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Go to advanced settings. Make sure "use passive ftp" is ticked. If it is, untick it, restart, and tick it again. Worth a try, at least.

Just repeated those steps, and nothing. ...... One hing to bear in mind is that Microsoft often use Australia as a test market. For example, they used Australia to trial MS Office product activation and public reaction to it for six months or so before inflicting it on the rest of the world. So...

It's also the only time I've ever seen it, and I install IE 7 as routine on machines that pass through the workshop. One other thing that might be relevant, at around the same time I switched off the phishing filter. A minute or so before the nasty advertising, I think, but before I opened the...

I just got spammed by microsoft through my browser. Yup, fair-dinkum spamming, by Micro$oft themselves. (I usually avoid $pelling the ba$tard$ with a $ sign, but thi$ late$t bit of $cum-peddling make$ my blood boil.) Here is the sequence: IE 7 suddenly, for no reason, popped up a message...

I think that article is complete crap. Show me a hom user who is competent to manage an outbound firewall. Hell, I don't know what half the apps that legitimately send stuff out are and have to think hard sometimes, do research here and there. Expecting an end user to do that is a joke...

Did you try shift-clicking?

Yours isn't the only problem with Yahoo. I have a customer who has had persistant problems with Yahoo mail doing weird stuff, not showing up in the browser, not refreshing properly, all sorts of weird stuff. His browser? IE 6. (He uses a locked-down corporate machine and can't use any other...

Tea, do you ever finish threads once you start them? Or just wander off vaguely into the sunset whenever you see something shiny?

Not sure that this is a hard and fast rule, Dave, though it's not bad as a rough sort of guideline with exceptions. I have found that some of the most rewarding friendships are those that you form with your ex, and your ex-ex, and your ex-ex-ex. Maybe the stable relationship sort of ex, or...

Mubs said: "I too have organized my data such that I can find anything I want pretty quickly. In those few cases that I can't, the horrid built in windows file search does the job." That goes for me too, exactly the same.

I agree, Sol. It might improve my system performance by ... oh ... 10% maybe. Balance that with Vista itself taking away ... oh ... on a 1.5GB system, something like 30% ... net gain = minus 20%, and all for only around AU$500. You know my mantra: never buy a Microsoft product before Service...

I don't hate Macs. It would be like hating curtains. Although, to be fair, I get a bit annoyed when people pretend that they are computers.

I have to install Vista on a customer's machine on Wednesday. It's starting already ..... sigh

I vaguely recall some pretty nasty we-own-your-data provisions in the licence agreement, or at least recall reading about them somewhere. In consequence, I've never gone near it. Uninstalled it off customers' machines often enough - not as routine (the way I do with (e.g) sLimewire), but anytime...

Simple method: format the drive (quick format if you like) then fill it up with data: 10,000 copies of your desktop wallpaper, anything, just so long as you fill the drive up with useless data. Once a given sector is overwritten, no normal person can recover anything, not even an uber-geek. You...

Not just yet, Tea. First we have to wait another month to see what new toys Canon announce in the lens and camera department. Then, assuming that they announce the things I think they will, we have to buy a 1D III, a 580EX with Better Beamer and assorted mounting hardware (possibly requiring new...

Actually, gaps are usually bigger than that. At any given time, a single manufacturer would only have about half that many models. For example, a few years ago the Samsung range was: 20, 30, 40, 60, 80, 120 A bit later it was: 40, 80, 120, 160 And a bit later again: 80, 120, 160, 200, 250...

To wipe yourself down with, silly. You are frothing at the mouth again.

Are you finished now, Little One? Shall I fetch you a clean towel now?

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Do you want me to explain using shorter words? Look, we are buying a new notebook in maybe 6 months time, when the Core 2 Duos get really cheap and then we will make sure it's got at least two slots so we can have more than 2.5GB in it, maybe 4GB. And a bigger hard drive. So we just have to...

No ifs, no buts, no party tricks. No..

No.

Tea, we are not spending $1100 on 1GB of extra RAM. Got it?

Not at all, Bahngeist. Discussion is always enhanced by different points of view. Interesting ... I've always assumed that view cameras were very expensive, never really looked at prices, just assumed that if you have to ask the price you can't afford one. (Not that I want one. I mean, I'd...

Look, this is going to sound flippant, but I'm quite serious. Here is a 100% sure-fire way to improve the entire dating experience. Don't. For me, dating was always a bit of an ordeal. Sometimes a nervous-making, uncomfortable, what's-everybody-going-to-think-of-me sort of experience...

You are probably right, Lunar.

PS: I'm assuming that Platform has a 200-400 VR. He has everything else that's nice, so it seems a prety safe bet.

