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Lunar, I'm not actually trying to make Photoshop run faster, in fact I wouldn't really mind too much if it ran even slower than it does now, I just want everything else to run at a normal speed when I have Photoshop and/or Paintshop running in the background. (Why leave it running when I'm not...

I just discovered that 2GB DDR2 sticks for laptops are available no worries. At around AU$1100 each. sigh

Pebbles, that is.

They do have an effect. They make your poo go lumpy.

Good advice there Sechs. I have no doubt at all that a faster drive would make more difference than any other upgrade could. But (at least as I understand things) it would also chew through more battery power, which I don't need .... Hmmmm, tempting just the same. On the downside, I don't think...

Darn! Just too late. I sent those two machines home (networking hapily) two minutes ago, using Tannin's inelegant but functional hack - something.bat with NET START SERVER in the startup folder. I feel really stupid now, I've met that Computer Management -> Services and Applications -> Services...

Almost fixed! Removed and reinstalled TCPIP, no worries. But still no right-click option to share any drives and the server service isn't started. When I go command line, everything works perfectly: I type in: NET SHARE LAPTOPC=c:\ It complains that the server isn't started, do I want to...

Thanks Pradeep. That's good to know. Actually, it would be nice to have a boot switch that says "Photoshop and Paintshop Pro can have 1.5GB between them, leaving 1GB free for all the less greedy apps, and if they ask for more they can bugger off", but I guess that's not a function built-in to...

Cool. Thanks Chewy! (Must be W2K that has the 2GB limit then - I guess that's what I was thinking of.)

Tannin's laptop has 1.5GB of RAM. If I buy him a litlte present of a 2GB stick and take out the 1GB stick, it could have 2.5GB. (There is only one slot.) I'm confident an extra GB will help when he is running several big things at once - which is fairly often. (Photoshop and Paintshop Pro are...

Just wondering if anybody knows what Tannin's new avatar is?

Silly. I have any amount of time. That's the great thing about being imaginary - I can have as much time as you can think of, Tannin, oh Lord and Master and very-nice-person good-looking-too inventor of Me.

Cool! Hey, can I write a skin? I'm still missing the old, much-easier-on-the-eye dark green one. Or any dark background, I'm not fussy.

Do you need that for the US, Lost One? Or could you make do with figures from a broadly similar country, with an approximately similar lifestlye? Oz wouldn't be too different, I should think. If Oz figures would do, you would almost certainly find what you need at the Australian Bureau of...

Huh? Why would any sensible ape want to do this? Well, because it would be nice to see how a page performs, loading speed wise, from the point of view of a visitor on a slow ADSL connection or on dial-up. Also, to have a clearer idea of what it looks like while it's loading - some pages you see...

PS: No flim-flam about the monkey thing, Dave. I mean, most humans get pretty vague about what species they are after a few drinks. (Ever been to New Zealand?) It's no big deal. Tannin calls me worse all the time, and sometimes means it. (He's usually grumpy too.) BTW, I have now installed...

Actually, I had some vague memory of that David - very vague, as I thought it was an extension. (I despise Firefox extensions. If it's worth having, put the damn thing in the browser. Or at least make the bloody things work right - i.e., maointain themselves across new versions as you apply...

PS: Firefox (which has the same asinine problem with getting the X in the right place) needs one too. (An X fix, not the menu bar one - at least they get that right.) I imagine there is an add-on that does it, but it seems easier to simply not install Firefox 2.x and stay with 1.x. It's not like...

Nice: this is a registry fix to put the stupid, pointless, counter-intuitive, in-the-wrong-place IE 7 menu bar back where it belongs: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ie7menutoptweak.html Now all I need is a similar one to make it put the "close tab" X thingies where they belong. Anyone seen such...

meanie!

Yike! Lucky for me that I'm a party girl and only smoke when there are other peope around. Tannin is in trouble though, as he often goes out and sits by himself for a quiet smoke on the back steps. If he's on the porch and I'm inside using the computer, does it still count as smoking alone...

PS: you get the key from their website by filling out a form. It's a bit weird and you have to hunt around for it, but that's all of a piece with their bizarre non-information on the site.

