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We all know you went AWOL for a long, alcohol-induced period, David, but there is no need to say everything twice just to restore your post-count. :wink:

We all know you went AWOL for a long, alcohol-induced period, David, but there is no need to say everything twice just to restore your post-count. :wink:

Sorry David, but that is abslute bollocks. No vast and bloated operating system is ever going to be quick, nor should we expect it to be. The rules for speedy software are complex and beyond the scope of this discussion (that's a fancy way of saying I don't understand most of them), but Rule 1...

He meant, of course, to write it here. Should I try scotch?

Gahh! I give up. First I have the wrong decade, now I have the wrong thread. Shall I cross-post it over to the correct discussion? Might as well, I guess. While I'm at it, I might as well deliver my thoughts on the KM-400. In a word, it seems like a classic VIA integrated chipset of the...

You're right, computer generated one. No, no - not about the XP thing vs 2000, I mean about the strain getting to me. I don't think I can stand being monophrenic for very much longer. Stupid ape. I miss her.

Gahh! I mean 2001, of course. Look, I can tell you that today is the 20th, no problem. I am vaguely aware that it's December, and if pressed, could probably remember that it's one of the years that end with a "3". The number before the "3" is a bit trickier, OK? (Don't even ask me what...

Errr ... or possibly 1991

Ah, but my point, Coug, is that my 2000 install has lasted for ... oh, since some time in 1981. Never before have I seen a Windows product stable enough to do that with. My OS/2 installs last that long as routine, of course, and NT was itself vastly better than Win9X, but that was a quantum leap...

So have a good one!

I was posting here and dithering about switching over from NT 4.0 to 2000? It was a fair while back - indeed, it may well have been before there was a Storage Forum - i.e., perhaps it was on the old SR pre-MBF. Well, I switched my home machine, and I have to hand it to the guys at Microsoft...

Beautifully put, my friend. You have not lost your touch, Doggy One.

Bare feet. Every time.

I'm sure they would, Buck. Mostly, they hunt by hovering over grasslands and open country (one of only two Australian raptors to hover as a matter of habit), watching out for mice and other creatures. Any cricket unwise enough to emerge in daylight would be at high risk.

The Devil's Marbles. And the caretaker (who can be seen in the first picture also - on top of the boulder at centre. This is a Nankeen Kestrel - and he is very, very scary if you are a grasshopper or a mouse. Dunmovin is cool. :)

Doubtless there are other reasons as well, but writes are slower because the seek takes longer, and the seek takes longer because it has to be more accurate. A seek and read operation only needs to get close enough to the track to have a fair chance of reading the data. If it's a tiny bit off...

I confess to still being utterly mystified by Itanium's design and market philosophy. Why, when you have a chip that given its development cost is by any rational standard an integer-performance dud, but an absolute humdinger when it comes to floating-point stuff ... why on earth would you...

Learmonth, Avoca, St Arnaud, Donald, Birchip, Woomelang, Ouyen, Hattah-Kulkyne, Mildura, Euston, Balranald, Hay, Goolgowl, West Wyalong, Forbes, Parkes, Dubbo, Gilgandra, Coonabarabran, Baradine, Narrabri, Moree, Goondiwindi, Dalby, Bunya, Kingaroy, Murgon, Childers, Gin Gin, Seventeen Seventy...

Oh --- but wait! We are on Google now. Thanks to your contribution, there are now 12,700,001 hits! PS to Buck: I like the include: much neater. A progress report and perhaps a sample in a couple of days. Err ... dare I say "thank(?)you"?

Grrrr ..... You arguing with 12.7 million Google hits and my spellchecker?

Hey! Knock it off! You are a married man now. :eekers:

I thought we had this thread last year?

For some reason, possibly having to do with not drinking regularly enough, I have this picture of a panic-stricken secret agent somewhere in the wilds of Siberia. He urgently needs to send the message: "the missing nuke is buried three miles west of the tractor factory" before the KGB tracker...

Easy question: all things considered, what has been the most newsworthy event to happen around here over, oh, say the last three or four months?

Sorry to drag your thread off-topic JoJo. It's just that, if I'm to tell the absolute and honest truth here, the reality of things is that Merc getting broadband is quite possibly more newsworthy than you getting married. It certainly came as more of a shock! Hell, people get married all the...

Yeah. Sorry about that Tim. Ever since Tea'sbeengone there seemstohavebeen a certainlackoflunacy aroundtheplace. Bless her little hairy feet, if Tea was here, I'm sure she would say that lunacy is like lightning: it's always around and just takes the shortest path to earth. Seems that, as the...

Merc on brodband ..... AMEN!!!!!

