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And the Pentium M will whip the Xeon. Those little things rock!

I have never had a program (of any sort) clash with a firewall.

Bozo, you're getting rather seriouz about this RAID thingie. That's er ... quite a lit of hard drives. Any chance of a piccie?

Juzt lie down, Howell, and I'll take care of everything.

Whhoah! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884130

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It counts as one of the most astonishing ticketing stuffups of all time. I can't believe that the organisers got it so wrong. How much are these guys paid? Hoolie Doolie! I heard somewhere that the problem is that the Greeks are not interested in watching sports tha they don't play themselves...

I was going to post to say that that is the longest post I've ever. ever seen you make, Doug. Then I read some of it and I was going to sayu that it was the most ... er ... different post I've ever seen you make, Doug. (And then I arrived and told her that this isn't the sort of thing a...

Huh? How elze am I suppozed to do it? At my height, if the man isn't down, I can only kick him in the ankles. Besidez, in this case, it'z fun.

Howzabout I post some choice morsels from the ... er ... the Mercury News, whatever that is. (It's an American newspaper, Tea. Why did you select that particular one?) (First one at the top of the page on Google. One imagines tha the others are all the same.) (Ahh. Fair enough. Well, get on...

Watch out for the numbers! They use a completely different numbering scheme, so (in general) the Sempron 2x00 is way down on an Athlon XP 2x00. I'll pozt examples when I get to work and have a spare moment.

Puerto Rico! Whoah! Way to go! And up until this moment, I never even used to like basketball! Fantastic!

Have you retired that Athlon Classic yet Bill?

We never use SATA unless the customer insists on it. No point in it, just extra cost and hassle-value. The time for SATA as a standard fit will arrive, but not yet. Early next year, maybe. But then I was saying that this time last year.

My guess is that the XP/2000 FDISK is broken. Or possibly bad drivers, though this seems unlikely.

Hi Bill! Not sure if we are talking about the same thing here, but it sounds like it. Kristi ran into this one the other day. Guy ordered a machine for video editing work: DVD burner, DVD reader, 80GB boot drive, two 120GB data drives. Owing to complete stupidity on Tannin's part, and an...

I'll take 3 to 1 it's bus speed or RAM problems. Or, another possibility, Nvidia chipset problems. We have sold exactly one 3200 and had problems with it. Swapped boards three times. (More ASUS crap.) Not sure what finally eventuated, as the guy who bought it is one of those people who wants to...

5.x No contest. 6.x suckz

You speak for me too there P5. Though, to be honest, I haven't been to SR in quite a while. Hell, I have trouble finding the time to do much more than lurk here.

So long as you haven't altered the data on the drive, you could just plug it into another machine (one that doesn't have the patch installed).

Who iz an old fart? Zertainly not me! Perhapz you mean Tannin. And ... er ... we use DELTREE all the time. But, I grant you, we do it off a boot floppy.

Er.... Very good evidence that I never proofread properly, Tannin. I have no idea what I actually meant to type there. "Non-trusted"? "Un-trusted"? Something like that.

We use a different method. As you'd expect from a Tannin-invented technique, it's brute-force but effective. I forget exactly how we managed this, but we use Moz for everything except Storage Forum (where I use IE 6.0 because SF is a safe place), and a few other similar places we hang out...

I'll bet you a case of the finest port to a used dishrag. But it won't be one thing messing up the networking, it will be about seven. Broadband, P2P, no AV, no firewall (software firewalls don't count), no Ad-Aware, no security updates ... Jeesh! How stupid can you get? You have two choices...

Ph. Just for a minute there, I though you must have been a closet Roy and HG fan.

"Farked"? Does tht have anything to do with the blessed sport of farnarkling?

Don't worry Bozo. Before too long they will bring in engineers that operate 24/7. Probably frm India at less than half what they pay you. (Only half joking.)

I have no idea why, Greg. Were you having a bad hair day or something? I didn't even know that there were games for the Mac. Serious Sam, anyone?

