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Time flies! Haven't been in prison, but have had some rough times over that period, especially post-2008. Things are slowly turning around now and I have some hope for this year being better. Have been doing some PC upgrades over the past few weeks which brought back memories of SR and SF...

I haven't tried this but I have a couple of shots in the dark... I expect it would work fairly poorly over USB2. Are you using USB3? If you're using USB3 and still having issues then perhaps buy & try one of the certified drives to see if that resolves the issues.

Happy New Year everyone! Hope 2016 is a great year for us all!

First off, very sorry to hear that some of us on SF have not had good Christmas seasons this year. :( I hope that by the time Christmas rolls around next year that things have improved immensely. Can't say anything about the DVD burner. But the camera has good and bad. My mother has an A70...

Read that and groaned... Sigh. :roll: Ian

In no particular order: Natural Born Killers (Because I feel it is true that the media sensationalizes crime.) Scrooge (1951 adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" starring Alistair Sim. B&W version, of course!) Good Morning Vietnam (Robin Williams is soooo good!) Highlander (If...

In the spirit of commercialism...What'd everyone get (or buy themselves!) for Christmas? Guess Santa thought I was a good boy this year, cause I got a new camera lens... :) One of these. I think I gave some good presents too though. Tickets to Japan for my parents, jewelry for my wife...

140, Facts Curator. I did this test a little while ago during a lunch break at work. The info they have on the page about the different IQ tests is interesting. Different IQ tests work with different scales. Some have a maximum score, some are much more open ended. I couldn't find any...

Yup, for a large network that would be the ideal solution. It would be even better to have such a solution that could run on top of WinNT Server and not need 512MB of memory and 6gigs of HD space... :( At least MS doesn't seem to be charging for it though! That would be the killer -- build...

I haven't heard that the logons are being encrypted, but it is certainly not impossible. The trouble is that the entire session needs to be encrypted. If not, your Windows passwords are being sent in plaintext! As well as everything else you type... The most popular way to add security to...

If anyone is wondering "Why TightVNC instead of RealVNC (or one of the others)?", these are my reasons: 1. Faster than VNC, with selectable compression levels. 2. Mouse cursor is no longer a bitmap that is sent from the remote PC. It is the local hardware cursor, and therefore much much...

Damn, forgot to add the bit that Merc's site reminded me of!! I use a Linux-based boot floppy for erasing HDDs of machines that are no longer to be used. I have used BC Wipe until now, (download the bcwipe.flp file and write to a floppy using WinImage or another file-->floppy program), but...

CougTek -- Cool site, will check it out in more detail! Mercutio -- Also interesting stuff there. Reminded me of something else too, more below. Here are a couple of things that I do with some of the tools at Sysinternals: Well, one I already mentioned. I script the ability to disable...

Where do you go for great freeware applications? What do you use? (The titles below are links.) Pricelessware Some of the stuff listed here is only truly free for individual use, but it is a fantastic source of information, with no banners, pop-ups, flash animations... Sysinternals If you've...

Good idea Handruin! I have also used that when moving a program from Access to MySQL -- it works very well. You can use the Access Export feature to export the tables and data directly into MySQL via ODBC. This works, but not perfectly -- keys and indexes have to be recreated. There are...

How is she getting the data into/out of the Access tables then? Aah... I guess she is only using those nasty nasty VB controls... :( I've never used them, (tried, but found doing it by hand easier!), but they should work with MySQL through the MyODBC driver... Ian

I used to use Access for quite a bit of stuff too, also with VB front ends. Had some multi-user problems, and issues with performance over the network, so I changed to MySQL. WOW! Huge, huge improvement. Access is quite a good solution for single-user setups, but MySQL is a way way better...

Next target is HP though... Dell will get them on the low end, and IBM will get them on the high end. Only a matter of time. Ian

I don't have any hard figures, but my feeling is that Apple does roughly the same here as elsewhere. I think Japan is still the #2 market for Apple, following the US, but with the advent of cheap Wintell machines and the post-bubble reduction of spending, Apple has lost market here too. I just...

Any plans to come back to Osaka Greg? Did you live here before? I was quite impressed with the bilingual TV when I arrived here in 1993 too. Even though it is just stereo TV with one channel for Japanese and the other for English, it works well. Unless you have an old TV that was stereo, but...

Interesting... I can't find anything on their site either way. Would certainly be wise to look at the chip carefully before purchasing. PCI used to be so simple! Ian

Mixed replies here, it gets kind of jumpy! ----- NT4 became noticibly faster than 3.x because the video drivers were moved to Ring 0 execution. The downside to this is that a bad video driver gives a BSOD... But if the processor has to change rings every time the display needs to be updated...

Currently it is server/workstation boards that are running 3.3V slots. This is kind of foggy in my mind, but if I remember correctly, PCI 2.1 is 5V only, 2.2 will support both 3.3V and legacy 5V PCI products as well, but PCI 2.3 (maybe??) and onwards will only run at 3.3V. All of the current...

Great to hear about the Smoothwalls!! I use one at home, and have some private consulting clients on them as well. At my daily job we use a BSD-based firewall that is under the control of the IT deptartment in our head office. The small hardware-only boxes are very cheap here now. They do...

