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Hi Peter. There are, I am afraid, just two alternatives. (1) Pay the money. (2) Say goodbye to your data. I don't think that there is anything else you can sensibly try. Data recovery specialists are very, very good at what they do (or at least the ones I've sent people to are). They can...

Tea, we could get in trouble for this.

So, you're saying it's all my fault?

As for being originally from Tasmania, so am I. In fact, my great, great, great grandfather was sent on a nice long trip to Port Arthur for stealing a piece of cloth. (Not sure if I have the correct number of "greats" in that sentence.)

Woops .... I mean E_dawg.

Huh? Who said anything about the American way? This is a forum for the worldwide Englidh speaking community, Santilli, but we also try to welcome Americans.

They both came out at the same time, I think Splash. I've been running 1.7.10 and the equivalent Firefox for about a week now. A new Opersa came out yeaterday, BTW (8.02). I think it's a crying shame that, having invented the best browser on the planet, the Mox foundation plans to abandon it in...

The other thing about taking normal credit cards, from a retailer's point of view, is that pretty much everybody that has any disposable income worth talking about has a credit card. People who don't have credit cards tend to fall into three groups: * People who don't trust plastic money and...

I'll take even money it's the power supply. All the symptoms fit. But then I wouldn't rush out to say the PSU is an actual dud; quite a few recent boards are pretty fussy about power supplies, and if there is a firm that positively defines the term "fussy bitch of a main board" it is ASUS. But...

So once you already know what the control key combination is, you can turn on the message that lets you find out what the control key combination is. Bahhh.... And they call themselves engineers .....

Thanks i. That's a good one to try to remember. (And a pox on Intel for not putting that information on the screen in the first place.)

It may have been AU$2000, I forget. But lots.

PS: come to think of it, some (all?) of my G-200 systems would have been running OS/2, not Windows. In that case, definately not the same driver!

I ran G200s on Super 7 for years. Hell, I've still got one last Super 7 system running Matrox. Only reason I'm not running the G-200s now is because all my video cards except one are G450s. (The other one - and the only one to ever give me trouble - is the ATI in my laptop. Since the latest...

<HISTORY> First there was mono, then there was CGA. EGA didn't last long, and along came VGA. We are still using VGA. </HISTORY>

2005 Subaru Forester Trackball for exercise. Sometime I do a few rounds of the keyboard just to tone my body up.

Any bank should be only too happy to set you up with a merchant account, Merc. Why should you have to pay for it? It's not like this isn't how those bastards gouge most of their money out of small businesses. The banks should be fighting over you and offering to out-deal each other.

Hey, I remember sleep! Sleep used to be good, back in the old days. Bring back sleep!

I just want to say that I've never seen Tea so quiet before. She's been watching Dave's mega-post without moving a muscle for a good ten or fifteen minutes. I tried offering her some toast but she just reached out without looking and munched happily away, still staring at the screen. I suppose...

It's best on toast with honey. (Yes: honey and vegamite, it's regarded as a strange combination, but I live on it. In general, I'd say it's good for you, though I must admit that the switch to a honey and vegamite diet very early in life was probably the primary cause of Tea's current rather...

I also only ever use trackballs with my own computers (except for a coupe of rarely-used systems) going back ... oh .... back to the strange and much-loved trackball-keyboard I had on my 286-10. As someone who sometimes actually remembers to read posts before I reply to them, I might have...

I don't know that I'd get that much value out of it. What I lie awake dreaming about is Norton Anti-Virus Cleaner. If it gets rid of that McAffee pox as well, that would be an extra bonus. The number of hours I have wasted going crosseyed in regedit trying to get rid of these two prime...

Hello, I see that Kensington have a new version of the Orbit. Still no scroll wheel (what century are they in?) but USB & PS/2 is an improvement, a god shape (much the same as the old one) and (yes!) it's optical. Worth checking out to see if their Oz agent stocks them.

How can that trackball (on the linked-to page) be ergonomic? It seems to require a sharp upward bend in your wrist, same as most other trackballs. I'd like to try one even so, as every single one of the decently-shaped trackballs I know about has gone off the market. (They were all...

Damit Tea, that's another bottle of scotch we have to remember to send.

So when are they going to prosecute the guy responsible for the code that was so effing incompetently secured that a kid could break it. And does he get the death penalty?

Microsoft used to make a thing called the Intellimouse Trackball, which has the buttons under your right thumb. Maybe they still have something similar.

