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I checked Corel's local website and called an outfit that was listed as selling the edu version of Corel sw. Guy says it's only for edu institutions and CorelDraw is a 5-user pack, but will sell it to me if I want it - at $1,700. I asked the price for a single user version: $865. I checked the...

A photo of the mess you have now would be helpful to understand the problem.

This guy on another forum I visit bought this lens and seems to be happy.

Awesome. Where did you buy it from? B&H shows it to be on pre-order.

Cheaper LED with 25 times more power developed Presenty 400 candelas per m2; this technology takes it to 10,000 candelas per m2 If this is true and can be commercialized, it would spark a lighting revolution. Oddly, the only links on the web for this point back to an Indian newspaper. The...

Thank you very much, Merc.

Sorry I didn't tell you what type of Win 7 I have. It's the Ultimate version from my lapsed Technet subscription. So which versions of Win 8.1 will work for me? Based on what you say, I should be able to use the key and media of full Win 8.1 and do an in-place upgrade of my Win 7 installation...

I guess by the time my Technet sub expired, MS hadn't released Win 8, so the only OS sw I have is Win 7. I'm mulling buying a copy of Win 8.1. I create Word docs in some other languages, so I don't know if the SL version will work for me or not, it isn't clear. I'm also running Win 7 Ultimate...

Good to see somebody else thinking like I did.

Sheesh, what a crapfest. Glad I didn't jump on W-10. Thanks for the info guys.

Did you actually use the Spybot tool? If so can you elucidate on "went well" please?

I agree with this bloke here. Apparently the Spybot people have built a tool for disabling telemetry in Win 10, 8.1 and 7.

I saw this at B&H. Don't know if it has shingles or it's been vaccinated against the herpes virus.

I swapped the mouse out for a spare and it's scrolling. Doggone co-incidence. These days mice seem to last at most a year.

Win Update is set to manual. Last night I did the update and shut the machine down. Today the mouse scroll wheel doesn't do anything. I'm on Win 7. Is it just me?

More flogging of a dead horse. From a newsletter I receive, to prevent "Upgrade to Win 10" nagging and auto downloading of Win 10:

I have a Brother laser printer. While it is quite reliable, output quality - both text and images - is nowhere near the earlier HPs I had.

Sorry for being OT. I do support my daughter's Win 8.1, so I can manage. But for my use, there's no way I'd consider it without installing Classic Shell. Windows 7 will remain supported until January 10, 2020. It left mainstream support earlier this year, so it's no longer eligible to receive...

I read somewhere that Win 7 is getting another 2 years of support (good for me). I wonder if I should upgrade from 7 to 8.1 for two reasons: longer support, and some of you here saying it's much faster than 7.

I'm surprised Nikon is giving away Capture NX-D. But why do you convert the RAW to TIFF and then use an older version of PS? Are the editing features of Capture NX-D too dumb / limited?

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Thanks all. I did tell my daughter to ask if PS CS3 or PS Elements would do; she finally nailed him down enough for him to say CS3 would do, so I'm relieved about that. She also needs to have Corel Draw (why that pox is still used, I don't know). I have to call local edu sw distributors on...

Thanks. Was afraid I'd hear that. Unclear about version; her lecturer fobbed her off when she asked the questions I told her to ask him. Incompetent asshole. I do have PS CS3 (version 10); if that will do, I am all set. She will try to talk to him again tomorrow. There are student...

Need to get Photoshop for daughter for the course she's taking at college. I only see PS offered as a CC App. Has adobe completely stopped selling software with a one-time payment?

That the Mac is so bloody difficult to use. I knew about the single button mouse but not the other issues you wrote about. The lack of a middle button is why I hate using laptop trackpads. How bloody hard would it be to add a third middle button?

The link does say a patch has been issued.

This is astonishing, considering the maker prides itself on being user-centric and its user interface. In the past few years, many in the extended family have abandoned windows and gone completely over to the dark side - Macs, ipads, iPhones. Sadly, there is one in the immediate family: daughter...

KeePass hacked. Other password managers may be at risk.

