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PS Blakewry .... shhhh! If we don't make a fuss about it, there is a slight chance no-one will notice that I'm ztupid.

Dr Bomb, thankyou. I feel better now. I always thought I waz a nice ape, so I'm glad that I didn't rip my man off. Sounds like I charged him about the right amount. He's an occassional-to-moderate gamer and does a fair bit of other, general stuff. He hasn't brought it back and complained yet, so...

I always used to say Ray-Dee-On, Blake, which sounds much better, but it doesn't seem to have an "e" in it so I've started trying to remember to say Ray-Don now. Some of the time, anyway. Mostly I just zay thoze bloody ATI thingz. I alwayz say Lin-ix and I have no idea what a Bye-Ohs iz. Or a...

Use it? Jan, we don't use these silly modern video cards, let alone ones with an ATI chip on them. Good Lord, what do you think Tannin and I are? Game players? We use Matrox G450s. (Takes off silly voice, un-limpens wrist, starts to speak normally - well, as normally as an orangeutan with...

Well - lucky for me that I already sold it before I read Time's post! I'd no sooner finished asking my question when a guy wandered in looking for an upgrade. I didn't really know what that video card was and sold it - mostly because I thought an MX440SE was a little on the light side for him...

I have just aquired a Gigabyte Radon 9200 128MB video card. I'm not sure why. Or how. Something to do with buying a box of ten Gigabyte KT-400 motherboards and it being Friday, so they sent me a promotional video card as well. Trouble is, I don't know what the damn thing is. How much do I...

Old rule-of-thumb: Install the 4-in-1 but don't install the IDE component. New rule-of-thumb: install the 4-in-1 With XP, if you have a working system in the first place, don't touch the damn thing! (There may, in fact, be advantages to installig 4-in-1s on XP. I wouldn't know. And, when you...

Seems to be my week for getting nice things from Groltz. First there is my spiffy new avatar, and then I followed his link (above) for making a Windows 2000 install disc with SP 4 already included, turned my brain inside trying to follow the instructions while answering the phone and building...

Thankyou Steve. I also will find that useful in the workshop.

Went on clean as you like for me. USB 2.0 now workz juzt fine. Thankz Zteve!

Oops! I meant to say 2 metres away to do that without the scope. Maybe a little less. What you can see, Buck, is a depth-of-field issue. (Plus a little loss from re-sizing the picture to 800 x 600.) Notice how the forground and head is pin-sharp, and the ripples in the background are not...

:eekers: :o :errr: :monkey:

Not very far, Buck. About 20 or 30 metres. Just the same, to take the picture without the scope, I'd need to be about metres away.

Unfortunately, I don't workz. No brainz sometimez.

It workz!

I'd just buy a new motherboard, Greg. Which. seeing as I do that from time to time anyway, wouldn;t cost anything to speak of. But I'm leaning towards the Mercutio solution at the moment. Also, I'm pondering buying a DVD-RW, just for backups. A DAT drive would be better, but they are just too dear.

You should leap in on my granny. (That's right, "leap in" - it's like dropping in except that you go upwards, not downwards.) Tell her I sent you and that I said you were to have the guest bedtree for as long as you like. PS: bring her some chocolate - a couple of bars of chocolate and she...

I was wondering about buying myself a Raptor. Right now, we have: X15 (1st-gen) 18GB to boot Samsung 7200 IDE 40GB (storage) But space is getting tight with all this digital photography stuff, and we are pondering our next move. Replace the 40GB Samsung 7200 with an 80GB model off the shelf...

Excuse me, I was unclear. I meant that the vendors, by and large, don't write any drivers. There may be deeper issues underlying this, but I'll ponder them later.

Yes, but the vendorsdon't.

Fontz are evil. You want a Times and you want a Helvetica (Swiss, Ariel, whatever you want to call it). Everything else is horrible eye candy that will consume your brain and rot your teeth. (Well, OK, I do admit to the odd craving for a quality Century Schoolbook. I bought a Century...

No more product in my channel. But YMMV.

OK, now I'm really off to bed.

Does it fix the ridiculous lack of USB 2 drivers?

Yeah, where the hell iz Tannin?

LiDE 20 is finished now, so you have to get the LiDE 30 instead. If you want a slide-scan option, then the other Canon model above (1250 something) is finished too, as I recall, but I can't remember the new model number.

There is a tread somewhere in tech support about that subject, Blake. I asked the question, but I think I tacked it onto a thread that Time (or someone) started, as a sort of related topic. I can;t really remember the answer. Pradeep knew a thing or two, I think.

