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I get those same 130 messages. You know what we ought to do, Merc - have our mail clients do a compare. Any message that goes to only one of us is probably genine - the ones that land in both in-boxes could be deleted unread. Well, almost.

New avatars for me! Cool! Thanks Onamatahowdoyouspellit!

Steady on there, my friend. You're expecting Tea to know which day it is? Perhaps I should add that she wrote that at lunchtime on Thursday, meaning "tommorow" to indicate about lunchtime Friday. And I can't wait either!

I have never had Opera 7.x crash on me. But that is possibly because I have not installed it, and still use my (registered and paid for) 6.05. :) Time enough to think about upgrading once you brave people at the leading edge have discovered all the bugs for me. But maybe I'll never upgrade -...

Stupid ape. And you can't count, either. (I waz hoping no-one would notice that. Except Mr Platform, of course.) (Anyway, what are you doing back here already? I thought you were walking over to the Belinda house to borrow the spare car key?) (I waz. But I got a lift.) (You? Who from?)...

Not so, Blakewry! It is precisely because of their market share that Microsoft is evil. All monopolies (and, for that matter, all quasi-monopolies) are evil, almost by definition. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single privately-owned monopoly that was not evil, and quite a few of...

Oh... It's OK, she left a note. She's just walking over to the Belinda house to borrow the spare keys. It's only 10 miles. She'll be back by Wednesday.

Now, time to consider hard drives. Bottom line is, these days, hard drive failure accounts for a tiny percentage of system failures, and that percentage is continuing to fall with every passing month as the number of in-service systems we have running relatively low-reliability drives falls...

Hmmph. Well, if I'm writing the thread, I'll make it clock up against my post-count, not yours. As I was saying ... (Who waz zaying?) (Err ... as Tea was zaying - I mean saying, damnit!) (That's better.) As Tea wasn't saying but would have been if she had had any more than three or four...

I rarely have Quacktime crash on me, what I usually get is a crash in some other app after I've been using Quacktime. It's pretty consistent, and fairy easy to reproduce. At various stages, probably dependant on the particular configuration I have had at the time, the QuackCrashes have been in...

My point, Honold, is that: (a) I have been beating Dell as a matter of routine for many, many years, and there ain't anything in the least difficult about that - amost anybody can beat Dell. (b) I have documented this at considerable length on at least three, more probably about six...

Excuse me! Could a moderator please delete all those illegal posts of mine? I'll read those posts when there seems to be a reasonable chance that they are not yet another rehash of the same posts you made in another thread already. The "Dell = source of all value" argument didn't stand up...

Honold, I haven't ever read those "deals" above. I've had this conversation at numerous times in several places and taken the trouble to document the details at those times. If you didn't believe my figures then, why would it be any different now? I have not the slightest intention of doing it...

"Sentimentality"? It's business, plain and simple: cold hard facts. If you can't beat the likes of Dell, day in and day out, your chances of survival in the computer industrry are zero. Forget it. Take your bat and your ball and go home, while you still have a home to go to. If you can beat...

So these examples you mention are in common use now? (Yez.) Then, speaking as a (minimally competent) technician, they don't look "weird" to you? (Of course not.) Well there you go then: they ain't "weird", and Tannin's Rule doesn't apply. (Oh.)

Tannin's Rule: The weirder a motherboard looks, the less likely the thing and its ilk are to stay around on the market for any length of time and be generally liked by the people who have to work on them, the sillier they will look a year or three later, and (eventally) the more fun I will have...

Tea, be nice to Clocker.

Nope. But I have a consumables supplier that does. At last I used to, till I told them that it was pissing me off and took my business elsewhere. "'Red Hill, good morning, this is Tony" "Is that Mr Anthony Wilson?" "Speaking." "Happy birthday Mr Wilson." "Thankyou." "Now, about our fax...

Thankyou, Tea. I must remember to come up with a snappy response to that. But not right now, I'm due for my afternoon snooze. Anyway, LiamC recommends Why the Allies Won a post or two and a week or three earlier. I agree. It is as good a short summary of the topic as I have come across. I think...

Actually I have seen it. But that was ... er ... nearly 30 years ago, so I don't think it counts. :wink:

(Why thankyou, Tea. It was a great post. Indeed, if I may say so, a truly heartfelt and eloquent statement from the soul, and dripping with more than usual of my trademark combination of technical accuracy and hands-on street cred. I thought you'd like it.) (Oh yez, I like it a lot. It capturez...

