The 15th UK South-East "Has anyone seen Wayne?" Thread (All Welcome)

ies photos wrote in post #13971313
Any interest in a mint never opened 430EXII? PM me. Was going to keep it but needs must at the moment.

Shame, only ordered one from kerso last week

Anyone using Google Chrome as their alternate browser???

Let me expand the question ~ as IE9 is borked when using 500px what is the best browser to have onboard with IE9 to use as needed???

Interesting thread about using the browser to get the shutter count for various Canon bodies https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1152012

@Penel - just saw the photos of Mack! He's gorgeous!! Well done on the backdrop too!

Layyz wrote in post #13970244
If anyone is interested. The stray kitten we found in thursday is doing well, shes putting on weight and eating well. Infact shes bossing our other cats around!

That's good to hear mate, might have to pop over and meet her soon!

Gundogs wrote in post #13970571

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/penel/693257777​9/
silver and blue by Penelope Malby Photography, on Flickr

Love this and the wallpaper is perfect!!

Pete wrote in post #13970858
Happy birthday Matt...!

Here's your present

(just the video, mind)

Thanks Pete.. How mental is that!!!

adrian5127 wrote in post #13969745
Ouch that does not sound good, fingers crossed you can rescue it

Could I have a bit of 500 love

http://500px.com/photo​/5347123

http://500px.com/photo​/5347096

Cheers

Love given

Bodmin636 wrote in post #13969822
Ok finally got round to joining 500px, so would appreciate some Likes on these please

http://500px.com/photo​/5348215

http://500px.com/photo​/5348213

More love given

Gundogs wrote in post #13970571
IMG_0533-2 by Penelope Malby Photography, on Flickr

then this stunning lad came for pics this afternoon

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/penel/678646246​4/
Mack by Penelope Malby Photography, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/penel/693257777​9/
silver and blue by Penelope Malby Photography, on Flickr

These two - chock full of peronality. Excelent work Penel!

ies photos wrote in post #13970795
Cheers Loz mate, well I've just spoke to Rich and he's convinced me that parting with £600 is the way to go! SSD and all! flipping POTN! Prob going for this

OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-III Solid State Hard Drive
Intel Core i7-2600 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
16GB Corsair XMS3 (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz 1.5v Quad Channel Kit
IN WIN Dragon Rider Black Full Tower Chassis w/ USB3.0
Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (REV B3) Socket 1155 DDR3 PCI-Express Motherboard

Loving the doggy and blue wallpaper Penel, really works well.

Sorry I was not around yesterday to advise on this. Your old system, though still capable, was nearing end of life to my mind. New spec looks plenty good, very similar to what I use except I have only 8Gb RAM. Don't forget you need the 64bit version of Windows for that amount of memory.

As regards your comment about the disks, it's unlikely they will have been affected but, when you start to install, only put the SSD in. This will help avoid any mistakes with where Windows installs and it getting confused by the existing Windows folder/installation. Once the OS is installed (make sure you use the service pack one version as iirc it has better TRIM support), lob in the other disks and they will all get assigned new drive letters. Next you need to move the My Docs, My Pics, My Vids etc folders to one of the HDD's. Again, iirc, you need to right click the folder and drag to the new locaction - easiest done with 2 explorer windows open. Once you have moved the main library folders, you then need to copy the day from the old ones to the new ones. Then you are pretty much done. There is a lot of "advice" on the net about how to prepare a Windows 7 system for using an SSD, most if not all of this was based on the the situation a couple of years back when Win7 did not have all the native support for SSD that it has now. Ignore it.

ies photos wrote in post #13971116
Its got onboard or I could use my old one. I don't play games on it so don't need a high spec.

All ordered....shame means I cannot now finish my plastering jobs off. Great timing! 300mm F2.8 up for sale next!

Who did you get it from? Novatech have some nice barebone systems right now.

Definately go for the GFX card - onboards are not ideal. CS5 uses grunt from you card for extra firepower. Whilst on the subject, if you use CS5 (I guess this may be tru for LR too), you need to go into preferences to change the default amount of RAM it is allowed to use to take into account your oodles of new RAM

Layyz wrote in post #13971332
TBH we suspect she was dumped in the woodland near our house in the morning ( i heard some cat cries earlier in the day) then she appeared on our driveway later in the day. There are other mitigating circumstances (that i cant talk about) to why she may have been dumped too..... We will give it the usual 7 days (according to cats protection) and then she is ours if no one comes forward. Atleast shes safe, fed and on my sofa rather than scared and trying to avoid the local foxes!

