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I can tell you, someone is going to get fired. Bloody Tea! After much umming and erring, we finally decided what to do about a second camera. I originally wanted to wait and see what Canon do about updating the 20D in the new year (rumour has it that they will announce a replacement for the...

Trend Micro procedure: 1: Install software, entering 16-digit licence key printed on the box 2: Reboot. Right click, select "update now" That's it. Finito. Customer registration with Trend is something the customer can do at his own convenience. The customer is also in a better position...

Not a hope in hell. I take it you are serious, Time. All that bullshit paperwork for one lousy software sale? Never in a million, million years. Hell would freeze over first. I wouldn't consider a procedure like that for a product worth five times that much. Who TF are they kidding? I simply...

I'm starting to get seriously worried abut this thread. First we have the desire to "meat people", now we are shipping bodies all around the countryside. (Hygienically frozen in sterile plastic, one hopes.) Can we say "axe murder"?

Drat! My secrets exposed. Yup: I'm 46, going on 11. PS: I like your new sig, Howell.

I've been more-or-less avoiding wireless mice and keyboards for the last year or so. The bottom line is that they just don't have an acceptable return rate. They play up too often. I don't know what our return rate for standard mice and keyboards is, but something like 1 or 2 in a thousand. I...

Life gets better over 30. It gets lots better over 40. There is usually a crisis time around the 40 mark, or a couple of years earlier: this is very tough. But get past that last and highest hurdle, and life becomes enormously worthwhile. Trust me, you do want to be over 30. I've been there and...

You mean I get Doctor Death or I get Honest John? You mean I have a choice?

The beat goes on. (My emphasis.) Full story: Sony's DRM woes worsen

There is no excuse fot that level of incompetence in anyone who works in IT. In my book, that appalling level of ignorance in the field that the employee supposedly specialises in is just cause for immediate termination. Further, failure to terminate a demonstrably incompetent worker is, in any...

PS. I own a tie. I wear it regularly every tenth year or so, just to keep it in good shape.

I just use cheap generic bags (Regal, I think). We buy a half-dozen every now and then and give them away to anyone who buys a laptop. I use the same bags myself. No protection to speak of other than the thickish cloth they are made off (you know, the usual canvas-like stuff with a bit of...

I can't remember the details now, people, just that I checked out the main website a few months back, followed their links to wholesale suppliers (or found them some other way, can't remember), and the numbers didn't add up. Maybe they have dropped their prices now? I'll look into it next time I...

Can't remember the price exactly, Buck, but after several glowing recommendations here on Storage Forum (not least yours) I tracked down the local distributors intending to try it but found that it was out of the question, commercially speakng. I think there was maybe $5 or $10 difference...

Nice link, Coug. Interesting too. Moz and Firefox both screw it up. IE 6 is hopelessly wrong. (Are we surprised?) Opera 8.51 is very close to correct, easily the best I tried. But Opera still has the odd quirk on other pages. Not too often, and quite possibly less often than the Gecko twins...

NOD32 is quite a lot too expensive here in Oz. Otherwise I'd have tried it out long since - too many smart people here have recommended it. Trend Micro is good, well-priced, and is only anoying in some minor ways. Besides, I use their superb Housecall service all the time, so I like to see a...

"Dumbed down" ain't an opinion, Merc, it's a demonstrable fact. Go TOOLS >> OPTIONS in the Fox, then EDIT >> PREFERENCES in Moz. The difference is obvious and substantial. Firefox was designed with a fresh UI in order to attract the average not-too-bright IE user. It does a good job of that...

Ask and ye shall recieve. Great reply, JTR!

With the modern browsers, all arguments are nit-picking. All three do the fundamentals to near perfection. All three have refined, generally well-organised user interfaces when you look at them in broad. The differences can only be minor. But, yes, small things do matter. And Firefox gets more...

Firefox sucks. Opera and Mozilla both eat it. If there was no Moz and no Opera either, well, the dumbed-down "I'm a clueless moron but not quite as clueless as the ultramorons still using Internet Explorer" interface would bug me, but at least it would be better than Explorer. As a modern web...

Flash RAM is no good for archival storage, either.

Interesting system. Thanks for the linky.

If reducing a warranty makes a product appreciably cheaper, it is a very unreliable product. Economics 101.

R Series for me, thankyou. Ultimate weight is irrelevant. Performance ain't.

