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A really weird thing, ths one. Customer rang me, can't acces the web. She had been onto Telstra Big Pond (that well-known lowest common demoninator of Australian ISPs) and they said everything was perfect. But she can't access any of the three most important URLs she needs to run her business...

Just to update: we have been using MoveOnBoot now and again since whenever Tea started this thread and while it's not perfect (you seem to need to delete bad apps one at a time, with a reboot in-between) it's simple and practical and very powerful. There might be even more useful tool out there...

PS: you will still see those gross slanders repeated from time to time, but only in the US, where some ill-educated people still blindly try to hang on to rumours put about because Airbus (a) is #1 in the aircraft industry and (b) isn't from the United States.

You are dreaming, Sechs. Fly by wire software in commercial airliners is astonishingly good, and has been since its inception. Fly by wire airliners have crashed (at least three brands) but in almost all cases - and certainly in the famous high death toll ones - human error on the part of crew...

1: just ain't so. Users can f*ck up anything if they put their minds to it. And do. Regularly. Constantly, in fact. 2: is true, but the real point is that Windows deliberately sets out to make it difficult for users in group (1) to become users in group (2). It is a fundamental rule for...

We have had a bad batch of Lite-On drives. (Yup, just after posting to say how 100% reliable they are.) Out of a box of 10, we have had 4 or 5 bad ones. Haven't bought any Lite-Ons since then. Probably just a bad batch, but we switched brands anyway. First to Gigabyte. The Gigabytes are...

Bozo, I think you have a valid point, but wind up drawing an invalid conclusion from it. I agree that the *nix experence can be very frustrating, and leave you feeling that you are working very hard just to do what should be a simple and obvious task. However, the undoubted and severe problems...

The key difference about Windows (as opposed to various other systems) is that Windows tries to hide the functioning of the system from the user. This is the root of the problem. By telling people that they are too stupid to understand a computer (which Windows does all the time) you make people...

An incompetently expressed argument for a particular point of view doesn't make the point of view invalid, it just demonstrates that the author either isn't capable of expressing himself clearly or isn't capable of thinking clearly. The proposition "Windows makes people stupid" is obviously...

I vote with Handruin

For Dell, selling AMD would be a huge problem. Sure, at least to start with, AMD would cut them a massive discount (just to get a foot in the door, and in particular so as to finally cross out the one and only top 10 manufacturer that has never used a non-Intel CPU) but only to start with. After...

I guess my point wasn't so much that they wouldn't be punished in any meaningful way for it (though that too is certainly a valid point to make). It was that (at least on the evidence before us so far) they haven't even promised to stop committing the crime! All they have done is provide a...

No question of where the fault lies. 100% responsibility. I blame Creative Technology.

Mark's advice is good. Me, I'd shortcut first, then work through Mark's proceedure. First step though, I'd swap the PSU and see what happens.

It all depends on the circumstances, Fushigi. In reality, no-one in their right mind would turn down one of those, White-bellied Cucko-shrike or no White-bellied Cucko-shrike. (A Grey Falcon, on the other hand, would be an entirely different matter.)

One thing that The Inq doesn't say is that "Sony will be withdrawing the offending software from sale". Did anyone notice that? No announcement that they are actually going to stop the unethical (and probably illegal) behaviour, just a release of a software patch that no-one except a few...

Actually, head jobs work rather well. .... er .... that was a long time ago ... These days I'd say something like "Stop that and pay attention, you fool - I think that was a White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike in that tree back there, do you think we should stop and check it out?

The guys at DPR (yeah, yeah, there are a lot of gearfreak morons there, but there are people who know their stuff too) say that the 20D auto white balance is a bit weird, in particular that it buggers stuff up under ordinary incandescent light globes. From my own tinkering, I agree. I have...

And there you have the truth of the matter in a nutshell. I've covered around 50,000k in the last year or so. Most of that has been on lightly-trafficed roads, where you see, on average, anywhere from one car every five minutes to one car every week or so. Call that better than 50%. Throw in...

I don't drive in cities. I'm not talking about city driving. That's different - in traffic it's complete concentration all the time ... or else. (Well. OK, I do visit once in a while. Only when I absolutely can't avoid it. But it's a refined form of psychological torture. Why people...

This is a classic example of the hard-shouted half-truth that people all too often substitute for genuine science and actual knowledge. (Not that you were shouting, I hasten to add, Sechs - you just happeed to spout an ideal example of the sort of nonsense that most people seem, these days, to...

I have never used vi I own an rpn calculator (well, actually I own 3 of them, but only use one at a time) I always write html without a wysiwyg editor. Guess that makes me ... hmmm ... not hardcore, not softcore either. 2 out of 3, so I guess I'm sortofslightlysquishycore.

