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The demand for PC-133 is very small now, if we consider it in terms of the global market, Joe. No-one uses it for new systems anymore, so as far as the RAM manufacturers are concerned, it doesn't exist. Naturally, they are not prepared to make it, as like everyone in this stupid industry, they...

Actually, if we are going to tell the real truth here, the 3200 number came about because a mob of scoundrels named RAMBUS came out with a new sort of very expensive but not particularly fast RAM and, so as to make it sound like it was lots faster than the existing PC-133 RAM, they made up a...

Your prices watch thingie is out of fantasy land, JTR. PC-133 costs more than PC-3200. Also, your speed figure is out by a mile. PC-133: 133MHz PC-2100: 266MHz: 2x as fast PC-2700: 333MHz: 2.5x as fast PC-3200: 400MHz: 3x as fast Rough guide: you pay about 1.4 times the price for SDRAM as...

Frying the PFY was the funniest one in ages. I mostly prefer the Inq to the Reg (when I get time to read either, which isn't often), but on a bad day BOFH is still pretty good, and on a good day it's great.

How the heck are we all? Wellllll ... I'm pretty good (though busy as a one-armed paper hanger and barely get time to post these days). Blakewry is always good for a handy techo tip or a chuckle. Buck is thoughtful and gentlemanly. Mercutio is thoughtful and melancoly. Handruin is neither -...

He already saw it. :mrgrn:

We just upped our electricity bills by 25% — of our own free will. Starting in about two weeks, 100% of the power we use to build & test computers, light the workshop, make cups of tea, and so on, will be solar. We will thus be making a zero contribution to greenhouse gases (apart from out...

Tannin was awesome, Mubs. Didn't even blink. I saw the whole thing. It was the end of a very busy day; The Soup Nazi had just shut the door and turned the showroom lights out, and were all sitting around having a cup of tea and a chocolate cookie (or about seven chocolate cookies, in my case)...

Morphine?

Ahh. Thankyou.

MBM?

When I think of some of the moronic software companies out there, Pradeep, I could quite happily swap you a few sticks of Geil for a Galil. :mrgrn:

Who said McAffee sucks too? He were no fool, dat man.

We actually have a higher problem rate with Intel kit. I don't believe that this is because Intel stuff is inferior (though it certainly gives us more trouble), I think it is simply because we sell so few Intel CPU systems- I don't think there have been any this year, for example - that we...

Another one today. NAV signature update: 5 July 2004 Virus: JS_FORTNIGHT.M Virus first discoverd: Octover 2003 This is not in the slightest unusual. Kristi sees this stuff all the time. Mubs, maybe your theory about users getting the bug first and downloading the updates second sounds...

A clarification. I shouldn't have said "subscription" above. I should have made it clear that I was talking about the date of the last signature download.

Well that's the funny thing about it, Clocker. I'm talking about machines that have viruses that pre-date the installed virus signatures. Kristi tells me that she sees a lot of machines that are out-of-date, but not very much so - three weeks or a couple of months since the last signature...

AV You know, Kristi mentioned something today that gave me one of those "oh yeah, I know that, I've just never actually said it out loud before" moments. About every second or third time a machine comes in to have the viruses removed, it turns out to be running Norton Anti-Virus. Sometimes it's...

Well, not quite. It's not $30 for a better board, the total cost is a good deal more than that. (Yeah, I l know we are using different dollars, but even if we use US$ it works out to more.) A KM-400 board costs about the same as a KT-600 board - but, of course, you don't get the video card...

Note: as the copyright holder, you can always waive your rights if you want to - i.e., you can licence a work "non-commercial" but then turn around and sign a contract with a particular commercial publisher if you trust them and you want to do that. The way licences work is that you (the...

Which licence? All depends on what you want to do. Let's try to rough out some pros and cons for a few. GFDL a little draconian in places. Mixing GDFL and copyrighted material could be tricky - you would have to be very clear in the way you delineate the different sections. (This applies to the...

Quite possibly, Adcadet. Well, not the GPL, the one you want (if you use a GNU derived licence at all) is the GNU Free Documentation License. Alternatively, you might do well to consider one of the several Creative Commons licences. More on these shortly. Your project includes copyrighted...

Coug is spot on. Buck, I guess the reason your Ali boards lasted better than ours was to do with your choice of video card. Ali Super 7 chipsets hate Nvidia cards (in those days, the TNT-2 was the usual thing, mostly M64s). Somewhere up above, Coug posted a thoughtful and to the point summary...

Replacing an ALI Socket7 board is never a bad idea. I can't believe that I used to rather like them when they first came out. Whatever was I thinking? Well, OK, I can believe it. Some things age gracefully (like your old BX boards, Buck) (or, indeed, like your good self!). Some things...

Well if so, it's a long, long moment: we have been getting it for r six months or so now. It's interesting to read that other people here have (a) heard of Geil, and (b) not had the same success that we have had. For us, it has been a 100% positive experience.

