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Mr Webmaster Doug, please immediately delete Tannin'z cheating post and attribute it to its rightful and proper creator: viz, me! (the big sneak) (sniff)

and stick them somewhere unmentionable which I wouldn't understand where he won't want to go looking for them.

Next time I'll cut his fingers off

And I will not keep quiet till this injustice is righted!

And I am not happy about it!

I've been investigating and this: it was my pozt!

I banned Tannin from posting at Storage Forum until I caught up to him!

Tannin cheated!

Not fair!

I did have three machines folding for a while there but I switched two of them off: the laptop because it was chewing up massive amounts of RAM and making Photoshop impractical, and the home desktop because I often leave it switched off for days at a time now, leaving only one ... or is it two...

Actually, I don't hate the Intel Sluggerons. I mean, they are no trouble, they work just fine, apart from being so slow and costing about double what they ought to (by comparison with the AMD chips). So, overpriced and under-performing, absolutely. But I don't hate them, just think people who...

I know what you mean about the current Intel CPUs, Paugie. They can be really, really sluggish, and their ability to multitask ... well ... they don't have any ability to multitask. Just today one of them got me into trouble. Machine is in to have various software problems sorted out. I was...

ATI video cards. Although we do our best to avoid them 100% of the time, we still have to deal with their crapfest driver software from time to time, and hate it. With the Dets, you just load it and forget about it: it will work: first time, every time. ATI makes you go through hell: not every...

Let's list them — the over-rated, under-performing hardware components you dislike the most, top 10 from most worstest to slightly less worse. RULEZ! Hardware only — no software, no other stuff. Components only. No complete systems — i.e., you can't list "any system made by Hewlett-Packard"...

Speaking of us in the plural seems perfectly normal to me, Sol.

Spot on, Sir Sol. That's exactly what I meant. Err .. except I wouldn't have said "like IE", because I'd forgotten that IE did it that way (why on earth would I use IE to download something when I always have one or more of the modern browsers handy?) I'd have said "kind of like Netscape" (which...

Unnn .. not "why did you find it interesting", why would anybody do that in the first place? I watched it all the way through, finding a peculiar pleasure in watching and listening to someone who obviouly loves going to a lot of trouble to do something apparently entirely pointless and who...

OK. Errrrr.... why?

It's not about my browser has a bigger sex organ than your browser, it's about choice, it's about competition improving the breed, it's about progress. Hell, even Internet Explorer is vaguely thinking about dragging itself out of the stone age and up to low-level bronze-age functionality, if...

And some people say apes are stupid ..... Hell, I've met smarter things growing in the green and fury stuff at the back of Tannin's fridge.

I really hate it when you do a fresh XP install and forget to set the date in the BIOS before you start and it times out with the stupid activation message before you even get to do anything and you have to reset the BIOS and start all over again.

Just run theh install again over the top? Easy as that? Cool! Thanks Bozo.

You can reinstall SP2? How do you do that?

Hmmm ... well that dates your last check to around 1999 or maybe it was 2000 when those third-rate 8MB AGP Intel 740 cards were everywhere. Unless you count on-board chipset-embedded stuff, which ain't graphics market in my book, that's just part of the motherboard. The rumour is, track record...

You nailed it Merc! Right shift-numlock does the trick. Thankyou!

Cool. Thanks Merc. CTRL_NUMLOCK. Who'd a thunk of that? Interesting that it only shows up on some models.

Hmmmm .... and the Register (or the Inq - I forget which) is saying there are strong rumours that Intel are going back into the graphics business ....... 2 + 2 =7?

Yike! Can I remember how to drive one of these things? I've been away so long I don't know if I remember how or not. it's all Tannin's fault, of course. I was doing just fine till I had a small and minor trivial navigation error and walked home after a small and trivial budgetary error...

Huh? What knowledge of Linux? This is Tannin we are talking about here, is it Sol? Oh, hang on, I get it. While I've been away, he's been off on a (doubtless very expensive and gin-sozzled) Linux course, has he? What Tannin knows about Linux you could write on a matchbox. In Texta.

Me? Grumpy? Ha! It will never happen.

No, that'z becase you are stupid. I was born in ... well I'm not sure when I was born in but it was a long time after 1959. So I am perfectly at home with the metric system, and have no problem understanding heights in centimetres. (Except when they are lots more than normal, say around about...

point and laugh

Anyway, you weren't telling the truth (although what you said did happen to be entirely accurate): you were pointing and laughhing.

Nope. I learned everything I know about being truthful from my ... er ... you.

Yes it was.

Hey, steady on there old chap. That was quite rude.

Consider before posting? Now there is an interesting idea. I'll have to try it. Maybe one day when I get bored.

it was something to do with moons and cats, anyway

sorry

Ignore Tannin, Dave, he's just grumpy because it's Friday. And you think he is not one to talk? Hey - I send him out to buy a bus ticket and he comes home with a part share in a Learjet. Hoolie Doolie, the only man more into massive overkill as mere routine that I know is me - and I am not even...

Huh? I don't get it. How come you guys get proper hurricanes but we only get tiddly little cyclones? It's not fair!

Whenever you get a faulty vomitbox and replace the motherboard - we do this regularly, sometimes even while the VB is still under warranty because the owner is tired of sending the damn thing to Sydney and waiting forever while they buggerise around with it - Windows cracks a hickey fit and you...

Stupid human. The bit Tannin didn't tell you was that the I/O plate will, unless Antec have gone totally ga-ga and done something really, really weird, simply be a press-fit. It's just a flat metal plate with raised edges that shrink-fits into a rectangular hole, of standard size and shape. The...

Wow! Coug! Fantastic! You can't believe how tired I am of not being able to talk to anyone round here. No-one speaks normal languages. But I seem to be getting on OK by just waving my arms about. Everyone else does it too. Shouting helps. Doesn't seem to matter much what you say, just so long as...

Look, I'm sorry about the camera, OK? I'll pay you back the money as soon as I get home. Now for Pete's sake get out of bed and look at the computer! Oh to hell with you. Coug! Where are you man. Aren't you usually the first one out of bed? What's wrong with you all? JoJo! It's not even...

Tannin, are you still up? Hello? Hello? Earth calling Tannin .... Lazy bugger. I bet he hasn't even scrubbed the kitchen floor since I've been gone. WAKE UP TANNIN!

Darn Americans! What are you guys playing at? Sleeping when I want to play, eh? Who cares if it's 5AM over there? Get out of bed and talk to me. RIGHT NOW!

I AM NOT A MONKEY

You forgot to mention: Storage Forum and Tom's Hardware Guide; Symantec and the Mozilla Foundation; Rambus and AMD; AOL and IBM ..... The list is endless.

Hi all. I'm not back yet. Umm ... in fact, I'm still trying to find the proper turn-off. I must have had a Tannin Moment back there a few tens of thousands of kilometres ago and gone left instead of right somewhere in Thailand. Anyway, I'm posting this fom an internet cafe just outside a place...