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It's a browser thing, Groltz. Doug90125 has an old Mac which only runs older browsers. (Sorry to mess with your handle, Doug - but as a Yes fan, I dare say you won't mind.) Older versions of Netscape, which were no doubt designed for lower screen resolutions, screen wrap differently in web-based...

Certified Windows hater here. Even I would have to admit that, if you are running NT 4 or higher, you can make a Windows box decently stable. I rebooot my W2K box about once a week. My OS/2 boxes, of course, tend to run for months at a time - six months or more is not unusual - and I believe...

Oh. Sorry Tea. Slip of the brain. I will be calling for nominations, of course. I don't think imaginary people are allowed.

Hi all and welcome. This thread is to help new members get up to speed around this crazy place and introduce you to some of the veterans. I'm Tannin. Right now I'm Chairman of the Admin Team, which is a fancy way of saying that Webmaster Handruin does all the work and I take all the credit...

Now that is a really handy tip. Thanks Groltz.

BEWARE! That is a fake Giver! Evidence: (a) The Giver, for all his faults, is a man of his word. He would not go back to his old sig prior to the expiration of our agreement. (b) He would certainly not get his sig wrong! But ... a very clever pun. Full marks for that, oh Fake Giver.

I use all three under W2K, Steve. Of the three, I like Opera the best but it is a matter of taste. I like Opera because of: Superior window management Superior speed, though all three are OK in this department, if we ignore Mozilla's terrible start-up time Good look and feel Against Opera...

I have long had the suspicion that The Giver = Davin and Steroedude = Eugene. No evidence, of course. (And I dare say the real Stereodude will be along to beat me up shortly.)

Team Storageforum.net: #150 Team Austech Info: #146 We are closing in by inches. These guys are crunching hard. Four places behind them now: 2086 points vs 2164 points. Keep crunching guys, we will get there.

"from time to time I'll tell you what your new sig will be" seems to cover it, Buck.

In this thread The Giver wrote: Here is your chance: Some time later, I replied as follows: The Giver responded, I sent the money, Doug passed it on to Storage Review. A little later, The Giver PMed me to saythat he accepted that the dollars had indeed arrived, and what sig was it my...

Rocco! Go and wash your mouth out with soap and water!

I don't remember doing so, Steve, but then again, the words "memory" and "Tannin" should never appear in the same sentence. :(

Not this time, Clocker. Look again - you were responding to Tea's post from last night (Oz time). I read your "OK, OK" post and responded to that with a case for the negative, then (I think) you mistook my pro-IE post for Tea's pro-Mozilla post and thought the clocks were going weird again. As...

Hi Doug, welcome aboard. There is not a great deal of market value in there, but every little bit helps, of course. At least over here (I'm from Oz) there is still a thriving market for smaller, older drives. I'd expect that, provided it's in good condition, you'd be able to get between AU$20...

My approach exactly, Mark. Average access time, DTR, a Vseek chart, general opinion - these I pay attention to. High-level tests I only glance at. And, as you say, the differences have to be major to be worth bothering with.

Hmmm... The Giver is alive and well and handing out gratuitous insults in the SR bar and grille once more. I think it's time I changed his sig. (I have that right, remember.) The question is, gentlemen - what should I change it to? Answers below, please.

Reasons why IE is better than Mozilla. 1: Mozilla has the worst looking grapics and icons of any browser I have ever seen. By a mile. (Well, maybe some of the 'nix specific ones are worse, but not that I remember.) 2: Although Mozilla has now copied Opera's tabbed browsing feature, it still...

Also, welcome to Mourn and Muitah. Thanks for joining our team, guys. (Or girls, as the case may be.) Great to see you crunching along with us! Also Soup_Nazi, who seems to have finally got the better of Pradeep, at least for the time being. Post here to let us know who you are. We don't...

Seeing as Tea has become obsessed with her personal glory (or lack of it more to the point), I guess it's up to me to announce that we are now on Team Austech Info's radar! They crunch about 900 points a week, so they are no pushover. They are at #148, we are at #154 and closing. Way to go guys!

That, Clocker, is my approach in a nutshell. Tea will doubtless continue her theoretical ponderings a little later on (maybe late tonight, our time) but seeing as I am the practical one around here - Tea just wants to crunch proteins, leaves it up to me to earn enough to feed the two of us - I...

I have one CPU on screensaver United Devicing still. That bloody Tea has stolen all my other ones. I might see if I can persuade me to at least have the K6-IIIs.

