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I ended up reasoning one would be better off with a separate dedicated film scanner. Even those who get reasonable results with the flatbeds have to work at it. And even the worst film scanner would blow away the best flatbed. Alternatively, one could pay a lab to batch scan negatives. For many...

Thanks Tea, that was the quote I really wanted, but I've misplaced that particular book. The best I could do was encourage Jake to look ahead a few years ...

Ne Molesti Te Deprimant.

Congratulations, Jake. Here's the experiences of another father for you to ponder: Stanley is about eighteen or nineteen, I am not sure which, but looks much older than his years. He is taller and thinner than I but otherwise resembles me as closely as can be expected these days. His face can...

I think you are looking at this with the wrong perspective, Tannin. Firstly, the apparent advantages of the WD JB manifest themselves in reads, not writes. There are certainly seeking tricks they can do in the firmware to assist here, and that may in fact be part of the JB package, but the...

Tony, I know about the OEM versions of WP, but which version and which product is it? From my admittedly limited perspective, I can't see how spreadsheet packages have changed much in the last few years. The last major innovations I've noticed, such as an object orientated interface and 3D...

Wasn't it IBM or WD drives, or perhaps one of each? Anyone remember if it was 512kB vs 2MB?

I pretty much fully agree with your assessment, Coug. WP2000 is vastly more stable than WP6.0 etc., as long as you load the second or third service pack. But it costs real money, so I don't suggest it for anyone looking for low cost alternatives. I'm slightly tempted by WP2002, mainly for that...

Funnily enough, it's extremely common here. If one shop doesn't sell it, the next one will. :) Actually, most people here prefer Bundaberg Ginger Beer. It's just about the only softdrink you can buy that isn't sickly sweet. Because it's brewed, I suppose. Bundaberg is a small city about 250...

Well, at least they're predictable ... :)

CougTek, I'm not suggesting you rush out and buy it, but WP has had multiple language support out of the box at least as far back as the 2000 version. It checks spelling and grammar in german okay (within the hilarious limitations of computer grammar checkers of course), so it should give...

I think you just described WordPerfect Office 2000/2002. Either has a far better grammar checker than Word. And I'm still laughing at Word 97's insistence that "Microsoft" wasn't a word. WP will do mail merge with almost anything containing data, including Oracle databases and text files. And...

It's hardly surprising he doesn't like the idea of a moderator. The latest variation is him protesting his innocence in every second post. I wish he'd shut up. Those that believe in him don't need the reinforcement he seems determined to give, and those that don't are likely to think even less...

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I know Sol seems free with his money, but I don't believe he is quite that happy to set fire to it, Bill. :)

Some quick and dirty benchmarks, firstly on a P450 running Win95: Time to load a local 750kB HTML file (a price list) Netscape 4.74 - 35 seconds Mozilla 0.98 - 8 seconds Opera 6.01 - 5.8 seconds (3.7 to display, 2/3 of file rendered) On an Athlon 1000 running Win2k: Time to load a local...

Exluding cache storage, Mozilla 0.98 takes up about 17MB on disk. Opera takes less than 5MB. The slow load time is almost certainly due to Mozilla being composed of more than a hundred separate components. The Mozilla project has tried to lay the groundwork for god knows how many possible...

Sounds like Telstra. Back in the cobwebs of my memory is this thing about how they stop permanent comms connections on ordinary telephone lines by interrupting them every 24 hours. Businesses doing this had to make their modems auto-redial to deal with this. But I must admit I hadn't heard...

So far as I know, he is a god, at least when it comes to talking about semiconductor technology. Here's his bio from RealWorldTech:

Well, I don't know what to say. I could have done with a fifth option: I'm a Dad but the coolness is inversely proportional to the number of kids. The first one is cool. 8) The novelty of the first carries you through the second, plus for some the knowledge their family is complete. :) The...

I can see the five drives arranged like playing cards now ... Send them to the Red Hill Hard Drive Museum. It's a good home. You don't need them. They're just cluttering up your life, tempting you to spend money proving that they're old and slow by today's standards. Unfortunately they...

Tragic but true. BTW, if you do get it uninstalled, try Tiny instead. Historically way more stable than ZA.

You might find this link relevant, Doug. http://www.hardocp.com/articles/amdtektour02follup.html Mind you, what the Area Technical Manager says sounds slightly political. It doesn't explain why only some 250W units are approved up to XP2000. Still, if you follow his guidelines, you will see...

Tony, go to SR and do a 'head-to-head' comparison between WD800AB, Barracuda IV and D740X, and you'll get a better understanding of what I'm saying. They're all 40GB/platter drives, and the Seagate and WD at least have the same claimed seek times. Transfer rates are all comparable. Yet somehow...

Actually, he's right. :( Of course, that means it's within licking distance of a D740X. :) So, Eugene wants us to believe that a drive with 33% more latency than another performs roughly the same. I guess there's really no point wasting time with 10,000 or even 15,000rpm drives then. Bring...

Good luck! I was wondering if there even are any shipping motherboards with embedded USB2.0?

