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Well, it's certainly a step up from the standard of your usual posts.

But you can't use a modem without a device driver. Look on the CD with the device driver: you will find your free fax software right there. Mostly, it's clunky but perfectly usable.

It's getting harder and harder, EDT, every time Micro$oft inflict another "upgrade" on us. You can't do it at all now without using designed-for-the-purpose software. Ghost works, but Ghost sucks. Big-time. Horrible program. But what else is there?

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Tannin and I installed a Lite-On here on the home machine about four months ago. It was just before dual layer burners became readily available and reasonably priced - maybe more like six months. Thus far, it has performed flawlessly as a CD reader and ... er ... hasn't been asked to do any...

Seems to depend largely on the scumworthiness of the manufacturer, Lunar. Seagate and Western Digital practically always give you refurbs, which typically last for quite a while before they fail again (sometimes as long as three weeks or, if you are extra lucky, even a whole month). Samsung, in...

IBM always used to label their refurbs with a "servicable used product" sticker. I doubt that Hitachi would do it any differently. You should be fine with that drive, Clocker .... er .... sorry, I mean LunarMist.

Rain? What iz rain? No sign of it round here. I asked this little fellow what rain iz, but he didn't seem to know anything about it either.

Thanks RW. Here a a few samples of the wonderful creatures we found. WA has fantastic light! Only the centre has better light than outback WA. And WA has some amazing creatures. Not just birds. The insects are fantastic, the flora unbelivable, the geology full of interest, and this little...

Grow genitals? I've never tried doing that. I've grown petunias and violets though. And some geraniums too. Do genitals like lots of water and being fertilised regularly, or are they better in a shady place, like the back corner of the block under the lemon tree? PS: I hope genitals like this...

It's rather sad. Reading the title of this thread, I'm afraid that it simply didn't occur to me to think that it might be about anything else but the obvious topic that common sense would immediately assign to a thread with such a title. No thought required: "Am I the first to have it?", I...

You've got the figures backwards, Handruin. The Red Cross guarantees less than 10% overhead (i.e., 90% plus effective) but actually works on around 2% overhead. That's the Oz figures, but they should be similar in your neck of the woods. If you give $100, $98 will do good work.

Hi Groltz! I'm just back. Tannin's still in South Australia, or possibly new South Wales, but I can hold the fort till he gets here. Now, where is the key to that drinks cupboard? A happy new year to all.

Doctor? My brain hurtz.

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hesh? wHere did evREdbody GO? Doeshen't anybodyone want to stalk tome? Bartender? Canihaveanotherdrinknow? Doesnh'tmatterwhichbottle, anybottlewillbeprettycloshetonearenough. Thankyoubartendsher, verykindofyou, jushtfillerupwhileIhavealittleschnoozeforamoment. Barshtender? Whoturnedthelightshout?

Are they up to their old tricks again? Sheesh! Some things never change.

Sun's over the yardarm in this hemisphere. Make mine a double! Mubs and CityK are, in a sense, similar. They are both what we south-of-the-equator-and-east-of-India people call quiet achievers - people who contribute a good deal more than you realise till you stop to think about it for a...

Mate, you're running a 15 inch screen you found in the street. Any 19 inch screen is going to be about 197,675,231.04 miles better than what you have now. Even if it won't switch on it's going to be better than the clunker you use now. Go for it!

If you can't find a better machine than a cheap Dell, you're not looking.

What's Netzero? It sounds nasty. Lots of spyware does that stuff. Any legitimate app that does it would be high up on my "I don't trust this crud" list, right next to Realplayer, Quicktime, Kaza, and the like.

Tannin and I won't be around much, if at all, for the next 3 or 4 weeks, because we are heading off to points unknown with camera in hand. Yippee! We are taking a laptop, which has a modem, but probably won't be anywhere we can log in from very often. Be good! Tea, those words sound...

Ahh. It is, then, essentially a higher-tech version of the old trick of lighting a fire under your car to thaw the oil. Thankyou JoJo. Sometimez I'm glad I live in a warm place. :o

OK, I'll bite. What's a vestabo? Some sort of electric blanket for carz?

And you know Tannin. He is never nice to anyone on a Friday.

Who has a life? :o Officer, arrest that man! It wasn't me! :evil:

Ha! And here is me checking it over for a copyright violation!

Here is the old fellah having a day at the office.

Interesting product. I'd rather you could boot it off hard drive though. Watch this space?

It may be different in the US, but Oz banks are only too happy to arrange a credit card facility. Banks never pass by a chance to make money. Mind you, it gets trickier if you need to work on-line. But let me put it this way: if I lived somewhere sensible and wanted to buy something from Buck...

So ... Did you actually expect that it would be the other way around? :o

There are lots of horror stories. Maybe they are true, maybe they are not. But the stories are so bad that I won't go near the organisation. There are websites full of them. Places like www.paypalsucks.com www.paypalwarning.com www.paypalalert.com

... and holding a glass

Thanks, JoJo. Owe you a banana. :wink:

Ok, OK. Thanks Mark, I hadn't twigged to that. Though "adult site" seems a bit posh for that place: something more like "brain-dead moron site that you'd have to be stir-crazy to frequent" might be a fairer description. Still, now that I've had it explained to me, I take your point. I think...

(Tea adopts Maxwell Smart voice, manages to look extremely stupid.) Ahh .. the old Internet Explorer so Totally Screwed Up that you Can't Run Housecall trick, eh? Yeah, in that case, you have to buggerise about with whatever you can think of. It is possible to run Housecall on Netscape 4.x...

PS: hacking Firefox with Java add-ons to make it into a sort of second-rate Internet Explorer that is so insecure that you can run Housecall is defeating the entire point of having a quality modern browser.

Look, it's very simple. There are two ways you can design a browser: (a) Allow the remote system unfettered access to the local system, so that it can, essentially, do as it likes. (b) Deny the remote system access to the local system, so that, essentially, it doesn't matter what the remote...

What link, Mark? Their link to us? One assumes that they don't have moderators, nor is their site under our control in any way. Unless you mean Doug's link to them - in which case you are obviously eiother joking (which seems unlikely) or a fool (which I do not believe). In short, your post...

Well, I zuppose somebody had to do it. I just lost a whole half-hour reading this wonderful old thread again. So ... bump!

Woops! Wrong thread! I am a ztupid ape.

Well, I zuppose somebody had to do it. I just lost a whole half-hour reading this wonderful old thread again. So ... bump!

Sorry: next post, about 17 posts down.

Link suddenly works for me now. ... and Yike! Would one of the mods mind removing my email address from that thread? It's about 11 posts down. Thanks in advance.

I get site not found

Haven't had any problems at this end. I wonder if my Smoothwalls cache the DNS entries or something?

Cool. Thanks Doug. :D (Tannin's still in bed, but I'll fix it up for him. Another owl? Or should it be a surprise?)

Good for you, Dave! Take it from my friend and mentor Mr Tannin, there are much more important things in life than whether you earn a bit more or a bit less, take a step up on the corporate ladder or a step sideways. There are much better places to live than big cities. Now, a little bit of...