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By all means, Tim, if you want to. You seem to have elected yourself Minister in Charge of Question 2.3.2 - you decide! Then, if lots of people disagree with you, I can say it was all your fault! Seriously though, the best things are not planned in any detail and thought through long in...

I know it says little about the quality of the components inside the drive, but I have always been impressed by the visible attention to detail you see in the better SCSI drives. Pick up an X15, say, and look at the standard of the finish, or an old 500MB Fujitsi SCSI drive for that matter. Then...

A healthy dose of common sense there Clocker. I think you are absolutely right. In the 5400s, I am absolutley wedded to our Samsungs. Roughly 1000 drives now, over a period of two or three years, and not one single in-service failure, just a solitary DOA - and even that drive was not dead, it...

BBF are the only Maxtor distributor that I know of, LiamC. (Woops - just checked, there is Ingram Micro and Digiland. We already buy IBM notebooks from Ingram.) I'll check them out, but we buy a heap of stuff from Westan - WD, Samsung, Mitsubushi, Epox - and we get great prices from them on...

The first question with an internal modem over a year or so old, especially an ISA one, is "why did the damn thing ever work?" (If it ever worked.) It's an odd one, Clocker. But internal modems are, frankly, absolute shits of things. So it's not that odd, really. Up until a year or so ago, we...

Bloody sisters. I've been home for hours and she still hasn't turned up. Sometimes I think I should have invented a brother instead. At least I might get to spend more time at the pub that way. Where is everyone? Bartender!?

Oh, everybody insults Picard. But, seeing as I've got your undivided attention now, tell me this: What did you think of the guy over in SR who started off asking why people think RAID 0 is unreliable and ended up being told by HM the King that he could improve his chances with multiple...

I'm not "pretending"! I'm really doing it! Honest. Well, some of the time, anyway.

I guess you're right, kid. It's a long long way to 1000 posts, but we will do it, you and me. So, what you gonna start us off with?

Ahh, thankyou Groltz. Having read it, I'm not sure that I wanted to know after all. The world is a strange and terrible place. I stopped reading newspapers quite a few years ago and (bar a movie or a little sport now and then) don't watch television, so the only news I hear these days is on...

Who is Daniel Pearl?

Ahh yes.

Or possibly that Creative doesn't support Creative. I mean, what is it now? Four years we have been waiting for decent Sound Blaster Live drivers? And we are still waiting.

Which is the exact same reason I'm still running the MSI! Guess I'll leave it in there till there is a sensible reason to step up. XP 2200? PC2600 RAM? We will see what turns up. You know, the only thing I dream about computer hardware wise these days is monitors.

I've come close to the "ten or more times" category with a certain brand of motherboard that I am too polite to mention.

James.

"Shortly" - a period of time, possibly quite a long period of time. (The Tannin Dictionary.)

Correct on both counts, I think. He seems to have dropped out from Storage Review these days, but he was always pushed for time and never posted much. I owe him an email anyway, so maybe he will drop in and say hi to us.

Meroveus?

Boags might just be the best beer in the world one day. But they will have to burn down the Cascade Pale Ale brewery first.

What the %&*# is going on with IBM these days? They used to be so good!

Santilli took his llB. Who was the other one? Adcadet? E_Dawg?

"The King's Head" "The Crown and Anchor" "The Lounge" "Not the Office!" "The Frequent Flyers Club" (yuk!) "The 19th Hole" "The Watering Hole" "Furphy" (may require a historical note to explain this one - or have James and I done this often enough already?) "Lies, Perversion and...

I need to be at the office to answer those questions Buck - and damn it! - it's 10:05AM already and I need to be at the office!

Nope: just "error #2". We had two Proteges because we ordered five Samsungs, far and away my favourite 5400 RPM drive, but they were out of stock. The WD Caviar 20GB 5400 has finished up now, so the only other thing my supplier had in 20GB was the Protege. The alternatives were Maxtor 20GB...

The question, Tim, is not "how much do I stress the language?" It is "how much does the language stress me?" :mrgrn:

Hey! Buck! Nice to see you. :) Sure you didn't leave a "0" off there? Or are you going to join the short people (Tea and DB) down under the bar?

