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DealExtreme There are other HK suppliers, but I picked them as having the best customer feedback. In practise, they exceeded my expectations (I chose the EMS courier option). Note that the simple search on their website appears to be broken - use the Advanced search instead. BTW, I notice that...

Weigh (on average) 10kg more than they should Alas, you're right. When my doctor weighed me recently, I'm not sure who quivered more (she'd just bought a new set of scales). Listen to Neil Diamond I was once quite fond of 'Crunchy Granola Suite' - it's an instrumental. Eat at McDonalds Hate...

Fenix flashlights are well-known in places like CandlePower Forums. But there's also a following for cheaper brands such as Ultrafire, and now Romisen. I just received a Romisen E4 as well as the latest R4 model. The E4 takes either CR123A Lithium or 18650 protected rechargeable cells and has a...

I'm probably going to be showing my age here, but who has - or is intending to - put up Xmas lights? The rot set in when we moved into the current house. All six immediate neighbours had made at least some effort. The killer was the guy more or less opposite; he had probably 40+ light sets...

I'm sorry to hear that Mercutio. Being a non-PC, your HP would be a marvellous piece of engineering. On my own little piece of antiquity, I used 98-Lite to trim the Windows 98 installation. It now uses 25MB memory before loading any apps. It's got Office 2k, which Liam's post points out is the...

Today, someone asked me to check an old computer before they pass it on to a friend ("They just want to surf the Internet"). When I picked up the keyboard, I noticed the 5-pin DIN plug ... The back of the box reveals a single 5-pin socket - not a PS2 in sight, and sure enough, there's a serial...

I want to try recovering data from a failed Seagate 80GB SATA drive. Therefore, I'm looking for the same model: ST380817AS (7200.7?) Has anyone got one? Failing that, is anyone interested in sourcing one for me? It would involve DHL or FedEx to Australia. TIA.

12 minutes is sure better than 12 hours! My congratulations to Shannon - hope she ddn't sustain too much damage from such a quick delivery. Prepare to enter the land of zombies, my friend. It usually eases up in about six months or so, but things willl never, ever be the same. :)

Current problem in Oz is chargers. Believe it or not, I've been unable to find anything useful that can charge AA/AAA in 1-2 hours. 15 minutes, yes, but I'd like the batteries to last longer than 3 months. This has come about because my existing chargers (including a Sanyo) have died. Many...

I'm a picky so and so with monitors. Firstly, I wouldn't thank you if you gave me a Samsung 940B. According to Samsung, the 740B has identical specs, and I found those to be near the bottom of the pile. Samsung does make good monitors; the 206BW and 226BW are 24-bit monitors that are well...

Yes, but it's quite easy for CFL to even that up when the efficacy of the luminaire/fixture is taken into account. Let's face it, you'd have to be losing at least half the illumination from a traditional domestic linear fixture. Spiral CFLs, in particular, are a lot more effective than the...

Anyone used these? They claim to survive a 2m drop. I'm looking for backup media, and given my well-justified fear and loathing of tape solutions, this seems to be the best alternative. There's also Lacie, but reviews seemed a little more mixed. Flash capacity increases seem to be having a...

What's a minor hardware change?

A few days ago, I needed to capture a Real Audio stream. The server used the PNA protocol. I tried 4 or 5 different software utilities but none worked successfully. Then I remembered that the FunTwist D-Chord player I mentioned earlier has a Line-In socket (the unit helpfully comes with an...

Unfortunately, I don't know anyone nearby with a 1600x1200 LCD monitor. :( I just read some hairy things about Dual-Link et al, including the fact that the graphics card may choose to change to Analogue if it considers the dot clock will be too high for Single-Link. Are you using a DVI-D or...

If the graphics problem is the only one left, then unfortunately, I'd suggest faulty hardware. I've absolutely no idea why it would make a difference, but what about a different DVI cable? Display refresh is set to 60Hz, isn't it?

I have no idea if this is even possible, but you did use the Win2k/XP driver CD and not the Vista one? It might be worthwhile shorting out the CMOS and reloading the BIOS defaults.

I haven't experienced any of the problems you mentioned, Doug. :( I'm pretty sure I downloaded the graphics drivers from ATI/AMD and just used the Gigabyte CD for everything else: ATI Radeon X1200 Series 2007-07-27 8.401.0.0 Catalyst Version 07.8 Control Center Version 2007.0727.2307.39475...

A toss up between performance? I don't think so: Benchmarks I'd just like to reiterate that IMO, the 5200 is the biggest fraud that nVidia has ever inflicted on the public.

The 6200 is supposed to be a native AGP solution. Ordinarily, I'd say it wouldn't be suitable for gaming - however, it should have twice the grunt of the absolutely pathetic 5200 (from memory). I've got one here; I'll benchmark it for you if you can nominate a test.

UK to ban traditional lightbulbs

Australia has a federal election coming up. An independent organization has enough donations to run this ad during the (Australian Rules) Football Grand Final: https://www.getup.org.au/campaign/ClimateCleverer I think some people here would get some amusement from playing the ad. :)

The CFL reference was just an attempt at a segue from the other thread. Lighting isn't a very significant contributor, but I thought it might be a useful example of US thinking. Meanwhile, things are hotting up: Act now or the planet gets it: Rice (I borrowed the headline from a local...

Ah, of course - I was visualizing an oyster style fitting like I have here. Out of interest, do the bulbs face up or down? The other thing which you've confirmed for me is higher ceilings. The standard here is 8ft and a small percentage are 10ft (unless you've got a raked ceiling like I did in...

100W in a table lamp? :o The majority of lamps and fixtures available in Oz are only rated to 60-75W! Your talk about sunlight ignores the fact that it's actually far too bright for humans to resolve things well. The pupils are fully constricted under these conditions and people may choose to...

