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Aggggargh! I didn't even have any scotch Mr iGary! I'm just getting all my words confuddled up lately. I meant the outgoing standard video thingie (AGP), I juzt slipped into the wrong decade. Besides, the word "VESA" is easy to mix up with the word "AGP" because they are both sort of pointy on...

Bahh. I meant the other one, of course. The one that you have instead of AGP. I juzt have trouble with letterz sometimez. Ezpecially when there is an "X" sound in the word. Tannin could count the number of PCI-X systems he has built, seen, played with, or watched go past on a delivery truck...

sorry greg

Tannin is happy to build systems using PCI-X. That means that, by defenition, it ain't bleeding edge, and is probably horribly out of date already. Spend big dollars to buy a dual proc motherboard and only put one CPU in it? You'd be mad! In this game, you never, ever fix next year's problem...

Well excuse me! Who is the schizophrenic one? Which one of us does the imagining, huh? Do I walk around all day talking to an imaginary human? Do I have stupid sock puppets of myself popping up at the slightest opportunity? Do I finish every second post by shouting bring back (some ever-more...

What do you mean we? I had nothing to do with it.

(hangs head, admits small fib, crosses fingers, promises never to do it again)

Just ignore him, Taz. You are allowed to mention Tom's as often as you like. Hell, back around Voodoo times, Toms used to be a good place with a ton of useful info. (Though last time I looked it was just a vast morass of crap with useful stuff too well-buried to be worth looking for. I haven't...

I vote for the Mercinator!

I did say that the old guy only worked at Matrox two afternoons a week, Bill.

OK Taswegion, seeing as Tannin is too lazy, I better have a go at it. I had best warn you that I am too young to remember any of this, so I'm just repeating the bedtime stories Tannin used to tell me when I was little. As to whether there is any truth to them or not, I'll leave you to judge for...

There was a young lady named Wilde Who kept herself quite undefiled By thinking of Jesus, Contagious diseases, And the dangers of having a child

Our driver CD has everything that we use often enough to be worth putting on the main CD. I try to leave out stuff that just chews up space and doesn't get used very often. But first, a word about the general organisation of the other CDs we keep around and use often: Win 2000 SP 4, Win XP Home...

Sorry Buck, he's gone totally retro. I've tried leaving a note chiselled into the stone outside his bedroom door, but I can't do a thing with him these days. In fact I'm a bit surprised he still misses ISA. I'd have thought the Apple II slots or the old S-100 Bus would be more his thing...

Q: What do you run on a Westinghouse monitor? A: Windows for Fridges, of course!

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I just want to say that I think you humans have a completely ridiculous number of computers, and you must all have spent an utterly crazy amount of money on them. Nuts! It would take the output of a medium-sized nuclear submarine just to power them all up. Look at you all: Santilli, twin...

Take a look at this Ebay item: http://cgi.ebay.ch/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=87050&item=5201672915 This moron is trying to catch a buyer for a worthless 2.5GB hard drive. Let's examine the vendor's credentials and work out if the guy is honest and/or knows anything at all about his...

Ahh, you mean the old Plug'n'LBDRPPFRUFRRPPW3WHFSO. Pretty basic stuff, really, any fool should be able to figure out a simple Plug'n'LBDRPPFRUFRRPPW3WHFSO. I mean, it's not like we are asking them to do anything complicated. The average user should be able to complete it with no more than five...

Ha! What he really means is: "Tony, can you have a look at this one? I've been trying to get this rotten cable to plug in for ten minutes and it just doesn't fit." (Click, reack, wriggle the fingers just so.) "AGGGH! Bloody crappy old thing! Can somebody get me a bandage please?"

I wouldn't mind looking "rather uncool" in one of those.

Snow Bozo? Not usually, not unless you're above about 3000 feet. Ballarat, regarded as one of the coldest non-alpine places in Australia, is about 1000 feet above sea level. Apart from making the kettle boil at 99 degrees instead of 100 (by my rough calculation), it also lets us in for snow...

You can say it as many times as you like, Fushigi, and it will remain as pointless a comment as it was the first time you made it: hot drinks are normally served immediately. What are you telling me you do? Go to the kitchen to make a guest a cup of coffee, then stand around looking at the...