The moral of Platform's story is that when you buy an SLR, you ain't so much buying a camera as commiting yourself to a range of lenses. From that moment on, you have constrained your choices. Example: let's say I fell in love with a new Nikon model tommorow. You, being an extremely nice...

Canon, Nikon, and Pentax are all here to stay. One imaines that Sony won't go away any time soon, more's the pity, but they are entirely likely to do something stupid and break your investment, just because that's what Sony do. Canon are huge and healthy, easily the biggest in the market...

Hey, I sold people Windows/386. If they asked for it. (This was back before Red Hill days, I was working for a Melbourne company which will remain nameless to protect the guilty.) It sucked. Ran like molasses, more bugs than Tea on a bad hair day. Great promo though.

I don't think it's true to say that DSLR sensors are generally of higher quality than P&S sensors. Nope: try always. There isn't a DSLR on the market today that doesn't easily out-perform any of the P&S cameras. The reason is simple: size matters. The best simple measure of the quality of a...

I think it's time to apply the Robert Heinlein rule, Chewy: when you don't know who to vote for], try to figure out who to vote against. The easiest thing to leave out is the film cameras. That's a complete no-brainer. Outside of a dwindling number of very specialised uses, film is as dead as...

Tea has gone to bed, guess I better help. Wallaby Bozo? In a tree? As Groucho would say (or was it the immortal Maxwell Smart? Both, I think) close but no cigar.

I put IE 7 on. I'm agnostic as regards its security - might be better, might be worse - but it's better to get the install out of the way and (as per our everday routine) switch off the inbuilt search (sends you to unknown, unguessable, and hence dangerous locations), delete all the IE shortcuts...

Ha! I haven't got time to scratch, never mind find spare brain cell cycles for you to use. Back in your box!

Ha! Where are you going to find time to write a skin, Tea? You've got buckley's!

Sorry Mubs: I was assuming (from a post way up above somewhere) that we were starting with 100 people all born at around about the same time.

Sol, that is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. Wrong, wrong wrong. I don't even know what that weird thing you just described to me is called (and I have a degree in, among other things, statistics). So far as I know, it doesn't even have a name, because it doesn't exist. It's not hard...

That's exactly right, Mubs. And exactly what I said too. From Wikipedia: "the median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one". To calculate average lifespan, first you determine that the...

Stupid ape. In other words, it's not a proper average at all. There are several ways to calculate an average, and no competent or honest statistician would report the average of a skewed distribution using the arithmetic mean. For skewed distributions, you use the median. This is really basic...

The story with the lake, by the way, is a complete disgrace. Is it dry because of climate change? That's the official story, but it's only half the truth. The remainder of the story is a sorry tale of greed, media manipulation, and public deception. Lake Wendouree has been filled by both...

August 2004..... November 2006 ..... It dried right up after that, I believe - though I was up north and have not seen it. Please excuse the heavy shadows in that second shot (which I'm too lazy to post-process out), it was very early in the morning and I was out there looking for...

By the way, I had my first faulty Acer LCD the other week. This one was a 17 inch, two and a half years old. I had to ring up my distributor to find out what to do for R/A service, as I'd never had to RMA one before. They gave me a 1800 number, which I rang. They answered promptly, said it would...

Not something I'd have the faintest idea where to source, I'm afraid.

OK. :) Autumn is often beautiful here. Autumn in temperate Australia is the time when everything starts to come alive: there has been (at last!) a little rain (or used to be, before we f*cked the climate up), the last of the scorching summer days are over, and you know that before too long it...

Job done. Thanks Merc! IE 7 on my laptop, IE 6 in a W2K virtual machine. I took your advice and gave it 4GB, but only 128MB of RAM, as I don't intend to use it for anything else except testing web pages with IE 6. Oh, and a quick look at the sites I run suggests that IE 7 hasn't broken on any...

I can't claim everyone but close. Firefox is the most popular with my clients, but quite a few Moz/Seamonkey and starting to be quite a few Opera users amongst them too. It's their damn kids that cause the problems, especially when they get on MSN and start clicking on links.

So, Merc, what's the go: you install VMWare and then do a Windows install into the virtual machine, is that it? And flick between them with a keystroke or something? (I am amazed that their website doesn't tell you this. I mean, reams of weird stuff and fancy information, but they don't tell...

Whew! No refresh would be a major drawback. When you are coding a new layout, you hit refresh maybe 100 times till you are happy with the way it looks. Clocker, I certainy don't use IE for anything bar testing purposes. Well, Tea uses it for Storage Forum, 'cause it saves logging in and out in...