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It would be the 055 then, Lunar Mist - the most common model. At the time I bought it I wondered if it was going to be good enough or not, but decided that (so far as optical equipment goes) it was cheap enough to throw away or sell without tears if I ever upgraded. The gap between (from memory)...

Most pipe smokers inhale seldom or never. There is no nood, a pipe has far more flavour than a cigarette. Like all tobacco products it has health risks, but not in the same order of magnitude as cigarettes do. I smoke as I feel like it: infrequently if I am doing other things, incessantly f I...

A pipe, Tim. Pipes area vastly more civilised way to smoke: restful, unhurried, and full of flavor. They smell nice and, unlike cigarettes, are not a fire hazard and produce no litter - which while it doesn't matter in the city, is a significant factor in the bush. I could never go back to...

Belvedere used to be a brand of cigarettes: imported American ones, moderately exensive, longer than usual (about 1.5cm longer than standard king size, as I recall), packaged in an attractive slightly dulled gold box. The flavour was attractive if a fraction bland for my taste, and with just a...

PS: read your sig.

You thought wrong. The idea of a forum is to express your views whenever you think these are likely to be of interest to other contributors.

Yeah. Go for it. A good search function would be a real blessing.

Lunar Mist, are you familiar with the Manfrotto 501 head? If so, what would you recommend I consider as a replacement for it. I want (a) steadier camera, (b) faster pan and tilt, (c) lower weight. (All of which, I suspect, is not possible, certainly not at any price I can afford this year - but...

Hi Mark! Good to see you! Prompted by this thread, I slipped over to SR, duly made a post in the computing forum for everyone to ignore, saw that I had a 0% warning, decided it was lucky Tea ain't around anymore, slipped back here. SR remains somewhere in my top ten most-visited websites, near...

"I knew Intel's budget CPU was bad, but I wasn't thinking it was that much." Yup. My thoughts exactly. By the way, have you noticed that everything graphic at Anand is now either (a) advertising or (b) Flash? I guess they don't want people using the graphs - though it's so easy to do so via...

Mate, moon landing hoax conspiracy theories are na-na land products, pure and simple. I confess to a feeling of astonishment to see an otherwise intelligent man like you falling victim to such palpable nonsense. No offence was intended. After all, we have all sorts of other crazy and irrational...

Coug, you need to take some reality pills. Fair dinkum, who would do business with an investment analyst who is seriously off into na-na land like that?

Nice one, ZX. Took me a while to twig to it - I'm slow tonight. Put it down to the lack of sleep. Or possibly just old age. Which is, when you think about it, just a matter of time. (If Tea was here, she'd tell me to shut up and get on with it about now. And she would be right.) So, as I was...

I think he is a she, Buck. A very pretty Barking Owl she was too. I took lots of pictures of her, and she will undoubtedly appear over on the Bird Forum before too long, and in my trip report also. Right now I seem to be utterly snowed under with various small but time-consuming tasks, so my...

(See my sig.)

Hmmmm ... I doubt it. Tried to teach a wombat to fly lately? Hey! I JUST REALISED! I don't have to be polite to Tea anymore!

And while I was gone, I see that I missed your arrival, David - an event of no small significance, and one that pleased me considerably. (I get tired of arguing with Mercutio all the time. Now I can argue with you instead. :)) I must say, though, that Storage Forum just doesn't seem the same...

What's a thermostat?

Before I wander off to troll the shareware/freeware archives, I thought I'd ask here. I have many thousands of photographs. Mostly I just store them in folders and the auto-generated Nikon file-names keep them in cronological order, which is what I want. But sometimes I want to prepare a...

The longer term big picture is not good for the USA. For half a century or more, Uncle Sam has ruthlessly expanded, buying up land, resources, marketing networks and most of all jobs from other, smaller and poorer countries. American workers were highly skilled and highly paid, and American...

Just as well. Anybody who can write: i just tore the entire bootom of my right foot off .... waiting for the abulance to come now ... glass bootl efell in shower ... needs a sedative! Foot wounds are like that: you don't feel a thing when you first do them. Afterwards is a different story...

Nortons is like that. They have the best downloads and removal tools, but installing NAV or any of its ugly, bloated relatives is always adding substantially to the risk that your system will self-destruct. Uninstalling (as you've noticed) can be risky too.

I agree with i. Photorescue was a lifesaver for me. Not applicable to your dud CF card, Edward, but worth bearing in mind for a rainy day sometime in the future.

XP on 256MB is horrible. Mind you, XP on 512MB ain't exactly neck-snapping, but that's what you get when you run XP. I have no opinion worth mentioning on the video question. I'm too long out of touch and not really interested in computers anymore to do much else bar listen to Cougtek and...

Brisbane is a nice city, possibly the nicest large city in Australia. But it's bloody steamy at that time of year, and still a city. Hire a car and drive out to Toowoomba - that's about 2 hours, a little less. In the evening, go to the Weiss restraunt on the hill on the edge of town. Order...

