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Take some cold beer, sit in a chair, and say "I like to watch". It's best if someone else carries in the chair. If you have to do it yourself, at least make sure it's comfy and has a footrest. If others make sniping remarks, complain loudly and at length that you hurt your back carrying the...

Actually it's 'present unreal conditional', nothing future about it. Speak for yourself! :P We was learnt real well here in Orstralya. What happened to you?

AGP is an Intel invention. Via was the first competitor to implement AGP, so I don't think anyone was surprised when they struggled to reverse engineer GART and other AGP issues. But that's ancient history, and it worked fine for countless thousands of MVP3 owners. From memory, 4.17 was the...

The human ear's dynamic range is truly amazing. The difference in sound power from 20dB to 120dB is about 10 billion times, but that's compressed down to 1000 times in our perception of loudness. 2dB is about the smallest audible difference that most people can hear. Stepped volume controls on...

Oh dear. You are tired, aren't you? There are 5,450,000 plus 1,400,000 = 6,850,000 pages total. 6,850,000 / 5 = 1,370,000, so HellDiver is correct and you are ... :(

The manufacture of these cases is chenming. Thanks for the tip, Handruin. But if you look a little further, you will see that Chenming appears to be solely an American distributor/arm of Chieftec. Their product showcase includes several variations on the theme, and they claim: Chieftec is a...

It looks like a simple facia upgrade from the Performance series. Apart from the crudely mounted side fan, the chassis appears to be absolutely unchanged (the filter is part of the facia). I wonder who actually manufactures these cases sold under the Antec and Enermax brands, not to mention a...

Hear, hear! :council: My feelings exactly. Current benchmarks are measuring the wrong things. Which is also why drive seek time should have more emphasis in real life. In benchmarking, only the first few cylinders of a drive get tested. In real life, full seek time really matters, as apps and...

My God, James! Aren't you ever wrong? The extra noisyness must be due to the InWin case itself. That's my chief complaint about them, and I see other people on the net have also noticed this. Personally, I think the case is too rigid and too light, and amplifies any vibration to annoying...

Prof, That's a steep price to pay for a generic card :o We can sell Gainward GeForce3 Ti 200 here for about €200 plus tax :) Frankly, I think they're at least as good if not better than Asus. I'm hoping the GF3 Ti 200 will come down in price as NVidia pushes the GF4. It already looks like a...

There's no denying its subtlety. It has that certain "Je ne sais quois" quality.

Erm, I don't follow your reasoning, James. What did you mean to say?

Thank God I don't work for or own shares in M$. When I saw monkey boy strutting his stuff last year, I felt ill. Not because it was revolting, but for what it told us about the guy and the company.

How small? Whereas only one 250W PS appears on AMD's approved list for XP1700+, 18 appear on the list for Duron 1000. How old? Obviously AMD does not bother to retest old power supplies with newer CPUs. Anything on the approved list for Athlon 800 would be good. Realistically, most 300W less...

I agree with CougTek's assessment. Duron 1000 has a nice round number :) James is right as usual, but the "other new features" he mentioned include hardware prefetch, which is by no means trivial. You're more likely to see a performance boost from that than Screaming Sindy Eloping. Finally...

In the Phillipines, people had themselves nailed to crosses to go that extra mile in self-flagellation at Easter. I see you have found a high-tech alternative for your demonstration of faith.

I know what you mean about the AOpen PS. I just built a 'quiet PC' as a home entertainment centre for someone, and the standout noise I couldn't eliminate was the AOpen power supply fan. Still, they're quiet compared to the PowerMan units in InWin cases. I suggest you try an HEC PS. Intel and...

Change the PS before you muck about sending back the motherboard. Enermax power supplies have a mixed reputation. There is no such doubt about Aopen, but be aware that dual Athlon setups are pushing the envelope. Skallas has often had something to say about this on SR. I notice that AMD is...

I guess that's okay for diagnostic purposes, but I wouldn't want anyone to get the impression that fans are intentionally bidirectional. The blades are designed to spin in one direction only, not like some ceiling fans.

I use IE6 because it renders pages the fastest and most accurately (AFAIK). I don't choose my browser because of political reasons, only for performance. I use Opera because it renders most pages the fastest and definitely has the highest effective performance (that is, I get the most done in a...

It is generally very easy to change a fan from intake to exhaust by simply changing the polarity of the DC fan. Say, what!? I guess you meant turning the fan around, Mark? BTW, a positive or neutral pressure system may give the appearance of attracting less dust, provided there is only one...

Thanks for the tip. I had no idea that the front page project had progressed that far. But then I haven't been here :cry: I see that CougTek's incessant body building is ensuring he has boundless energy as a news hound.

Firstly, 95/98 is limited to 768MB, end of story. Secondly, I don't see what multi-boot has to do with anything. You're not running VMware, so you only need to worry about the worst case, i.e. Win2k/XP. 256MB is adequate for the applications you have in mind, 512MB is the maximum that will...

