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Poor Tea. She has gone off to climb a tree and recover from a certain amount of shock. She's been coming here to SF for quite a while - grew up in the place, actually - and never before has she heard it called the perversion capital of the world or read if you want to really deal with all kinds...

I never said you did, little one. Read my lips ... er ... posts. Merc, scroll up and read what Time wrote. That goes for me too.

I don't have any trouble either. I just glance up at the fifteen or twenty condiment containers on the kitchen shelf (salt, mustard, and so on). If I can count them without taking my shoes and socks off, them I'm obviously not Tea, so I must be me.

If, on the other hand, you are waiting for Tea to learn to proofread her posts, don't bother tuning back in. Tea is incapable of learning.

This is why I still have a DOS box in the workshop. It's .. er .. a Pentium MMX-200 with 32MB and a 1GB IBM SCSI drive, if I remember correctly, running PC-DOS 6.3. Works a treat.

I'm having soup, toast, beans, salad, and an apple. What are you having?

OK

Am what?

See?

Yes you are.

No you're not.

No you're not.

No you're not.

See what I mean, guys? She's just not the same lovable little ape she used to be.

Look, just stop playing the innocent, OK? I don't know what's got into you since you got back from jai ... er ... got back from your government-funded holiday. I can't imagine that you want to see the treasures of goatse.cx displayed here.

You know perfectly well what. And if by some faint chance you don't know, trust me, you don't want to know.

Tea, stop tht right now!

It's a self-selecting sample, E_dawg. You cannot make any numerical inferences with self-selecting samples, not even a plain old average. This is a basic, non-controversial and fundamemtal rule of data analysis. To have figures that are generalisable to anything beyond the individual cases...

I have become really boring on hard drives these days. Essentialy, we only sell Samsung 7200s. What it comes down to, is that I just don't trust WD drives, or Seagates. I don't have access to Maxtors at sensible prices (and if I did, I'd rather have Samsungs anyway), and the only drive that has...

But surely you are used to ignoring the grosser stupidities of humanity? Days of a heightened commercial and cultural stupidity are opportunities. Seize them! For example, on Christmas Day just gone, I explained to my family that I might need to spend the day with Belinda's family, and...

I remember Valentine's Day. Err ... 1987, wasn't it?

Ahh, Tea, eggs, or at least eggshells, can be pretty sharp when they are broken, you know.

A good tip. I'll bear it in mind.

I'm sure it is. Alas, WA is the only state I've never been to. I must fix that one day soon.

Ha! There were no computers at all when I went to school. Ten years later, at university, we had computers, but no screens. You used a terminal with a big roll of paper and a printer.

No. I'm the same as you, Merc. Sometimes it flows like water, other times I sit and sit and sit and produce a single medichre paragraph after a couple of hours work. But actually, our writing doesn't have enough intellectual quality to satisfy the intelligence of the average child. We need a...

It is possible to reproduce any sound using a single speaker. It is possible to reproduce any musical sound and full positional information using no more than two speakers, and it is possible to reproduce any sound (got that? - any sound at all) with 100% of the natural positional information by...

The mere fact that there are morons around who think that, on any given budget, multi-speaker, multi-channel setups are better than a simple stereo setup with two quality speakers speaks for itself. Walk into a professional studio. Take a look at the control room speakers. Count them. Remind...

Athlon XP 2500 Albatron KT-400 1GB RAM at 333MHz 32MB Matrox G450 Hitachi CM753 19 inch Tekram Ultra-160 controller Seagate X15-36LP 18GB 15,000 RPM Samsung 120GB 8MB cache 7200 RPM IDE Samsung 80GB 2MB cache 7200 RPM IDE Lite-on 52X CDRW Mitsubishi 52X CD-ROM Realtek Nic.

REad the article about beef that Buck linked to in the beef thread: there is one place to start on the healthy diet war.

Ahh... Thankyou for that link, Buck. Very interesting reading indeed. Recommended for all.

No meat, Coug. Never. I was asking an expert about that just yesterday. She told me that the chances of a CJD outbreak here were practically zero - different management practices, and very strict controls in order to maintain acces to two key markets (US and Japan) that really want to ban all...

No time to finish reading that this morning, but it is indeed interesting stuff, Buck. Very different from over here. And over here, with our different soils and climate, grazing cattle does not "make superb ecological sense" - catte cut the soil up and degrade it, introducing all sorts of...

In general, Buck, no. Most (but not all) Australian beef is grass-fed. Grain fed beef mostly gets fed on ... er .. now this is going to stretch my memory ... Oats, peas, and several other things I forget.

Ouch! Nasty! I only have one picture to post in return. I guess that's one way to get my attention. Now, Epox boards and corroded caps: I don't recall seeing any, Time. Two possibilities occur to me: (a) that you are the victim of a bad batch (perhaps your wholesaler bought several hundred...

I think the drive has died. P5-13XL has laid out a good series of steps to follow, and you certainly should do that, but chances are it's a dead drive.

That's to beat spam-blockers too (as you have no doubt surmised for yourself, digitally generated one). Here are some random examples from amongst the hundreds, probably thousands, of clues my spam filter uses. Any of these in the message (or header, it depends on the particular case) and it's...

That was 5.25 inch floppy technology. I don't think that IDe devices work the same way (though I have not checked). You certainly used to get it with floppy drives quite often.

(OK, I lied. I don't know who he is either. Fact is, I'd rather not know - I like Lunar Mist and it might turn out that he's someone I didn't like. In this case, ignorance is bliss.)

He's one of my aliases.

The idea is to defeat the latest trend in spam blocking. Spam tends to have a fairly limited vocabulary, and can be readily told from real email by a vocab check. Hence the trend to include lots of random dictionary words in the message. Unfortunately (for the spammer) this also winds up with a...

Not even close. Any bit of serious iron (i.e., a 15K drive) blows consumer-grade IDE out of the water without even trying. Right now, in this machine, I have an X15-36LP (18GB) and an 8MB cache 7200 (120GB). They are not even on the same planet.

If that was my machine, Time, I think I'd be resorting to one of my favorite brute-force diagnostic tricks right now. Replace either the hardware or the software. That is, either take a spare box and swap the existing hard drive into it, or take a spare hard drive and perform a 100% fresh...

This is something I do from within Nutscrape? I seem to recall a page of that never-used MIME stuff somewhere - I'll go look next time I'm on-site. (Simply double-clicking on a saved Word file starts Word OK, so the Windows file association is working fine, it's just from within Netscape.)...

I have a client that runs Netscape 7.1 as their standard browser and email client. (Yeah, yeah, but at least I got them weaned off Outbreak and Microsoft Internet Infector, and Netscape 7.x is, if you ignore the added crap, really Mozilla 1.x.) They have quite a few machines and this problem...

.... err .. as compared to the unlovely U-series, that is ...

Well, the bottom line is, the Seagate Barracuda ATAs are: * Roughly 100% faster * About 80% better-looking * and Approximately 500% more reliable

Nope. We use PC-Cillan all the time, and the more recent versions (last two or three years) have been as stable and user-friendly as anyone could ask for. There was a minor issue back in about '99 with the ... er ... I forget the term for it, the "pre-scan" where it panders to mindless Outlook...

Ha! :mrgrn:

Also BTW, what is the point of those useless bloody extra PSU connectors? Is there any point?