Top man! Anyone who takes in stray animals is a hero in my eyes. Well done fella

IMAGE LINK: http://www.cool-smileys.com/clapping-smiley

Box Brownie wrote in post #13971578
Anyone using Google Chrome as their alternate browser???

Let me expand the question ~ as IE9 is borked when using 500px what is the best browser to have onboard with IE9 to use as needed???

Why not try it? It's free, you don't have to set it as your default browser so what's to lose? Personally, I use it as a backup to IE when it won't play nicely with certain sites.

Further to my angst about 500px I transfered this one using the laptop which has IE8

http://500px.com/photo​/5357696 So if you love it like it please

Jonathan wrote in post #13974126
Why not try it? It's free, you don't have to set it as your default browser so what's to lose? Personally, I use it as a backup to IE when it won't play nicely with certain sites.

Jonathan, thanks for your insight about Chrome. It does seem to get good reviews so if it is well behaved with IE9 as you say worth a punt & your situation is exactly what I need it for

Box Brownie wrote in post #13974141
Further to my angst about 500px I transfered this one using the laptop which has IE8

http://500px.com/photo​/5357696 So if you love it like it please

Done!

Morning all. Been without broadband at home all weekend and it will continue this week too. Sky have taken over as our provider but haven't yet even dispatched the broadband router to us. Not a happy chappie!

Jonathan wrote in post #13974007
Sorry I was not around yesterday to advise on this. Your old system, though still capable, was nearing end of life to my mind. New spec looks plenty good, very similar to what I use except I have only 8Gb RAM. Don't forget you need the 64bit version of Windows for that amount of memory.

As regards your comment about the disks, it's unlikely they will have been affected but, when you start to install, only put the SSD in. This will help avoid any mistakes with where Windows installs and it getting confused by the existing Windows folder/installation. Once the OS is installed (make sure you use the service pack one version as iirc it has better TRIM support), lob in the other disks and they will all get assigned new drive letters. Next you need to move the My Docs, My Pics, My Vids etc folders to one of the HDD's. Again, iirc, you need to right click the folder and drag to the new locaction - easiest done with 2 explorer windows open. Once you have moved the main library folders, you then need to copy the day from the old ones to the new ones. Then you are pretty much done. There is a lot of "advice" on the net about how to prepare a Windows 7 system for using an SSD, most if not all of this was based on the the situation a couple of years back when Win7 did not have all the native support for SSD that it has now. Ignore it.


Who did you get it from? Novatech have some nice barebone systems right now.

Definately go for the GFX card - onboards are not ideal. CS5 uses grunt from you card for extra firepower. Whilst on the subject, if you use CS5 (I guess this may be tru for LR too), you need to go into preferences to change the default amount of RAM it is allowed to use to take into account your oodles of new RAM

cheers JD, if you were looking at a GFX card for just lightroom and CS5 no gaming what would you choose?

My old GFX is a BFG NVIDIA GEFORCE 9500 GT 1GB, reckon it will do?

ordered from Aria in the end.

Mike wrote in post #13974291
Morning all. Been without broadband at home all weekend and it will continue this week too. Sky have taken over as our provider but haven't yet even dispatched the broadband router to us. Not a happy chappie!

Don't you have an old router you could use?

ies photos wrote in post #13974371
cheers JD, if you were looking at a GFX card for just lightroom and CS5 no gaming what would you choose?

My old GFX is a BFG NVIDIA GEFORCE 9500 GT 1GB, reckon it will do?

ordered from Aria in the end.

That card should be fine.

Jonathan wrote in post #13974392
Don't you have an old router you could use?

AFAIK, Sky used to tie the router MAC address in with the authentication so this may not be an option. Just something to keep in mind if you do have your username/pwd but can't get it to work.

Sky lock the details on to there routers so you can't get them from sky and just add them.. You can Google the correct details that might work, I know there is a way of extracting the setting from the Sky box..