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Wow! You mean this is, in those famous words, "one of the many benefits of owning genuine software"? Wow! Tell me about the other benefit!

JTR, I am in awe of your achievement. I mean, here we are, a community comprised entirely of uber-geeks .... well, one amusing hypochondriac, one genuine foaming loonie, one modestly demented ape, and a whole lot of uber geeks ..... and then there is you with an entire body of detailed knowledge...

Sorry Merc. My chain of logic works like this: A: It's a security product B: It's from Microsoft C: A and B don't match. Obviously, it's not really a security product. D: Look elsewhere. OK, I'm soundig flippant and dismissive, but why the hell wouldn't you be dismissive of yet another...

Correct! Michelin MXV

Sorry about that, gentlemen. Correcting the software so that it gets my age right is just one of those end-of-year jobs you have to do. I just forgot to do it this time. My memory does seem to be a bit unreliable lately. Maybe it's a sign of increasing years - after all, I'm nearly eight already!

sigh ... there goes another 20 minutes i'll never see again ...

Oh, nothing in particular, Dave. Bit of this, bit of that. Good to be back here. When you get down to it, we just don't really believe that Storage Forum isn't all over the Apple vs Adobe thing like a rash. I mean, what a fantastic story! You could summarise the opening as: "scum calls scum...

So I came over here to watch the fun. You know .... thread started as a straight news item by Coug or Handruin. Merc wades in and delivers the ultimate Adobe Sucks Rant. The mad Apple Fanboy (remind me of his name, Tannin, slips my mind at the moment) writes 17 pages of impassioned posts...

Whatever. The main thing is that here we have Mr Software King-of-Crap accusing Adobe of producing a Flash player so bad that they (Apple_ won't have it on their underpowered new iPlod. Strikes me that there is an extraordinary irony there.

Macafee junk? Microsoft Frontpage? Norton anything?

Outbreak Express?

Photoslug CS4?

Adobe Acrobat Reader?

Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0?

Microsoft Internet Explorer?

Corel Painshop Pro?

Yep.

Yes. Well, I mean, it stands to reason. THere has to be a Storage Forum Applv vs Adobe Mega-thread. Couldn't not be one. Not with Steve Jobs releasing a new iPox that can't even surf the web - because let's face it, 75% of all websites use Flash these days, so releasing a 10 inch telephone that...

Guessed

That's because you haven't logged on for three months.

Apple vs Adobe, of course, what else?

Crikey, the moderation here has gone a bit overboard. I logged in just now to read the A vs A mega-thread, and it isn't here!

Quick lowdown required: what's the go with all those different Win7 versions? Looks to me as though there is no reason to get anything above the base version (if I can actually buy it, which is another question). Which Win7 versions allow XP downgrade?

Question #1: "How do I put more text after the footer?" Answer #1: "Use a pencil, you fool."

Prettier or better.

Tannin certainly isn't.

Well, two or three things, Uda. 1: I'd be using it on a crop body, and I find the TS-E 24 just too darn difficult to use effectively on a crop body. To really be able to see what I'm doing, I need to use the 1D III, and I don't like doing that - the Mark III lives on the 500 for bird work and...

Use a mirror, you fool!

Actually, the Canon system for fill-flash is simplicity itself. If you just want fill flash in an otherwise exposed-by-natural-light photograph, what you have to do is: (a) Turn the flash on (b) Take the picture Leave the camera in whatever mode you usually prefer: aperture priority for...

Uda, I really only ever want high DR for a narrow range of specific tasks - pretty much landscapes and landscapes, with sometimes the occassional landscape thown in. I could relate pretty strongly to a camera optimised for that, something that can capture what I see without all that tedious (and...

Well, good point. We tend not to think of Apple too much here, because their local market share is miniscule and we pretty much never see an Apple machine, but from what little I know about them, that sounds like a pretty fair description.

Who is Kali? Never heard of her.

F***ING Firefox just ate my post!!!!!

Hi Uda, Opera (does everything right out of the box): 4.8k Firefox (needs a zillion plugins to be tolerable): 7.2k I think we can see which one has the bloat! I'm just running a dual core Thinkpad with 2.4GHz and 3MB RAM. Also running at present is Quattro Pro, an FTP program, EditPlus, 4...

That maybe so, but then I wouldn't know because there is only one thing I want or use that Opera doesn't already have as standard (detailed EXIF viewer), and (of course) I have an Opera plug-in for that. With Firefox, you need plug-ins to make the damn thing usable, which is a dumb way to design...

What the hell are you doing to Opera? Unbelievable! Opera is the only browser I have that never goes down. Seriously, I mean never. Last time Opera crashed out on me was ... er ... probably on my previous Thinkpad, and I've had this one for more than a year now, and run Opera essentially 24.7...

But that's what they said about IE7. And what they said about IE6. And they probably said it about IE 5 too, but I'm not sure that I was born when IE 5 came out. I only sort-of believed them. And the beta I tried was dreadful. So it was as pleasat surprise to see IE8 more-or-less work properly...

Been running it for a few weeks now. Well, running Opera and Seamonkey same as usual, but I installed it a few weeks ago. Greatly to my surprise, it didn't break on any of Tannin's sites, which I didn't expect. MS browsers always break and the early beta IE8 version I had a very quick play with...

WTF are you doing, Tannin. What's the point in your post just now?

E_dawg, perhaps you can help me with this one that I'm struggling to get right. What is the correct colour temperature setting for street work with lighting via a small to medium-intensity thermonuclear war?

I never sleep!

Just in case you weren't paying attention, Tannin, tere was another race last Tuesday. Who won that one?

And by the way, Tannin .... I am not a monkey!

Oh. Thanks. And where did Barbaricus finish?

What?

So who won the big race on the first Tuesday in November? (Sorry, I've been out of touch for a while.)

People just don't get it: full frame sensors are expensive, and a full frame camera manufactured to Rebel quality standards would cost very little less that a 5D (which is essentially a full-frame 20D) or a 5D II (which is essentially a full-frame 50D). To see this, compare the existing XXD and...

You want vague? Tanninn is good at vague. He's practically a world champion!

Well, that just shows what a great community this is. Tannin, the Storage Forum House Pedant himself, take a few weeks off for a photography trip, and Mercutio steps up to the plate and looks after things while he is away. That's great teamwork!

Well, yeah, but it's never been the same since god forclosed and sold it off to Alpha Centauri.