Ryewolf

Welcome from me also, a confirmred dog lover, but a recent convert to cats. Great photo's, and as a fairly new member myself I can confirm this is a very friendly forum.

Thanks everyone, much appreciated.

I know the Springwatch cameramen/presenters get asked about this all the time, usually their answer is don't intervene.

Thanks guys, there was a touch of moral dilemma in this set, whether I should have tried to intervene, my initial instinct was I should, but everything needs to eat. The Herring Gull is a red-listed species, but it will prey on young Black Headed Gull chicks. It was a hard scene to watch and look back on, I really did feel sorrow for the duckings.

Congrats Geoff, well desrved win and a great shot of a fox cub.

Cog/Gear Wheels from an Old Sluice Gate at Barnard Castle - 16/06/2015

I arrived home after my short week trip to Berwick to find that I got a Kodak Portrait Hawkeye No2 ...made in the 1920-30's, no idea if it still works or even if you can still get film for it. So having Googled it, it's made from cardbooard with a leatherette lining, has two viewfinders, and 2 apertures. It's fixed focal length with a focusing distance of 8ft, or 3ft in the other aperture. There were also a bunch of B/W family photo's - presumably taken on the very same camera.

Vongrats Paul, an excellent shot.

It was indeed a duckling, not sure what kind. I had series of about 18 shots covering from when it snatched it to it finally swallowing it, it last maybe 15-20 seconds. I'm just going through the Puffin shots.

The not so fluffy side of nature, taken at Seahouses about 30 mins before I went to meet up with Chrissy and Geoff. If you're a bit squeamish you might want to look away now...

Swan and Sygnet (11/06/2015)

Well done Phoenix, great image.

Yes, it was great to meet you both, and a great day out on the Farne Islands.

I suppose it all depends on what you are doing, as a web developer, if I install a program that I'm going to use I want that icon on the desktop or accessible from that start menu under a folder based on the developer. I dont want to have to switch screens then search for it, it should just be there.Seems like they've made it mobile/tablet usable, for people accessing Facebook, twitter, email and all those other social network stuff, but forget about the poor sods who have to try and use it in a business environment, Yes I know I can use the File Explorer and look in program files than create a desktop icon.

I've brought everything, as I wasn't sure what I need. I'm probably gonna be up again early to take a walk along the riverbank. I saw lots of birds on the river.

Yes, I'm called Geoff too.

I'm officially in holiday mode, everything packed and ready to go, though it's look more like I'm about to leave on a 6 month world tour rather than 6 days. I've got my Lowepro Flipside 400, which has got the sigma 150-600, Canon 100mm Macro, Canon 18-55mm, Canon 24-105mm L, 6 x 16gb memory cards, 3 fully charged batteries, the Canon 12 and 25 extension tubes, plus a whole bunch of other bits and pieces and filters, 2 tripods, a small Canon gadget bag with my Canon film camera, some films, a 75-300mm lens and the Venus. There's a bag with my laptop and a whole bunch of chargers for camera batteries, mp3 player, phone and the laptop. Also got a mobile broadband dongle thingy.... An early start for me - 5am O_O, as I plan to be in Jedburgh before 9:00am for a visit to the abbey

Well, I've made a badge so at least you'll be able to recognise me - hopefully.....

Yes, I remember Cobol, Fortan, Algol and Pascal.

I'd forgoten about Win 2000, I still have a working pc that has Win 2000 Pro on it. Yes, 3.11 was for workgroups.

I first started out with windows 3.11, then 95, 98 and XP Pro - which is still on the 2 workstations I use everyday. I have one workstation that has Vista on. I've not used Win 7. I think the biggest difference I've noticed is that windows 8.1 is far too heavily weighted to using touch screens and devices rather than keyboard/mouse. Let's hope Win 10 is an improvement - which from what I've read is returning to a more Win 7 look.

Bought myself a new laptop today, after about a zillion updates and many, many, many restarts and many, many , many hours later installing all the programes, I finally got a look at Windows 8.1. It's quite a bit different from Windows XP, and to be honest it's a bit weird, what's with the start button, that takes you to those tiles. I had to google to find out where all the program list was.... not very god for productivity having to switch from the normal desktop to those tiles just to find a list of programs you've got installed.. why isn't it on the desktop?

Yep 11am is fine for me.

Lets hope it's not to cloudy. We still need to sort out a time and place to meet.

Do these things do away with the need for Dropbox, or any other cloud based back-ups out there? The short answer is yes - according to the WDMyCloud website. Basically the MyCloud is a network attached storage device, it connects directly to the router (which are usually always switched on all the time), either wired or wireless. As it has a cpu and memory its capable of running software. From a quick scan of the user manual, one of the programs would be some sort of dynamic dns software client that runs on the MyCloud, similiar to DynDNS or NoIP. Access to the MyCloud remotely is done via a web page at WDMyCloud . com, once logined the drive shared and public folders that have been setup should be visible. There is another version of the MyCloud called the MyCloud Mirror, which are set up as raid arrays that are copies of each other. So the 8tb one would have 2 x 4tb drives total 8tb, however as they are setup by default as Raid 1, you would only see 4tb with the other drive being a mirror copy, so if one drive failed the other would still have all your files.