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Mercutio, I asked about BIOS updates because I noticed that Epox had a problem this year with some motherboards where the keyboard wouldn't work after flashing the BIOS. They didn't mention the 8KHA/8KHAL, but I wondered if there might have been a related problem that they haven't 'fessed up to ...

Out of interest, which KT400 boards are better? And do you have any comments on the layout of the base model 7VA?

Just curious - did you flash the BIOS on these boards?

This is slightly different from Merc's fleet challenge, so I thought I'd start a different thread. I've decided that much as I dislike propagating Intel's spawn, any new motherboards I use should have USB 2.0 (I'd like them to have Firewire too, but that's a bit tougher). Actually, it would be...

Ironically, the earliest recorded variation of this is in fact a story by the Australian author, Henry Lawson, in 1899. As mentioned here. Here is the original story, The Loaded Dog. It's well worth reading. BTW, I wouldn't be at all surprised if all the variations had a basis in truth. :)

I can see we're likely to violently disagree on this Tea, but IMO, the various Macquarie dictionaries are a collective abomination that compromise the integrity of the English language. From legitimization of slang to completely inadequate or flat-out misleading word descriptions, they're not...

Don't get me started on the use of "s" instead of "z" in words rhyming with "size", such as "realize" and "memorize". Fact: "z" is correct in both the UK and the US and is the original true spelling. In support of this I quote the Oxford English Dictionary (the exact version I'm checking right...

Currently EPP/ECP. When I checked with Epson tech support, the guy said ECP and muttered about printer cables. Win2k is recognizing the port as ECP and I tried two different cables, at which point I lost interest because if I don't have a suitable cable then I can hardly expect users to. But...

I've been playing with an Epson C61 (C62 in the US and sells for about US$80 after rebate). It's way, way better than I expected. But what I want to talk about today is speed. 1. A4 photo (10.67x8" plus margin for all you metric-phobes) with maximum options: just under 16 minutes. This excludes...

Probably get you high if you hang around it enough. Desperate people sniff various off-the-shelf products like glue and correction fluid thinner to get a buzz from the solvents. I guess this means the water cooler will no longer be the office congregation point.

It's Netware 4.2 actually, so still IPX/SPX (their other servers are NT and various flavours of Unix, all connected via TCP/IP). Given that he can eventually login, how would frame type affect this? I'd love to know how you set preferred tree and context in the MS client. Please share!

It's okay, Mercutio. Just calm down. You're safe now. They can't hurt you any more.

I took a call today from a guy trying to get some Win2k workstation talking to a Novell Netware server. After he'd calmed down a bit, it transpired that he had to login locally to Windows as Administrator before he could attach to the Novell server as a valid user. At least that's the garbled...

Epson and some wide format manufacturers, and yes, they are also moving into oil based inks. This site has some excellent information on inks and other printing issues: https://www.inkzone.com/resource/inksandsys.cfm

Memo to self: don't try to rip off ihsan. :o

I don't think betting comes into it: http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=16023#16023 Just another half-baked Intel solution. Yet another attempt to secure a licensing monopoly by displacing an accepted, effective alternative. And a handy weapon to beat Via over the head with.

Okay, I name Soltek. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to find people who hated one of their motherboards, or failing that were at least unhappy. Just in case you thought that thread I quoted from was only an isolated instance: The damnable K7S5A from ECS :(

Two years for Compucase/HEC in Oz. Three years for Mitsubishi keyboard (pity about the keys :(), three or five years for Logitech non-OEM mice.

Perhaps the answer for Tea is a minimum time between preview and submit, say thirty seconds? ;)

ECS K7S5A Feedback I thik this is the worst board i have ever seen and i am taking it back ... Only 133 or 100 so with a 15+XP CPU it has to be run at 100*100 and it is only runing at a 1000 if they are changed in the bios for 133*133 comes up as 1500+ but crashes all the time because the CPU is...

None here either, thanks, for all the reasons already outlined. I would like to add that I think people are too sensitive about typos. Don't you realize how much entertainment it provides the rest of us? I am joking, BTW, hopefully to make a point. Permanent posts are part of the character of...

It's worth remembering that Maxtor appears to be responsible for initiating this whole saga of warranty theft. Do you remember the last time that a Fujitsu drive was featured in our Leaderboard? We can't either... but there's one there now! The MAP3147 delivers an unbeatable combination of...

You may not believe this, but IBM had a problem with connectors. A large number from a particular supplier turned out to be flaky. According to him, it may actually pay to try several different cables with an apparently dead 75GXP. :o I'm inclined to believe it because I've read a couple of...

I'm a little nervous about revealing this in public, but here goes: I had a couple of lengthy conversations with the Australasia (or maybe Asia Pacific?) manager of IBM's Technology Group, Storage Division. HDDs, in other words. He even gave me a tip on resuscitating 75GXPs. :roll: He became a...

Could be the weather. It's pretty dry in Oz right now; ideal conditions for ESD. Maybe the cheaper boards just don't handle it as well? OTOH, I had a 50% failure rate on some 486 boards some years ago. They were either DOA or partly failed soon after. The supplier had even worse trouble with...

I'm a little surprised that no-one commented on the news that IBM and Seagate are plotting to reduce SCSI warranties. Does this mean that everyone accepts both the reduction and the collusion?