Or you can stop wasting time using the piece of decorated excrement in the first place ... The vast majority of the time, I use Opera. When a site's authors are too stupid to achieve compatibility, or one of Opera's bugs rises up, I use Mozilla 0.98. This works with 99.9% of sites. I have...

.. most cameras these days are USB mass storage devices, and appear as another removable drive when plugged into a windows box. Yes, but if you have Win98 or ME, you need to install a driver (albeit small), and Win95 is a non-starter. Having said that, I think you're insane, Tea. That's a...

Okay, I still don't really have time for this, but ... I can be on CoolPC's doorstep within twenty minutes. I invite anyone with a list of outstanding issues to post them here or email me, and I will pay them a little visit. As you should know, they're just a bunch of uni students operating...

Here's an update on the Mitsubishi DV152, since we finally got one to play with. It's too damn bright. Black is but a distant memory - welcome to the land of washed out white and gray. I'm running it with Brightness set to zero and it's still too much. It would be nice if changing the Contrast...

Cascade Premium is the beer that I would most like to offer a visitor to these shores. It's not the best beer in the world, but it is unique, and widely palatable to boot. My memory of their Pale Ale is vaguely not as good. For variety I like Coopers Pale Ale, but ice cold. A far stronger...

Back in 1995 I bought a couple of Seagate Decathlon 850 drives with extended five year warranty. Only one gave any trouble, and this story is all about that naughty little drive. It worked hard and happily for about a year. Then suddenly, in the prime of life, it died catastrophically :( There...

Time to revive this topic. Tea, how have you found the Hitachi? Choices here seem to be down to Mitsubishi Electric, who I believe have some sort of joint venture in the US with NEC. So US readers will probably not have seen these models, but here goes anyway. Mitsubishi DV152, 350:1 contrast...

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3772580%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html One of my clients says they want this feature on their invoices.

I think Mercutio is planning on using credit from his BSc towards his medical degree. So he's not looking down the barrel of 5 or 6 years, just 2.

Top post, Greg! Can we rely on you in future to pour oil on troubled waters? I guess The Giver would view it more as a boiling maelstrom, but I see it as a storm in a Tea cup ... :D

That's one of the bigger differences between VB and Delphi. It's dead easy to create new components in Delphi, so there's a veritable supermarket of free and shareware components available all over the net. Which you can tailor to your own needs or just write your own. Delphi is superior to VB...

How well do USB/serial, USB/parallel and USB/SCSI converters work? I think it depends ... I sold a USB to parallel converter to a customer in December, and he had nothing but troubles (corrupt prints, etc, etc). We decided it was faulty and got him to send it back to the supplier. They tested...

All I can say is, it's hard to believe anyone other than an Australian could write such brilliant stuff.

Mercutio, you need to decide if this decision is purely financial or whether you like people enough to stick your hand up their ass (or whatever). If you are being honest with yourself and truly see youreslf as a doctor, then I think you should go for it. Professional futures in IT look fairly...

I thought LS-120 was dead or dying?

I agree. It's one of the reasons I have trouble with any benchmark that shows little difference betweem 5400 and 7200rpm drives. But that raises the whole question of what benchmarks are actually measuring, and I'm too tired to go into that right now :-?

That means I'm 4.5. :eekers:

Damn, I had a fifth option: "Have only ONE telco". Feel free to suggest others.

In Oz, all exchanges, local wiring and most trunks are owned by one telco, which used to be government owned. Based on experiences in other countries, how do you think this sort of thing would be handled in Nirvana? For instance, some streets in Oz have not one but two heavy cables decorating...

I've thought for some time that Arslett was trying to emulate BT (British Telecom), but this latest round of manoeuvres elevates them to a league of their own. When our illustrious government sells its remaining stake, can we expect more government sanctioned illegal advertising promoting the...

I like 'em all. Why can't Doug just continue to rotate them at whim? That's far more interesting, and confusing enough that the labels don't become badges of honour or shame. I like variety with my cornflakes.

Very cool, Doug. I have newfound respect for php.

Okay, let me express the results by showing the performance gain as a percentage of the theoretical maximum. The theoretical maximum improvement between 800 and 1033 is 29%, and between 1033 and 1200 is 16%. Their quoted SysMark figures are 184, 202, and 216 for 800, 1033 and 1200 respectively...

Sorry, I am not the Teaminator. But a C400/66 running Outlook fast? Isn't that poetic license, Mercutio? 8)

You are assuming that overall performance scales on a 1 to 1 ratio with FSB speed increases. In fact, their figures show performance scaled better between 1066 and 1200 rather than 800 and 1066. Which is surprising to say the least. :roll: I don't mean to sound too querulous, but I didn't...

1. Their Sysmark conclusions are specious: The SYSmark 2001 benchmark clearly shows that the gap between PC-800 and PC-1066 is where the most performance is gained. Going from PC-1066 to PC-1200 and a 150MHz FSB doesn’t scale similar to going from PC- 800 to PC-1066. Simple arithmetic lesson...

The obvious lay question: So why is my internet access so slow? <waits for inevitable answer>