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Well, if you ever do get allowed to leave the computer on, Paugie, here are a couple of useful tips for the Tannin/Mercutio leave-everything-open-all-the-time method: 1: Use Win 2000 or XP or OS/2 or Linux. Win98 and its ilk crash too often. 2: Having a UPS or a laptop helps. (But hey! a...

Yup. It's called a brain. Most of us were issued with one when we were very small. Some of us even remember to use it now that we are bigger. Mine, unfortunately, is very good at remembering which Mozilla window has the page I'm looking for, and that I was up to page 164 in my book last night...

The mirrored MFT or FAT is simply for data integrity purposes: i.e., the second copy is there just in case the first copy gets hosed. At least that is certainly the case with FAT file systems, and I can't see why it would be any different with NTFS. More generally, defragmentation is grossly...

Really quickly because I'm mega-late, just use a modern browser (any of the big 3 - Mozilla, the fox or Opera) and leave 18 billion tabs open till you are ready to read them. Don't reboot! I sometimes come back and read a page I opened the week before last.

Errr .... let's try that again: (Why says Tea is the only one who doesn't proof-read her posts?)

These days it is cool to have your site coded in XHTML instead of HTML. OK, I'm cool with that, but why? The other week I spent a couple of hours reading stuff at various sites about the differences and why XHTML is such a fantastic idea and all the rest of it, and the down-to-earth...

It's a bloody miracly code that crappy works on any browser! I mean, seriously, where do these people get off calling themselves web coders? Hell, one assumes that at the end of the day they actually put out their hands and expect the client will give them money for stringing together that...

That page works perfectly on all five of the browsers I have installed on this machine: Opera 8.02, Firefox 1.0.6, Mozilla 1.7.1, IE 6 and IE 5. Mind you, this machine has a decided advantage over yours, Handruin: I do not have any version of Quicktime installed. ;) (Nor plan to!)

Crashing browsers: hmmmm ..... Explorer is, of course, the easiest browser to crash. Any fool can crash Explorer. Just open up lots of windows, and it will fall over every time. Especially if they are graphics-heavy. Next easiest? Hard to say. I actually crash Mozilla next most often, but then...

The fault for a web page that crashes any modern browser (or, for that matter, Internet Explorer) is easy to assign. It is the fault of the web designer/coder. Always. Every time. (Except - and I hesitate to add this line because the exceptions are so extremely rare these days - except where...

Thuderbird is good. Never tried Opera Mail. Why should I? I like Thunderbird.

Nasty stuff. A lot more detail would be useful. Thanks for the link, Merc.

PPPS: Bill, Opera 8 is indeed a vast improvement over Opera 7. But then, it would be a task of monumental proportions to make a worse browser than Opera 7 was. (OK, Microsoft could do it, but not too many other firms have the talent.) Opera 5 was good, 6 was excellent, and 8 is the best one yet...

Of course it's a bloody flawed product. It's a web browser, right? All web browsers are flawed. Yes, even Mozilla. At least Opera doesn't sink into the terminal offend-nobody-by-not-doing-anything-really-well mediocrity that Firefox lives by. (We won't even mention Internet Exploder. Doesn't...

Bozo, the resolution a monitor can do, and the resolution it can do well are two quite different things. Rule-of-thumb: take about half to 2/3rds of the max resolution in the book. Depends on the model though.

Hitachis can be excellent, but as with all brands, it depends on the particular model. My (very expensive) old 19 inch Hitachi CM753 is superb at 1124, OK (just OK) at 1280. A 21 inch monitor in the same series, I imagine, would run 1280 beautifully - or certainly ought to. The only CRT I have...

Never met a 19 inch CRT yet that was [i]truly[i] happy at 1280 x 1024 - and I've tried quite a few. Well, a handful of the very best ones, but you really are pushing your luck trying to run 1280 on 19 inch screens. 1124 should be perfectly doable, however. If you can't get the screen and card...

But what do you do on day 121? How much is it? Surely it's a bloody fortune.

I like the beer ads that ran over here all last year. Maybe you got them too. These are the tackiest, worst-taste, most crap-filled fantasy ads you ever saw. Not cheap, just crap. Then, right at the end, they say "Sorry. We put all the taste in the beer." Cute. :-?

Nope. Strictly southern-hemisphere only. In the northern hemisphere, the same ecological slot is filled by awks. Oh, except for the Galapogos Penguin, of course, but the Galapagos Islands are in the northern hemisphere only in a geographical sense. Ecologically they are part of the south.

But isn't it mega-expensive?

It's easier than installing Windows XP. Takes roughly half as long. (And you get a better result too.)

I'm the same as Coug, Mubs. I am fluent in my native tongue (English) and can read and write effectively in, but not speak, a second language (American). I wouldn't for one moment suggest that English is logical and simple as compared with .... well, lots of other languages, none of which I...

English spelling is vastly inferior to American spelling. Here in Oz, we are free to use either type without getting marked down for it, which is nice. Curiously, although I much prefer American spelling on the whole, I nearly always use English spelling myself, purely out of habit. No, it...

