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Also, I blew $100 on a tidy second-hand 400/2.8 pancake lens the other day. What a little cutie! A bit extravagant seeing as I already have a 35mm/1.4, but for $100, who cares? For some time I've wanted a small, inconspicuous camera for use in country towns where you feel like a real dick...

A 6D would do me nicely as a replacement for the 5D II I've always loved/hated. Excellent camera in all respects (given the use I have for it) other than the truly horrible AF system it was crippled at birth with. (I've owned two 20Ds, a 400D, two 40Ds, a 50D, a 7D, a 7D II, a 1D III, a 1D IV...

Oh. Time for me to RTFM I reckon.

Riddle me this. When I delete a file in-camera on the 1D IV, all seems to be OK. But when I upload the cards later, only the raw files have been deleted. The JPGs are still there! I shoot raw + JPG, sending the raw files to the CF card and the JPGs to the SD card. This is a new behaviour since a...

Cheers Doug. I was a little unclear with what I wrote just before. Remove Empty Directories plays no direct part in this workflow, I just use it for various unrelated tasks. In general, there is no need to delete directories as part of my photo workflow, other than the (non-empty) one on the...

Getting on for ten years since this thread was live, and those same batch files have performed flawlessly all that time, and look set to continue doing so well into the future. Tea extended them a bit shortly after I last visited the thread, so that the streamlined workflow is as follows...

Good to see you've got a working solution Lunar.

This. Costs bugger all, works perfectly. Or so I'm told by people who know their stuff and use it. I'd use it myself if I didn't have my own servers.

Well said, JTR. The rest of the world, of course, has been aware of this for many decades. It's a bit like having bad breath or having an unfaithful partner: the person most concerned is always to last one to figure it out. I don't say that to be offensive to my American friends. It's just a...

Cheers guys, I'll let her know.

You need an anvil (or equivalent flat, hard object of your choice) and a hammer. Be aware that in future your device may not perform other functions the way you expect, and you will probably experience Real Life (tm), which is probably more frightening than the Deathclaws and is usually best not...

Rambling on and on. Symptoms of persecution. Delusions. Sounds perfectly normal to me.

Wow! people still use Foxit? Mega-bloatware with a truly horrible user interface. Avoid at all costs. Well, it's probably better than the Adobe product, by then so is leprocy. Foxit was good ... about 8 years ago. It's been pox since around 2010. For small, fast, and utterly fuss-free PDF...

That would surely count as a "sign of forced entry". Mind you, some of these insurance companies would refuse to pay out if you had a valid claim form signed by St Peterand countersigned by God. (Possibly because, so far as anyone can tell, they operate in the service of the other chap. You...

Do people here regard Spybot Anti-beacon as a useful or sufficient tool for normal home usage? (I don't run 10 myself; most of my machines run 8.1, with a few on 7 or XP, but I install Anti-beacon on customer machines as routine alongside the decent browsers, non-sucky PDF reader, shell fixes...

It's a bit counter-intuitive to want damage, but most insurance policies won't pay out for burglary unless there are signs of forced entry. If someone breaks a window to get in, they pay out. If someone picks your lock, you have no insurance.

Actually, there are good banks, at least in Australia, and provided you accept two limitations on the term "good". (1) You will pay quite a lot in fees and get lousy interest. (2) You are doing ordinary banking - savings and transaction accounts, credit cards, merchant accounts to take EFTPOS...

A number of comments come to mind, not all of them very helpful. (1) If a bank - a bloody bank for the love of Mike! - changed my address without my explicit instructions to do so, I'd go ballistic! (2) If in doubt, go into an actual branch and hand the problem over to the first human you...

Compared to 40-something other states I could name, California is downright sane and sensible.

I support anyone who uses anything except Quickbooks. MYOB has a few problems, nothing I can't handle. Cashflow Manager support work is a joy. Basically there isn't any. It just works. Xero never causes problems. "Hello, is that you Tannin?" "Yes. How can I help?" "I'm having some problems...

Q: what is wrong with this sentence? "In South American banana republics, it is normal for each new dictator, on winning an election, to throw all of his political opponents in jail, appoint his own corrupt cronies to the government jobs, and change the rules such that he can't ever be voted...

No sense in trying to ban them, it only encourages the fools. Nope, the correct response is to point and laugh. Oh, and to deny appointment to responsible positions to demonstrably daft people. Walking around talking about sky fairies is pretty good evidence of inability to think sensibly...

Top thread. I second (fifth?) all of the above.

Not following this or reading all the posts (I use a granny phone and have no plan to change) but Apple have been done before now for advertising capabilities their phone cannot provide. I forget the details but the example I have in mind was here in Oz where Apple advertised a certain ability...

Up to you Doug. Happy with whatever you think best.

