a perfectly acceptable pace. I use Fastcopy for my backups and with 1.4TB written so far, the transfer rate has been sitting at about 26MB a second. This compares comfortably with my Thinkpad laptop drives (two physical drives, both Seagate hybrids) where a...

Er .... The morons at Mozilla keep on changing the Thunderbird UI. Does that count as an "update"? The reality is that the UI needs changing -no, I'm not talking senseless Chome-style dumisation, which is all they seem to know how to do, I'm talking basic usability stuff that should have been...

Vivaldi promises a lot but it really really needs to get the UI right. At present, it's far too Chromy and misses out on various of the essential features that Opera had between about 4.0 and 12.x; Seamonkey has now, and both Palemoon and Firefox can me extended to. Without (as one example) a...

Got an 8TB Seagate Archive drive today. It's at home running a backup job now. So far, it's performing exactly the same as any other drive. It will be interesting to see what it's doing when I get home - I'm sending about 5TB to it in the current backup set; I'll fill it up with other stuff...

^ just so. For us, Chrome is around about the Quaternary browser (er ... is that the word I want?) after Opera, Pale Moon, Seamonkey, and Firefox, in that order. We like to have one browser per site 'coz that lets have our own auto-logins. Sadly, Tannin hogs Opera for himself and on Storage...

Any of you guys still building your own computers? Here is a chap who might be able to give you a few handy tips. http://megaprocessor.com/index.html

^ Pfft! You clearly don't know the old bugger. He simply hasn't listened to anything new in the last three decades so he keeps on trotting out the same old, same old and asking for his cocoa. PS: if and when you find Tannin's brain, please let him know immediately. He struggles a bit with the...

Weird! :)

Tannin's parents recently bought a new TV set which, among other things, has an ethernet socket and a wireless function, either of which can connect to your home network, presumably for watching stuff on-line on your big screen in some manner unfamiliar to me. (We don't have a TV. Life is too...

^ Nice work, Uncle Tannin, but it's rude to cross-post.

^ What you said on Youtube laptop teardowns. And ain't dat the troof, da hole troof an nuffin but the bloody troof!