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Reports I've seen claim that New South Wales, the state the guy's in, is second only to California in litigiousness (per capita). :(

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4570170%255E1702,00.html

It's worth reading this comparitively calm cautionary note about re-embracing nuclear electricity generation: http://www.culturechange.org/n_power.htm The problems with fission reactors are surely their inherent instability, and the waste products that need to be stored for far longer than...

Warning: the following comments tend to be pedantic. :eekers: I count at least 38 daily flights from Sydney to Melbourne just with the two domestic carriers, over about a 14 hour period. On top of this, international flights often include local segments such as Sydney to Melbourne. That's...

Hmmm, it's not quite that bad yet, as explained by the Bureau of Meterology Ozone depletion: 2000 and beyond has some additional info, including the fact that ozone levels have fallen over the US and Europe as well.

Are you saying that the dodgy drive affected Q3 scores? :o What about low level tests?

Can you remember what Blue Oyster Cult was like live? I may still have a live album of theirs. Years ago, I used to listen to it with friends. With a 150mS delay feeding rear speakers, the experience was stunning. Admittedly, this may have been helped by us being either drunk, stoned or both...

I know you said it was OEM, but have you checked the serial number against IBM's database? http://www.storage.ibm.com/warranty/jsp/arma31.jsp?ibmer=0 Have you tried the firmware update?

The first is 'Wet Dream', isn't it? It's not even on the import lists in Oz. :( That's no surprise considering his physique! He looks like he could carry a roadie under each arm. But one of the things I like about his drumming is the light and shade, something you don't normally get. I guess...

Thanks Cas. I think I see my error: You're saying that a small database is likely to be highly cacheable, and therefore more limited by the processor than the I/O system? I have a bad habit of assuming the database will always be gigantic. :oops:

Sorry guys, I'm inclined to agree with Stereodude.

:rofl: My sentiments exactly! I don't think I've ever heard an album I'd be prepared to be marooned on a desert island with. I crave variety, and after three or four plays I think I'd get more out of it as a frisbee.

If you set out to establish beyond doubt who has the most impressively diverse CD collection ... you have succeeded. :o My recognition percentage isn't significantly different from Tannin's, but I noticed a couple of interesting things: You have albums by Nick Mason and Richard Wright, but...

Database servers should have: 1. Enough RAM 2. A fast storage system 3. A CPU of some sort :) The only reason you need significant CPU performance is: a) You're running something beyond a simple database server b) You're using Microsoft products (that might get me a serve from Cas :wink: )...

You're kidding! I was a huge fan of Dave Warner. Maybe we share so much common music because there really isn't much Oz music in the overall scheme of things? :wink: I can understand why Skyhooks would go down badly in the US. To be fair, I'm not sure their live performances were always up to...

I don't mean to pre-empt the good Dr Jekyll, but welcome to the world of Australian phone companies. :( I'm something of an embittered warrior when it comes to telcos, so I make a point of leaving local call access with the bastards that own the local loop: Arstel. But like hell will they get...

I dunno about that. My daughter was desperately seeking 'study music' a few days ago, and demanded punk or similar. I scratched around and came up with Radio Birdman (self titled) and The Angels - Face to Face. She liked it a lot. But then The Angels were always before their time. In hindsight...

Most of these can also be set in the BIOS, Sol. Be grateful you have the hard-wired settings to fall back on! CPU clock and voltage are set under Frequency/Voltage Control. That's what 'Red Storm' is all about. RAM speed (not sure about voltage) is set under Advanced Chipset Features - DRAM...

Yes I know it's not new, but I missed it, and TheInquirer just popped up a link to it.

Another classic review from Dan's Data. 8)

I've never heard of a thread coming out before. Is this some sort of obscure reference to Flagreen's confession?

On the run more likely, or perhaps some of his 'friends' caught up with him?

When she's not being the PM's fashion accessory, she goes under her maiden name, Booth. This includes all her legal work and any public statements or opinions.

I'm sorry if anyone is annoyed at my continuing this thread, but this quote seemed too good to ignore. It's from Cherie Booth, the wife of the UK prime minister: "As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up, you are never going to make progress." The Opposition...

This may surprise or even alarm you, but I'm rather impressed with Malcolm Young as a rhythm guitarist. I realize the genre is somewhat limited, but the tightness of his playing and sense of rhythm are probably unsurpassed. At the end of the day, he is the engine room of AC/DC, a band somewhat...

I don't think Soltek makes any RAID boards, which is hardly likely to make many people shed tears. What is disappointing is that they still haven't embraced Firewire or USB 2.0 either. You do get 6 USB ports, however (the website spec mistakenly claims only 4). On the other hand, I can pick up...

