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Three small problems here: (a) I don't watch TV more than perhaps an hour in a month or two. (b) It's Australian TV. (c) It's almost invariably either ABC or SBS, neither of which have ads. (Well, SBS gets close these days, since Howard buggered it up, but I tune out anyway.) All in all, I'm no...

You know, all my anti-gun ranting notwithstanding, I have to feel sorry for the poor bastards. I mean ... one minute it's bang! bang! The next minute, it's ...... ohhhhh shiiiiiiit....

Yup: 70% figure, source: Jake the Dog. :) Because guns are rare in Oz, Mr Giver, offences such as discharging them in a public place or carying a gun as a concealed weapon are, thankfully, also rather rare. And even if they were not, the point is irrelevant: both are serious crimes. One causes...

Traitor!

Cancel my correction: Amongst many other virtues too numerous to mention, EditPlus does the multi-line thing just fine. I mean who's recommendation would you rather follow? Doug's? Or mine?

I just read your query a little more carefully. I thought you said 2 lines of text in 40 files. Not sure what the limit is. When I get home I'll try it out and let you know.

EditPlus can do this. Fat, cheap, stable, lots of features, no bullshit, 30 day shareware, doesn't time out just nags if you exceed the 30 days. I love it. (And yes, I did pay the US$30.)

Jake made the very telling point that "of all the hand gun crimes commited in Australia, 70% of the people committing these crimes are registered handgun owners". This really needs no further comment: in and of itself it is compelling. However, just to add a little salt to it, we should also...

... about my new sig. General Marie Victor Nicolas de Fay Latour-Maubourg served under Napoleon in many parts of Europe, from Spain to Russia. Rewnowned for his aristocratic manner, his bravery, and his tactical acumen, he lost his leg to a cannon ball at the Battle of Lepzig in 1813 but...

Thanks, Time, that's a very interesting set of numbers and mini-review. It does nothing but confirm my desire to keep on selling Epson inkjets and not bother selling any other brand. But in truth, I would need three bishops swearing on a stack of glossy six by fours that, yes, the Epsons really...

Fart gas out of pennies? That's interesting. We always used to make it out of beer. Or sometimes Mexican pizza.

Whhoah there! You need hundreds of acres to make a living off the land, thousands of acres if all you are doing is running cattle. In Europe or the USA, where the soil is young and rich and deep, and the rainfall more reliable, maybe it's possible to have just 20 acres and make a living off it...

Thankyou all for your views, your suggestions, and your care. This is a wonderful little community. Just a couple of points to underline - I think they are all outlined above, but I'll mention them again. First, Ida should indeed not have been on his land, but two other factors need to be taken...

mon·key n. pl. mon·keys Any of various long-tailed, medium-sized members of the order Primates, including the macaques, baboons, guenons, capuchins, marmosets, and tamarins and excluding the anthropoid apes and the prosimians.

I think what Tea meant to say was "Congratulations, Jake, that is an excellent achievement and I wish you the very best, sir!"

Me too.

Predators? This is Australia, Mark. There has not been a cattle-sized predator in Australia for 53,000 years.

Quite right, Doug. There have been difficulties between the surrounding propery owners and this scumbag ever since he moved in, years ago. Belinda is closest to him and gets the brunt of the problems. I'm not sure in what manner he denied it: that question was put to him by the police. I have no...

I thought I got to make the decisions around here? Oh well. Another weekend job for Tannin. At least I'll get to fix a couple of minor errors.

Yike! I see what you mean! Yours is a creative and worthy solution, sir. :)

I'm afraid that I could only think of two words that rhymed with "The Giver", Bill, so from there it was purely a matter of trying to figure how on earth I could take "river", "Giver", and "liver" and make some vaguely logical connection between them. Your handle does not leave much room for the...

Just have to say something about this one. A few weeks ago, I started playing indoor cricket again. I gave it away maybe six months back after I got tired of buggering up my hands with injuries. I'm no natural sportsman, but if you do anything for long enough you gradually get better at it, and...

Thanks, Pradeep. I searched and searched for the relevant laws, and consulted several policemen friemds too, but there seems to be no specific rule under Victoria law. It may well have contravened the rule we do have that you cannot discharge a firearm if there is any chance of the projectile...

Jake: indeed. When I saw Ida for the first time yesterday since the shooting a couple of weeks ago, she was the same sweet, loving creature she has always been. It took her a lot longer to hobble up to the fence to greet me than it used to, and I could see that she was still in pain, but she was...

