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Of note here in Oz. Our local Woolworths (one of the two giant near-monopoly supermarket chains) started selling hot cross buns the very next day after Christmas. What's next? Santa hats on Easter Monday?

Answering my own question here, Clocker's Space Sniffer does the trick. It doesn't give me a sorted list, but the graphical view is clear enough that I can pick out the 10 or 20 worst folders, and that's all I need.

Do any of these many useful products have a flat (ignore tree) mode? I have an excellent little utility called RidNacs which does the major part of what I need very well. (Track it down. Recommended.) But I have a current requirement for a utility which can tell me what the largest folders on a...

Cheers all. Happy (all those things Chewy said) everyone. :)

Cheers mate. That sounds like the go then.

We picked up a 4-DVD set of something interesting yesterday at the tip shop for the princely sum of $4. It turns out to be Blu-ray discs, not DVDs. Assuming that we buy something to play them on - (a) An external USB Blu-ray drive to suit a computer? We mostly watch things via an old...

Wow! Those are indeed amazing features! I can see why you'd go with them. As always, we do what works for us.

Cheers Merc. I bought all the Topaz stuff a few years back but soon found that I wasn't using it. For the things I do (mostly wildlife and natural landscapes, both done in a naturalistic style) Topaz was doing way too much - over-saturating, over-sharpening, over-everything. Sure, you can dial...

Oh, noise (for the most part, and for any given camera) is inversely proportional to photon count per unit area. Obviously darker areas have more noise than lighter areas, but this isn't really very useful to know as you still need to expose somewhere near correctly. That leaves a single...

Cheers Lunar. That's interesting. I used the 7D II as my reach camera for a long time, but use the 5DS R for that role now, unless I'm doing some sort of action sequence (e.g., flight shots) where the slower focus of the 5DS R is an issue and the crazy-slow wait for the buffer to clear is a show...

An example of the SR's brilliant detail. This is a 100% crop. (The site software re-sizes stuff, so to see it at full res, follow this link - http://tannin.net.au/page.php?image=221103_114123_5dsrxc.jpg - and click on the picture.) Here is the original image. Did I use the term...

I had to resort to using the touch screen to set aperture and ISO on the 5D IV. Naturally, I switched to the 5DS R as the main birding camera, or sometimes the 7D II. The SR had phenomenal resolution and is awesomely croppable. However it doesn't AF as fast as the 5D IV (OK except for small...

I am just back from another Sri Lanka trip. Wonderful place, as always. Great people, great food, fantastic wildlife. I managed to clag up the 5D IV early on. My own fault really, I forgot my hat and - having very short hair - just tipped some combination sunscreen-mosquito repellent onto my...

Sign. Nearly March and we haven't got around to using the new lappy for anything much yet. Still using the old one because someone is too lazy to finish off all the data transfer and configuration stuff.

I've given up on Topaz. Over-hyped, underwhelming in practice. I'm well on the way to dropping Adobe stuff completely. DxO Photolab is my main raw converter these days and is useful for a heap of other stuff too. Not expensive, and no bloody subscription.

A clear vote against the Sigma and Tamron 150-600s. They are heavy, bulky, slow, clumsy, and not particularly sharp. I've had a good play with the best of them (the Sigma Sport) and been totally underwhelmed by it. Very awkward to use, more akin (from a handling point of view) to a 500/4 than...

I don't suppose there is an easy way to stop Windows 10 spamming you about it being time to "upgrade" to Windows 11?

G'day Merc, good to see you! I am steering well clear of mirrorless after the bad experience with the EOS R, which had some nice features but, overall, was a complete pain in the arse. Sold just it this week, after hardly using it for six or eight months. No point having it lying around when...

Woops! We seem to have ordered a desktop instead. From memory, it's an i7 with 16GB, a GeForce 1060, and a 1TB SSD. We will pick it up next week. (I didn't try to pick those components. We have been out of the game for too long. Instead, we picked a chap who we liked and though was trustworthy...

It wasn't early enough, and it was a very weak ban, ridiculously easy to get around. E.g., fly from China to India (or anywhere else). Then fly to Australia from India. We only did it because it was China. There was lots of virus at that same time in Iran and Italy. No travel bans. Why not...

I don't mind Dell, Doug. Those look very nice, though very expensive. Is it worth spending that much on a laptop which would nearly always be closed up, running an external screen? Mrs Tannin has an open mind to that. We have also just remembered the second beautiful big, photographic-quality...

Thanks Chewy. We will look at those.

Yes. This is a good thing, on the whole. They are faster and more compatible than anything based on the Firefox engine, but they come without the sub-par UI and truly horrible spy-on-you stuff Chrome inflicts on people. (Disclaimer: I like the Firefox setup better, but I recognise it's very...

Opera and Vivaldi are excellent, non-chrome, non-Google browsers which work on Ubantu. Install either or both. (On Windows, they are both vastly superior to Firefox: faster, more reliable, less bloated, less prone to clogging up and going to near-100% CPU. On Linux, I couldn't say.)...

