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What? No refresh? That sucks - big time. Maybe I'd be better with 6.

You are right, Merc. I'll install it on the laptop I use for 80-odd percent of my computing. Why the laptop? Because (as you say) - * It's gong to get more and more common, so IE 7 compatibility is probably already more important than IE 6. Ergo, check in IE 7 first, IE 6 later. * Tabs. I...

Well, I guess that IE 7 is a bit safer than all the previous versions. You'd certainly hope so.

I looked at and slightly lusted after the D200 when it first came out, Udaman, but changed my tune pretty fast when I looked a bit harder. As I recall, the reasons were as follows: 1: Poor high ISO performance. That's a killer, as you need to push your ISOs up to get good shutter speeds with...

You are mistaken in this, my friend. In fact, 100% wrong. Most people know this from their own experience, but even leaving that aside, the medical evidence is perfectly clear and not in the slightest controversial. Exercise is undoubtedly good for depression. It is not an entire cure, of...

I don't know what Acer's big screens are like. Their small screens are the best I have ever used, if you go with the top model. A few months ago, I compared Acer, Phillips and Mitsubishi premium 17 inch models, and the Mitsu was very nice, the Phillips no match for it by no means disgraced, and...

Merc is right. WTF is he doing using IE anyway? You are the poor b*stard who will have to fix it when (not if, when) it gets infected. Tell him to get with the current century. (Firefox, Seamonkey, Opera, dosn't matter, all three are vastly safer, and niicer to use too.)

Chewy, that was a very useful and informative post. Me, I use a different regime: low level of physical activity, even lower calorie intake. Keeps me slim. Although that's not why I do it, it's mostly just because food doesn't interest me all that much and I'm busy doing other stuff. My body...

Buck, I'm not an athelete by any stretch of the imagination. I do very little other exercise other than walking, and generally at a very slow pace. (With birds, the slower you go, the more you see.) And I spend long periods just standing still (or sitting/squatting/kneeling where practicable)...

I'm sorry, Tea. Not about the clock, well, maybe that too, I mean about calling you a little moron. That was uncalled for, and I will try not to say it again.

It's not 8 minutes fast, you little moron. If you'd ever bothered your furry little head to check it, you would know that it's 11 hours and 52 minutes slow.

You are not!

Ha! Fat lot of difference it makes.

I'm starting to think that this thread is indeed "eternal" ... :) Paugie, my price list says 400GB Samsungs are ... um .. can't remember - I'm not at work. And my common sense says that shipping overseas is a major pain in the unmentionables (unless you are set up for it and do it regularly...

Yeah. Exactly. It's like that for me too. At least a lot of the time, and with most things. It was especially like that with music. I played for close to 20 years, then started making enough money from it to get throuh my final years at uni (that was in my late 20s - I started uni late) and...

I see that Lunar Mist has got in before me with his comments on Ken Rockwell's reliability. Not an authoritive voice. The thing you have to watch out for is that some of what he writes is good sense, but it's cleverly disguised amongst the reams of opiniationed, fact-shy bullsh*t which...

Yup, shades of grey, fair way of putting it. I'm not sure thatI'd think of it in terms of "a little darker" though.

(Written as though it's a reply to Dave's post, which it isn't really. It's a general vague-and-rambling post in the old Tannin style that uses Dave's post as a point of departure.) Dave, there are only two sorts of people in this world: (a) Ones with a self-image/confidence problem (b) Ones...

I use drive rails all the time. very useful. You can do all sorts of things with drive rails, such as open cardboard boxes, lever staples out of woodwork, scratch .... heaps of stuff. Just don't let them near my computer or I'll invent a whole new thing to do with them. Probably sideways.

Bleaugh .... Drive rails. Read no further.

Huh? Ten pages to review a case? These guys need to get out more.

Having just got back from 6 weeks shooting in rainforest, LunarMist, I think I just joined the cave-man brigade! Next time I do a rainforest trip, I am definately going to do some things differently. 1: Fill flash. A 580ex and a Better Beamer. 2: Faster lens. Well, OK, I can't afford a 400...

By the way, I've been to Esperance, Christmas 2004 I was there, and it's a lovely area. Unfortunately, it's pretty flat and there was a near-gale force wind blowing the whole time I was there. (That was the year that the Sydney - Hobart racing yachts were turned into very expensive seabed...

Mubs, I don't generally watch or read the news these days, there is so rarely anything of significance mentioned it doesn't seem like a sensible use of time. So if it wasn't for your post, I wouldn't have heard of this until a write-up of it appeared in one of the birding journals Tea was so...

Who's money, Tea?

Hey, cool! Why didn't somebody tell me you had finally sprung for an SLR eDawg? An excellent choice, IMO, though in your shoes I'd have gone the extra mile and bought the Pentax. All three of the leading SLR makers have great products. I'd avoid Sony because I wouldn't buy bootlaces from those...

