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The Pentium M is the best Intel CPU since .... hmmm .... Coppermine P III? Celeron-A? Pentium MMX? Nope: better than any of them. Guess I'd have to class it as the best Intel CPU since the 486DX/2.

Ahh, thankyou Buck. Not being able to speak the language, I was denied that little gem.

This is bullshit. Bring back Cyrix!

Time I updated this thread. Two items to add to it: (a) It was the pox-ridden ATI graphics card that was making my laptop crash. A couple of months ago I did about the 4th bug-fix upgrade to the graphics driver software, and it hasn't happened since. The problems just disappeared. I mean this...

What needs doing to Thunderbird? Whatever it is, I haven't misssed it yet. Mind you, I have very basic email requirements: apart from junk filtering (which TB does very well) and multiple accounts (which TB also does very well) there isn't much I could think of to add. (I'm sort of afraid to...

"Western Digital: first to cut warranties, last to restore them to the standard three years". Not exactly a great advertising slogan, is it.

The PS/2 connectors were OK. It was not getting a PS/2 connector that used to really bug me. Plus the way they had 17,689 different ways of wiring the pin-out. Grrrr! I kind of like the cramped and awkward Baby AT jobs that still come in now and again — it lets me show off my hard-earned skills...

I remember being offered a really good deal on them by a sales guy who didn't want to give up on me, back a few years ago. Hard sell, but he was a decent guy, even so, and used to help us out with a lot of other stuff. In the end ... did we buy one? No, I don't think we did, we just thought...

Yeah, it was a great movie. I'll watch it again one day. You know, in the movie, Louisana in the 1950s reminded me a lot of Queensland in the 1980s. Thank St Pete that the old bugger is dead. (Peterson, I mean, not Long.)

Re your link, Merc, I can't claim to fully understand the article, largely because, whoever Michelle Krupa is, she hasn't got the faintest idea of how to write in English. She claims to be a journalist? Hoolie doolie! I'd rather read an insurance policy or a phone book. Either one has clearer...

The only thing I know about Louisiana is a movie I happen to have seen two or three times. Title "Blaze Star", or something similar. You probably know it. You are saying it ain't too far away from the truth then, Greg?

We have not had a single problem with an HP product these last several years. Nope, not one problem. This is an outstanding record for a major manufacturer. (Though, to be fair, it probably has something to do with the fact that, in the wake of a series of stupidities rather like that one you...

Word? Speed? Bahhh ..... They are dreaming. Interesting stuff about Outlook, Fushgi. Not that it will ever be relevant to my clients, but interesting to know just the same. As for Word Perfect after Novel got hold of it .... The very first Novel version was OK, but after that .... 'nuff said.

Bring back Baby AT!

Errr ... what has any of this got to do with the browser, for Pete's sake? Special printable versons of HTML pages went out with Netscape 4.6. That's exactly the sort of task that CSS was designed for in the first place. What are we talking here, 1998? Anand's website coding guy needs to move...

OK. I can't say I've ever used it. I suppose I have assumed that the "improvements" are of the same nature as the "improvements" to the Windows XP interface over the W2K one - i.e., zero extra functionality, a whole heap of slug-trail-all-over-the-screen eyecandy crap, and breaking one of the...

Why not just upgrade to an older version of Word? What can you do with Office 2003 that you can't do with Office 2000? Or Word 6 for that matter?

I am not! (Not what?) I don't know. I'm just not. (You're not?) No. Not at all. (Are you sure?) Quite sure. Not in the slightest, you silly ape. (Not in the slightest what?) I can't remember.

Floppies remain a very useful, sometimes an essential tool. They are horribly slow, die frequently, and a general all-round pain, but nearly everything has in-BIOS support for them, and there are plenty of times when there simply isn't any sensible alternative. I won't miss them in the slightest...

This would be logical, Fushigi, if and only if typical people in ordinary life didn't routinely serve hot drinks at a temperature very close to 100 degrees. We already know how the ordinary person makes coffee: heat the water to exactly 100 degrees (i.e., boil the kettle), pour, and serve. That...

Second point first. Slightly less than 100 degrees. In the case of orally ingested liquids, rather closer to 100 than you might imagine. This is for four reasons: (a) you get used to it through drinking tea, coffee, and hot soup, and eating steaks still sizzling off the grill. (Try ticking...

You can't get water hotter than 100 degrees. It is that simple.

Well, the only two sorts of drive I really trust are high-end Seagate SCSI units (like my X15s and etc.) and anything made by Samsung in the last 5 years or so. I have good evidence to show that Seagate, Maxtor, and Western Digital have put out some pretty cruddy 3.5 inch products during that...

Not that I know of, LM. It's just that they are ... well ... from Seagate. In all probability, they are likely to be just as good as anything else. But my most recent experiences with Seagate drives in any number have been very poor. That's not very recent, and it was desktop drives, not...

