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Bad Mubs! The video card was an obvious suspect, but your saying Matrox pushed it well down the list. :) It's interesting that Mandrake handled your two obscure cards much better. What's your network card chipset? I have Suse 9.0 running on a BX machine right next to me. It has nVidia TNT2...

Okay, forget the Antec. I'm surprised someone hasn't mentioned the Silverstone TJ06. Isolation of the CPU(s) reduces temperatures throughout the case The hard drives are vertically mounted, taking advantage of convection An exhaust fan (the PS) sits right on top of the drives and increases...

Is that a personal recommendation, Howell? On a related note: I'm looking to set up an environment with Thunderbird email clients running IMAP. Does anyone have an opinion on Thunderbird + LDAP for contact management? I'm under the impression that internet accessible LDAP servers could be a...

CDex does it all for us. Looks up CD-DB, names the tracks and fills in the tags automatically, then files them under album name - in turn filed under artist. What more do you want?

It sounds like your source files are corrupt. There's nothing remotely exotic in your hardware - proved by the fact you can install Solaris. You could check it by downloading the Suse demo CD image (single CD, boots and runs solely off CD). Suse 9.2 is currently being offered as an Oz magazine...

Isn't this what Cas was involved in?

I'm looking for recommendations for email hosting, i.e. email under your own domain but hosted on some ISP's server. Minimum of 50MB per box, probably around ten boxes. IMAP or nothing. Although cost is an issue, reliability is far more important. Suggestions?

Does anyone else think that NFS 1 had much better physics/handling simulation/engine sounds than the later games?

Your chances of getting compatible DIMMs at this late stage are slim. Get the board working with EDO first, then while away the hours trying early SDRAM DIMMs. The 557 has very broad CPU support, so it's particularly important to check all the jumpers are exactly right for the CPU you are...

Serial ports are probably the oldest and simplest piece of technology in a PC. There's really not much to them. If it's only slightly broken, it would have to be either a bad connection, an interrupt or buffer problem, or using software Xon/Xoff instead of hardware flow control. You'd have to...

Whoops! Missed the Exchange reference. :oops: Rightfax pricing is cute, in that it appears to be volume based. ;) Just out of interest, without Outlook you wouldn't need Exchange, so heaps of options become available. You can probably script something for free on Linux, for example. Or off...

Says it all. Opera's probably particularly cheesed because they developed a completely new rendering engine to support CSS in all its glory. :( Who wants to play the game when the biggest player just changes the rules to suit themselves? Whether it be Java, W3C or whatever, Microsoft breaks...

Yeah, don't use Outlook. At least, not entirely. Standalone fax products like HotFax will do the sending to either fax or email part for you, either from entered text or as a printer driver. Similarly, they can generate an email to you from any received faxes. Or, you could use one of the...

It's hard to find any statistics, but what I did find for Brisbane suggests between 1 in 3000 and 1 in 10000, or using Tannin's terminology, between 100 and 300 each year per million people. Antivenom is only given in a small number of cases, partly because it doesn't do much for the intense...

Actually, they haven't been too bad this year - so far. Brisbane would easily be the redback capital (Sydney has to contend with funnel-webs, which are much scarier). Our cooktop runs off 9kg gas cylinders which have to be removed for refilling every few months. I almost always find between one...

Yeah, it's like checking every nail when building a house and calling that quality. The fact that structural supports may be missing, the roof leaks or the electrician wired the mains to the plumbing, is neither here nor there. Welcome to the world of "software engineering". I'll never get over...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12204297-26618,00.html Wonder if they run Windows?

The free version now only loses the width of a speedbar to the ad banner (assuming you disable the main toolbar as suggested). It's really not a big deal. I think it's worth pointing out that the Mozilla foundation exists thanks to grants from Netscape/AOL, and not due to some utopian business...

You're right about the scroll bar, but it hadn't bothered me because I use either the mouse wheel or the keyboard. I wonder if using grey rather than the Windows theme might even be a bug? After that, you sort of lose me. Perhaps it's picked up your settings from a previous version? My forward...

Their front page advertises "a free upgrade to the next version" for version 7 (currently at 7.54) purchasers. The next version started out at 7.60, but it's so different they started calling it 8.0 preview (it's still labelled as 7.60). They seem to be acknowledging that 7.5 disappointed and...

I agree with you about 7-7.5, but I'm really happy with 7.60/8. I'd exhort you to try it, but that would be like prising a barnacle off with my tongue. ;)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1298155.htm

Over the weekend, I went from nForce (1) to Via and found I didn't need to do anything at all. Given that the other way around results in an inability to boot even in safe mode, I suspect the problem is with the Via rather than the nVidia drivers. And unlike the nForce drivers, they're not easy...

