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A very good question, Doug. It's a lot harder for you (or for Mercutio, or Honold) than it is for most people. Your problem is twofold: first, the United States is a long way away from anywhere else. (Not counting Canada, Mexico, or Coug's Cingdom, the name of which requires too many special...

See what happens when I leave her alone? She was watching the Tuesday page for a broadcast that went to air on Sunday, and after getting home from work on Monday night, the silly ape was rabbiting on and on about how it was Wednesday already. And people ask me why I drink.

It's cool, Honold. If I was going to be mistaken for anyone, I guess I'd chose to be mistaken for a Canadian. Or possibly a New Zealander. The three (relatvely) small English-speaking ex-colonies (Can, Oz, NZ) have a great deal in common. (Yeah, there are others too in that "relatively small...

Correction, John Highfield is the presenter, the voice in the studio, and he does The World Today, the lunchtime 1 hour current affairs program, not AM. (There are three: AM at 8:30, The World Today at lunchtime, and PM at 6:00.) But keep your eye on http://www.abc.net.au/am/default.htm - they...

Mark, I'm talking the ABC, quite possibly the most respected news organisation on the planet. (Though fans of the BBC World Service would argue, no doubt.) It was a broadcast by a regular ABC reporter - I think It was John Hyfield (sp?) though I didn't pay too much attention to his name, a...

Can't say I'm all that excited. Guess I ought to be, I've waited for 10K IDE drives for long enough, but now that one is on the radar .... shrug. Why the underwhelming boredom factor? Well, for myself, there is no way it's going to rival my X-15s, and when I need more space I just add cheap...

P5-133XL and Honold, when I said "ABC" I didn't mean American ABC, I mean the real thing. You can trust it.

On the radio just now, in the shower, I heard something that made my blood chill, and then boil. There was a peace rally somewhere in the occupied territories. Children, not adults, and perfectly peaceful. An ABC reporter was there, and I heard the whole thing. I'm not talking homicidal...

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My word, they are bright boys at Intel. Ye Gods! They've discovered processor remarking already! They sure are quick on the uptake. Hell, give 'em another 10,000 years and they might invent the wheel.

..... and the office boy kicked the cat ...

Hmmm .... Yes. I didn't think of that. On the other hand, her tax money helps to pay for the roads I drive on and the police force that protect me, and given the sort of corporate sponsorship deals that an Olympic Gold Medalist normally gets, she'll be paying a heap more tax than I do. She...

I always used to wonder if there was intelligent life in America. And now I can stop wondering, because not only is there intelligent life, at least some of it has that precious commodity, common sense. Here is the proof: It is beyond me how anyone can be proud to be an American. That's...

Trucks, Jan? Try that 1967 HR Holden I mentioned about the 10th post down on the first page of this thread. (Back when it was charmingly off-topic and in the other place.) The HR didn't have syncro on 1st. You had three choiices: 1: Stop, select 1st, start again. 2: Double declutch it 3: Crunch!

Nonsense. Read some Tacitus or Herodotus or Pliny or ..... heck! Go back a little further in history and pick up the Old Testament. Now I'm no Biblical scholar, but if there are not at least three examples of terrorisim recorded in the OT, then I'll eat my King James edition. Raw. Without...

Actually, that's not what I said, Doggy One. I said "any gear including no gear" in the same way I might say "any number including zero". I'm going to take issue with this "always be in a gear" advice. For: You have immediate control over the application of power. Against: No you don't - in...

E_Dawg seems to be the authority, Honold, but for my 2c worth: drive it the way you like to drive it. Or, as I say to backseat drivers, "who's car is it anyway?" The prevailing rule always used to be "never have your car in nuetral unless it's stationary". I think it must be a hangover from the...

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It's all or nothing, NRG. The reliability of rotaries is a very interesting question, and the answer depends entirely on how you treat them. All types of engine like to be looked after, to be warmed up before you work them hard, and so on, but rotaries are serious about it. If you habitually...

Frank may well have done that, E_Dawg. Or something similar. He did various things that were beyond my comprehension. The basic idea was that he tweaked the car up, I filled his till up. :) Often he'd explain it. Sometimes I'd understand it. Anyway, end result was a car that rolled very...

The most fun I ever had in a car was my Mazda RX/4. This was a very ordinary little Japanese jam tin from the days before Toyota et al took lessons from Lotus in the art of making cars grip and handle. The Japanese cars of that era were: Reasonably priced - very reasonably by today's...

On a road car driven with your mother on board or a police car in the area or just with regard to the amount of money you like giving to Dunlop/Goodyear/Michelan and Co - sure. There is little practical difference. But one huge aesthetic difference: FWD cars are BORING BORING BORING things to...

As so often, James, your father makes a great deal of sense. Reasoned, rational, exactly to the point.

GM have indeed worked wonders with their archaic pushrod engines, E_Dawg. They are astonishingly good for what they are. But they are still horribly rough and crude by comparison with any decent modern straight six - and in this context, by "modern" I mean "designed in the last 30 years"...

