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Next time, don't be so stupid that you buy a machine without a floppy drive.

Yes Vlad. A truly dreadful thing. My thoughts are with you.

Idealist (NF). Whatever that means.

The consensus view appears to be that you are a fool, Mercutio, that you are crazy to let your feelings twist you into being an ongoing support for a woman that no longer loves you. Well, to hell with consensus! You make your own decision, you follow your own heart, and you stick things...

As to the 40th count, Your Worship, not guilty! I don't step into conversations between a customer and a dodgy computer salesperson because ... er ... ... because I am a dodgy computer salesperson

As to the first count, guilty as charged, Your Worship. As to the second count, ah, guilty, Your Worship. On the third, fourth and ... er all the other counts, Your Worship, I plead guilty as charged. I throw myself upon the mercy of the court.

James, congratulations on your accesion to the hot seat. I look forward to seeing a successful, harmonious, and productive term from you. PS: In view of the eloquence of Tea's post above, it occurs to me to offer you her services as a headkicker (should they ever be required). Plain abuse...

It is also an astonishingly good likeness! Don't be misled by that terrible picture of the "Friday Tannin" posted in the other thread by that tart Tea, I usually have much shorter hair than in her picture (#3 comb) and a barely visible beard (#2 comb, #1 if I feel like it), a slightly receding...

Flagreen, that is a truly magnificent picture!

Quite right, Yeti. She's very slack. However I noticed that Westan (the Australian Samsung distributor, who also do WD, Epox and Mitsubushi) have stock already. So far, it seems to be only the SV120014, a 120GB 5400RPM model at a brilliant price, but I daresay others will follow. But I have not...

Ahh yes. As you can see, that was in my Western Digital days.

Good Lord, no, Koggit. I just found it on a web site that I have no intention of mentioning on this family-oriented forum. Or anyplace else, for that matter. I did actually ponder if I ought to post it here. It seems to be stretching the limits a little. But then I thought - oh, what the hell...

(Sung to the tune of "The Beverly Hillbillies".) THE BEVERLY HILLS BOBBITS Come listen to a story 'bout a man named John, A poor ex-marine with his little wanker gone. It seems one night after gettin' with the wife, She lopped off his dong with the swipe of a knife. Penis, that is. Clean...

But it's my camera! Give it back! And don't you dare go posting pictures of anyone else.

Tea! Unpost that picture right away, you tart! Who the hell said you were allowed to post that?

Has anyone ever noticed how, if you only have one picture of yourself handy, that it's always the most stupid, daggy-looking one you can possibly imagine? You know, the one where you are pulling a dumb face, or your shirt is on inside out, or something. Sometimes I hate Murphy.

Ahh, the thing about my list, NRG, is that they are all defunct drive manufacturers. Excect Western Digital. That last one for WD was a joke. But we could use IBM instead. Or Fujutisu perhaps. (As for listing the SpinPoint below a WD AB, that's a joke too, I presume. Obviously, the Samsungs are...

Don't be mean, Tea. Cliptin, it's really difficult to give a fair value, especially as I don't know US prices. Wild guess: two-thirds of the lowest available US retail price.

Done. For the record, Tea had "what actual seek time", only with the square brackets. I tidied it up. To risk dragging her thread off-topic, why is it that phpBB (a) doesn't allow BB code in poll questions, and (b) does not preview poll questions, only the associated post? Sorry Tea, I'll get...

I was not feeling very well on Friday so I came home early and I seem to have fought off the cold I was coming down with. But I was horribly bored and grumpy. So I applied my usual cure: a large handful of money and a good bookshop. The results: McCrum, MacNeil and Cran: The Story of English. A...

It ain't your purple prose, dear Rocco, nor even the size of your unmentionable. It was those beautiful pictures that turned my head.

Don't throw it away, Bill! Send it to me. :) I'll polish it lovingly, take its unlovely mugshot, and consign it to a place in my ever-growing collection of elderly computer hardware. I don't have a 75GXP, not a decent picture of one.

Thankyou for a detailed and very interesting reply, Cas. This is my home machine, the one that I run Opera on. Nothing too vital happens on this machine, but I like it to be reasonably stable. Win 2000 is just right for the job. My other five main machines all run different things for different...

Thankyou JTR. That was an excellent post. Interesting to see that my wild guess of 10 to 20% urban land use for roads and parking was about 50% too low. And I thought I could get you to give us a neat, carefully researched summary if I just pushed the right buttons. :) Always nice to know that...

In another thread, I mentioned the excellent performance of the old K6-III CPUs on integer tasks. Then Cas said: Now this raises an interesting question. My main workstation/server was a K6-III 500 for a long, long time. (Actually a 450+ overclocked to about 560 - 5x multiplier, 112MHz FSB.) I...