Now. And there's already been one shipment of 8MB versions. Or so I've been told. :)

Probably irrelevant, but last time I heard, Soltek was the manufacturer of Via's own brand of P4 boards. So if you wanted a Via P4 solution, they would definitely be the ones to try. :) I think Tea's a little tough on Asus and MSI, putting them below Abit (owners always reckon their Abit board...

Like I said, none of these options are fast enough to really make a difference to what's bugging me. Clawhammer will very probably change that. :mrgrn: Your pricing seems keen (as usual), but I'd just like to make two comments: 1) I don't believe DDR400 (PC3200) is any kind of standard yet...

That's not what Vogel said, Steve. He said there could be up to 180MB of data, but AFAIK that doesn't mean your video card needs 180MB of RAM. Apart from the ability to suck it through the AGP port, the use of texture compression is likely to bring that right down. He actually said that they...

That's highly interesting, Jtr1962. Have you tried Ghost or some other DOS imaging utility to see what effect the driver has?

Although I agree in principle with Tannin, I'm don't think that Bugbear is limited to Outlook users. It's just that Outlook makes it so much easier to open the attachment, preview or not. Don't forget that Bugbear uses double extensions, and even changes the mime content label to confuse the...

Ooh, ooh! We can actually get the Compucase in Oz! (feigns shock) If you look at CougTek's link, you can also see the 6A19, which might be more your size. They both have a washable gauze filter, BTW, at least in the version we get here. James, as we speak, we can't even buy the Athlon 2400...

We send James an email once a week so he can remember his name. From there he can usually work out his login, but I think I've seen him over at SR trying to chair discussions and muttering about royal privileges. I think his CD reviews went through the shredder after he accused Eugene of...

One of a series of terrific posts, blakerwry. Welcome aboard!

Three posts, two logouts, two logins - less than two minutes, more likely under a minute and a half. Anyone would think the Ballarat Dynamic Duo had broadband. :)

Interestingly, my friend over at SR - Reparations - likes the KLE boards. I don't think I'll draw his attention to your dissenting opinions. :) He seemed to think he grabbed me by the throat, but I'm pretty sure it was my ankle. So I'm resisting the urge to kick his head. ;)

The 180GXP is three generations removed from the 75GXP, Prof. 60GXP reliability was reasonable, and by all accounts, the 120GXP is great. Let it go. :) Actually, I've wondered if there's scope for debating IBM's response to the 75GXP problems, and whether or not they could have done it...

Oh yeah, the Rover can be switched between mulch and catch (it has a patented tilt adjustment to optimize both), and it has a good size catcher. I use both. Now what I want to know, is why do Americans persist with bags instead of solid body catchers? They were a disaster for firms like Honda...

Toro has a good reputation, but they're only used commercially here. The closest I could come was a Rover with the Suzuki engine used on some Toros. Not as sophisticated as the Honda, and a narrower cut, but about two thirds the weight. My place is built on a hill with a grade of about 1:9...

Prof, you really should read the 180GXP specs. It has the same fluid bearing-motor system as the Barracuda, and is consequently just about as quiet, according to the quoted sound power levels. It really does use around a third less power at idle - read the numbers. And notice there is a three...

Well, that's the second published test, so this time I will gloat. Seagate definitely hit their specification with read seek times. I assume Merc had a brief brain fade and confused access time with seek time. The model Eugene tested was a two-platter design. Seagate quotes slightly slower...

Yeah, you can see why gray marketing is so tempting in Australia. :cry: In Australian pricing, they're virtually throwing in an AU$500 printer. :o All of these products are current top selling items too. It's not as if they're trying to clear unpopular lines. Well, I don't think the printer...

I assume you mean free? :) That is a good question. Opera's email client is nice and easy to use, but the current version lacks features that some people want. They've promised big improvements in Opera 7; if they ever release the damn thing we'll find out. I need to look at Mozilla's client...

Yeah. Really surprised at that. (yawn)

Unfortunately, I'm inclined to be pessimistic as well, Doug. Someone like Cas would probably find it a walk in the park, but any time you're trying to talk to exotic hardware is not fun time in my book. It may be simple, or it may be a complete bitch. If you can buy the hardware and set it up at...

Tannin, is that your idea or did you see it somewhere? Putting it together with Buck's apparently solid information(?), you would appear to have hit the nail on the head. So on top of saving so much per drive sold, they get an instant windfall. Makes an awful lot of sense. Consider also that...

Magnetic Data Technologies. Bought by Solectron in June. MDT is a repair company and Solectron is a waffle* company. If I was horribly cynical, I might suggest that their drives are made from parts cannibalized from failed drives, i.e. used media/controllers. Fortunately, I see nothing but...

The idea of such a bandwidth-inefficient CPU at 10GHz makes me shudder. Presumably it will need dual channel PC4300 RDRAM or dual channel PC8500 QDR-SDRAM for optimal operation. 2133MHz octuple-pumped FSB, anyone? RAM bandwidth hasn't kept pace with increasing CPU frequencies before, so I don't...

Check the manual. Page 65 says: The maximum length of movie clips (approximately 20 frames/second) is about 10 seconds at the (320x240) setting and about 30 seconds at the (160x120) setting. Have you found yours is different?