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You should be in Ballarat, Tim. I have perhaps a couple of dozen books about Napoleon. I'm afraid that it's been a fair while since I read one - I tend to pick up on a subject and read several books about it one after the other, or sometimes all at once, then leave it for a few years and pass on...

What about Clocker the Clueless?

Hoolie Doolie! A genuine moderation event! (Excuse me, I don't think I'm supposed to say "hoolie doolie". Doesn't provide an appropriate level of gravitas. I must have picked it up from Tea.) Back in my guitar playing, band-leading days, I used to always say that the secret to recognising a...

Thanks Tim. That would be convienient but illegal. I don't want to pirate the retail version (which is what that would be doing), just make the stupid damn OEM version work. I'll save that route for a last resort.

Just testing my new sig. Guess this thread is as good as any.

I did think about it. :)

Can anyone help me with a copy of Nero or Easy CD Cremator to suit a Sony 24X burner? I'm not asking for wares here, I have any number of spare physical copies of Nero, CD Cremator and NTI CD Maker, and will ship the drive with whichever one of these is appropriate. Trouble is, the damn OEM...

I only used Shuttle boards for a short while. Maybe 100 of them at most. Mostly we had their TX board which for us (contrary to Mercutio's horrorshow experience) was excellent. Indeed, it was the only TX board I ever liked. (Horrible damn things, on the whole, TX boards were.) Then we went to...

I do. But I'm old. I actually remember the day we introduced the metric system: 1st February 1966. It was my first day at school in Victoria. No no - that was decimal currency. We went metric a little later, about 1973 or '75 or so. So the young ones are all centimetric, while the old relics...

Your main point is good, Fushigi, but in there you seem to have fallen for one of the biggest marketing lies the industry has seen in recent years. The line that Maxtor, WD, et al are "aligning the warranties with the rest of the box it's likely to come in" is a pure, simple lie: repeat lie put...

Hostility? Mmmm.... I think "disgust" might be a more accurate term, or "disdain", though that seems a little mild. And quite so: my initial semi-positive comments (as you can see, despite their appalling history I was willing to give them another chance to show that they had joined the ranks of...

Sales figures mean nothing Coug. Utter crap such as all too many ECS products sells like crazy! Look at their famous fake cache 486 board: that was easily the best-selling motherboard in the country. Why? Because it was ultra-cheap, and every country has a huge popularion of poor, dumb suckers...

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Tea is right. Some of my posts I can't read in five minutes, let alone two. And I'm on cable.

You are welcome to anything at www.redhill.net.au Blakewry.

Dear Redhill. I am a student at Bungay High School, and I am currently writing a project on the physics of hard drives. I have found your site very helpful in telling me how they have developed over the years, but I was wondering if you could please explain to me, or direct me to someone who...

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Is there one to change the delay between posting and re-viewing the thread? I am talking about the page that pops up saying "you have posted sucessfully, click here to return to the forum" or something like that. In fact, it would be better if it wasn't there at all, just took you straight back...

Pradeep, the removal tool was only made available on Friday, by which time we had a long queue of machines waiting. Prior to that, no. From Symantec's page: "It retrieves the current user's email address and SMTP server from the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet...

Ahh, but that's just the point, Jake. Outlook is infectious. Outlook users are far and away the Number One cause of other people getting infected. Look at the major virus problems of the last year or two: The Love Bug, Love Bug II, Melissa, Bugbear, a couple of others I forget. All of these were...

Fair enough, Jake. But I don't see why I should stop smoking. If other people get cancer, that's their problem. I am in perfect health. If I were to die of lung cancer, well that would be different of course and I would stop smoking immediately.

I think you've got three choices, James. Buy now: best value. KT-333 board (any decent brand), Athlon XP 2000, Sparkle Gforce III Ti200 64MB. The boards are getting very cheap now, the XP 2000 is cheap too, and the Sparkle Gforce III is a lay-down knockout. Current buy prices (wholesale...

Does this mean that there has been a reallocation of roles then? The Chairman's role and the President's role were both explicitly defined early this year, and they were completely seperate and distinct roles. I should hasten to add that I'm not objecting to anything in particular here, just...

I'm confused. OLD OFFICE-HOLDERS: President: P5 Chairman: Tannin Then James replaced me, which left us with: President: P5 Chairman: James So what's the new arrangement?

Some people just refuse to learn. You astonish me Jake. Outlook is responsible for around 70% of all virus infections, and people still use it! I guess you think smoking is good for you! Though, if we do the numbers, we discover that only about half of the world's smokers die of smoking-related...

That is the most ridiculous, downright crazy thing I have ever heard. Oh, I don't doubt that you personally have not had a problem yet but you have just been very, very lucky, Jake. This week alone we have beeen deluged with unwanted extra work. Bugbear is everywhere. And every single Bugbear...