Hi all, Mrs Tannin uses her PC for various things, the most demanding of which is playing WoW. She currently has an Acer all-in-one - i5 4460-T 1.9GHz, 8GB, 2TB hard drive, Geforce 840m. It's five years old and getting very sluggish. Requirements: In this room, another all-in-one would work...

A tale of both contrast and similarity here, Doug. We too have had a leadership vacuum at national level, but at least it's been a genuine vacuum, a lack of leadership, not downright evil destructive stuff in the mould of Trump and Bolsonaro. The state leaders, however, have been very good...

Our experience here is that people have generally relaxed, but in the main retain courtesy and reasonable distancing habits. A minority - nearly all young - are lax about it, and a few are just poxheads. But only a few. The really weird thing is that it is the NSW government which is carrying...

Getting on just fine thankyou Handy. We are living in Tasmania now. In the Huon Valley, which we have always liked. There is a page of pictures of the district here: http://tannin.net.au/browsestate.php?state=7&substate=3 - not all from the Huon Valley, but most are. You'll get the idea.

I reckon Trump's doctor - who will be perfectly well aware that he has to do whatever Trump says or be yet another White House sacking - will have indeed supplied the anti-malaria drug, but not being completely stupid, he will have had someone fix him up with a special supply of, say, 2mg...

Living on 20 acres near Ranelagh, DB, five minutes out of Huonville. Been here for about a year. Our Coronavirus strategy is to stay at home seeing practically no-one and going out as little as possible - i.e., pretty much life as usual. :)

That's worth following up, Clocker, and is a very kind offer. I probably won't have the opportunity t o do so for a little while though. (Retired. Yep. Nothing to do all day? Nope. It doesn't work like that. :) ) Meanwhile. we have yet another spectacular Arlo failure to deal with. My credit...

Cheers Clocker. No, I'm on NBN Fibre, the gold standard of connections. After a lot more mucking about, Arlo still doesn't work. It's a disaster. It is now sending notifications again, but only sometimes, and they only work when you wake up your phone. And the can't-cancel bug is back. So I...

We bought a Netgear Arlo security camera system the other week. The good news: the machinery is outstanding. Small, neat, beautifully engineered. Expensive, but I've never minded paying for class. Great battery life, very well thought out. The bad news: the associated app and website aren't...

I would rather like 600/4 III, but I'm not sure I want to sell my house just yet.

Any recommendations for an app to let me use any of three devices [Android phone, Androit tablet, Windows 8.1 computer] to read and send texts? There seems to be lots of them, but all with diffrrent features and (presumably) different gotchas.

My word, Tannin is grumpy today, isn't he! Besides, he should realise that most of his readers ... yes, both of them ... are Americans who probably won't get the "haitch" thing. So far as I know, that's an Australia-only phenomenon (not saying "haitch, poorly-spoken English people say "haitch"...

Sigh. It's sort of like money, except that it doesn't exist or have any actual value and nobody uses it. At least not for anything worth mentioning other than speculation, gambling, bribery, drugs, and crime.

It's not even as if the thread was current, it's years and years out of date.

Tannin, you are hopeless. What you wrote has got practically nothing to do with what Doug proposed. It was just an excuse for an off-topic rant.

We wound up getting a couple of Zebralamps, selecting therm rather than several others for reasons now forgotten. Belinda is happy with hers. Tannin's, however, is useless. It has yet to do any useful work at all. ...... This is because he put it somewhere apparently sensible until needed -...

I thought I'd always been 9. It certainly seems like forever. Mind you, working with Tannin can make ten minutes seem like forever.

^ Ignore that. He's talking about me, of course. Probably hopes I wouldn't notice.

Oh. Sorry. I forgot that bit. We charged it up on Friday morning. So that's er ... (counts on paws) .... four and a bit days for 67%.

No. Should I? It's Tuesday. 1PM Tuesday, and the phone is at 67% charge.

Tannin seems to have forgotten this thread, so I guess I'd better clean up after him. Same as usual. The Y7 battery life seems to be pretty good. We took it off the charger at 10AM and have had a bit over two hours of talk time since then. It is now 1PM - and get this: it's still got a 67%...

Usage of multiple cores: #1: Microsoft's spyware sending data to Microsoft #2: Google's spyware sending data to Google #3: Facebook's spyware sending data to Facebook #4: Your anti-virus spyware sending data to Russia. #5: The Fed's spyware sending data to Uncle Sam #6: Your application...

The cheap email-only account is a good idea, but in reality, if you just forget about it the chances are that you will never notice anything you are missing. And if by some chance something important does go there and gets lost, you won't ever find out about it so you won't ever miss it...

That will be an interesting trick: I've never seen a president getting reelected from inside a jail cell before.

Well, Tannin has finally run out of things to buy. He ordered a 16-35/4 today, along with a Canon G9X II. I feel extremely lucky that no-one has managed to come up with a general-purpose zoom lens clearly superior to the 24-105/4 Mark 1 or he would have got one of those too. The G9X II is the...

I don't think I'd like the taste. I read the web page so kindly provided and ...