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According to all the documentation I've ever read (which isn't a lot, it can be hard to find), and also to a couple of different pre-sales tech people, you need that discrete graphics chip for DVI. The Options Matrix makes this clear too. Come to think of it, I had an R Series that didn't work...

The Thinkpad T400 and T500 both come with ATI graphics chips. A real shame that the R Series is all on-board now. (Actually, I couldn't care less if the graphics are on-board, except for one crucial difference: with on-board, you have no DVI output through your docking station, And that is...

Wireless anything sucks. Wireless everything sucks. Wireless. Sucks. Equipped only with a full stop and those two words, optionally using any other spare words you have lying around with nothing better to do, you can make a sentence. And the bonus is that the sentence you make will almost...

Lunar, these are brilliant drives for the sort of task you have in mind. Big, cheap, ultra-quiet, low power, cool running, and amply fast enough for archival work. I've been progressively replacing all my Samsung 500GB, 750GB and 1TB 7200s with them. Couldn't be happier.

Lunar, you mentioned in another thread that you have a Sigma 150mm macro. I'm selling my TS-E 24 (the mark 1) and plan to use some of that money to finance a second macro lens. I have the EF-S 60/2.8 (which I love) but I'm after something longer as well - not least because if I'm out with...

Actually, no, Doug. Never occurred to me. But even if you gave it to me, the time it would take for me to learn a new application and become efficient at it ... it would never repay itself, not given that I already know how to do anything I need to do in HTML and have (in many cases) the CSS...

The open source stuff used to be hopeless, like really bad, but it's been getting better quite rapidly. Last time I checked, one of them was very nearly usable in the workshop. Can't remember which one, sorry. But it's worth checking again already - the pace of improvement has been dramatic.

Tea, do at least try to play nice.

Sorry, Dave, I was asking tongue-in-cheek. I lost interest in spreadsheets around about the time they perfected Quatro Pro, which was ... er ... 1992 I think. Since that time, there has been nothing - and I mean nothing brought to the table by any company that is particularly worth having. And I...

What's a Google App?

Probably, Coug. I use search maybe a few times a year on my own systems - prety much always when I'm hunting for something half-remembered that didn't seem important enough to be worth filing properly at the time. On customer machines, of course, anything can be anywhere, so I use it...

Sorry, I got to the bit where you wrote "better user experience" in the context of talking about Javascript when my eyes glazed over and my brain exploded.

Err .... why are we comparing browsers using a Javascript benchmark? Is there not only a very limited point in a benchmark that, apparently, only compares performance in a small subset of the actual tasks a browser is called on to perform? With rare exceptions, Javascript is an evil blight...

I bought a netbook the other day, an ASUS thing. It was quite unplanned, we had just left of a 14-day trip when my 13-month old Thinkpad died, completely without warning, and just 3 weeks out of warranty. It was either drive 300km to Adelaide and buy something (anything) or turn around and go...

Thanks Dave. I thought that's what MSDN was for? Or is it a sort of spin-off or name change? Not that it matters to me, mere idle curiosity. There is, I think, only one MS product that I'd actually pay money for (Windows) and two XP licences is all I need for that - so paying US$400 PA isn't on...

Never heard of it.

I've owned 4 GM cars, two made in Australia, two made in a variety of places and bolted together in Spain. Two Japanese cars, and one German. Build quality wise, I'd rate the Japanese ones best, followed by the 4 GM ones, with the German car last .... but very little in it. None of them was a...

Where is FILE/OPEN? For Mike's sake, Lightroom's inability to open a damn file when you want it to is simply inexcusablly bad design, even by Adobe's standards, which are never too high. It purports to be a raw converter. I want it to convert a known file in a known location, with a known...

PS: Lightroom is only good if you have a fairly small number of images, and don't use any non-Adobe products to manage them. If you like to do your own file management, Lightroom is hopeless. Either you resign yourself to the One True Adobe Way Of Doing Everything, or else you consign Lightroom...

Dave, Dave, Dave, I've posted about the peerless PMView many times here. PMView does exactly what you are asking for above, and the best thing about it is that the keyboard is entirely soft - i.e., you can use any keystrokes to move things that you like to use; it takes a couple of mouse clicks...

A very interesting point of view, E_Dawg, and well expressed as ever. But no, I don't actually agree with it in this context. Nice model! Let's call it, for the sake of convence, the E Model. But let me put an alternative model to you, which I'll call the T Model. The T Model is less...

Excellent post, Fushigi. Large, heavy cars, apart from all the other problems they cause, are much, much more dangerous to other road users. For that reason alone they should be - not banned, because regulation of that kind rarely achieves much, but taxed into oblivion. The easiest way to do...

Bahhh.... The so-called rules of composition do NOT form the technical basis of what makes a good photograph. Ability to communicate is what makes a good photograph. First, last, and always. There is nothing else. All other factors are relevant only insofar as they serve this primary purpose. As...

