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But does it actually do anything useful?

DOH!

There is an XP 1700 of mine plus assorted K6-IIIs just going to waste because there is no OS/2 client. That other distributed thingie, the one looking for the encryptation breaker, that has an OS/2 client. Sigh.

Yes, things are pretty stable right now. There is really very little point in getting anything other than an XP1700 or close equivalent. This happens every now and then when you get a really good product: the K6-2/300 was the same, as was the 6x86MX-200. You had to work really really hard to...

There is only me, the two cats Buck refers to, and Tea. Anyway, there are no extensions. And Tea is imaginary, so it can't be her. In fact, most of the time there is no phone either, just a modem. I do have a telephone here somewhere but it's not normally plugged in to the wall socket. This...

Close, NRG, but no cigar. You forgot the .au. It's www.redhill.net.au That Toshiba sounds awesome, I. You really mean full height? As in the height of two CD-ROM drives? Wow! I don't know about starting a museum. Not a musuem as such, just quite a lot of old and interesting drives. And not...

I have many faults, and my spelling is formost amongst them. :( Or should that be "foremost"? Nope, not Sol. But you are quite correct, I know little of Linux, BSD or any other 'nix.

Pradeep is right, big CT. In fact, I can think of exactly one BSD user among my customers. No doubt there are others but I only know of one. But they are Mitsubishi drives, not Mitsumi. Quiet, seem fast enough, no failures out of 100 or so ... Hard to fault really.

Now the real machines again. A few changes over the last few months. We still can't get Honeywell (i.e., Keytronics) keyboards and stuffed about for ages trying to find a decent substitute. Went with Cherry for a while - German made, not bad, a bit dear, various others, eventually got onto...

I just spent a good half hour re-reading this thread. It's a darn good one, and I think it's worth reviving. There are about six or eight issues arising that I haven't dealt with yet - hell - I haven't responded to Cougtek's question in about the fourth post yet! - but seeing as Tea has half...

Absolutely! I'd love a Hawk, I don't have any Hawks at all. The ST-5660N is also of interest, though less so. We sold a few of the IDE drive that this was an adaptation of, the 5660A, so I'll quite likely get to lay my hands on one of the ones we sold new one day, and in any case I have a...

Very much my own thoughts, Mercutio. As I read through that thread, more and more I started wondering where the mods were. But then SR has always been very, very lax about what you can post. A great strength as well as a great weakness. I also asked myself this: "Imagine this thread was on...

Well, funny thing is, aside from the SMART error, the drive behaves perfertly. As I said in the first post in this thread: "But I have been utterly unable to fault the unit. Sounds normal, performs as expected for a 2.5, no mysterious data errors, no bad sectors, Scandisk is happy, and even the...

> smartctl -a /dev/hda Device: WDC AC22500L Supports ATA Version 3 Drive supports SMART and is enabled Attribute ID 1 Failed Please save all data and call drive manufacture immediately General SMART Values: Off-line data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never...

Hi Jake. I haven't seen your dogginess around for ages.

80 to 90 million transistors? Hoolie Doolie!

Still down.

Ahh ... Is that what is happening. Tea has been getting quite frustrated. All that crunching on her nice new Athlon 1800 and nothing showing up.

Just wondering if we need the two sections in the forum listing: "community" and "off-topic". Ideally I'd like to see a reduction in the number of fora, but I can't see which one would go - they all have their place. But it would be nice to see the entire lot of them, so as to be able to tell...

We have a very low failure rate for speakers, Mercutio. So low that we don't think it's worth opening each box to put a warranty label on them - the time we loose doing that doesn't seem to justify the money we save by having warranty cover. We use three models: A Compro 80W PMPO pair for...

We must have 50 of them, but being in Australia they are not much use to you. Try here: http://downloads.viaarena.com/drivers/video/KPLE_WinME_3124_logod.zip

Sounds like a VIA MVP4 to me, Raptor. I don't think there have been any other VIA chipsets at all that take a Socket 7 CPU and have integrated video and sound. The 4-in-1 won't help with sound and video, you need the seperate driver for those. If you can find a driver CD for almost any...

He already did, Buck. About six months ago. Last of the 19NF before they went to the new model. Sol has a Hercules Gforce III.

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my dmain seems to be down, Tim. It was there last night. I think this means that they are finally moving me to the long promised new server. Yay!

