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It seems that Tom has now removed all references to the name of his one-time writer, Van Smith. Now it's one thing to part company with an author, it's another thing altogether to remove his name from the articles you have on your site that he wrote two years ago, and yet another thing to fake a...

Oh, they're a positive all right, drive rails are definately a positive. A positive pain in the arse.

Looks like a babe to me. Can't help you with the bar though.

Of course, it would be faster than shipping from Brisbane. :cry: You know, in 1849 during the gold rush they used to ship your shirts from California to China and back to wash them, and you could have had your shirt washed twice in China via clipper ship faster than you can get a tube of Artic...

Is there something about climbing and storage? Completely off-topic, in this thread I just posted this: Note, Flagreen, that the gentlemen in the first picture are on the way up, and the young fella doing Kachoong above is on the way out, whereas you, for all your nifty yellow gear, are on...

Doh! I hate mornings. In the days of ...

In the says of te 1MB VESA card, Western Digital were just the best. Better than Tseng, and Tseng were good. I loved them.

In the says of te 1MB VESA card, Western Digital were just the best. Better than Tseng, and Tseng were good. I loved them.

Excuse me NRG. I'm entirely dependant on other people for my video card knowledge - for myself, I look at cross-platform driver availability and 2D picture quality, nothing else. In other words, I just plug in a G450 or, if I'm budget constrained, a G200. I wouldn't recognise a frame rate if you...

You are a sick man, Sol. How did you get your case bright blue? Last time I saw it it was a boring and utilitarian A-Open grey. Not counting the LEDs, does it glow in the dark yet? (Note to Storage Forum readers: yes, there is a reason I can afford to put X15s into my home computer, and his...

I'm not sure that the pagefile has any effect on this machine, Greg. It's so ridiculously over-powered for the work it does already that fine tuning is just silly. So, for that matter, is spending all that money on the CPU and hard drives for it! But for what it's worth, I left the page file on...

I'm pretty sure that Toshiba and Sony have exited the desktop drive business many years ago. Last time I saw an NEC drive new, it was one of these: As for made in Japan ... This was around about the time that NEC signed a bit design and component manufacturing agreement with IBM. But I...

Excuse me - that's my girlfriend you are talking about there, Tea. Sometimes I think that you forget you are only imaginary.

If we are going to be correct, it should be "Cliptin and me" - courtesy demands that the speaker put himself last. Or am I supposed to say CLIPTIN in all caps now? :wink:

The GTS is the obsolete model. NRG. It has been replaced by the GTi. For example, the one I'm holding in my hand right now: MSI G2Ti Pro-VT.

Ahh, California. But where is the link to that oldest hardware webpage of them all?

Thanks for the vote of confidence Buck, but I'm Chairman and should not be a moderator also. Perhaps after my term expires. (The same applies to Handruin, of course.)

I should know this, but where are you from again, Bartender? Guess I always assumed you had a camp bed in a back room behind the virtual bar.

Oh, Sol, much as it would be a clear and obvious benefit to our customers to spare them from that perversion MS call PA, I think that it would place us in breach of the licencing agreement. Instead, we do our best to persuade people to buy something else instead. I'm thinking about putting a...

We have never made it to the Begonia Festival! Ballarat has beautiful parks and gardens, though mostly on the other side of town - the south side where I live has been neglected ever since the various town councils merged in 1920 or so. Local memories are very, very long! But for some reason or...

You mean there are other web sites?

4800 posts wasn't a lot! Now, 5000+, that was excessive. :wink:

That shut-down and restart problem suggests AGP problems, Buck. Best diagnosis is an ISA video card. Failing that, a PCI one - but ISA is best. If you can shut down and restart properly then, it's time to look at your main board. Other main candidate is PSU, but mainboard is the prime suspect.

Buck, I stick pretty closely to the cards that don't give me problems - as you'd expect, given my dislike of doing unpaid support work. At present these are: S3 Trio 3D/2X - cheap, non-3D, practical (Generic) TNT M64 (Generic) Gforce II 200, 400 & GTi (some generic, some MSI or ASUS) Matrox...

We are, bit by bit, transitioning from our inital ad-hoc organisation to a longer-term, more organised and democratic form. To begin with, moderation of the forums was left in the hands of the Webmaster, and in fact, so far, there has been no need for moderation. We have been lucky insofar as no...

Just for the record, site was down for about 20 minutes just now. I'd tell you the time, but would it really help to know that it's 5:57AM here?

I have had, from time to time, the most interesting experience of spending Christmas at Mt Arapiles (pronounced "ar-apple-ies", not "ara-piles") in the Western District of Victoria. Arapilies is regarded as one of the "absolutely must visit" places for rock climbing. They say that there are...

WD? My guess was that he worked for Seagate.