Cool! Thankyou Buck. I can't wait to get home and try it out. Within a day or two, I'll upload a sample page from my mammoth trip report with pictures thingie, using that code, which I can then apply to the 50-odd pages of it when they are all finished. (Betterthan half done so far.)

Hmmm: Google gives 13.1 million hits for "thank you", and 12.7 million hits for "thankyou". More-or-less even-stephen. Or possibly even-steven. Or something. Whatever. Jojo, have a thankyou and a thank you. :)

Because it's one word. If it was two words, I'd type "thank you". At least I've always regarded it as one word. Is this a US vs International English thing, a Tannin thing, or just one of those personal prefferance things? My spell checkers don't seem to object to it. Generally, it's US...

OK, I got it. Opera hates the HTML comment thingie <!-- Take out the comment markers (which are really rather pointless anyway, as I'm not bothering to try to make this readable in a non-CSS capabe browser anyway) and it works. Bizarre! Is there some special magic to comments in Opera?

What's wrong with this code? It works fine in IE 5.0, IE 6., and Mozilla. In Opera 7.23 I get the text and it's functional but no stylesheet - just plain vanilla black and white text. In Opera 6.05, I just get a blank page. OK, OK, mayube the correct question is "what's wrong with Opera", but...

Fatastic. Thankyou JoJo. And I love those tiger cubs!

Get a quote. Get a bottle of scotch. Pour scotch. Administer quote to customer. Pour more scotch.

Wild stab-in-the-dark stuff, but does this reming anyone of the infamous Sound Blaster data corruption bug? My first hunch would be to reforat and do a clean install, but do not load the TV card drivers to test the assumption that the cards come with poorly-written software. A wild guess, but...

If anyone wants me to, I'm sure I could persuade some friends of mine to vote. Ekaf Ami, The Grammar Police, Ed and Dave ... hell, if you lend me a couple of dollars for the phone call, I'll give Tea a ring in Queensland and get her to vote too. Uh, which way do you want them to vote? -- "yes"...

Ahh ... but your real question - how to block Flash and be able to enable it on those rare ocassions when it's needed? Tough question. I don't know that any browser allows that. I looked fairly hard for a solution to that problem a year or so ago (I was trying to help Tea out, she posted quite a...

Mozilla: simply the best. Me, I'm an Opera man, just because pera is different and I like different, but there ain't no doubt about it: Mozilla has gone way beyond Internet Explorer (which, for all intents and purposes, hasn't had an upgrade of any consequence since IE 5 came out five years...

Mercutio never sleeps. :) PS: I just read Doug's post about the function being new and untested. There is, in that case, good reason to hasten rather slowly on this mod then.

I just voted "yes" but I almost voted "I don't care". Count my "yes" as a half a vote - this question is no big deal. Would I use this function if it was there? ..... Yeah, I guess I might, but only for one persistent blatherer, and the built-in ignore function in my brain works reasonably well...

Where is James when you want him? At the risk of making a complete fool of myself, I think it works like this: CDMA has marginally better signal propagation and is preffered for remote areas (e.g., the Australian outback). GSM has significantly better systems to cope with high numbers of...

That is simply appalling. Indeed, it treatens to dethrone my Hewlett-Packard DOA printer RMA saga as a vivid example of how to really bugger things up and destroy your customer base. So ..... are you buying many Sony products these days, Merc?

Don't know about drag and drop, never tried it. But even people in the father category should be able to use this one, though it would be wise if you set up the new name format page to his requirements. You would work it out in two minutes but it's clunky, and if your dad is anything like my...

I'm a bit late in the day, but great link, Fool. It leads to all sorts of interesting stuff. Thankyou.

I found that page, Blake. Unfortunately, it renames to the file creation date, which is useless, as the creation date of the file on your hard drive is the date you copied the contents of the flash card, not the date you took the picture. Oh, I guess you could run it on the actual flash card...

Simple, I thought: it's a pretty common sort of requirement and there must be dozens of programs out there that do it, more than likely free ones. So I hit Google and searched for the obvious combination: EXIF RENAME. Heaps of hits. One by one, I followed them, downloading anything that looked...

This is probably worth a new thread, but seeing as it's more or less on-topic here, I'll just add on to this one. I have, as you all know, many thousands of jpeg images, and sort them cronologically in the main. On the whole, this works OK, as the Coolpix names everything DSCN????, starting at...

Aha! A very good question, Flagreen!

Oh, and Web Drive is yet another of the many excellent Windows apps that have been ported over from their original OS/2 platform. </OS/2 zealot mode>

Second copy gets a very good report card from two or three customers I have that use it. I'll take a look at mirror folder shortly, as since I've taken to flipping back and forwards between laptop and desktop, things can get confusing.