snowdude
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From the UK, but nearly spent a quater of my life in Japan now
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Ok soon be rolling over to page 10! wow oh wow!
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In Japan, have been for nearly nine years now.
Tokyo and Nagano!
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Wow just checked, couldn't believe it 27451 photos on my HD.
I have them all backed up on DVD's plus other hard external hard drives for safety.
Infact got my whole computer backed up on seperate ext drives just for safety.
SG your son sounds a bit like my daughter, whenever we go out she crazes me to let her use the camera, and although I haven't really told her anything except where the shutter button is, she can take good pics for her age at only five. It's amazing how quickly children learn things.
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Yep actually was two this morning; one, then a smaller one a short time later!
Seems like the tectonic plates are angry.
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Missed that earthquake was in Korea, just got back this evening. I must say in the past three weeks or so, Kanto area has had about 3 or 4 earthquakes that I have felt. Hope this is not brewing up to the big one!
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I usually buy a new comp about every 2-3 years, as I like to keep up with the latest, but usually not because it has stopped working. As I always do cleaning maintance it usually keeps working quite well, but I guess when it comes to comps I just have to have the latest.
I have a new comp now actually, a Lamborghini, by Asus, running windows vista ultimate.
It has 4gb of dual speed memory, 160gb 7200 HD, 2.6ghz quad core processor, 9600 Nvidia graphics card.
Also got Bluetooth, wireless mouse and finger sensor security log-in.
Only bought it recently and very happy with it so far, I guess time will tell as to how well it behaves after a couple of years of hard usage.
I had to order it just like the cars, it took about a month to come, it's yellow on the outside and black leather on the inside, looks just like a Lamborghini, even sounds like one when you switch it on.
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I find that vista does instal unnessary updates, that depending on your luck can screw it up. Best to have the system constantly backed up using norton go back, ghost or save and restore, then easy to roll the computer back, this is good in any case.
Also I use opera and avant browser or firefox, never once open IE, and it is also a known problem with many vista machines.
I recommend downloading opera or firefox and make one of those two your default browser.
Having said that you may find some streaming videos will not work with opera, unless you install the plug-ins, but that is usually easy to do, and rarely a problem anyway.
My computer has vista in it, and is very very stable, never crashes never had problems, but sometimes older software is not backwards compatible with Vista, such as the microsoft office packages.
I would not recommend that anyone upgrade from XP to vista though as vista is a memory hog. Usually the newest comps that come with vista have the power to run vista without any problems, many xp machines haven't got the graphics or processor / memory to run it well.
And never buy a celeron comp, they are rubbish, way low down on power compared to other processors.
Security wise Vista is better than XP, but to what degree I am not sure.
JA has a good point, if your machine works fine and does all you want then why upgrade, no point.
It's when it stops doing what you want when it is time to consider changing it.
Also with all comps no matter how powerful they are, they require maintance, by that I mean you need to remove the old junk files, clean the registry, defragment the drive now and again, if you want to keep it running like the day you bought it.
A badly fragmented drive will slow your comp down a lot as the computer has to take longer to locate the files, think of an office that has a very disorganised filing system, it takes people longer to find things. A computers hard drive works the same.
Also you install and delete programs and files, etc bits get left behind, even if you think you have deleted eveything, you haven't because parts of the registry files are left behind. If these are not cleaned and removed on a regular basis then your computer will get slower, no matter how fast it is at the start.
The more you install on a hard drive the slower it will become. In general as a rule of thumb, never use more than 70% of the drive if you don't want to sacrifice speed.
Ok just sticking my bit in here, hope there might be something useful for anyone having computer/ vista/xp issues or is thinking about changing computers.
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Originally Posted By: kokodokooh yeah, that logo..
London has some of the best designers in the world..
Wow if that was designed by some of the best designers of the world I would hate to think what the rubbish designers would be like.
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Originally Posted By: BagOfCrispsThis thread is not as useless as the London Olympic logo
WTF! Is that for real? Is that the best our country can come up with???
