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Well, that's bloody typical of you, Tannin. Your 2000th post and all you can do is complain about the service. (Woops! I hadn't noticed. Sorry Tea. Sorry Doug. Tell you what, little one, what say I temporarily un-ban you from posting here at Storage Forum (just for tonight) and give you a...

Yup. :) You got it, Tim. And no email app at all is, in my opinion, better than Mozilla's dreadful one. How can they get a browser so good and the email app so bad? Rule 1 with email is that users want to preserve their data across upgrades and disasters. I'm not talking about some users, I'm...

PPS: did you pick up on my point "-5:" above?

8: With a real web browser, you don't have to buggerise about loading themes and extensions. (PS: a small hint about spelling. You spell "real web browser" with two "L"s, a capital "M", a "Z" and some assorted vowels sprinkled over to taste. )

Oh, I forgot the big one: 6: Firefox makes you do an extra click to bookmark things. 7: Firefox doesn't have the ability to search from the address window, you have to use the poxy little search window instead. But, on the other hand: -1: Firefox isn't a 5-alarm security disaster like...

Yes there is. In fact. seeing as you like lists so much Merc, I'll give you a whole stack of reasons. 1: Firefox doesn't have a proper download progress dialog, only that poxy Opera-style "download manager" crap. 2: Firefox is klutzy-cute and ugly. Mozilla, on the other hand, is just ugly. On...

CHKDSK is indeed scary stuff. If it works, well and good. If it doesn't .... you are totally screwed. No data recovery service will want to bother even looking at it after CHKDSK has mangled everything. Photorescue does not touch your data, doesn't alter it in any way, just copies the whole damn...

Try Photorescue. From memory, www.photorescue.com Worked a treat when I lost a flashcard a year or so ago. And you can try it out before you pay.

It'z about time the old bugger posted something of substance. I honestly thought he was getting past it. PS: Bet you he can't do it again. (Tea!) (Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm banned. You said it already: "get off the computer you ztupid ape." Well, I was juzt leavi—

NTFS vs FAT32: Gain: possibly some performance, better reliability Loss: possibly some performance, ability to rescue data or perform repairs by booting off floppy and using any number of simple, practical tools. You can access an NTFS drive when it's non-bootable because of accident or error...

Actually, you could reduce crowding much more effectively by getting rid of the hetrosexuals. As a general rule, homosexuals tend not to have a lot of children.

Hmmm ... all these regular posters suddenly claiming to be real people ... it's suspicious. Sounds like the master programmer has slipped in a code update. My theory is that anyone claiming to be real is probably fake. Hell, my imaginary friend Tanning rang Mercutio on the telephone once, and it...

Which reminds me ..... My grandmother (well, my step-grandmother, actually - she's a relative of Tannin's) had a cockatoo she was very fond of. It had actually belonged to her grandmother originally, but outlived two generations of humans. Anyway, one morning she found it lying on the bottom...

I supppoze that I better not ask you about the burning ring of fire, then Gilboo00##— Tea! Get off the computer!) (But I woz—) (No you weren't!) (But you said I coullll&—

Whaaa! :x Juzt when there'z an interesting topic, I'm not allowed tkj — (Tea! You're banned. Get off the computer!) (But I was juzt —) (No you weren't.)

"Hang on there, you are talking about buying a Granite Digital enclosure and "what is the best case, and then you select the most important part, the drive itself because it's the cheapest? Something doesn't add up there.

Thanks Doug. That's good to know. Clearly, for my market, the basic chip is the one to have. Unless someone get's their finger out of their backside and provides us with a VIA-based board first. But it needs to be a decent maker. Right now, I have two makers in the #1 "we like these guys" slot...

PMView www.pmview.com Screenshot > trim > save in any format you want. One application, no fiddling around with conversions or save/load, excellent efficiency. You can capture screenshots of the whole screen, a particular window, or just the contents of a window. Trigger it with mouse...

Yeah, SiS are a lottery. Fair to poor, utter crap, fair to poor again, an absolute little bottler, fair to medium ... Do you feel lucky? Still, at least the price of the ticket is cheap.

Six? In how any years? Compare this to VIA or Intel or Nvidia's own video drivers. Really slack. Their web site only has two. (Or that's what was there last time we looked, and the several times before that.) And none of them have fixed the persistent problems. Only thing you can do is use the...

(Tea tries to imagine the sort of slocket adaptor necessary to fit an Operon into a Slot A mainboard. Fails miserably.)