The Tekram controllers are good, but they will only work in a 5V PCI slot. I am surprised that Tekram still has not redesigned this part for the newer 3.3V slots. See here for specs that state it is still 5V. :( If you are sure you will only use the card in a 5V/32bit/33MHz slot, or a...

Tea, Regarding the reason for having Allow/Deny/No permissions set... In Windows, if permission is not granted specifically, it is automatically refused. Hence the ability to have Allow and No Permissions set. The Deny is for the following situation: You have a group of 50 people that are...

Heheh! Well, often doing things via the command line is easier and faster. Especially tasks that can be scripted. In any case, at least with the command line no one thinks it looks easier than it really is... :D Ian

I use OE actually, but I have it set to display messages in Text Only for exactly the reasons you mentioned. I never send messages with HTML in them (formatting etc), and I never read messages in HTML format. Why do I use OE? Because of it's seamless Unicode and Japanese support. Other...

The page is gone... Guess it was either an inside joke as mentioned above, or released before it should have been. Would have been cool to see such a chip! Doesn't seem a logical thing for Intel to do though. It would give AMD fits though. Hmmm... Ian

HTML should stay on web pages where it belongs... Had an email conversation with a friend tonight, and since she started with HTML mail, it stayed that way through the replies back and forth. The messages were short, and I am not sure how many there were, but I suddenly noticed that it had...

Ah, one more item that didn't quite make it in. Slow brain. :( It is best to only set permissions to one of the three "standard" Windows permission settings: 1. Read Only (this is the standard one that Windows presets when you add a new user or group for permissions. It includes Read &...

To add to the confusion, you can either set share permissions via the share, or via the NTFS permissions. If the share is on an NTFS drive (it should be if at all possible), then you should leave the Share Permissions to "Everyone Full Access" and then restrict access by the NTFS file...

Interesting stuff Buck. I wonder how they managed to keep that 44.5 litre engine fed -- at 3000rpm it would be moving 2025 cubic feet of air per minute, an amazing amount of air. For comparison, a 2 litre engine at 7000rpm does about 210 cfm. Well, family wants to go shopping, so I guess I...

As an aside... Fastest street-legal car I have heard about was a Calloway 'Vette that did 254mph on a track somewhere in the US. Car & Driver drove the car to the track, did the speed run, then drove it back. I read about this in C&D ten or 12 years ago, so I imagine that by now there is a...

I still ride my bike, but the car gets a fair amount of use -- the novelty hasn't worn off yet! Haven't had a car in Japan before... Almost 9 years here now. It is starting to cool down now though, so I hope to get more time on the bike! Heheh, I guess that means that instead of cursing the...

Howell -- Thank you! :) We are very happy with the new arrival. I hear that the new Legacy GT (B4 RSK's replacement) will be available in the US/Canada, but not sure about Europe. If so, it will be strong competition for the Maxima as well as cars like the M3... Subaru did some amazing things...

JoJo -- you are quite possibly thinking of Bill Gates and the 959... It was in the media when it happened. I used to be a big Porsche fan... But my previous boss drove a 911 Turbo, and was such an asshole that I have kind of lost interest in them now... :( With a wife + kid it isn't likely...

Another big plus for Firewire is that it supports device chaining, just like SCSI. Just plug another device into the end of the chain and go. :) Ian

First a disclaimer... I am openly biased agasint USB from the early days of USB hell... Only one USB port on a notebook? Get a 4-port hub. Plug in the scanner, camera, mouse, and printer. Hmm, printer doesn't work. Unplug them all and try a different order. Everything works now... Reboot...

Tea, Nice to be able to "chat" with someone who is on a similar time zone! Yes, I have found that various TFTs connected to the same computer will produce different image qualities. In general newer TFTs are better than older TFTs, but a really good one from the past will beat a lousy one...

Good to see you too Tea! Well, TFT displays are digital... And computers are digital too. So ideally they should be connected together digitally. However, CRT monitors are analogue, hence the need for the RAMDAC on standard video cards. If a VGA port is used for a flat panel though, it ends...

I'd love to have a DVI port on a motherboard... We have a bunch of Samsung 172Ts at work now, and the quality difference between an analogue connection and a DVI connection is very noticeable. Also, when connected with DVI, the panel never needs to be recalibrated. They are connected to Dell...

With a bit of luck he will have stopped himself from being able to reproduce... Too many people like him in the world already. :( Ian

Pradeep -- Thanks, it's good to be around. :) Hope to spend a bit more time here. CougTek -- I was over at a friend's house the other day to do some updates on her computer. She has 8Mb/1.5Mb ADSL that costs 2,000yen/month. I was getting a solid 4Mb/sec download speed from MS. That...

One day I will leave Japan and go somewhere else... Not sure exactly where or when, but it will happen eventually. The very fast and very cheap broadband gravy train will end then I guess... 100Mb FTTH for about US$100/month (or less) 24Mb Down, 1.5Mb Up ADSL for US$50/month (or less) The...

I finally made it over... Good to see everyone here! Seen the latest on SR's front page everyone? Another month of SR! :) And also a new review! Anyway, have to run to work... Will be back later -- have to update my .sig!! ;) Ian