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Originally Posted By: thursday.snowdude, good thread.
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Welcome elswit!
Never been to Newzealand, but will go there one day for sure, you must tell me about it sometime.
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Wow now this is something else, up to 4 pages for a thread like this.
This is the most popular thread I have come up with, I wonder how many pages it will end at, could it go all the way to 10?
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Wow that sucks, sorry to hear that, hope your friend make a complete recovery soon,
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Actually I'm amazed this thread has gone as long as it has, thought that no one would post to this, it's surprising how a thread like this gets peoples interests. Hehe
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Originally Posted By: dburke
Hi everyone.
I'm new to the forum and am looking for some quick advice. I'm staying in Nagoya with a friend and am leaving on the 20th. I've heard great things about the snowboarding in Japan and would love to go for one day before I leave. My friend said Nagano, but she isn’t a skier/snowboarder so that’s where her advice ended. There seem to be a ton of resorts and I wasn’t sure if there would even be any snow left.
This late in the season and with my skill level (beginner to intermediate) what resort(s) would be best for me to go to?
Thanks in advance.
Danny
Welcome to the forum Danny!
Well I guess if you want to go to Nagano, then Shiga Kogen or Hakuba would have to be your choice this time of year, If you are able to get over to Myoko in Niigata, just over from Nagano, then there would also be ok.
You may wish to ask some of the ones on this forum who have been to either of the resorts recently to check on conditions, but should be ok. -
Originally Posted By: EzorisuVery good! Why didn't I think of that!
How the heck many posts do I have? One more!
You have 672 posts, you can see how many posts you made under your icon on the left hand side of the page! -
Originally Posted By: SJForumsQuote:Ok all, just wasting server space here
We might just have to start charging...
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Ok all, just wasting server space here to make it to 100 posts.
When I look at some with more than 5000, I reckon you must post about 50 times a day to get that. Wow
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Well looks like my total only ended up at a misealy 13 times this season, but all enjoyable times all the same, this last month was to busy to hit the slopes, but may get a final slide in this month somewhere if I can.
Hopefully next season I can do more.
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In all the years I've been here I never waer the communial slippers, as all too small to fit my feet anyway, but yes I understand sharing slippers is not a good thing, but oh well they do it here.
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When you say 'how many different resorts', do you mean as in new, first time to try if so then for me it would, Marunuma, Yuzawa nakazato, minami kogen, minami houdaigi. If it is how many different resorts you have been to this year then that would be eight for me I think.
Having said that I went to some of these and other resorts more than once this year.
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That will depend on how deep the snow is and how much sun it gets every day and how much it freezes at night I guess, but other than that I don't know, must vary though from place to place.
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Best way get your self a 4x4 if you can with studless tyres, thats what I drive, never have to worry about snow on the roads then, I have driven through snow 30cm deep no worries at all. I remember when I first came to Japan many moons ago and rented a car from Tokyo with chains, what a joke, drove through just a few inches of snow and got stuck, had to get a 4x4 to pull us out, after that I decided to by a 4x4, so wouldn't have that problem anymore.
Of course normal 4 wheel drive car will ground out much quicker than the off roaders, but still good.
Computer battery question
in General off-topic discussions
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Some good points about the battery, I usually never remove the battery, as always using with and without the mains.
It is true the batteries do have memory, although the latest ones tend to be better, like the old cam corder batteries, they used to have a problem with memory, which is why people used dischargers, to make sure they were fully flat before a recharge, that way they lasted longer.
As you have a brand new computer you shouldn't have a problem with battery memory, so whether you take it out or not shouldn't matter.
One thing though it is good to use the battery sometimes and not just the mains, because if you don't use the battery for a length of time, they can actually stop storing electricity, also if you don't use your computer for month or two, then better to remove the battery, because even when the computer is switched off, it will use battery and after a period of time, depending on how much charge was left in it, it will drain it 100% flat, even a new computer.
Then when you next come to use the computer, you may find the battery wont charge anymore. This wont happen with a new battery, but can happen with one that has been used for a year or so.