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Tea! That's not very nice. You're only saying that becaues you're young and stupid, and I'm mature and wise and sensible.

I'm here.

Only two things: H and P. http://redhill.net.au/w/w-hp.html

Aten is a god brand, ditto Belkin. I've used and/or sold quite few KVMs and had very little trouble with the better quality ones. These days we use an inexpensive little thing that I'd have to check the brand of but works well. It is unusual in that it has te cables built-in and is thus much...

No, not the post, the program. I need something to do a specific, quite well-defined task. Easiest to explain the "why" first, then I'll try the "what". WHY I take a lot of photographs, sometimes several thousand in a week. Some are taken in both raw and JPG, some JPG only. They all end up...

I got the feeling that this was going to require concentration and mental effort. I don't seem to have any of either floating around right now. Maybe Tea would like a go, she can concentrate brilliantly as long as it doesn't have to be for more than 18 seconds at a time.

Nahhh ... they'd just have had to release them as TV serials. :)

Aha! But Paugie, if we were to tell you what the orthodox doctrine is, then that would be admitting you to the Inner Circle of Secret Knowledge handed down across the centuries by the Custodians of Civilisation in the Service of the Great Prophet, which would place you in Mortal Peril of your...

No there isn't. I said Painshop Pro and I meant Painshop Pro.

That would be a fair point, Sechs ..... if we were talking about a $149 (less with coupon) package. But we ain't. We are talking about a $1200 package, and at that price for something that is, after all, just a glorified PainShop Pro with 90% fewer bugs and an even more primitive and...

Heresy!

The Canon one offeres a feature which seems to me very useful: instant warm-up. Others may have this as well, though I don't know.

Australians used to threaten to move to New Zealand. After 50% of New Zealanders moved to Australia in about 1980 and spent the next 15 years sitting around in pubs complaing about the beer and badmouthing the place that was now housing them and feeding them and providing them with expensive...

Bozo, you did indeed miss them. USB ports came along years before the event. It was maybe 2 years before there was any USB hardware, 1 or 2 before the was even broken USB software support in Windows, and then there was a futher long wait before the hardware became practical or common. That's...

That's a fair-sounding reason, Big F. But, seriously, what support do they actually get anyway? Maybe the programmers I know are pretty small beer, but I get the clear picture from those guys (full-on professionals, I'm talking about, not your home hacker with a copy of Visual Basic) that the...

I'm about to start replacing my remaining 400GB Samsungs with 1TB ones. So I hope that they are just as good as ever!

I really hope you are right, Sechs. My reasoning is based on the fact that several Adobe products in the Photoshop family are XP-specific. (One or two of the Elements family, and Photoshop CS3 itself). There is no valid technical reason for a Photoshop-type product not to run on Windows 2000...

Interestingly, nearly half of the new systems were Thinkpads. That's an unusually high proportion of notebooks vs desktops. Possibly because of the usual back-to-school thing, possibly because many of the other places seling notebooks try to lumber you with one or other of those worst of all...

Time I found the time to investigate and prepare a Linux pre-load option, MangyDog. I think it might sell quite well, in a modest sort of way, and unlike Vista, the skills required are likely to be both portable and of long-term value. I have sold ... er ... I have the exact number here...

I know, I know. Would you belive it? Eight hours after I posted that "not a real lens" Sigma announced that they were realising it to manufacture. I mean, I was right when I posted it, but eight hours? Couldn't they have waited a week or two out of courtesy? Hmmm... $30,000 AU, near enough...

It does indeed do it better, Dave, otherwise I'd change it. Let's take an example: Quicken for DOS. Simply, it ticks every single one of the important boxes: Speed: instant. No waiting, ever. Ability: excellent. It performs every required function that you need to run a business; Data entry...

Dave, you are getting dangerous.

Dave, I just put my head together with Tannin, and we have made this list of software we use, in order of most used/most important to seldom used/not very important. Armed with the list, we can then go through it and see if there are any "high risk" apps that might make life difficult. PMView...

Tea, there are probably some perfectly good Intel chipset motherboards around. Just because most of the ones we see are pretty awful, it doesn't mean there are no decent ones to be had. Besides, I bet that if you ask them nicely, some of the good people here at Storage Forum will recommend a...

I haven't played much with C2Ds, David, so I can't say I've experienced the same, but anyone who thinks that benchmarking DVD rips is the way to figure out which CPU to buy has rocks in his head. Clean the crap out of the startup, make sire the drivers are correct, then zip around the UI for a...