Lunar, the drive itself is the important part. The rest of the package is just a box with disposable electronics in it, readily replacable. Pre-made external drives are either (a) a rip-off way of selling a perfectly ordinary, stock-standard external box, and a perfectly ordinary...

2.2, 6500 for me too. It is apparently the closest thing to a universal standard we have got, and I like the way it looks. Predicatably, my wonderful Samsung 214Ts were not a huge distance off it anyway, most of my other, older screens are much further away. (I haven't done them all yet.) Also...

I'm afraid I can't see much point in a USB floppy drive. The whole point of floppies is tha they can boot any system, no matter how old, no matter how weird. Why do I use floppies in the workshop? Speed. Dave, I absolutely guarantee you that I can prepare and format three or four new hard...

Hi Clocker. You need to wipe the master boot record, IIRC. That's the usual arrangement wit boot managers, anyway. FDISK /MBR from the command line. Or any number of 3rd party utilities can do it.

Yesterday, I built the first Red Hill Technology computer ever to ship without a floppy drive. (Not counting one or two in the past done that way by special request.) Yes, it's the end of an era. As of 1st January, we no longer include a floppy in our new systems as standard equipment. And...

I heard that

Just in case anyone notices, I'll be off the air till probably early January. Yup, it's time for another serious dose of outback. Or, in this case, of up north. Cape York Peninsula is first on the agenda (that's the pointy-up bit at the very northernmost part of Australia, as far north as you...

Will, as I see it, a camera of that general nature is never going to suit you because, even if everything else is perfect, a lens with a 10X zoom ratio is not going to be able to deliver acceptable quality. If I were you, I'd look for: Around 5 to 7MP - 4MP is a bit dinky, and anything over...

Look, I don't know Jack Shite about big, distributed email systems, or about larger networks at all. But even my current level of knowledge is ample to make the judgement that I need to make here: viz, that the Heath-Robertson system you are talking about is entirely unacceptable. I don't...

Like all of us, I will be pleased to welcome him back when he's able.

It's a fairly simple matter to have both IE 5 and IE 6 on a system, if you know the trick (which I've probably posted a link to here already somewhere), and that used to be an important thing to have if you write web pages, though I stopped supporting IE 5 in my pages some time ago and don't...

I haven't had an ATI card fail on me in a good six years. But then, I haven't used an ATI card for anything except landfiil in at least 7 years. But seriously now, we pretty much only use Leadtek video cards, 100% Nvidia chipsets, of course. Last time I had one fail it was a Gforce 4 Ti ...

Most people assembling them, Merc, probably had enough brains to throw the damn retaining clip away before building the system. Or else couldn't figure out what you were supposed to do with it in the first place and left it out, which for our purposes is just as good. Solution Series, eh? Well...

You forgot: * Remove motherboard * Unscrew stupid retaining bracket and vomit on it * etc ..... Have to agree with you on that, small furry thing.

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I hear you, Sol. Sometimes, you just have to shut up, shrug your shoulders, and walk away. You can show someone that one or two things they believe in are wrong, but when they have the whole damn thing arse-about ... best to strike up a conversation about the football, or Ford vs Holden, or some...

Great post, Lost!

Well, the Americans might. Bay of Pigs, frigates and airliners, Iran hostages screwup .... But this one is absurd on the face of it. Doesn't even make sense.

Of course pilots have maps of airports. Shhesh. And rich playboys are always buggerising about with front companies and shells and trading companies, it helps them dodge tax and dud creditors by having a particular company go bankrupt while they keep the Learjet and invest the balance. Nope...

Phone rings this afternoon. "Do you fix computers?" "Yes, madam. What sort of problem do you have?" Long rambling explanation follows, essentially describing the classic symptoms of a severe spyware and virus infection, coupled with the usual major performance hit that Norton Anti-virus...

WTF?! They ship ex factory with a three year warranty. Every Samsung drive I have ever seen or heard of has shipped with a 3 year warranty. Samsung drive distribution in the States has pretty much sucked for a long time, sounds as if it still does. Sounds like someone is grey marketing to me...

Beware! Unless there has been a change in the last few years, there is no common standard pin-out. Cables from one brand of motherboard may or may not work on a different board.

Some really boring thoughts from me, Sechs: essentially, I won't trust my data to any drive that doesn't have "Samsung" written on it. The Samsung advantage has been so clear for so long that I no longer even look at what the other companies make. It may well be that a competitor or two has now...

PS: one day soon, when I get a spare week, I'm going to buy a really good photographic colour printer, Epson or Canon, A3 or bigger. But I'll not do it right away as I don't have the time to figure out how to use it properly, let alone buggerise about with frames and stuff. Early next year, maybe.