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Was an authority, yes. But that's the thing about dishonesty: once you have been caught lying the first time, no-one will ever quite trust you again. Was an authority. It's like Bill Clinton: no-one much cared if he was bonking Monica or not - I mean, let's face it, she was as ugly as a...

Stealing someone else's work is stealing someone else's work. No ifs, buts or maybes.

Ahh! There are two command processors! I have always gone: START RUN command This runs command.com and although it has that nifty options box, the options don't work - at least the command history doesn't. START RUN cmd gives me cmd.exe - and the history works just fine. So what is the...

Subject says it all, really. Working without command hisatory is such a pain.

It's the first thing we talked about :eekers: Perfectly safe - just so long as you're not touching te computer.....

What you get is the poll options you input minus one - i.e., you have to create one surplus blank entry before you post.

I'm forever getting spam trying to sell me .biz and .info domain names. And the other new one, which I forget.

Six to one so far. Sort of speaks for itself, really. Who was the one, and why? (Not that it matters, just curious.) I think one of the reasons the front page was so little visited until recently was the link not taking us there. Ha! I mean "the obvious link that isn't actually a link." Guess...

Sol is at it again. He wants a quiet power supply. Needs to be 300W or better, good quality, available in Oz. His A-Open 300 works just fine, but it makes too much fan noise. Any suggestions?

Subject to Astralian pornography laws, of course. :) (But seriously, how pornographic can you get in an 80 x 80 pixel gif?) (Err ... I mean PNG, of course.)

Email it to me and I'll put it up for you, Mercutio.

Interesting links, Me, Myself and i. Thankyou. As for the on-site, off-site think, can't say I care eoither way. Indeed, we could loose the avatars completely and I wouldn't mind. They are kind of cute though.

Buck, your knowledge of matters Western Digital continues to astonish me. Thankyou!

IBM invented rotating magnetic storage in 1956. Shugart Associates invented the floppy drive in 1975. Seagate invented the hard drive in 1981. I don't know who put up the first storage-related web site, but I know mine wasn't even close to the first, and mine was up four years before Storage...

I like it the way it is.

Can anyone help me with a couple of drive model numbers from 1999? Western Digital are playing their stupid pretend-we-never-heard-of-it game again. This time, the problem is with their original Expert drives - a model they have always been coy about, ever since they had their lovers tiff with...

Hey, you're talking to a man who lost 4800 posts here. :o You think I didn't have a copy on my hard disc? :) And with the houirs I keep .... well ... let's just say that girlfriends have trrouble understanding.

Woops! Sorry, I was half way through a post. So what I got was a "the posting page doesn't exist" error message. And ... er ... wait till I'm not logged on? Do you ever sleep?

OS/2 Browsers: Used Web Explorer for about two years. (There was no Internet Explorer then, and Netscape was messing about in the 1.x and 2.x stages.) Then switched to Netscape Navigator/2 2.02. The OS/2 Netscape version numbers are weird: think of it as equivalent to Windows Navigator 3.5 or...

Cool! I was about to report another outage, but only to the BBS, not to the front page, but now I see that there was a reason for it. :)

My spelling is wrong, but yes: Louden Wainwright Jnr. He toured over here a year or two ago, I heard him and his guitar do a radio interview. For all that he is only known for that one song, he is a superb musician, and that rarity amongst entertainers, a thoughtful, sensible man. You're...

Tim, it runs ECS 1.0, which is the new name for the latest version of OS/2. Silly name, but it's a superb operating system: very stable, brilliant multi-tasking (far superior to any Windows version), practically impossible to get a virus infection - Windows viruses just don't know how to cope...

Buck - I've finally remembered to record the full model number of a 40GB Protege: WD400EB-32CPF0. Hope that means more to you than it does to me!

Oh, sorry Buck. I didn't mean from a technical point of view, I just meant from the point of view of having a reasonably consistent look and feel. Already the three main sections (drives, CPUs and main boards) have different colour schemes - adding different font faces would be a bit much, I...

Hoolie Doolie! Haven't been there for a couple of weeks, there is real movement at the station. Better change my bookmarks, pronto. Great stuff, Coug and team!

i: Thanks. Fixed now. (At least my local copy is, I won't FTP it up till I get the new layout bedded down.) Fixed one in the WD JB entry too. Ahh ... about the Rupees ... am I take it that you are an old-timer, i, and know where Kalock/JTS did their manufacturing then? :) Buck & James: I keep...

