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I can't recall any branded hardware that didn't have some redeeming feature, although that may have been just how cheap it was. But then, I don't normally have to swim in the sewer that is consumer computer hardware - in fact, I try to avoid it like the plague. Therefore, I can't completely...

I fear you're right. I'm especially fearful because I'm typing this on a SP2504C with SMART error rates that look a little out of place. :( Anyway, it's obviously worth buying another one and trying a board swap. It would also be good if you could give us some feedback on what happens ...

Can you clarify what you mean? If you want to automatically close all tabs when you exit Opera, just change the startup options, eg: 'Show start-up dialog' gives you the choice of starting from scratch or re-opening tabs from the last session. If you just want to close all tabs, right-click on...

The quake was 500 miles North-East of Auckland, i.e. in the middle of the ocean, in the middle of nowhere. It's intriguing to look at an atlas of that part of the world to see how incredibly sparse the islands are. Just in case, I remotely checked a PC at a site in Auckland, and a Windows login...

Very pithy, Howell. :)

Tabbed browsing first appeared in Firefox 0.3. It's taken 3 1/2 years to change the default to opening Links in new tabs, not new windows. I'm really tired of the hypocrisy. I've noticed that Firefox fanboys rabidly defend 'features' that other people might call stupid design decisions. Then...

I am not making this up: http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives//004567.html

All lifted straight from Opera. Presumably, the Firefox project will wither and die once the 'developers' can no longer copy someone else's hard work and innovation. :roll:

You've probably thought of this, but you can download the manuals. You can also take a test drive, which is very cool. 8)

Thanks for sharing your experience, Deadwood. That's a great review.

The Draytek Vigor 3300 is a fairly serious piece of hardware, eg, up to 200 IPSec tunnels! Yes, it supports either 3 or 4 WAN connections, depending on model. AFAIK, L2TP should work through any reasonable consumer router. It's a while since I tried it, so I'm a bit vague now - you may have to...

Yeah - they actually work. How about sharing a teensy bit more info? :)

Onboard video is no longer a separate market from the rest of the mainboard chipset. Chipsets from ATI, Intel, Nvidia and VIA all come with their own proprietary integrated graphics. So I think Tea is right - desktop onboard video isn't part of what most people would call the "graphics market"...

I'm completely hopeless with faces, but aren't those shots of Howell reminiscent of Harrison Ford?

Yes, but what sort of movie? :bigeek:

XP requires more recent SMB than OS2 could possibly have (AFAIK). Sorry if I'm vague, Pradeep et al will remember all this stuff - I need to forget lots of things to remember anything useful. :( I can't see a problem with a set-and-forget Linux box as a file server. Given the 24x7 operation...

No joy with TweakUI?

Although I've been aware of this program for quite a while, I've started relying on it to show HDD SMART info, as well as temperatures and fan speeds. It has the added advantage of partly running as a service to get around permissions issues when accessing the hardware sensors, i.e. it works for...

Unfortunately, I think it's just a coincidence. The hard drive business is a mix of specialist manufacturers and 800lb gorillas, which is proving unsustainable. Hitachi and Samsung are global behemoths (actually, their industry profiles are remarkably similar) who won't stop until they dominate...

I hope you're talking about teleworker access rather than site-to-site VPN. I just checked your link, and AFAIK M$ still doesn't support permament connections - i.e. the client has to dial the server and the VPN drops when you logout. I think the main reason PPTP isn't widely used is because it...

S'okay. Believe me, I suffer from serious anger management problems when confronted by stupid software. :evil: And Adobe products have been a major contributor to my psychosis, reminding me so much of Apple's badly written spawn - particularly Acrobat, which I have never forgiven for being a...

:o Very, very cool, Stereodude.

It must be your proximity to the South magnetic pole, then. Have you checked your installation package?

:rofl: That reminds me of another Asus anecdote, but I'm too tired to relate it right now.

I'm sitting here looking at 20 different Acrobat Reader documents, each in their own window. Some are over 100 pages and Acrobat 7.07 is using 142MB of memory. I can scroll, search, resize, tile and generally do what I want. While doing all this, the Reader recommended a Chinese character set...

Lawns are an obligatory part of Oz life, but the restrictions are changing that. And no, we don't have any fucking grass, but we do have heaps of bloody grass.

