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Why on earth would anyone want to edit video on a TFT screen?

Works like a charm! Storage Forum gets it right again. Details a little later, but the short answer is that I downloaded a thing called "GIF construction set", more or less at random after a bit of a Google hunt, discovered that making a transparent GIF took about 5 mouse-clicks through the help...

Buck, you are a marvel! I had no idea that there was a Z-index property. The very thing I need. I had more-or-less arrived at the same thing by mucking about with the order I put things on the page, but that is cumbersome and you get weird results with different browsers. Sonner or later, it...

Oh, I don't mind using transparent GIFs or PNGs, Doug. It will be a very simple image and its load time will be small enough not to worry about. I just don't know how to make one. I have bubby-sized Photoshop (er, I mean Photoshop Elements), which can certainly do it, but I find Photoshop...

Oh, it's worth the effort, Secs. Three reasons. (a) I only have to figure the code out once and them use it about 30 times on the various pages of the site I'm doing. (It's to be a fairly extensive site, and although each page is different, once I've got the first instance coded, the others...

Yup. But that has problems. First, the watercourse only goes in particular places (not always the same one or the same place on the screen.) I could overcome that easily enough though. (I think.) More seriously, I need the watercourse to overlay the other content (or at least some of it). For...

Help! Tannin is away and he's left me here all on my own to figure out how to code a web page (one that he rather foolishly volunteered to do for a local landcare group). The thing is, the design is more-or-less fixed. I have PDF mockups of a half-dozen example pages, and my job is simply to...

I don't quite understand. Are you saying you need a 300GB 15,000 RPM drive to help with backing up the front page? (Shutup Tea!)

Pity I didn't read that before I bought Ghost. (I still shuddder at the thought that I gave some of my money to Symantec, of all companies. I think I'd rather gve it to the IRA or Microsoft.

Funny thing. I was just about to say that myself.

Nope. Haven't a clue, actually.

Was it?

Well, you know what they say. Dem up and down motions is natural. But dem sideways motions is learned!

Perpendicular? Play that again, I wasn't paying attention.

Absolutely. Let me the the first ... er .. about the 9th ... to offer my congratulations and try my luck for free drinks. Err ... I'll try that again, shall I?

BTW, Merc, I never for one moment thought that you would believe it. You are too old and too smart a dog to ever fall for that flavour of moonshine. I just want my banana. Do you think the Reg might send me one?

So I suppose a case of gin is out of the question?

Actually, it's funny you should mention Fosters and being stuck in a desert, Edward. A year or two ago, a German tourist flew into Perth, hired a 4WD, and set off to negotiate the Canning Stock Route. Now the Canning Stock Route runs more-or-less north through the Western Australian deserts -...

More than semi-coherent, positivly lucid. And always gentlemanly. But I miss my friend Cliptin. No matter. Congratualtions, Howell!

Ahem. Someone owes me a banana.

I sort of have my eye on the Toshiba P-20. 17 inch screen! Wow! Also a P-4 2800, and 60 or 80 GB of hard drive. But it's that screen that I really want.

Dear Mr Webmaster, I was wondering why there is a little puddle at the bottom of this page. None of the other pages seem to have one. Thankyou for your reply, Small Curious One

I didn't think it ws possible to get a Finn drunk. (I'm thinking of pplying for citizenship.) PS: do you grow nice mangoes in Finland?

I didn't know that Shakespeare was German.

By the way, what iz this thread doing in the computers forum? Jokez are supposed to go in the Pub and Brewar .... Bruwary ... Brewer ... AaaghIcanneverspellthedamnthing.

I'll take a case of gin to a used banana that it's hokum.Hell, I can't afford a case of gin and I don't want the used banana, but how can I pass up odds this good? Ericq (as quoted by Dave D) has the right of it. PS: Anyone wanna buy a bridge?

And I was 26 of them. Who else was on line?

I mean zee, dammit. Er ... I mean that I forgot about my promise to reform my spelling. (sigh) Make that "see".

Hey Cool! Bartender, you learned about zpelling at lazt! (And hi Tim. Long time no see.)

Is she married? I hear OJ is unattached right now. Do I sense the start of a beautiful friemdship?

I don't wear shoes and socks! (bloody humans)

Oh, I never have trouble remembering my nic. Whenever I get confused, I just look down. If there is orange fur, I must be me.

