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A bull ray barely qualifies as a stingray - it's much bigger than normal, at up to 4.3m long and 350kg. Steve was effectively stabbed to death with a barbed spear. The latest reports suggest he remained conscious long enough to pull the broken barb out, which undoubtedly made things much worse...

Stung through the heart by a stingray barb. Really shocking - he seemed indestructible. Some of the news services are a little overloaded; he was incredibly well-known around the world. His wife is yet be informed, she was trekking in the wilderness. :( ABC News Corp Sydney Morning Herald...

Use Opera.

Oops, I meant 216.

The Samsung 250GB drive in the computer I'm typing this on is up to 116 remapped sectors ... Yes, I'd be cautious.

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/131016.asp

Mubs, Merc, I feel your pain. My facial hair is coarse and irregular. Rather than being fashionably elegant with designer stubble, my desperado appearance tends to frighten children and animals. I've always found safety razors ineffective, like using a pen knife to cut grass - I need a mower...

You can't buy Powerpoint separately, but believe it or not, you may be able to get away with Open Office - it does a superb job of opening and editing PP presentations. If only Excel compatibility was that good ... :(

After I emphasized the importance of the Winblows XP product key sticker (as opposed to the booklet and CD), a customer managed to lose it. I came across the rather wonderful Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder that reveals the product key for Windows and Office. Unfortunately, this installation is...

I'm attempting to salvage a Samsung 200GB SATA drive with head crash symptoms, specifically, two bad areas. What's frustrating me is that the first area at least is right in the middle of the directory/FAT data (it's a 10GB FAT32 partition), and most of the files and directories are consequently...

An Irishman walks into a bar in Dublin, orders three pints of Guinness and starts drinking a sip out of each one in turn. The barman asks him why and the Irishman tells him he has two brothers, one in the US, the other in Australia. "When we all left home, we promised that we'd drink this way to...

I remember when my computers never ever got infected. Ah, that was before I had kids ... As near as I can tell, the victim received an MSN message that encouraged her to download some software; I'm told it appeared to come from one of her friends. :-? After opening it, the antivirus software...

Yep ... don't use RAID 5. Do you really feel secure with the recovery process you're going through? Consider RAID 10 or even RAID 0+1 instead.

My thought is capacitors, but I assume you've checked for bulges? I'm confused - what would you expect it to do? It sure would be nice to lay the blame at the foot of Symantec; I can't wait to see how this unfolds ...

I may be off-base here, but my understanding is that AMD stands to gain far more from drops in RAM latency, given the low inherent latency of their on-die controller. Dramatic drops in latency of high speed DDR2 may not be all that far away: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32267

Discussion of this idea. Although you excluded engineering from this discussion, I particularly liked this post:

LAKE EYRE BASIN: VALUED FOR ITS RARE ENVIRONMENT

Well, no it won't actually, thanks to the laptop drive. :( I agree about the Sempron 3100; in essence it's an A64 2800 (1.8GHz)with half the cache (256kB instead of 512kB), so many apps will perform similarly.

Yep. No, it's an almost completely useless and stupid idea. USB provides power to many of the devices that plug into it, eg: keyboard, mouse, tablet, scanner (LIDE), MP3 player, USB drive, game controller, card reader, some hard drives, etc. Wireless = Powerless = 'wall warts' for as far as the...

Thanks, Howell. Unfortunately, I forgot to mention that the switch has its very own UPS ... it's the only device that's guaranteed to stay up - for several hours at least. :(

That's seek time, not access time. Average access time will be at least 19mS, or about 50% slower than a reasonable desktop drive.

A-grade post, Vlad! I look forward to an encore.

Here's the scenario: LAN with a 10/100 switch. There's a separate DSL router. Three workstations have fixed IP addresses; the rest are dynamic, served up by the router, but all specify the router as gateway. Printing is direct to fixed address print servers (no file server queues). After a...

Perhaps Tea meant to say that it's a bit late to be wishing us well for Friday? It's now 10:38pm in Oz. :)

Ddrueding, fans are a relatively expensive component and case-PS combinations vary over time and from country to country, so I don't know if it's possible to recommend anything with full confidence. At least Antec is widely available, and I know you like the plug-in-cables and other gadgets. ;)...

IMO, you're off-base in your approach. You're trying to buy a 400W power supply (and case) for a modest amount of money. The only way this is possible is to skimp on PS quality. The configuration you described wouldn't stretch a decent 250W power supply - a 300W would be more than adequate...

Well, I included the link so people could read it. And I'm not interested in his opinion, let alone what some big mouths have to say about him. I'm sure the new Intel CPUs are a huge improvement over the P4 architecture - otherwise there'd be no point in Intel continuing in the processor...

Given Intel's overall track record with PC 'innovation', I'll take that with just a grain of salt, thanks. An alternative viewpoint: http://sharikou.blogspot.com/2006/04/clovertown-scores-revealed.html

Sorry Sol, but that's nonsense. Some paper and pigment ink combinations are good for at least 100 years (i.e. in a completely different league to traditional prints), and pigment inks are now widely available on photo inkjet printers. You're absolutely right about the cost of the prints, though.

Very much so, Paugie. I take my hat off to you for spotting the paradox, as well as trying to do something about it.

You can repair or upgrade (from XP) with the OEM version, so I'd assume you can do it with the Upgrade version. However, you probably won't be able to use a legit key with hacked media because the latter is normally based on a corporate (volume) version. Use the correct media and all should be...

When I checked a couple of days ago, he hadn't posted for about a month. I assumed he was just taking a break and that someone else here knew more.

I wonder if it's a Full-Speed or Hi-Speed USB device?

After David's and Coug's experiences, I'm increasingly nervous about this Samsung SP2504C I have here. Does anyone know how to interpret the SMART attributes? I'm worried that the Raw Read Error Rate seems kinda high - currently 0x984 (2436), as well as the Hardware ECC Recovered - 0x22F063E2...

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Also, have you looked at the Application Notes? There are 41 so far for the 3300; 8 are about VPNs and one is titled "VPN PPTP Host-to-LAN by Smart VPN Client". Have you tried turning off encryption and enabling PAP on the Windows client (unencrypted password)? Sorry I can't give more precise...

It's not a client, it's just a 'wizard' to configure the Windows client. Draytek has posted firmware update 2.5.7 on their website in the last few days (May 15). The release notes include this: It may or may not be relevant, but it sounds like a firmware upgrade may be in order, especially...

What the BOFH looks like.

Bozo, that's just wonderful. Every now and then, someone here posts pure gold. And that's platinum. I so badly wanted to nominate Dell; it's the only brand that truly inspires hatred in me, but Tea and her stupid rules ... If it must be components, can I start the ball rolling with Dell's...

I strongly agree with everything on Mercutio's list except for nVidia graphics cards. To be fair, I have experienced the instability he describes with at least one TNT, and of course there may well have been more but I just didn't realize at the time. Seeing as Tea broke his own rules, I'd like...

Warranty Service Asus-style I returned an otherwise okay nForce1 with two bulging capacitors (trying to preempt any problems). After waiting five weeks, I drove across town to pick it up (I should have had it shipped, but hoped to combine it with something else). When mounting the board about...