Ahh, now there you have the rub of it. The moment we start to talk about per-passenger costs and shortfalls, we stumble straight into the maze of difficulties that is erected for us by those commentators that either have a barrow to push, or else a non-understanding of economics that beggars...

Hoolie Doolie! What time is it in the States? What are you guys (Gmac and SYROB) doing up at this time of night?

What is the average number of passenger deaths per million miles travelled? If you intend to show that Amtrack trains are unsafe, please provide comprable figures for air and road transport.

Point 1: Katmai PIIIs suck big-time, performance wise. Those things were OK for floating point stuff, but their integer performance was really underwhelming. No better than a K6-2, and a mile behind a K6-III. Point 2: But there are two of them. Point 3: This is a light-duty server. CPU...

:) And here is a list of of the recording artists/groups that GIANT has managed to collect over time on CD that I have heard of! 10CC, Ian Anderson, Jon Anderson, Syd Barrett, Bauhaus, The Clash, The Cult, The Cure, The Damned, Miles Davis, Al DiMeola, Doors, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Peter...

If it's on CD, Giant, you may be very confident that I have not heard of it! Mine was the era of the black vinyl, the cassette tape and even, dare I say it, the eight track cartridge. Not that I ever stooped to that singlar horror, of course, but I was around when it was around. I can only...

Tea has the right of it, Time. I was a dedicated Dave Warner fan in the late Seventies. I saw the band live maybe six or seven times, bought the "official bootleg" tapes, the whole deal. I still have a lapel button. Now you won't need reminding of this, but some of our temporally and/or...

It's cool Clocker. We get mixed up too sometimes! Congratulations on your third place! Alas, while you have been successful in your struggle with the Evil Handruin, I am still stuck down at the bottom of the table, and Tea is falling further and further behind JoJo.

Why is it that Tea keeps getting tiddly little 0.6 point work units that always finish running on her stable of Athlon 1900s long before they have a web connection to send results in with and get more work with, while my pair of K6-IIIs - not by any means the world's best number crunchers - keep...

Hey, I replied to this thread last night. No my post is not there. WTF?

I'd give you 100 to one odds that mine was an exchange screwup too, Pradeep. Hey the line has been functional for over 15 years and the very same day I switch providers, there is suddenly a problem with it? And a still, dry day. Everyone knows that phone lines screw up on wet days (because they...

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro. My favourite recording so far is Solti's with Tiri Ti Kanawa, but any of the good ones would do.

OK guys, we have all played this game before. You are about to be consigned to a desert island for a good long while. You are allowed to take a stereo system and one recording. No cheating: just one disc. (But we will stretch a point and allow a double album if you wish - but only if you are...

Ahhh. It's about time you stood up for yourself.

I seem to have the quiet bug again. It's all Rocco's fault, those Zahlmann Flower pictures have been working away at the corners of my mind, eating into my sensibilities like acid into a stone. Anyway, I just went silly and ordered a box of assorted quiet stuff from these guys. I know I should...

The very man, Flagreen. I have a little job for him. If you see him, please ask him to call me, and bring along his sharpest knife.

Ahh, how could I have forgotten Radio Birdman? Well do I remember reading some half-brained gig review in Juke or RAM or one of those rags I tremble to admit I used to consumme assidously as a younger man, and - seeing as I spent every spare penny on records in those days - figuring I'd give...

Dear Dr. Jeckel, A few weeks ago my #1 ISP closed up. I have another account with the people who host my web page and which which offers better service than Dingo Blue, but is expensive - $1 per hour flat rate - so I use Netconnect sparingly. It was time to look around for a new service...

Now that the nominations are all in, I just unstickied the thread*. One thing that we can be sure of: with a field of this quality, we will certainly get a good man. (* Disclosure of personal bias: I hate stickies!)

Time is "rather impressed with Malcolm Young as a rhythm guitarist". Yes, I agree. Also, the guy from the Angels, though I can't remember his name. To me, that's half the secret of lifting a band out of the mediochre catogery: getting a really good sound in the first place, and then letting...

Sometimes, oppositions are just so efing stupid. WTF else is there to say about the situation? And have they managed to work out who wil be offended yet? The kids? The Israeli governmemt? Santa Claus? Or is that a minor detail that can be left till later? If that's the best they can manage...

Spelling Police? Ha! What this thread needs, Tea, is the Off-Topic Police.

Bastard! There was frost on my car windscreen this morning. I hate you!

I take your point, Flagreen. Note, however, that my post (if that was indeed the one you were referring to) actually increases the authority of the moderators: it shows that no matter what the circumstances may be, action will only be taken by an independant, unbiased judge. It shows, in other...

On the front page matter, it is my policy to identify an area of responsibility and appoint a member to take sole charge of that area. The front page is Cougtek's responsibility, and it would not be proper for me, or anyone else, to interfere with his running of it. If Coug wants help, it's up...