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Thanks for that link, Time. A useful one.

Send it to Tea, Andrew. She's just cleaned out my bank account buying Jake's Athlon & GF4. I dunno what she wants the GF4 for, she doesn't even play games. Maybe she thinks it will help her fold faster. She needs some money so she can pay me back!

Ye Gods! It's bad enough having cats underfoot!

Just a blue sky idea here, maybe one of you guys can give me a bright idea. Our price list is about 11 pages long. It's much more than just a price list, it's a short, comprehensive guide to buying a PC wisely. And, of course, it tells people what a nice company Red Hill is. :) At present, I...

I saw P5's handle too, JTR, and I didn't freak right out because of that, but I thought maybe it's a family member posting under hs handle to let his friends at Storage Forum know the bad news or something. I sure was relieved when I read the post!

I should have used a smilie, I guess. I mean, somehow, those amazingly good programmers at Netscape/AOL managed to take a dot release of the base code (Mozilla) and turn it into a full version number higher (Moz 1.0 is upgraded to 1.1, but Netscape 6.0 (which was actually 5.0 if we want to tell...

Hmmm.... Shouldn't that be Netscape 6.1?

Some people say salesmen are born, not made, O Posthumous One. And it is certainly true that great salespeople have a natural gift for it. They are especially keyed in to attitude, body language, all that stuff, and a good one is amazingly well aware of what you are thinking. I'm not one of...

Thankyou gentlemen, those were kind words. E_Dawg says that it's difficult to convert Name Brand buyers over to a real system. Nope. It is the easiest sale of all, by a mile. Back when I used to have staff and had to train them, I always used Name Brand buyers to get my people started with...

Yes, Tea. That's where our beautiful keyboards came from. :)

The sad tale of Osbourne Osbourne were a major Australian computer vendor. The name came from Adam Osbourne (at least I always assumed tht it did) but it had nothing to do with the company that made those CP/M portables in the USA, it was all home grown. Osbourne were the biggest IT retailer...

Of course I'm not keeping the specification the same, Mark. My job is to build the best computer I can. If Dell can't offer anything competitive, that's their problem. (Sure, I could offer a P-4 1.8, and we do list them, but no-one buys them. They cost a ridiculous AU$110 more than an Athlon XP...

Tannin slowly picks himself up off the floor and breathes a hefty sigh of relief. Mark, don't do that to me!

I don't have a problem competing with Dell. Dell have a problem. Dell don't seem to have a Dimension 4500S here, Coug, but the model they list as the 2300 is similar. Here is how the sums look. I started with the basic model 2300, but upgraded it to a half-sensible configuration. I went from...

The new Celeron is an appalling under-performer, and marks the return of this strange on-again, off-again product line to its original tradition - that of promising far, far more than it delivers. As you can see, the 1.7GHz Celeron is rouighly equal to Duron 1000 or an old-style Celeron 1100...

In which case, it should happen six and a quarter times each year.

Er ... so what? Hey, fair is fair. If there is any government sanctioned benefit that accrues to those who profess one or another of the formal religions, then on what grounds can one legitimately refuse to extend those same benefits to other social groups? If they wish to call themselves...

A K6-2/450 board with no AGP slot just has to be either (a) something horribly old and overclocked or otherwise running out of spec, or (b) one of those not-very-nice MVP4 things with integrated video. NRG's point that the Voodoo should certainly have a heatsink and probably a fan is a good one...

Not quite everyone, Time. I didn't trust Bapco worth a pinch of the provervial. Not Bapco 2001 and certainly not 2002. But even this hardened old cynic was surprised at just how blatant the cheating was. As for Tom, he is playing the time-honoured (but no better for that) tactic of, when...

Damn! Here is 1962 again. And present.

I forgot to explain why this is. I was puzzled by it and asked the guy who leads the project. My thought was that perhaps this is the normal arrangement and I am just too used to digging in suburban gardens which have been turned ove a thousand times before, or up here in the Ballarat district...

So what is the herbicide for? And the ripper? The ripper is a variation on the plough theme, a single very heavy tine pulled along behind a tractor to make a deep cut into the earth along the contour line. It goes down quite a long way, almost a metre. This creates a sort of "mini-dam" to help...

This is where we ended up: And this little fellow is why: "Ahhah!" you all say, "Tannin has been out birdwatching again." Nope. We didn't see a single Regent Honeyeater. In fact we didn't even go looking for one. Why not? Because there aren't any, not in this part of the world anymore. In...

