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Yeah, it's a pain. Some of those winter nights in that vast auditorium in Melbourne, I can barely hear the coughs and sniffles over some damn fool playing a flute solo.

This century please Buck.

Hey, I never heard of the lady. I'm just making guesses based on the context. Like ... er ... it was you ... I am resiting the temptation to consult the Font of All Knowledge and Repository of Many Links. Hell, for all I know, she might be the Queen of England. No, that's Lizzie someone. OK...

If she is a professional, why does one need social skills?

CGB, I've been playing, more or less, that game for years now. Religiously. I start at 11:00 AM on Monday morning, and stop at 5:00 PM every Friday afternoon. In fact, I rather enjoy it. I don't normally have the gangsters, but we do have a round half-dozen regular time-wasters that inspire...

That is one of the things I really like about the outback. I am not religious, but I nevertheless undergo an experience that I speculate is much the same thing as religous awe. Sometimes I have found myself many many miles away from any other human - out on the treeless Nullarbor recently, for...

I am totally uninterested in any sort of action sims. Flight sims, battle sims, driving games - this is all stuff that I find incredibly boring. Hell, I wouldn't spend time on a flight sim if you paid me $30 an hour. ($100 an hour? Maybe: it depends on how much I needed the money.) Real sims...

The only 939 boards I have used (from Gigabyte) won't boot on a single unit

You will probably find that you can use SDRAM of the followig kinds: * 16MB single-sided 8-chip (8 x 16Mb) * 32MB double-sided 16-chip (16 x 16Mb) * 32MB single-sided 8-chip (8 x 32Mb - this is rare) * 32MB single-sided 4-chip (4 x 64Mb - though this is always tricky stuff) * 64MB single-sided...

Hi Randall, The 168-pin slots are for SDRAM, not EDO. Some boards of this era take 168-pin EDO as well, but not too many, and you have to go through all sorts of hoops setting jumpers to make them go. With a brand-new board with factory-set jumpers and a manual back in the days when these...

(Tannin wonders about asking "what's an ipod shuffle?" and decides against it. Wanders cheerfully back to the Century of the Fruitbat. Ignorance is bliss.) (As an afterthought, makes a mental note not to revisit this thread, just in case someone tries to explain what an ipod shuffle is...

Why fax is better than email 1: no spam (well, not much) 2: never, ever has format incompatibilities 3: verifiable "from" addresses that can be traced if needed (see #1) 4: it costs something to send, so people only send you something if it might actually matter (see #1) 5: hard copy 6: cannot...

Hey, we all know this stuff, but seeing so much of the evidence set out in one place like that really does underline the point. Good link, Mubs.

By the way, don't buy an samsung monitors. We sold about a dozen Samtron 17 inch CRTs a while back (Samtron = Samsung's value brand) and they are quite possibly the most unreliable monitors we have ever seen. Two of them have now failed four times each, and all that within only a year. About...

I am absolutely and positively no expert on DVD drives. Select at random any other Storage Forum member and, chances are, you will get a 500% better informed answer. Hell, I still haven't got around to loading up the software for the DVD-R I installed in my home system long enough ago that it...

Bit hard to go wrong with Gigabyte, Dave. But Samsung for the DVD? Most of the Samsung optical drives I've seen have been pretty ordnary. Have they got better?

On the other hand, your chance of getting killed by wildlife in Australia for any given year is around about 1 in 3 million. Your chance of being killed by another human being in Australia is around 20 out of one million. Let's look at the numbers in a little more detail and get a sense of...

Lots of insects for him to eat. As for predators, there are bigger lizards - including the magnificent Perenti, one of the biggest lizards in the world, 3rd biggest, as I recall - many species of snake, and a whole stack of different raptors. Remind me to dig some pictures out but not right...

It's very arid country, Buck (as you can see). The litter is only there because that picture was taken close to the Stuart Highway, which leads from South Australia to Darwin. You can't travel along the fence, most of it runs through private property, but the general countryside is very...

What Gilbo said. Actualy, the thing to do with IE is alter it so that it is incapable of connecting to any website that is not in a hard-coded list that you can't crak into. On that list, by default, there would be: * www.windowsupdate.com That's it. End of list. Nothing else. There would...

Nope, you'e thinking of the Dog Fence. The Rabbit Fence (pictured in my earlier post above) divides the more-or-less fertile south-west corner of Western Australia from the arid interior. It's maybe 2000 or 3000 km long. (And yes, its function these days id to keep Dingos and Emus out, but...

OK, seeing as the topic is live right now, let's try a little thought-experiment. Imagine that web browsers were like operating systems or office software (ignoring OO and Linux) - i.e., that there was no such thing as a free web browser. I'm asking you to imagine, in other words, that Windows...

Huh? We are talking to a group of people who regularly and routinely spend hundreds, from time to time thousands on ridiculously small performance mods and upgrades. What's $39? It's a drop in the ocean. Mozilla's mail, by the way, is its worst feature. I very much fear that Time is right re...

(smack!)

