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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...

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...

OK, I give up. Now that Kristi has gone to university and I'm the new Queen of the Workshop, there are going to be some changes made. There has got to be an answer out there somewhere, but I can't find it. I want a script to perform two tasks: (a) Configure the Windows desktop the way it...

What's the best program to use when you need to delete a locked file? You know the routine: you need to clean a virus or other nasty off a system, but you can't delete the exe/dll/etc file itself because Windows says it's in use, you can remove the reference to it via Hijackthis or Regedit, but...

Take a look at this Ebay item: http://cgi.ebay.ch/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=87050&item=5201672915 This moron is trying to catch a buyer for a worthless 2.5GB hard drive. Let's examine the vendor's credentials and work out if the guy is honest and/or knows anything at all about his...

I'm trying to cut down on the bandwidth my site sucks. Er ... sorry .. Tannin's site. I don't want to take bits of the site down, and it would be easy enough to just buy more bandwidth, but why should I? Hey, it's a free service I provide, and I'm already paying for 6GB a month, that ought to be...

I am trying to learn how to make Apache do what I want it to do using .htaccess and mod_rewrite. Tannin haz given up coz it'z too hard. I always get the tricky jobz. :o Tannin iz too old to lean anything now, and just parrots the same old nonsense at people every time but no-one ever seemz...

YES!!! I hate the damn things.

Mitsubishi are no longer making CRT screens. (sob) WTF am I going to do for a good CRT now that there are no more Mitsubishi Professionals? Sure, I love a quality TFT - Tannin and I have been TFT fans since the days of our beautiful little 12 inch LCD-PC - but for photographic work you need...

OK, you've all voted for your favourite hard drive maker, now what about your most disliked brand of drive. (Not counting Western Digital, I mean.) Which current drives do you really hate/distrust/put in sacks and threaten people with?

Has anyone noticed that we happy few have now racked up 64K posts? (Give or take a few units here and there.) That is some serious yakking!

Because we have a number of newly domesticated members at present, I thought it might be helpful to provide some hints and tips for happy domesticity, gleaned from Tannin's and my extensive experience in running a happy, efficient household together. It is particullarly important to see that the...

If I can (somehow) find the time, I want to get a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP machine up before Thursday, so that I can do a live demo of the wiki software in a lace where Internet access isn't really possible. So I need to take a server with appropriate software loaded with me and just plug my...

Tannin just almost ordered me a new notebook. Current model is a Toshiba satellite A10. Celeron 2000, 512MB, 80GB (came with a 30 but he upgraded it 'cause 30 was nowhere near enough), 14 inch TFT, Intel all-in-one shared video chipset, CD/CDRW/DVD combo. It had a 2 hour battery life new, but...

Easy question. Is it worth upgrading Windows Media Player from whatever version is standard with W2K (err .. I just checked, it's 6.4) to 9 or 10? * What would I gain (if anything)? * What problems do the latest versions introduce (DRM crap and etc.)? I rarely use Media Player, but sometimes...

Puerto Rico! Whoah! Way to go! And up until this moment, I never even used to like basketball! Fantastic!

I'm having a few video problems, and I'm contemplating updating my Direct X to V 9. Am I crazy?

AV You know, Kristi mentioned something today that gave me one of those "oh yeah, I know that, I've just never actually said it out loud before" moments. About every second or third time a machine comes in to have the viruses removed, it turns out to be running Norton Anti-Virus. Sometimes it's...

Lateley we have switched over to using Geil RAM for everything. Since .. er .. about December last year, or possibly a little later. Geil market their RAM to the overclocking community, but we never overclock it, just use it for stock-standard systems. Previously we used a range of stuff, most...

You know, it just occurred to me that there is usually quite a difference between the socks and the puppets around here. I mean, take Buck. Buck is a top guy. But the Bartender, on the other hand, swans around pretending to be a nice bloke, smiling at everyone and offering free drinks now and...

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...

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...

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...

OK, this is a blue-sky idea, but I'm a blue-sky sort of person, so I might as well bring it up. It may well not be practicable to implememt it, but for what it's worth ..... Lately I've become very used to the wiki software editing conventions, which are essentially the same as the ones we use...

Bloody Tannin. Leaves everything to me. I've no sooner got back to the office than he tells me I have to figure out a better way to connect customer machines up to the cable modem for on-line virus scanning. Back in the old days, Tannin used to get a fresh copy of VET in the mail once every...

How do I tell my stupid browser (Internet Explorer 5.0) not to use that pox-ridden "personalised menu" that leaves all sorts of stuff out until I click on it? I can never remember.

