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Yup. That's exactly right. I too will be interested to see how it fares in the benchmarks, but it won't make the slightest difference to my purchasing policy: essentially, I only like four hard drives: Samsung 7200 40GB Samsung 7200 80GB Samsung 7200 120GB Seagate X15 Maybe I'll get a Raptor...

The bottom line, Jake, is that for photography, LCDs don't cut it. You just can't trust the colours. Another thing about those two 17 inch wonders. The Albatron was styled like a tacky Korean motorbike: all swishy lines and sharp angles in silver-grey. Yuk! The Mitsubishi was in black. They...

Now that you have finished grandstanding, small hairy one, perhaps you will permit me to make a few comments of my own. Yes Jake: I'm a CRT owner that went to LCD and came bact to CRTs. Twice. My frst desktop LCD was a small one. 12 inch was it? 800 x 600, anyway. It was a Samsung panel...

I saw it on the Bird Forum. And yes - it's amazing, isn't it.

Delete the post yourself, Merc, if you want. But it ain't that bad, honestly, I've seen a lot worse. (Oh - I was forgetting - you don't have your badge and gun any more. I get more like Tea every day.) We were quite serious, you know. You want a working holiday in Australia, come right on over...

She ain't kidding, Merc. http://www.austemb.org/DIMA/ http://www.immi.gov.au/e_visa/ Or call 1 888 990 8888

Please excuse Tea. I think she's having a bad day.

It's a significant roblem, Merc. I don't know an answer either. I have thousands of images and add hundreds, sometimes thousands, more each week. Currently I store them in folders cronologically, but that's far from ideal. I also want to sort them by species and by location. It does need a...

As the senior member amongst us (measured by post-count) Tea voted on behalf of the sock-puppet clan. ;)

Gaah..... OK. Can I have some fruit cake too please?

Tea? How come you just replied to my post before I hit "submit reply"?

Fresh blood? Blake has been here for a whole year, you crazy ape. That's not exactly young and fresh, you know.

Tea! You take that back!

Have we had this question before? I once read a claim for 100 years, but it sounds sus. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/32593.html says 2 years for cheap no-names.

Thanks Tim. Phew! That was a close one. Lucky for us that Kristi is a smart girl. She fixed the problem. As so often, once you think of it, the answer was simple: jelly beans. All she did was go for a brisk walk around the block. (Well, more of a jog really.) Every couple of metres, she...

Quick! We have a Dell Optiplex G1 midi-tower that needs its RAM replaced, and Kristi and I don't know how to get the case open. Unfortunately, Tea is quite certain she knows how to deal with it. I've just dashed in here to shoot off this emergency message because I don't know what else to do...

Bit late in the day (ages since I've read the TD threads) but FWIW this is the sort of problem I always so a test install for. I.e., take a spare hard drive (any drive), format it, and see if the problem remains with the new install. At a stroke, you have reduced the size of the problem by 50% -...

Did you just move again, Merc? And you have a real modem connection now, I gather. Whoohoo! Welcome to the Century of the Fruitbat!

Tea, it's 999 posts. (So? He's very polite, you know.) Yes. What of it? (So he will have to post here in this thread to say "Thankyou, Tea".) Ahh.. I didn't think of that. Well posted, Bill, and may there be many more of them.

I know what you are talking about, when it comes to scripts, Merc. The other guys are all making sense, but (in this regard) they ain't on the wavelength that you are on. Once that script runs out, what do you do? It's a major dilemma. It's also a very, very common difficulty. I often...

Prescription drugs in Australia, povided only that they have been approved by the appropriate board, are heavily subsidised. Hence the $10 price, I daresay.

This is what she calls a "credibility pozt", Merc. She figures that if she finds some small, positive thing to say about Microsoft now and then, more people will believe here when she goes off on one of her extended rants. But yes, she's right: MS have handled this one gracefully and I respect...

Please excuse her, Clocker. She's a bit too much of a smart-ape sometimes.