If I pay money for a hot drink, I want a hot drink. If it ain't hot, I want my money back. Most people, I am sure, feel the same way. If they didn't, they would order iced coffee. So, what you are saying, Time, is that this dumkopf ordered a hot drink, in the full knowledge that it was indeed...

I thought hard about ordering one of those. My 80GB Samsung 5400 is always full, and it gets tedious finding stuff to remove all the time. 100GB 7200 or 120GB 5400? Easy: fast is good, big is gooder. Besides, the extra power consumption of the 7200 is a factor. But Seagate? Hmmmm ..... My...

No rants about privacy and the user's right to see anything he pleases, in whatever way he pleases? No impassioned "in defence of blank referrers" posts?

One of the great rants, Merc. I hear you.

Well, yes. You see, the difference is that coffee is designed to be held in the hand and then drunk. You only get burned if you do something with it it wasn't designed for. (Pour it into your lap.) Guns, on the other hand, are designed to shoot things. People get hurt if you do use it for the...

Error count is low? I'd have thought a low errr count was good! Something is screwy here.

You sure you're not talking about Telstra in Australia, E_Dawg? It certainly sounds like you are talking about Telstra. Complete scumbags.

Huh? Coffee is supposed to be hot. OK, I'm a tea drinker, but it's the same thing. If you serve me tea that isn't hot, I'll ask for my money back, and rightly so. If I want iced coffee, I'll ask for it. PS: defenition of "hot": 100 degrees minus minimum loss inevitable due to pouring & etc...

You mean use active desktop to do something useful? What a novel idea!

This is sort of reassuring. I mean, usually one would read that, sigh, and say "only in America". But I doubt that even an American lawyer would try that one on. Or am I dreaming?

Hmmmm .... What about the other way around — when they call you? Usually the calls go like this: "Hello Mr Wilson, my name is Andy and I'm calling from Some Mumbled Scumbag Organisation, how are you today?" I think they rely on people automatically responding to that "how are you today", like...

Who is surprised? Well, me, a little. OK, I never expected MSAS to stay legitimate, but I expected them to at least be a little subtle about it. This is just so blatant.

Cadillac. Did someone say Cadillac? Reminds me of the old sond BB King used to sing: I gave you a brand new Ford, but you said: "I want a Cadillac" I bought you a ten dollar dinner, and you said: thanks for the snack I let you live in my penthouse, you said it just a shack I gave seven...

Cadillac. Did someone say Cadillac? Reminds me of the old sond BB King used to sing: I gave you a brand new Ford, but you said: "I want a Cadillac" I bought you a ten dollar dinner, and you said: thanks for the snack I let you live in my penthouse, you said it just a shack I gave seven...

Works a treat in IE 5.0 Tim. Great work! It even works in the old Opera 6.0 - which a lot of sites don't. Older Opera versions can be weird. (Not that I recommend coding for old Opera versions, I just checked because I happened to have it handy on my home machine.) I will break in Netscape...

Another vote for Aten. I've been using them for years.

PPPS: works fine in Opera.

PPS: I like bold the mouseovers, and I think that they are a real help. They make navigation more obvious and easy. Obvious ansd easy is also a Good Thing. OK, a real acessability nerd would insist that the links always should be underlined, and some say that they should always use the (ugly)...

Looking good! Well done, Tim. Works fine in all my browsers, except IE 5.0. In IE 5 (because IE is broken) everything is alligned left, not centered on the page. Now there is a limit to the amount of coding I'm prepared to put in just to clean up after IE 5, but in this instance, you can get it...

Why thankyou Buck. Doug: it's easy to tell the difference. If you hold the container upside down and nothing happens, it's cheese. If you hold it upside down and it flows out onto your shoes, it's alcohol. (Or possibly very runny cheese.)

Available? Maybe so, but who would bother asking for it? Besides, with their stupid naming schemes, AMD deserve all the confusion and buyer resistance they have garnered for themselves. People used to react so positively when you offered them a Duron - but now, you have to spend half the day...

Now that you've had your fun, Tea, do you mind if I say something? No? Thankyou. Doug, I didn't notice that you were talking about an Athlon-64 family Sempron. That's an entirely different matter. They have twice as much cache (i.e., the same amount as a Barton Athlon XP) and perform very well...

Scotch for me, please.

That's pretty much what we do, Buck. The small cache of the Ahlon XP-based Semprons cripples them. The Athlon-64 based Semprons are much better.

Only weak point is the CPU, Doug, and they ain't half bad, even so. It's just a shame that AMD withdrew the Athlon XP 2500, which cost slightly less than the Sempron 2600 and went considerably faster. But what can you do?

Nope. You have it 100% right.