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My partner here is spouting anagrams of Telstra as she contemplates sleep: Telstra startle sel tart starlet ratlets arslett staler t rattles tel rats tatlers arsttel Okay, enough already. No computer or pen and paper folks. Just idle thoughts with her head on the pillow. 8) One...

Yeah, I know a guy with it that phones me every now and then to gloat. Mercutio, if it's any consolation, unless I reboot my (cable) modem every 2 to 5 days, the performance is nowhere near as good as a 28800 connection. I have a backup ISP (iPrimus) on dialup, and occasionally I use it to...

So do your days go from being seen as a jester to having no life, James? I know mine do.

I don't, but I know people locally who do. At least you can sleep at nights knowing you can't get a $1000 excess usage bill in the mail, as many Big Pong customers have. The stuff I linked is only the tip of the iceberg. The latest is that we (yes, I'm one of the suckers) have to agree to new...

When egos collide.

ECS and Asus are supposedly about equal size. Gigabyte and MSI are roughly equal size but significantly smaller than the first two. MSI had some OEM wins that moved it ahead of Gigabyte last year. After that we're talking second tier. This includes FIC, Epox (remarkable growth), Shuttle and...

Perhaps we should have a contest: who has the worst telco? http://australianit.news.com.au/article2/0,7237,3669003^15301^^nbv^,00.html

Telstra is a virtual monopolist telco in Australia. They have frequently been compared to Microsoft. Suffice to say they are not popular, but there is often no alternative provider. http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000024993,20263181,00.htm

Learned. Perversely, after criticizing Opera 6 when it came out, I'm somewhat more relaxed now, and use it a lot. But I won't register it until they relase the next build - IMO if you've already paid for verion 5, there's no where near enough in 6 to justify paying again. Interestingly Coug...

Now I know that people don't read my posts :cry:

I think you mean the GA-6IWFL. Its version of the i810 has a 133MHz FSB, so that's okay. And it has an onboard Intel network adaptor. But it's a FlexATX form factor, not ATX or MicroATX. Are you sure it will line up? I think you'll find the first PCI slot is where the AGP slot normally is. Is...

Gambling is something Australians know a thing or two about: Australia's richest man Kerry Packer blew US$29 million in casinos after being stranded in Las Vegas by the World Trade Centre terrorist attacks.  The legendary punter was forced to extend his stay in the US gambling capital for a...

The Gigabyte GA-6OXET is available locally and supports Tualatin (signified by the "T" in the product code). It is i815 with 6 PCI slots. Don't know if it fits ... http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/6oxet.htm The GA-6OXET-C is also available and would be fine for your application (it loses...

Hmm, sorry, it's a 1640, not a 1650, and they're not the same thing: http://mypage.direct.ca/c/cyuill/photography_area/pages/epson1640sup_vs_photocd.htm And you're right, it was VueScan: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html

Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions, including Ian (who I badgered by email). I have 'solved' my yellow cast problem. The Epson twain software supports three different methods of preview color correction. I was pursuing this angle by fiddling with everything I could find in that area...

Thanks for clarifying that HellDiver. Can I be your fan club? :D

The key difference is that Tony is not promoting those systems. Just by being able to provide them if required, he can better explain what his customer is getting for the money. Bait and switch involves promoting a product you have no (or little) intention of selling. Legally and morally these...

Awesome post, HellDiver! I dips my lid ...

About time Ian! Out of curiosity, which if any of my emails did you receive?

Stereodude, Thanks for the suggestions. We have Photoshop, and the cast is bad enough to make complete correction very difficult (beyond my patience, in other words). If anyone is interested, I can email (compressed) both the positive and negative scans we are using in our discussion with Epson.

Cougtek, Northwood is indeed a different kettle of fish, by any measure. I hope Barton will feature huge improvements over the regular Palomino core or else, it will be Intel's year. But I'm not sure I understand what aspects of the Athlon you want AMD to improve? Surely not IPC?

Mercutio, Tony usually quotes Australian pricing in Australian dollars, and including tax. As a minimum, divide by two for US$. Items such as monitors are often worse - reduce to 40% or even lower. So an item that costs US$400 may cost from AU$800 to AU$1000 here ... Unfortunately, the...

LOL. No, the color temp is not adjustable - neither is much else for that matter, but that belongs to a separate grizzle. The scanner is not for me, it's for customers. Compared to Canon and others, this is practically a mid-range scanner, believe it or not :-? Tea, I thought they were good...

Let me rephrase the problem. The normal scans have reasonable color accuracy. Scans with the film attachment (with its own external light source) are yellowish. One possible explanation is that the external light is too purple (therefore exposed areas on the negative come out yellow). Epson...

We've been playing with a low end Epson scanner, the 1250 Photo. It comes with a slide and film adaptor, but I've been unhappy with the results. Scans of photographic prints have slight tonal problems with blue/green colors, but that's more an irritation. The big gripe is that scans of 35mm...

Mercutio, I'm fairly confident it's "dry" humour. It may in fact be Trinton - he often seems to wildly misjudge the appropriate degree of subtlety.

LOL! Alternatively, perhaps that's why Bill is obsessed with hiring people with high IQs. By the time M$ is finished with them, they can barely feed themselves.

Your problem, Cougtek, is that you're falling into the megahurts trap. That P4/1700 surely isn't a Northwood, so you're comparing Apples to Oranges. Try comparing an Athlon XP 1700+ with a P4 1900 instead to make a fair comparison (although by the time you add in the effects of the chipset, a...

Ummm, I mean MSN address - funny how I mix these two up.

Flagreen, I received a bounced message yesterday. My ISP's SMTP server claimed it had been trying for 4-5 days to contact your Hotmail address. I guess you're used to this, being a HotMail user, but just thought you'd like to know anyway ...

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I confess I have no idea how it's supposed to help. If it pretends to split the entire CPU, then that would suggest that it's making up for poor arbitration in the OS. My guess is that Intel reckons they can achieve some sort of sub-processor optimization by doing this. Sounds like optimizing...