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Just so Merc. Much more to lean ... if I can be bothered. Pretty stupid not being able to use an intranet, pretty stupid not even being able to disable the bloody cameras without an app (who knows if the bloody app writer is honest) or a roll of electrical tape.

It's new Dave. I tried keeping the code long ago and it used not to work.

Cheers Dave. I think Merc's Emoji thread holds the answer. It's a Lenovo, BTW. $249 for a Yoga II 10 inch. The Yoga 2 was another $100, couldn't see the point in paying extra for functionality I'm unlikely to use.. I dunno anything about phones or tablets but it seems pretty clean, dodn't have...

It comes and goes, Apairofpcs. No sense to it, some days I can connect six or eight systems to Windows Update with no problems, other days none of them work at all. It isn't a problem with any particular machine, it is Microsoft. (Bear in mind that these systems I'm updating are any combination...

I bought a tablet today. Don't laugh! Spent the afternoon figuring out how to drive it. (Never used Android in my life before. Or an i-thing for that matter.) I've had to figure out things like swiping and pinching from scratch. Can't say I'd be super sorry if I never used one again either, real...

I laughed too Tea. But you really ought to explain your acronyms.

I probably have the 2.1 install discs around somewhere. I could find out. If I had a floppy drive. Well, I do. But then I'd need to waste a couple of hours feeding then in, and more hours looking for a SCSI controller and a drive to match (2.1? Might have been VESA SCSI cards back then, I...

^ Interesting. I have only recently got over missing that very feature (which was part of the OS/2 Workplace Shell); as you know, I ran OS/2 for 20-odd years. (Still have one ECS machine, seldom used these days.) Did Apple steal it from IBM? Or did IBM steal it from Apple? I'm not sure what OS/2...

Oh, and I wouldn't expect too much out of an f/5.6 lens and a teleconverter. If you can get focus at all it will be sloppy and very slow. Even with a pro-grade camera ($5,000ish) AF at f/8 is lousy. And you can only use it in really good light. Rule of thumb, don't bother with a teleconverter...

OK, some numbers, all in px/mm2. Nikon D610: 28,041 Nikon D800, D810: 41,960 Nikon D7100: 65,466 Nikon D3, D70: 14,009 Nikon D300, D5000: 32,751 (Of those, just looking at the density numbers and ignoring anything else I might happen to know or not know about the cameras, I'd pick the...

I'll answer in two parts, Snowhiker. First, I am not remotely a fan of clear/UV/etc. filters for normal use. What is the point of buying a $2000 lens and then sticking a bit of glass in front of it? Every extra layer of glass reduces your IQ. The only time I'd make exceptions is where the...

82mm filters are a pain in the backside. I like VR, but I'd be tempted to look for the old one. All of my main lenses (500/4 aside) take 77mm filters. It's just so much easier to have them all the same.

Silly me. I thought that the idea of an automatic watch was that you had to wind it up by shaking your hand up and down vigourously for five minutes or so every night using a particular certain motion. I guess that explains a few things, like (just as an example) the mystery of why so many...

"Reach", which is another word for detail resolution, has nothing to do with crop factor or sensor size. For any given lens quality and focal length, detail resolution depends on the spacing of the pixels on the sensor. (As a matter of detail, they are properly called "pixels" only when we are...

Physics. Yep, guilty as charged, gentlemen. I have bouts of physics reading every few years. I'm in another one just at the moment. Well, physics/chemistry/cosmology, they all merge after a while. This particular infection came about from incautiously refreshing my memory about how atomic...

Better yet is the loss-making subsidiary of a profitable parent, the sort of company which has high standards and deep pockets to maintain them with. Think of the example of Samsung hard drives: clearly superior to all the other brands for many years, but remarkably low priced. While it lasted...

Nope You want the highest-profit company, because all the others are likely to go broke and leave you with an orphan.

It's an interesting discussion Snowhiker; my pleasure to be a part of it. To the latter yes, exactly. To the former, almost. Shot noise is the consequence of the quantum nature of light. Popularly it is said that light is both a wave and a particle, and that it swaps around between the two...

Not worried about it, Chewy, not as such. It's just a damn shame to see such a dogs breakfast of a system being implemented when we could have had a much simpler, more effective one instead. It should have been canned years ago the same way the brain-dead proposed HTML -> XHTML transition was...

As I wrote elsewhere some time ago: IPv6 is the Windows Vista of networking. Or possibly the Windows 8. Yep, it's got all the features, yep, it is technically miles ahead of what went before, yep, it is very clever, yep, it's got loads and loads of gee-wiz new features, and yep, everybody hates...

Not quite the same thing, Snowhiker. The two processes are different. Let's follow them through: (a) Underexpose and push it in post Fail to provide the optimum amount of light to the sensor. (You have to do this, otherwise you'd just use a faster lens or a longer exposure in the first...

What sort of shutter speeds are you using, Dave? The 100-400 is cinchy to hand-hold at any sensible speed. It's not a 15mm fisheye, so don't expect to get away with 1/15th hand-held, but you should be getting consistently excellent results anywhere over 1/500th and a high proportion of keepers...