Edit Plus rocks: www.editplus.com

Those look like fairly typical failure figures from the days when we used Seagate and WD drives to me. I've often wondered, since we switched to 100% Samsung drives a few years ago, if the dramatic drop in our measured failure rates was largely an artifact of an industry-wide improvement that...

Limewire is spyware. Well, they claim thgat they are now reformed and honest, but do you believe them?

That article is a classic example of what is really, really bad in journalism. It masquerades as an evenhanded tell-it-like-it-is news story, and it's as biased towards one side of the argument as it's possible to be. Start with the headline, then move onto the absurd map makers and landowners...

Bahhh .... A Compact Flash card is already so small that making it smaller again (XD size, for example) in order to "make the camera smaller" is a complete crock. Fair dinkum, you have to hold the thing in your hands, right? What you going to do next, take shots holding your P&S camera with...

Good for you, Doug! An excellent choice. Awesome lump of technology. Lens? Hmmm .... Well all the L lens snobs say it's a toy, but the 18-55 is reasonably versatile, and they practically give it away. Or the 50mm 1.8 Canon prime, which doesn't zoom but is so fast and sharp (they say) that even...

Quite right. You would only have stirred up more ill-feeling, and insulted those too stupid ... er .. I mean "too differently opinionated" ... to know any better. And you are not to take this present conversation as an excuse to wheedle your former "15th way to be bad" into the conversation...

Look, the thing with flash card formats is ..... [i](Excuse me Tannin. I will handle this one.)

Eric, stop boasting. And please do not allow Tea to read that sentence. (Where are the mods when you need them?)

It's complete horseshit. They should be ashamed of themselves, printing crap like that.

But it runs on mains power, doesn't it? (The Shuttle thing.) I need to be able to run on batteries. Yes, I have an inverter and a dual battery rig in my car, but there are sensible limits to such things. Also, I can't see carrying a Shuttle box around from home to work and back every day. Since...

I have never owned a high-end point and shoot, at least not one with image stabilisation and 10x or 12 x zoom, but I have to admit to feeling rather uncomfortable with them. I've used Belinda's Coolpix 5700 a reasonable anmount (old technology now, I grant you) and was distinctly undewhelmed by...

That's classic P4 performance, Paugie, especially noticable with P4-based Celerons. I dislike Socket A Semprons as they are not a patch on the old Athlon XPs (in particular, the superb XP 2500) but the 2400 you had should comfortably see off the Celeron 2.53. And any Athlon-64 based Sempron will...

Always bugs me that Spybot doesn't detect and remove Realplayer. Maybe they think it should be picked up by Nod32 instead.

Stupid ape. Err ... as I was saying before I was so rudely pre-empted by a walking argument for the benefits of negative biodiversity growth .... I really don't particularly care about the weight, so long as I can cary it in one hand. Anything under 10kg (22lbs) would be fine. Carrying it just...

More than anything else, I notice the difference in mulltitasking ability. Pentium 4s bog down very easily (P4 Celerons are worse, of course). They are said to shine in sustained single-task intensive applications but I wouldn't know as I don't really run anything of that nature, but as soon as...

I've been imagining that for years, Buck. I'll have to try and imagine harder.

Crap. It is a balanced and rational statement based on considerable hands-on, practical experience with the most over-rated motherboard brand on the planet. Oh, don't get me wrong, I have sold good ASUS motherboards and been entirely happy with their performance and reliability, and sold some...

Check with your airline. You may have a problem with the stupid new "security" rules. But why, given that you live in the country with the worst beer in the world, would your friend want any? Take some real beer. (Hint, look for it in Germany, Australia, Holland, Austria, Chezco, New Zealand...

(My thanks to Tea for her help preparing this post.) Here is the notebook I'd rush out and buy tommorow. It won't suit everyone, of course, but it would be perfect for my needs. Screen: At least 17 inch, standard shape - i.e., same proportions as a 17 inch desktop LCD. None of this wide...

Ahh, I'm the other way around from you, LM. I think that the current crop of notebooks is too small. And I currently run an R-series IBM. In fact .... No. This thought is good for a new thread. I'll take it over there.

(Tannin?) (Mmmm?) (Seems to me that our friend the doggy one is getting very philisophical today, eloquent even. Great posts.) (I agree, small hairy one. But he's wrong.) (Huh?) (You don't go to parties to meet girls. trust me on this, I've met any number of wonderful girls over the years...

Yes, but why would you want to? In my book, there are only four brands of notebook worth considering: IBM IBM Fuijitsu IBM ASUS make such bad motherboards, why would they make a good notebook? Stranger things have happened, but you have to wonder. Gigabyte are selling notebooks now, at...

Huh?

Times out for me.