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Q: What is the worst possible form of backup? A: "And I ask myself 'what am I doing here?' You may ask yourself the same question."

Was anything as bad as Win ME? Well, DOS 6.0 was pretty bad, so was 4.0. And Windows 3.0 was appalling. Guess I've answered my own question. :(

Just so, Tea. Horrible damn things. I've had the distasteful experience of dealing with a Brother and two or three Hewlett-Packards. The HPs in particular were as crabby as a three-year-old with severe sunburn, and not half so pretty. They absolutely, positively refuse to run on any port other...

Yes. :roll:

I didn't notice any difference, Santilli, but I didn't take any measurements, and I haven't done anything that uses much in the way of speed lately anyway. Honestly you could swap my XP & X15 for a Celeron with an LCT and it wouldn't make all that much difference to the stuff I do these days...

Well, that was my reason. But I sure hope Will Rickards had a better reason!

Because it's there.

11: The Caller. He rings. The first time, he wants to make enquiries about motherboards and CPUs. He is closely related to #2, (Thinksheknowseverythingbutknowsnothing). and a cousin of # 10 (UaaR). He asks questions. Lots of questions. He is spending quite a lot of Mommy's money to upgrade his...

(No Tannin! No! Don't do it!) (Do? It? What are you talking about, Tea?) You were going to name names, weren't you! You were going to ... ) (You mean that I was going to cut out all this namby-pamby circumlocution bull and just say, oh, for example, that "Number 5 (the tight-wad) actually...

So. Vlad. You are having a nice day, are you? :wink:

The Tee-shirt, by the way, comes from Nimbin (Australia's answer to Woodstock, if any of you Eighties babies remember back that far) and is made out of genuine marijuana plants - i.e., hemp. A little harsh on the skin (like coarse linen) but very cool in summer.

Cliptin: close but no cigar. This is Ginger. I think the correct phrase is something more like "What the f**k do you want, you anoying moron?" E_Dawg: not really a pain. It's a very small house and the porch that leads to the toilet is under cover. In any case, it's not practical to heat the...

Very handy things, three inch nails. :)

Woof came to me as a stray. She was about two or three years old then, and very timid. She took up residance under my house and around the back on the bricks (which have a roof over them). Eventually I cleaned out some old frozen lamb that had been forgotten at the bottom of the deep freeze till...

Tea's picture of me was horrible! Here is a much more representative one: me in the workshop, bench-testing a Duron 1100 beore I plug it into the case.

Let's see if we can't do a quick tour of the possibilities: CPUs. These are one of the few products where first release versions can be worth buying. Sometimes. Starting with the 386, what do we get? First 386. No way. Vastly expensive, little performance gain. First 486. Ditto. Pentium 60...

Generally speaking, no way! First-release products are, with very few exceptions, more expensive, poorly supported, liable to failure and a host of driver issues and incompatibilities. Sometimes, they offer better performance, but in most cases the established product it is designed to compete...

Ha! I can still remember the CHS values of a good couple of dozen drives. If you do something often enough for long enough, you can never entirely erase it from your memory.

I came across Storage Review in, I think, December 1988 or January 1999. I can't remember how I happened to stumble across it, just surfing I guess. I lurked for a while, maybe a week, maybe a month or two, I don't remember, and then one day there was talk of a user reliability survey with...

I wouldn't have bloody made it, Bartender.

Tea, you fool, this is not the place to discuss such matters! You are off-topic!

Provided your email client is not completely brain-dead, Prof, you always have the option to look through your rejected junk, just in case there is a "real" message in there. Also, if you forward a copy of the false positive to notjunk@junkspy.com they update their database to take account of...

I am indeed, Slo, but perhaps I should let Tea speak for herself, which she does in this thread. As for a brother called Red Wine, no. At least not so far as i know, but I do have a cousin called Scotch. Luckily for all of us, Scotch never posts here. :)

Hi Slo Crostic, and welcome aboard. Being a little older and less naive than Tea, I am indeed getting the idea. As to whether this is a good thing or not .... hmmmm. I'm afraid that the phrase "you'll just have to keep a stiff upper lip, Old Bean" will never seem quite the same again. :wink:

Hey Prof, good to see you back! You've been on holiday right? On the shores of the Mediterianian in summer, right. Well don't tell me all about it! (You'll just have to excuse Tea, Prof. She hates winter.) Now. if you'll excuse me being on-topic for a minute, Junk Spy really does work. I've...

