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There seem to be two possibiliies here: (a) The level of disrespect shown is beyond the pale and should not be allowed to appear on the pages of Storage Forum. (b) The level of disrespect shown, while distasetful, is part of healthy robust debate and should be tolerated, if not encouraged...

Don't be ridiculous, Tea. Here we have a perfect example .... (You mean an imperfect example, don't you?) (Shutup, furry-face.) Ahem... A perfect example of free speech and democracy in action. This is what is known as "robust debate", I think. :wink: But under all the name-calling and...

A degree in Jurisprudence? Err, let me check. .... Keys, wallet, bus ticket, $2.55 in small change ... Nope. Not on me. Why? Have you lost one? ICQ is that insecure? Hmm. I rarely run it anyway, but now I feel even less inclined to do so. Tell me more about this, please Prof. (A seperate thread...

I've typed more than I care to in one night already, and Tea is jumping up and down shouting at me to give her a turn, so I'll be really brief on these things: Prof, you asked about: The 18-month term was chosen, if I remember correctly, because it seemed to provide a balance between the...

In another Thread: Ah, now here you raise a point which is a very hot topic right now. The final authority for decisions around here rests not with Webmaster Handruin but with the 13-member Admin Team. (You may recall that you yourself were invited to be a member of this team when Storage...

This is why one of the primary moderation guidelines is that no moderator shall take action in any dispute in which he or she is personally involved. I'm paraphrasing here, but that is the sense of it. This is also the reason why we have so many moderators: so that in the case (say) of a...

Me? Err, where do you get that from? I am not a moderator. I can't edit or delete your post. Yes, like Webmaster Handruin, I have the technical ability to do so at present, but that is a sort of historical accident and will probably not last for too much longer anyway. But if I were to actually...

Well, I finally got around to updating my Opera 6.01 to 6.03. As a firm "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" man, you can see that I was really bored this afternoon. Yeah, sure, there was supposed to be a security problem with 6.01, but hey - this is a machine I run Microsoft products on! Why on...

Prof, as I understand it, any moderator can edit or delete any post, but only under certain fairly clearly defined circumstances, and if they do, then they are also required to (a) save the original, unedited post in the Moderator's Forum (to which only the mods, the Chairman and the Webmaster...

Right: enough reasoning. Let's see if we can't draw a conclusion or two from it. Right now, in our 120GXP model roundabout, we have an arm that is moving through an arc of 1m and has to be accurate to less than 0.02mm. If we are going to improve by a factor of 10 - no - let's make it a factor of...

No! I was wrong. In fact (assuming I haven't gone and mislaid a zero or two) linear density has only improved by a factor of about 26! Check my sums, gentlemen: 17 SPT for a TM-262, 448 SPT for the inner track of a Deskstar 120GXP. Note that I'm using the inner track to provide a fair...

Hmmm ... hard to find the appropriate figures. No-one seems to bother specifing the total number of physical tracks anymore. But I found some specs for the Deskstar 120GXP, which should be as good an example as any. If I read IBM's figures right (they are not straightforward), a 120GXP has...

Well, JTR, I am hopelessly outside my field here. But seeing that has never stopped me in the past .... Seems to me that this business of seeking accurately enough is the key problem. Obviously, we are getting an ever increasing requirement for a smaller "minimum adjustment size", so to speak -...

Ha! Funny you should say that. :) Her name is "Woof".

Shall we try again then? It seems a little late to start complaining about the moderator appointment policy now, gentlemen. The whole question of conduct and moderation has been a vexed one - probably the single most contentious issue that we have dealt with here. Back before we had any...

STUPID BLOODY CAT! I just lost an entire long post. :(

They let us out already?

Stupid girl! Why didn't you ask me? (You? A Windows expert? Ha! As if. All you understand is prehistoric stuff like CP/M and OS/2 and DOS.) Yes, Tea. I understand stuff like DOS. But you should be able to work this one out for yourself. Tell me, have you ever used the accounting system at the...

Actually, I have some brute strength of my own.

About the same, Prof. Anywhere between 5 and 30 a day. For me, email is useless. For all practical purposes, I don't use it.

Post # 9999! Coug, the honour is yours, I believe. Go for it!

That is just beautiful. :)

Received in good order the following items: 1/12 of an ounce of Athlon XP 1600+ 18 Oz of heatsink 2 Oz of fan 1 1/2 lbs of duct tape. :)

Jake, last time I put that exact same argument to Flagreen, he did his Incredible Hulk trick and metamorphosed into The Giver! :eekers: Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Tim, yours is unusally warm. 55C at idle is close to the upper end of the normal scale. XPs in typical everyday installations range between about 30C through to about 55C, but ~70 or 80% of them are in the range of 35 to 45C. At least that's my XPerience with them. I'll ask Kristi today, because...

Hmmm ... US$97 seems like a lot for a modest speed increase - let's say about the same as going from an 1100 to a 1400. But you should get somewhere around 35 to 45 degrees at idle - which may well make it worth your while. They vary from chip to chip, as well as from board to board and fan to...

