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Sing out if it becomes a problem, Bill. Once I get time to set my FTP server up, I will have unlimited space, and I doubt that bandwidth will be an issue. Maybe that could help. Or Pradeep seems to be plugged right in to this stuff - he could make a better suggestion, no doubt.

Ahh. Thankyou Mender.

If Cliptin was twins, we would be level-pegging with Xtreme Systems. And if JoJo was twins too, we would be out-producing them. It's not impossible. Since a few new folders like JMP and JBarksdale and Jake joined us (is there something about the letter "J"?) we have really kicked along. Yup it...

I thought they did a new session? Or a new something, anyway. Wasn't there supposed to be an audiophile-level issue with burnproof that the rest of the world didn't seem to notoce? I remember reading something on SR about it.

There ain't nuffin like a lawyer ... http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,104075,tk,dn081602X,00.asp

Tea, what exactly did you mean by posting this: (You mean the bit in red?) (Yup. ) (It was a mistake. I started by pasting in another post, one of Cliptin's or JoJo's, and I forgot to take out all the quoted text before I posted it.) (You're not very bright, are you Tea.) (Nope.) (It made...

Example 1: Have you got any idea how many discs we would go through if we didn't multi-session? Every single time we download a patch or a driver from the web (or just go to our server for the one we already downloaded) we have to burn it to CD to get it onto the target machine. Unless it fits...

But what if you want to add stuff to the disc later? Out of the box, Easy CD Cremator simply burns the track, closes the session, and leaves the disc open. (Unless you fiddle with the advanced settings and bugger them up.) Want to add an extra file or two to the CD? Slip it into the drive, pick...

Yup, I've met the same symptoms myself from time to time, and the cause has been just what Platform says: bad laser.

Oh. And hi Mender. Welcome aboard.

Nero seems to have some major design problems when it comes to multi-session burning. We are constantly getting calls from people who can't work out how to do it, and it is very limited in what it lets you do at all. Never thought I'd say this, but Easy CD Cremator beats Nero hollow for...

I see you have picked up a link on Tech Report's front page. Hopy Telstra's server is up to scratch!

Actually, E_Dawg, I agree with you. Uninstalling OS/2 1.X was a good idea. OS/2 didn't become usable until 2.1 arrived, maybe three or four years after that. On the other hand, switching from OS/2 1.X to DOS 4.X was not exactly an improvement. DOS 4 was horrible. DR-DOS killed it, as did...

Tea is right. Not one single argument! Amazing how well this system works, actually. And isn't it a funny coincidence that, ever since we switched to it, we don't seem to have made any major decisions either!

The rule of thumb is: if you are changing chipset brands, reinstall; if you are staying with the same brand of chipset but a later model, you can probably not bother. For example, if you are coming from an MVP3 to a KT133A, keep your OS, if you are changing from a KT133 to a KT-333, keep it; but...

Would it be unkind of me to observe that anyone brainless enough to want to fold for a team called "Hotmail" probably should remain anonymous? (Yes, Tannin.) Oh. Well I won't then.

And you, Steve, are someone who works with his hands for a living and are thus most likely more than normally capable for this sort of task. I usually avoid trying to solder on mainboards, not even to replace a battery. I just don't do this sort of thing often enough to be any good at it. If I...

Soldering on multi-layer boards (which all motherboards are) is not easy. It takes the proper tools and a good deal of practice. If you don't do this stuff all the time, pay someone who does do it regularly to do it for you. Or throw the part away. Usually, this last course is the most...

I used to have a special, rather scornful laugh for hotted-up Minis, never took them seriously till, one day, the driver I was working with for the week (I was on the tramways then) got tired of it. "Look", he said, "come to my house on our meal break, and I'll take you for a ride". "OK." We...

That, my friend, was a truly wonderful bit of creative writing. Bloody good effort, Jake.

Opera does Fav Icons now, LiamC. At least I remember seeing them popping up somewhere I didn't expect them the other day. was it here at home with Opera? Or at work with Mozilla/2 1.1b? Ahhh! Thankyou Time. I never knew what that "add page here" did. Perhaps it's a reflection of the fact that...

Time. Time heals all ills. You are still young, you have plenty of time. You must be patient. If you cannot think well of the world and your place in it, then you must simply not think at all. Wait. Don't look forward to better days, just stay calm and wait. Good things come unlooked for...

There is actually only one essential feature for the Personal Bar. That is currently rather clumsily organised under a manual right-click and select method, but it is at least functional. Hopefully in future versions, that essential feature will be automated, and the Personal Bar will...

And I recommend pressing the "preview" button before pressing the "submit" button, Tea.

