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Please excuse Tea. She seems to be misquoting a certain member here, from the other thread. :-?

You are emaking sense, David. I'll throw in a supporting tale. We often used to use VGA extension cables for various odd jobs around the workshop. Still do, now and then. On a stock standard sort of 15 inch or 17 inch monitor at 800 or 1024, cheap little VGA extension cables worked just fine...

Kristi (who, being 23 years young, can read the fine print on an Athlon XP in bad light - I need to stand near a window - can't see the difference with DVI either. I'm not against DVI. In theory it ought to be the best thing since sliced bread - why have two DACs instead of pure all-the-way...

I'm a birdwatcher, Buck. From 10,000 yards I can spot a blowfly on an Emu's arse. (If you want to know which particular species of blowfly, I need to be a little closer.) I'm vague about colours (has that monitor got a green tint? yeah, probably, now that you mention it, but who cares?) , but...

I tried a 1912 the other week, Pradeep. It's the other model, quite a lot cheaper, and .... well that's probably the only nice thing to say about the 1912, it's a lot cheaper. Nowhere near as good, and in fact clearly inferior to the best of the 3 Acer 17 inch screens. I still don't get this...

Oh, one more thing. You can have IE 5 installed alongside IE 6 on the same machine. Essential stuff if you are going to write web pages. See: Multiple IEs in Windows : http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/?ID=795 Taming Your Multiple IE Standalones...

Oh. There was an absolute URL in there for the image. I changed that to a relative one. Works now. Shortened the column a bit too.

OK guys, it's time we got some logical version numbering going here. I am arbitarily calling this next one Version 3.1. It's Buck's code, as modified by FB, further modified by me so that IE 5/Win doesn't break on it. Any further mods can be 3.2 or etc. This will save us getting confused...

Unreadable displays, Buck. They start by going a funny colour, then get worse and worse. Next time I'm at the office I'll switch one of them on an remind myself exactly what they do - it's been a year or so. BTW, they all failed within a couple of months or so, typically after only a few weeks...

To clarify, we used the three-time-offender Samsungs in our workshop after they came back the third time, seeing as they wern't trustworthy enough to give to a customer. Then, one by one, they failed a 4th time. (Is one of them still going OK at the moment? I'd have to check.)

No need. I'm telling you now that their entry-level monitors are appalling. The worst reliability of any monitor we have sold in the last ten years. In this market they are sold under the "Samtron" brandname. Possibly in your part of the world too. I have, at last count, three (or is it four/)...

Bloody near Antarctica tonight, my friend. Freeze the monkey off a brass ball. No, I mean monkey the freeze off a .... Hell, you know what I mean.

In Australia, HP has support the way a dog has lunar-orbit calculus.

I just bought the new Acer 19 inch LCD with the swivel: AL1922. It's awesomely good. The amount of crisp, clear little text you can get into a spreadsheet this way is phenomenal. Also, on the same day, the best quality display I've ever seen on a laptop: a Fujitsu, which cost far more than I...

I find that a good method is to draw up what you want, any way you can. (Word, Photoshop, crayon and paper, whatever is the easiest thing to make your page look more-or-less the way you want it.) Post that here, and then let Buck and/or Doug and/or me code it up. You will find that you can...

Which is, of course, why I hang out here.

Laser printers are something HP used to do really well. The LaserJet 4 was an all time classic. The Carly got hold of the company. I am led to believe that their laser products are not the ultimate in crapsville that their systems and inket printers are these days, but I wouldn't trust an...

You didn't (quite) throw up at the thought of a Dell/Lexmark printer, but you are using Hewlett-Packards? Oh well, each to his own. Laser printers I have had good experiences with (most of them not colour, not in any particular order). * Canon * Epson * Kyocera/Mita * Xerox I'd feel OK about...

We hear a lot of hype about browsers and PR stuff about how the average user is turning away from Internet Explorer. Often, you tend to discount that as probably just spin. But it's real. Here are the browser stats from redhill.net.au for the current month: * Internet Explore 59% * Firefox...

What Buck said goes for me too. If you have a basic template already, adding content is as easy as you like. I'd be happy to help do the template. Or Buck has volunteered too. Buck will be more timely, if I'm any guess, but in my disorganised way I do wind up getting things done. (When I remember.)

So, what you are saying, guys, is wait till I can afford a 42 inch TFT? (Mind you, by the time that happens, I'll probably be more interested in buying an electric wheelchair.) Still, TFT screens have dropped a hell of a lot lately, so maybe really big ones will be here sooner than I think.

That was my pleasure, Tim. I like playing with HTML. Besides, it was nice, after all the wonderful tech help I've had from the whole Storage Forum crew all these years, to get a question that was clearly inside my skill set for a change. :) I left the code pretty messy, and did a lot of...

No problem. Alice Cooper, Black Widow off (I think) Welcome to my Nightmare. A guest artist did the voice over - Vincent Price, I think it was. (Hoolie doolie! How did I ever remember that? I just astonished myself. Not only have I not heard it for 30+ years, the only times I ever did hear it...

Thanks Howell, I tried several, including at least one that worked OK on the desktop with same port and cable. Could it be that the IBM laptop (Intel NIC) is fussier about cable quality than the cheapo Realtek card is, and doesn't synch up? Or is it supposed to just drop back to a lower speed...

