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^ Excuse Tannin, he is very grumpy tonight. (Err ... Same as every other night, really.) But he means well. Err ... OK, so that was a fib. He just likes making trouble. Ignore him. That's what I do. Been ignoring the grumpy bugger for years.

Call me. I have a bargain for you. (I hope that you are interested in bridges.) PS. Also, do you collect coins? I have a genuine Roman Empire penny which is almost 2100 years old! It has Mark Antony's head on one side, Octavian's on the other side, and is really old, you can tell by the...

Learning everything I know from Tannin.

^ That would be Vorp Drive, Snowhiker. You might have seen it before on Star Tweck.

A cool, pleasant 46 in Adelaide tomorrow. For the scientifically challenged amongst us, that's 115 degrees in the old money. It will be 40+ from about 10AM through to maybe 8-ish. Over here in Victoria (a few hundred kilometres further east), where we mostly get Adelaide's weather only a day...

3 undecillion years 1: Went to the site. 2: Glanced over the page, read the headline. 3: Looked at the fine print in black and white at the bottom of the page 4: Typed in the first thing that came into my head, which was: 5: That is the worst typeface I have ever seen in my life! 6: 3...

Who are you calling real?

I am about to try it on a Sempron 3000 with 512MB and a 500GB hard drive. Obviously, I'll stick some more RAM in it first, 2GB is probably its limit and ought to be enough.

We had a bloke come in the other day wanting to hire a laptop for his ... er ... is 50th wedding anniversary, i think it was. Anything would do, just something to plug into the venue's projector system and show some pictures on. Nice bloke, good customer. We didn't actually have anything...

It is the browser! If I copy and paste the link into Firefox, it gives me a spreadsheet. Seamonkey works. IE works. Firefox works. Opera fails. Chrome fails. The answer seems to be that: (1): if you have don't have a Google account (so far as Firefox, Seamonkey and IE are concerned, I don't...

Perhaps you are right, David. Chrome is inferior. But Tannin hogs Opera and Seamonkey so I have to make do with the inferior products. Sigh. Nope: definitely wants a password. The screenshot above is what I get when I click on any of the links.

^ they are all passworded! Edit: but don't worry about fixing it just for me; I can guess most of the data and fake it for the rest. (Just ... er ... like someone I know.)

Good for TED. Mind you, my friend Tannin has done the reverse: as a techie he became it years ago, but has been faking it ever since.

It turns out that there is a fix for the incredibly annoying shotgun "upgrade" to Windows 8.1, go to the store system hijack that comes up every week. Simply go to programs and features and uninstall Windows Update KB2885699 This compulsory "upgrade" message shows, once again, extraordinary...

Putting this here because this thread contains another bit of vital Windows 8 need-to-know stuff: The incredibly annoying shotgun "upgrade" to Windows 8.1, go to the store system hijack that comes up every week can be fixed. Simply go to programs and features and uninstall Windows Update...

I agree with Mubs. (runs and hides)

... and some of the users are ... well ... at least I'm good looking. G'day sedrosken.

You are correct, Tannin. Sometimes you can be quite intelligent for a human.

Great idea! After you have consumed all the toner, you can take the cartridge out, unscrew and discard a couple of other bits, then use it as a small apartment.

Oh. Right. Sorry. Thanks Dave. So the word I want must be centuree

"Cloud software" = synonym for "software rental" = synonym for "same product, different delivery" = synonym for "vast increase in profit expected" = synonym for "customers hate it, walk away in droves" = synonym for "Adobe are greedy barstardz and everybody knows it and what's more they are...

Merc my friend, take care. Getting pepper on the plastic personal interior bits massager is not recommended. Trust me on this.

In fact, you are probably attending the wrong church. Go to a different place of worship from now on. Or possibly your fate was written in the stars. Change your birthday immediately!

I'm buying Seagates because: a: There is no Samsung option b: Seagate is the easiest - both of my main suppliers happen to be Seagate dealers c: Hitachi are always too expensive in this country - the last time their drives were reasonably priced was when they had IBM badging. The main...

MEMO TO: All Storage Forum members FROM: me Watch out for an ASUS motherboard arriving unmarked and unexpected in the post. If this happens to you, cross Bozo off your Christmas card list. He is not the good and loyal friend you thought he was.

Ahh, so you got the good ASUS motherboard in the batch. Most of the others were duds. They have great RMA service too. They give you an RMA note, and you put the motherboard in a box and ship it. Then they keep the board for a month or maybe two months in the warehouse, nicely protected from...