(but only for hats) :o

Agggargh! Just when I'd come to my final decision. More evenings spent crawling through Steve's Digicams reading reviews and agonising over every detail. (Actually, thanks Gilbo. I'll look into it tonight after work.)

Sorry Eric. Pass me that roll of 6219507 will you?

Your Chief Engineer is flat-out wrong, Pradeep. The correct spelling has both of the "l"s. As JTR probably already knows, there are international standards for the names of chemicals (developed for the very good reason that it can be critical to make sure you have the right chemical, next time...

Oh that's crap. I speak English. You, clearly and by self-confession, do not. Any bastardisation of a perfectly good language to the point where you commit atrocities of the "quarter of eight" nature cannot possibly be regarded as "English". That "quarter of eight" stuff you speak may well be...

(much reading later) .... hmmm .... but I have a long-throw lens arrangement already, so the full-size sensor would seem OK. On the other hand, the 1.6 extra zoom certainly wouldn't do any harm, and it seems reasonable to presume that using a 400mm zoom lens at (say) 280mm will still produce a...

But are you scanning in safe mode?

Tim's advice is good. Run Hijackthis and also Spybot in safe mode. That fixes most things.

But it is absolutely, positively not English. No literate English-speaking person from any corner of the globe would ever use that phrase. It is a 100% American-only usage and cannot be described as "English". Aside from that, it's nonsensical. And ugly. Probably causes acne too.

Lord Mubs, I wouldn't argue that two suppositions in a sentence is a good thing, but it is possible if - and only if - you are aiming to indicate that you are piling one supposition on the other. Normally, of course, you wouldn't do it. I was agreeing with the basic thrust of your point, just...

You are totaly, absolutely, incredibly, 100% ... no, make that 110% ... kidding. No possible way on god's green earth. Never. It's not even acceptable American (at least not so far as I know, but I am obviously no expert on the US dialect) but it is absolutely, positively, certainly and without...

Or should I look at the new 5D? Whooah! I'm confusing myself already.

Thanks LM. Do I need to be in the USA? What's a fair price for it? (Allowing for shipping, which with appropriate insurance, would come to a reasonable amount.) Question to self: would I have to pay GST? (Local taxes.) Probably. But that's no big deal. Over here the first two prices I saw on...

How can you possibly call a Saab "off-brand"? That's like calling a Glenfiddich "off-brand scotch" because most of the bottles at the local hooch seller are Johnny Walker and Haig and Grants and 500 Pipers.

i, think about it this way: compare to weeks. I just explained that "last Sunday" was two days ago (it's Tuesday here), but you can check the logic of it, and see that everything makes sense when you think about weeks instead of days. When you say "last week", you mean "the week before this...

Sorry JTR, on this one the newscasters are 100% right and you are wrong. "Last Sunday" is, and can only be the Sunday immediately previous to the present moment. (That's what "last" means: the thing that happened most recently.) So, if you say "last Sunday" on a Monday, it means yesterday. If...

Suppose, if we were to go out, and you got pulled over for a breath test ... Perfectly good English. Notice, however, that having the "if" and the "suppose" is only justified because there are two suppositions in the sentence. It's saying "suppose we go out" and also "suppose the police stop...

Speaking of which, why do certain illiterate stains on the gene pool then make things even worse by saying I got it for cheap? Correct usage: I got it cheaply It was cheap. There is never a "for" in front of the "cheap". (Or the "free".) Never.

My pet hate: You can have this for free "Free" means "for nothing". Period. End of debate. No question. Would you say "you can have this for for nothing? Grrraaah!

PS: reasons to have the 20D and 100-400 (I think) - is it good for these things? fast autofocus reasonably fast shutter repeat rate small shutter delay

OK, it's mad money time again. I am looking at buying a new camera in the fairly near future (a timescale of a few weeks). Is there any reason NOT to buy the obvious - i.e., a Canon EOS 20D and the 100-400 IS zoom lens? The role of this camera is to fill the gap between my digiscoping rig (~ a...

Guilty as charged, Your Worship. I can never remember which one is which. Makes me come over all lexdixic.

Love birds. Can't stand Quicktime. Dilemma!

It might be worth looking at the trend in the redhill browser logs. (I only have meaningful figures from after I changed service providers). May Internet Explorer 65.2 % Firefox 21.4 % Opera 6.2 % Mozilla & etc 4.6 % June Internet Explorer 60.8 % Firefox 25.9 % Mozilla & etc 5.5 % Opera 4.1 %...

Current month: (September) Internet Explorer 49.5% Firefox 36.7 % Opera 4.7 % Mozilla 3.3 % Unknown 1.8 % Safari 1.4 % Netscape 0.9 % Konqueror 0.4 % Might be an odd month, and it will be wise to wait till the month is complete rather than half over, but that's the first time I've ever seen...

Mate, I didn't mean travel. I meant move! Up stakes, pack your cycle in a box and go somewhere better to live. I can hear a terrible grim resignation in your posts (and this was before I read about your work situation), a bleak and bitter tone — and I don't for one moment blame you for it, I'd...