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Sounds very likely, Mark. It's the sort of thing that goes in great big international fashion crazes. Privatisation of infrastructure resources like power and water was another one. The craze starts off somewhere and a whole lot of other countries follow it because it's fashionable. After five...

I played cricket again this week and, after another successful evening (we came second), retired to the bar for a quiet one. And there unfolded a story that had me in stitches. This ain't a joke, it's a true story - but you'd never know it if I didn't tell you. Albie is on of the guys on the...

Mercutio, you really must learn to relax a little more when you are flying. Above all, when you are coming in for a landing, stop holding your breath.

Grrrr... There are times when I wish I was the Tsar. After reading that little article you linked to, Time, I'd simply ask my Chamberlin to invite whoever the three most important people at Hewlett-Packard are to an intimate Imperial dinner. Once we had uttered the usual plattitudes, sampled the...

Speaking of Reality, does anyone knowher phone number? I can't seem to find it. (Tannin!) (OK, OK, I was just leaving. Keep your fur on.)

Same thread, same station: Just as a matter of interest, yesterday I got an RMA replacement from Western Digital of a Caviar AB 30GB. It was a refurb. (It has "refurbished" printed in light blue across the drive label.) This is the first time I have ever seen a WD RMA replacement that was...

http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?p=55466 4/9/02 We have not sold all that many Cuda IVs, 20 or 30 perhaps. Of those, we have had two in-service failures. This is not a promising indication, but it could just be bad luck, so I wouldn't race in and say "the Cuda IV is a bad drive"...

http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?p=55921 7/9/02 Given that several people have been kind enough to take my figures seriously, and seeing as I have just (a) said how important I think packing and handling is, and (b) described where our Samsung drives come from and how they are...

I wrote a fair bit on drive reliability the other week, and posted it at SR. The issues SR had with their server change were a powerful reminder to me that anything posted there could dissapear without warning, so I thought I'd better put them somewhere where I know that they are safe. Also...

Actually, Tea, I wouldn't be so sure about that. I wouldn't be in the slightest surprised to discover that Seagate have the exact same change already decided on, certainly for the U Series things. Mind you, it's Seagate that stand to save the largest sum of money: those ugly black things are...

The company that doesn't will get 100% of my business.

I wist I could write prescriptions. You, my dear, would very shortly be back on the Prozac.

Fpund it: New York Mets vs Boston Red Sox, 1986. I wonder if it's possible to get the series on video or DVD?

Tea seems to be making a numerical, as opposed to an aesthetic judgement, I think. :(

Nope. They are readily available at dealers though. Let's see if I can steal a little bandwidth ...

My great uncle Roland (my father's uncle) used to sign the banknotes for a while, when he was something-or-other at the Reserve Bank. He died when I was about 12. Funny that, why ain't I rich?

Woops! Nearly forgot: 2002: Collingwood play Brisbane in the Grand Final. At half time, they are 25 points up. Naturally, Brisbane go on to win by 9 points.

Names for coins: Old money: 0.25d farthing (dropped before I was born, I think) 0.5d: ha'penny, halfpenny 1d: penny 3d: thrippence (I used to get that much for my weekly pocket money!) 6d: sixpence, a deaner 12d, 1s: shilling 2s: florin 10s: ten-shilling (note) 20s, 1l: pound (note) 21s...

We use to have 1c and 2c coins. But they were utterly useless before too long, and I don't think anybody misses them. Just add up as normal and round up or down to the closest 5c. Only if you pay by cheque or plastic does the odd cent count. Maybe Coles miss them. (Coles = huge supermarket...

JFK: I just barely remember that. Something on the radio and everyone was shocked and solemn. I was four. The Apollo capsule fire: Heard about that at home, I think. Remember the shock and horror of it clearly. 1966 Grand Final: Collingwood lose to St Kilda by 1 point. Harold Holt (Oz PM)...

For some reason, unfamiliarity no doubt, people get a bit funny about handling largish amounts of cash - anything over $1000 or so. I don't mean the security side of it, they get embarrased about it, it's like they are buying naughty pictures or something. If you just sit there, count it, and...

These days here in Oz we have: Coins: 5c 10c 20c 50c $1 $2 Notes $5 $10 $20 $50 $100 That's it. Remember that our $100 is worth about US$50. Nobody misses the old 1c and 2c coins, and everybody likes the $1 and $2 coins. Brilliant little things: you chuck some loose change in a jar every now...

I understand that ICQ has some huge security holes. Is this one safer?

Ignore her, Coug. She has been a little odd all day. No head for medication. There are two answers to your question: 1: The vast majority of Australians would probably answer much as Tea just did. 2: Those few who draw their information about the world from the fast-dwindling remains of the...