It's blue. More than that I don't know. :)

Yes, VIA have improved. On the other hand, all those FUD stories people used to spread were just that: FUD. I've been using VIA chipsets since the days of the 486DX/2, and they have always been in the ballpark. The IDE drivers, for example, were a Sound Blaster fruit-up. Take the 300 to 500...

I'm not sure, Buck. They nearly all have LAN these days, but I've never measured the performance. Hell, I'd have to ask you guys to help me figure out how to measure LAN performance. The reality is that 90% of the time, the only LAN performance I notice is what I can get out of my cable...

Yea: they are finnicky. I was going to reply at more length but I started a new thread instead.

Lateley we have switched over to using Geil RAM for everything. Since .. er .. about December last year, or possibly a little later. Geil market their RAM to the overclocking community, but we never overclock it, just use it for stock-standard systems. Previously we used a range of stuff, most...

Yup. They usually work OK. But not always. Sell enough Nvidia-based motherboards and sooner or later one of them will turn around and bite you. There are three problem areas: (1) The integrated video drivers for the (rather dear) Nforce II boards with what amounts to a Gforce 4 MX with very...

I've been pondering it, Time, but in the end, I decided against it. The benefit of having one driver that works with everything we build (and with almost everything we have built in the last three years or so - ever since the 8MB S3 Trio 64 3Ds and the Voodoo IIIs faded out, really) is just too...

I'm still waiting for Nvidia to get their Nforce II drivers right. Everyone raves about how Nvidia make he best Athlon chipsets. Crap. Until they can write reliable, fuss-free drivers that just work first time, every time, I'm sticking with VIA.

I guess I'm a little late in the day with this, but the porn site posting thing is easy to explain (I think). It's nothing to do with them wanting people here to follow the links to their crappy sites, it's all about Google. The idea is Googlebombing. One of the lesser-known things about the...

Wow! That's great, Clocker.

Ahh, but the thing with a Smoothwall is that you are in complete control of it. Perhaps it's largely familarity, but I can do things with a Smoothie that I wouldn't have a hope of doing with a box full of firmware. (It probably is largely familiarity!) And, of course, at a net cost of zero...

By the way, you don't have to know anything about Linux to install and use a Smoothwall. (I am living proof of that!) But some background will help. The basic idea is that you have two NICS. The RED NIC is the one that connects to the danger zone (i.e., your cable modem and thus the...

What you want, JTR, is a Smoothwall. Easy, cheap, very secure. Quite a few of the members here use them, so you will have a ready-made support netwrk if you need help. Here is what you do. Step 1 Find an old PC - just about anything will do: a Pentium-133, a 6x86-166, whatever you have lying...

Actually, it's clamidia. (more sp?) The population has dropped a lot in recent years because of the clamidia epidemic. But the reality is, they are still plentiful, and as Pradeep says, they don't always smell nice. There are other creatures that are much more threatened.

Oh, a clarification: I don't mean that everyone stays a Mozilla fan. Some people are so terminally stupid that they get home and don't realise that they can get onto the Internet without clicking the blue E-thing. In the end, we don't mind. They end up coming back. Computer slow, system...

To convert even the stupidest user to a Mozilla fan: Install Mozilla. Edit > Preferences > Privace & Security > Popup Windows Ask "Do you like popups?" (Everyone says "no", "hell no!" or "I hate the bloody things!") Ask "Would you like to never, ever have another popup ever again?" (They say...

http://spywarewarrior.com/viewtopic.php?t=68 may be worth a visit. It's a list of bogus anti-spyware products. Seems, on a quick first glance, to be legit.

Nope. He takes after me! (But I take after Henry Ford. Any colour you like so long as it's beige.)

Oh there is no question of extinction. Koalas, or Tree Rabbits, as I've taken to terming them lately, still have large areas of habitat remaining and there is no real likelihood that they will lose the bulk of it. We are only talking about the east coast, where most of the people live. There...

The bottom line, then gentlemen, seems to be keep on doing what works for you. For me and Tannin, that's Nvidia.

I just had a look at the Canon printer/copier. Not to see running (it was for a customer and we didn't take it out of the box) but enough to get the point that it's a well-finished, solid-looking thing and inspires confidence.

Nope. It applies to the Voreor skin too (and I assumme, all the others), but it's specific to Opera 7. Opera 6 is OK. Opera 7 has some weirdness in the way it interprets CSS. I remember investigating it a while back, but forget the details. Something to do with the content of a div being centred...

No bush, no Koalas. When you cut all the trees down to build McDonalds stores, all the wild creatures die. It's an inevitable consequence of unrestrained human population growth, JoJo.

You got it, Merc. It's a mystery to me. But the long and the short of our experience is that Nvidia cards just work for us. Utterly fuss-free. Where I can, I go with the fanless ones (for the obvious silence and reliability reasons). We load whatever drivers we lay our hand on first: typically...