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Here be a picture of lightening for you Buck. Sun go up, be lightening. You want picture of darkening, you have to wait till da sun go down. Be darkening lots den.

Sleazy porn has pop-upz everywhere that you can't close. (Ahem. I mean pop-up windows in your browser. Don't anybody think I waz thinking about anything else, such az things I wouldn't understand at my age.)

Hmmmm .... so Apple have gone Intel .... and Dell have gone AMD .... and Cyrix don't exist anymore .... guess we better stat buying Motorola chips, Tannin

Only a modest input this time, Coug. Tannin won't let me go bananas with spare machines all over the place like last year - when the power bill came in he went spare! So I'm only allowed to use machines that run 24 x 7 anyway and don't do anything else much. That's the showroom unit (Athlon XP...

[b]Abzolutely right, Mubs![/i]

From now on, az part of my ongoing one-small-ape campaign to rephorm the englizh language, I zhall take your pozt on-board and phrom thiz moment on alwayz refer to "bugz" az "mothz". Kind of appropriate, actually - hey, we all know what happenz iph you let mothz get into your winter wooliez...

Huh? Never used a Mac in my life.

Uh-oh. I can feel another credit card abuse session coming on. I'm still firmly undecided about a macro lens, and even more firmly undecided about a walkabout lens, though I might just stay with the Canon 18-55 I got more or less free with the camera - it works fine. I'll wait a while and see...

PS: I like the light bulb. It gives the picture balance, stops it "falling over sideways".

I played with it a little bit: Beautiful cat.

OK, OK. I won't. My lips are sealed. Not one word. I won't even think about ATI video cards and how evil they .... (Tea!) (zorry tannin)

Of course there are. But Tannin made me cross out #15.

Mate, it's like this. If cameras were computers, Hewlett-Crapard would use SD, and Compaq would come up with some stupid non-standard proprietary variation of it with extra low performance. Oh, I forgot. XD is a stupid proprietary variation. Basically, it comes down to cool, and the extreme...

graEt pozt, eRicc! Hope yuo aragh hoMe sooon!

Tannn, you forgot: Comfort: Pop-out folding legs so that it turns into its own portable table to take on trips.

Tannin, be nice.

Good question. I have to go and do an on-site now (yes, starting early) but I'll pull the factory-fitted combo drive out tonight and have a look at it, see if it looks like a practical proposition. (Err, Tea? Don't you think that I had better do the on-site?) (Why? Perfectly simple job by the...

Thanks Merc. Sounds as if I'd better just pay the money then. But I'll wait a few days in case sonmeone can make an alternative suggestion. (BTW, external drives are not a sensible option, not given the locations I operate in. Although I might come at an external Firewire burner that can run...

OK, according to IBM, I can buy it from them for AU$389. Or buy it wholesale for $383. (Big saving. Not. Bloody Ingram Micro. What's their excuse? By the time I buy one from Ingram and they gouge me for credit card fees and freight from Sydney, I might as well just buy it at retail from IBM...

Before I start navigating the absurd intricacies (and sometimes-amazing prices) of IBM's website, does anyone know what the drill is on internal optical drives for IBM Thinkpads? I have an R51 which came with a combo drive. The entire drive seems to be user-removable. Can I just buy a DVD...

And apes, of course.

Well, at least you're honest. Tell me, Tannin, where is this mega-expensive Longines watch of yours?

They are quite expensive, aren't they? Like $500 each?

And what brand is it?

Are you sure?

So you don't own a watch, Tannin?

Nahhhh ..... Good for you. Merc the Party Monster!!! Whoohoo! Hey, the problem with parties, speaking in general, is that .... mmmm .... no, Tannin is probably better suited to make that point. I'll just add that it is important to think of parties as a thing where you go along and do whatever...

Thanks Bill. In that case, I'll continue with our current practice: dual channel for high-performance/enthausiast systems, don't worry about it for run of the mill standard stuff.

Clear autofocus miss, as Gilbo says. The problem is caused by one or more of: 1: The leaves have more horizontal and vertical lines than the flower has. Autofocus loves lines! 2: Focus mode. On my point and shoot Canon (and on my Nikons too, and the Canon SLR for that matter) you can select...

