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It's not the first time. AMD were first into copper by a mile - like a full year, or roughly that. At much the same time or a little earlier, Intel ran into huge production problems and couldn't supply their spiffy new Coppermine P-IIIs in meaningful quantities. This, in fact, was one of the...

Greg, even from here, on the other side of the world, i can see the nonsense oozing out of that comment. Remember one of your greatest-ever presidents, one of the three of four that will still be famous in 500 years time? Remember the plaque on his desk? The buck stops here Fella by the name...

Get out of that shit hole you live in! Meet real people. Have a life!

JTR, you have been living in New York for much too long. Get out of there, see the real world for a change. Making money is not what life is all about. In civilised places (such as Norway) everybody knows this.

Gahhh .... I didn't think of that. I'm just not used to thinking about photography as something you can fake.

What Mercutio said. What i said. Very rough and blunt, but true enough. It really is a terrible thing to hear the so-called "leaders" of a once-proud nation complaining so bitterly about the direct result of their own policies and blaming someone else for it. You get useful, honest...

Everybody scroll up and look at that child and rhino picture again. That is the most beautiful picture! My deep respects to the photographer.

Interesting poll results from the Melbourne Age. (Generally regarded as the best newspaper in Australia - which, when you think about it, isn't saying very nice things about the rest of them! Still, it's certainly the least-worst newspaper in the country. Err .. on the the poll results.) Gaza...

(Oh for the love of Mike! I was just drifting off. It was a sheep, OK? And stop shouting.) (I'm not shouting.) (Just count.) (Right. Fine. Whatever you say.)

(Stupid ape. Can't you do anything right? (I am not a stupid ape!) (You're not even counting right. And that last one looked more like a goat.) (It was a sheep. Now be quiet, I'm trying to concentrate.)

We have our own moron, Mubs. But (so far) he hasn't been able to do so much damage, for two reasons: (a) all the state governments are the other party so they cancel each other out to a fair extent, and (b) until July he didn't have a senate majority and could only get legislation through by...

Seen elsewhere, can't resist quoting it: "You can't predct a natural disaster like Katrina. But why the hell did you elect one?". Beautiful ....

Exactly. (We cross-posted.)

It's called contingency planning. Everybody does it. Everybody with half a brain, anyway. You don't plan for Hurricane Katrina or a bomb blast at the superbowl or a massive bushfire - you plan for unexpected disaster. It's routine. That's what governments get paid for. Here in Victoria, for...

You have Leadership over there in the USA? Sorry, it didn't occur to me. Perhaps foolishly, I had assumed that Leadership was extinct in the wild on your side of the pond, and that it had been replaced in the political ecosystem by a combination of invasive weed species, i.e., Scaremongering...

Ahh, thankyou Will, Merc, and Fushigi. I'll look for the checkbox. I don't recall seeing it, but then I don't run XP on any of my own machines. But then my own machines are ones on which I don't use Add Remove Programs very often. Mostly, I use it on junk-ridden machines that come into the...

PS: To put my own words into action, I suppose I could try anouncing to the world that I am hetrosexual, but somehow I don't think it would have quite the same psychological impact.

Oh, don't take Tea too seriously, David. She just spits these things out that she's heard someone say 'case she thinks they might be funny. I doubt that Tea has an opinion re tarts, good, bad, or in-between. Me, I have a firm opinion: I like people who know exactly what they are and don't try...

Yeah, but then Mormons are, to generalise, intelligent people - certainly when you compare them to some of the weirdo religious kooks going around in the States. (OK, we have them too, but they are - thankfully - fewer in number, lacking in power and media access, and generally not regarded as...

Actually, now that you prompt me to mention it, Fushigi, it isn't so much the space that bugs me (never really thought about it actually), rather it's the dozens of extra entries in the "add remove programs" list. I wish there was a way to say "don't show me the bloody Windows patches, OK? I'm...

Is there any overhead cost to the compression, Merc? I'm not talking about the obvious one-time-only compression process, but asking if there is an extra process loading on startup chewing up RAM and CPU cycles after you tick "yes" to the compression.

Windows is weird enough without throwing ICS into the mix as well. Yuk!

Does anyone mind if I post on-topic for a moment? No worries then. I just want to say how nice it is to have some bew members from Oz. Not that there is anything wrong with being from some other place, I hasten to add, it's a time-zone thing. One of my favourite times to visit Storage Forum is...

Way to go Bill. Good choices.

Good one Mubs! ROFL

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/01/ecs_amd_intel_mobo/ Sorry for the link without explanatory text, but ... well ... you sort of have to see this for yourself

OK, that's probably long enough. (bump, creak) Feeling a bit more sensible now Tea?

