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Got a Subaru Forester, Clippy. Very impressive machine. Soaks up the highway miles in a fuss-free and civilised manner, then deals with the bad roads to the manner born. On the highway it's very nearly as smooth and comfortable as Belinda's Volvo. On the rougher stuff, it simply ignores...

I agree with Buck. (As usual.)

(Settle down old boy.) (Sorry. Got a bit carried away.) (I could see that. What say I get you your milk and cookies and we go to bed?) (Cookies! Cookies? How many times have I told you not to use American bloody so-called english around here, Tea?) (Sorry Tannin. I'd never actually say...

Those are Oz dollars, Boost, my buy before tax. Retail, expect to pay about $170 to $190 for a typical DVDR (e.g., a Lite-On 8x). For a dual layer 12 speed drive, maybe $20 more. I will be sure to report my experiences with the Thinkpad. I am certainly looking forward to it! Which one did...

Forgot to put the CD in?

Hmmm ... Some things better (such as a fix for the asinine file-open routine), some things worse (wasted scree space, stupid shapes). Probably a bit bigger and slower, but not really an issue on modern hardware. I bothered starting a thread for an upgrade this underwheming? Tannin is right: As...

I'll give it a try then, E_Dawg. I'm going to nuke this drive inside the week anyway, so what harm can it do?

Well, I hope I didn't just do something silly. I took your advice, Mercutio, and ordered an IBM. Thinkpad R51 1830BLM. Pentium M 1.6, 256MB, 40GB, 15 inch, combo drive, three year warranty. I've also ordered a bit of 512MB DDR (to make 768MB in total) and a 5400 RPM 8MB cache Samsung 2.5 inch...

DVDR for backup, Boost. I use the notebook almost exclusuively for wildlife photography. On a good day I take anyware between 400MB and over 1GB worth of photographs. These need to be backed up. I'm using CDR at the moment, but my piles of backup CDs are getting out of hand. External DVDR...

I agree with JTR's mum.

Merc, we did look at the IBM options. We really like IBM notebooks. But at the moment they are just too damn dear. Way too dear. I don't especially like the Toshibas., although I have to admit that they have worked beautifully for us. Of all the toshies we have sold over the last few years, we...

Tannin just almost ordered me a new notebook. Current model is a Toshiba satellite A10. Celeron 2000, 512MB, 80GB (came with a 30 but he upgraded it 'cause 30 was nowhere near enough), 14 inch TFT, Intel all-in-one shared video chipset, CD/CDRW/DVD combo. It had a 2 hour battery life new, but...

ALT-F O (or mousing the same thing) doesn't bring up a file open box, it brings up a stupid type-it-in box with another button marked "browse" you have to click to bring up the normal Windows file open window. Then, when you have selected the file you want, you come back to that same ztupid...

I'm with Buck.

Easy question. Is it worth upgrading Windows Media Player from whatever version is standard with W2K (err .. I just checked, it's 6.4) to 9 or 10? * What would I gain (if anything)? * What problems do the latest versions introduce (DRM crap and etc.)? I rarely use Media Player, but sometimes...

It's certainly warmer than it ought to be. I'd be pondering an RMA for it, unless there is an external cause (such as no spage in the case, too close to the CPU, or etc).

Easy method. Plug in a floppy drive. (But yes, I feel your frustration. It's an appallingly klutzy bit of design from our old friends M$. Does anyone remember Edln?)

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Indeed. Very interesting, Buck. Thankyou.

Who? Me? Would I .... ? Must have been some other ape. :roll:

Errr .. I'm a little confused. Does this mean that MSI are going to start making reliable mainboards as soon as 2029? That's pretty soon now! It's only .. er .... (How many years is that Tannin?) (Sorry?) Uh. Sorry about that people. Apparently we can't work out how many years it is exactly...

Monica who? I tried playing the 'monica once but it soundz funny when you blow through all the little holes at the same time, which happenz quite a lot when you have a big mouth like mine. Also, I kept forgetting not to swallow. After I'd lost the third 'monica in a week Tannin suggested...