Despite that CFLs are promoted in order to save energy, some of you guys (and you're not alone) are just making your homes brighter! A funny thought struck me: are proposals to counter global warming even a talking point in the US? We know that the US and Australia are pretty much the only two...

I have to take a swipe at my American friends here. If it's not ludicrously oversized cars or oversized kitchen appliances, it's oversized luminaires! We all know that jtr1962 is half-blind and needs stadium lighting inside his house, but my eyebrows started to rise when Fushigi mentioned a...

Some random lighting thoughts: I've found that although 2700K is way too yellow, 4000K and up tends to wash out lighter wall colors. I have tried mixing one of each a couple of times and suspect that 3500 would be best, but I can't find that option here in CFL at least. Or, it might be just...

Allow me to introduce everyone to Megaman. Wonderful stuff. You can't have it both ways, Will. Market forces will never work in this sort of thing, that's why we have governments. Australia plans to phase out incandescent bulbs by 2010.

I doubt you can get these in America, but I recently bought a FunTwist D-Chord for one of my kids (model 328, I think). It's surprisingly good; other family members (including me) now covet one. Sound quality, to my fading ears, is pretty damn good. It does a good job playing MP4 video as well...

The Age newspaper reporting on Netspace, an Australian ISP

I'm definitely not a security expert, but do the postives of proxies significantly outweigh the negatives? Proxies are a PITA with web services, etc, and you can achieve port filtering through a firewall. I thought their justification was mainly as a gatekeeper for web content? Merc, that's...

Buck hasn't posted for at least three months, and he last checked in 6 weeks ago. Cougtek cut off all contact after the Dubai headhunter incident nearly 7 weeks ago. Gary and his many brethren are up to 7 weeks, but that's not extraordinary for him. Sechs left 7.5 weeks ago but last posted 3...

Doug, the GA-MA69GM-S2H is a sweet deal. To my mind, it's the perfect non-gamer platform, with the option of a Micro-ATX case. Having said that, the 3D graphics performance is the best of any current integrated graphics solution - although that's still well short of a discrete card such as an...

JFK springs to mind as an American parallel. But seriously, I'm misrepresenting him. The incident occurred four years ago when he was not yet leader (he was a shadow minister, which is doubtless a completely foreign concept to our American friends: just pretend there's such a thing as someone...

On a more sombre note, Stroke is one of the nastiest afflictions there is. It entails a loss of humanity. I've seen the effects first-hand in my family, including the loss of my father. Hopefully, your ex has a concrete idea what caused it (eg. blood disorder). Otherwise, it will most likely recur.

Another classic post from Merc. Immensely enjoyable - the more so because we can relate to it all too well ...

Australia's leader is its Prime Minister. For the past eleven years, this has been John Winston Howard, aka "the man of steel" (a title bestowed by George W Bush). He's also been known as "the lying rodent" (by members of his own political party). His party ("Liberal" by name, but think...

Yes. And/Or, they take it out on others. I'm with ddrueding - I don't know of a third option ...

That's the only reference to "Indian" that he made. He did not malign India or its citizens. In this, I naturally assumed that Coug was better-informed than some here, as he normally is. As it happens, the alleged headhunter appears to be a bit free with his definition of British - the company...

I think I can spot the problem. Headhunter rercruiting blurb is actually indistinguishable from spam. Mubs, what the hell is your problem? Cougtek's posts were absolutely spot on, yet you made a sustained personal attack. What's going on? In case anyone's wondering, I've finished a contract...

Tannin, given up on the Oz distributor and now deal with the NZ one (probably not supposed to, but I don't care and they don't mind). Fully automated website, 30 days credit (!!!). When it comes to renewals, just choose the customer from the database. They also answer the phone and charge...

Despite my self-imposed pragmatism, I'm still somewhat quixotic. Part of me wants to stand up to the bastardry in this world. Which is another way of saying: I meant every word, I agonized over it for ages, I sought someone else's opinion, and I don't retract any of it. It's not a personal...

You absolute fucking Nazi. Actually, that's too nice a term. You disgrace to humankind? I don't know what you've been raised on, kid, but I'd strongly recommend a medicinal dose of reality; charity or social work springs to mind. Or maybe having your own disabled kids ... I imagine you could...

(Some heavily edited excerpts from a private discussion in June 2002) Tannin: How long does an Admin Team member's term run for? Time: Do you automatically get rid of an employee or a director just because his contract has expired? Even politicians get re-elected. Tea: Nope. But they do have...

Site's been very, very close to unusable for me. Just waited an hour or so before I could even load a page. Must be a lot of failing disk drives ...

Wonderful posts, Oh Tannin. Things are worse than I feared. :cry: BTW, how can anyone regard 4 seconds, or even 2.5, a reasonable time to open Control Panel? Fushigi, this is inevitably going to sound patronizing, but why wouldn't medium-sized applications load in less than a second once...

In my experience, it's the feet that are the achilles' heel with optical mice. Feet falling off is why I gave up on Logitech, although they've probably improved by now, and I don't include the ridiculously expensive versions. Just tonight, I noticed that one of our beloved A4 'Big Thumb' mice...

So, I see that major laptop manufacturers (it's really farcical when they insist on referring to them as "notebooks") provide Vista, Vista or Vista as OS options. This sounds only bad to me. Does anyone have a survival guide to Vista on laptops - apart from, "Don't do it!"? Can it be as bad as...

SFX form factor is a PITA. For starters, there are at least three different physical sizes. Secondly, efficiency is below equivalent ATX power supplies (AFAIR). Thirdly, 300W versions are rare - most are around 200W or so. I have absolutely no idea what posessed Antec to use an SFX PS in the...