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Don't say I never help you with useful tips and tricks. To learn all about this, you MUST watch this video. Do not, repeat DO NOT watch it at work.

He probably thought you were Timwit, AD. The old bugger is so vague it's positively scary. Still, I can understand the confusion - both human, intelligent, and good looking. Easy mistake to make.

The sky has fallen in! Tannin has been selling Intel kit for more than a year now! I couldn't believe it - he has always loved his AMD stuff and never really cared for Intel stuff at all. Well, not since the Pentium M (which was good for notebooks) and the 486DX/2-66 (which was a humdinger in...

Crikey! That makes me practically a geriatric already! And LiamC called me "cynical". Yes, me! Cynical! I am not having a good week.

I'd just like to point out that I am still 7, which is the same age as I was when I first came here 11 years ago. No grey fur for me, thankyou!

Q: why do they call them "apps?" A: 'Cause "useless POS" was already taken.

They need a special Metro Key. All computer manufacturers must be required to add it the same way they were required to add the new "windows" key back in Win 95 days. The Metro Key would make life much easier for non-technical people using Windows 8. It would be an oversize key prominently...

Using multiple routers is generally easy, once you get your mind around a couple of basic gotchas. DISCLAIMER: I am not a network expert, I just know how to make stuff work. First, the two routers MUST have different IP addresses. Second, remember that they each have TWO IP addresses, the...

Cold starts with a 1. Any temperature that starts with a 2 or a 3 is nice. Hot starts with a 4.

2560 by 1080. Yueerck! What a pointless piece of junk.

Don't talk to me about razor blades. Hopeless damn things. Doesn't matter what brand I use, they go blunt before I'm anywhere near finished a single shave. Also, even with my arms, it's very hard to reach the tricky spot between your shoulder blades.

It's all lies. I'm still here, 'coz Tannin never takes me anyware. I've just been a bit quiet this last little while ever since I realised that, according to the forum software (which is run by Doug and obviously never wrong), I have been a member here 2002, which is 10 years ago ...... but I am...

Tannin? Harsh? You ain't seen nuffin' yet!

^ quite right. Humans rarely come with any sort of paste. Well, not as-delivered. But when you put milk into one end of a brand-new human, aftera while you get a sort of paste out of the other end. Lazy of me, I know, but I have never enquired into its thermal properties.

But you nev- oh, I give up you are hopeless

But you never read your email!

Bahhh ... you just enjoy being difficult.

^ or, in your case, they are for leaving in the glove box with the battery gone flat for months at a time just to make sure that no unimportant bugger (such as your mother or your best friend) can ever talk to you.

Real computerz are beige. Deal with it.

Now that is what I call a good night's sleep! I mean, I've heard of sleeping in for the whole weekend ... but 3 months? :)

And you are posting on Storage Forum? Ha! You've been back ten minutes and I've caught you telling naughty fibs already!

I heard that!

Sigh ..... the 7D is a very, very different camera. Saying it's "just a higher end xxD series" simply shows that you haven't got a clue. Oh, and yes, I'm speaking from knowledge, not from some thing I read in a magazine. I own a 7D, and also own various xxD series cameras to compare it with...

Here in Oz, SD, the full number (including area code) is 10 digits but if you are dialing somewhere in the same area you "only" have to dial the last 8. Why not only the last 6 FFS? I can drive 300 kilometres from here and still every single phone number (full 10-digit version) starts with 0353...

Dave is right on the money a second time. Lightroom = lock-in. It also equals glacial performance (hey, it's an Adobe product, what did you expect?) and lots of CPU-hogging "features" that are completely useless to you, plus a complete inability to handle a single file - every damn thing you do...

If this was my problem to sort, I'd start by switching off all the RAID stuff, taking a spare drive (any drive I had handy, don't care which SATA version), and doing a test install of any handy random Windows OS - XP Home Edition SP3, for example. This would tell me that either: 1: the...

Dave's method - "stick each session's photos in a folder named yyyy-mm-dd <subject>" isn't just the best method, it's the ONLY method. With any non-trivial number of photographs, if you are not filing by date, you are not filing at all. Place the movies where you like - with the stils or in a...

Wots a digital TV?

By the way, kudos to Diskeeper for sorting part of my problem and improving my system's performance. Anti-kudos to Diskeeper for telling outrageous lies. Yesterday, my C drive was completely defragged. 100%. Diskeeper told me so. I believed it too, because it had just finished defragging it...

Four letters. Starts with a "C" Ends in a "P" Second letter is "R" Third letter is "A" You can figure it out from there. (But for a family-friendly environment like this one, we usually fuddle the letters around a little.)

Around for a while, yes. But this is Tannin after all. I think you mean around and not really dead yet (nobody knows why) and still comprehensively refusing to learn anything about anything invented more recently than papyrus. He seems to like it that way.

That, Time, is only because Telstra are complete and utter bastards. (OK, OK, tell you something you don't know already.) People have much more difficulty with 8 digits than they do with 7. 8 is just outside the zone of easy memorisation. 7 is just inside it. 6 is very easy and even quite...

Back to this thread. Thanks Time. I actually have no reason to suspect a hardware problem with the drives. In any case, it is very rare to see performance problems with hard drives that are not accompanied by data integrity issues. This is pretty obviously software-related. Apart from anything...

I'm just sitting here laughing myself silly at you and Tannin, Chewy. Did you deliberately craft those two sets of questions so that he wouldn't have a clue about the first lot and could do the second lot in his sleep?

Tannin always asks the same two questions. He reckons they are the only two that matter.

Damn it, there is another half-hour I'll never see again.

It's a reasonably recent one (the Intel inf, I mean), Max. Not sure if it's the absolute latest, but it was the latest one when I last reinstalled, maybe 6-9 months ago. I'll update it anyway. Can't do any harm!

What Howell said. :)

This is new? We had the exact same controversy when Intel were shipping Pentium Classics marked for 133MHz which had actually tested OK at 166MHz.

UDMA Mode 5 for both drives, Dave. CPU utilisation is not an issue: just to confirm this, I started a couple of slow-loading programs just now and see that the CPU utilisation never got over about 40% for either core.

Tannin's Thinkpad sucks. It's really, really slow. I'm fairly sure that the performance issues are disk related. We are seeing a glacial boot process, and very slow program start-up times. One operational with whichever tasks are desired, it runs at a perfectly decent pace. The hardware: T 400...

They will be storks, cranes, or possibly egrets, Mubs. Try a little googling around one or other of those terms. They are very large birds, so 20-50 metres should be plenty close enough. But that is going to be difficult in your situation, unless you have learned to fly lately. They sound very...

500 what, Tannin?

Gin. :eek:

So what then? Why tell me to ask you again on Monday?

Ahh, you mean you will look it up again between now and Monday and pretend that you have remembered.

You mean you will have remembered by Monday?

Not even wallpaper?

Really, Tannin? What did you find?

Well, yes, but I just closed the window without looking.