Lots of Thinkpads have Firewire. Mine does, for example, and that one is 18 months old. Currently the top models have it, of course, but you also find Firewire on many of the lower mid-range units. For example one we sold the other day was a Pentium M 1.6 512MB DDR2, on-board Intel graphics, XP...

Besides, when was the last time you saw me, Merc and Sechs agree about anything?

Nowhere near as expensive as a Pana$onic, oh Breaker of Threads, and some people - quite a few people actually - prefer the rubber joy nipplything. Looked at a Thinkpad lately? They give you the joynippleything and a touchpad, and a selection of different tips you can swap over depending on...

Hoolie Doolie! I always knew Dell were a bit on the substandard side, but did you read the fine print? 90 day warranty! Strike me lizard up a gum tree, that sucks serious dishwater. If that's the "confidence" Dell have in their products, you can count me out. 90 days! Unbeleviable! What bloody...

You mean apart from being a Dell?

Damn it Greg, you broke the thread. BTW Coug, you might not have noticed what has happened with the price of notebook hard drives. They used to be quite expensive, especially the larger capacities, but they have dropped to much closer to desktop drive prices now. As usual, Samsung is the brand...

Buy the model with the smallest, suckiest hard drive, then swap out the drive for something decent. If you want a decent drive in a laptop, you nearly always wind up having to get the model with the allow wheels and the power steering and every other damn thing you don't need. IBM laptops are...

Coug, you have lost it. Seriously. I have no idea why an otherwise intelligent person would even think about buying such pox. Mate, HP is the pits. You know that. WTF is wrong with you today? Snap out of it and buy something decent. IBM are simply the best, obviously. But I'd rather have a...

First one after the break was not up to the usual form but, it is nice to see, the BOFH is back, mean and nasty as ever. Nice one.

Sorry. I meant "except you, me, and Bill Cosby", of course. Silly of me to forget.

Actually, It's never occurred to me to think of this forum as "radical" before. It's an interesting concept.

i message me. I have the cure for all your folding woes. Yes, a genuine Intel Inside with the Folding Intel Advantage with dual processors! Send no money! Well, OK, send some money. But only a moderate amount. No more than a few hundreds of dollars. Oh, and the last 16 digits of your credit...

Rare for me to disagree with Mark, but on this matter I do. People do learn from you if you take the time to explain things. I think it's vital to explain clearly and simply, but not gloss over stuff too thinly. It's an art. I make a point of teaching people how not to get reinfeted. Allied with...

But you don't hang out in chat rooms, sleazy pron sites, on-line casinos, or crack sites. At least I don'rt think you hang out in chat rooms, sleazy pron sites, on-line casinos, and crack sites.

It's not "pretty stupid", it is totally and entirely and unambiguoisly stupid. What functional advantage does it have? (None whatsoever.) What aesthetic advantage does it have? None whatever. I can't believe that anyone would be so stupid as to design it, let alone buy one. This makes blue...

I usually do the first cleanup free of charge if they bought the system from me. But there is no way I'll do it on-site. They haul it into the shop or I'm too busy to look at it. I think you are wise to have handled the situation the way you did, Buck.

What's an Xbox 360? And what's a furby? (Don't bother typibg a reply, I probably won't bother reading the tread again anyway. Take it as read: I already agree that the entire world is populated by idiots and/or morons except for you and me, and I have my doubts about you sometimes.) Typibg...

Hmmm.... my laptop is grossly overloaded as-is, but maybe I'll let Tea add that to her three Athlon XPs then.

That's a neat link, CityK

Matrox drivers are weird, Lunar Mist. (Sorry iGary, but it's true.) You sometimes have to go into safe mode, delete the drivers, then reboot and hit the Matrox site again for a different driver. They typically have three or four different ones that will suit any particular card, so just...

Does the Intel advantage apply to the Pentium M too? Or just the P4?

What's the go with monitor callibration, people? Me, I've never bothered with it, on the theory that I soon get used to whatever colour cast any given screen introduces, just as you quickly adjust to the different colour temperatures of (e.g.) sunlight vs incandescent light. But now that I'm...

You are going to need santilli to answer that one. I think he is the only regular here that uses Macs much. Given that you can boot from the external DVD drive though, my guess is that it would have to be .... no, I changed my mind. I don't know enough about Macs to even guess sensibly. What...

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