Thank you all.

I don't work for the Bank of Iceland, or for any bank... was just using it as an example.

So...just to be sure I understand, here's a random discussion forum page on which poster IP addresses appear in the clear to all viewers. If I were to post to that board on the banque's WiFi laptop from a Starbucks, the "from IP address" displayed under the poster's ID would be that of the agency providing that Starbucks with its Internet tubes? Yes?

Yes.

Vielen Danke.

Don't munchen it.

Obviously the Bank of Iceland was a cover story for the sooper sekrit organization you actually borrowed the laptop from.

And yes. The short answer is yes.

I don't much drink at Starbucks, either.

We never had this conversation.

Move along.

[the plot thickens]

Any one know any good CAD programs?

Well the industry standard is AutoCAD from Autodesk. But i guess that might be a little bit too specialised for you.

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Originally posted by Mean Old Man:
I don't much drink at Starbucks, either.

We never had this conversation.

Move along.

There is a handy under 200k program, for WinXP, called ShowIP - it will show your local IP address as well as what address appears to the net (and thus, to others).

I use Kaspersky Anti-Hacker firewall and there is a mode called "Stealth" that hides your machine. Not sure how it works but it halts torrenting if it's turned on so it definitely makes some incoming ports disappear.

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Originally posted by lithos:
Any one know any good CAD programs?

What are you looking to do with it? It would determine what software you need.

So, the past couple of days I'm experiencing a problem with images on the web. IAt first I noticed it in flickr where all the photos would appear as when you enlarge small pics. But then I noticed it's the same with every other pic file, even the firefox logo on the firefo/google homepage looks crap. I know it's a firefox problem as everything looks fine with explorer.

Any ideas?

In this page Image 1 looks fine, but all the rest in the same low quality I experience throughout the web.

More info on my problem.

The problem seems to be with linked files, coming from another location. For example Bravus' avatar, I can see the white square the cloud's in and the cloud in no longer moving. In general I see the edges of banners and in some cases they even overlap the colous of the rest web page. All that in very low quality.

I can't stand it any more!

That does sound like a browser problem. IMO you'd be better off with Opera
Otherwise, Bic's advice to uninstall (yes, completely uninstall so it doesn't keep any of the settings) and reinstall your current browser is pretty much the only thing you could try.

Uninstallation and re-installation of firefox 1.5 was done with no results. Firefox 2 has the same problem.

Opera, eh? Will give it a try.

Been using Opera since last night, seems kind of slow.

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Originally posted by yer.andreas:
More info on my problem.

The problem seems to be with linked files, coming from another location. For example Bravus' avatar, I can see the white square the cloud's in and the cloud in no longer moving. In general I see the edges of banners and in some cases they even overlap the colous of the rest web page. All that in very low quality.

I can't stand it any more!

Try Firefox in a new account and see if it does it there too. If not, it's probably in your prefs and you need to fish them out and toss them.

Not a request for assistance, just a cross between a brag and a Thanksgiving moment.

Normally the pace of change and obsolesence in the computer industry is a pain to lots of us. In this case, I got a quote only about 2 months ago for a Mac desktop to do my video editing.

At that stage it was a dual 2.5 GHz G5 with a 250 GB HDD and a 23" Cinema Display. With the various Applecare and some extra (non-Apple) RAM it was gonna be about AU$7800.

Got the grant, got the ethics clearance, asked for a new quote. Now it'll be a dual-dual 2.66 GHz Xeon (which even if Apple's claims of doubling the G5's speed are a bit suss, should still be a fair bit faster) with a terabyte of storage (2x500GB) and an upgrade to the Radeon X1900, and the same 23" display, for... $6700.

Sweet.