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The Gforce 4000 is gradually giving way to the Gforce FX 5200 on my shelf. We are a Nvidia-only shop because Kristi and I both feel very uneasy about ATI's weirdo problems and we just don't trust them. With the Nvida cards, we just plug them in and they work. First time, every time. Plus, we can...

Cool! Sounds like you are relly happy about it. Well done, Clocker.

Lack of a Windows key certainly would influence my choice of a laptop. Which brand was it you said didn't have one? IBM? I want one!

So ..... what took you so long? No matter. I always enjoy your posts, JoJo, and may there be many more of them.

Ditto to the comments above. A very worthy entrant to the 1000 club indeed. Well posted, my friend!

What Time said..... For My Toshiba, I carry: PCMCIA Compact Flash card reader. Kensington Orbit trackball. (Yup - the stupid one that buzzes in your hand - "the New Dimension in Tactile Feedback" - or some such garbage. It's really difficult to get hold of quality trackballs and (provided you...

One thing: my 7-in-1 media reader (which I rarely use these days, as I tend to prefer using the laptop's PCMCIA CF reader and then transferring to my Athlon via network) comes up as three drive letters, even though I nearly always want just Compact Flash. (Once in a blue moon it is possible that...

I'd go with it. Convenience is really important in laptops. And, for what it's worth, card readers and floppy drives are both things that rarely fail.

Max: what's NRA, CDA, COG, and AMA. OK, I know AMA, that's the Australian Medical Association, or a polite word for the doctors' union. But I don't know what the other three are.

Sechs: will you take $80 for your drive?

Adcadet: (1) You wlll see a speed increase with a Raptor - simply because your SCSI drives are so old. Even if Raptors arent all that fast (I can't say myself, never seen one in the flesh), they are stil going to be a lot faster than your 5 year old SCSI drives. (2) You would see a...

I'm astonished that the FCC allows the problem in the first place. Don't you guys have any radio spectrum laws? What gives?

Amongst people who know what they are doing (e.g., you, me, others here), that recognition came some time ago. Broader recognition amongst (a) the great unwashed mass of users and (b) the major corporates .... that's a good (and very interesting) question. The majors have a problem with...

What about a large directional antenna? One that is pointed in the general direction of his baby monitor, cranked up to a wattage just under that required to boil water, and fed with something educational and interesting, such as a live broadcast of the Iowa Pork Bellies Futures Exchange?

By the way, if anyone has noticed, I'm not here much of late. No, it's not because Flagreen was rude to Tannin in another thread. (Or was Tannin rude to Flagreen? Whatever. Personally, I hope it was the former. Apart from breakfast, I usually think that being rude to Tannin is the best possible...

Maybe that should be ati-radeon (or however you spell it). Actually, I missed an "n" - it should have been anti-radiation. In fact, come to think of it, I often miss an "n" when faced with an ATI product: to be specific, "n" as in "Nvidia". (Mercitio vomits. Oh well, another day, another...

I like the EA-6B Prowler option, myself. Eiher that or a small tactical nuclear weapon fused for air-burst in the stratosphere so as to produce an effective pulse. (Don't forget to wrap your computer gear up in aluminium foil first.) (Oh, and take your ati-radiation sickness vitamins.)

That is awesome, Time. Err .. and so far as reliability and on-site support and stuff goes, for AU$20,000, I'll promise to ... er .... well, almost anything!

Xerox and Kyocera both offer 3 year warranties. To my way of thinking, that makes it very difficult to even consider any of the 12-month warraty brands. But I do have my eye on a Canon model that retails for AU$500: only 12-months warranty but Canon are an OK company and it has a flatbed copier...

And it's not even Christmas!

Oh, for AV software, I recommend PC-cillan. It seems to be about as effective as the only other one I see regularly (the unlovely NAV) and way easier to own and use. It just works. Doesn't buggerise about all the time telling you how clever it is, just works.

Standard workshop charge for a spyware and virus scan: AU$55. That includes whatever it takes: Ad-Aware, Housecall, buggerising around in the registry if required, install Mozilla and Netscape Messenger, plus Tannin's well-worn 10 minute lesson in basic security skills. What do we charge if we...

Systems that really matter: I use the best anti-scum package of them all: a non-Microsoft operating system (OS/2). These systems are also protected by a hardware firewall, but it's the choice of operating system that makes the real difference. Systems that don't matter as much: I use a...

Unless they have changed their procedure, Lunar One, yes to both questions. Err ... I mean yes, sealed bag, and yes, keep it sealed up. At least I would - seems to me that a buyer might prefer it that way.