Doubtless this is something you have already noticed, Time, but you have a wonderful daughter. She writes fluently, creatively, with wit and liveliness. The form that her message arrives in is excellent. She may well make a writer one day. She has the talent. She also has something to say...

One should never judge a book by its cover. I had seen that the "Movie Reviews" thread was active again and, not being much of a movie watcher, left it till last. (Like a child who eats all of the pumpkin first before reluctantly dealing with the peas and the broccoli, it is my habit to...

Ha! Some things never change.

(Let's throw out a surprise or two, shall we Tea?) (O.K. You are safe to post again now, are you? Or are you still too muddle-headed to be trusted with a keyboard?) (I'll manage. I think.) My first contribution to this thread was a pretty damning indictment of the US role in the...

Thanks guys. I'll see what I can organise for him. It's no big deal, it just bugs him to have random pages blocked.

Does it have a warranty?

"... to eat here, please." "Would you like fries with that order?" "I'm sorry?" "Would you like fries with that order, sir?" "Fries," I say - quite expressionless. "Yes, fries." "Fries?" "Yes sir." He points. "Would you like some fries with your burger?" "Fries? Fries? Fries?! Those are...

My brother lives in Bahrain. There is only one ISP in Bahrain, and they have a half-brained censorship system that comprehensively fails to filter out pr0n sites - it blocks some but not others - but does really dumb things like blocking perfectly innocuous sites at semi-random. For a while...

Thankyou for that kind and thoughtful post, Bill. I know that you and I shall never agree on these matters but, as so often, your restraint and your ability to see sense in views that are quite resolutely opposed to your own does you credit. This is just the rub: our media is not Australian...

Ghostwheeel over at SR linked to this. That pretty much puts it in a nutshell. Just imagine for one moment that this event had happened in Sydney. Would we be any different? Less crass? Less mawkish and exploitative? Alas, no. Hell, if I ever turned the TV on, I'd probably discover that, 10.000...

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. W. H. Auden

The Western World was directly responsible for the rise of USSR-style communism. By sending in our troops to invade the USSR in 1919, we made quite certain that the zenophobia and paranoia of the Russians - a not inconsiderable thing in the first place - would grow and grow and grow. By sending...

The worst part of it is the willed blindness to exploitation, the quite extraordinary ability of the average American to pretend that not only was this an isolated and unique event that just arrived unbidden on the entire world, rather than merely a particularly spectacular, tragic and and...

On the other hand, for the price of the batteries, I can get an electrician to come and re-wire the place properly - which it needs. It is a bargain, but for once in my life I ought to do the sensible thing.

A very interesting post, JTR, thanks for taking the time to spell your thoughts out so clearly. And, from a debating point of view, a perfect topic - "perfect" insofar as most of us should be able to argue one side or the other quite happily! Naturally, seeing as you have started off on the...

That's a very generous offer, James. The freight could be dealt with, but I wonder what yet another 60dBA would do to my office. Perhaps if I were to reorganise the place a little further....

That's a terribly sad tale, Tim, and sadder still that, as so often in this life, there is no discernable right or reason to it. It is often said that only the good die young, and rightly said, it seems. And yet sometimes I ponder this: I think, for example, of my own life - just 40-odd years...

Given my rididulous over-investment in technology, I'd need three UPS units, or two at a pinch. There is the XP with 21 monitor, then, in another room, the Smoothie, the hub, and the cable modem, plus the technical server that stores everything I download, which is the one with the four SCSI...

Quite so, Pradeep. Trouble is, a UPS sufficient to run my office rig costs big dollars. 21-inch monitor, rather more big old SCSI drives than is good for me, hub (for without the network there ain't much point), and so on. I'd actually need at least three UPS units. I think thte correct term for...

Once a corner (or whatever place) has the slightest trace of scent from a previous use as a peeing place, it is a magnet to your cat. You can scrub and scrub, but it's very difficult to eradicate. You won't be able to smell it anymore, but your cat's nose is vastly more sensitive than yours will...

Oh, and poor Sivar! That now makes two people who have made complete fools of themselves on SR by taking Ekaf-Ami seriously - something I never intended to achieve in either case. Honest, it just happened. (The other one was ... well ... let's just say his initials include the letters "P" and...

Mmmmm .... No, on the whole I ended up liking Mustafa. At first I thought he was a bit over the top, but then he provided a belly laugh or two and several of those long, slow smiles where you don't actually laugh out loud but you stop and read the post over several times, slowly, shaking your...

Re: How do you get rid of the stupid Macromedia Flash pop-up PS: I also HATE Macromedia!!!

Time to switch browsers, I think, JTR. I don't seem to get those problems with Opera, though I don't remember disabling Flash, and with Mozilla the Flash download crap can be switched off once and for all. Using Internet Explorer if you don't like Flash and all its ugly friends (such as Real...

Tannin say yes Mustafa. Fold on, Brother!