Either (a) no-one has posted for about twelve hours or else (b) the site has been down for quite a while. Anyone know which one?

He should be sacked immediately. I can think of no possible excuse for him.

Oh. And I thought it was just me.

Oh, there were lots of them, Tim, and they were dreadful. I don't know what went wrong with IBM's marketing department. If you go far enough back, IBM had a superb ad agency working for them. Does anyone bar Flagreen, Fusugi and Buck remember their advertising for the IBM PC? Here is a clip...

I should have thought you were too young to have owned a PDP-8, Mark. Tell us the story: how did that come to be your first computer?

Control-C is for changing the disc in your floppy drive. Everyone knows that. Control-insert is for copying. (Bloody youngsters.) For me, the text exiting and windows control keys are the prime ones: shift plus arrow or home or end, followed by control-insert, shift-insert or shift-del...

I seem to be 42 again. Funny that, I must be stuck. I was 42 yesterday too.

In the begining there was the word. And all about was void and formless. And the word was known to all mankind. Many and various men and women of the world spoke the word in many different tongues. And the word they spoke was "tacky". Clocker, I've seen video cards that same colour...

Tea tells lies. She really mean to say 80mm, of course. (I DON'T!) (Yes you Do.) (No I DON'T!) (Do.) (I DON'T!) (Do.) (DON'T!) (Do.) (DON'T!) (Do.) (DON'T!) (Do.) (DON'T!) (Do.)

Now just cool it, you lot! Dunno what the world is coming to when a man can't turn his back for five minutes without having to put up with his own aliases arguing. Just ignore them, e_dawg. Anyway, Soup_Nazi is no alias of mine. I dunno what Tea is so upset about. Just seeking attention, I...

Correct! :wink:

(Err, Tea?) (Mmmm?) (Why does everybody look so young?) (Because we are young, you fool. All of us. Except for you and the Bartender, of course.) (Rubbish. What about Fushigi and Buck? And what do you mean 'we'? You and I are not baby-faced youngsters like James and e_dawg, you know. We are...

Hi Shawn. :)

Oh, that's just because they are using the wrong brand of cd! :)

I have two machines going, the cast off K6-IIIs that Tea graciously allowed me to have after I threatened to cry. Both are 450+ chips. One is the Windows NT box in the workshop that I have clocked up to 500MHz and it runs 24/7 but sufferes from the stupid lack of a "no net" option. The other is...

By the way, the thing that gets to me about noise is conversation. I have excellent hearing, and am perfectly capable of doing things like pulling out the guitar from a bit of music where there are six instruments all playing at the same time and just listening to that single instrument, and yet...

Sorry Prof. Don't have any. It was twenty years ago, you know.

That is a very generous invitation, John. Thankyou. :) I'll be 10,000 miles away, same as usual, but perhaps you would be kind enough to invite Tea in my stead. (Being imaginary, she can travel very cheaply and at the speed of thought.) She is also very good at stacking up the drunks neatly...

Tea! I was just trying to be helpful. There is no need to be like that about it.

Arrived tonight! Whoohoo! Can't complain about the service. The parcel arrived with the double CD, plus another Dave Warner album This is your planet and one of his detective novels, together with a hand-written note ""hope you enjoy the bonus book"! Hey! It's autographed! I didn't notice it...

I used to get approached by girls from time to time. That was back when I was young, worked as a tram conductor (i.e., meeting the public all day long) and had great legs.On one particular, never to be forgotten day, I was asked out by three different girls in the space of four or five hours...

Cropped as per your request, NRG. Not sure why I still have editing rights, but what the hell - I might as well make myself useful, I guess. Not sure who changed the [IMG] tag though - that wasn't me, must have been Mercutio.

Or just buy a real computer.

Oh all right then. I'm sorry NRG. I think I'm jus grumpy this morning. But what on earth are you doing with a machine with no floppy drive?

Why should I? It's true.