If I understand correctly, it doesn't have anything to do with the OS (provided it issues Halts in the 'idle' process) - it's a motherboard issue. What motherboard/chipset do you have?

Canberra is about 300km (190mi) from Sydney, which has also had water restrictions for three years. Brisbane only moved to serious restrictions last year - no sprinklers or irrigation systems and handheld watering 3 days a week between 7pm and 7am (if you want to be mozzie fodder). Many parts...

I've often felt that way about Windows ...

The only way it could affect performance is if there was a delay switching out of the halt state - I don't think this is an issue. Paraphrased from the CoolON Project: In the ACPI mode of Windows 98 and Windows2000, the idle process issues a HALT instruction. When the HALT instruction is...

Cool! Which CPU is that?

That graphics cooler is actually a small squirrel cage fan, but I guess that's what you're highlighting?

IMO you're on the right track, Greg. Adding even a small amount of airflow across the heatsink will significantly improve its efficacy. Squirrel fans are great (when they're quiet) and should probably be standard for CPU coolers instead of the axial fans that we're stuck with - the latter are a...

Wrong one, Dave. Use BugMeNot to get the printable version (as Groltz outlined).

Not at all - it still manages nearly 75% of the performance of my three-year-old single-CPU XP2400 (with a quarter of the RAM and a solitary ATA drive). :) Tried it on a 33% overclocked Athlon 64 2800: 8 seconds.

Apart from Greg's networking problem, variations in print speed seem to be down to the printer driver. For me, printing the D50 manual to a file took 11 seconds, regardless of whether I scaled or not. Printing two-per-page took 12 seconds. This is with Acrobat Reader 7.07 on an Athlon XP2400...

Whoops! The second one should read: XP1800 Before = 57C After = 23C

Two KT600 PCs: XP2500 Before = 51C After = 33C XP1800 Before = 57C After = 33C Oddly, the temp on the XP1800 seems to drop about 15C instantly when CoolON is enabled; the rest of the fall is more sedate. Could be a measurement error in this case, or something ... Unless your CPU utilization...

Mark, I've been through all this a few times. Cooling is tricky - you can never be certain how effective different techniques will be in a given situation. Adding vents and fans doesn't always achieve what you hoped, particularly in a small case. I wasted countless hours (I need my head...

Wow, it really works! I ran CoolON on an nForce2 board with an undervolted XP2500 CPU. This setup already uses 20-25% less power than normal, so I didn't expect much improvement. The temperature at idle dropped from 41C to 33C! This is insane. I thought the issue had disappeared with the...

After recently wrestling with cooling an Athlon XP, I came across this. I've slowly realised that power saving (on idle) may be broken in many Athlon systems. In particular, I suspect it may be completely broken on certain VIA chipsets. The one in question reported the idle temperature of an...

So this is how they'll break Windows 2000? :(

Ack! Don't tell me that, I just started using them! The 4166 and 4167 rather than the 4120, though.

I thought you were being a smartass, CityK, but you're right! The data sheet has a Sempron power table that includes "Min P-state". It reports 1000MHz, 1.1V and 20/19W for 3100+/3000+, but "N/A" for 2800+/2600+. As far as I'm concerned, we've been ripped off. I sold this as a lower power...

I'm guessing many people here already know this, but Cool'n'Quiet is disabled on Palermo Semprons below 1.8GHz, ie. 2800+ and 2600+. I found this out by accident when the supplier ran out of 3100+. :( There's no warning on AMD's website, leading to general confusion. Here's confirmation on the...

The best Dell De-Crapifier: P5-133XL, this talk about 3-year warranties is all very well, but what sort of turnaround would you expect after 2 1/2 years? With a machine that old, would any sane person jump through the hoops that Dell places between the customer and warranty service?

Indeed, it's terrific. :o That is surreal ...

A couple of years ago, I would have wholeheartedly agreed with Coug, but now I'm not so sure. 12cm fans are all well and good, but they either cost more than 8cm fans or are of inferior quality (I've had several that were included with cases fail). They are also often way too powerful and may...

You got a lot of nerve, asking here about how to install malware like Norton Insecurity. :P Still, at least you ended up disinfecting the victim's machine, so the loss of just one gonad should be sufficient.

I'm probably dreaming here, but do I recognize the "Connect" name as a firm that is subcontracted by various drive manufacturers to repair their drives? Unfortunately, Google isn't shedding any light.