Some of you might have noticed that I've been off the air these last couple of days. I thought I'd tell you all why. Belinda and I left Ballarat after work on Friday and drove about 300 kilometres more or less east and arrived in Benalla just before 10 o'clock. Most of the others were camping...

I've used Moz on heaps of secure sites, never had a problem. Bar that it's as ugly as sin, of course, but that's Moz. Sort of like me: ugly but practical.

I have not used this particular board, Time, but I don't think I've ever seen an MVP3 or MVP4 board that was not 32GB limited.

I'm convinced that there is something wrong at the Stanford end, Groltz. Tea has more or less the same amount of total horsepower that she had a couple of weeks ago when she was turning in 90-odd points a day, but now she is getting 30 and 40 point days. And I am certainly still crunching...

It is indeed strange that the original page renders correctly with IE, E_dawg. I hadn't realised that this was yet another example of Microsoft standard breaking - double standard breaking in this case, as the bad browser corrects the error of the bad code generator. (Deliberate? Or just the...

So how do you explain the above crapsville code?

Even without CSS, it ain't hard to make a nicer job of it than Front Page does. Here is the Front Page source: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META NAME="description"...

Well, your parking site is up Prof. :) So is the attached X-cam ad. :( Oh well, it's only temporary.

Essentially, Prof, because web authoring programs creats such terrible ugly code. Front Page is particularly horrible, but all of the ones I have seen are pretty similar. (There may be such a thing as a good web authoring program, but I have not seen such a thing.) (Mind you, after looking at a...

Dear President Bush, Good to see you doing well in your new job. I know that we belong to different parties, but we are both Americans, and that is the most important thing, after all. I have noticed that you have been having a bit of trouble with planes being hijacked and flown into...

Just ignore Tea, Clocker. She goes a bit silly sometimes. I daresay she will grow out of it eventually.

Looks like real coding to me Prof, i.e., a plain text editor. The code is clean and has no crap in it. That makes it just about certain that the page was written by an actual human being. So far as I know, there is no "page authoring tool" that can produce code as clean as that.

Please excuse Tea. She posted under my name by mistake. By the way, Tea, if you find that planet you are looking for, be sure to let me know about it.

PS: Oil is a capital asset. You know what happens to enterprises that make a habit of living on their capital. They go broke. Anyone know of a good planet nearby? This one is fucked.

There was a team from the University of Queensland that made an electric car a few years ago. They drove it from Cairns to Perth (That's about the same distance as from Boston to LA.) It cist them $55,000 to build the car (about twice the price of an ordinary six-cylnder family car), and only...

If it's important enough, I'll get to read it right here. Lately I don't even have time to read all the threads here. But yes, X-Bit is good.

It could be worse. This little beauty: cruised at 18 knots (about 35kmh) for maximum economy, had a top speed of 30 knots (60kmh), and over her long service life averaged a mere 200 gallons per mile.

Or download Opera :)

I don't think your problem is DTR, JTR. I think it's memory management. Sounds to me like you have too little base (<640lk) RAM free. Experiment with adding HIMEM.SYS to your CONFIG.SYS, cleaning out any memory hogs (Drivespace is the worst of them, but by no means the only one) and a few of the...

ahh

Just thought I'd post an update on Neighborhood Cable, for those who live somewhere it's available. This thread seems as good a place as any. The executive summary: good. Three problems to report. (1) They had an outage for two or three hours once. No other outages at all so far as I know...

That deer in the first video gave me pause for a moment, Doug. When I first saw it in the distance, it looked like a Kangaroo! I think it was because I only saw the head and ears clearly, and I was sitting there wondering what the hell a roo was doing in Maine when I saw that it had four legs...

Sorry Coug. Anythingyoulike@redhill.net.au will get lost in my perpetually overflowing in-box, same as everything else does. ------------------------------ The disorganised one

duuuh huh?

Make that: Kristi XP 1800 part time Tannin's hand-me-down K6-III+ @560 24/7 (See Tea's sig)

Tea owns the home machines, not me, Cliptin. She disassembled the pure cruncher (an XP 1900) and took the bits into the office, so as to allow us to operate off a crossover cable at home - just the XP 1800 and the Smoothie - and free up a 4th 8-port hub, which will make its way into the office...