Mubs, just download the current (non-beta) version. Bet you London to a brick that the only reason yours has expired is because it is a beta and the real mcoy is out now.

Temperate Australia is the bit south of ... oh, definitions vary, but let's say south of Grafton, round about. It's easy to find, Chewy. Get up early and stand outside your front door. Face east. (that's the side the sun comes up on). Turn 90 degrees to your right (that's the other side, not...

Solution (as I expected) turn off that stupid font-aliasing technology, whatever it's called. I can't believe how bad it looks!

Just a quickie: the IE 7 default screen fonts are terrrible!

(reminding self to bookmark this very useful thread for future reference)

I asked a while ago about dual intalls of IE7 and IE6 (for testing web pages) and decided that the best answers (virtual machines and stuff) were not things I was comfortable doing on Tannin's laptop. It runs beautifully and I don't wan't to mess it up. Nor am I really prepared to put in the...

PS: just two machines, Dave. No router.

Thanks guys. I'll check the AV/firewall status, Merc, I don't recall a nasty AV product. Not been spyware cleaned but there is no obvious sign, it's fairly new, and the customer isn't in the habit of picking up infections. But I'll check. Yup: reinstalling TCP/IP sounds like a good thing to...

Thanks Bozo. Already did that, but I'll double check.

Had to network two machines together today. An existing laptop and a brand-new desktop. He wants a wireless network (yuk) but lives so far away from any other houses that security is a total non-issue. I can just leave everything wide-open and it won't matter. The Soup Nazi wirelesssly...

They still exist? Hmmm ... I suppose they will knob-gobble Pioneer now. I have no idea why, very ordinary drives, if you ask me.

Latop? Yup. Generator? Nope. Better than that, an inverter and a dual battery system. He seems to be thinking about adding solar cells. Satellite link? He seems to want one, but doesn't think that the cost and speed is up to scratch yet. You know what Tannin always says: "Be an early adopter...

Over the last week I did the following: Sun: 6 hour lie down + 1hr snooze Mon: ate bananas. ;-) Tues: walked to the shop (600m), ate more bananas ;-) Wed: rest day Thurs: 6.6 hour sleep + short break after lunch Fri: more lunch, went out for a drink (Tannin drove) Sat: 93m hike to other shop...

It's OK, Tannin. I know I'm a bit dense sometimes. What if I make you a nice cup of hot chocolate and we go to bed? (stupid human)

Awww! You never told me! No wonder I'm always late!

Look, if having the clock 8 minutes fast helps me, don't mess with my head.

Oh, don't be mean, Tannin. I'm pretty close to on-time most days.

I keep the living room clock about 10 minutes fast, give or take a bit. It might be 8 minutes, might be 15 - because I am not sure exactly how fast it is, I have to leave a bit earlier just to make sure.

There are two ways: there is a proper external SATA spec the details of which escape me at present. And then you can get an adaptor of some kind (in the worst case, just dangle a cable out through a hole in the case) to use ordinary internal SATA for an external drive. Merc or P5 or Coug will...

No worries, Mate. I'll purchase a Samsung 500GB drive for you. Not a problem. In fact, I'll even install it in my system for you. No worries at all. (Though looking at the price list, I'd nearly get two 400GB Spinpoints for the same price. Not quite, but near enough for hyperbolic puroposes.)

I'll keep an eye on the vast amount of ornithological literature Tannin wastes my money subscribing to, and post when there is some hard news.

And here was me thinking it was Minneapolis. What a silly ape I am.

Errr .. would you believe .... wrong thread?

And here was me thinking it was Minneapolis. What a silly ape I am.

Oh, and two of the other four are CRTs.

I don't actually have the option of DVI. My two primary monitors both connect to my laptop via a Thinkpad docking station that does have DVI (whch I used to use with my old Pentium M 1.6) but it doesn't function at all with the current Pentium M 1.8. My assumption is that the on-board Intel...

Useful link: Mubs, this is probably stuff you know already, but it's a very clear and simple introduction to the fundamentals that while not teaching me anything new, left me thinking more clearly about it. Worth reading. http://www.boscarol.com/pages/cms_eng/071-mntr.html