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Tea, keep a close eye on Canon scanner prices. I just noticed a 10% drop on a supplier's price list (not Westan). This doesn't surprise me, because Canon admitted to me a couple of days ago that they are gradually adjusting pricing on a product by product basis. Don't get caught. BTW, we're...

It's either: a) part of their relentless dumbing down :stpd: or b) they really don't want you to remove it. :boom:

No crashes on this W95 OSR2 box, Tim. However, it's a very dirty system - a veteran of four years and many hundreds of software installs, so it should have every VB runtime library known to man or Microsoft. Unfortunately, you're already encountering what I warned about in the other thread: If...

Sorry Doug. :oops: I skimmed your ideas when you first posted them, but felt I couldn't contribute anything. The best I could have responded with would have been "Doh!" Mercutio, I just haven't had a chance to think about it. Maybe next week ...

Exactly so. The main thing I don't like about Brisbane is the heat and humidity. I've often said that it would be great to live in Melbourne in Summer (where it's fine just about all the time, and the heat and humidity are usually mild), and Brisbane in Winter (where it's fine just about all...

Tannin, Now I know you are truly insane. I went pale when you described your "repairs", but then I'm more used to LPG than natural gas. :bibber: Are you saying that thing didn't even have a thermostat? :o And why did you buy a self-propelled mower if it only takes 15 minutes to mow your lawn...

With the latest Q11 version of the BIOS, Soltek SL-75KAV supports up to Athlon XP2600+. I believe Tannin and Buck have used a few. :wink: It's probably worth pointing out that performance at 1400MHz (XP1600) should be just as constrained as at 2133MHz (XP2600). However, it's nowhere near as...

Wow, you're right. I had no idea you could get interchangeable lenses for this level of camera. I don't think you can even get them for the S30/S40. However, I'd like to pick a bone with Canon over their claims for movie recording (no offense to you). Whereas other manufacturers such as...

AFAIK, Stac Software (formerly Stac Electronics) first patented "snapshot" technology in 1995, and Replica for Netware was released in February 1996. They changed their name to Previo in 2000, and Replica became eSupport Essentials. In 2001 they sued Support.Com and Connected Corporation for...

I'm not feeling very cuddly lately. I think I just started a flame war with a guy over at SR. Had a touch of Giveritis, I guess. It may well be that I end up apologizing to him unreservedly, but he reminds me too much of that guy before the MDF; you know, the one that wanted to move to...

Thanks, guys. I couldn't quite believe it myself, so I was hoping someone else could check it. I take it that you haven't found that kind of stark difference with the camera or the scanner?

Can someone confirm the US pricing for the S520?

Sorry Timwhit, couldn't resist the challenge. :) Check the Delphi section on Symantec's WinFax PRO SDK for Windows 9x/NT support page. Stripping out their comments and laborious error checking, it looks a bit like this: //This code is assuming that you will print to the winfax driver. WinFax :=...

Here in Oz, we're accustomed to paying more for high-tech goods than our more advanced cousins in Europe and the USA. But recently I observed an odd disparity in Canon pricing. I'd appreciate any confirmation or enlightenment. I adjusted these prices to US$ after allowing a small margin for...

Delphi is written in Delphi. There's lots of shareware, there's email clients and fax software, business software, just about anything except games. It's much more attractive for a software distribution than say, VB, because you don't have to sweat on which libraries the user might have. But a...

Sorry Mercutio, didn't see your post. My response wasn't to you.

AFAIK, what you are proposing will not help, and more probably will make things worse. Shields have to totally enclose from end to end to have any effect, which will be impossible with your sections of pipe. Even with grounding, you run the risk of it being more successful as an antenna than a...

I'm not sure I'd trust me with an axe. :bibber:

:rofl: JKKJ, never underestimate windchill. Saw a program on Discovery(?) where they stuck this insane guy in a freezer to see what happened. :roll: He coped pretty well until they turned on the fans ...

Pascal was designed as a teaching language. Wirth never expected people to extend it for commercial use. He tried to rectify that with Modula, but the market had already spoken. Personally, I gag at the idea of C-anything being someone's first language, but I guess universities want to appear...

Where did you find it? I thought it had been long superseded by the A40. It's a while since James was looking. Since then Nikon released the 2500 and 2000 two megapixel cameras. They would have been preferable for his original intention, considering their superior macro capability, and in Oz...

Erm, I didn't mean to sound like a loyalist. :oops: You *can* backup to a hard drive with NTI Backup Now, but only with the image backup. I couldn't tell for sure, but I think BUMP may have the same limitation? It didn't really worry me. If I want to backup files to another file there's this...

Do tell?