The 24/7 is probably why it's still running! IBM be dammed, 24/7 gives you the longest life. I'm convinced of it,

You need a "never heard of either of them" category, Clocker. Though I guess you could count that as a "can't tell the difference" vote.

Ahh, but they are diffrent, Fushigi. Nearly all of my postz are competelt perfect in every way when I preview them. But when when I hit "save", all sorts of bugz suddenly sneak inn!

Wallet? What do you need your wallet for, Tannin?

Tannin, there is no way you are going to persuade a majority of the decision makers. Why bother trying?

But it's a different card now! (sob) It happens sooner now - possibly because of the Nvidia card instead of the Matrox. I can get .... (guessing) 20 to 60 Moz windows/tabs open now, I used to only get the problem with a lot more than that. Oh, maybe 150 or 250. And back before the problem...

Oh, I also swapped out the CPU. An XP 3000+ that suddenly started throwing random errors after months of flawless operation was the problem that led to all that component swapping. No heating problems whatsoever - just started getting hangs twice a day and random GFPs, rapidly going from bad to...

Sounds like a classic video driver problem, right? Nope. I was running a Matrox G450. Cracked the sads with it the other week and slipped in a 128MB Albatron Gforce 4Ti4280, latest Dets. Problem still here exactly the same, except that it happens faster now. For entirely unrelated reasons, I...

No issues in AOE. Only in Mozilla, and then only when I have too many windows/tabs open, especially ones with lots of graphics. Then, Mozilla suddenly can't refresh the screen, except whern you scroll or move the mouse over things. Other programs continue on just fine. If I swap windows from Moz...

Funny that .... AOE is the only game I play. (Though you are probably playing a later version. I own V2, but I don't like it. I only play AOE1. But I better explain my problem and see if anyone can get a handle on it. Might be a long post.

I'm having a few video problems, and I'm contemplating updating my Direct X to V 9. Am I crazy?

I agree, ltothev. There are a million "I wish I'd done/not done that" situations, but one of the worst ones of all is "I wish I'd backed up my data yesterday". We see quite a few drives with troubles like your Seagate has. Sometimes it helps to try to get the data off one step at a time: just...

OK. So let's take this out of the realms of speculation and put it into concrete terms. Assume a situation like the one you had the other month when there was no stock of Samsung 80GB drives. What would you do? Last time, Westan offered you Western Digital 80GB drives as a substitute, and you...

Ahh, Tannin, but it ws Mercutio who asked the key question:

And what'z more, Cheetahs do have spotz.

Wanna put money on it, Clippy? How's about fifty bucks (US or Australian, your choice). I give you the drum: they really an truly don't have any spotz.

Tigerz don't have spotz

Ginger does that too. I don't know why either. Not actually in the shower (the layout of the plumbing would make that difficult) but on a high shelf where she can poke her head round the corner and watch. She seems to enjoy that. Later, if I'm lucky, Ginger will play her part in getting me dry...

Ginger (the smaller and more adventurous of our two cats) has 15-round epics with the possums. No-one ever seems to get hurt, but there is lots of running round and yelling at one another. (If you have never heard the sound a Common Brush-tailed Possum makes, then .... well ... it's sort of like...

Ahh, you just already answered the question I was going to ask, Skeet: viz, But haven't studios been making "crappy AM radio mixes" for ... oh ... 30 or 40 years? What is diferent about the new fashion? (If anything.) If it any worse than the fashion that took over the entire music biz abut 10...

Damnit, why am I always the last to be told? (Because you are always in such a hurry that you don't stop to listen to people, litttle one.) (Shuddup Tannin.) Err ... as I was saying, congratulations Dave. 1000 posts and may there be many more of them. (That goes for me too, Dave. Well...

Hey? How come I didn't notice this till just now? I might be a little slow on the uptake, but better late than never, I guess. 1000 posts, and every one of 'em a good 'un. Way to go, Doggy One!