I assumed it was something of that general nature, Merc. It's good to know the details. More broadly, in my market, sound is a complete dead issue. Want to know how many soundcards I've sold this year? One. It was a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy, bottom-end model, to someone who came in and...

I like the current software just fine. But, on the other hand, I know Doug is better informed about these matters than I am and trust him to make the best overall decision. In consequence, I voted "other". Up to you Doug. We trust you.

What's Soundstorm and who cares about it anyway? Anything that cuts their costs without impacting on performance or reliability is a good thing. Maybe, one day, Nvidia will be able to make a chipset that is as wonderfully fuss-free and put-your-money-on-it reliable as the chipsets that VIA...

We have been predcatably cautious with it (mind you, we don't run XP on any of our own machines) but no problems to report so far. It does bug us though - Kristi in particular - that the fools have moved things around to differen t places. It's bad enough the way they mindlessly move stuff...

Amen to the above.

I'd say "who cares about post count, it's the quality that counts" except that our Mercutio excels on both counts. Well posted, my friend!

Whooah there! Rumours of our absence are, in Mark Twain's immortal phrase, greatly exagerated. We just got back from another trip. Been away for 8 or 9 days. The plan was to slip up to the NSW coast to look for Regent Honeyeaters and be back on Monday. Wound up in Burke and got back in the...

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Nope. nOt untul rwe learn tp prroof-rede yor postz.

Hmmm ... good point, Mercutio. What you are saying then, if I get your point, is tht the hard drive makers fall into two classes: * Subsiduary arms of giant conglomerates with, in their own particular way, excellent products. Hitachi, Samsung, Fujitsu, and Toshiba. * Stand-alone drive...

Seagate Western Digital

Opera is a problem child. I confess that I don't really bother jumping through hoops anymore trying to make Opera work. I design with Moilla, jump through whatever stupid hoops I have to jump through to make Explorer 5 and 6 work, and stop there. I used to really like Opera, but they lost me...

I can! :roll: :lol: :o :o :o

But what does it feel like? How would you compare: * (a) Pre-SCSI vs SCSI * (b) SCSI vs SCSI RAID?

Did somebody say free drinks? Gin and tonic for me please. A large one. (Tea! Where are your manners?) Oh. Sorry. Welcome Olly.

What JTR said. A true gentleman, and the engineroom of Storage Forum. You are, as we say about footballers down here in Oz, a genuine ornament to the game, Doug.

So what does i stand for?

Thanks for the help, crew. Mandrake seems to be doing the job so far. A test install on a spare machine (an ASUS motherboard! Yuk!) has got me as far as getting Apache, MySQL and PHP all working. At present I'm stuck trying to figure out the directory structure stuff. I can FTP in and out to the...

OK, I seem to have a set of Mandrake 9.1 CDs here at the office. That will probably do. It let me install MySQL and PHP on it through the GUI (which is about all I'm good for under Linux), the next issue is going to be figuring out how to connect to it. I'll try that shortly. Watch this space...

And a nice foaming glass of Cascade Pale Ale for our Tim, please. SBC? I have no idea :(

MediaWiki is not guaranteed to run on Windows, Max. People have managed to get it going on Windows, but apparently it's pretty damn tricky. (Essentially, none of the developers are interested in tinkering with the Windows side of things. Since they are all volunteers, you can't complain.) I...

But while we are at it, this business of making up not-quite-sucky new names to go behind old initials is pretty common — especially given the extreme suckiness of some of the old Tiawanese and Korean company names. So, for another free drink, what does "LG" really stand for?

Nope. Dave, Merc is correct. Their modern-age marketing weenies may have come up with an ultra-boring new set of words to go behind the letters now (I didn't know that till you posted) but DFI really does stand for Diamond Flower Internatonal. Merc gets the freebie. (And thankyou for backing...

Bartender! For my friend Mercutio, a glass of ... er ... A nice espresso?

Poll question: Who knows what "DFI" stands for? Free drinks at the bar for the first correct answer in the neatest handwriting.

For "lace" read "place"

If I can (somehow) find the time, I want to get a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP machine up before Thursday, so that I can do a live demo of the wiki software in a lace where Internet access isn't really possible. So I need to take a server with appropriate software loaded with me and just plug my...

Still no delivery .... zigh

That is indeed a ripper machine, Boost. I'm looking forward to the pictures. PS: All of a sudden I can't wait for mine to arrive. Alas, today I got the 80GB Samsung laptop drive for it, and the 512MB of Hyundai RAM .... but no laptop to plug them into yet. sigh