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Or, in the case of ASUS, if you sell one of a motherboard, buy four or five extras and set them aside.

Because bubble wrap is made from petroleum. Packing peanuts are made out of rice. (Try one: you can eat them. Taste like slightly stale rice crackers.) No creator worth his salt would use nasty petrchemicals when there is plenty of good, natural rice around.

Thanks, DogguOne. I've bought up 5 of the 19" ones (but from another source) at around $30 more than I used to pay. Let me know what you think of the LG! As for the 22s .... sob

But according to NEC Australia's website, the only CRT monitor they carry is a 17! I'm going to call them (and Mitsubishi) today.

The Diamond Pro models have completely disappearted from their Australian website. sob

A wholesaler. A good one. She rarely makes mistakes - but I certainly hope that she is wrong this time. She said her supplier told here that Mitsubishi were not making any more big CRTs (their little ones, at least in this market, have long since been farmed out to Acer and just...

Mitsubishi are no longer making CRT screens. (sob) WTF am I going to do for a good CRT now that there are no more Mitsubishi Professionals? Sure, I love a quality TFT - Tannin and I have been TFT fans since the days of our beautiful little 12 inch LCD-PC - but for photographic work you need...

It would actually be more interesting if the other manufacturers were able to match the reliability that Samsung had five years ago. I can live with Samsung's conservative engineering. Can you live with the other guy's RA rates?

Hey! Knock it off!

You mean we gave you a Samsung optical drive and a Western Digital hard disc drive? Wow! We must really hate you! (PS: guys, what did Doug do? Is he the Boston Axe Murderer or something? Did he get locked up for it? Or is it one of those things that a gentleman doesn't talk about? If so, you...

We know you hate Opera, Merc. That's not the quetion. Which ones do you like? (If you don't like the money analogy, provide a mark out of ten.)

Adds a whole new meaning to the phrase Go and play in the traffic, doesn't it.

MTV? What's MTV? Oh no, wait up, I remember. MTV was a bit-part character in a Dire Straits song, name of ... er ... "Money for Nothing". Can't keep a good ape down, you know.

It wasn't me. It happens to Tannin regularly. Though in his case, unlike DaveD's, it isn't love, it's incipient Alzhimers.

Actually, Pradeep would be just the man for a Dick Tracy radio watch with SVGA graphics.

UPS software does this sort of thing. Worth looking at some to see if it also does other stuff, or can be hacked appropriately?

I lost track of them a while back. I own three, but two of them are the original Mark 1, and the other I bought from Mutiah, a 36LP, i.e., the Mark II. Since then, I don't knw what they have done. But X15s are like chocolate, it doesn't matter how many you have, there is always room for one more.

Nahhh. Random is where you do a 225 mile trip for dinner and end up in a different state with your underwear on backwards and no wallet.

Green. Or possibly about half an hour ago.

Damn it mubs, you have the most amazing memory ....

Sometimez, I think I'm stuck in a time-warp. Funny that, just thismorning, having some urgent work I needed to put off with somethig trivial, my friend Ekaf-Ami and I slipped over to Storage Review and looked over some of his old threads. There was one fair-dinkum classic there where Sivar told...

Tannin, you old liar. Commodore 64s were never sexy.

Eh? How was that again?

If I switch over to 300V-rated cable, will it make the colours on my screen brighter?

My word, the old stagers have become positively eloquent in their vitriol today. Methinks that this topic has tapped a vital vein of ... um ... something that one of the eloquent ones could describe better than I can. PS: It may interest you to know, Mercutio, that I have an all-over merkin...

Neat idea!

Ahh, I should be more aware of those. I haven't used IM software since a brief ICQ craze, oh, maybe 5 years ago, and the only time I ever think about it now is when I see the Microsoft IM (whatever it's called, can't remember) splash screen on startup on many of the machines I work on. It's the...

And what percentage of these scumware products reqire either: * Internet Explorer * File sharing software to give you a reasonable chance of getting infected in te first place? That's the real question.

He does get a bit carried away, doesn't he, Groltz. If he'd spent a bitmore time answering the question and a bit less time frothing at the mouth, he might have remembered to mention that we all like the Trend Micro products. Highly recommended. Mind you, we don't actually use them...

That was my thought also, Sechs, until I read it a little more carefully and realised that they are talking about the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, not the K-T (Cretacious - Tertiary, i.e., the famous "dinasoaur killer" event. This story is about the event 250 million years ago, not the...

Not for me. I hate cases with stupid doors on them - sort of destroys the point of having a nice fast computer in the first place if everytime you want to burn a CD or something you have to fiddle about opening extra doors. (And yes, I am perfectly at home in a tent, thankyou.) But I can see...

As P5 says, look for a software cause. But first, if you like, disconnect all your IDE devices bar only the hard drive and see if the behaviour remains the same. If it does, you can be virtually certain that it's a software problem. From there on, look for three classes of program: 1: Spyware...

SATA? A "major development"? SATA? Increasing density, sure. SATA is a non-event, a solution in search of a problem. Besidez, the connectors suck.

Hmmm ... interesting. I'd expected Seagate to win comfortably, but it seems as if they have some real competition from Maxtor. Early days yet, but I'll watch this poll with interest.

PS: I have also owned their 21. An excellent unit, but this one is clearly better still.

Depends on the particulr models, Clocker. The Mitsubishi ones are quite different. The 22 (I own one and love it) is their top monitor: the best thing they make. The 21, while a worthy device in its own right, is not to be compared to the 2070SB. The thing with CRT screens is that it is...

OK, you've all voted for your favourite hard drive maker, now what about your most disliked brand of drive. (Not counting Western Digital, I mean.) Which current drives do you really hate/distrust/put in sacks and threaten people with?

We just hate you. Nothing personal.

Has anyone noticed that we happy few have now racked up 64K posts? (Give or take a few units here and there.) That is some serious yakking!

On a more serious note, Daveid, that is a horrifying failure rate. It's lucky for me that Western Digital (stupidly) didn't make the drive available in PATA. Because of the extra cost, complexity and inconvenience of SATA, I never got around to selling any Raptors, nor to buying one for...

Protects data just great: absolutely no chance of any prying eyes reading your files. .... Not even yours.

Nahhhhh ..... kick a man while he's down. (Safest time.)

They are well and truly due for a new model, Merc. I just checked their website, nothing on the horizon yet. But 160GB is their limit now and we will need a bigger drive within the next few months. So, if I am any guess, will the majority of other places. The good news is that it seems to be...

Because we have a number of newly domesticated members at present, I thought it might be helpful to provide some hints and tips for happy domesticity, gleaned from Tannin's and my extensive experience in running a happy, efficient household together. It is particullarly important to see that the...

Actually, I'm not qualified to have a real opinion (i.e., one that carries genuine weight) about ATA drive reliability anymore. The reality is that we no longer see any sensible number of drives from any maker bar Samsung. Tannin and I can attest to the fact that the astonishingly good Samsung...

PS: can some kind moderator un-wide the thread?

1: Yes, LM, you can confidently expect Hitachi drives to be more reliable than Seagate drves. 2: No, LM, you cannot expect sensible results out of the SR reliability "survey". It's hocus-pocus blended psudo-science. If you really want to make real-world decisions based on myth, rumour, and...

4X faster? No CPU hogging? Condider me sold! Thanks Pradeep. PS: anyone got a spare AUS$2billion?

Use PCMCIA slots. PCMCIA CF adaptors cost about A$20 each, and are a no-mess, no-fuss, no-danglie-cables solution.

I said I was zorry