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Oh, and remind me to read posts more carefully before I reply to them. Should you run a utility to block off certain areas? My feeling is no: I'd ask the drive to do as little work as possible in this case, and not risk running any activity-intensive testing software on it until you have a...

Seek errors are, in my experience, always very bad news. So far as frequent backing up goes until you can swap the drive out, I advise paranoia.

You'd think so, Sechs. People buy SATA hard drives after all, and they cost more. So what's holding the manufacturers up? OK, the way I see it, there is no particular point in SATA for opticals, and I don't think more than ... oh ... about 5% of customers, maybe 10% would be willing to pay the...

Huh? What is it? A Pioneer? A Sony? Or have PC-Chips gone into optical drives now?

My initial thought was a simple "who cares?" But then, a moment later, I thought that in fact secondary drives are the best application for SATA at present (because then there is rarely any sort of installation-related driver problem) so an optical drive, which is always a secondary unit and...

All I can say is good luck! The basic idea with Windows 98 and ASUS boards is that if you buggerise around ringing changes with the plug & play system for long enough, eventually you will break down its resistance and, having run out of nasty tricks to pull, it will give up and just work. Once...

PS: Nvidia 1st and 2nd generation motherboard chipsets were, bluntly, crapsville. Only with the Nforce 3 did Nvidia get their minds around making a chipset that just works. Experiment with different drivers if you can find any - but note that Nvidia's mainboard chipset support for Windows 98 is...

You have a classic case of resource management hell, JTR. ASUS motherboards are renowned for it, and running Windows 98 just fans the flames. Reset everything to the BIOS defaults. Move your PCI cards around into different slots. As a rule of thumb, avoid slot 1 and (if possible) slots 4 and...

You don't find a point in life by being logical. Logic has no rational answers, not on this level. You don't find a point in life by immersing yourself in popular but foolish and illogical fictions poorly supported by available evidence. (Sorry, religious people, but there is no sensible way to...

The trend, it seems, is down. October Internet Explorer 51.3% Firefox 33.8% Mozilla & etc 4.7% Opera 4.5% November Internet Explorer 57.2% Firefox 28.5% Mozilla & etc 5.7% Opera 5.3% December (partial month) Internet Explorer 62.8% Firefox 27.5% Opera 3.9% Mozilla & etc 3.2% It is, however...

Hmmm ... sounds like we are going to get a whole new version of alleged Marx which will, if I am any guess, bear little relation to the version of alleged Marx published by the Maoists in the past, and still less to what the great scholar actually wrote. Sometimes - well, often actually - I...

Thankyou guys. The advice and links has been very useful, I'm learning quite a bit. Since Tea's little buying frenzy the other day I've put this on the back burner till after xmas, but I'll return to it then. (Oh, my aching wallet.)

Well, OK, I admit I haven't ever tried Itunes. But I have more than enough stored-up loathing left over from many and various traumatic experiences with Quicktime that I'd rather forget. Of course, when the alternative is Realplayer .......

RMA the drive. As a DOA unit, your retailer will exchange it. If he doesn't, exchange your retailer.

Da Internet? Oh, he ain't heavy, he's my brother.

obligatory complaint, just for the record (Huh? Tannin, you can't just complain, you have to complain about something in particular.) (Yes I can. In fact, I just did.) Also, in case I didn't mention it yet, I want to complain. That's a general, one size fits all complaint. Keep it handy and...

Despite my little joke with Coug just above, I very rarely use them, Tim, so a global disable wouldn't upset me. I wouldn't actually vote for it, as my eye filters them out quite effectively (the still ones at least), but it wouldn't bother me either way.

Thanks Will. Downloading now.

I had a look at the download page a week or two ago, Doug, but got scared off by this: It's a bit ambiguous. I don't want a bit of software moving stuff around on my hard drive! My collection lives and dies by the exact file locations. Without them, I could never find anything. Does Picassa...

What's the matter with you, Cougtek? Can't you read plain English? Any fool knows that :cry: :beer: :idea: :jumpin: :errr: :cheers: means "ajkrhgkajdrdnv". How you could mistake it for "weiuagh" or "fjagharrh", well, I have no idea. Of course, I think what Greg meant to say was...

OK, I found it. Full-frame (i.e., not cropped, just resized). Gawler Ranges, South Australia, 29th December last year. Nikon Coolpix 4500, f/4, ISO 100, 335th sec, 21.3mm native or 103mm in 35mm equivalent terms, plus the Swarovski scope = 2066mm effective.

The 70-200 sure is an expensive little thing. But look at it this way, what's the worst that can happen? You decide that you are bored with photography 12 months down the track (just saying) and sell your gear. On the 70-200, you'll get better than 80% of your money back, I should imagine. In...