Very nice, smooth and quick skin selection and installation routine. Takes about as long to load a new skin as it does to type this paragraph. The "Neo" skin is ugly and the text on the menu bar is too light, but it's usable. I am becoming more impressed by the minute. "KDE Longing isn't bad -...

Cool! Ahh .. the "Windows default" skin that ships with it is a very substantial improvement. Still too shades-of-grey by a long way, but lots better. The "main bar" is completey useless - get rid of it. Ditto some other crap. Hey! This looks like it could be a decent browser! But it really...

Ahh, thankyou Time. They really have lost the plot on visual interface design, haven't they? It seems nice and quick - quicker than even older Operas, but the styling of the menu bars is right out of the really-dumb-graphic-designer-trying-to-look-clever department. WTF are they thinking of...

Seems sensible to make a new thread of this, rather than drag the spyware thread off-topic. Well I did try it, or at least I tried to try it. My (bought and paid for genuine-spent-my-own-money Opera 7.X claims that it's a 7.54. I seem to remember upgrading to that version some time back...

A very interesting link, Groltz. Thankyou for posting it. It raises several matters to ponder. How vulnerable is Firefox to scumware? Typical media-nerds, they soft-pedal the raw and uncomfortable fact that the vast bulk of the problem isn't market share and it isn't even moronic users (though...

Q (From another forum - nothing to do with computers - where I hang out from time to time.) I didn't know I had firewire. I've since found my motherboard manual and it says there are three IEEE 1394 "by cable". What does this mean? How can I tell which ports are firewire as I can't see three...

Sure, pass legislation if it makes you feel better. It won't do anything much to deal with the problem, of course, but all the legislors can have a nice self-congratularory inner glow. And maybe a few scumbags will get what they deserve, which will give me a nice warm inner glow. The actual...

Gaaaa... You know better than that, Handruin. That is the whole point of Internet Explorer: it was designed to allow any random web-based application to trawl through your entire hard drive, doing whatever it likes. Now with 99.99% of websites, that is exactly what you don't want, which is why...

Errr ... I seem to be in the wrong thread. I thought I was here.

Most of the Medalists were excellent, Merc. Most of them. There were, in general, slowish but acceptable performers, and returned outstanding (i.e. low) failure rates. Most Medalists, reliability-wise, were in the same sort of ballpark as the better IBM drives of the same period (we are talking...

(small prize somehow forgotten about.)

Nope. Still trading, still selling hard drives, still pretending to be the best in the world when they ain't. Someone provide the name of the new Tandon please. ....... (A small prize will be thought of fondly but somehow forgotten about in practice.)

PPPS: should be in "computers". Maybe a mod will oblige.

No no! This is great stuff, and you write about your old machines with clarity and force - enmough so that I was able to correctly identify your old drive merely from your written description of the sound it made. (Yes, I got to "Honk-hooooooooooooooooooonk-Beep!", paused before I read on, and...

Tea!

Hey Clocker .... what did you expect? This is Storage Forum, isn't it? Sensible, on-topic answers to practical questions? Here? Nahhh. And just by way of sticking with the well-trodden tradion, I'll ponder your question afresh .... Well, ponder the broader question behind your question. Maybe...

I think half the problem is that it was Western Digital who ventured into the realm of high-speed IDE. Normally, you'd expect a faster drive to sell like hotcakes, but two things held the Raptors back: (a) they are only available in SATA, still a very small minority part of the market, and (b)...

Yeti: yes, a good point. Thankyou. Mike: calibration? Hell no! I'll just have to live with whatever colour it produces. I have a friend who is a colour grader (or whatever the term is - I forget already) and does contract work for film/TV companies. He is super fussy about colours. Me, I...

I'd not have used the term "confusing", LM. "Illiterate" might have been an appropriate term.

If we are talking stbility and outstanding value for money, you want an Athlon XP 2500 on a VIA KT-600 mainboard. Biostar, Gigabyte, any brand that's decently reputable. KT-600s are bulletproof, and the 2500 is the stand-out bang for buck chip on the market today.

20 years next year. But I'm practically never home.

Thankyou gentlemen for kind thoughts. I'm late for work already but I guess a small scotch can't do any harm. Might be a long time before I reach 4k, Merc. You'll be past 10k by then, if I'm any guess, and that will be the occassion for a real celebration. In fact, I'm looking forward to it...

Hmmm .... Didn't we get this one before a while back? When I try to change my avatar, I get this: Warning: copy(./images/avatars/gallery/userupload/8310440184195e5f9d94c4.jpg): failed to open stream: Permission denied in / home/handruin/public_html/forum/includes/usercp_avatar.php on line 227...

PS. Dell is out. I won't buy from an IT company that refuses to sell things to my company and is nothing other than a competitor. Sure, IBM compete with me too, as do a zillion other firms, but they will also supply me with things I can make a dollar from. Dell, on the other hand, is just a...

Huh? Photographs of wildlife. What else is there that you can do with a laptop projector? (Well, I guess my father will use it for photographs of ancient buildings in Europe, landscapes, and assorted grandchildren. I do landscapes, trees and wildflowers too, not just things with fur, scales or...