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Shutup Tea. Haven't you ever forgotten to untick the box after the WGA crap has finished installing?

I haven't played with this stuff for ages, not since I had an early model unit some years ago, and I had to constantly buggerise about manually setting and re-setting read-only vs write rights for the individual client machines. Sound bizarre? It was! Drove me spare. I pretty quickly reverted to...

You guys really ought to be getting up a few congressmen's nostrils on this: the bullstite you have to take from your phone companies is just ridiculous. Quite unacceptable. In Australia, is is legal to tie a phone to a particular service provider, but it is so fenced about with restrictions...

Hoolie doolie! Nice to see that I'm not the only pedant still surviving after all these years. :) Damn it, I was quite proud of myself for being able to spell "leopard", now I'm going to have to learn to do "rosettes" as well.

Some very deep (and very well-earned) suspicion emenating from the Tannin household. Frankly, I don't believe it. Not long-term. Not unless the worm has turned and the leopard changed his spots is a most dramatic way. I'll wait and see. Someone else - someone with more of a desire to take...

I'm just working through the logic of the thread title here "iPod > iPhone > iPad". OK, I can buy that, at least as a working hypothesis. It doesn't make a whole lot of immediate sense, but let's work it through. If (as claimed) iPod is greater than iPhone is greater than iPad, then the...

Is that question supposed to be for me? I'll answer it anyway, or at least answer a related question: Firewalls that are part of an AV package are add-ons, afterthoughts, products introduced primarily for one-more-tick-on-the-box-in-the-supermarket reasons, not as an actual security product...

I always thought Tea was 7. Maybe she forgot to adjust it last year. I know that she does adjust it every now and then to keep her age correct. It's probably a vanity thing.

Number of Samsung notebook drives I have had fail: zero. Seems like a rough imitation of reliability to me. I have seen two notebook drives fail in computers I sold new over the last few years. Both were OEM drives; one Hitachi and the other was either Hitachi or Western Digital (memory fails me...

What Max says. Short answer: third-party firewalls suck, especially when they are part of an AV suite. Never seen a good one yet..

I can't recall ever having a problem with USB drives spinning up. Not saying it has never, ever happened to me, but if it has it was a long, long time ago and I can't remember it. Nor can I recall ever needing a second USB connection for a hard drive. Nearly all of my external drives are 2.5...

Sorry, when you wrote: I took that to mean that it has the same Intel dual band wireless card in it. Now you say it doesn't in the following post. OK. Calcel my post above because I obviously don't understand whatever it was that you posted.

Not to defend Microsoft, but that sounds like a crappy device driver to me. My reasoning .... 1: the card is the same one as he card in your R60. That makes it old. Very old. Too old to have shipped with Vista/Win7 drivers because, back when that card was new, there wasn't any Vista yet. 2: so...

Not using it here because it is (at the moment) still incompatible with the one-and-only-utterly-essential Firefox extension, Handy Extra Stuff, without which the interface is just too horrible to contemplate. (My thanks to Merc, by the way - I'm pretty sure it was Merc, someone here anyway that...

Too right there is, small one! Funniest thing I've read in many a year.

Good point. OK, nothing is worse than Quicktime except Microsoft Frontpage, Mcafee, and anything made by Symantec. Happy now?

Nope.  

Nope.

Hmmm .... Nope.

Nope. Err ..... let me think about that. .... Um ... OK. Bit of a close call, but the answer is still nope.

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Nope.

Horsemanure! Everybody knows that Apple Quicktime causes 11 crashes out of 10 - I don't care how bad you say Flash is, nothing is worse than Quicktime.

Jobs reckons Flash causes 9 out of 10 Mac crashes?

Guessed. You think guessed is good enough for you to go shouting accusations at Handruin, then do you?

Well, OK, but neither have you. So how dod you get to know about the Storage Forum Apple vs Adobe Mega-thread then? Never mind how you know it was censored.

There was an Apple vs Adobe thread here? I must have missed it.

A vs A? What are you talking about, small hairy confused one?

An excellent and informative thread - I've been away from the web for the past month and due to pressing matters unrelated, effectively absent for about three months so I'm reading this as part of my crash-course introduction to Win7 - and one post stands out for me as containing THE key point...

Powerful enough to justify the horrendous price premium? Powerful enough to justify putting up with Intel mainboard chipsets and drivers (which I have never, ever liked, not since the VX, TX, and BX)? I don't think so.

Doug, I often use a rig a bit like this one: http://kgear.com/images/SugSysC570A200E280big.jpg It's a modular system so you can arrange it any way you like. I have the belt with a dagonal shoulder strap to help with the weight (which is considerable) and three holsters attached, to fit...

Count me amongst them, and stick your "judgement impaired" where the sun don't shine. I have probably built thousands of systems using that combination, with considerable satisfaction. Not too long ago, Nvidia chipsets were clearly the best available. Over the last two or three years, we have...

What Mark said.

I bet that others here can already guess my answer. :) A Nokia so old that it's hard to read the screen on it. The plan is the lowest monthly buy I can get - I might make or receive three calls a month on average. Sometimes eight or ten, more often none at all. I often wonder if I should turf...

Thanks Chewy! That will become one of my most-used programs!

McAfee doesn't have a removal tool - or didn't last time I looked - and it is, if anything, even worse than Norton.

Do you know how nice it is to plug a flash card into a reader and it just works? Since I stopped using the pox-ridden Delkin the other day, and replaced it with a medium-cheap more-or-less generic USB external reader, I can just upload my pictures and get on with life. It's not a lot slower...

My Delkin Expresscard reader is complete junk. It is unreliable, and loses connection with the computer regularly. (This is a brand new Thinkpad - i.e., the highest quality computer money can buy.) The driver software have gone from the completely unusable version 1.x to version 4.x in just a...

Who? Never heard of 'im. Must be a new boy.

Isn't what?

Also ... what Fugushi said.

Lunar and Merc have my uses down pat: yup, browsers, two or three graphics apps, a slew of small, fast utilities such as a programmer's text editor, and a few ancient 16-bit DOS or Win 3.1 apps that are still better suited to my purpose than anything written in the last decade or two. That's...

The big news is that I might upgrade to Win 7. I'm not saying I will, and I certainly don't have any time frame in mind, but it is in fact possible that I'll run Windows 7 on one or more of my machines one day. And I could never have said that about Vista. But don't hold your breath. If I do...

That's just crazy.

No it's not: (1600 ISO f/5.6 1/200th, 40D, hand-held, 400mm.) Light doesn't get much worse than that. You can do it, though it's not easy. But let's consider your question afresh. Q: What is it that makes long lenses hard to use in low light? A: Camera movement blur. Q: What causes...

Sorry, slip of the brain there. I was mixing up the 24MP Nikon/Sony sensor with the 21MP IDs II/5D II one.

24MP FF is the same pixel density as 8MP 1.6 APS-C.

No idea, Merc! I got the T400 because I don't much care about the screen! I hardly ever open the hinge on my notebooks. It just goes between docking stations most of the time, with external screeens, keyboards, and trackballs in use. That's why I got a 14 inch model - the screen doesn't get used...

That makes sense to me, Merc.

PS: I think it's the Advanced Mini-Dock I use. Second top model, anyway. Not the mega-expensive one with 5.25 inch drive bays and suchlike.