Most web frameworks are bloated, ugly crap, Tim. I am yet to find even one framework that I would want to use. Well, not unless you count the extensive library of fast, concise, efficient hand-written PHP and CSS code that I have written myself for various projects over the years and can draw on...

That's my point. I might have added that, in 90% of cases, this "improved" UI interaction used as a bad excuse to pox up a web site in fact makes it worse, not better. Mostly, Javascript is used to degrade up the load times, compatibility, and responsiveness of the site, as well as to defeat the...

The purpose of the web, Buck, is not just to communicate, it is to communicate in an open and accessible way. This is why we have strong (and widely supported) rules requiring that content (HTML) and presentation (CSS) are kept conceptually separate and (in common practice) kept apart in...

Good answer, Sedrosken. (Tea's correction notwithstanding.) But why aren't you running 12.17?

Sounds like more routine Linked-in spam, Coug. The scumbags spam everyone they can find in every address book they can find. I just teach Thunderbird to put Linked-in in the spam folder and auto-delete it.

Correct, of course, Tim. MB, not GB. VLB didn't really get going properly until after the 486DX-50 was on the way out. For that reason, it was seldom an issue. When the DX50 was around, it was ISA all the way. But don't think that this meant it was trouble-free. DX50s were very troublesome...

Sorry Lunar. I meant 5D III in the first instance and 1D IV in the second. Slip of the brain. My much-loved 1D III was stolen some years ago (about the time the 1D X came out) and I replaced it with a 1D IV. I'd still be using the 1D III as a second/third body if I still had it though - light on...

I tend to use two bodies for those ranges: 5D II & 24-105/4; 1D IV & 100-400. That leaves a small gap between the 105 on FF and the 100 on APS-H which I find curiously annoying. I always seem to be wanting something just a fraction shorter than the 100-400. I don't particularly care for the...

No.

Not all that unusual, Sedrosken. I had a 386DX-40 with 16GB for quite a long time. It went like the proverbial substance off a shovel!

I did the same, Snowhiker, though I worked on other people's CGA systems, of course. EGA was my first colour screen. Bloody dear they were too!

DOS 4 was rough. Windows 95 first generation plug and play was rough. (Setting IRQs with jumpers on cards was way easier. For one thing, if you got it right, it would actually work. Yes, every time.) Dealing with f*&(^&$ing pox-ridden Quicktime was rough. Relying on f*&(^&$ing Iomega zip drives...

It seems to have become lost amongst all the ape diarrhea. Sorry Lunar. I'll speak to her as soon as it seems safe to do so.

How many exactly?

Just the total, Tea. I know you love flexing those mighty SQL muscles of yours (most of them between your ears, I might add) but just a plain total is all we need. (Sheesh! Why does every little thing have to turn into an epic?)

If it's not too much trouble, yes. That would be nice. Thankyou Tea.

How many did we sell, Tea?

Pretty much any of the mainstream SLRs are good, Clocker. Canon, Nikon, and Pentax make great products. S*ny probably do too, but I'd really struggle to recommend any S*ny product from bootlaces on up. I'd sooner shoot Bambi. Rather than buy second-hand, I'd look at an entry-level new one...

Motherboard manual invalidated and uncorrected after running change update(s) to the hardware? Strewth! Who'd a thunk it!

Close, Howell. It's the OS/2 filesystem (HPFS) with minor modifications. The UI is very similar too, but that's because of Classic Shell fixing up so many of the bork-ups Sinofski did.

Ask me ten years ago. I'm good at this stuff ten years ago.

Tea, you are repeating yourself. Just 'coz you wrote most of the thread doesn't mean you shouldn't read it before replying.

I don't believe in it, Bartender. Heating, yes, though not too much of it. I never heat the whole house, or even a whole room, just one small part of it, which all one needs to be comfortable in winter. As for air-conditioning, no. Just no. It is a crime against nature. (I have AC at the shop...

A while back I read a post (elsewhere) saying: "this whole Australis interface on their latest version made me see red. (Where did those IE back/forward buttons come from? Why is the bookmark star joined at the hip with the Bookmark editor, and out of the URL bar?? Why is the refresh page icon...

If you'd asked me to name my favourite albums any time in the last decade, Mubs, I'd have listed maybe a dozen, maybe 20, picked one or two of them at more-or-less random according to the mood of the moment, and would quite reasonably expect to name different ones at different times. I don't...

Don't scroll up to the first post yet! First, finish reading this one. This is downright scary. There are two things you need to know. (1) A few minutes ago, Tea was flipping through old pages of the Pub and Brewery looking for a thread Mercutio started years ago which she couldn't find with...

Dedicated video memory on motherboards was very rare - not unheard-of but rare. There was no real point in having graphics on the mainboard unless it saved you money, and the easiest way to save money was to use a UMA graphics system instead of a standalone one (be that on-card or on-board)...

TRS-80 Model I, 1979. http://oldcomputers.net/trs80i.html I was about 19. Tea was 7.