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Actually, there was a Compaq Presario vomit box that used an AMD K6-2/550 in a very fat and ugly mini-tower that was ... well ... "quite good" would be going too far, but "acceptable if you are stuck" would be a fair description, as would "bloody brilliant considering it's a Compaq". We see...

VIA were always acceptable for Intel CPUs in my opinion. And I do mean "acceptable" - not "great" or "just fine" or "excellent performers", and not "complete crap" or "substandard" or "untrustworthy" - just ....acceptable. Tyan and Supermicro, from my limited experience with them, don't ever...

Wake up and smell the napalm, David. ASUS have been producing, for the main part, over-priced, over-rated crap since the Athlon Classic came out. VIA have been the chipset maker of choice for about the same length of time. Welcome to the Century of the Fruitbat.

So how long do new drives normally have recorded on them? Is there an average figure? Is it the same for enterprise-class drives?

Hmmm .... I refulse to buy Dell on principle, and the Samsungs are (if I remember correctly) so-called "wide screen" models (a fancy name for "shallow picture with lots of wasted space on either side"). I don't want to spring for an Ezio (I have that Canon 500mm F/4 to save up for, remember?)...

News posted by Bozo: Dell to sell AMD. But they are still Dells http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/afx/2005/11/20/afx2347168.html Is this the real deal? Or is it false alarm number 147377?

AMD Sempron 3100, Gigabyte VIA-based board with integrated graphics (you will be surprised how decent the graphics on-board is with these). Or, if you need DVI, a Gigabyte K8NS and a 128MB Gforce 5200. These are very cheap now, and have excellent picture quality - at least the Leadtek ones do...

Is it worth looking at a large TFT screen yet? I have an Acer AL1922 19 inch unit which is excellent for a 19, but am wondering if the bigger ones have (a) the picture quality and (b) the value yet. Requirements: * Decent aspect ratio: none of this so-called "wide screen" crap that is only...

Might be a possibility. Thanks, Doggy One. We did actually discuss that and they said that a messaging app would be OK. But they all use Outlook and/or Thunderbird already and the MD and I are both leaning towards the simplicity of having everything available from the same application...

Huh? You are talking about the best-known and best-selling brand there is - certainly in this country, and elsewhere around the world as well if the number of Lite-On recommendations in forums are any guide. One of the best-respected too. Lite-On remains an instant brand-recognition sell...

Just so everyone knows. I hate XP.

It's not a "just yet" thing, Sechs, it's a "mastered it ages ago but now they have screwed up" thing. It turns out that my "bad batch" is not an isolated incident. Lots of people hre in Oz are suddenly having trouble with Lite-On DVDRs now, after years of trouble-free product. I guess they will...

I agree with Sechs. After all, there is only so much you can desire from an email client. I've only used about 4 different ones ever. (Meaning "used" as in "installed on my own machine and used regularly for more than a day or two".) Let me see .... Whatever the thing that came out of the box...

Not up to the usual standard.

There are three rules of reliability in IDE hard drives, and they are all start with the letter "S". (Hint: they all end in "amsung".)

[b]Wahhhahunu!!!!!! :evil: :mrgrn: :eekers: :eekers: :eekers:

Read it. Pin it on your wall.

The Inquirer. Not much detail there though.

The good news is that Sony will no longer be manufacturing thir pox-ridden optical drives in-hous as of next year. The bad news is that they are setting up a shared manufacturing facility with NEC, and Sony will own 55% of it. That seems to say that Sony drives will live on, and NEC drives...

The Inq says that, according to the Nikkei Business Daily, Japanese researchers have developed a white LED that gives 130 lumens per watt. It is said to use a purple LED and a silicon carbide substrate, and to be going into manufacture in the near future. Linky...

My customer likes the look of WorkgroupShare from http://www.softalkltd.com I think they will also need WorkgroupMail from the same vendor, which wil push the cost up a bit, but the two programs look to be pretty much exactly what they are looking for - and in the end, if it does the job well...

Thanks for the help so far, people. I'm nowhere near figuring this out, but I'm further along and have a clearer idea of what we need, I think. A couple of questions: What's the go with domain names? The way I want to set this up is: * myclient.com.au This will be an orthodox website, hosted...

The last batch we got was bad, Merc. New model with bad kharma? Bad batch? Dunno: I switched over to LG anyway. Besides, you don't have to change the poxy fron cover with the LG drives, and the software is better.

Thanks Coug. The really amazing thing is that I saw your thread. I never look in the Sale & Trade forum, and only clicked on it just now by accident. But I have a couple of copies of Ecomstation already. No need to buy extra ones.

As ever with air accidents (and with other sorts of accidents too, it is safe to assume) through a long chain of small incidents and factors, any one or even any three of which would usually be harmless, but which added up on this tragic day to a disaster. When the organisers of the Habsheim...

It starts to look as if I need an IMAP server. But I'm still reading. I imagine, however, that I'll set it (or something else) up on their existing W2K system that currently is just a plain vanilla file server. It's a system I understand much better than I understand *nix, and it's not exactly...

I just had a quick search for Microsoft Small Business Server 2003, which seems to be the cheapest way to do it wijh Microsoft products. Not impressed. It seems to offer the functionality we need (plus a whole lot of other stuff that is not needed) but has obvious drawbacks: * At $1099 starting...