Gary, there is emotional, and then there is a reasoned and rational refusal to deal with a company that has a proven track record of shafting its customers in ways that are completely and totally unacceptable. See here: http://redhill.net.au/w/w-hp.html

Sorry about that gentlemen. Remind me to let her out in half an hour or so.

Right, that's it. Into the deep-freeze for you till you cool off and settle down a bit. A little bit of frost on your fur might make you a bit more careful with your language.

Quite so, but you are not allowed to say so in print. And stop shouting!

Tea, mind your language.

Good question, EGD! An old-fashioned external SCSI enclosure would work perfectly - and cost you an absolute fortune for the enclosure itself, never mind the drives. Scratch that theory. You could use individual USB 2 or Firewire enclosures. Scratch that one too: far too messy with so many...

EGD, you are running into a fixed and set-in-concrete mindset here: several of the posters above are just about 100% dead-set against RAID of (almost) any kind, and for (almost) any purpose. You will quite likely never get sensible help with setting up your RAID system from those guys, just...

Unilever? The Lever brothers were English. Perhaps the "Uni" half of the combine was Dutch. This company, by the way, was responsible for, and profited vastly from, mass slaughter and slavery on a truly grand scale back in the time of the Belgian Congo. Absolutely horrible, what they did.

Lanier are well-respected in the photocopier world, I believe.

Holy crap, David, that is complete horseshit! Sexual arousal is not equal to consent Sexual arousal is not equal to turgidity either. And similarly, Turgidity is not equal to sexual arousal You can be hard as a bone and completely unaroused. You can be as horny as a tomcat and as limp as...

Beautiful. Delightful links.

That's not far off the truth, Taz. I do have access to a couple of Regent pictures (not taken by me), but they aren't really the sort of picture I'd want to showcase. Last year I drove up to NSW and spent a few days looking for Regents to photograph and use on the site. No dice: I didn't find...

Yeah. But it still would have been a Dell.

Me neither, Buck. I stopped trying to code for IE 5 earlier this year. But I seriously doubt that my coding is more advanced than yours. My code tends to be sloppy and complicated, yours neat and streamlined. In fact, that's largely why I'm so pleased with the regent.org.au code: it's (wonder of...

So, for about the same money that it would have cost you to put a 3100 Sempron into a real computer, you put a 1200 Celeron into the Dell. Just sums up what I have always said about Dell vomit boxes really. Still, given that you already had the Dull, it was probably the best option.

Mubs: yes, thankyou. The measures Tea outlined in that other thread seem to have done the trick. I must ask her to revisit it and post numbers when she gets a spare minute. Short summary: down to about two-thirds of the former traffic level, and thus comfortably inside our self-imposed bandwidth...

Yes, it has been one of the better derailments. :wink: Nope. Or not so far as I know. But in any case, redhill.net.au has been updated, extensively. Spunky new css, all pages adjusted to look better at the resolutions modern systems typically run at, every page and every stylesheet run...

As for K****, Taz, I'm not surprised that you never dealt personally with them. You are far too smart for that. (Not really the compliment it sounds: yeast is proably too smart to deal with out friends at K****.) But yeah, your story has the ring of truth to it. It's the same general story...

Oh, swap meets can be fun. For someone who knows the ropes (such as you) and who is prepared to take a little risk now and then, there is no harm in them. I just hate it when inocent but stupid people do this sort of thing. (Made up, but I've seen this a million times.) Him: Hello? Look, I...

Last point. (And a trivial one by comparison, but no matter.) The other week, I thought to go to a different shop (a real shop, not a supermarket) and buy kangaroo meat to feed my cats instead of the usual horse/sheep/cattle stuff you buy in cans. It would, I thought, be a little bit cheaper...

Skippy-aid is a great idea, but it wouldn't work. Why not? Because, by and large, the undernourished third world doesn't eat enough meat to bother talking about. They can't - it takes a vast amount of vegetable protein to produce a kilo of animal protein. I forget the number now, but doubtless...

Now for the environmental argument. This is an easy one. The isn't any environmental argument. Kangaroos and Emus are vastly, vastly less damaging to the Australian environment than sheep, goats, pigs, or cattle. They don't pug up waterholes (cattle do). They don't cause massive erosion...

But what about health? Won't we pick up all sorts of horrible diseases by eating nasty wild-living kangaroos instead of nice clean pigs and cattle? Not on your nellie. The general rule-of-thumb with diseases and parasites is that they transfer most readily between hosts that are most closely...