Emailing 15 different ways is always a mess. But the reason you never got half of them, Mercutio, is that your ISP's brainless mail server kept spitting them back at me. :-? (I probably still have the "I don't like this host" messages somewhere.) There were never any error messages from Jason's...

Jason knows all about Storage Forum. He was one of the 18 or so people I included in my original mail-out in early January, and between the four or five mails I sent and the various replies and discussions arising, he would have had at least a dozen different ones. He didn't reply to any of...

It's a Quantum allright. Not only does it look exactly like an LCT, it says "made in Japan" and Quantum were the only desktop hard drive manufacturer in that country. Given their 4400 RPM spin rate, they were actually not a bad drive. Certainly no worse than a U Series Seagate, possibly...

It would be handy but it probably needs an update to phpBB itself, Cliptin. I doubt that that is something the Webmaster can change. Maybe in release 3.0.

Listen to Greg.

It would be rude. But better than sending a petition, at least. An email from one single individual is bad enough, a petition arriving out of the blue would be quite horrible. And one should never say something as part of a group that one is not willing to say as a single individual. This is a...

This is a just-for-the-record thread, containing old posts which I have removed from the actual FAQ. See the FAQ thread for current information.

Note that anything posted in this thread is likely to be edited or deleted! We welcome discussion of any or all of these matters, but use a different thread for it please. And thanks, Cliptin. Typos now corrected. :)

Now that Storage Forum is up and running smoothly, we have had a chance to get ourselves a little more organised. Here is how the team is shaping up. Handruin remains Webmaster - and a damn good one in my view. My term as Chairman expires on 1st July. After that I'll take a back seat for a...

(Originally posted by Tannin on 13 Feb 2002 18:47 ) Appointments Now that Storage Forum is up and running, we have had a chance to get ourselves a little more organised. Here is how the team is shaping up. Handruin remains Webmaster - and a damn good one in my view. I am acting as the...

(Originally posted by Handruin on 23 Jan 2002 16:37) What company is hosting www.storageforum.net and what are the specifications? "The Storage Forum" is hosted by www.burst.net. The initial hosting is done through a reseller who offers a fair price to keep this place running. The domain is...

(Originally posted by Mercutio on 23 Jan 2002 10:23) Why have only a small group of SR members been invited to join, and how were they chosen? At some point earlier this week, there was an absolute deadlock among the people in the admin group about revealing this site to the SR community...

(Originally posted by Tannin on 23 Jan 2002 04:22 ) Who is welcome to this community? Members of the old Storage Review forum community in particular, but also anyone who is (a) interested in computer storage, and (b) capable of discussing matters of mutual interest in a civilised way. Who...

(Originally posted by Tannin on 23 Jan 2002 02:36) Hi all and welcome. This thread is to get you up to speed on Storage Forum. Please feel very welcome to respond to it, ask questions, criticise, and make suggestions. (There is a discussion thread for just that puropse.) What is Storage Forum...

I have edited the Storage Forum FAQ thread to bring it up to date. This thread is simply a copy of the old thread, before my edits, and can be ignored. (Unless you like reading through really boring old administrative stuff, that is.)

i, that is beautiful. You know, none of the words are the same, but the overall experience is exactly the same one I had. In my post to start this thread I left out all sorts of nice little conversations that could have come right out of that Slashdot story. My HP experience had the same exact...

Ahh! I was going to say Macleans, I'm a Macleans man myself, but I remembered just in time that we have non-Aussie readers here too and figured that Colgate might be more readily understood. I did consider saying "Pepsodent" but decided that that was going too far. :) And Pradeep - that was...

That is a kind offer, Time. I think most things are resolved now, if not to satisfaction, at least to the point where people can move on and find a more reliable supplier. Oh, there is one thing though. Now that Sol has rescued his RAM courtesy of Tek and Colgate, we have one slightly used...

Why I will never sell Hewlett-Packard again We have been selling Hewlett-Packard printers for over ten years. Sometimes we sell other brands, but we have always stuck with Hewlett-Pakard and Epson for the vast bulk of our printer requirements. We don't sell a lot of printers - computers are our...

No Buck. But I've used a million XPs on them, of course. Isn't an MP just an XP with multiple CPU certification?

Buck, that wasn't CNN Sport, it was Tea. I don't know what she was doing with CNN's password, but I've spoken severely to her and she promises to never, ever, do it again. Cougtek, when Tea is allowed to post again, if she's allowed to post again, she will no doubt say that she used the drivers...

This is the most appalling inditement of that ludicrous "product activation" scheme I have ever heard. Why, why why do you voluntarily, of your own free will put up with that incredible arrogance? Where are your W2k CDs? I hadn't thought of that aspect of XP till you mentioned it just now, and...