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Cases are something of an issue for us at present. Traditionally, we have carried 3 lines: A premium case. Quality PSU, moderately expensive. Slow but steady seller. A standard case. Cheap as we can get without sacrificing too much - i.e., we can't put up with shoddy build quality, too much...

Thanks for the contrary view, Mangy One! I've never tried any of the various video editing packages around, nor am I likely to: moving pictures just don't do anything for me (as witness the fact that my cable TV hookup has been faulty for 3 weeks and I haven't bothered ringing up to ask them to...

Of course he doez it by accident . (Tannin I mean.) I do the tricky ztuff. But although I've not contributed a great deal to this thread - I'd rather listen to the experts like .NUT and LM - I am fowollowing it with keen interest. And surely Pentax is a second-tier maker. There is Canon and...

Excellent. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Merc.

Quick recommendation required. I have a customer who needs a video editing software package. He is considering Pinnacle 8 DV to take the output from a JVC digital video camera, and output to DVD. Cost of that package is $279AU. I have heard numerous horror stories about Pinnacle software and...

For me, the main reason I don't want a 300D (damned if I'll use that stupid America-only name for it) is that it's crippled in multishot mode. I forget the exact figures now, but with the 300D you get less than half as many shots in a continuous sequence. (As compared with the 10D.) For...

But do you have to buy Pentax lenses for them?

I remembered. Pentax. http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/istd.html

OK, I'm getting the picture. You are going to be frustrated with any of the non-SLR digitals, Merc. There seem to be only two questions. (1) Which digital SLR is the right one for you? (2) Would you do better to buy a relatively inexpensive non-SLR camera to start with, master that, have time...

I bought Ad-Aware Pro but am not clear on how you are supposed to keep it up to date. It's probably simple enough, but I just get so tired of buggerising about finding licence keys and special download sites for registered versions and serial numbers and mother's maiden names and all the rest of...

Ad-Aware is the best. I always give the link to the Ad-Aware home page, not to any third-party download sites - who knows what they might foist on you? Go direct to the surce. http://www.lavasoft.de To use Ad-Aware when you suspect a recalcitrant spyware infection (and this same advice would...

Well, Leica make optics that make you poor if you buy them, so I guess so. :)

One thing you might consider, Merc, is the Leica range. Leica's digital units are a little odd-ball, but they are designed around the idea of high speed and ease of use. Don't just buy one! Look carefully and work out if it's the right answer for you.

I knew that. Brain fade. One iz left to assume that the day the US deslared its independence was a bit after the day that some fine an upsthanding young son invenered corm whishkey. :lol:

Phew! Nice to have my own fur on again. Are you going to get bact to the topic now, Tannin? Or are you just going to leave it like that, as an extended digression dragging the thread off-topic? Oh. Well, fair enough then. I might have a crack at the actual thread topic myself in a moment, if...

I think this is a job for Tannin. Hang on a moment while I climb into that human suit. (Darn zipper. It catches the fur on my back every time.)

"Shoot very quickly"? Are you meaning shutter delay here? I.e., you don't want to press the sutter release and then wait 3/4 of a second the way tou have to with my Nikons? Or something else, such as the ability to bang off quite a few snaps on the fly?

Andrew had a high-end system. Tannin built it a year or two ago, and, possibly because he was having an unusually good day, managed not to stuff it up. It was approximately as follows: Athlon XP 1800 (old style), 512MB, Leadtek 256MB Gforce 4ti, Sound Blaster Live (or possibly an Autistic, I...

Just to prove that I'm not a complete monkey, here is the rule-of-thumb I use: For a standard system such as: Any current-model Athlon up to 2700MHz Any current-model video card below a 256MB FX5700 3 drives total (e.g, 1 hard drive, 2 opticals, or etc.) Non-excessive add-on cards (NIC &...

An ya woula been a winna. I'da puta my shirt onit. (If I'da had a shirt ta put onit.)

Seemz to me that there'z enuf anti-JoJo going on over in the other thread! :eekers:

Woop-de-do! I look like me again! Thanks Doug!

Looks good to mee. A ''quality'' 300 puts out a lot of power. A ''cheap'' 450 sucks.

Thanks Doug. The exact error message is "Anti Robotic Register Validation Error". But right now I have faling-over-sleepy error. Goodnight all

Never, ever flush a fish down the toilet. It is probably cruel to the fish, which is a bad thing, but the really bad thing is that this how feral species get established in a new range. It's the worst possible thing you can do.

It seemz that I am now a robot! (sigh) I don't want to be a robot. What do I need to do to persuade the profile thingie that I'm real human be ... er ... I mean a real ape (as oposed to a robot) so I can change my avatar? It tellz me "anti-robot registration error, or something along thoe...

Freeze is probbly the kindest. He will just slow down gradually and drift off to sleep.

Moderation is like drains or rats: you only ever notice it when there is a problem. Until Flagreen's thread, I hadn't given the moderation here a thought in many months.

