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I love it! :roll:

In a word, no. In another word, yes. :wink: :( I habitually have quite a lot of Opera windows open. (I don't tabbed-brower-window in Opera, but use seperate windows - habit, don't ask me why.) Opera crashes at infrequent intervals - maybe once every couple of days on average, and almost...

Well, I finally managed to crash Mozilla 1.2a. Useless bloody program. It just lost the plot completely, got slower and slower and, eventually, refused to refresh my screen. In the end I had to close it with the task manager. Mind you, I was asking rather a lot of it. Errr ... a very large...

Coug's comment is spot on, CityK. I can tell you that here in Oz, Samsung warranty replacements are prompt, and they give me new drives, not refurbished stuff. (Not that I can claim extensive experience here, I've only had a very small number of failures - there is a thread called "boring...

But that was last week, Tea. Now I only have one. Broke the other one on a Jehovah's Witness.

I mean tooth.

Sometimes I show them my tooth. :mrgrn:

Kristi is at home on holidays, therefor her Athlon 1800 is running most of the time. I am at home on holidays, therefore my K6-III is switched off most of the time. Sol ... well, he's just Sol. Sigh.

My pleasure, Greg. Have a good one, my friend. :)

And the compliments of the season to all from us! I spent one of my better Xmases yesterday: read quite a lot, played on the web, did some plumbing to alter my shower outflow so that it waters the roses (there is a severe drought on here, remember), read some more, went to Belinda's to water...

I'd count it as an in-service failure. But then, I'm a hard man to please. Ask anyone. :) Cliptin: great crunchin!

Nope.

Not racy enough to bother switching images on for, Merc. At least not so far as I saw. The text promises a good deal more than the pictures deliver.

Not a chance. I'm sticking to the history because (a) it holds more interest for me, (b) it saves a lot of fiddling about with benchmarking and stuff, and (c) at least you can write something and just leave it in place, instead of having to come back and update the damn thing every three weeks! :)

I confess to being a little scared of in-the-flesh meetings. I can just imagine spending an hour with .... well, most any of you but let's pick Mercutio, because he's the most senior member ... and at the end of it - Mercutio walks away, shaking his head and saying: That Tannin isn't half the...

Well, yes, I do have a perspective on this, but I'm not sure that I feel like devoting the time and effort it would take to do it justice. Perhaps another day.

Indeed a wonderful contribution to this place. Well posted Mercutio, and may your presence here continue for many more of them.

The second part of the article has a distinct flavour of urban legend hanging about it. I am inclined to suspect that it is fantasy. But it's a damn nice fantasy, and I choose to believe it anyway.

Good link James. Thankyou. Let me summarise it with Dan's thoughts, edited more than slightly for length. That's pretty much the way that I feel about it too.

I finally got back to looking at the front page again today and, Doug, that is looking great. Excellent balance, very clear. I think a glass of scotch is in order. Bartender!

I finally got back to looking at the front page again today and, Doug, that is looking great. Excellent balance, very clear. I think a glass of scotch is in order. Bartender!

Excuse cross post, but this gem that Handruin slipped onto the front page news is just too good not to pick up on. (From Ars Technica.) I love it!

I emailed Palladine an hour or two ago, more in hope than expectation. To my surprise they replied right away, telling me that: In general I regard email support as unlikely to produce much of value, but in this case the fast response was great. (Nice to be in the same time zone as the...

It's one of the tedious smaller-than-ATX forms, Buck, probably Flex or Micro. (Aside from situations like this, I neither know nor care about the damn things - they are all pox. A big case is a good case. Except in the case where a small case is a good case, of course.) But I daresay it's Flex...

I don't think so. Standard ATX measures 150 X 140 X 86mm, this one is 150 X 100 X 86. I've seen this size before from time to time, I think Compaq used to use them in their K6/2 mini-tower systems (and possibly still do). According to the ever-excellent PC Guide (which your slightly different...

Thanks Cliptin. I've been to formfactors.org already, and the site is useless for this sort of purpose. They have a goodly number of PDF downloads and they turn out to be full of arcane stuff about electrical interference specification for the EEC and precise distances between the screw holes...

Anyone know anything about smaller than standard ATX power supplies? I have a machine I need to replace the PSU in, that (curse it!) takes a more-or-less normal ATX PSU except that it is only 100mm deep instead of the standard 150mm. (I think a number of the vomit box makers use these too.)...