When are Samsung bringing out a bigger unit? It must be just about time for them to have a new model.

My choice in order. Doesn't really do the matter justice though, as amsung is a long way in front of the others. I'm also rather uncertain about the middle placings. Nos 1, 4 and 5 I'm pretty confident are correct, but I don't see thatany Hitachi or Maxtor drives. 1: Samsung 2: Hitachi 3...

Nice to see sombody else getting hot weather. :mrgrn: My turn will come soon enough. It's already stopped being cold. Tannin has given up wearing his heavy jacket to work. Guess my spring moult will be starting soon.

What'z presidential hair? Iz it sort of like pubic hair?

Errrr .... So what you are saying, Jim, is that NCQ is essentially the old traditional SCSI elevator seeking logic with a dose of steroids? Yes? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick here?

Well, I can comment with an uninformed opinion, is that near enough? I run three X15s, two GEN 1 and a 36LP. (All 18GB.) Not the very latest, but not all that old either. The 36LP is on a 160MB/sec controller (Tekram), one of the GEN 1s is on a Tekram 320, and the other one on an Adaptec...

This thread started while I ws away, and when I came to it it was already forbiddingly long. But, having no other excuse handy for putting off the trip to the office, I thought I'[d dip into it, starting here, on the 5th page. Eeek! Iraq, gun control, the usual hardy perennials. :o Guess...

You know how the BOFH always makes jokes about OS/2 users? Both of them? WEll, that's me and Tannin. :wink:

Isn't a G-string thicker than an ordinary string?

PC-cillan isn't perfect, but it's close. VET is OK but has a couple of weird and silly issues, notably with Nero. It was much better when it was a stand-alone Aussie product instead of a swallowed-up CA aquisition. IBM Antivirus used to be excellent but it got swallowed up by Symantec and...

I thought the 1MB cache ones were ... er .... a different model, the name of which escapes me at the moment. Mega expensive. As for swimsuits, I can't see the point. I tried one once, but why bother? You still get your fur wet. Besidez, Tannin laughed at me when I put the top bit on...

I hate it more than MacAwful. But probably only because we only see MacAwful once a week or so and we see Suckmantec and Nausea Anti-Virus every bloody day. I have grown to despise uninstalling the damn thing: around 50% of the time it won't uninstall and you have to do it the hard way: via...

Since when was an FX5900 mid-range?

I'm slow today. You better explain in more detail. (Not explain that Symantec does X-rated things to babies, I know that, explain about the categories thing.) BTW, we clean out nasty worms and things off machines with the latest Norton products installed and up-to-date as mere routine. You see...

If bloody Intel had enough sense to package a Pentium M for the desktop ... I bloody would!

Well, WD-40 might work OK in those slow old Western Digital drives, but my X15s scoot along at 15,000 RPM and run a bit warmer than that - if I squirted WD-40 in them it would explode! Besides, we are all organic here. Pure olive oil is what we use. Extra virgin, of course. (Whatever that...

Ahh ... Thankyou CityK

What's GMAIL?

On a Palm Pilot? I have no idea. Is there any sort of equilalent to the old DOS SUBST command?

Very wise, Fushigi. A laptop without a three year warranty is like a ... er ... a very expensive thing without an ... um ... without a way to fix it without having lotz of money. Errr .... Should I start that again?

ECS is PC Chips.

Sometimes the servers are too busy. Sometimes the system you are using is so hosed that Housecall won't run or you can't get on the web at all. Sometimes your moronic user has played with the IE security setting so much that you cant unscramble them. Sometimes the particular virus you have is...

Oh. Sorry.... Hello Gilbo. :)

What'z a sock puppet?

Aggghhaaaa!!! The world champions of sleaze making a laptop!!!!??? This is not good! Trust your data to the people who brought computer fraud up to the status of an art form? OK, I thought about it for a while. Now that I've had time to ponder, my estimate of the in-service failure rate: 50%...

Can you draw? )