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I can make that post a bit shorter for you, Chewy. Trend 2007 is, in a word, a complete effing disaster. I have had at least 8 customers bring systems in to me to be repaired/formatted/virus cleaned/ de-toxed after they "upgraded" to TMAV 2007. I'm not kidding: people are happily running TMAV...

I have that book too. :) An absolute pure gold classic.

If you could buy a laptop with a 19 inch 4:3 screen, I'd be the very first in line. Tiny screens are useless for photographic work, and shallow ones are worse. Battery life is nice, but not if it comes at the expense of having a tool which can actually do the job I need it for in the first place.

Ahh, so I'm not the only one who thinks the moron who designed the SATA power connector should burn in hell forever more.

That's right, Piyono, the marketing weenies call them "wide screen" but the reality is that the extra width is pretty useless for most purposes, and the loss in height is very significant. "Shallow screen" is a more accurate description. They use shallow screens because "15.4 inch wide screen"...

Bloody Lenovo have pretty much completed their overhaul of the Thinkpad line. It's more or less impossible to buy a Thinkpad with a normal screen now, everything is 15.4 shallow-screen and useless to me. Or (worse) 14 inch shallow-screen. There are a few remaining 14 inch standard screen models...

Just passing through, Mubs. Mega, mega busy at present, so my extended Storage Forum holiday will continue a while longer. But nice to talk with you and Dave and all the crew. Dave, we are talking a brand new laptop (sold by one of the large chain stores, not me, of course) which shipped with...

Just passing through, Mubs. Mega, mega busy at present, so my extended Storage Forum holiday will continue a while longer. But nice to talk with you and Dave and all the crew. Dave, we are talking a brand new laptop (sold by one of the large chain stores, not me, of course) which shipped with...

Nope. It's worse. There is only one thing to do: insist on getting Vista Business as your pre-load and then upgrade to XP Pro. Unlike Vista Home, you can do that with Vista Business. Of course, there are a whole lot of bulls*it rules surrounding it, but they amount to the customer providing the...

You guys disgust me. How much f*king proof do you need? There has been no reasonable grounds for doubting the science for quite a few years now, and you aren't even troubling to look at the damn evidence? FFS, you don't even need to read the science anymore, you can tell what's going on just...

BTW, I've pretty much stopped using airconditioning. I've never had it at home, and rarely switch it on at the shop. And trust me, Ballarat is hotter than Brisbane. (In summer. Not in wintr, obviously.) Not a long way off in the humidity stakes either, this year - which itself, by the way, is...

Hi Howell, three points: (1) That does not excuse the appalling and dishonest behaviour of Micro$oft in this regard. (2) I've experimented with a variety of automation methods, but have never yet found one that is worth half the trouble it takes to administer. If you have a suggestion that...

I understand that it was originally introduced (at least in several parts of the world) to save power. For reasons that escape me, households tend to use less power with daylight saving as compared to without. Or used to, whether that is still true or not I don't know. But if it is, your...

Mate, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't for the bare-faced lies they tell about "local customisation" in order to get away with a restraint of trade that, if it was practiced only in Australia (as opposed to having effect in Australia but taking place in several places spread around the world...

Now, repeat the above for every system you work on. Every single system. Like five or six time a day, on average. Every day. Every fuc*ing working day for more than a decade. And then you wonder the first senior Micro$oft executive to ever show his face around my place is going to be here...

Don't mind Tea. You've hit her sore point. She gets really, really anoyed at the arrogant, pig-headed insistence American software companies have on pretending that there is no such place as Therestoftheworld, except insofar as extracting money from it matters. Example numero uno: Windows...

PS: essentially, I'm just aiming for fill flash. Full-on flash photography of birds usually looks terrible, I just want to lift the colours a fraction.

I plan to buy a 580EX II, E_Dawg, plus a Better Beamer so that I can focus it at a suitable distance for working with a 500mm lens and small birds in (e.g.) rainforest. And that means I will probably need a new tripod head that is designed to let me add a flash bracket .... so the whole thing...

Now that's not true, little one. I just have a lot of learning to do. Don't use flash much, so I haven't got very good at it yet - that's all there is to it.

Fushigi, I can't advise you at all anymore, I'm afraid. I've lost touch with all the new models in the P&S arena. E_Dawg seems to know what he is talking about (which, knowing E_Dawg, should surprise no-one), so you better go with his advice.

I have absolutely no idea WTF this thread is doing or saying. It doesn't make any sense at all.

" It's not software at that point, Olson says" ... wow. That's the most extraordinary legalistic twisting I've heard in quite a while. So,You and I can go into business mass-producing Microsoft Office CDs and selling them for $50 each now, yes? Hey - we wouldn't be pirating software, cause...

FFS Udaman, the guy is supposed to be a talented professional photographer, and he puts up a page of dreadful photographs (a couple of them rather good, notably the one he didn't actually take himself, but mostly very crappy, and in one spectacular case unusably bad), all of them over-saturated...

FFS, my granny can take better happy snaps. There is only one decent picture there and his freakin wife took that one. Can we change the subject now?

That, Luna, is an awesome link. Rockwell's wost-ever spewing of nonsense. At least the worst I've ever seen from him. The man is extraordinary.

For me, E_dawg, 14-bit raw will be handy but not especially useful. Most of my work is with birds, where you generally have only a reasonable dynamic range to contend with. Compare this with someone who does landscapes, where dynamic range is a constant struggle if the light is any good, and if...