Is there a significance to your new avatar, Cliptin?

More drives to add to my RMA list: Western Digital 7200 RPM 60GB BB (bad sectors) Samsung 5400 60GB SV6003H (bad sectors) Seagate 8.4GB U8 (hissing noise, does not detect two boots out of three) ALREADY REPLACED AT LEAST ONCE Seagate U10 10GB (does not detect) Also three drives not sold new by...

Also, we should note that having a fancy new German title does not absolve one from the duty of checking one's post for gibberish. You are supposed to be doing time behind bars, GP. Tea? What did you let him out for? (Sorry, Tannin. I screwed up.) (Here. You better give me the key. You can't...

Also (to add a little to Mercutio's answer), I'm sure that the last thing the motherboard manufucturers need would be to be forced to (in effect) participate in the RAM price sweepstakes. A manufacturer has to hold stocks of all components, and holding stocks of RAM is a scary business. The damn...

They used to. Really, really crappy ones in the awesomely regurgitative tradition of Amstead, Olivetti, Triumph-Adler and Commodore - to name but a few of the dry-heave vomit box makers of the distant past when the likes of Compaq and Hewlet-Packard were actually regarded as relatively good...

With a vast lack of experience in this area, I must admit to being pleasantly surprised at the ease of use my Promise ATA-100 cards have provided. I only ever use them for very basic stuff - essentially plugging lots of different drives into when I want to partition, erase, or test, but they...

There was a picture I found searching for "beach" and "cricket" on Google that was possibly more to your taste. Alas, the sporting clothing worn by the young lady in question was a little too ... er .. what do you call it when "brief" is gross understatement ... for posting in this place.

Of course, they would have to come up with a name for it, and market it effectively. Anyone for OS/3?

Ahh, I see. Or rather, Tea (IE 5.0) and The Grammer Police (Moz 1.2) can see, but I (Opera 6.03) can't.

I think I saw that already. You mean the blue highlight? That's what I meant when I carelessly said "bigger". I like it: catches the eye - which is exactly what it should do. (Tannin wanders off, hoping that The Grammer Police doesn't catch him and punish him for careless posting.)

About as much faith as I have in the SR DRS, Bill. Which is to say not very much. I should repeat my usual disclaimer here: I don't think the SR DRS is completely without value, and were there not a thousand methodologically clueless fanboys saying how wonderful a thing it is, I'd point out...

Front page link is bigger too. Excellent! (PS: front page link doesn't have Tea's problem.)

On trimming, Andrew, quite so. It is not just allowable to manually remove outliers, in most situations it is a requirement. (As you know, of course.)

Thanks Constantine, but I think I'd rather not read something that would put me in an awkward position. As a noted critic of the DRS methodology, I'd prefer not to be privy to private communications from supporters of it which I would be honour bound not to disclose. It would tie my hands, and...

We cross-posted. I'd be interested to read that, Prof, but it would be a clear breach of confidence for you to forward it to me without permision. If SR really had a valid sampling methodology, I should have thought that they would have been only too keen to publish it, so as to deflect the...

I confess to having absolutely no idea why an otherwise intelligent person like you would say that, Prof. I daresay I could think of even less random and more self-selecting samples if I put my mind to it, but it wouldn't be easy. The first thing you must do when choosing a sample is determine...

I don't see a problem there. The question, I guess, is would the cost be justifiable for IBM? And also, now that I come to think of it, time to market. IBM are absolutely brilliant at producing great, superbly engineered software of design spec A about two years after the need for A has...

Lapdog Aberdeen is barking to the sound of his master's voice once again, it seems.

Seeing as it appears that there is likely to be no progress on the need for a bigger, clearer link to the forums from the front page - this is a matter that has been raised again and again but little ever seems to get done - what about an alternative that could help at least a little: either...

Not so far. shhhh!

And another thing: "enough of a particular model" - what hocus-pocus nonsense. There is no such thing as a sufficient quantity of sample when the quality of sample is nonexistant. Psudo-science, pure and simple.

If you don't understand the fundamental absurdity of trying to derive percentage reliability numbers from non-random, self-selecting sample data Prof, you have not 'followed my arguments'.