.... speaking of mixed up, that lats opto fo mien wsa rtaher csrambedl. :(

I nearly bought a 50mm f/1.8 several times, Doug, but I keep finding reasons not to — despite the fact that it's practically a gift. First up, I kept reading posts (elswhere) by people saying how fantastic the 50mm f/1.4 was, and how it was ever so much cooler and more manly than the 1.8, and so...

Gahhh ... I always do that. Their names both start with "H" and this ain't the first time I've got the names (not the people, I which of the people is which) mixed up.

Oh ... and he's Canadian. West coast, if I remember.

Gary. He posts here too sometimes. About once every couple of years, when he remembers to drop in.

Oh, no problem there, Coug. I'm making the same asumptions. However, it isn't difficult to beg or borrow a PSU from a friend for a few days. Hint: Paugie, if your friend doesn't want to part with his power supply, try threats of extreme violence. When/if that doesn't work, burst into tears...

Good question, Dave.

Hoolie Doolie, Doug, you are getting into some fancy glass there. * EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS * EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS * EF 100mm f/2.8 macro That's a nice looking setup. Interesting, isn't it, how my setup and yours are both growing rapidly (dunno about your credit card, but mine is looking a...

Nahh. I've retired from Wikipedia. Too many newboy shiteheads giving you grief. Besides, I don't have the time. Someone else can take care of it. And will, no doubt.

Task power supplies are middle of the road: not first class, top dollar units, but generally solid, reliable performers at a reasonable price. Certainly not cheap junk. Just the same, the latest generation CPUs can draw a heap, so swapping it out for a known good one might tell you quite a lot.

Wikipedia is wong. In Australia, wood is normally sold by the metre — that's a cubic metre, of course, which is approximately equal to the amount of wood that will fit in a cube 700mm on each side, if you pack it using as much air as you can. Stack it tight and you wind up with less again.

On the scale of great rants in history, I give this one a 8.5. 8.5-level rants are rare and precious. And the conclusion is ..... itunes is Quicktime writ with a lower-case "i" in front of it. Thanks for posting.

You mean there is even a question? No contest.

5200s are just fine if you are not expecting anything much by way of performance. You plug them in, they work. Next question please. Also, I hate to agree with Mercutio on any quetion that has anything to do with video, especially those evil ATI things he uses, but I have no choice this time as...

Try removing everything that seems to have anything at all to do with video driver software, and reinstalling from scratch. (If you haven't already done this.) ATI drivers are horrible. Me, I'd remove the ATI card, use it for landfill, and fit one that works (i.e., Nvidia), but I guess that's...

I never did warm to Vonnegut. Don't know why, lots of people seem to think he was fantastic. Never saw too much out of the ordinary in his work myself, though I haven't looked at any of it for a decade or two.

You are slowing up, old chap. I spotted it straight away.

OK, I downloaded it, I installed it, I started it, nothing is different, except the options box is a different shape and is still comprehensively crippled by comparison with Opera or Mozilla. Same old sliced white bread browser it was last time.

When you get to -201 degrees, i, I don't think you really need to bother putting in whether it's °F or °C ..... I've sort of stopped caring by that stage.

What's a bunny?

Generally, when my partner turns bright blue, I find it a good idea to stop right there and call an ambulance.

I don't drink coffee and I already have a radio. Guess I'll take .... er ... the radio. Or possibly the coffee maker.

I agree entirely. My primary usage is long lens work, where the 20D is clearly the best Canon available at any sensible price, and arguably the best available at any price. (Me, I'd swap a few megapixels less on the bird for the vastly more capable autofocus and all-round ruggedness of the 1Ds...

Still seems more like late spring than summer here, Time. Sunday was warm and very windy - quite unpleasant. Yesterday it was warm, still, and borderline hot. Clear skies (as you can see from the pictures) and just under 30. (Maybe just over, I didn't check exactly, just found it expedient to...

Speaking of lawnmowers and cameras, my second 20D and the 10-22mm Canon lens arrived on Monday, and I spent most of the afternoon attending to Belinda's lawn with the new (two years ago) mower. Here are the results. 13mm, 1/90th, F/9.5 ISO 100 10mm, 1/60th, F/11 ISO 100

I'm out of touch with P&S cameras these days, but Fujis have always been pretty good, aside from their asinine devotion to stupid, non-standard flash card formats. Fuji are serious players in the camera market, and usually very good value for money.

12MP is higher than 8MP no matter how you slice it Not in this case, Sterodude. Assume you have a subject that fills half the height of the field of view of a 20D/350D. (You are doing really, really well to get that close to a songbird with any lens small enough to hand hold, such as something...

Probably not that soon, Lunar Mist. It seems to be the obvious companion to my yet-to-arrive 10-22, but several things are likely to conspire together to delay it for a while. The most significant of these could well be the heavy-duty giant economy size iron ball and chain I just welded onto...