There is pretty much no wall space left, Buck. Fair dinkum. Outside of a few essentials like kitchen shelves and windows, every spare little bit of wall is covered in bookshelves. I need to figure out a way to free up space to put a screen for my laptop projector. Probably have to make do with a...

I didn't know there was a v 7. Acrobloat 6 was as ugly as a hatful of bottoms, and is quite possibly fatter than Tea's head. Bring back version 1.0!

Some new cases still do that Merc. It costs nothing, so why not? But in a 2U? Unlikely. Might be Dremel time for you, Bozo.

Some cases have multiple screw fittings and you can just use the appropriate ones. Also, thre main board you have, if I remember correctly, has an ATX PSU connector as well as Baby AT, so you are a chance.

Nothing. Why would I want to print pictures when I already have them on screen?

We already had a system where all our beautiful cards would just plug in and work. Bring back ISA!

On the HSF mechanisms, yeah, I agree. Can't they just pick a good design and stick to it? Maybe I'll get used to them eventually, but I don't much like the ones that AMD ship with Athon 64s and Semprons. Flimsy-looking things, very like the Intel ones. They seem to work OK but I don't like them...

Tried out cheap USB flash drives lately? It's real. It's here. They are crap. I don't know if there are name-brand ones that are actually reliable, but some (all?) of the no-name ones we've seen have the data go AWOL if you look at it sideways. When people ask me about flash sticks for backup...

Soup Nazi: works here. About 19 or 20 or some ridculously small number of years. Has been known to post on Storage Forum once or twice. Answers to "Michael" on a good day. Century of the Fruitbat: Comes after the Century of the Lizard. Or possibly the Century of the Blowfly, I forget. Floppy...

Awesome!

My systems, from most-used to least-used: IBM Laptop, Pentium-M 1.6, 80GB Samsung, 768MB, W2K. I use this for nearly everything that is not work-related these days, and some stuff that is. Most of my surfing, all of my HTML coding, nearly all the photography stuff. I use the built-in 15 inch...

Fushigi's post in another thread sparked this off. Must be time we had a look at what people are using in their everyday computers these days.

With the exception of Soltek, that goes for me too. I haven't used much in the way of Soltek boards since KT-266A days. Soltek did three things at that time that pushed me away from them: (a) put their prices up, (b) brought out two or three not-so-great models that were pretty purple but not as...

Looks good to me, Fushigi. I'd go with that one, if I was prepared to pay for a stand-alone video card. I don't think even PC Chips could f* up a KT-600 board, the technology has been around for long enough to be very stable. Abit should have no trouble at all getting it right. Upgrade...

Multiforumitis is a terrible disease to inflict on a website. I like the idea, but there are, if anything, too many different fora here already. It's a PITA having to check lots of different pages looking to see what's new and interesting since the last time you were here. Hell, if it was up to...

Actually, i, there are just three brands of motherboard that everybody recommends: Gigabyte, Gigabyte, and Gigabyte. They can be quite reasonably priced too. Here on SF, where we all have a pretty fair idea about what is what, there is a lot we can't agree on just the same. Merc thinks Nvidia...

It will be a long, long time before I touch another Asrock motherboard. Very bad reliability record, and terrible warranty service. Real PC-Chips stuff. We sold maybe 30 or 50 Asrock boards a while back when the Australian Gigabyte distributors dropped the Gigabyte VIA-based UMA board in...

What an extraordinary load of ignorant (insert other dirty word used in this thread already) from a person who is normally so wonderfully well-informed. Merc, it's way past time you learned a little bit about Cyrix chips, and substituted some facts for blind prejudice. Seriously. You are so far...

So, how many stupid new sockets did C*rix inflict on the world? Also, what was the net effect of the entry of Cyrix into the marketplace. Phrase your answer in terms of market forces, competition, effect on overall industry price and performance benchmarks, and value delivered to the end user.

Cyrix?

I know what you mean, JTR. (Excuse me butting in here, Tea has gone to bed.) I sell small, old hard drives for vastly more than they are worth. It doesn't make any rational sense, it's just supply and demand. New stuff you price with one eye on your costs and the other eye on the going market...

Oh, and if we are going to talk broad families of CPU, then the P4 (and the various Celeron-labelled versions of it) is the worst Intel CPU family since ..... um.... I think I'd have to say since the 286.