Err, Prof, you do know who created the Storage Review FAQ in the first place, don't you? (Hint: it was someone involved with this thread, and I don't mean me.) Stereodude: 5.0.1 is indeed an significant question. :( Still, at least it would give people an excuse to answer newbie questions EBB...

Time, I see that you are making up for the small quantity of your posts these days with a dash of extra quality. Your tale of the little drive that couldn't was delightful. :P

On the other hand, the Epox has much better placement of the LED and switch connectors. Still line ball. Now the $64 question. Are all KT-266A boards this good, or is it just the Epox and the Soltek?

Maybe you are getting a RAID version of the board. I've never seen any of that Hightpoint rubbish on an Epox. Hmmm - just checked their web site, there doesn't seem to be a RAID version. It's a mystery. Right now I'm paying about A$30 less for the Epox, but that's because the SL-75DRV4 is only...

You know, Vlad, I think SR has improved a great deal in the last couple of days. Oh, there is a lot of crap posted there but there is quite a bit of good stuff too all of a sudden. Perhaps it's just a random blip, but there have been maybe a dozen threads I really wanted to read and participate...

Whooah there! It was James who said it. I just explained it. Not Guilty Your Worships! It was some other bloke. James: you have one slightly used trout in your mail.

Nothing to do with his nationality, Cliptin, just to do with what he said after the other guy crashed into him, the best skater on the rink, and wound up handing what was (I'm told) rightfully his medal to a mere honest plodder instead. Might he not have said "Ohno"? (Now you are sorry you...

An excellent suggestion, James. Looks like a heck of a lot of work, but why not? It would be a resource of real value.

Actually, I don't have a VCR. I lent it to a friend a while ago and when she asked what time I wanted it back I said, "er ... don't bother about it". That was a couple of years ago. I turn my TV on now and then though. I've quite possibly used it once already this year. But as for Clockwork...

What the hell. It's my half-birthday. Gimme a break. :)

Last night The Prof asked why his Google search came up with a #1 listing for a site that started out: "your browser can't display frames, upgrade to a frames-capable browser". Seeing as he's running IE 6.0, why is it so, he asked. Essentially, because the Google search engine (I assume) goes...

Hatchet job: yup, that's as good a description as any. Been far too long since I took the gloves off and laid into a review properly, as in the old days. Good for the soul. :mrgrn: In fact, I'm in the mood for another one. Any more handy targets kicking round? There is nothing quite like the...

Almost, I weakened and downloaded Flash to look at this. But I stayed pure and resisted the temptation.

Almost, I weakened and downloaded Flash to look at this. But I stayed pure and resisted the temptation.

Not at all unfair, Prof. Eugene is indeed at SR to stay and I rejoice in that. But, once bitten twice shy - I'll not trust too much of my best writing to SR's database again. Post there, yes. Often. But spend hours crafting and researching an SR post the way I used to? No way. If it's...

Only the long ones, Tim. There are a few other posts I made last night from my home machine which are still on hard drive there and I'll repost them (if they seem worth it when I get home and look at them). Or leave go if they seem trivial. (More trivial than usual, I mean.) These days at SR...

Errrr .... should I explain that one? Maybe not.

An excellent idea! Now, one more favour, if you please. Delete ~100 of Mercutio's posts. Any of them, just so long as you knock him back to a respectable ~250 or so.

Reposted from last night: complete with a spelling correction this time! 3: Heat is the problem. Both the 60GXP and the 75GXP "run so damn hot", we are told. Once again there is no evidence raised to support this claim. But having made an unsubstianted allegation, the writer then cheerfully...

This is why you do nightly backups, Doug. This is why James is working on a comprehensive "all risks" backup scheme. No apology required! The server died, you had a backup, we lost a few posts.No big deal. The main thing is we kept the database. On the contrary, congratulations are in order...

Sorry, I was unclear in my expression, Doug. I didn't mean "that's why we wrote the rules, you dummie!", I meant "oh, it hadn't occuirred to me that there might be other reasons - I'm a dummie!" (And a double dummie that I didn't check up that everybody else had made the same assumption. That...

I had always thought that the registration page was the reason we wrote the rules in the first place.

Thanks for the update Doug. The site is working fine just now again. I'll keep my fingers crossed.