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ROFL! Will, you're right, I am going to have a learning curve. Admittedly, PS and its cheaper sibling are among the best at what they do, and I might as well t-r-y to go that route. Anybody at all use Paint Shop Pro? CorelDraw 12?

Olympus ships their own sw - Camedia. It's able to do the bare basics, but can't properly do an absolute must - red-eye removal.

The usual - brighten, darken, adjust contrast, red-eye removal, adjust color, hue, saturation, exposure. If I can fix different parts of a photo, that'll be really great - like overexposed sky with underexposed subject. I don't think I'll ever be purposely blurring the photo or sticking alien...

I'm new to this. Need some guidance wrt 2 issues: 1) Which sw to use. I know Photoshop is the std., but it's out of reach price-wise. Even PS Elements is $100. Anything cheaper that works? Paint Shop Pro 8.0 seems to have very mixed reviews on Amazon. $40 after rebate at Costco. 2) Can...

I'll third the drive letter problem. Installed a 10-in-1 reader with 2 slots that gobbles up 2 drive letters. But Tea's point about convenience is very important. I take it everybody here prefers to pull the media out of the camera to transfer images? This is one thing that really bugs me -...

J. I'm following in the footsteps of the Hon'ble Sechs & Merc. As an aside, in some stores that accept only cash, I've seen signs that read "In God we trust, rest strictly cash". Maybe the inscription should be changed to read "In God And Cash We Trust"

LM, I take it you're a "Canon person"? Like coffee people and tea people, the camp seems to be split mainly between Canon and Nikon (I'm not counting the large-format guys, the specialist guys, etc., just ordinary guys like me). My first serious photo experiences in my late teens was with a...

Cool, thanks! Sounds like a really useful feature to have.

What does it do? How can it stabilize the image if the camera shakes? Pray tell.

I hope they feed him Spam (the thing in a can made by the food company) and n-o-t-h-i-n-g else. Spam for breakfast, Spam for lunch, Spam for dinner, everyday, for as long as he's in prison.

Congrats, 'deep! Have one on me as well.

I know Tim asked to be bitten, but I didn't think Sechs and DD had cannibalistic notions... ;)

Tim, thanks for your help. I am most certainly not belittling you. It's just that so much confusion exists. I'm happy with the Census Bureau defs., except they don't seem to define all the regions I listed in my original post.

Yay! I've proven my point! I get really upset when I see references (in written communications) to places using these terms; it's so bloody vague. Why can't people be more specific. Seriously, guys, is there an offical definition by Big Brother? Maybe the Census Bureau, maybe another dept...

Thanks for the painstaking reply, Tim. I'm presuming the list you made is reasonably accurate? This is why I get confused: Michigan, Indiana, Ohio et al are considered Midwest states?? When I look at a map, they are in the easternmost quarter of the mainland. I guess I'll never understand this...

Jeeze, that's why I posted here, because the definitions seem to vary on where I looked for answers!

At the risk of sounding like a complete retard, what states are included in the following definitions: Midwest Northeast Southeast Northwest Southwest Southern East West I'm referring to the U.S. of course. While some of these may seem obvious, I have doubts like how much west does the...

Sorry folks, I've been busy. An abosulute requirement is simplicity. If ever there was a plcae that need the KISS principle like fire needs oxygen, this is it. We're talking major computer phobes here - people who don't know what Windows Explorer is, and for whom Windows for Dummies would be...

Blake, that was very perceptive of you. The sub-folders will indeed be burned to CD from time to time. Thank you for mentioning Simply Safe Backup 2004. I checked it out, and it indeed has the date criteria, which is great. But it seems to create a single file in the destination, a back-up...

No. Unlike some people here, neither am I a bigot, nor do I have a desperate need to prove I'm right and others are wrong.

Doesn't it scare you? That war driving business is all bull. You don't need t drive; it's all delivered right to your system! When I set up a wireless network a while ago, I found a couple of networks with good signals. I was doing my thing in a single family detached home, mind you. The one I...

Bad boy Merc. Being cryptic.

I'm itching to say many things, but won't. This argument is completely pointless. I should have followed the advice of the wise ones in a similar earlier thread and kept my trap shut.

I've never heard of this one -- tell me it ain't so! There used to be such a limit to files in the root of a logical drive, but AFAIK there is none for for a folder that is in the root of a drive. Yup. I honestly don't know; it depends on the app, and the contact for the app left that company...

Thanks Howell. You said very well what I was trying to convey.

Thank you, everybody, for your time, effort and patience! Sechs and Will: If you've read the problem def (as our friend Howell puts it), you'll see there's date logic and file/folder size issues involved. This is not a simple copy from one folder to another; I'd have written a script/batch...

