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OK, it's no doubt well-known that I am a little slow on the uptake, but I haven't actually noticed a problem in this regard, Clocker. Oh sure, I've seen Mercutio and the Prof casting aspersions on one another just lately, but my reading of that was that it has all been in good spirit and...

From the PMMail readme (because I am too lazy to express these things for myself, and probably only half aware of this stuff anyway). ===================================================== Unique or easily missed features ===================================================== PMMail 2000...

PMMail for Windows: 3764k zip file PMMail for OS/2: 1776k zip file You just did me a favour, Mercutio - I went to their site just to see what the file size was. and there is not one but two new versions, a gold release for the Windows client and a new beta for Warp. Nice. :)

Oh sorry, I should have mentioned. No Linux version. At least not that I know of, just OS/2 and Windows. As a commercial product, one would imagine that a Linux version would hardly be a good investment when there is so much great free stuff around for that platform.

One would trust it's a little better than that. :-? I have become quite wedded to PMMail - www.pmmail2000.com - though I can't say I've seen anything in a mail reader to get me too excited. I guess the best thing about PMMail, as I see it, is that it's cross platform and I don't have to keep...

So why did it work anyway? (Pause to ask yourself, before replying, "would the TCP/IP challenged Tannin understand this answer?")

No.

As a troll, it's one of the all-time greats. Given that, if I read between the lines correctly, the guy is serious, it's nothing short of astonishing. So much so that I felt impelled to fire up my Ars moniker and for the first time in a year or more, post there to say so.

Very similar to their 5400s, JoJo. Cheap, boring, fast enough to put them in the ballpark (perhaps a fraction less fast compared to the other 7200s than the Spinpoint 5400s are compared to other 5400s), reliable as sunrise. We have sold over 1000 Samsung drives now, and in all those drives we...

Cancel all that. It's working now. I have no idea why. I didn't do anything! Just typed this post and ... when I went to look at the other machine, it decided to work now.

OK, what do I need to do to get another machine to share my Internet connection? Connected machine: Win 2000 SP 2 Modem link Internet connection sharing enabled on my dial-up link (tick box) Realtek NIC Plus an X-over cable Other machine: Win98SE Realtek NIC Installed protocols: TCP/IP (LAN...

FROM: Tannin TO: Tea DATE: 25/5/02 SUBJECT: Heresy Well done, little sister! When you first posted that "Matrox are not perfect" heresy, I thought you were nuts. Not that I thought you were wrong, of course, simply that I figured the chances of anyone else believing you were nil, and while I...

The only thing I watch now is sport, and not much of that. In general only the very traditional sports that I played as a kid (cricket and football), and then only if circumstances are right - i.e., a test match, not that one day crap - or it's a Collingwood game. Also, only if I remember to...

Oh well, I've probably called him worse things in the past. And he me. If the cap fits ...

PS: I was never an Amiga user, never particularly liked them. But I have to admit, I have seem Amigas with 1MB of RAM do things that were not even worth thinking about on a 486 with 16MB. The multi-tasking ability of the Amiga OS was amazing to anyone used to the abilities of Windows.

Let's face it Merc, everyone is bitter. Except of course, people who actually liked Windows, and they are morons. Better, on the whole, to be bitter.

Great story, Mercutio. But I thought P-60's caught on fire all by themselves?

Fresh start.

Your primary decision, o expert toothbrush user, is - Freshmint? Or Mildmint?

Doesn't anoy me in the slightest. Mind you, the fact that I don't watch TV probably helps.

I'm surprised that they don't use a top-line screen on a top of the line notebook. Or is off-axis performance not possible yet in a 1600 res screen?

Clocker, I took the liberty of changing your Google News URL into the <URL=http://link.here>click here</url> form so as to unbreak the window width. Tony

bastards!

SR says OS shipments have it disabled, US shipments have it on. Mine came from an authorised Seagate distributor here in Oz in the normal way. What do they do, ship them at random?

HTF do I switch off the accoustic management crap on a Barracuda ATA IV? or a U Series 6? (Or, if this is what they are supposed to perform like, HTF do Seagate figure they can get away with selling this crap?) Compare with something decent: (Samsung P40.) VSL files at...

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Absent, I hope. I've been trying to catch up to your post-count for ages. :mrgrn:

No rules to speak of Tim. Just the usual and commonsense rule of courtesy to Webmaster Eugene, I think. There was extensive discussion of this here some time ago, pages and pages of it, possibly back before you joined. It got boring. Let's leave it there. PS: that "someone" was me, I think. I...