Good advice from P5, as always. Maybe what you need to do is increase your RAM cache, so that you can flick more-or-less instantly through recently visited documents. In Opera you go file -> preferences -> RAM cache, in Moz you go edit -> preferences -> advanced -> cache -> memory cache. But in...

Nope. The Smoothie has been up for several weeks. I managed to send the results at last (I think) by running fold.exe -local -pause to tell it to finish the current work unit, and then fold.exe -local -send several times until it succeeded in sending the unit. (-send? whatever the switch is. I...

I'm surprised that so many people fall for the health care expenses myth. It is propaganda pure and simple. The anti-smoking movement has plenty of good, factual evidence for its case, and no need whatever to make up lies, and yet the witch-hunting mania this last decade or two is such that this...

Hmmmm. You are right. I checked too, and did a small Goodle search. I see tht they don't support anything earlirt than Win98SE. I guess that means that SE has Mircosoft-supplied IDE drivers for nforce, and earlier OSs have nothing. What happens if you just clean install SE and tick DMA?

A good thought, Jeff. I doubt it, because I have another machine crunching just fine through the same firewall, and Tea has ... er ... 12 machines crunching through it just now. (Kristi is going to kill her in the morning! What a mess the place is!) But I'll check.

Ahh... There seems to be a limit to the maximum post size. And I just hit it. That log output was supposed to be in <code> but the end of it got cut off. OK, the machine is overclocked (a K6-III/450 at 560) but it's as stable as you like, and everything else works. My other K6-III is also...

This one has me really puzzled. This one particular machine has heaps of trouble sending in Folding results. Now I know that sending results to the Stanford servers is problematic at the best of times, but it is on a cable Net connection (i.e., always on and decently speedy) and it shares this...

Hmmm ... Interesting article in The Age on Friday. I don't altogether agree with it, but he makes a very interesting case. Read it for yourself and see what you think: http://www.theage.com.au/handheld/articles/2002/08/08/1028157988214.htm

Olivettis of the 286 and early 386 era were worse. But them aside - and nobody has ever plumbed the depths of vomit quite so successfully as Olivetti used to - yes, they are the crappiest alleged computers ever made.

Does anyone mind if I edit Handruin's URL about 12 posts above to un-widen the thread?

I'd just like to explain that Tea is outside holding her head in a bucket of sand at this present moment. I think she is feeling a little stupid. On her behalf, sorry Mark. Sorry Clocker. Interesting numbers, by the way, Mark.

Don't be so ungrateful, Tea. The guys were all saying nice things about you, so relax and enjoy it. It's not every day you turn 1000 for the first time. Well, sort of nice things. Nicer than I would have said, anyway.

My list of Compaq pros.

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Tea is right. 2400 modems used to have 14.4 fax capabilities. I remember them well, because I used to get riled up over the packaging. It used to look like this: BRAND X FAX MODEM 14.4 Speed! (fax) (2400 modem)

Slo, that is a really neat car. And a 67 HR no less! My very first car was a 67 HR. That would have been ... mmmm ... 1980 or 1981 I guess. I was about 21 or 22. HR panel van, 161 donk, fully stock, three on the tree (no syncro on first, same as always with them), light to mid green (you will...

Why thankyou Time. Now all I have to do is figure out which persona is the appropriate one with which to respond to you. :)

The two-cable controller is an RLL controller, David. It would have been used to format your Microscience hard drive in the first place, and you need to use it and no other if you want to be able to access the data on it. (Unless you can find another similar one that uses an identical format...

Oh, don't be ridiculous, Tea. I know it's hard for you to understand, because you are an entirely fictional creation and have spent your whole life in cyberspace, but there is a great big thing called the real world out there for him to enjoy. He will just be leading a normal life. You really...

In a world where the extra power is useless - because you are stuck in city traffic - and indeed anti-social - for it contributes to resource depletetion and exhaust emissions and benefits no-one - "rice" could be considered an almost rational adaptation to the conflicting drives of thumping...

Now that is just beautiful :)

One is left to assume that this is as opposed to the more traditional trick of having the sunlight shining out of a rather less lofty orifice?

Just get yourself an old Rockwell chipset external, E_dawg. Any brand will do. Something that uses the standard command set and will install as that famous (and perfectly practical) device which Windows calls "Standard 28.8 modem". (Or whicever speed it happens to be.) If you are only faxing...

That may well be the first time I have ever heard the word "Compaq" and the word "wisdom" in the same sentence. Your best bet, Mercutio, would be a Sound Blaster 16 in an ISA slot. If that don't work, nothing will. If the Compaq even has an ISA slot, that is.

Indeed, Dozer. I can assure you, that type is very common indeed in the computer world. Alas. (Tannin manfully resists the temptation to name names, addreses and phone numbers.)

As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end. For ever and ever. Amen.