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Whoever said the pox-ridden ECS SiS thing was a good board? It wasn't me, that is for 110% certain! OK, I tried just a single pair of them, but both were horribly unstable and unsalable, and in neither case was the manufacturer prepared to provide warranty service. I got rid of the second one...

VIA doesn't have a bad reputation (except among the ignorant), so no, I'm not saying that. Sure, there were bad boards, but that's probably true of every chipset ever made. The vast majority have been good, and many have been truly excellent. And don't even get me started on those ultra-crap...

Well, if you call having five boards and having to replace all five of them on RMA, one by one (or possibly it was 4 of them and one of them twice), and then having to replace three or four of the replacements as well, and having (I think) just one out of a total of about 12 or 14 boards...

The SE is supposed to have slightly lower specs. So far as I know, it isn't supposed to be SDRAM based. I think that's just a particular manufacturer's cheapskate ways. But I better look into it and make sure! We have quite a few SEs in stock: if they are using SDRAM I'm going to be calling a...

Generally speaking, CityK, if we sel;l it, we service it. The only exceptions are products that have weirdo warranty systems - most notably printers, which require the customer to deal direct with the manufacturer or service agent. Your Holiness, I'd just swap a fan in. Takes five minutes...

Funny that. My machines all run Matrox video adaptors. Either that or Matrox. Or some of them have Matrox cards. Maybe that's my problem - running the ATI Catalyst Windows drivers on my Matrox cards. Damn fine operating system, OS/2 - I have 16.7 million colours at 1280 x 1024 and it seems that...

Forgot to mention. Has anyone had consistently bad experiences with TNTs? Yes! Me! But this was way, way back. Back when the Vodoo III was king and everything was 333MHz Socket 7 and the TNT-2 was the latest and greatest pile of turd ever. They were bad in a VIA or Intel board, absolutely...

Eeek! For some reason, when I try to log on to Storage Forum, Mozilla locks solid! I'm posting this, God help me, with Netscape 4.6 because that's the only other browser I have on this machine. This TNT thing is a complete mystery to me, Mercutio. We have used hundreds and hundreds of them...

In a sense, that's exactly right. I hate it when customers come back with a computer under their arm because it doesn't work. Some brands and models of ATI-based card work just fine, once you get used to their driver weirdness. Other ones are an unmitigated disaster (as Kristi and I have seen...

You were on the right track first time, Mangy One. TNT M-64: utterly reliable, reasonably cheap, totally fuss-free. That's what we use them for too: entry-level and business machines. The Sparkles were great! I think we still have six or eight in stock, I haven't looked around to see what we are...

It's happening all over the world, Steve. Over here it's extreme heat, but changing the climate patterns does all sorts of odd things. For example, it's expected that a sustained 2 to 4 degrees overall warming will more than likely shift the Gulf Stream, meaning that the United Kingdom will...

In my usual Fhillistinish way, I have a single criterion only for scanners: how much trouble do they cause (RA's, support phone calls, requests tyhat we reinstall the drivers, "it doesn't work"s because people pressed the wrong button, everything). If I hear absolutely nothing about a scanner...

20th of March? How silly. Should be 20th of August, of course. (Tannin - isn't that your birthday?) (Shhhh! Don't tell everyone!)

Tea, you're unusually erudite thismorning. What happened to your "Z" key?

So, Fushigi, what kind of apes are you running?

A VLB video card? What brand would you like, LiamC? I should be able to supply you with your choice of Trident, Tseng, Cirrus Logic, Avance, Realtek, or best of all, one of those wonderful old Western Digitals. If you are really stupid enough to want to do it, I'll even pay for the postage. :)...

A small aircraft develops a major problem. There seems no doubt that it will crash. There are five passengers, but only four parachutes. The first passenger says: "My name is Bob Dylan. I'm a singer and I have fans all over the world who would be hearbroken if I died. For the sake of my fans, I...

A very interesting idea, JTR. I think you'd have to go SCSI though, as I doubt that XP would fit onto the 512MB hard drive that pre-LBA motherboards are limited to. Well, you could always try the slEasy-BIOS or Disk Mangler methods, which given the stupidity of running XP on a DX-40 would be...

When I'm stuck and unsure of what is a fair thing, I do this: First, I think charging the full whack. ($400, let's say.) This pleases the accountant in me, but makes me feel guilty about sticking the poor end-user for a large sum. Next, I think about not charging at all for it (or, depending...

I wouldn't charge for the four hours, not unless it was on-site and I couldn't do anything else while it ran. But I would charge the normal rates for everything else, and then add a premium for (a) having the appropriate tools to hand, which cost me a lot of money, and (b) having the nous to...

And also, it helps keep demand for the part low while the early yields are low, so that they get a chance to ramp up production before they cut the price and everybody wants to buy one. It's bad PR, not being able to meet your orders. Intel do the same. They are not stupid.

(Stupid ape.) I think it's a great idea. Links vs seperate section - I don't care. I'm in favour of it either way. (Um .... But I don't think we should let just anyone in - only humans, dogs, cats and fish. Oh, and vampires, of course. Not to mention automobiles and dolphins.)