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Thanks Mark. I'll try that. At present it's just factory defaults all the way. I haven't touched it. But I don't think I'll try it tonight, as I'm knee-deep in looking at Tim's interesting CSS problem in another thread. I'll come back to this when I get tired of reading code.

No big deal this one, but I thought someone might have a quick & easy fix for me. Seeing as my IBM laptop has gigabit ethernet already, I thought I'd buy a little 5-port gigabit hub and a gigabit card for my desktop at home - it has all those nice fast SCSI drives in it, so why not make the...

I saw a fax-out from a supplier today and it caught my eye. Mitsubishi 42 inch plasma screen, not much over $2000 ex tax. "Wow!" I said, "that sounds fantastic!" I'd thought plasma screens were mega-expensive. But I could just about spring for one of those. It's just about time I replaced my...

Just so. The S754 Semprons go like a rat up a drainpipe. On a given budget, you have a choice: A-64 3000 and a 17 inch monitor, or Sempron 3000 and 19 inch monitor Not one of the world's more difficult decisions.

Merc utterly despises Nvidia products of any form, shape or flavour. I utterly despise ATI products of any form, shape or flavour. Guess you need a different opinion.

We do the same, Greg. (Not always from the start mennu - depends on customer.) Also, we set the home page to Housecall - that's the only site they should be using IE for and it serves as another small reminder.

The CPU mix right now is interesting too. If they still made them, we would still be selling better than 50% of the total CPU mix in Athlon XP 2500s. The Barton 2500 is superior on the desktop to any Celeron, Socket A Sempron, Pentium 4, or small-cache Athlon (2400, 2700 non-Barton, etc). On...

The CPU mix right now is interesting too. If they still made them, we would still be selling better than 50% of the total CPU mix in Athlon XP 2500s. The Barton 2500 is superior on the desktop to any Celeron, Socket A Sempron, Pentium 4, or small-cache Athlon (2400, 2700 non-Barton, etc). On...

I try to keep the volue as low as I sensibly can, David. Otherwise we have to do too much work. :o I'm at home, fed up to the back teeth with trying to understand a great big PHP/MySQL program, let alone write an extension for it, and bored, so here goes. Oh ... I can only remember model...

No problem. Margaret River is just up the road from here. No further away from my place than ... oh ... about the distance from your front door to Argentina. :wink: If we take turns at the wheel and only stop for meals, we could be there in less than a week, easy.

You justify it by assuming that some fool with more money than brains will demonstrate his lack of brains by giving you quite a lot of his money. Try pricing out the A-64 4000 part. It will give you palpitations of the wallet. But what would AMD know? They are only youngsters at the...

PM me the flight number. I'll be waiting at the airport.

Acronis looks good, Doug. Reminder to self: try it out. Soon.

But not very careful with proofreading, it seems. :o

In general, I agree about FAT32 vs NTFS Buck. I've been using NTFS/HPFS on my own systems since ... er ... maybe 12 or 14 years? Since OS/2 2.1 came out anyway, which is certainly well over ten years ago. But I am careful with nackups and almost fanatical about not buggering my system up. In...

I despise Ghost. Most over-rated, pox-ridden, bugzilla of a difficult-to-use and never-does-what-you-expect-it-to utility I ever saw. It doesn't matter what version you have or how much you paid for it, you always find that you have to buy yet another version to do the job you need to do this...

Nonsense Buck. * 1. In my post above, MUBS, for "GDIK" read GDISK. (Never assume I can type!) * 2. You can't do a quick format in XP if you don't have XP (or some suitable other) operating system installed * 3. Windows FDISK has a number of limitations, some of them severe. For example, in...

Never take your PC to a shop. You could wind up talking to someone like me.

You need GDIDK. Formats a 160GB drive in about 10 seconds. PM me if you don't have it. (It's freeware, as I recall.) PS: I probably don't have it here, but I'll be at the office again in about 64 hours. (sigh)

Too late. I already saw the post, Tea. Excuse incoherence, I'm utterly zonked. Need sleep. Lunar, thanks for your thoughts on that. Here is my task description: The SLR is to do things that are too fast-moving to do with the scope. Mostly small birds, more or less sparrow size, and light is...

Huh? You are dreaming, old friend. Take a look at an A95. (Or any of many others broadly similar, Fujis for example.) The A95 is tiny, and it runs for ages on its little AA batteries. (I use rechargable Ni-Cds, of course.) With the Nikon 4500, I carried 6 of the proprietary batteries. I'm...

Yes Buck, the A95 can certainly do macros, but I've not explored the possbilities in any depth, just a couple of quick tests. I'd probably think it was quite good if I hadn't been spoiled by the CP4500s. My A95 is mow Araldited to a telescope adaptor - so no more macro test shots for me! I still...

That is a very similar routine to the one that I use, Merc, with minor variations. (I haven't tried SpywareBlaster, for example, and I use my OS/2 box for tasks that you use your 'nix box for.) Mubs and Buck, I am not suggesting that Joe User relies on safe practices and not have an A/V...

Interesting .... Prompted by this thread, I just went to run Housecall 6 (seeing it's about time I did another checkup). It won't run on my system in IE6. No huge surprise there; HC6 has been a bit flakey from day one. My IE security settings are plain vanilla (why bother? it's not as if I use...

Gotta pick you up on this one, Fushigi. I'm sure that there will be no shortage of people here to point out some trivial exception or another, but there are essentially just five ways you can get nasty stuff into your machine. Let's think about them, one by one. 1: Direct infectors. Use a...