I have a customer who runs about 5 or 6 main computers, plus various accessory machines. They are in a light light engineering trade. Fileserver: Athlon XP 2500, Windows 2000 Workstation, reception: someting old that ain't broke yet so we ain't fixing it. Win98. Will be replaced soon. Drawing...

Thanks for the updates, CityK. I'm fresh back from reading up on this disgraceful scandal - I wouldn't have known it was still going on and getting worse and worse if you hadn't prompted me to go looking. thanks for posting!

No insult there that I am aware of, Sechs, certainly none intended. But you can trust me on this matter — it is a field I have some reasonable knowledge of. I have dealt, in detail, with the one and only case raised in the thread, and stand ready to deal similarly with others that people may...

I agree entirely, Coug. The "reliability" figures touted by SR are, scientifically speaking, straight out of cloud-cuckoo land. But, of course, honestly compells me to ask if anyone ever got a bad batch of P80s? We have sold some phenomenol number of them, and the failure rate is tiny. Maybe...

You will need to take care to avoid refferer spam. Not sure how you'd do that.

You mean all that eye-candy crap that is the first thing everyone with half a brain switches off? Or something else?

Well, sooner or later, I'll spring for a big prime. 500mm I guess. But it would be foolish to buy a TC on the strength of that. Meanwhile there are times when I need more reach, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of choice - it's TC or go without. (OK, I could afford a 50-500 Sigma this year...

An afterthought: I have always considered that for photography work a good CRT beats a good LCD hands down. You just can't be sure of the actual brightness of the image on an LCD. Is that picture a little too dark? A little too light? Move your head an inch and the answers change. I always used...

Maybe you mean Matrox, Lunar One. Last I heard, Maxtor were still making hard drives. Matrox, for all their silly pricing and lack-lustre performance, used to make video cards with superb output quality. So far as I know, they still do. I think you will be flat-out telling any difference in...

Thanks Lunar. Funny you should mention Kinesis, I stumbled across a link to their site elsewhere just yesterday, and thought that they seemed good. Alas, I don't see the sort of thing I have in mind. But I could start with the belt and get together with Belinda to make the other bit. I've...

Yup. You will reduce the expected working life of your CPU. If you are going to keep on folding, you had better plan on replacing that chip - as it will probably fail completely due to the excessive electron bleed. Could happen as soon as 2032. By that time, given inflation and the expense of...

More generally, most of the things I want to take pictures of only really work in daylight - or, in the worst case, with flash, an area I have yet to explore, and probably won't for quite some time, as I have so much else to learn. My 100-400 lives on the camera almost all the time as I can't...

I can reply at length now - seeing as I am waiting for your 6.5MB raw file to download Doug! I have not tried any long exposures - nothing over what I can hand-hold, or at least rest on a tree or fencepost with. But I think what you probably want is Custom Function 2 - "long exposure noise...

Actually, no. Those figures simply report how many people have actually died in those aircraft (usually adjusted on a per-passenger-mile basis, or something similar). They fail to take two very significant factors into account: 1: The non-random distribution of aircraft types. The 727, for...

Yes indeed. You could not ask for a clearer case of pure, 100% pilot error. The crew embarked on a hastily-planned flyover, at well below the usual minimum safety height, with a load of passengers. The flyover height (selected by the crew) was lower than the surrounding obstacles. The...

For "some", read at least "most", quite possibly "all". At least in the commercial arena. There were some horrendous FBW accidents in military aircraft, where this technology was pioneered. Airbus & Boeing ddn't get into FBW until years after military aircraft had it, and by that time the bugs...

So what's the batting average here? Umm ... 6 rooms x 2 speakers + 1 subwoofer / 1 girlfriend = .... er .... about 0.056 girlfriends per speaker. Obviously, David, you need to have fewer speakers, or possibly more girlfriends.

Does 2003 Server require WPA Tim? If so, I ain't playing. I will not willingly pay, with my own money, for a product that I can only use with somebody else's special permission. WTF did I pay that monety for if I don't get unfettered access to the product? That just sucks. Once 2000 is no...

Nope. Read the literature. I don't have time to drag out the blow-by-blow this week but you can trust me on this. My family background is steeped in aviation, my father (now retired) was a pilot for 30 years, then an aviation safety consultant to most of the largest civil and military aviation...

Darn it, now I can't find those linky things that I checked out. One (was it yours, Tim) was a 170 page PDF (or 170k, I forget) and there is no way I'm ever going to read a massive great PDF like that if I don't absoluetly need to. As Tea would say, PDF Zuckz! It's horrible to read. (In fact...

I think what the incoherent one is trying to say is that a bug isn't just any small creature, a bug is a mamber of the order Hemiptera, and can be distinguished from other insects by having forewings with both membranous and hard portions in the adult form, and by having both piercing and...

Windows 2000. XP sucks. Big time. Whoever wrote that it is a "much improved" version of W2K has beed pulling his pud too much. What a joke. XP is a almost entirely nothing but rewarmed Windows 2000 with zooming windows, Product Activation, DRM, a terminally broken search tool, a huge pile of...

What Mercutio said. Make no mistake, with a witches brew like you'll get if you try an over the top install with that system, you'll wish you were back running CP/M. Or possibly stone tablets.