I got it on my laptop, Buck. Haven't seen it on this machine. Hang on a tic and I'll give it a bash at 800 x 600 (which is a shocking waste of a perfectly good 19 inch monitor, but there you go). Hmmm .. ugly, but no spurious links problem. I've had similar issues crop up here and there...

Yeah. I had some issues, which turned out to have to do with a graphic overlaying a div that had a clickable link in it. It does weird stuff! That's why the single grey horizontl bar is, in fact, three or four seperate divs.

Exceptionally good review here: http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_0551/article.html

Coming back to tables for that front page was like coming home after a month in motels, Blake. It was just so easy and intuitive. But real web coders say that tables are bad karma - that business of using structural elements for content. In this case, my (poor) excuse is that the front page is...

Test page up at http://www.redhill.net.au/woady/index.html Quite a lot still to do (see http://www.redhill.net.au/woady/notes.html ) but I think it's starting to look like it will fly. The layout, remember, is pretty much fixed, it's my job just to code the layout that the graphic designer put...

Ahah! I wondered if anyone would be bright enough to pick up my Biblical allusion. Go to the head of the class, Bozo! Right first time. Have an Elephant Stamp.

You may have met the bug we have met several times, Edward. It occurrs with the combination of an Nforce sound chipset and one or more of the reasonably recent Media Player versions. There is, so far as we know, no fix for it except to not use Media Player. The version that ships with Win 2000...

I'm not sure about the specifics, but the general thrust is to make it impossible to manufacture any hardware without having a friendly relatonship with Microsoft. Bit by bit, they are working towards this. The time will come - not too far away now - when Windows refuses to load any driver that...

I should never have had that haircut.

Way to go, JoJo. !000 posts, sweet 29, and never been blowjobbed! Or something. (What's so special about candles anyway? I always thought the cake was the important bit.) (PS: DB tried to explain it to me once, but he passed out before he got to the interesting bit. ) (Is that true, Tea?)...

I noticed the site maintane ... matenainc ... miantin .... fixing-up notice. It wasn't there for long, and it's running sweet as you like now. As always, thankyou for looking after us with this stuff, Doug.

Invite me over for a visit! I'll bring the food, and a nice bottle of somethingorother to go with it. Afterwards we can look at Tannin's photographs of Australian birdlife, if you want to. I'd offer to do the blowjob as well, but I usually run out of breath after the first 5 or 6 candles, and...

What it boils down to is this: Osama and various of his cronies wanting to kill somebody and someone saying: There aren't any good targets in the US or Israeli military and there are lots of good targets in New York. Bush and various of his cronies wanting to kill someone, and Rumsfeld saying...

That is a very wise suggestion, Computer Generated Baby. I'd better do just that before I don't have the choice. What a shame that in this part of the world the accursed zip drive was much, much more common. I see old lying-around-and-useless zip drives quite often. An LS-120, I'll probably have...

Huh? Only on notebooks, and not even there on the better brands. (Except floppy drives: all brands of notebook have abandoned the floppy drive, and appropriately so in my view. In a desktop a floppy drive costs essentially nothing, causes no problems, and remains a very valuable tool - which is...

No, I haven't noticed anything about the 160GB drives, JoJo - bar the problem Windows 2000 has with 128GB and over, I mean. I just read it here. Essentially I don't play with hard drives any more, just plug them in and expect them to work flawlessly. You know how Tannin used to post to report...

Given that people here are telling me that the Samsung 160s run a bit hot, and a bit louder too perhaps, and given that there are issues with drives over 128GB, and given that there is only one other line of drives besides the Spinpoints that I trust, and given that this other line is the...

Sorry. I'll try harder next time. Which zort of attack do you prefer? Subtle? Slapztick? Or just a nice, traditional bit of frothing-at-the-mouth vituperation with arm waving and optional spittle? I'm quite versatile about these things. (Living with Tannin, well, you sort of have to learn to...

I've sold three or four, Merc, but never plugged one in. I can't think of any reason why they would be any different from the standard 160GB Samsung though - or, indeed, from the 80GB and 120Gb drives that are identical bar the number of heads and platters. These we have sold and used lots of...

Yeah. The right-wing American posters here have the correct idea. If you can't catch the actual bad guys, just kill people at random. Sooner or later, there won't be anyone left to kill, and the problem will go away.

Yes, I agree with Time and Mercutio. Albatron still have a little way to go to bring their documentation and web site support up to the standards of Epox, Gigabyte, and co., but the actual products are good. We use them all the time. At present, we use: Albatron: mostly their Nforce board with...

If it works for you, don't change it! Me, I hate ASUS. Unreliable, over-priced, difficult-to-work-on crap. A cheapskate motherboard at a premium price. Yuk. But if it works for you you, don't argue. I like works. My concern for the video editing on TFT is colour balance. I took a TFT home...