My friend lives on seven acres. She has a wonderful native garden, including a number of rare species that she has nurtured, and it is alive with birds. She lives alone, survives on her slender savings, is rather frail and over 50, and her only company most days is her two dogs, Max and Ida...

I'd rather eat brains and fried liver or break down and cry like a river than ever admit to liking one bit that horrible man called The Giver

It had occurred to me, because of his extreme right-wing views and willingness to post at length (the word I originally had in mind was actually "lunacy" - however in deference to a civilised tone I decided go with "views") ... it had occurred to me that he was an alias for The Giver. But on a...

August? My birthday is in August, you idiot! Much better to leave out all the Fridays, and if there are any days left over, have extra Saturdays.

No Buck. I presume that they are yet another of the PC Chips brands? (Azza, I mean.) Is there anything in particular to distinguish them from all the others?

Conceivable, yes. Rational, fair, or reasonable in the context of this particular example, most certainly not. A classic bit of self-serving humbug. Oh, and a note for the Thought Police: if I wanted to be derogatory about Shrub, give me credit for having the imagination to think up something a...

Cake?

Re: Aha!!! Ahh, the passage of time is a wonderous thing, Skeet. Who would have imagined that you, of all people, would find yourself in Blighty with a wife and (dare I say it?) children? Certainly not me. Time leaves its indelible mark on most things, even Bone (who is more often known as...

It will come as no surprise to you to discover that I am not surprised on either count. ECS is ... well, let's make it my "be nice to Cougtek day" and just say that ECS are often very good at living up to the finest traditions of the company. The frustrating inconsistent bugs are what get you...

Good point, Bozo. It works the other way, too. Bar the giants, most suppliers are more comfortable with working with a moderate number of systems at any one tme. Better a steady flow than a single massive batch. And this way, you can make sure that you are happy with the quality and service of...

There are quite a few specialised cache testing packages around, many of them available for download, but I'd just use a good old-fashioned brute-force method. Find a benchmark utility that measures CPU speed (it really doesn't need to be anything fancy) and compare your system with a similar...

Oh, and using it to reset an AMI BIOS to the factory defaults during POST doesn't count.

A spin-off from my keyboard thread. I mean to ask what do you regularly use this key for, not "what have you once-in-a-blue-moon used it for".

Lycoris sounds good to me. I'm looking forward to trying it out. Also, in the semi-relevant department, I stumbled across this Register article the other day. It promises to finally fix what is, in my view, by far the worst problem with Linux: those appalling on-screen fonts. If it hadn't been...

Funny you should ask that at this particular moment, Will. Having had my attention redirected to this thread by your ridiculous RMA story (the facts being ridiculous, I mean, not your recounting of them), I though that a direct link would be handy and went looking for one, to no avail. I suspect...

Constantine has quietly slipped over the 1000-post mark. it seems. It's good to see my old friend of the small, small hours pass into the three-figure class, and I trust that his next 1000 posts will, like his first 1000 posts, be a lively mix of information, misinformation, opinion both plain...

Indeed: a well-crafted and very informative post. Thankyou!

http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=6199#64879

To possibilities occur to me, BW. One is htt your existing BIOS is corrupt or the chip is damaged, or there is a malfunction in the main board. It's not uncommon to be unable to flash a BIOS, and to get that exact error message. Second possibility is that they have substituted some different...

.NET Passport? Is that another word for spyware scum, Buck? Or did I miss something?

You did not read Tea's ode of thanks for the TNT-2 M64 over at Storage Review then, Mercutio?

Interesting comments, gentlemen, but in the main off-topic. (Perhaps I neglected to set out what I had in mind clearly - I was at work and feeling hurried.) My issue is not with keyboard gross layout (ergo, straight, banana-shaped, whatever), nor with the niceties of keyswitches and feel. It's...

That's exactly how it works. They are scum.

Whoops: stance #3 (unilaterial action) is also borderline extreme.

In the end, of course, the precise point at which one draws a line in the sand and says "beyond that line is extreme, this side of the line is not extreme" is less a matter for debate than it is a matter for the individual's judgement. Nevertheless, I found your last post persuasive. ("Pro-war...

No-one is suggesting that James or any other member is breaking forum rules, Mr Giver, and it is mischevious of you to imply as much. You've made a ridiculous case, been duly and properly embarrassed when it came to light that you yourself frequently break your own suddenly invented "rule", and...