Hmmm .... I guess the question then becomes, at what point does a deterioriation become something that it's justifiable to send back on RMA? I'm thinking in particular of my two year old Hitachi here, because it's almost out of warranty - though it's probably more my not-getting-any-younger eyes...

Yes it does, Mark. Sounds like that's the simple answer. Easier than modding a power supply. Saves the cost of a board too. I'll just have to see if it works OK in practice. (Boot time, ease of use, decent drive detection reporting from the Promise card.) As for the mounting, Mercutio, it's...

Coz the only thing worse than me selling is my proofreading, Coug. I'll just try that again moire sowlky. danm it, I'm not going to edit this post at all, just type as I usually do and then let you see it in all its glory prior to my usual s\loppy proofreading ... Coz the only thing worse...

Tea! Take that back right away! (Disgusting child.) Where are the mods when you need one? Four possible causes occur to me, Sol: (1) You are dreaming. I doubt this but we should consider it. (2) Cable has come loose, deteriorated, or is getting interference from something else. (I doubt...

Buck said ... Sol said ... Mercutio said ... Cougtek said ... Adriel saide ... Timwhit said ... Energy said ... Handruin said ... And this was a simple question?

Hey, no fair. Tea and I use three different ISPs, all with dynamic IPs!

Seems to be my week for asking advice. In the workshop we have a data transfer computer. At present it's a crappy old SiS chipset integrated motherboard with video and a Cyrix 6x86MX-233 and it's nailed to the wall. Attached to it is keyboard, mouse, monitor and floppy drive, plus two IDE...

I want to record some hard drives. Maybe some of you guys are too young to remember what hard drives used to sound like, but in the old days you could tell the exact make and model of a hard drive from across the room without opening the box. Hell, when Louise (the first of my various...

Ahh .... curiosity. But that flashing ad got the better of me after approximately 0.3 seconds. Zap! No more xxxx.net. (Edited by Tannin to remove quasi-link to warez site and save heartache for the mods.. Borderline decisions are always the hard ones.)

I'm afraid I can't offer any useful advice on that James. I just don't know anything much about them, other than my own Sony, which is almost certainly not the right thing for you. Tea will no doubt finish off her mini-how-to sometime over the next few days with some tips on distance and...

It's difficult but not at all impossible to find a drive with 33% higher latency that can outperform a given higher RPM model, Time. All you need is to have one or other of two things: (1) the low RPM drive has outstanding seek performance not normally expected within its class or (2) the...

Hercules, as I recall, got into severe difficulty a few years ago when they were bought by a get-rich-quick asset stripper, who flogged off everything valuable and left the remainder to go bankrupt. The rotting bones of the company were bought by Guillemot, and since that time they have been...

Tryng again ..... Last time G@H made my system unstable. Seems to be working OK at present. Touch wood.

Good Lord! Tim is back! I thought he was going to be too ill after his massive binge on Saturday night, and need a little of your excellent Canadian hospitalization for about 10 years.

Well, at least they have stopped using that stolen OS9 - not thet OS I'm talking about here, the name. That was a disgrace.

How is it possible to do a gigaflop when you don't even have an ordinary flop drive anymore?

Bloody rip-off monopoly pricing. :( No wonder your name is Bill. Mercutio, when are you going to set up in competition, and how big a discount are you offering?

Norton didn't write Ghost, they bought the company. But don't worry, give Symantec a few years to work on it and they'll stuff that one up too. (Mind you, NAV is decently usable now, something that it wasn't a few years ago. Perhaps the merger with IBM Anti-Virus has helped them.) By the way...

Looks like I'm behind the times. Again

Although I'm running PC-cillan on my home box at present, I only stuck it on the other day. Mostly I don't use anything: same deal as Mercutio, don't open attachments, don't use Outlook or anything remotely related to it. That makes you 85% safe. Don't install Microsoft Office on any machine...

20MB takes long enough! Post? What post?

No problem, little sister. All the URLs are different now that we have more-or-less reloaded the site, so I just adjusted the links. Pradeep: yes, an FD-100. The 1000 was a mistake. And 20MB too. 20GB of server space would be nice, but it's actually 20MB.

Damn that girl is quick!

Hey? Where is my avatar?

There aren't any specs for PC-2700. It isn't a standard, just a marketing tool. As I understand it, there won't be any point in going above 266MHz DDR* until two things happen: 1: There is an actual standard to make the products to. There is a comittee working on it but they don't seem to be...