Jeeze! Are you guys saying "somebody", whether it's the Govt. or the founding fathers "gave" you your rights??? I'm totally with sechs on this one; "All rights are agreed upon by a society." Where did the founding fathers come from? Who does the Govt. represent?

Thanks, Handruin, I'll look into Perl / PHP. Jeff, thanks for the suggestion. My understanding was that AutoIt records mouse and keyboard movements for playing back later (like recording a macro in Word or Excel). Maybe I'm wrong, I'll take another deeper look at it. Howell, Folder "P" is an...

Question: Is something that was relevant 200 years ago still relevant today? I ask because while the founding fathers were amazingly far sighted and brilliant beyond comprehension, they lived in a different time. I'm just raising the possibility that while guns were needed back then, they're...

e-dawg, I have to agree with Buck. There's more crap out there than anybody can keep track of. A program associated with a recommendation made in this forum (Daemon tools) has malware in it (I've mentioned it in the tools section; Daemon tools itself is clean). The purpose of posing my...

Forgot - the set up is ~ 3.5 years old now.

Antec 300W PS that came with my Antec case: Tyan Tiger 100 MB 2 x P3-800/100 @ 900/112 4 x 256 MB Crucial DRAM Radeon (Original ) AGP Card Promise Ultra-100 PCI Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Sound card Linksys PCI NIC Adaptec 5-port USB 2.0 PCI 2 x HDD 1 x DVD-Rom 1 x CD-RW 1 x FDD 2 x 92mm case...

I'd like to automate something for a client - file copy based on some logic. Folder "P" keeps accumulating files (it lives on a dedicated 250 GB drive). Periodically, the new files added to folder "P" need to be copied to sub-folders inside folder "Q" (on another drive). The sub-folders are...

I guess it's pretty safe to assume Buck uses NOD32 himself. What does Merc use? And others here? Am I the only one (shame, shame) using NAV? It's never let me down so far. Of course, I'm careful in how I use the Internet/mail etc. I have never (and still don't) use any Outlook variant...

Thanks, HD, I'll check them out.

ddrueding, IIRC you're the guy that raced (going triple digits) a cute chick in a Mercedes on an interstate Fwy?

Thanks for that link, time. Campbell says that the reserves are boosted from time to time not based on facts but for political / strategic / posturing reasons. He urges that the remaining oil be used to find/develop alternative sources of energy. I couldn't agree with Buck more; we waste too...

HD, here's the difference. Even a fool knows oil is going to run out some day. But Campbell is a geologist who's been in the oil industry most of his carrer (he's an old guy), and his 1-hour presentantion is mostly about building a case with as many facts as possible to back his conclusions...

You're my kinda guy, Fushigi. I drive like that too; fast, but safe. Many people don't seem to understand that at all, seeing it as a contradiction. When we got married and she started riding with me a lot, my wife used to stress out totally when I drove. Now she's relaxes completely, and nods...

Thanks, EdwardK and CityK. StreamboxVCR can't seem to do it. I tried all versions, Beta 2, Beta 3 and Beta 3.1. Beta 2 dies immediately with an app error. betas 3 and 3.01 die within about 5 seconds. Keep trying with the same result. I can stream it fine, though. The file I want is the one in my...

Well, whatever, I'm glad you're out and about!

It amazes me that for a self-confessed shy guy, you frequently go to these conventions teeming with people. I stay away from events like this. Odd contrast of personalities, no?

Thanks, Blake. It was a text file with a link to a page, rtsp://......smil (SMIL Multimedia Presentation). But when I put the full address in a browser, Real Player gets fired off automatically. I tried disabling the SMIL plug-in in Firefox, didn't help. IE does the same thing. Can't seem to...

Correction: file size is 62 bytes

I was pointed to this web site in an email. The very first link at the top of the page is a Real Video presentation; it's the only thing I read/saw on that site. It's set my mental gears spinning. I think every serious person needs to see it. You may disagree, but you cannot deny that it's food...

There's a 1-hour Real video I want to download. I can run it from the the web site, but when I right click and try to save it to disk, it comes down as a 62kb file. I tried searching the forums, but got 20+ pages of hits. Can someone point me in the right direction if they know off the top of...

I did, in the first year of college (decades ago). Would you then, for my benefit, please, explain your your initial statement, "As soon as Firefox is stable and there is a clear upgrade path from Mozilla, I'm switching." in terms of how you think it should have been understood vs. how it was...

Did you?

Was a DSL user since 1999. Moved this January, with only 64k DSL available at this location, so have cable with Adelphia. Bought my own Motorola Surfboard SB5100 from Circuit City for $80 - $40 rebates. It's one of the top rated cable modems. It's defintely faster than all of my prior DSL...

Whatever. I have no idea what you're talking about.