I put my documents where I want them and simply ignore all the other junk that Windows insists upon. The first thing to get deleted from my desktop is the "My Documents" shortcut - that folder will never contain anything of interest to me, so I don't care where it is. It's actually easier to...

Jumping in without reading the whole thing here, there is another purpose to the centre column: it gives you more height, and sometimes this is vital. I'm talking about substantially greater height than you can ever reasonably expect simply from the legs. This is useful (essential, actually)...

One thing that this thread doesn't seem to be aware of is post-collection sorting. Now it may or may not apply in this case, and if it applies it may only apply in certain districts, but I can tell you that over here in Oz, you generally have two bins and two bins only. Your garbage goes into...

(bits cut & pasted from a PM because I though they might be of general interest) The tilt-shift lens is a weird thing to use, Dave. Don't know if it would suit you. I bought it for landscapes. Essentially, I was sort of groping towards a way of capturing the vast, flat Australian landscape, and...

the 136/2 is, by reputation Doug, one of the very finest lenses Canon, or indeed any other manufacturer, has ever made. I'd love to own one, but the reality is that I'd practically never use it - it's a focal length that I rarely want. I use the 400+ range all the time, and the 10-100 range...

Do you want to borrow Tea, Lunar? She will keep you on your toes, and I'm sure that she'd love to visit. :)

Keep your hair on, Tea. I was just listing all the nice things I could think of to say about Adobe products.

 

That's been rumoured since about the time that stone tablets were invented. On the NO side, people say that it's too difficult and bulky to put IS into a FF f/2.8 zoom, and in any case it isn't needed as it's fairly short and quite fast already. On the YES side, people point at other...

Not good, Pradeep. I can only go on my own experience (of course), but not too impressed with my 40Ds. All my other Canon SLRs have been faultless. Oh, and over on Bird Forum, there are a zillion 40D owners who have had shutter problems. It's not the sort of place where people join just to...

Pretty good advice above, Will. But I'll add a bit to it: You are a long, long way away from the bird. This causes two problems: (a) you have to crop hard and lose lots of detail; (b) your AF system struggles to get accurate focus with such a small target. Yes, it will focus, but it wil only be...

Way to go Doug. Irfanview is exactly the sort of made-for-purpose software I was talking about when I mentioned PMView and XNView and so on. Superior to DPP and miles better than Photoslug for viewing and light-duty working over. But why not make life easier for yourself by shooting BOTH raw...

Handy, if you are having to tweak hundreds of images you're not doing it right. For most pictures you take, your in-camera JPG should be the only thing you need. I'm not saying that you should never PP or anything like that, what I am saying is that if you get the exposure, the composition...

Just a flying visit, Dave. At least so far as posting goes - I always check in and read stuff two or three times a week if I'm not on the road. But I ain't going away anytime soon. Too much history here. Since when weren't you allowed to call the 40D lack-lustre? I thought it was prety good...

Hmmm ... looking at your Flicker page, Dave ... well, I'm certainly no master of composition once I'm outside my avian specialty, and I'm no fan at all of panoramic photography, but these strike me as strong, simple, thoughtful compositions. There is a lot of high-octane bullshite spouted off...

Oh, 500D. Thanks guys. I'm used to the entry-level Canons being called X-something or Rebel-something in the States. Had no idea what a T-something was. :( Dave, I've been around, just haven't had much to say for myself. I've lurked a lot, but few of the threads here have much relevance for me...

What's a T1i, Dave?

Hoolie Doolie, Mubs, you don't muck about!

Cant say I actually know what these things are, other than being websites where you can post stuff about yourself if you haven't got anything more interesting to do (such as watch some paint drying). Why would you bother?

Merc, I think you'll be pretty happy with the SL Thinkpads. They are not T Series or even mainstream R Series units, but they are (in my opinion) a considerable step up from the bottom-level R Series units we used to see. (R60e, was that one of them?) Like the SLs, the bottom-end R Series units...

Why?

These are the only Thinkpad you can buy now, unless you are sickeningly wealthy. (Your market may be different, it's certainly the case here in Oz.) I was doubtful about them but, having no choice, have sold several now. I don't like the DVD arrangement - it's not the excellent interchangable...

No problems here in central Ballarat, Liam, thanks for asking. Today was a shocking day for wind through Victoria, only 32 degrees but a howling north wind gusting over 100km/h (higher in the alpine areas), followed by a late afternoon change with even stronger gusts and a windshift around to...

208 dead.

It is believed that most of the missing victims are now accounted for, although there will probably be a few more added to the list before investigations are complete. Official death toll now stands at 201. Meanwhile, the northern part of the continent faces massive floods.Like the fires...

Pictures and much more information here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/bushfires/

The death toll now stands at 181 and still counting. Forensic experts have warned that because of the extreme heat some of the bodies may never be identified.