Had a WD400JB die without any warning whatsoever. In fact, I checked the S.M.A.R.T. values the day before - everything checked out just fine. Remind me not to bother spending much time checking S.M.A.R.T. in future ... I've been fretting about this drive for about six months; after all, it is a...

Mike Carlton made these rather pertinent obervations in the Sydney Morning Herald: Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to replace a light bulb? A: None. As the President and Secretary Rumsfeld have made clear, the light bulb is doing a great job and we and our coalition...

But we do have a road map. It's called history. Some people can't or won't read it.

If you're feeling magnanimous, the whole thing is a glorious experiment, with millions of human beings as the lab rats. I'm more cynical. When someone with a genuine ounce of understanding thinks there's even a chance for this experiment to succeed, then I'll take notice. Until then, please...

Isn't 300V the insulation resistance? This could be important when used as fixed wiring.

No, the 6 seconds (about 1 second according to the 'time' function) was reading and writing an actual file, so write speed works out at closer to 30MB/s. With the virtual file as the source, the time was far less than a second (meaningless since it's writing to cache anyway). I'm afraid the...

Sorry Blake, I took so long to finalize my post I didn't see your post until later. What did you expect $time to do? It didn't do anything for me, so I ended up incorporating the dd command in a script with a call to date before and after. Elapsed time was one second. I decided it might be...

Difficult - I'm doing all this remotely. However, I haven't noticed anything stealing cycles on any of the three workstations I've tried (I was watching Task Manager when the problem first became obvious). This one is an RTL-8169 (GbE) - the other is an RTL-8139 (I think). You're gonna love...

Yeah, but AFAIK you're talking percentages - not 3 times an order of magnitude or more? - Being an ATA drive, I'd expect drive write caching to be enabled (I've never disabled it on this box). But see my response to Merc. - It has 512MB RAM and was idle (after hours) every time I've tested it...

A client has a Suse 9.0 server running Samba 2 on ReiserFS. Workstations are Win2k and connected via 100Mbs. Copying an 86MB file from the server to a workstation takes about 8 seconds (~10MBs). Copying the same file in the other direction takes a whopping 410 seconds (0.21MBs), i.e. 50 times...

Whoops, I missed the fan half way along the bottom duct. Although I suspect they've located it there mainly to assist their Phantom power supplies, it should be quieter than having it at the front, and as you say, it's probably adequate for modern hard drives. There are much better pictures...

The review explicitly mentions that it isn't ... However, after actually checking it out, I'll try to be a bit fairer: o Composite panels are a great feature. Although thick steel isn't that bad an alternative - avoiding straight aluminium is the main thing. o Placing the power supply at the...

I agree with Tea. Cases with doors covering the CD/DVD drive are a PITA - and usually look like crap with the door open. :P

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1283281.htm Unfortunately, the full research article is only available to Nature Materials subscribers.

David, I like the way you said this:

:diablo:

Must have been Mercutio.

Ummm ... what about using the PS2 adaptor that comes with any decent mouse?

Microsoft Fax is on the Win98 CD: http://www.slipstick.com/addins/services/msfax.htm

That would be horses' asses, Clocker. :P Firstly, they're not "dishing out" money just yet. When they do, it will take years and in all probability will never reach the announced amount - such is the value of a modern political promise in any country. Secondly, Australia has already committed...

Groltz!!! It's really great to see you here. Here's to 2005! :beer:

Strangely enough, the drives that I have found particularly irritating started 'whining' either immediately or within a few months. Apart from an IBM 60GXP which I still have on the shelf here (too noisy to sell), the ones I'm thinking of were WD ... I'm not convinced that a drive that's been...

I became curious and looked up the specs, which are startlingly identical except for: 1. Track-to-track seek is 1.5mS vs 2mS in favour of the Fujitsu :roll: 2. Design life for both is 20,000 hours, but Fujitsu has shortened the equivalent in years from 5 to 3. :( 3. The Toshiba claims 325G...

Latest confirmed tally is 55,000 with warnings of sharp increases yet to come. Pradeep's estimate is starting to look remarkably prescient. Sri Lanka is not a large country. Losing 20,000 people is like the US losing 300,000 - a sobering thought. AFAIK, this is the second worst natural...

G.I.P. :santa: Merry Christmas!

I'd dispute this advice, because I've seen no evidence that Sony or Panasonic have any hand in the design or manufacture of their current DVD players. I think you're just paying over the odds. BTW, I can't imagine anyone in a western country replacing a pickup rather than the drive unit!

You need a latex pillow. Dunlopillo is probably the leading brand, but they don't seem to have much presence in the US. Here, they sell two different densities and two different heights. There's no chance you could wear one out inside a year or two at least; most people get many years out of...