Samsung printers are better than average in my experience. (Not that I have bought or sold any recently.) Note: better "than average" means what it says, no more and no less. They are OK. Not great, not junk, just OK. I generally look for Kyocera first, then Fuji-Xerox, then Canon, then Epson...

I must have misread the order status email. I thought they said that the order was ready to ship and was waiting for courier pickup. Well, it will be waiting a long time because the screen isn't even in their warehouse, it's on my desk and I'm using it to post this. Arrived first thing this...

Shading the roof should make very, very little practical difference. If it does, there is a problem with the roof insulation. As a general rule, the roof cavity should be an almost-sealed box with convective insulation (e.g., fluffy fibreglass) on the base and reflective insulation (foil or...

It didn't happen. :( Maybe tomorrow. Tea's apple crumbles are worth waiting for. She uses a unique recipe: apples, pears, chopped lemon or lime, a little other fruit as it comes to hand and seems like a good ideas at the time, rolled oats on top, very hot oven. No spices, no sugar, absolutely...

Tea is going to be very pleased when she gets home. The new screen is ready to ship, should be picked up on Monday and arrive here about mid-week. I am surprised how fast that was - it's not a stocked item, so I thought it might take them a week or so to get it in (assuming Dell themselves had...

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2016/report-says-australian-building-sector-could-shift-to-zero-emissions-by-2050-a-journey-it-says-could-deliver-20bn-in-energy-savings-96509 Just 'coz I thought you'd like to find something comfortable and familiar to you in a strange country.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to reduce your consumption a bit instead? Efficiency is by far the cheapest sort of generation.

^Gibberish. Tea, either learn to use the tablet properly or else use a real computer for posting. (And why are you using my login?)

Some great info above, thankyou gentlemen. I have now disabled the wireless and asorted other carp onthe Telstra router and plugged my old (3 months) router into it on the theory that any weird carp it dies still has toget through my otherrouter before it can see my network. Does that seem...

This sucks, Doug. I don't spend much these days but I'd certainly direct it through here. I tend to avoid Amazon as a rule but I'd change my habits if the buggers would play ball.

Tea, read the thread before you reply, OK? Anyway, you are using the desktop site. (Posted with Firefox on Android, but also on the desktop site. One of the three nice things about Tea is that she, like me, hates mobile sites and never, ever uses them.)

Never mind Tesla, the companies that are going to sell a lot of electric cars are the ones with the really big R&D budgets. And that's not Tesla. It's BMW. It's Toyota. It's Mercedes-Benz. Tesla will do OK right up until electric cars become the norm. Then companies like BMW will cream them.

The fantasy of using nuclear powered rockets is just that - fantasy. The key issue is reaction mass. Heating that mass up to create pressure and thus accelleration is not the problem. You can get plenty of heat with ordinary (non-radioactive) chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen. You can't use...

Wow, Merc. Just wow.

I could always lend you my hat.

By the way, regular readers of these pages will be astonished to discovrr that I just switched to Telstra! None of the smaller, better quality ISPs were able to port my number. Apparently it can be difficult where, as in my case, the copper connection goes via a shared exchange facility which...

Howell, where I am I can get ADSL, HFC cable, optical fibre NBN, and cellular network. (Spoiled for choice.) But seeing as I want to transfer the phone number to my home connection (fibre NBN) and (for complicated technical reasons to do with restrictions on number porting which is readiliy...

Chewy, I'll look into that. I have ... er ... three spare routers, maybe four, so with any luck one of them will do the job. Failing that, a USB LAN connector might be OK.

Wow, so many helpful answers! Stereodude first: because I didn't know there was such a thing. Also because my main use for the dongle is to provide portable connectivity shen I'm away on trips. I'm moving out of the shop and am switching the phone and ADSL connection off there. But I'll still...

I want to cancel a landline connection and replace it with a wireless gadget. It can connect up to 10 devices wirelessly. The thing is, I also need to connect desktop computers to it from time to time, so I need an actusl wired connection. i Is there an easy way to connect an ordinary router (5...

Why is the Pentax 15-30 a rebrabded Tamron? Last time I looked, Pentax and Tokina were different divisions of the same clongomerate. Is there no Tokina lens suitable? (Haven't kept up lately, I confess.)

PS: probably be a few years - I only just bought this thing, no need to replace it for a long while yet.

The stanard Android keyboard is lousy, byt Hackers Heyboard is perfectly usable. I'd certainly want something similar to that. Mostly we'd just like something that, for example, has a hosts file you can edit and various of the other facilities a real OS has.I wouldn't go near Metro without a gas...

Tea, for all her abruptness, is perfectly correct in essence. There is nothing weird abot RAM acting weird. RAM is only weird when it doesn't act weird. Put some in, try it, if it doesn't work asndesired, put some different RAM in. Annoying? Of course it is. It was annoying in 1979 too, only...