Yes, I can see that. Otherwise the carton would not have distorted like that. I wouldn't especially blame UPS - it's been battered but that's not too unusual. The real problem is that those mail-order morons have: (a) Used a thin, soft cardboard box; one not suitable for shipping a hard drive...

We do have broadband, but we could do that on dial-up, no problem. Tea and I have seperate browsers, you see. Me being the senior party, I get first choice, which is why I'm posting this in Opera and it's set to log me in automaticaly. (Hmm ... pity it doesn't spell me automatical .... er .. do...

Maybe. But at least I check my posts for typos before I submit them.

No. Sorry Buck. Too busy to think. I have work to do.

Exactly, Tim. I chose the mower dealer using a very simple and effective method. Last month the throttle handle on Belinda's mower broke. I managed to find an old mower with a working throttle lying out in the paddock and butchered that into service as a temporary fix. (As the great Murphy...

I'll pay for the drinks, Bartender. I seem to be paying for everything else this week. :(

No, standard 10% tax, just a Honda. Honda seem to think that they make the best mowers and mower engines you can buy, and charge accordingly. Unfortunately, they are right. I could have bought a similar-spec Briggs and Stratton powered one for maybe three or four hundred dollars less, but...

Damn it you monkey! What happened to "all of the above"?

Tea, Buck knows that there are lots and lots of email clients, all of which are more secure than Outlook. ("More secure than Outlook? As the Grammar Police would say, that's like being more visually talented than Ray Charles. Whatever.) What he wanted to know whas which one is the best? I'd...

Ha! That's a funny thing, Doug. A year or so ago, we were called in by one of our "semi-trade" customers because he couldn't sort his client's problem. They were a raceway place. I can't remember if it was model cars or go-karts - doesn't matter, because either way they needed a program to do...

Entirely my own idea, Time. It's just horrible enough to be plausible.

.com. So it was. I have become so used to .exe executables that I had almost forgotten the .com extension. And yet, back in those days, I always found the .exe extension a little weird, as I'd spent years programming in CPM, where everything is a .com. .exe was a weirdo MS-DOS thing.

Not being the all-things-sweetness-and-light-all-round-nice-guy that Time is, I have my doubts about this. Hey, if you are suddenly not bothering to provide two-thirds of your normal warranty service anymore, what do you need a large stock of spare parts for? Or, conversely, if you have just...

Insofar as they ever had it, yes.

No photos I'm afraid. I lent my camera to Belinda three weeks ago and don't really expect to get it back anytime soon. :( Well, I got the heater today - earlier than expected. And - wonder of wonders - I got hold of my old mate Andy, who is an excellent plumber. He's working for a big company...

But so far as large cities go, I guess Melbourne is tolerable. Nowhere near as nice as several others round the country, but tolerable. Of the cities I know well enough to comment on, I'd rate them, best to worst, like this: Brisbane Hobart Adelaide Melbourne Sydney Gold Coast (I've never been...

I lived in Alice Springs for two years. I don't remember it in the slightest. Possibly this has to do with the fact that the years in question were 1964 and 1965. I was four. Except for six months or so at either end when I was three and then five.

Thermostat? Actually the mower is part of a conspiracy. Tea and The Grammar Police and I take turns visiting Belinda (Kristi's mum). Among other things we do over there, we quite often mow her grass. She's on seven acres, about three or four acres needs regular mowing. (For some reason the...

Monday was a superb day. I took it off to deal with a number of long-put-off urgent domestic tasks, not least buying a new lawn mower. I figured that it was time I stopped messing about with cheapskate solutions and went straight to the heavy-duty quality, a Honda HRU 215SP: 5 horse motor...

You will be pleased to see, Slo, that my picture in the "what do we all look like" thread, features me wearing a 100% pure hemp tee-shirt. :) http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=781&start=265 Unfortunately, the ironing lets me down a little. :(

I lived in Melbourne for ten years. I don't miss it in the slightest.

Nice to see that you are carrying on the grand tradition, James. ;) You know, that's exactly the way I used to do it. PS: I thought Mark was the President and you were the Chairman? Whatever. Either way you'll get no complaints from me. (Tea, of course, is a different matter. She bites, you know.)

The proof is in the pudding, it seems. Don't be decieved by her pretty face and charming manner, Tea is a terrible liar. She does it rather subtly, in fact. Did you notice the way that she readily conceeded that genus homo (chimps, bonobos and humans) are natural liars in order to more...

IDE: Integrated Development environment. This, when it first arrived back in, oh, maybe 1980 or so, was a huge advance. With an IDE you can edit, compile, run, debug - all without leaving your friendly front-end. It mightn't sound much these days - indeed, it's something we take foregranted -...