I'm still looking for Tea. Thinking back, I don't think I've seen her since ... um ... northern New South Wales, I think it was. Or possibly southern Queensland. That was ... er ... about seven weeks ago. Has anyone seen a wandering Orangutan? Oh, now hang on, I remember now, it was in...

Seems to me that the USB2 card reader was darn near as slow anyway, but at least it saved me worrying about breaking something in the tiny little cable connector. :) The PCMCIA one came along later.

For my notebook, I bought a PCMCIA CF card reader. I love it - no cable to buggerse about with. (You have no idea how much of a pain cables are: 240v inverter, two camera battery chargers, external trackball (cuz touchpadz suck so much), mobile phone charger, notebook charger, powerboard to plug...

Cool! Enjoy, and don't break more than one leg at a time.

Hoolie Doolie! My simian friend! I knew I forgot something!

Oh, it will be more than three pages, my friend. By the time you finish reading it, there will be a new little JoJo running around. Or at least crawling. I've almost finished writing up October, still have November to go: for every day taking pictures, you need about two days sorting through...

Hi all, I'm back! Been to ... er ... lots of places. Townsville, the Daintree (north of Cairns), Chillagoe, Karumba (on the Gulf of Carpentaria, near Normanton), Darwin and the Top End, The Macdonnell Ranges (west of Alice Springs), Coober Pedy, and various points in-between. Many thousands...

Well, I just took a very serious step indeed: signed up for a dial-up account with Big Pong. (Yuk!) $30 a month, unlimited hours, 400MB download. But at least I get local call access from anywhere in Australia. Naturally, I'll cancel it as soon as I get back home. And, of course, much of the...

Just as well I'm doing the driving!

Well, I have it in mind to go up via Broken Hill and Bourke, then across to Cairns and hire a 4WD to go up Cape York Peninsula and back, then home via the Gold Coast hinterland (not the Gold Coast itself - I hate the place), the Blue Mountains, Eden, and Mallacoota. But there is no way we would...

Oh, for the love of Mike .... Can you be a little more precise than "Australia"? Well, I guess that's a little more precise. Gentlemen, I am reliably informed that we are going to ... (How did you put that again, Tea? Ah yes, thankyou.) We are going to, and I quote, "Some places in...

What do you mean "soon"? Look, the idea of navigation is that you start with a particular destination in mind, and you turn left, or go straight, or else turn right according to which turn is going to get you to the place you are heading for. Got it? Yes, that's right. And and if you don't make...

What do you mean, "you'll tell me later"? Don't you know?

We have it all worked out. Ideally, I'd navigate (because I'm good at navigating) and Tea would take care of the driving. Unfortunately, she can't reach the pedels, so we are going to have to do it the other way about. Which might be a little tricky. I can drive OK, but Tea's navigation ...

#127: Make point of always having the last word in any argument. It is the last words that are the most important ones. Usually, these will be "yes dear". # 128: Don't say "yes dear" unless you mean it, and especially don't say it out of habit while you are practicing looking interested and...

You mean the same company that bought PCTools and Xtree? (And then closed both of them.) Go figure.

Take the James Boags, Greg. Clearly the best option.

You know what the best thing about Sound Blaster 16s was? You plugged them in and they worked, that was the best thing. Hooloe Doolie - $800 for an SB-16. OK, it was the ASP version and you had a Wave Blaster as well (I can't even remember what Wave Blasters were for now, though I sold a...

XCOPY d:\*.* e:\temp\*.* /e/s FORMAT d: /FS:JFS (or HPFS, whatever) XCOPY e:\temp\*.* d:\*.* /e/s Simple. Primitive. Practical. Effective. But on X15s, you really don't have to bother too often. Generally, I upgrade the hard drive more often than I need to defrag. Sometimes I get bored and do...

What about an Ad-Lib? That should be safe enough. Got a spare ISA slot Pradeep?

Wow! That's a very generous offer, team. I'm not sure how that would work - particularly as the site has always been abut what Red Hill likes and trusts (as opposed to the industry in general) .... but then, speaking broadly and generally, we all like much the same things most of the time...

What thread?

Actually, once you figure it out, it's easy enough: 00111 then the area code and the local number. For example, 00111 987 654 3210. I'm surprised Tea took so long to discover that. (She's a bit thick sometimes.) Anyway, it was great to great to talk with Merc. I had a pretty clear idea of what...

Right now, I like these: Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB: 22 inch (20 viewable) Natural Flat Diamondtron picture tube, 0.24 mm pitch, 30 - 140 kHz, 2048 x 1536 at 86 Hz. Mitsubishi DV172: 17 inch TFT I tend to find a particular manufacturer I like, and stick to them more-or-less exclusively...

Is that right! And I thought it was just one of my personal fetish items. Interesting.