Hoolie Doolie! What a week. I've had my hands so full that I haven't even had time to scratch - and trust me, seeing as I can hold a mouse in one paw, type with another paw, drink tea with the third paw, and hold a telephone under my chin, not having even one spare paw left to scratch with iz...

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Yup. I cant imagine what you would use that 16MB TIFF setting for, actually. If you are that serious bout the last 0.001% of image quality, shouldn't you be using a 35mm? Or do they still have those really big format film cameras, like Hallelblad (sp?) used to make? BTW, Gary & Lunar Mist...

Ahh, you are on ADSL (Awful Damn Slow Line). I'm on Cable (CAn't Bloody Load Enything). That's the trouble with ADSL. You can sign up with Telstra and get ripped off by Telstra and all for useless bloody Telstra "service" standards. Or else you can sign up with a non-Telstra supplier and get...

Good point, Time. Legend are a bit like that. Actually, apart from their own RAM which is (of course) excellent, they can sell some pretty crappy ztuff - i.e., MSI motherboardz. The Apacer CF thingos arrived today. 25X, which is less than they might have been but surely much faster than the...

Well, thatz a zelf-inflicted injury. You'll get no zympathy from me.

Oh, I forgot to say that I re-sized the 1024 x 768 originals to 640 x 480 with PMView.

Cool! It arrived! Here is the drill - some really quick and dirty shots out my front door before the light disappeared completely. Excuse crappy framing and so on - I was in a hurry. Because I only got the flash cards today and to start with I just had the stupid little 16MB card that Nikon...

Honold iz right. Also, electrons iz moving partz too. It iz only with my patented customizationz that you can get rid of all those pesky darn electronz out of your computer and make it 100% reliable!

If you ain't the postie, don't bother knocking and don't bother ringing up neither! Kristi might answer if you call, but I think she will be playing with the new toy too. As for the Soup Nazi (who works on Fridays), he is a techno-freak from way back. No use expecting him to do any work. Mind...

Better zend it back, Handy. We are all going to get together and buy you a nice, furry Dell. :) PS: I will write to Dell and ask them to remove the power switch and power leads. That way none of the parts will move and it will never fail on you. PPS: I juzt realised ... if we ban moving partz...

Awww ztop complaining. At least it makes them run quieter. (I picked up that little trick from a gorilla friend of mine who works in the motor trade. He zays that banana peels are juzt the thing for a noisy differential.)

He's amazing! Almozt az flexible az me! (Not as pretty though.)

Gaaahhh... I'm ztupid. It wasn't the coating I was thinking of Mr Many-Names, it was the actual lens material itself, I see. (Now that I've been re-reading and letting some of it actually sink in.) Which - I presume - is why the top models are so much more expensive. For example (just taking...

It'z OK, Piyono. You can juzt zend it to me. Tannin zeems to think that I owe him quite a bit just at the moment, so it would come in handy.

Damn! I should have called Legend. For some reason I didn't think of that.

An excellent point, Sherif Behna. Maybe we could extend the same logic to accident rates, 4-wheel drive vehicles and their owners?

I believe so, Merc. We had some pretty ordinary Apacer SDRAM once, so we didn't buy it again. But I was overtaken by an urge to forgive and forget and write it off as an abberation. Buy in haste, repent at lesiure. I'll wait and see if it works, I guess.

Serves me right for wanting them delivered by the weekend and calling the supplier who was most likely to have them in stock and usually delivers promptly. :( We buy a lot from them, if I have a problem, they will be OK about it.

Still got the Sony, Pradeep. Not sure what I'll do with it. Give it to Kristi, I think. I just bought a new high-capacity battery for it a few weeks ago - $AU145, but worth it as it lasts about three times longer than the old one did, letting me fill up a 128MB Memory Stick without needing to...

Rule One: Never disagree with an expert. Rule Two: Break Rule One az often as possible. According to my reading, Mr Platform, there are two different classes of lens coating. The reflection-reduction coatings first came along quite some time ago, in the early Sixties, I think it was. At that...

Ha! I knew you guys would be interested. Face it, you are all hopeless technoheads. If itz expensive and technical, you are suckerz for it. (And ... er ... you know what they say about "takes one to know one".:)) Yes, Pradeep. ATS 80 HD. You pay ~$1000 extra for the HD with the you-beaut lens...

Thanks, Time. Oddly enough, hat was the ite I was reading just before I decided that it seemed out of date and to ask here! Small world, sometimes. Guess I'll just buy ... er ... whatever one seems easiest to get hold of. Transcend, quite possibly. 1MB? Or a pair of 512k? Decisionz decisionz...