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What's the very first thing you teach people about web security? Don't download stuff that could contain a virus! Putting a how-to-be-more-secure document in a potentially virus-infected form (such as MS Word) is directly against everything you are trying to teach people. In any case, Word...

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Dear Mr Thinkpad, I am not buying another one of your laptops. At least not this year. Partly this is because the old one ain't broken. But mostly it is because you haven't done anything to make me want the new one. Fair dinkum, how can you expect me to shell out good money on a new laptop...

Merc, after playing with that example you posted in the other thread, it seems to me that if your other documents are broadly similar then the task isn't too difficult. All you need is to have something (I dunno what - possibly just a save-as-plain-text and a test-to-HTML converter followed by a...

Really, really really bad idea, Will. We all know the bad things about PDF files - "PDF" really ought to stand for Printable Document Format, not Portable Document Format, as it is really only any good for documents destined for the printer, not the screen. There are a million studies out there...

No worries Coug. I spoke in tirdness and haste.

Re line-spacing. That, Coug, is the entire bloody point of CSS-based HTML: you can change that stuff without adding any code at all to the document. Jeez. For the love of Mike.

Sure is. It is, in fact, caused by the fact that Word, for reasons known only to Satan (God would never touch code that bad) is putting the images in tabes in the first place. Why? Utterly beyond me. There are several elegant and economical ways to lay out images, none of which I feel bright...

I forgot just how bad .... I need a word much, much, much worse than "bad" .... MS Word to HTML conversion is. That's not bad, it's utterly bloody ridiculous. Anyway, I stripped the pointless, mindless crap code out of it and the result is 105k shorter: i.e., a 132k document becomes a 27k...

Hoolie Doolie, that source code is dreadful! Classic butchered MS Word >> HTML stuff. I think some serious search and replace is in order. But a hellova job, I don't envy you. In fact, it might be easier to start from scratch.

I wonder if it might be a brand implementation thing, Merc, as I never notice any diference in display quality between different cards these days (not counting UMA, of course). On the other hand, we practically only ever use Leadtek cards. Our best-selling card by a long way is a weird one that...

Geez you've got stroppy ever since you made that howler re air safety Sechs. Mate, get over it.

How long since you actually used a Nvidia card for 2D Merc? The poor quality they used to have was a long, long time ago - back around the time I bought the G400s, in fact. They atended to that around about the time the Gforce III came out. Or maybe it was the Gforce II, I forget. There is no...

"Crappola ATI" because it took something like 12 months and six or eight different iterations of the useless bloody drivers to stop my laptop crashing doing nothing ore difficult than viewing JPGs. There have been several driver releases since, but I'm afraid to try them now that I've finally...

You are right: I never have to wait for a photograph to rotate right, or for some editing to "take hold". Never. Oh, except on my laptop where I have some other application maxing out the hard drive already. And do you know what I run? Athlon XP 2500s, 512MB or better, 32MB video cards so old...

Huh? Of course. Macs are enormously, vastly better at some things. The example task that comes most readily to mind is mathematical or, to be more precise, multiplying a factor of three by your credit card balance.

If we are talking video editing, that's different, of course. But for PDFs and photographs, it's pointless. You could measure a difference[/i] but you'd never see it in real life.

I just love it when Applesucks who are completely unable to tell the difference between a stick of DDR RAM and a bucket of gear oil prattle on and on and on about how much faster Macs are than PCs and how you can't just look at the MHz number because the PowerPC thingummy is so much better...

I don't get it. What possible advantage can you get from a bigger card for photo editing and PDF viewing, for the love of Mike? I'll back the ultra-ancient 32MB Matrox G400s in my desktop machines to match any of the current mega-wonder cards (in those apps, of course, I'm, not talking for...

Prompted, I suppose, by the Firefox update mechanism that triggered just now, I cruised over to their extensions page and scrolled through the first five pages of stuff - i.e., the most popular extensions. And there was not one that looked to me as if it might be worth the trouble of downloading...

You have reminded me to update this, Lunar. The long and the short of the EF-S 10-22mm is that I love it. Fantastic lens, and I can see myself spending a long long time exploring the many new possibilities it brings. I use the 100-400 most of all, of course, but the 10-22 is the lens I love best...

Sorry to bother you all with what ought to be a very simple and obvious question, but I'm afraid I just don't get this one. Why are Apple users practically always such sanctimonious turds?

Short answer: because Firefox sucks. Longer answer: because I don't like the dumbed-down Firefox user interface, or the severe lack of ability to quite a few things without buggerising about with all maner of dodgy extensions. When you have as many machines to administer as I do, Firefox is...

Fold, fold, fold, nope, unfold, fold, fold, fold, oh bugger it, scrunch, scrunch, scrunch. Works every time.