Jake wouldn't drive a Ford, you fool. Undoubtedly a Chevvy.

Amen to that, Time. But you know what really bugs me? It's the $15 million dollars worth of wasted PR bullshit in my letter box, when the money could have been spent doing something relatively useful, like putting new carpet in the Parliament House Bar, or (more to the point) upgrading some NSW...

My experience with Intuit is entirely positive. My eight-year-old copy of Quicken 7 for DOS works perfectly, and has accounted flawlessly for quite a few millions of dollars over the years. (Unfortunately, I seem to have spent the majority of them. Can't blame Intuit for that, though - it's...

My stupid litte simian friend didn't even read the list. She just scanned down from top to middle, looking for "Microsoft" and immediately ticked it. In other words, she didn't even see the "and why do we even need to ask" category. But, as luck would have it, I think she got it right. There...

It's a sad day for America, for India, for Israel, and the world. Just the same, I am pleased to see that President Bush has already said the space program will go on. That shows spirit. Good people died in the course of developing a way to cross the oceans, and this made America as we know it...

Sivar is one of the good guys. Congrats to SR and to Sivar.

Well, just so long as I'm ahead of LiamC, that's the main thing.

Schotsch?

No fair! I use Mozilla (mostly) but Tea got in first!

Ignore her. She incoherent becoming iz Fridays effect possibly this on us of most.

Let's just think about that "provides thousands of jobs" claim for a moment, shall we? Now we can stipulate a few obvious facts, and reason from there. (i) Telemarketers are private enterprises. Not being AOL, they don't do things that don't make them a profit, at least not for longer than it...

I have something at the office that should do the trick, I think. It's something I hacked from something else to create backups named for the day they were created, but I think it could be hacked once again to do what you want. I'll take a look at it in the morning.

New laws for the regulation of the computer component design industry as handed down yesterday by His Imperial Majesty the Tsar Tannin Connector standards: (i) A designer may allign all motherboard connectors in whichever direction he prefers. However, they must all be alligned toward the...

According to the official Bureau of Meterology figures, today it hit 44.1, making it the second-hottest day ever recorded in Melbourne - second only to Black Friday - Friday 13th January 1939, when the official temperature in Melbourne hit 45.6. In Adelaide it got to 47.6 on Black Friday- that's...

I wonder if I should have done that?

Given the nature of the images (seriously gross), I think it might be better if that link was moderated - not to remove it, just to make it more than a simple matter of one-click, then retch.

Interesting news, Clocker. I know tht Panasonic pulled out awhile back. LCD sales are taking off, yes, but they still only account for a tiny proportion of the market at present. One might reason that Panasonic and Sony know what they are doing, but then Panasonic pulled out of CD-ROM drive...

Remind me not to run out of gin again. She gets quite difficult to handle if I don't let her have her usual gin and banana before before bed. Sorry about that, JTR. The letters, by the way, don't seem to have any particular significance. I think she just likes lists of things. I think James...

As Fugshui says, PCL can be used as a poor man's Postscript. In my office I do exactly as he suggests - load a Laserjet 4 driver and then plug any PCL printer I like in, without bothering to adjust anything. I've had 5ls, 6ls, an Epson, a Xerox and a Kyocera, never adjusted the drivers in all...

I like the Mitsubushi 52X, Newtun, though I haven't compared it to very many others lately. We used to be a Panasonic shop, for CD, DVD, CDR and FDD, but only stock the FDDs now, because about a year or 18 months ago their quality fell in a big, black hole. I guess we replaced around 20 or 25...

Hmmmph. Why pay to watch it on TV when I have the real thing right here at home?

We ship systems as standard with a Lite-On 48X burner. A CD-ROM drive is an optional extra, ditto with a DVD. (Or whatever combination the customer wants.) About one customer in 10 asks for a DVD drive. As we work our way through the order form, deciding what CPU option to have and if they need...

And then there is h2g2. PS: who says I don't come here anymore? The difference between you, Tea, and me, is that I talk when I have something to say. You just talk.

I slip over there every now and then to post a bit, and at least glance at the thread listing more days than not, but I seem to go in phases - on for a month or so, off for another month or so. Lately, the "off" phases seem to be getting gradually longer. It does seem to me that the standard of...

OK, I'm trespassing on Clocker's specialty here, but I can see two huge problems with the electric motor-wheel. 1: The Holy Grail of suspension engineering is to have the maximum possible ratio of sprung to unsprung weight. The more weight you put into the wheels (or anything attached to them)...

There was indeed such a vechicle (ztupid word, I never can spell it even when I try it Tea-ztyle) ... er .. such a car not so long ago. It was a Caddy, I think, or one of the big GM models at any rate, and it came out not too long after the oil shocks in the early Seventies, as part of Detroit's...

Please note that anti-static bags are not, generally speaking, made of jute; nor do they normally contain an assortment of antique computer storage devices of doubtful provenence.

Nonsense. Tea has made 1678 sopyt, where I have only made 1447. :)