Is there any point in dual channel for mainstream AMD CPUs? I mean how much performance do we actually gain? Can someone provide a percentage number? Dual channel, remember, costs a little more (not much, but a few dollars per unit), and introduces extra complication. The more parts you use, the...

As for quality of the pictures, I was actually a little reluctant to post these, as I felt many of them were rather poor. I'm sure that there more serious photographers among us (Lunar Mist, E_dawg, Buck, and etc.) (if I can call good people "etceteras") would agree. This was a trip with a...

Nope, not birds, CityK. See for yourself: Or a little closer again: (Just crops from the same image.) We have spent time in the Wimmera before, of course, but I doubt that either of is have posted about it. If Tannin's words sound familiar, it will be because the general themes of stark...

COUG, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHOUT! I CAN HEAR YOU JUST FINE.

Really, really pushed for time today, but here are a few shots from my trip to the Wimmera last week.

1: Downloader Pro is an absolute winner. I really, really like it now that I've had a chance to get used to it, and can't imagine going back to any other method. Good tip, Lunar Mist! (Still no cure for my minor issue above, but using Set Name to Time after downloading takes a few seconds and is...

Complete change of topic. Downloader Pro looks truly excellent. Unlike some members here (not looking at anyone in particular as I say this) I have no objection at all to paying a few dollars for useful utility software, and Downloader Pro looks like a real winner. But I have a glitch to...

My laptop runs Windows 2000, Lunar. This may have been the problem I had. Or possibly my PCMIA chipset in the Thinkpad. Or else perhaps it was a random glitch somewhere. In any case, this particular problem is now resolved satisfactorily. (But few thanks to Delkin. We should note how poorly...

Some time ago, on Pradeep's suggestion, I orderd a Delkin Cardbus PCMCIA to Compact Flash adaptor. Here I report on it. The Delkin adaptor. Underneath is an old style PCMCIA adaptor. There are many ways of downloading images from a digital camera. The most common is to use a USB cable and...

Now that you mention it, I remember seeing something by Sonic (it mut have been RecordNow Max) on one or two of the lesser-known CD burner brands a few years back - BTC was one of them. As you say, it seemed to work perfectly OK. A bit clunky, but - hey - when some of the others still shipped...

Missed out on that one, CQ, but only because I figured anything with that crappy an install outine would be a dead set cert to load my startup with junk, so I ran MSCONFIG immediately after installing it. But yeah, it should have been there as #7. By the way, if anyone here is into minimalist...

A while back I put a DVD burner in my home machine. It was the last of the single layer units just before double layer became affordable. It came bundled with the Sonic recording software. Seeing as I didn't plan to use it much, that was OK. OK, Sonic sucks seriously from the point of view...

Oh. Thanks LM. I've been aware of that file (downloaded it and burned it to CD months ago) but it didn't seem to do anything. It occurs to me that maybe you are supposed to copy it to your Spybot install folder and run it from there or something. I'll try it. And take this opportunity to point...

We use Spybot heaps. These days, it's the best spyware cleaner around (at least the best that I know of), clearly superior to Ad-Aware. Trouble is, it insists on downloading the latest updates for itself before it will run at all, and that is a major pain, for two different reasons: * A: It...

Tannin, WTF? You are on topic! (Never thought I'd see the day.)

Tannin, I think you spoiled your pitch with that last one. (Point #3.) Sort of gave your bias away, didn't you?

I'm only assuming that NTFS is the same in this regard. I learned about HPFS, never bothered reading up on NTFS Bill, just assumed that, because NTFS is only a renamed version of HPFS which was itself largely written by Microsoft, NTFS would be the same. After all, why would you change something...

Yike! There is always room in my banana tree if you need somewhere to stay for a while till the water goes down.

Really stupid question time. You have an NTFS drive. The MFT is located in the middle of the drive - e.g., if it's an 80GB drive in a single partition, at about the 40GB point. This is where NTFS always puts the MFT, in the middle (to reduce seek times). Assume the drive is freshly formatted and...