From one Hairy Aussie to another.... And a damn fine 5000 posts they were too! Hmmm ..... Once upon a time I think I used to have more posts than you. Merc. All on my ownsome, I mean, and without bothering to get Tannin's help. Now you are about 1000 posts out in front of me and Tannin put...

Did my Gost clone operation work? Will I be able to fix everything with FDISK/MBR? I have no idea. On Tuesday (Monday is a holiday) I'll send the PSU unit awwy for RMA and, because I don't like waiting, order a spare one. Tune in about this time next week. Same crappy time. Same crappy...

Well, I just got home and ..... .... wait for it .... .... (this one is good) ... ..... I looked at my laptop first thing, and it was DEAD. I got one quick look at the W2K desktop on my old drive (it should have been still running DOS, at the conclusion of the 12hour, 30GB USB 1.1 image...

This particular one is a one-off. But seeing as I just spent some of Tannin's hard-earned on a retail copy of Ghost, I want to gert some value out of it and, later on, use it for other jobs. I'm mega-late and have to fly. Back tonight. Late tonight. sigh

This is an old one Tannin used to use for batch-driven setup of DOS machines. You'll get the idea. FDRIVE.BAT set drv=f call %drv%:\setdrive (All the other ones, DDRIVE.BAT and EDRIVE.BAT and so on, are semi-identical) SETDRIVE.BAT set drive=%drv%: path...

Write a series of short, easy batch files. Call them: DDRIVE.BAT EDRIVE.BAT FDRIVE.BAT GDRIVE.BAT and so on. When you start up the system, go to the CD-ROM drive (let's say it's F: in this particular case) and type FDRIVE. Then run your main batch program. (Or you could have the FDRIVE...

Thanks, CityK. I already nuked the drive (after an endless amount of stuffing about). I can boot, but only if the old drive is plugged into the USB port. It turns out that Windows 2000, for reasons best known to itself, has assigned the new drive as E: - thus, it goes looking for its desktop...

Well, I bought a retail copy of Ghost. It doesn't work. I imaged the boot partition on my laptop to another drive (at USB 1.1 - eagh!) and the image is perfect but Windows 2000 refuses to boot, saying the page file is corrupt or missing, go to system properties and make a new ne". Ha! How am I...

They did. It's called SMARTDRIVE There was an even better one (by the standards o f the day) which, despite the stupid name SuperPCKwik was outstanding.

Exactly. Hence my poem.

Drive Image used to be excellent. Back a few years ago, we used it quite a lot. Dust to dust ashes to ashes Another good product gets the Symantec crashes

There is probably quite a lot to learn about Ghost. Unfortunately, I have yet to learn any of it. Every time I use Ghost - which is rarely - it takes ages while I stuff about looking for a reasonably recent copy on an OEM CD somewhere, then buggerise about making boot discs or trying to read...

We used to use Samsung keyboards for quite a while. Then the nice model was discontinued, and the two other Samsung keyboards we tried were cheap crap. Maybe they have a new new model now? I'll see if I can find a Logitech Elite to try out. I don't mind about the money.

Can you ping SF.net from the smoothie console? Nope. I don't know how. (I'm a linux moron.) Hell, I don't even know how to get to a Smoothwall console, never mind ping. But that is, I think, the nub of the problem. I can't get nuffin through any of the second firewalls (the Roughie, or...

Looks like I might have to do that, Howell. I can't get it working. (Well, actually I might have to ask Tannin to do that for me - I don't know if the Smoothwall BBS people are quite ready for ... er ... a young and cheeky simian companion. Today I built another Smoothie. Let's call it...

And this is why they badge them "Diamond Data" or "Diamond Whatever", ignoring their perfectly good and well-respected Mitsubishi brand? OIC. I always wondered that. Rebrandings or not, over the years Tannin and I have come to have a great deal of respect for Mitsubishi/Diamond Whatever...

SamSUNG monitors are probably perfectly OK, Time. It's the SamTRONs that are crap. I'm sure that their high-end producs are good. I was just being grumpy about the incredible crap that their low-end units seem to be. But you are mistaken about Mitsubishi Electric. They are huge, and global...

I'm not allowed to have nuts. (sigh)