Which virus, Will? AV vendors usually supply standalone utilities to fix particularly troublesome beasties like that. As you know, I'm fond of NOD32 as well. I'm no longer as keen on using the AV software bundled with motherboards because it only puts off the time when the customer needs to...

Heck Bill, I was worried I might have offended you! :beer:

Sorry Bill, I have to take issue with that quote. So far as I understand it, the suicide bombers have been (almost?) universally adults. Eighteen year olds most definitely have free will, have joined Hamas etc of their own volition, and certainly have not been sent to die by their parents. I...

Why? Numerous websites have already done this. Gainward Golden Samples are fastest because they are overclocked out of the box. Gainwards in general overclock very well so they win a lot of comparisons. If you don't overclock and your memory clock is up to speed, you can expect identical...

James is chafing, so here is my amateur attempt at selecting a camera for him. All you photo-phreaks can correct me later. Firstly, the brands you can actually get in Oz: Canon, Kodak, Nikon, Olympus, Sony. You can also get Fuji and Minolta, but I've no idea where. I've seen Panasonic and...

Well, I don't know the name of my first street, but I could use a rather memorable street name where I once lived. Buster Kapunda.

I don't agree with you on this particular aspect, James. It is not at all uncommon for thousands of people to die in natural disasters every year. What made this unique was not that it happened to Americans (the rest of the world would have soon got over that, despite the media orgy), but the...

Yes, he's disturbingly good, isn't he? A good eye for composition and steady hands. :) In another thread, Buck made the tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the 75GXP autopsy pictures should have been taken with Tannin's Mavica, rather than the Nikon Coolpix 995. Not only does the Nikon have four...

Yeah, that was a month ago. I guess neither Eugene or Davin take any notice of feedback. Why am I not even remotely surprised? :-?

:x Oh, very cute, how are they doing that? You'll have to click on this link I've edited: http://www.overclockers.com.au/pic.php?pic=techstuff/a_hdd_anatomy/actuator_arm.jpg If that doesn't work, pressing Enter when you've got the URL into your browser may do it. Sheesh!

Can't be certain, but it looks blank to me.

When they're prepared to come clean about their business model, I'll be prepared to look at their offerings, and not before. :sqnt:

Well reasoned, although I wondered if the scratch was deliberate for some obscure reason. It almost looks that way to me. To clearly identify the unused surface perhaps, or to stop it ever being used because it wasn't up to snuff? Pure speculation on my part. Another good promo for the Nikon...

Bottom line is I don't believe Eugene's day to day usage is at all representative of what I look for in a drive, and that's what his tests are based on. Results of any test should withstand scrutiny based on everyday observations. So if the 8MB drives don't seem to be 30% faster in real life as...

Did you check out the Halloween story? Bobbing for apples is a sin. And chocolate Jesus fish are all the rage. The ultimate is surely the personal profiles of the crew that man this good ship Lollipop. From the exorcist to the discounting treasurer, they're definitely worth a read.

Replacing Win95 with Win98 doesn't make sense, provided you actually install the patches that came with 95B and 95C. And maybe one or two others. Lots of people run IE 5 on Win95 without problems. In any case, it worked for two years. If you're quite certain you didn't fail to reinstall...

Okay. I'm fairly confident that this is the last word in capture utilities. Yes, it reads Kodak Photo CDs. And it writes as well as reads Photoshop files. And lord knows how many other formats - check the File Formats page to see. There's a bundled image browser, extensive editing tools, and...

Bloody Victorians. Just wait until July, then we'll see who's got absoluetly (sic) brilliant weather. For those not in the better hemisphere, Brisbane's summer starts about September and finishes in April. There's a brief Autumn in May and June and an even briefer Spring in August. Oh yes, and...

It's a version of DFT that applies a firmware update if needed. Here's an even more recent version of the firmware, with a more streamlined method of operation: http://www.support.vectra.hp.com/vectrasupport/level4/33vtd065en/33vtd065en.html And here's an independent site with some...

Ummm, that is a Compucase ...

All I can say is that it must have come from a different factory from the one we have in the next room. This one has very audible seeks and spindle noise is nothing special. Certainly far louder than the 60GXP it replaced. And no faster. I just tried to confirm that we have the fluid bearing...

210kB pdf Notice the 120mm exhaust fan and the extra 80mm front fan dedicated to cooling the hard drives. 10 drive bays, dust filter, front USB. I think it has better features than the Enermax/Antec/Chieftec/Chenming discussed here. Any comments?

The best advice I can give you is don't do it! Desktop cases have limited cooling effectiveness. Slimline cases are worse. And as you say, you may need a lower profile heatsink to avoid blocking the fan intake. The giant review on www.dansdata.com includes some medium profile coolers, which of...

Interestingly, I've had more trouble with card manufacturers than chipsets. There's a couple I've learnt to avoid like the plague ... I actually don't mind NVidia-based cards all that much, but I do think they're massively overpriced. Their earlier drivers, in the days of the Riva 128, were...