If you want it to stop prompting the user, go to Job - Options - Backup Options - Media and choose "Overwrite the media with this backup. The media will be erased (blank) before backup." To create a shortcut as I described, first set up a backup job how you want and save it as, for example...

:o Absolutely amazing.

Well, this only applies to Opera, but if you press [F12] followed by [P] for plugins, it toggles Macromedia's junk on and off.

Oh yeah, and NTI supports heaps more drives than Stomp. Check for yourself (watch out - S means Supported and N means you're out of luck).

Re: The search function does work Cliptin, On Stomp's BackupMyPC start page, there is a feature comparison matrix. It is true that the obsolete version of NTI Backup Now did not support DVD. Neither did the last version of BackupMyPC, but they both do now. Apart from tape support, everything...

:o I'm guessing you haven't had much to do with backup software before? Comments from NTI customers: I was so impressed with the product that I bought it after 3 days - I did not wait till the trial ended. It is the easiest and most versatile backup utility I have come across. Julian B...

And let us pray that the apparently omniscient being behind the names is also here to stay. You get a gold star with "A+" on it from me, Gary. :bow:

As far as I can tell, even after a quick search, the technology for all these FDB motors is owned by Seagate Motor Group. They pioneered it in 1997. IBM released a white paper on FDB motors at the start of this year, indicating they considered them the way forward. Here's an awfully cynical...

No, that's stamped on them after testing. It's Engrish for "second rate".

That's impressive. Last I heard M$ was still trying to shut down sites that showed how to hack an Xbox, so I hadn't realised people had advanced so far.

Hmmm, maybe that's more useful than I thought ... But on the other hand ...

Exactly. This is why I can't afford to use VB. Fine if you're an employee or paid at an hourly rate, but IMO disastrous otherwise. :x

You just seem to see things so much more ... clearly ... than the rest of us, Gary. :cyclop:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5178705%255E15306,00.html I'd use this to question the pro-Dell sentiment that some people here occasionally display. No doubt this will be yet more ammunition for Red Hill et al. ;) For several months now we've been receiving telemarketing calls...

Interesting clause that caught my eye: They can disclaim anything they like but it can't exempt them from consumer law. However, that last plain english sentence is magic. It makes it clear that you have waived those rights in favour of a reduced price. No crticism of Seagate here - far from...

... 1994 - Desktop color ink jet printer with 720 x 720 dpi resolution (EPSON Stylus Color) ... 1997 - 1440 dpi high resolution colour inkjets (Epson) ... The reference to Tannin inspired me to post this little piece: http://www.ddjembedded.com/resources/articles/2002/0209k/0209k.htm

A friend of mine hosed his system with the RedHat 7.3 upgrade, but I don't know if he was already on 7.2 or an older version. It's probably specific to stuff he had, but I felt the need to inject a note of caution into this Nike commercial. :)

I agree, James. That works out at about 7 to 8c per page (USD), which is two thirds the cost of the HP 4600. More significantly, the black costs are less than a cent a page, or practically a third of the HP! Oki has always been one of the good guys with running costs.

You want pictures? Have some pictures: http://www.ocworkbench.com/hardware/Leadtek/WinFast7350KDA/7350kdap1a.htm I'm inclined to agree with you, Buck. Those capacitors look too close to the cooler mounting lug. All too easy to break one trying to get a cooler on or off. :( I also notice that...

Don't blame Grub. It's the distro.

C, phpBB no longer displays your email address. :)

Tea, In this country, Epson doesn't exactly go out of their way to push the extended warranty. AFAIK, it's only available through dealers and must be registered with 30 days of purchase (meaning you pretty much have to sell it with the printer). There's a different product code for the...

Elsewhere it's been reported that merely reconnecting them after a period works as well. :roll: Bashing drives (or freezing them as timwhit suggests) is usually to overcome 'stiction'. I knew a guy who regularly removed his drive and threw it against a wall to get it to keep on playing.

A few issues with your reasoning, Cliptin: Firstly, you quote the price for a definitely used HP laser, but talk about it having one year's warranty and assume all of the consumables are new. In reality, the color Laserjets on Ebay are all part of the way through the long life consumables, in...

"White Pixels"? :lol: "Distributed Cooing"? :bglaugh:

Looks like Tannin has competition for the 'Crustiest Computing Conservative' Mantle. :mrgrn: Seriously, more power to you JTR, but remember that Win2k is scheduled to disappear this year, leaving nought but the dreaded XP. There are many people out there who reckon Win2k will be the last M$ OS...

What's a long period of inactivity, Steve? Pradeep reckons in days, but I imagine it's worse with aftermarket inks, combined with the really small nozzles his has. :)