Thanks HD. I figured out a better way to do it. Sort of kludgy in its own sweet way, and probably breaking all the rules of good coding, but what the hell - I always was a hardware guy, first, last and in-between too. Well, since I put my Z-80 out to pasture, anyway. What I did was use the CSS...

So, here was the dilema: I wanted lines in the tables, but nice looking ones, and I wanted them to look the same in most browsers. Eventually, I figured out a way, and it not only looks the same in all browsers, it looks great. Maybe it could use a light line around the outside of the table...

Alas, the newer browsers look horrible with their white table borders: That's Opera 6.0 above. And Internet Explorer 5.0 is much the same. Clearly, there had to be a better way. And this is what finally pushed me into braving the complexities of CSS.

Funny you should say that, Helldiver, I rather liked the lines myself. I originally laid out the site using Netscape/2 2.02. This was back in the days when Netscape had 80% market share, and practically no-one used IE. Since then I've only fiddled round the edges. And, in Netscape, the tables...

Most of you will be familiar with my site at www.redhill.net.au by now. Lord knows, it's been there long enough. Well, I've made a reasonable start on updating the content after three or four years of minimal maintenence, but the time has come to drag the actual HTML code, kicking and...

It was down again just now.

Funny you should ask that question .... (No, not me, someone I know.)

512MB. Possibly even 256MB. Why so little? Because RAM is relatively dear right now, seeing as Siemens and Micron and Samsung et al have given up on trying to send Hynix broke. In October last year, at the height of the nastiness, RAM accounted for, on average, 1% of typical overall system...

Err, lots of computers, but only one that is useful for this kind of stuff at present. (That's this home one, one of the Athlon 1700s, which is currently still doing the United Devices thing. Am I supposed to switch it over?) The others are not useful for this task at present. The office Athlon...

Scotch and soda, please. Hi James K.

Err, that's what I meant, too.

Hi William, welcome aboard. I'm afraid I don't understand your question properly. Could you expand please? Lots of people didn't like MVP3 boards in general and the 503+ in particular, but I always loved them. Our three Athlons aside, all our other machines are K6-III+ and VA-503-based. I make...

RSI. An overuse injury to the tendons in your fingers. (It made me laugh too.)

Speaking of old drives and cameras, how do you guys like this little beauty? Click to enlarge! (Yes, even you, Mercutio. It's only 108k.) I've got heaps more, but this one will do to start with.

I've spent several weeks making a start on the masive task of rebuilding my incredibly out of date web site which, despite having had next to no upkeep for three years or so, still gets ~1000 page views a day (if the hit counter can be believed). Stats at www.redhill.net.au/stats They stop in...

Been down for three or four hours. It came back up again several hours ago, but you can't post, only read.

In that case, Mercutio, you have burned exactly four more CDRs than I have.

Hey! If I keep this up I can catch your post count, Mercutio!

I thought both Warp versions did support SMP. Must be misremembering. Not an important factor for me as I have never owned a dualie. We must have crossed over a little, Mercutio: I started with OS/2 2.1 when it first came out. That was in 386DX/40 days, I think. Never messed with 2.0 or earlier.

I thought both Warp versions did support SMP. Must be misremembering. Not an important factor for me as I have never owned a dualie. We must have crossed over a little, Mercutio: I started with OS/2 2.1 when it first came out. That was in 386DX/40 days, I think. Never messed with 2.0 or earlier.

They are reasonably common on the market, i. They seem to work fine, though as Mercutio says, not exatly lightning fast by today's standards. We used to use Backpack drives a lot - www.microsolutions.com - but it's better these days to use a simple external box like Mercutio's as you can fit any...

The default PM desktop is horrible. Worse than KDE. But you can do anything with it, and it is wonderfully consistent. Give me three minutes in fromt of your 1994-vintage OS/2 3.0 box, and I'll give you a better interface than any Windows version yet released. Warp 4.0 was better, and ECS raises...

Excuses won't wash. It was interesting to read your post about the state of the commercial Unix market, Mercutio (an area that you know vastly more about than I ever will), and about the reasons why KDE is so bad that it needs all those excuses. But the bottom line is that KDE is bad. It's...

KDE is the very worst thing about Linux. Huh? Yup. KDE is the best of the Linux GUIs, or at least the best one that I have seen, and it just can't cut it. Give Linux a decent desktop and it will rule the world very, very soon. Saddle it with second-rate refugees from the world of DR GEM and...