Well, I could just say "ask Jake". :) Let's take a stab at it anyway. Australian attitude to Holden has gone through three major phases: #1 up till about 1970 or so. Simply the best car for Australian conditions. Big, cheap, simple, reliable, crude on the road but rugged enough to drive at...

What Time said. Only I'd substitute the 83MHz bus ones. We had a great run with the 200s, even the early ones so long as you didn't buy some cheap crap motherboard, but some trouble in the really early days with the 120s and 133s before there were any properly compatible motherboards, and near...

Complete the following verse: I was wheelin down the freeway at just the cruising power The state trooper clocked me at 90 miles an hour .....

I'm afraid that's going to be a little difficult, Fubar. You see, I've never met a Tasmanian Aborigine. In fact, strangely enough, no-one I know has ever met a full-blood Tasmanian Aborigine. But then, seeing as the oldest person I know is only 92, and there haven't been any Tasmanian...

Yes, I am aware of these things, Fubar. But please try to check your facts a little more carefully. Trust me, this really is a question that is absolutely vital to your contention that the Tasmanian Aborigines are oppressed and fighting for their freedom. How many Tasmanian Aboriginies are...

Who knows, Fubar, I might be surprised. Tell me - for this small detail slips my mind at this present moment - just how many Tasmanian Aboriginies are there alltogether? As of, oh, say, the end of the century just finished.

Matter of fact I have, Fubar. Tell me, how many Tasmanian Aboriginies are out there roaming the streets fighting for freedom this year?

Tea seems to be having a little difficulty accessing the net today guys. Mercutio, are you sure that Xupiter.com was the right answer for her? She's up in a tree at the moment and won't come down for anything - not bananas, not chocolate, not even gin. I think something must have gone a...

Fubar, sorry, but you haven't got the slightest idea of what you are taliking about. Who are these "freedom fighters" you mention?

I shouldn't think so, Howell. If the national polls are anything to go by - and they do look kosher, they all agree to within a few percent - we are smack bang in the middle of the mainstream. All the other towns in Oz are saying and thinking the same things. Committed? Hoolie Doolie! Australia...

OS/2 systems: mostly only for upgrades or power failures. Once every few months I do something stupid and if it seems a bit weird I reboot anyway. Windows 2000 system: ditto, only it needs rebooting a little more often, once every few weeks, maybe. Windows NT 4.0 system: about the same as...

By the way, the latest national figures are: 24% support Australian participation in a US attack without UN approval. 67% support Australian articipation in an attack with UN approval.

As you must all know by now, Australia is one of only three countries commited to war on Iraq (alongside the United States and Britain). As you probably also all know by now, my particular part of the country is a small rural town of about 90,000 people. Country towns in general are known for...

Coug: great posts!

George S. Patton had a genius for two things: (a) war, and (b) saying extremely unkind things about everyone except himself. Remarkably like a certain arch-rival known as Monty, in fact. Still, we should remember that the French have also, from time to time, been magnificent soldiers. The...

Soverign Hill is 2 blocks from my place. Soverign Hill is on one side of the creek, the hill on the other side of the creek is called Red Hill.

Huh????? What a ridiculous thing to say! What on earth has 911 got to do with Iraq?

I know exactly how you feel, Merc. I guess my question is, what am I going to do with those drives? I have to spin them up from time to time, otherwise they will freeze up in me, and I have plenty of machines that only need a couple of GB to boot off and access the network from, but they are too...

Sob. I pulled the pin on my glorious collection of early model SCSI drives today. Seagate Cheetah 1. 4.5GB. 10,033 RPM. The first 10,000 RPM drive ever made. Cost me $2500. Close to six years, 24 x 7, been in my home system, the accounts server, the technical server, and finally banished to...

The appeasement argument cuts both ways, but the back of the knife is much sharper. Let's consider Iraq under Saddam, Germany under Hitler, and the USA under Bush, and see what similarities we can draw. Germany was the most powerful military nation on earth. The USA is the most powerful...

Ahh, I'm not sure how many drives a year, Jan. Quite a few. I probably calculated it here somewhere once. Enough to keep both of us full-timers in the luxuries we crave, and a little left over to pay the part timers too. That's all we do: sell hardware, so I guess it adds up to quite a number...

Sorry Jan, but that's quite untrue. I keep reasonably careful track of our RMA numbers and (of course) I know how many drives I've bought. When you do the numbers (as I have done in print here and at SR), the Samsungs are so far in front of WD and Seagate that they are not even worth comparing.

The retail ones, CK, were just what you'd expect: the usual lush MSI packaging, all the trimmings. The OEM ones, which were billed as being exactly the same, came in an anti-static bag with (I think - it's a long time ago now, long enough for the two year warranty to have run out) just a manual...

I think she means I get the ZiZ ones mixed up. Not enough scotch.

(Tea, did you proof-read that post?) (Nope. You can if you want to.) (You lazy thing!) (Yup. If you're getting up, put the kettle on, will you.?