You have a seriously twisted boss, Merc. As evidence, I present the court with the following two items. * Exhibit A Said boss is reliably reported to dislike the only consistently trouble-free and reliable brand of inkjet printer there is, viz Epson. * Exhibit B Said boss restricts the use of...

If there was a cure to remove laziness, I'd wait till you could get it without having to go through all that bothersome signing up stuff.

Sure, Dave. Why not? For me, it would be a useful exercise. I've just done a fairly major rebore and update on my HTML skills, and if I do the usual thing and just stop now I'll forget it all again before the year is out. Dave or Clocker or both. I'm in. (Disclosure of ulterior motive: any...

And, of course, one talented Web-Ape. :)

You know, it just occurred to me that there is usually quite a difference between the socks and the puppets around here. I mean, take Buck. Buck is a top guy. But the Bartender, on the other hand, swans around pretending to be a nice bloke, smiling at everyone and offering free drinks now and...

Well, both, actually, Dave. :)

Ahh, you are another EditPlus user, are you Buck. I couldn't agree more. It's a superb text editor. Highly recommended.

Lan-Li work OK for me. Plus you can buy just the insert, which saves ... er ... about $1.30.

Hoolie Dolie! That'sa page hat seriously needs some work, Clocker. Why don't you just explain what you want it to look like, and see if the SF team can knock the base code up for you? Once you have a basic templace coded, everything else is easy - and you are no longer tied to Frontpage or...

Neat one Dave! I didn't know you could do that.

Thanks Mark & compay. I must remember to DL it and add it to our workshop tools disc.

By the way, a handy metric for spyware removal. Safe mode is your friend. Boot in safe mode, install Ad-Aware in safe mode, add the latest update patch, and run it without rebooting. While you are doing that, use MSCONFIG to nuke everything that you are not 100% sure of. Your motto is If in...

That makes sense to me. One thing that I can't miss seeing is Kazaa - any machine with Kazaa on it can be just about 100% guaranteed to be loaded up to the eyeballs with spyware. Instant messengers? Not so sure about that. I think the connection is not technical but psychological - i.e., users...

I'd like to see a round-table here on what lets spyware through in the first place. Prevention is a lot better than cure, and I'd like to know more about how spyware gets onto machines. OK, I tell people not to use Kazaa and to prefer Mozilla or Opera over Internet Explorer, not to click...

Same reason as all the rezt of the crappy, unredable, nonsensicial code on the internet: bugz in IE. (Version 5 is the usual culptit.) The right-hand image (wander) makes it quite complicated. I've learned a fair bit more about browzer bugz now, and could probably recode it with a hack to avoid...

Amazing! Thanks Buck. But why does it work? My guess is that Opera 7.23 doesn't like background colour on an in-line element (but I'll have to check that in IE 5.0 - which just might have been the reason the BG colour went in there in the first place - this machine has IE 6.0 and I'm too lazy...

(Lots of work later) OK, site finished! You can take a look at www.woadyyaloak.com.au Well, as finished as it's going to get. It all validates as HTML 4.01 Strict, ecxcept for the front page, which is my cruddy table version still, and which seems to work in the major browsers and can wait...

Hell, it'z so quiet around here these last few dayz that I'd nearly value a nice long chat with a banana. Or possibly a mango.

Stupid humanz. Bling-Bling is the noize a cazh register makez.

OK, I tried another theory. It seems to make sense, but someone check my logic, please. I started by asking myself: * What's the difference between connecting to 17,000,000 insecure computers (the Internet) and 17,000,001 insecure computers (the Internet plus one local machine)? Answer came...

I think "tierness" is a matter of personal defenition, Misty One. Sort of like madness: anyone straighter than me is uptight and anal, anyone more bent than me is slightly insane.

Sorry: I meant BooST, not Gilbolt.

OK, I hate to be the stupid one, but what are the 7 white things with thumbscrews? They look like PCI card hold-downs, except they seem to be too far toward the front of the case to be useful for any normal-sized card. PS: Very neat looking system, Gilbolt. Nothing like the way my machines look.

And here was me assuming it was an April Fools' Day thing. I saw it yesterday on The Register and it never crossed my mind to believe it.

Rails? yueuck! :eekers:

What's the go with CPUs for this stuff? Is this one of the few dwindling areas where Pentiums still rule, or do I recommend Athlon, same as usual? (Assuming that this particular customer turns up, of course - but it's something I should know in any case.)