Check the prices of the 5000: I'm getting 5000s for near enough to the same price as the 4600s right now.

Is it time to consider better hosting? Over the last couple of months, Storage Forum has been down more often than I can count of late. It's never off for long at a time, typically 5 or 15 minutes, but it's starting to bug me, and it must be driving you mad, Doug. OK, I'm here in Australia...

Well, look at it this way, Tea. At least now you will have something to smile about when people tell you that they think you think the sun shines out of your ... er .. no ... let's not go there.

Sorry Mubs, I only hae chocolate ones. Would you like a chocolate camera? Lunar, that makes sense to me. The crop factor itself isn't an issue, as I see it, but where are the UWA lenses for 1.3? There isn't anything to replace my current (much loved) EF-S 10-22 (which gets more use than any...

For the sake of readability and having everything together in a one thread - one topic sort of way, I'll quote some some 1D III posts from the other thread: mubs News.com has a write-up about the new Canon EOS-1D Mark III. LunarMist Yeah, most of us were up late last night waiting for the...

Looks very nice. much better controls (yes! one-hand to change stuff!) ISO 3200 native, 6400 with expansion, said to be very clean 14-bit raw 10 frames per second 10MP 1.3 crop even better auto-focus Live view for macros and remote tethering Decent battery at last They are taking...

Corvair, that's really sad. Are you for real? I mean how sad can you get? You get a whole lot of people back out of installing a browser that actually works most of the time on most web pages because they have been using pages that are so broken that they only work when the browser is hopelessly...

Hmmmmm .... I don't think I'd be calling that a "feature". It sounds very much like a deliberately (and you would think illegally) tied product to me. What's wrong with Microsoft's SMTP servers?

Thanks Mark, that will be a handy link. BTW, I'm talking ... oh ... maybe 12 different machines, all running XP Pro Upgrade, XP Home OEM, or XP Pro OEM. A roughly even mix of existing installs having spyware and crap cleaned off, fresh installs on old systems (mostly with format), and new...

Starting about three days ago, Windows Update no longer offers Internet Explorer 7. This is weird. Let's follow the sequence through, OK? 1: IE 7 is in beta: you need to be part of the beta program to get it. 2: IE 7 is released, sort of. It's on Windows update, but only available to a small...

Simple method. (Not that there aren't good methods mentioned above, just adding an alternative.) 1: Install Thunderbird on old system 2: Let Thunderbird import settings and mail and everything from Outbreak. 3: Build new system. Install Windows, Thunderbird, and whatever else you want. 4...

My man just bit the bullet. He was running XP on an Athlon XP 3000, 512MB, 120GB, Gforce FX5700 AGP. Ran just fine. All he ever does is surf a little. Against my advice, he bought a retail copy of Vista Home Premium down the road at Hardly Normals, asked me to install it. So I plugged in...

Cadbury own Cottees. I don't think there are any Australian companies anymore.

Is that right? Wow! Who's a thunk it? I guess I didn't think of China when I said "Asia", sort of forgot that China ain't all about ricefields and funny pajamas these days. Bit of a senior moment there.

If the US wants to sell cars elsewhere in the world, there is a hell of a credibility gap to deal with. Most people in most parts of the world think that American-made cars are shoddy, flimsy, unreliable, ugly, overweight, and 5 to 10 years behind in engineering and technology. Sort of like...

Not even close. OK, I tried being paitent and polite, even (remarkably enough) in the face of the offensive and plain wrong "fishing around for our private information" claim above. But I can see that that was a waste of time in your case. Lesson learned. So here is the plain, unvarnised...

The server only ever sees the last address, Bozo. So, for example, when you hit this thread, the SF server saw your refferring address which was most likely the SF Pub and Brewery. Your browser downloaded this page which, among other things, contains a link to my site. So now my server gets into...

I prefer white tits myself. Or brown; black if desired. A pale pink is OK, but I draw the line at red ones. (Tannin, that's READ, pronounced REED, not RED as in "last night I read a book".) (By the way, what are tits?)

Mate, you've got a pretty fair-sized misunderstanding happening here. Perhaps I better explain what a referer is and how it works. The fundamental idea is very simple: a web server - any web server - needs to know where a request is coming from so that it can figure out what to do with it. For...

Why don't you get him to try my Vista simulator. It's really easy to install, and works better than the real thing. Here is what you do: Start with your choice of Windows XP or Windows 2000. Download some really ugly wallpaper. If it glows in the dark, you are getting close. Go to the...

Some third-party firewalls do it too. I think Zone Alarm is one, if I remember correctly. And yes, David, it is set properly by default on every browser I have ever heard of.

Will, that's brilliant. Why didn't I think of it? More to the point, why didn't Microsoft think of it - they have enough programmers working away, surely one of them has a clue? Nope, instead we get different wallpaper called Aero. sigh

That's almost certainly because your browser is misconfigured, Sechs. You probably are blocking referers. This means that my webserver can't tell whether you are are from Storage Forum (i,e., it is supposed to hand your browser the pictures) or some random scumbag stealing bandwidth. I thought I...

Yes, really! https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3751/ Handy Xtra Stuff is very small. It adds the ability to configure Firefox's "view source" function to a button on your toolbar (the real toolbar, not one of those space-hogging crapfest extras you can add, nor the dorky bookmarks toolbar...