Apartments here have choked electrical connections because the builder wants to save money on the deposit to be given to the electricity company. Typically it is 3kw or 5 kw if one is lucky. Running 2 geysers and an electric iron will trip your MCB. Bastards. I would want at least 15 KW...

A water heater that runs on electricity rather than gas as in the US. In the US, you have whole-house gas water heaters in the garage or basement. Here we have smaller (4 - 12 gallon) electric water heaters in each bathroom. These are called storage water heaters because the entire water in...

That's half of what a typical electric geyser would consume. My apartment complex has a generator to supply power when the mains dies (fairly frequent). But generator power is limited to 1 KW per apartment. I'd be hosed if I had a rig like yours! As is, the fridge, washing machine / TV, my...

Yikes! How much power is the rig consuming?

Great advice. Thanks Tannin.

New toys for DD! Drones that auto-follow and auto video shoot you. Links go to Youtube. Lily ($799) AirDog ($1599 but without a camera)

You guys in US live in a world of your own. The rest of the world lives very differently. A Philips Hue Starter Kit consisting of 3 Hue bulbs with E27 base, 1 bridge, 1 power adaptor sells here for ~ USD 265. One must be absolutely nuts or absolutely filty rich to spend that kind of money in...

Back in 2007, my employer migrated from an older version of Exchange to the then current version; 2007, I thing. They hired a consultant and paid big bucks, but the migration was screwed up anyway and was a major disaster with customer emails lost and what not. I hope it went well for Coug.

Those same bulbs DD linked to might be available on Amazon.uk which would be voltage compatible for you. I'd order from there too, except for frickin red tape customs and such.

Thanks time and jtr for the responses. time: The CFL throws light everywhere, including gobs of light on the ceiling when mounted as a downlight, and on the sidewall when mounted at a 45 degree angle facing downwards. All my LED bulbs have some sort of covering at the bottom half of the...

I did. We don't get Cree here; the only "international" brand available is Philips. And they're supposed to be the best available here, considering all aspects. At more than 2x the cost (street price) of an "equivalent" CFL, LEDs are way too expensive now for me. I got these two as an...

Smart kid (and smart parents!). Cool rig too.

Well, LED bulb replacements for other types would be pretty useless if they were directional, right? The two bulbs in question disperse light like any incandescent, CFL or halogen would. The only reason I can think of for the anomaly is that the CFLs are 26 months old and the LEDs are brand...

The perils of rooting.

In the first case, 2700k vs 3000k isn't a lot. In the second case, both CFL and LED are 6500k.

Shit. WD can't do anything right. Western Digital self-encrypting hard drives riddled with security flaws

Strange stuff I bought my first LED bulb a month back. It's 3-watt 3000k 270 Lumens, and sits 2 feet away from a CFL that is 23-watt 2700k 1550 Lumens. The switches are next to each other, so I can very easily do an A/B comparison. Based on spec, the LED is about 17% the Lumens of the CFL. But...

Tsk tsk. Exposed stuff with the little one running around. What is that tall black thing in the back? A radiator / heat exchanger? But the stuff going into and out of it don't look like tubes carrying fluid. And what is that single ram-stick like thing standing vertically in the foreground?

Sheesh Merc, you must be kidding. My doc bro's medical practice in S. CA has about 8 employees, and he provides them all insurance! Every company I worked for in the US, from a small sw firm to an internet startup to a $400M one provided insurance. Of all the gazillion companies out there, you...

Even if you're not bone lazy. Let's say you're sick for a week. These things just stop working because they're lying on a table or desktop and are not being moved. Or if you have a couple of watches and wear the other one for the few days you're traveling. Has happened to me plenty of times; I...

IQ from the NIKKOR 200-500MM F/5.6E AF-S ED VR seems good. With a DX body that's 750mm of reach for a decent price.

Wasn't dental and vision insurance always a separate thing you had to have? All of the companies I worked at in the US offered general health insurance + dental + vision insurance as additional options. AFAIR, ears were covered by general insurance. Of course all this was 1.5 decades ago.