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Wow! You mean that, after only 16 years to think about it, they finally actually came up with a useful task for the bloody Windows bloody key? Farnarkle me! I'm going to run out and buy a lottery ticket!

We have known for many decades - and demonstrated over and over again with empirical research - that for reflective objects (that's nearly everything in the real world) black text on a white background is clearer, easier on the eye, better for your health (less eyestrain), and aids productivity...

I am typing this on a Kensington one, Greg. It works very well, except for the annoying stupidity of putting the backslash key in the wrong place. I just put up with that, 'cause otherwise it's nice: good feel, robust, and white, which is ergonomically superior. Oh, and (backslash aside) no...

CCC = Catalyst Control Center - ATI's Pox-ridden video driver interface, Lunar.

Oh, and I forgot to mention the asinine additions ATI driver software makes to your registry - a big, ugly "run ATI control centre" on every bloody folder right-click menu, FFS! It doesn't get any more stupid than that. And to get rid of it, you have to hack the Windows registry - even more...

Not these days, Dave. At least I doubt it. I'm retired now, more or less, and usually only go into the office two days a week. So I'm not really talking about the building and installing side of stuff - ATI, Nvidia, who cares? You stick the driver CD into the drive and click "install...

Obviously, I don't mean that Vista is superior to Win 7 taken overall, SD, merely that in this one regard Vista (and also XP, 2000, NT4, ME, and 98) are superior insofar as all of these offer the user a faster, fewer-clicks-per-task UI, which Win 7 does not offer. And when you get right down to...

Mate, I don't especially mind different. But I'm damned if I'll waste any of the precious days I have on this planet learning different when it is no better, and double damed when, as is the case in this instance, it is actually worse. If I have to, and when I have to, not before - because I...

1: nope. 2: I have a late-model Thinkpad. In more detail, I avoid Win 7 for a couple of reasons: 1: The UI sucks. Big-time. Microsoft's decision to remove the super-efficient, simple, effective classic interface is a deal-breaker. I despize having to buggerise around with extra steps to...

And Tim. :) Probably long-term, though time is always an issue for me.

G'day Doug. :) How's tricks?

Hi Dave. :) 1: Why on earth would I want to use Win7? 2: Nvidia controls (a) load vastly faster, and (b) have a nifty little two-click thing that sits on the taskbar and lets you switch between most-used resolutions. Or they used to - I've been stuck with this ATI rubbish for a fair while...

Chewy, I reckon you are screwed. Hold your breath and wait for the NBM, mate, not much else that you can do. It seems that, counting Merc's list I quoted, I cited Symantec twice! Oh well, they certainly deserve it. For a little while there, they seemed to be making an honest, best-effort...

Pretty good start. Hmmm ..... 6: Telstra 7: Optus 8: All the other telcos ..... hmmm .... maybe I better take the telcos as read and start again. 6: Hewlett-Crapard (no explanation required) 7: Asus (I can forgive them for being over-rated, I can forgive them for being over-priced, I...

"Abusive teolling" indeed. Step outside and sat that again son. That is completely out of line. Disgusting thing to say. Edit: try the experiment I wrote about. I dare you. If you have the courage, you will immediately discover that they have broken the UI - there is no sensible way to close a tab.

No so, Gilbo. 10.10 has the old Opera Javascript engine (which seems to run any decently written page perfectly well) and 10.5x has a broken UI so I guess I'll be going to whatever Javascript engine SeaMonkey uses. (Same one as Firefox, no doubt.)

Pshaw! Yes, you could use the keyboard. You could carve steak with a spoon too. The point is, a browser (or indeed any other software) should provide the user with a choice of methods to do things, using the mouse and using the keyboard.

Not to notice, Pradeep. It seems to be regular Opera users who are pissed off about having their browser broken. Apparently there are many other issues, but I haven't seen any for myself insofar as my 10.5x use has been entirely limited to trying to find a fix for the broken UI. Whether these...

I have no idea what you are taking about, Dave. Which browser are you speaking of?

Opera rushed 10.5 out before it was ready, Pradeep. They wanted it to be part of the browser ballot process. Yes, Opera auto-updates, but you can turn it off. many Opera users have done just that, and are staying with 10.1 until they fix it or they get bored waiting and go to Firefox or some such.

Basic fundamental of good design, Blake: always put the same thing in the same place. There is a very useful Firefox add-in called something like HandyExtraStuff which provides the same functionality for Firefox. In fact, the close tab "X" location is another one of those classic "everything...

The quote below is reposted from My Opera forum. This was my post, it was one of a great many similar ones. The place is going ape over the new Opera 10.5; there are many, many unhappy Opera users posting there, and the mods are ruthlessly deleting all the threads. We are not talking about...

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I never used to feel it, mate. Always said that I felt as fresh as a daisy and good for another half-dozen millennia at least. But all that was before I met the peace-of-mind destroyer. Life just hasn't been the same since then. (Her name? Tea!)