I don't understand why you would say that a C2D $70 dearer than an A64 4000 would run faster, so spend the $70. Doesn't make sense. An A64 6000 would cost about $70 more than an A64 4000 (something like that - not sure of US$ prices) and it is also faster. Hey, if I compare a Ford V8 to a 4...

You mean they don't have a heat pump driver available for download yet? Disgraceful! I'm switching to SETI! Actually, you can get less heat out of a power-consuming device than the power you put into it, even in a closed system, but only in the (rare) circumstance where you are storing that...

Yeah, we seem to get waves of spam, followed by periods of quiet that last quite a while. I get the same on the sites I run. It's just whenever someone happens to write and distribute a new batch of bots, I guess.

The thing is, Mark, that in a closed system, all forms of energy are ultimately converted into heat. For our purposes, a room in a house is a closed system, unless you want to start considering factors making a ridiculously small contribution to the total - JTR's example of a hard drive LED...

A non-Windows system starts to become a real possibility if this comes to fruition. As Mubbs says ... YES!

RWIndiana is 100% correct here. Same amount of electricity, = same amount of heat. No ifs, buts or maybes. To claim anything else is to fly in the face of the laws of physics.

Doug, you probably know about this already, but just in case .... On one of the wikis I run, spam was a problem until I installed recaptcha - http://recaptcha.net/ - whick killed it stone dead. Free, good cause, very easy to use, recomended. If you want something to lock the bots out, this has...

Or possibly 8 lemurs?

Oh FFS Tea, just go to bed. Please?

I'm bored with Hillary, and she isn't even elected yet. Probably won't be is my guess. Can't we cut out all the BS and just have Bill again?

I agree, gentlemen: shallow screens do have their advantages for certain tasks. These tasks are, however, few and far between. Above all else, shallow screen lacks flexibility: there are a whole stack of things you can't do with it that you can do with a standard screen. Image editing is the...

Actually, Tea, I think you'll find that "monkey" has a dual meaning - same as "parrot". Sometimes people use "monkey" to mean all creatures in that branch of the evolutionary tree: true monkeys, new world monkeys, apes, and so on. Other times, they seem to mean just the true monkeys, and...

So, how does one describe humans when amongst polite society Tea?

I find that the default blue "windows classic" background colour stretches to fit most screens quite well.

<rant> etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., shallow bloody screens etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., moronic bloody manufacturers etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., fools that wouldn't know a useful application if it bit them on the bum etc., etc., etc., etc., etc...

Fushigi, I didn't say Firefox was unstable. It's not, it's very good - but not as good as Opera is. Leave enough tabs in enough windows open long enough and it can go pear-shaped. But the reality is that you will rarely see it crash, as you are far more likely to see the dreaded, and quite...

That's a very sad joke, Bozo. More than meets the casual eye, because like thousands of other dealers, I would be happy to sell more MS product than I do now, but they do not listen to their custoers and keep trying to shove junk we on't want down our throats while removing from sale producs...

That's a very sad joke, Bozo. More than meets the casual eye, because like thousands of other dealers, I would be happy to sell more MS product than I do now, but they do not listen to their custoers and keep trying to shove junk we on't want down our throats while removing from sale producs...

No problem. Rock-solid as you like.

I've pretty much stopped caring. Opera is so much better now that I hardly use Firefox. Better user interface aside, Opera is significantly more stable (the most stable browser of them all), and never, ever hogs the CPU. Like all the Mozilla products, Firefox regularly slows systems to a crawl...

Thanks Mubs, looks like a goodie. Bozo, I've recommended Acronis to people from time to time, entirely on the strength of what people like you and Merc say about it, but never actually tried it for myself. I used to use LapLink a lot, years ago in the days of serial cables and 20MB hard drives...

That, in a nutshell, is me circa 1978. (Several others of us here as well, I suspect.) Circa 2008, I'm a less-bright not-so-young man turned inward, poorly socialized, who feels so little kinship with his own species that he routinely travels to his own planet, or at least to those remote parts...

Who?

By the way, Piyono, geekdom has never, ever impinged on my social instincts. Never had any, not to speak of. People who don't share at least a little bit of my geek-obsessions essentially don't exist. (I don't mean there aren't any, just that I don't pay them any attention.) (But I'm good at...

Ahh, we have a misunderstanding here. Those three things you mentioned, I wasn't particularly good at. True. But that's a whole world away from my short and unlovely woodworking career: at woodworking I wasn't merely not very good, I was bad. It's very hard to aquire geek status at something...