Just a small one: Ad-Aware is always hyphenated. It's good to be careful with this as there are so many scum products out there that try to pretend to be the real thing and you need to be careful with exact addresses and names. Nice work, Merc!

Cool!

And .... don't tell me ... you are still 22 then Coug? Mate, it's just as well we are both smart and good looking, 'cause neither of us is young anymore! (What about rich? Oh well, two out of four equals 50% which ought to be a pass mark.)

Paugie, mate, we are all old men now. I'm pushing 50, Eric and Mubs are both around retirement age, the Texan of a Thousand Aliases is a respected industry veteran, even the bold young turks like Mercutio and Handruin are grizzled, battle-hardened pros .... What TF happened? It seems like one...

For "about 5" read "close to 10".

Currection, thanks for nothing Grotlz. I advise people to stay well clear of that link - if it requires IE, then you are seriously vulnerable visiting it.

Seriously bad link. It crashes Opera. I've never seen that before, at least not since 8.x came out. WTF are you doing linking to stuff like that without warning people? Could a mod please ADD A WARNING to the top of this thead (or just delete the whole thing - it's a total waste of time...

How is it possible to have difficulty with a Nvidia video driver? WTF? You plug the card into the slot, load the Dets, go onto next job. How easy can it get? Seriously, this comment leaves me totally baffled. (Unless maybe some of the off-brands do weird stuff. If so, I can't say that I've...

I use the Lan-Li ones, largely because the wok just fine and it seems like a good idea to always use the same ones spo that they are compatible with each-other. Astonishingly enough, to anyone who knows what extraordinarily high prices Lan-Li charge for their cases, they are quite reasonable ...

Gahhhh ..... Bloody morons. Still, at least the y brought it to you, which soe might not have bothered doing.

Hmmmm ... starts sounding like a good time to buy Intel

Oh, Paugie, not Mubs. Sorry about that gentlemen.

I mentioned that most beautiful of all jet airliners, the Vickers VC-10, a little while ago. What a crying shame that whole saga was. They, Vickers, did everything right and built a superb aircraft with good economics, outstanding performance, good relability, and passenger appeal unmatched by...

Noise is mostly to do with two things, Mubs: engine technology, and attention to detail. 1950s and 1960s designs had truly massive noise generation, because no-one gave a damn about it. Later on, when noise became something you weren't supposed to do, they started trying harder. The old JT3D...

Bozo, you can put 4 sticks of RAM in any mainboard for AMD CPUs I've tried it in in the last ... oh .. quite a few years, and not have to do anything. This entire thread is about getting 4 sticks going at overclocked RAM speeds.

Plane Always Late. Cute! Ahh, you lucky people. I've never flown of a 748. The only ones in Australia, as I remember it, were the ones the Air Force bought to use as VIP machines to fly poliicians around in. (They were used for other odds and ends too, I think.) The airlines all went for...

Cool! Great work Doug.

Ahh, a traditionalist with the old school steal-a-tower. Yup, that will do it every time. Cheap too.

Can't answer directly, Mubs, but I can't remember meeting power cables that I couldn't make reach anytime lately. I am under the impression that this stuff is rather tightly specified by whatever industry bodies decide these things these days - a far cry from the anything goes mayhem of former...

No worries Max. I'm guessing here, but my take on that would be that the relaxing-timings method (a) is likely to be faster but less stable, where the drop-the-bus-speed method (b) is likely to be more stable at the expense of ultimate performance. I'd expect Gigabyte to go for method (b), as...

Oh, my point was that my K6-III and your P-III are directly equivalent, and we have both overclocked them the same amount in the same way. Stands to reason, really.

No worries. I still have an MVP-3 overclocked to 112MHz with a K6-III+ 450 running at .. er ... 500 and something. Last of the line. In fact, I might retire it today, I've stopped using it. It's going to be 41C outside today and my little house gets hotter than that, so I'm off to the office for...

You already answered your own question, Mubs: you are running PC-133 RAM on a PC-100 system. This works just fine, and you can even overclock it a bit, but note that your RAM is running well within spec at 112MHz. And, in reality, the BX was a 133MHz chipset. Intel just decided no badge it as a...

Singapore Airlines is generally regarded within the industry as one of the six or eight true industry leaders. Many seem to rate SIA as the industry leader. This is a position Pan Am held during the 1950s and 1960s in their glory days. One obvious sign of this is being first in line for the best...

No Max, it's like buying a car that can do 6000 RPM and has a tall overdrive 5th gear (which most cars do these days) and then complaining that you can't use 6000 RPM and 5th gear at the same time. If you want a car that can do 6000 RPM in 5th gear, then you need a full-on sports car, not an...