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djwez wrote:

viceroy wrote:

Tribble wrote:And you are taking me with you - aren't you?

I'm not sure you'd fit.

I'm already taking all of the family, most of the friends, a good chunk of the office, my wife and baby

pun much?

Me? Never!

Tribble wrote:And you are taking me with you - aren't you?

I'm not sure you'd fit.

I'm already taking all of the family, most of the friends, a good chunk of the office, my wife and baby

Rented some space for 2 weeks on this

Tribble wrote:I see. And is that your baba? Cutey!

Yip

Tribble wrote:Oh that is beautiful - been wanting one myself. Tell me - you don't feel restricted because it is not a zoom lens?

Don't feel restricted by the lack of zoom at all. The only thing that is a little restrictive is using the 50mm on an APS-C body, effectively making the lens 80mm.

Well since we're on the topic of new glass. I decided to spoil myself with one of these last week. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/viceroy/CAN_EF_50_1_4__19557_zoom.jpg Canon EF 50mm f1/4 USM ...and a quick shot of my little girl to make sure it was working fine :) http://img.photobucket.com/a...

Tribble wrote:Bluray Player: Samsung BD-C5500 The last storm took care of our Philips one

Spoiler: (show)

Cats Digital/Fotocats has it for R1299

They're awesome aren't they.
I went for the C6500 because I wanted the built in wireless

Tribble wrote:Another iron. How in the world do these things keep breaking. The last one was only 2 days old - now I have to find the receipt so I can take it back.

The question to ask is "who is doing the ironing?"

I'm in the process of wall mounting a Full HD LCD monitor and I'd like to watch some TV when not PC'ing or XBox'ing.

There is an antennae point quite close which is connected to the DSTV decoder in the living room.

What standalone external TV tuner would you suggest.

DAE_JA_VOO wrote:Wow, that think has a lot of inputs. Reminds me of the Dell I had a while ago.

Thats exactly why I wanted it.

23"
Inputs for everything
Under R2k

Samsung P2370MS LCD Monitor/TV

Maclaren Quest Sport

Recaro seat for my daughter

Samsung BD-C6500 Blu Ray player

H&R springs for my car
20mW laser pointer (to play with the dog)
200mW laser pointer (for no other purpose than to light matches and pop balloons)

lancelot wrote:Yebo Electronics, in Plumstead and Bellville.

+1
I've used them on numerous occassions.

a set of 18" rims and tyres for my car

Sorry. Was asked to remove post.

Don't you have a Windows XP Pro license lying around? XP Pro plays very nicely with netbooks and has much better functionality than Win 7 starter. I only have a XP64 license and Atom N450 is 32bit only as far as I understand :( Nice to see you back on the forums. It's good to be back, at least unti...

Hman wrote:The other option is to install Linux until you've got the cheddar to upgrade your os.

That is the other option I've been looking at, just want to make sure which distro has the most support in terms of drivers for my netbook.

Only pre Release Candidate ones

We have Upgrade DVD's at work...Could I use that to create a USB install image? or does it have to be an install DVD?

I recently bought a Vaio netbook which came loaded with Win 7 Starter, but through much fiddling and messing about I kinda messed it up, so I installed Vista Pro but Vista and netbook don't really go together, so I want to go back to Win 7 Starter (at least until I save up some pennies for Win 7 Pro...

doo_much wrote:Then why don't you rather install one of these?
It gives a mirror image of the image. REALLY nice for reversing...

where and how much?

Installing it in a car, reversing camera.

The head unit is already in and working, and switches nicely to the reverse video feed when reverse gear is engaged. All that I need to do now is get the camera working, and then installed and working

Think I'll try get one with connectors built in, like this one