Yes, and no, Doggy One. I'll take the no first. Tea drinkers always pour from a boiling kettle, starting from within a few seconds of the electrical cut-out. If you've let it go for a while while you finished doing something, you flick the switch back on to bring it back up to 100 degrees while...

Time, your posts are both accurate and to the point. Unfortunately, where they are accurate they are not to the point, and where they are to the point they are not accurate. Your microwave scaremongering is graphic, but merely repeats exactly what I already said in my original post. 10C...

Tannin, you forgot about the microwave thing. Here is a little experiment you can do at home. (Carefully!) Take a large, clean coffee cup. Select one with a nice smooth, glossy lining (none of your rustic stoneware crockery here, something with a smooth finish on the inside and no rough edges...

Wooah guys, you ain't gettin' it. This ain't rocket science, you know. Hot drinks are supposed to be served hot. That's H O T HOT. That is 50% of the idea of a hot drink. The other 50% of the idea is that is supposed to be a drink — i.e., a liquid containing water and (optionally) a variety...

People shouldn't make fun of other people'z habitz and miztakes.

Thanks Doug! Cool tool! Not gzipped. On the other hand, now that I think about it, I'd have to ask the site admin to go to some trouble to install or enable something which will place extra load on his server simply in order to avoid paying him a little bit extra ... and I have to say that...

Good idea! Thankyou Blakerwry. Is it on already? Don't know. If not, can I enable it? Don't know that either. Finally, how much difference would it make? most of the bandwidth is images, which don't compress well anyway. May stats (by bandwidth, not number) jpg: 87.1 % html: 8.7 % css: 1 %...

Oh, by the way ... if you've noticed any missing images here on SF lately, that has nothing to do with the above. That was entirely Tannin's fault. When we switched to the new hosting people a couple of months ago (who are excellent), Tannin forgot to copy the SF images over to the new server...

To begin with, I cut out a lot of the hotlinking by making a list of trusted sites (including SF, of course) that the server will provide images to on request. I redirected those requests to a hotlink error page, which doesn't work - the server provides the html, but the client never sees it, as...

To begin with, I cut out a lot of the hotlinking by making a list of trusted sites (including SF, of course) that the server will provide images to on request. I redirected those requests to a hotlink error page, which doesn't work - the server provides the html, but the client never sees it, as...

I'm trying to cut down on the bandwidth my site sucks. Er ... sorry .. Tannin's site. I don't want to take bits of the site down, and it would be easy enough to just buy more bandwidth, but why should I? Hey, it's a free service I provide, and I'm already paying for 6GB a month, that ought to be...

Don't mind Tannin. He gets a bit lexdixic sometimes.

Thanks Doug. It's not so much what I'm trying to do in particular, as I have several tasks to take care of, some of them done already, more a matter of needing to actually understand how it works in enough detail to be able to figure stuff out for myself. That was a good link you provided...

I am trying to learn how to make Apache do what I want it to do using .htaccess and mod_rewrite. Tannin haz given up coz it'z too hard. I always get the tricky jobz. :o Tannin iz too old to lean anything now, and just parrots the same old nonsense at people every time but no-one ever seemz...

Whhoah! What a statement! * Faster than a Celeron Well, yes. But what isn't? * Faster than a Dell? Well, yes, but what isn't? * Fair shake of the coconut, Handy Andy, saying something is faster than a Celeron is like saying that your favourite actress is prettier than Tannin. Saying...

I don't think so. I've never seen one.

Sorry. Someone delete the other (double) topic please. My toes are all fingers today. Probably becauze of the cold.

YES!!! I hate the damn things.

You Canadians don't know what hot iz. (Goes double for Qubecois, of course.)

Thanks for the thought Lunar Mist. I just borrowed a word from Tannin's vocabulary and said "buggerit!, I'll have the 2GB card". I can always buy another one later. They won't get any dearer.

Finally got around to hunting one up here in Oz. Couldn't source it through any of my regular suppliers, but tracked one down at retail. Not AS$2billion, but $83 including tax and freight. Close enough. Now, it's time I hammered Tannin's credit card one more time and bought some bigger flash...

Speak for yourselves, you bludgers. I'm cold! Summer can't get here soon enough.

You need a new IT department.

Six credit cards? Hoolie doolie, Tannin gets silly enough just using one credit card. Just keep quiet about it, OK?

beautiful......