That's pretty bad, actually. An all too frequent scenario is that the board is used in a computer with the embedded sound (or video, comms etc), then one to two years later the current owner tries to add a sound (etc) card, and needs to hunt down doco to do it. And like you, it probably won't...

First it kills horses, now it turns such a troublefree sound card into an SB Dead! :mrgrn: Sorry about that ... Surely sounds like a conflict. Try another PCI slot (or two). Resetting ESCD info in the BIOS might help, as might checking whether or not you've set PnP OS. (These are low success...

I think you're confusing what they said would happen with what they intend would happen. :) The details are explained on Scamorama.

Hmmm, I hope that last post doesn't come across as cynical, because it's not meant to. I like Shania Twain and Shawn Mullins. That's why I'm asking. :oops:

That would be Shania, Mark? :wink: Do you consider Shawn Mullins 'country'?

Continuing the blues theme, I'd like to recommend the "Mr Lucky" album from John Lee Hooker. It's a collaboration involving Albert Collins, Ry Cooder, Robert Cray, John Hammond, Johnnie Johnson, Booker T Jones, Van Morrison, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana and Johnny Winter. It's not really a...

I used to get that sort of problem with early Riva 128 drivers. Is that any indication of how far behind ATI is? :lol:

I really don't think I need to even bother defending Hendrix's status as a blues player. Go and check other people's opinions. :P

Tannin, IMHO now is not a good time to recruit PW to support your campaign. :P I respectfully suggest you focus on restoring calm for now. CougTek, cool it. I know he was bending over with a sign saying "Kick Me", but you need to exercise restraint. Prof, there's no doubt you get right up...

Hmmm, I think that's pushing it. EC is the best EC-style player that ever lived, but there are plenty of others with more blues in their soul. In electric blues, Hendrix was obviously a standout, but then he excelled at every style he cared to try. Red House is a modern blues classic (which he...

I had heard it before, a couple of years ago I think, but it still packs a great punchline. Encore, Bartender, encore!

My problem with the Israelis is they do not strike me as being reasonable, pragmatic people. They are seeking the impossible (the elimination of Palestine) and are trying to achieve the impossible through violence. I agree with you Bill, although I note that the UN has now been trying to...

Certainly is. I especially enjoyed the FAQ.

Does this thread showcase SR's decline, or I am I just being naive? http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=3653&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= I get upset at the end ... I think I was just wasting my time, but I'd appreciate some feedback from the people here. Thanks.

The THG article is the usual excrement we have unfortunately come to expect. They even claim sole credit for AMD boards now reading the onchip thermal diode! A quick scan of their numbers only threw up two tests where an Athlon did not beat the equivalent Pentium 4 (Quake and the infamous...

Opera 6.03 breaks the text where there are slashes, so it word wraps after the last slash but displays the rest of the string in one piece. It still needs to scroll to display it all. Mozilla RC3 doesn't word wrap it. As pointed out, IE 5 breaks it at non-text characters (eg %20).

'Roundabout' from the 'Fragile' album, 1972. It was written the first time Rick Wakeman played in a session with the band. Although he isn't credited as a writer, the song's most memorable feature is his work on a Hammond organ. The most distinctive thing about Yes is probably the boy-like...

Does anyone know what changes are in 6.04? The only difference I could tell with 6.03 vs 6.01 is it seemed to have fewer pauses. Still no change with my list of broken sites. I'm beginning to wonder if they care ... Why don't you use Opera to view Shockwave pages? It almost always works fine...

I first encountered a program called Vseek in 1988. I bought the Vopt suite that included it in 1992 or thereabouts. It looks very similar to and performs the same function as Skallas' version. What I'm struggling to say about seek behaviour is that you can no longer be certain that a drive...

Sorry, I don't believe Vseek is able to accurately measure newer drives with tricky seek algorithms. A quick comparison between results from Vseek and say, Winbench 99 reveals that the former is sometimes nowhere near a manufacturer's specification. Yet higher level tests may tend to support the...

Sol, that was an excellent post. I just loved the imagery. Personally, I've been persevering with AK-Mail for some years now. It doesn't do absolutely everything that PM-Mail does, but it has quite a few useful tricks of its own. The best mail client I've ever seen, but it also has remarkably...

The truth slipped out, albeit briefly.

With mediocre response times, poor contrast ratio, and appallingly narrow viewing angles, LCD seem nowhere near ready to dethrone CRT as the best all-around display for maintream computers. And on top of that they have that damn pricing issue... :P

Visio is an overblown piece of crap that fails to achieve anywhere near its claimed functionality. In short, typical overpriced junk from Microsoft. And like several other pieces of (now) Microsoft junk, there is no alternative. Welcome to the Brave New World.