Err, about the cash drawer .... Tea seems to have aquired a lot of bananas just lately. I don't think you should have let her have that Cointreau, Bartender.

Lots more, but those above are a good starting point. A List Apart, which I linked to in my first post in this thread, is simply the best though. Of many excellent and useful articles, this particular one: "Give me Pixels or Give me Death" stands out: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/fear4/ Be...

Tony's Potted HTML Guide: http://website.lineone.net/~tonylondon/htmguide/htmguide.htm No, not me. Some other Tony. A good, concise page. IDOCS Guide to HTML: http://www.idocs.com/tags/character_famsupp_92.html This is a link to their introduction to CSS, but you'll soon click your way around...

There will no doubt be a continuing series of Athlons come out, even after the Opteron debuts, and they will more than likely fit into existing Socket A main boards. We don't know this for certain, of course, but we can make a reasonably confident prediction based on past history that the AMD...

I have to go to work, Mercutio, so I'll return and post more on this later, but I've just done more or less what you are aiming to do: re-bored my HTML skills and dragged myself out of the <TABLE> era into CSS. There are some brilliant tutorial sites. I'll post my bookmarks for you when I get...

Now they fix the bloody thing! Tea, who has probably lost 30 to 50 points because of this bug, has just spent ages updating the 2 to 4 .exe files to Beta 4 on a round dozen systems, and now she is going to have to do it all over again. She is not going to like this. :(

It's time to select a moderator again. So far we have chosen: First Moderator 18 month term, 1st January 2001 to 30th June 2003: Flagreen Second Moderator 18 month term, 1st April 2001 to 30th September 2003: Mercutio The third moderator will serve the usual 18 month term and be appointed on...

I unstickied this thread just now because (a) stickies are best avoided so far as possible and this one is not really relevant any more, and (b) in order to encourage myself to get busy and edit the real (i.e., new, all-singing, all-dancing unified) FAQ.

Yawn. Another day, another milestone. It all seems a little ho-hum the second or third or fourth time around, doesn't it. And yet it is not just hohum in this instance. Any fool can tell by looking at the post counts that Mercutio has the most at present - but it isn't by mere quantity that we...

Just so, Bill.

You may well be right, Mercutio. As I'm sure you know, Opera and Moz are both generally regarded as "well behaved" browsers, that comply much more closely with the official W3C specs than IE does (though to be far, MS have improved IE quite substantially in recent times. But just the same...

A friend, Flagreen, is someone who has the moral courage to tell you the truth, even if it hurts. As the father of your child, and as the child of your father, you must have learned that for yourself long since.

KTX, Coug, nothing to do with KDX in the USA. Hi Rick, and welcome to the crazyhouse. Stick around, it's good to see another Aussie here. I can tell you a little about KTX and their monitors (a good deal of which you will already know, more than likely) but probably very little of practical...

Opera 6.01 scrolls too, guys. Looks like the php people stuffed up: didn't test with a wide enough range of browsers. Funny that, you'd think, being open source, they would test with Mozilla first. Anyone know if this is on their known bug list?

Woops! I get scrolls with Mozilla/2 1.0. (i.e., it screws up my page width.) Must have been dreaming when I posted earlier. I'll edit that post in a second. I copied the original long URL over here: http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=9530#9530 Flip over there and post to say...

http://www.activewin.com/awin/comments.asp?HeadlineIndex=9618&Group=1&redir=%2Fsearch%2Fresults%2Easp%3FSearch%3Dkeyword%26Keyword%3D%2522windows%2Bupdate%2522%26Month%3D%26Day%3D%26Year%3D%26&redirname=Search Moved over here from the original thread...

We don't have any code to enter, Pradeep. Just install off the CD that comes with the drive. When I say "continue multisesssion" it spits out the disc - no matter which disc iis in the drive - and asks for the "right" disc. In a little while I'll go duplicate my steps and write down exactly what...

Ron was a legend. Here in Ballarat, when computer dealers meet over an ale or two, talk turns inevitably to the bodgy and the dodgy, and that leads before too long to an exchange of tales about our dear Ron, each one of them more ridiculous and distasteful than the last, and most of them...

If in doubt, ask James. He is good at counting, it seems. :)

Ahead are German, I believe. But it seems that they have recently upgraded to American quality standards.

Now just a darn minute there! First, Tea has no right to sell it. I bought the damn thing, not her. And second, yes she does accept bananas, though there is often some spirited discussion as regards who gets to eat them. In any case, the Giver is complaining that she needs to loose weight, and...

It's a browser thing, Buck. On many browsers, those long links refuse to word-wrap and this results in the thread becoming very wide. And most people hate having to horizontal-scroll. Which browsers? I can't remember. It's fine on this here copy of Mozilla/2 1.0, and it was fine on the browser...

We have a burner box in the workshop. It burns CDs. That's it. No other function at all. (Well, Tea has put her silly F@H stuff on it, but that doesn't count.) For a long time it ran Easy CD Cremator and a TEAC 8-speed drive (plus various Panasonic drives before that, mostly SCSI ones)...

Damn it, will you guys stop calling other people sock puppets! I am the sock puppet. All others are fakes and imposters.