Hoolie doolie! That will be the first time ever. Never, ever before has Canon added new abilities or features in a firmware update. That is a major change in direction for them. (OK, it's all moviwe mode stuff, about which I care not in the slightest - I haven't even bothered finding out how to...

Yes, yes, yes, YES! I bloody hate it when ignorant fools send me email with three lines of content and 5432 lines of quoted older correspondence, most of it probably pertaining to the timber I was going to supply them with for building the Ark.

That, Dave, is a ridiculous point of view. The moment you don't have web connectivity, you have no answers. The moment that your on-line provider goes out to lunch or decides that you are not nice to play with, your data is gone. Unlikely, yes, but you'd be mad to ignore the possibility...

Thunderbird 3 is underwhelming. But then, my email needs are pretty underwhelming, so it's a fair match. Generally, I ignore email as much as possible because life is too short. Thunderbird 3 helps with that. There is nothing wrong with the search function. It's primitive and clunky, but I can...

The Protein Computer PSU Calculator. Start with a bog-standard cheapish but at least half-decent PSU. If you are not sure what that is, pick it up. If it has no particular weight in your hand, it's decent. If it seems a bit light, it's half-decent. If it seems really light, it's carp - throw it...

WAIK I have never heard of it. OSI is another three letter acronym I have never heard of. IPv6 uses bigger numbers than IPv4. That constitutes my entire knowledge of the subject. Printer port addresses: 378 for LPT1: 278 for LPT2. IRQs were not generally required with modern (i.e., post...

Correct! (Q1.) "Do you have a sister?" (Q2.) "Is she married."

Sol, I don't own a ball head, only (so far as my serious heads go) an old Manfrotto fluid head which is really designed for video and probably not relevant to your needs, and a Wimberley, which is quite superb but probably both overkill for a 300/3 and underkill as well, insofar as that doesn't...

Inches.

Mubs, you need to be about 500 away or less to get shots of medium to large sized birds, closer for small ones.

I've used cheap, nasty TP-Link routers, and not-so-cheap, supposed-to-be-good Linksys ones. The linksys crap gives nothing but trouble, notably with FTP applications. The cheap, "crappy" TP-Link ones just work as designed. Guess which brand I'm using now?

WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) - Killing the Raptor program is transparently a marketing ploy ..... An odd-ball opinion which may have some merit but only if you like conspiracty theories. The F-22 is a superb aircraft with a specialist role. It is quite expensive, and restricted in the number...

Huh? So why the hell do they call it a "hybrid"? What an extraordinarily stupid term to use - "hybrid" very clearly indicates that the car is a hybrid petrol/electric vechicle, whereas you and Doug are tellng me it is nothing of the sort - it gets 100% of its power from the petrol and simply...

Well, seeing as we are already off-topic, let's go with the flow. :) I simply do not understand the green reputation, or indeed the fundamental purpose, of the Toyota Prius. (Or any other hybrid car.) The basic idea is just daft, lunatic, loopy, ludicrous, and verging on downright evil. Why the...

Merc, I'd have thought the infrastructure levels are probably pretty similar, certainly by the time you account for distances and economies of scale. Last time I noticed, Oz income taxes were significantly higher (but there is only one - no State income taxes, and I think local government income...

Thanks guys. Interesting. A few more points to note/ponder. Council rates here are also generally calculated on property value, but with different rates depending on land use. For example, my shop is worth only a bit more than my house, but I pay roughly triple the rates, because they slug...

Am I right in assuming that "real estate taxes" means the same thing as what I would call "council rates"? I.e., the tax charged by the local government body (city, town, district-level government, I mean) from which they provide services like mending the roads and collecting the garbage. If...

I don't get it. Why would anyone want HDMI in the first place? Isn't it just DVI + sound + hardware copy protection crap? Enlighten me.

Chicken or egg? Given that the extension was on this planet before Firefox 3.6 existed, you'd have to say that v3.6 is the incompatible bit. I could try one of those forced compatibility things, but there would be little point? I only use Firefox for perhaps 5% or 10% of my browsing, so it...

OK. Thanks. Hmmm ... Centralised storage: does not apply. My Thinkpad aside, this is the only system in the network. Well, sometimes I plug in a Netbook, but that's on no account. Simplified backup: this is the backup. Less noise and heat: would be of benefit. On the other hand, I can always...

Because, my gentle young friend, if there is one thing in like that is 100% certain, it is that by Monday, you will have forgotten all about it and won't remember to ask! :eek:

Nope.

No.

Sorry, I can't remember. I remember looking, and I remember going away without finding anything worth remembering even for five minutes, but I don't remember anything else. I seem to have a sort of mental Marie Celeste mystery just at that spot. Ask me again on Monday.

nothing

Well, you should have looked! I have.