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Hasselblad V Series Images - Continued...
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wbulte
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CarstenW
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Me too.
wbulte
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wbulte
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I also use OSX 10.5.6. Safari does not seem to be happy with the forum's way of displaying the bigger image? It briefly flashes the image and then it is gone again.
Ah well.. I can live with it.
Wilko
CarstenW
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It does not appear to depend on the setting of the "Block Popup Windows" checkbox in the "Safari" menu either, sadly.
simonpg
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I see most of you are using Mac OS. My problem occurred when using Windows XP and Safari.
Normally when I double click on an image to see it full size, a new page or tab opens depending on the web broser software. Intersetingly though apart from this problem, in the past "members'" large inages display full size in the browser on the thread page, so even the new tab or pop-up window was a surprise. maybe the host software has had a change to its settings?
Anyway I won't pretend to be a expert in IT stuff, but maybe the info we post here will help solve the issue.
Normally when I double click on an image to see it full size, a new page or tab opens depending on the web broser software. Intersetingly though apart from this problem, in the past "members'" large inages display full size in the browser on the thread page, so even the new tab or pop-up window was a surprise. maybe the host software has had a change to its settings?
Anyway I won't pretend to be a expert in IT stuff, but maybe the info we post here will help solve the issue.
polypal
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Hello Simon,
I just checked the Ducati image. After a few clicks it apperas full 800 pixel size at my laptop.
Pictures are no longer offered at their full size by the new forum software.
It takes a few clicks to see the full potential.
At my simple Windows operated laptop that is no problem at all.....
Paul
CarstenW
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A "few" clicks? Here is what happens on my Mac: if I click once, the software appears to try to display the image fullsize, with an overlay. The first time, it is sometimes slow enough that I see that it starts. It then appears to be automatically dismissed. If I double-click, the image acts like a link, and I see only the image, but in its full size. I can then browse back to the normal page.
I suspect a bug in the click-to-dismiss code of the popup/overlay.
CarstenW
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I have discussed this many times with Jürgen:
Windows operated machines are the thing to go for!
Mac is for dummies
Sure, but Windows requires you to click a *few* times to see an image
I have used Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 3.11 for Workgroups. At that point, I was not so fond of Windows and spent some years using OS/2, especially Warp. But Microsoft forced IBM to kill it, so it was back to Windows 95, 98, and then I gave up on 16-bit and moved to NT 3.51, NT4, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. I have not tried Vista except superficially, and the same for Windows 7. (gotta love their naming conventions; a new idea every time). In between things I tried Linux again and again, and it was always interesting (the first Linux I installed was a few weeks before Slackware came out, and I recall how excited everyone was about Slackware), but it never had nice apps, and was way too technical for someone who just wants to use the apps, not the system.
At that point I was rebooting once a week, just in case, and reinstalling every 2-3 months, and I am a programmer by trade, and knew a lot of arcane little details about the system. For example, I knew how to visit websites without getting infected, even with IE. But, I was always fiddling with the system, changing parameters and so on, and one day it occurred to me that what I really wanted to do was to fiddle with applications, not the system. However, the applications for Windows are generally so clumsy and over-complicated.
So I jumped feet-first to a PowerPC dual 2.5GHz PowerMac. The best computing decision I have made in decades, and I have never regretted it. Every year I forget a little more of my hard-won Windows knowledge, like config.sys arcana, registry quirks, and so on, and my head is freer to focus on what is really important, apps. Did you know that the most used Windows app is Solitaire? I saw people in an internet café in Cairo, paying just to use Solitaire.
Anyway, I am not using a Mac because I am ignorant. I have used Windows for two decades. I just don't like it. At all.
simonpg
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Carsten,
I am using XP on a MacBook. which is the very best notebook I have owned. PC notebooks these days are built cheap and nasty and are anything but "road warriors".
The last notebooks I have had were HP and Dell and both were garbage and a rip off. But the Toshiba running Win 2000 remains reliable and very useful for my accounting system (that software no longer up to date with post Win 2000). So, Im happy to put that to work every month.
Back to the MacBook. Our IT bloke dismantled a range of so called quality notebooks and he said the MacBook has the most rigid chassis and assembly of components. How right he has been - I was the pilot and now many more in the business have them and all LOVE their MacBooks despite their initial resistance - and boy were they resisting that change. Within 48 hours they will not let their MacBooks out of their sight!
Mine is 60% partitioned to run XP on our network due to our ERP and CRM systems.
I have the 40% partitioned to do all my personal stuff in Mac OS - which leaves Win for DEAD!
So, soon I will purchase an iMac 3.06GHZ for al my personal stuff especially photography.
There is NO doubt in my mind that Mac RULEs!!!
I am using XP on a MacBook. which is the very best notebook I have owned. PC notebooks these days are built cheap and nasty and are anything but "road warriors".
The last notebooks I have had were HP and Dell and both were garbage and a rip off. But the Toshiba running Win 2000 remains reliable and very useful for my accounting system (that software no longer up to date with post Win 2000). So, Im happy to put that to work every month.
Back to the MacBook. Our IT bloke dismantled a range of so called quality notebooks and he said the MacBook has the most rigid chassis and assembly of components. How right he has been - I was the pilot and now many more in the business have them and all LOVE their MacBooks despite their initial resistance - and boy were they resisting that change. Within 48 hours they will not let their MacBooks out of their sight!
Mine is 60% partitioned to run XP on our network due to our ERP and CRM systems.
I have the 40% partitioned to do all my personal stuff in Mac OS - which leaves Win for DEAD!
So, soon I will purchase an iMac 3.06GHZ for al my personal stuff especially photography.
There is NO doubt in my mind that Mac RULEs!!!
CarstenW
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This is very true. Macs are pricy, but compared to what you get, they are very worth it. PCs are built to a price. There are some which are built nicely, but not many, and none, really none, are built as nicely as a Mac Pro or a MacBook Pro. I now use a MacBook Pro 15" (new model), and I have never used a better laptop in my life. Even if I were a Windows user, I would get this laptop. The touchpad alone is fantastic. This is probably the first time since about '86 that I haven't used/carried a mouse. The trackpad is better than a mouse for almost all tasks, and for those it is not, I have a Wacom tablet.
Anyway, I certainly didn't want to get into a pointless Windows-Mac war here, I just wanted to point out that I am a *deliberate* Mac user, not an accidental or habitual one. I use a Mac because I want to. I don't consider the competition to be serious. Go to youtube, and search for monkeyboy, to see the competition in action.
jotloob
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Hello Carsten,
I have discussed this many times with Jürgen:
Windows operated machines are the thing to go for!
Mac is for dummies
Paul
Paul
Could you please explain "dummies" a bit in more detail , so that everybody in the forum understands that properly . Thanks .
polypal
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wbulte
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I can only explain "dummies" to persons that are not "dummies"
Flamebait..
<- that is Paul once he has again found himself with a rogue app that wrote his whole Windows disk full of garbage files 
Wilko
polypal
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Wilko,
You should know better than to blame my wonderful Windows machine for that.
These files are generated by an application called JBidwatcher.
That is something you installed for me.
Stupid thing generates endless lists of useless data that run into Gb.
I just remove these files whenever my hard disk gets overcrowded.
Nothing to it. Even I can do that.
Paul
You should know better than to blame my wonderful Windows machine for that.
These files are generated by an application called JBidwatcher.
That is something you installed for me.
Stupid thing generates endless lists of useless data that run into Gb.
I just remove these files whenever my hard disk gets overcrowded.
Nothing to it. Even I can do that.
Paul
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