Errr, I don't think it's quite as easy as that, small hairy one. Aside from the risk of going round in circles, there is the small matter of what happens when we run out of bananas. But I thought I'd mention how impressed I am with my new notebook. It's just a little one, a Toshibe Satellite...

I used a few of those Diamond Fireport SCSI controllers. They were 60 or 70% of the price of an Adaptec and worked just fine. Good, solid products.

And unless you learn to proofread your posts, I'm going to ban you from the computer.

TEa, you are supposed to read threads before you reply to them.

And some people ask why we are an all-AMD shop.... Well, we are not really all-AMD.We sell both brands, because I don't care what they buy, I only care if they buy. So far, our all-time sales totals stand at: P4-based Celeron systems: zero P4-based Celerons as components only: zero P4...

Stupid ape. Don't you ever preview your posts?

Would I pay US$60/month for 3.5MB/500KB service? What kind of a stupid question is that? Right now I have a connection that gives me maybe 0.25MB/256KB service and it already costs about $US 60/month. OK, I admit that I have two locations, but when I look at the price you USians pay for...

Prof, I will miss you. I don't agree with all of your rhetoric, but you do have a point: a very valid point. Storage Forum was set up to be an open, public site which welcomes everyone and where the members get to decide on policy. That was the whole idea in the first place. (You were invited...

"Shocked". Hmmmmm ... Yes, I think that's the word I would have chosen myself. Vlad and our friend The Wanderer, no doubt, would say "gobsmacked". I was a little gobsmacked myself: I'd forgotten how hard you have to work at juggling all those conflicting priorities on a busy day. But I soon...

One or two of the command lines were wrong. You can figure them out even so, but thought is something Tea usually tries to avoid so far as possible. Makes her grumpy.

Ulster (Eyre) France (Europe)

Gahh! I'm going to bed.

Texas = Yorkshire = Queensland, maybe. Did you hear about when Australia had a referendum to decide if Queensland should become a seperate nation? Unfortunately, the majority of Queenslanders voted "no" - but the rest of the country voted "Yes"! PS: apologies to Queenslanders: the days when...

As long as you stay with the same chipset family - e.g., VIA to VIA, or SiS to SiS, it's no problem. Switch chipset brands and you are in deep water without a reinstall.

Oh and Tea, stop using my login, please!

Oh, and I was a little confused by the "taking a bite of something that didn't agree with me" bit. I finally twigged juzt now. Alas for good stories, there is no magig to the switch from "load the 4-in-1 without the IDE" to "load the whole lot". It's just that the VIA IDE drivers sucked a bit...

Kristi iz on holidayz, unfortunately. That meanz I have to do all the work. Tannin just watches. He calls it "supervising".

(Excuse me, Tea, I think I better take over now. This is all getting a bit too rational for you to cope with, I think.) (No problem, Tannin, I get confused when people come over all rational on me. You know, I think they do it deliberately.) OK, this looks like the Gforce 2 & 3 to Gforce 4...

Tea's problem is that she always wants to solve a particular problem right now and is never prepared to put enough time into working out a better way to solve things in the longer-term. Short attention span. What can you do? Back when I was on my own here, before Tea arrived and brought her...

Absolutely, Honold. Go for it!

Works fine now, Clocker. ..... Errr .... not sure about the music, but it works.

Opera and now Mozilla are doing nice, new things. Pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, open in background, to name a few. Another little thing they could do would be offer much better editing facilities in forms (like the one I'm typing in at this moment) it would be simple enough to integrate a...

Yup. Just as Steve says. That aside, it works fine.

And more strength to your arm, my friend.

We do our best not to sell any software, Edward, save only the stuff we can't avoid. I.e., we have to sell operating software in order to sell hardware. But, essentially, we only sell software that is bundled with the hardware these days. And, come the day when Linux on the desktop takes off, we...

How so? There is no money in selling software, Prof. In fact, I think that's one of the reasons why retailers take little interest in preventing piracy. People can buy legit software, or people can pirate software. Either way, the retailer makes nothing, so who cares? This is a direct result of...