Tannin and I won't be around much, if at all, for the next 5 or 6 weeks, because we are heading off to points unknown with camera in hand. Yippee! We are taking a laptop, which has a modem, but probably won't be anywhere we can log in from very often. So be good. PS: as soon as Mrs Pradeep...

Simple job. I need the following directry structure on a server: C:\data\sharedfiles (any machine on the network has full acces to this) C:\data\Alan (Shared folder, available only to Alan and on the server) C:\data\Betty (Shared folder, available only to Betty and on the server)...

Having had a number of horrible epics with Hewlett-Crapard All-in-one printer-scanner-fax-copier things, to do with incompatibility on software and hardware levels, very bad documentation, useless help desk staff, not working with Windows 2000 or XP or any other bloody version of your taste...

Someone posted this on the BirdForum, where Tannin hangs out almost as much as I hang out here. Apparently a true story. Worth repeating. An elderly Florida lady did her shopping, and upon returning to her car, found 4 males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping...

Yes, another one. My customer wants the best GF FX5900 he can get. Doesn't really care about the price. wants it yesterday. He ordered an ASUS nearly a month ago but ASUS have given us three firm delivery dates and not made any of them. My ASUS dealer told me, frankly, that they now have a 4th...

Simple question: what's the easiest way to achieve this goal: Server will run W2K SP4, 80GB At least one of the workstations will be identical on a hardware level. What I want to do is fit both machines with a hard drive caddy, and have a daily or weekly backup run on the server to image the...

You da man, Mr Green!

Tannin and I are slipping off for a few days birding and with any luck we won't be on-line again till next week. Bags packed, batteries charged, car filled up with petrol, great big bag of bananas in the back, and Tannin has shouted himself to a new notebook so that we can sit in motel rooms...

And we are back on-line. [/i]Whoo-hoo![/i] JoJo and I were reduced to chatting by email.

Seeing az we are all being creative tonight and my writing ain't great and my zpelling zucks ...

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...

Well, Tannin's red-it cred-it card is finally working for its living. I talked the old bugger into lashing out for a digiscoping setup, and ... about six grand later ... it's taking shape. The idea is that you use a fairly cheap, plain-jane digital camera to store the images on, but, in order...

Does anyone know anything about the different write speeds of different compact flash cards? I've learned a little browsing here and there in the last half-hour or so, but only a very little. I'm about to buy some flash cards for my new Coolpix 4500 (why the Coolpix? Long story, I'll make a new...

http://www.privacyinternational.org/activities/stupidsecurity/inexplicable.html Read. Laugh. Weep.

Doez Ztorage Forum have a birthday? If so, when is it? Anyone remember?

http://news.com.com/2008-1082-995885.html Operon, 64-bit Athlonz, all zorts of interezting ztuff. Click. Read. Learn. Laugh. Cry. Buy popcorn. Or zomething.

I seem to have a gift for stupid networking problems. A few weeks back my Soltek SL-75DRV5 died. So I replaced it with an Albatron - a KX400 8XV Pro - see: www.albatron.com.tw/product/KX400_8XV_Pro.asp Nice board. I like it. Nothing fancy, but effective and quite cheap. Along with the other...

(Tannin?) (Mmmmm?) (Why are we writing poztz to each other when there are zo many interesting threadz we haven't even read properly yet, let alone replied to?) (Possibly because you keep asking such idiot questions, Tea.) (No. Zeriously!) (Probably because it's half past one in the morning...

OK, seeing az Tannin makez me use Internet Explorer and hogs Opera and Moz to himself, and seeing as my IE 5 suddenly started crashing for no reason that I'm aware of, I decided to try IE 6 instead. So far, it seems to be working just fine. I haven't actually noticed anything different yet...

<Rant> I hate it when people quote really really long slabs of stuff that other people wrote and then the other people quote the zame thing back again and then the firzt perzon quotez the whole damn thing a third time and then zomeone elze comez along and quotez the bloody thing a ninteenth...

A friend zent me thiz today. I guess he would have zent it to Tannin, but Tannin doezn't have any friendz, only money. (And me, of courze.) 2003 State of the Universe Address by Swami Beyondananda Hello everybody -- it is great to be here ... and you know what? We really have no choice...

A friend zent me thiz today. I guess he would have zent it to Tannin, but Tannin doezn't have any friendz, only money. (And me, of courze.) 2003 State of the Universe Address by Swami Beyondananda Hello everybody -- it is great to be here ... and you know what? We really have no choice...

Does anyone know of a search engine that is, or can be set to be, fully case-sensitive? Google, for example, translates everything to lower case. Alta Vista uses a scheme to (if I remember correctly) treat lower case as upper case but not the reverse (i.e., searching for "tea" will find "tea"...