Actually, that thread is a spin-off of this one, Mercutio. If you read the fine print of Cas' first post at the start of the thread, you will see that: So, Cas at least is perfectly well aware of this place - aware enough to respond to my thread within a few hours. (Nice to be an "esteemed...

The point, gentlemen, should be looming in the dark by now: hard drive cache is a myth. In a manner of speaking, there is no such thing. Let's approach hard drive "cache" by thinking about a directly similar but better understood cache: that between the CPU and its RAM. This one, of course, is...

I remember it as Maxtors, but no matter. I just went to look for it but couldn't find it.

Varying the amount of "cache" on a drive has little or no effect on the drive's performance. At least that's what Storage Review discovered some years ago, using a pair of Maxtor drives. And then more recently they suddenly recanted, this time using their shiny new (and I think rather suspect)...

OK, now you've gone and pushed one of my buttons. Cliptin, please step foward, salute and accept the much coveted Tannin Order of Merit (with crossed f-nodes). You, sir, have said the first sensible thing about hard drive cache I've read since at least Tuesday. This is the whole point about...

Tea's links were broken. I've fixed them.

I'd be reluctant to do anything with the Uni machines if I were you. What was that absurd but unfortunately true story of the American science lab assistant who loaded SETI@home (or some such) on his room full of computers and was prosecuted for, and convicted of, a quite serious offense...

I could edit it for you, but I can't move it. Only Doug has admin rights. People with mod rights (Flagreen and Mercutio because they are mods, and me because I made up some outrageous excuse and Doug fell for it) can edit, delete and inspect IPs. There is a really nifty admin console thingie...

Actually, he did propose a moderator. One Tannin by name. :oops:

... a Northwood 2.4, but I'm sure that Tony can handle that too. Not sure that I could, actually Buck. At least I have not seen the 2.4GHz ones on any of my suppliers' price lists. (I haven't looked very hard though, I freely admit.) Either they are not available in Oz yet - which seems...

Then one of us is smoking da green stuff. Molasses is faster than Mozilla. It's not too bad once it starts up, but oh! that load time is dreadful. I mean, I'm alredy running it on an Athlon XP 1800 with an X15 - what's their recommended hardware requirement? A Cray?

Sorry, I thought I was on Storage Review, not Storage Forum. Make that "Santilli knows more practical stuff about Macs than anyone here."

Santilli knows more practical stuff about Macs than most people here. I say listen to Greg. As for browsers, Opera is available for the Mac isn't it? Opera will cream any flavour of IE or Netscape or Mozilla. They don't call it "the fastest browser on earth" for nothing.

I read it as just a light-hearted remark, James. But then, without tone of voice and so on, it can be hard to tell sometimes.

I'm in.

Yes Steve. And now I'm paying the price: I woke up at 4:30AM! Oh, and Dingo Blue is fantastic James! Nearly everyone has gone off to find other ISPs now, and the few of us that are still using the service have the entire system bandwidth all to ourselves. Never seen a 56k modem link go so fast...

To the best of my knowledge, in the strictly biological sense, no. I do, however, have a moderately extensive collection of "not-children" - kids belonging to my girlfriend and my ex, or my ex and my ex-ex, depending on how you view these things. These are the people that for me absorb the...

Steve: interesting link, thankyou. Damn it James, I think you've hit the nail on the head. I had forgotten about the alarm system. I dealt with the immediate problem tonight by a quite different method, BTW. Went to bed early.

Nowhere near that long, Coug. Let's see if we can nut it out. Clawhammer debuts later this year, right? Let's give Clawhammer about 6 to 12 months as a premium part before the Duron disappears completely, the Athlon XP becomes the Duron equivalent, and Clawhammer becomes the Athlon equivalent...

Unnoticable? Pretty much. "Marginal" is the term I'd use. On the other hand, so is the price difference now. From memory and in Oz dollars, the gap between the XPs, starting at the 1600 to 1700 difference, is: $10 $35 $60 $120 And I forget what the gap from the 2000 to the 2100 is. In the...

I'm inclined to agree with you, Coug. Not an issue for me as I don't have kids, or indeed share a house with anyone bar Woof and Ginger, both of whom are only interested in computers to the extent that they make good things to rub against. Oh, and Woof has a mania for resting her chin on my...

Respectively, he has and he hasn't. 1978 and '79 it I think it was, at the City Oval Hotel and then the Western Hotel, both in Ballarat. What to tell? Not a great deal. Worked in the brewery for a while too, summer of '84 and '85. Never drank so much in my whole life! Oh. and I was bartender...