Over a year ago, I see. And I have not even been tempted. Hewlett-Packard, I miss you not at all.

Well spoken, Fool. Amen.

Typical moronic journalists. They don't even provide the names of the authors, let alone the title of the paper so that you can read it for yourself. There are actually some major problems involved with the physics of small flying creatures. Once you get doen to a certain scale, the...

Oh. I forgot to say that, before too long, you really struggled to buy an MGA card from anyone. (Except IBM, who kept them on sale at 5 times the sesnsible price, long after they were functionally obsolete, just because they were IBM and IBM are like that.) In reality, 90-something percent of...

<slightly larger nitpick> Nope. MGA, as Buck points out, was the Monochrome Graphics Adaptor. If I recall correctly, the moniter had a different name: just plain "Monochrome Display" perhaps. I have one in my collection somewhere. Maybe I can dig it out. Hercules didn't make MGA adaptors, they...

<nitpick>MGA was the adaptor. </nitpick>

Ha! Serves him right for buying a Dell. If he had gone to a real shop and bought a real computer instead of an overpriced toy, they would have taken care of the whole thing for him. The better places do it at no charge as a routine part of the service.

Some random ones to come into my head. Laurence of Arabia. Superb! My Life as a Dog (The Swedes are so much better than Holywood!) My Beautiful Village (bet you no-one has heard of it) Casablanca & The African Queen (of course - from the days when Hollywood was good at making movies)

What's a movie?

Thankyou Time. I was due for a new sig. That will do nicely. :wink:

For my part, Lunar Mist, I confess to having read and made so many substantive posts in the computers forum (one or another of the 'computers' fora) over the years that I've said pretty much all I have to say in that department, and read most of the things I want to read several times over...

(Are you going to thank Doug as well?) (Oh, sorry. I forgot. Thankz Doug!)

Nonsense!

Tea! You take that back right now! (Zorry, Pradeep.) (That's better.) Don't know what's got into her lately. Must be hormones or something. I can't do a thing with her. (It'z not hormones. I don't even know what hormones are yet. I'm too young. It'z working with you dat after day that...

Says who? You listen to Piyono, young Tea. He is a wise and sensible man - and more than capable of making the odd sharp and witty post himself, by the way.

You're always disagreeing with someone, Tea. (Yez, Tannin. Usually with good reason - because the usual particular perzon I'm usually dizagreeing with iz usually you!)

I'd just like to say that I have banned Tea from posting in this thread.

Tea, you can't say that. A sample of one doesn't mean anything. (Doez the network work now that I got rid of the 3COM?) (Yes.) (Did it work before?) (No.) (So ztop arguing.)

Ahh, I see. I stole it from Cliptin, and Cliptin stole it from Theodore Sturgeon. Which rather begs the question, doesn't it. (Question? Who did Theodore Sturgeon stole it from? (Ahh.)

I stole it from Cliptin, you fool. You stole your sig from Mercutio.

Yup. They are great value. Kristi seems to have stopped complaining about them too. Either the drivers are working better now or she's figured out the secret trick, or else we don't happen to have sold any in the last couple of weeks. I'll ask her. I've only built one or two myself, and they...

If it's a 0.13u 2200, then it doesn't matter. Those things run so cool you could not bother with thermal grease at all. Well, almost.

Doh! I saw the shirt in it's pre-publication sneak preview form, thought I saw Edward's sig there. (That waz Steve K, you numbskull human.) (Yeah, yeah. I stuffed up. I always get the "K"s mixed up. Steve K, Edward K, City K .... put it down to my lexdixia. Anyway, I didn't see you picking up...

You deserve it Doug. Enjoy and be welcome.

Pin this on your wall. Regiment or battalion: 600 to 1000 troops. Usually led by a Colonel. Brigade: typically three battalions (or regiments in the USA, USSR - different names, same thing). 2000 to 5000 troops. Led by a Brigadier General. Division: Usually three brigades, anywhere between...

Nice to see you upping your post count, Lunar Mist. :) Your wish, sir, is my command. :wink: The trouble with relying on an "efficient caching strategy" is that , in most instances, the data you want isn't in the cache until you access it. After that, sure it's in the cache and available...

What Merc said.

Yeah, right. And is is six gallons in a pint? Or eight? I forget.

Good on the Rape of Nanking, is it James?