Scent sensure sent damnit! century.

A PCI riser? :rofl: Are you shore shure shorur shorr shorr sure you've got the right one there? :eek:

Hydro is a spectacularly poor example. But I'll pay the underlying idea as a possible winner if we substitute something that (unlike hydro) is (a) environmentally friendly, (b) effectively unlimited, and (c) unable to be used directly for baseload power without some very fancy load-balancing...

I am thinking about getting a smartphone. Really, there is only one reason for this - the woefully primitive state of GPS satellite messaging devices like these - http://www.rei.com/category/40005158 I am perfectly happy with my steam-driven phone in all other respects. I have real web-enabled...

Actually, Kaspersky seems to be made on the assumption that you need performance equivalent to a single-core P4 with 512MB and you are installing it on Blue Gene/Q Download a Bullguard trial and see what you think. I run it - actually the whole Internet Security package, not just the smaller...

Yes, but they don't taste the same now that they don't have any mercury in them them. The old Ni-Cd sort was the best, none of the modern ones have the same sort of crunch.

Most people would regard being in Uganda as an emergency, but I'm going to go for Sudan, which is probably worse. BTW, Tannin might be away for a while. Last time I looked, he was still trying to load those Metro apps on his phone but he was having a bit of a battle working out how to plug in...

Hmmmm? Are we talking Android here? IOS? What sort of phone do you have, Tannin?

It gets even more amazing, Dave! I just tried it out on Tannin's old OS/2 machine he pretends to do the accounts on, and all of his zero Metro apps worked perfectly! Even Tannin was impressed!

This works on Windows XP as well. I turned my XP Home Netbook on yesterday, and discovered that Windows Update had automatically installed every single Metro app I have ever downloaded or purchased! Wow! How neat is that?

Tannin, you might find this thread useful: https://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/mht_files It seems that Thunderbird has a history of pointlessly mangaling .mht files. The linked thread is three years old. There is a hack posted there (a long way down) which might work.

Yep: stop using Thunderbird. Thunderbird is the bastard child of the Mozilla family. It hasn't has a decent update for most of this century and it's just so 1997. they really should just pension it of completely. Doesn't everybody use Gmail anyway?

I changed my mind. Keep the dog.

The stupidity of the page designer/programmer has seen to it that you could undoubtedly win a prize somewhere for this page. Compare to the existing contenders and you will see that it has to be a hot favourite to take the grand prize! What can you do? Well, the first thing is to swap the web...

Holy cow! That is the worst website programming I have ever seen. And I mean ever!

OK. But there is still just one thing I don't understand. If they are too dumb to click on Start -> Programs, how the farnarkle did they manage to figure out dialing your number on a telephone?

If he was on a crappy VOIP line and had an Indian accent, he was certainly a scammer. If, on the other hand, he really was from AOL, he would have had an Indian accent and been ..... .... er ... how was that again?

It takes some work, Liam, but you can pretty much eliminate Metro entirely and re-skin Win 8 such that it is a very fast, reliable, effective operating system. Start with Classic Shell, of course, but there is a lot more around. Explorer replacements are great - there are at least two good ones...

Fixed! Thankyou for your help gentlemen. The process of explaining the problem and setting it out in detail can be good for the brain cell, and in this case prompted me to try a search phrase I'd not thought of before. It turns out that the problem dates right back to Vista, is still not fixed...

Ahhh ... I think I've got it. Testing now.

Thanks Stereodude. I'm not sure what you mean by "how are the shares restricted"? So far as I know, they are not - user rights for the share are unrestricted - Full Control for Everyone. For your second question, yes, the three 3rd party programs I've struck trouble with (probably because...

OK, here is an example. (I'll make up machine names for clarity.) I'm looking at a folder of JPGs on T530, from Desk. I can see the folder in Explorer or Xplorer2. I can copy files to it and from it, delete files in it, and so on. I can open the files in it using Paint, Opera, Windows Photo...

Entirely possible, I'd have thought, Merc. It certainly acts that way. In general, yes, things do work with Explorer. I'm mainly having trouble with applications - the shell replacements, graphics viewer, various utility programs such as Fast Copy. Often, I need to set them to run as...

I'm a bit fearful that working this one out myself will take some ridiculous amount of time. Maybe someone can tell me where to start looking. I have two machines, both running Windows 8 Pro and one running XP. Both Win8 machines have Explorer replacements - one uses Explorer++, the other one...