Guess what, Tea: you are wrong! I imagine that you have your posting rights back because it's now an hour + one minute since you posted last. And - my theory - the server just went onto summer time.

Something has gone screwy with the server's clock. Refer my posts in the Folding@Home thread for details.

Something is wrong with the clock on the server, I think. Hello? Burst.net?

Something really weird is going on! Tea posted that one about K6-IIIs, then we locked up the shop and came home. Then Clocker replied. Then we got home, fed the cats, and logged on. After a little while doing odds and ends - upload some proteins, check mail, send rude message to The Prof on...

For some reason, phpBB won't let Tea post. This, in my opinion, is a very good thing. She ge's the "you can't make another post so soon" error message even though she hasn't posted anything in this session yet.) But she asked me to post the following on her behalf: ----------------------- I'm...

Geez ya bastards, strike me pink if youse ain't getting your knickers in a knot over sweet FA. Struth! Owdya cope if me and me mate Pradeep posted in Strine? Youse'd be flat out like a lizzard drinking tryna pour a drop of that down Babelfish. I reckon youse'd ave two bloody chances. Anyway...

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Damn! I seem to be getting my personas mixed up again. Sorry, Tea, didn't mean to pretend to be you.

Wild cards. Thanks. I'll try that.

Generally speaking, a hit is an access to a page object. This can be the HTML itself, each one of the images on the page, and no doubt various other things. It varies from site to site, but on a not too graphics-heavy page, you might average maybe six hits per page view.

Always marry an ugly girl The're the only kind Coz she'll never leave you And if she does - you won't mind Lyrics from a tune on a both kinds of music show that I happened to hear a little of the other night.

I've just been looking at the way it can be seen from the other side of the fence. Go here - http://www.statsman.org/folding2stats/html/324.html - for example. This team is a few places in front of us, cruising along nicely, and then all of a sudden - WOOSH! - there goes Team StorageForum.net...

Handruin, that's not fair. You know perfectly well that those guys are doing dammed well considering their slow, outdated hardware. Hey, if we were to put ourselves on an equal footing with them, CPU-wise. we would all have to dig our Pentium IIs out of the spare parts bin to match it with the...

Because I know that you will take the trouble to look it up. :) My always suspect spelling must give you a lot of trouble! Giant is right, as Gary's monikers usually are.

I think he is on holiday. Though, being from the wrong side of the pond and in consequence a little linguistically challenged, he would no doubt refer to it as a "vacation". Tea, is pleased to have finally vanquished a redoubtable opponent. She has been walking around the house all night -...

It would be best to combine the phpBB info and the Storage Forum info in one document, I think Doug. The style of the current phpBB one-size-fits-all FAQ is fine, IMO. I have that already downloaded, and part edited. I just have to sit down and finish it. This week. :)

Yes Coug. Good thinking. I'm thinking that it should be a fairly straightforward task. An HTML form for submissions with four fields, all required (i.e. all four must be filled in) - headline, body text, username, password. Then, on approval from the News Admin (that's you) it has to post the...

Well, OK, they actually are screws: 5/8th self-tappers, if I remember correctly. I just said nails for dramatic effect.

A wooden one. Plaster ones don't hold the nails properly.

I have nothing to say to you, Professor Wizzard.

I fail to see the point of that last post.

Quite so, Flagreen. I have made the same point, translated to our shores and at great and boring length, several times before.

But Prof, the rest of the world is driving on the wrong side.

How on earth can you expect the English to want to become a part of Europe? Good Lord, old chap, don't you realize the place is full of foreigners?

Can you connect two hubs together? I know that you can stack them - connect two 8 port hubs together to make one 16-port one, more or less, using a cable in a particular dedicated socket, but is it possible to (for example) plug the Netgear thing into one ordinary port of my 8-port switch and...

As a man who habitually and of his own freee will uses a Wordstar keystroke-compatible text editior on a daily basis, what can I say? Except that, Sol, that was indeed a beautifully-written post. Do I detect a hard core of artfully suppressed but nevertheless inextinguishable peotry in your...

Thanks guys, I understood at least some of that. Gradually, I'm getting a few of the fundamentals under my belt. Very gradually. Tonight I couldn't connect from the remote machine again. (Tea was going bananas at me.) Tried that WINIPCFG thingie (thanks Merc), didn't make much sense of it...

Another new member: welcome Rocco. Just remember, if ever in doubt about something here, say the opposite of whatever The Prof says and you will be fine. :) PS: I don't watch TV and don't own a video, can I buy the book instead?