Search results

AOpen LCD screens are pretty good. We are more-or-less exclusive Mitsubishi these days, but we sold quite a few AOpen TFTs in 15 inch days and were always happy with them, Buck.

We bought about 10 Samtron (that's the same as Samsung) 17 inch monitors sometime late last year when our favourite Deltas became unavailable. At least 4 of them have required service since then, and two of them have been blank-screen dead three times each! Samsung's monitors, it seems, are as...

There is only one answer, Will. Buy a bigger monitor to use when you are docked. I'd be comfortable with that res on a 21 or 22 inch screen, just a fraction uncomfortable about using it on a 19. Buy a Mitsubishi 22" CRT. It's only money. :wink:

What thread?

I suspect you are right, Blake. But way too complicated for me to try. I'm a Linux moron. :(

Nope, CityK, "Smoothwall" is correct. He is indeed a loudmouthed jackass, but who cares? I don't have to listen to him. The product (bar the lousy documentation) works perfectly, and it's completely free. All you need is an old PC (anything will do - this one is a Pentium 133 with 32MB and a 2GB...

Thanks, JoJo. I'll do it that way then, not stoping to count the pennies. Especially as it's Tannin's credit card, not mine. :wink:

Clarification: I mean hooking up 3 customer machines to the second hub - i.e., the new one that I'm going to attach to the orange NIC.

Anyway, here is what I plan to do about it. Buy a combination firewall/router/hub from one of the usual suspects. (I could also use a second Smoothwall and a stand-alone hub - same difference, but I'm getting short of space.) Configure it to the static address 10.0.0.1 on it's RED side (i.e...

OK, I finally got around t trying this out. Or rather, the Soup Nazi did. Took him quite awhile, as it's simply not documented. Smoothwall walks you by the hand through the basic red-green setup in ways that your father could understand - hell, Tannin understands it! But as soon as you venture...

Water. I'm still on the food-free diet, Tannin. Only three weeks to go now.

What are we having?

Hell, I don't know. You started it. (Didn't you?) (Or maybe it waz me. I forget.) Can we have lunch now?

See what? It'z perfectly obvious that I'm not the .... Aggggh![/[] [i]You bugger, you tricked me! YES I AM!

No I'm not.

Yes I am.

Yes I am.

Yes I am.

Yes I am.

No. Actually I plan to be away for the weekend and carefully not visit this thread for a few days when I get back. That should be safe enough.

Know what?

Stop what?

What'z goatse.cx?

Good advice from the large motorized one.

bahngeist has the meat of the matter: anybody who doesn't rinse their vegetables/fruit after bringing it back home perhaps deserves the possible garnish. Exactly. Remember also that the real risk of eating unwashed food is not in a little bird garnish now and then. No, the real risk is the...

Oh dear. Poor little city-boy. Do you know where grapes come from? They grow out in a field, in the open air. Yup. Right out there amongst the beetles and the spiders and the grasshoppers and, yes, the birds that eat the beetles and the spiders and the grasshopers. They do that because they...

It may well be there by choice. City-adapted birds - it's quite likely an English House Sparrow, a species that has been spread by humans to most of the larger cities on the globe and is now, paradoxically, declining in its native habitat - can get very smart. Me, I'd let it do its own sweet thing.

Tannin, would you mind not answering my questions? Ahem .... Bozo: 4 failures out of 75 drives is not an acceptable failure rate these days. That is about 5.3% You should be getting a failure rate about ten times lower than that. Our Samsung failure rate currently stands at less than 0.3% and...

Actually, I've never seen the reliability survey you metion, Doggy One. The methodology is such that I can't imagine any reason why I should want to see it. (On the whole, I prefer Robert Heinlein for my science fiction needs.)

Well, NRG, I tried it Gucci Rush. But I didn't like it much. On the whole, it was dreadful with coke and worse with soda, so I tried the other half of the bottle with dry ginger, which was a distinct improvement. Sure does make your fartz zmell funny though.

Because, in the course of an ordinary week, I use ... er ... five different computers to visit here, running three different operating systems, two different personlities, three different browsers. Not to mention the other two sites I regularly visit, both of which have different codes to enter...

Doez post number 50034 count for any nice posts about a person (even if that person happens to be an ape) and also free drinkz?

The trouble with I's scheme is that you then can't use */ and _ symbols in the ordinary way. You'd forever be getting a surplus * where you actually wanted bold, and unwanted bolding when you least expected it. Plus, it's too complicated and difficult to remember. The scheme I mentioned is...

OK, this is a blue-sky idea, but I'm a blue-sky sort of person, so I might as well bring it up. It may well not be practicable to implememt it, but for what it's worth ..... Lately I've become very used to the wiki software editing conventions, which are essentially the same as the ones we use...

But I'm a big orangutan, Buck. I might be only four feet and an undisclosed quantity of inches tall, but (at last count) my width was most conveniently measured in yards. :( No matter. My new food-free diet is working. Another month or two and I'll be a nice slim circular shape again. BTW...

Switches are best. Set it right once and once only, never have to worry about it ever again. I never trust software, even when it's firmware.

Sometimes I think that there is a given quantum of madness, irrelevance, and idiocy here at Storage Forum. I have an unexpected and enforced holiday behind bars, and - hey presto! me and I step up and maintain the lunacy factor. errr .... excuse me, I'm off topic.

Nope. Never. Or at least not for a seriously long time. After eating my way out of the truck - hey, that's 40 feet of bananas stacked higher than Tannin's head - I experienced a change of heart. And a small episode of convulsive vomiting. Also, I got very fat. So now I am on a new diet. It...

I hate bananaz!

Birds are nicer than foxes. They should change it back.

Wot? You mean it's faster than your tape drive, Greg?

Go and wash your mouth out, CG Baby! Pleae, no more of the C-word.

Easy as that? I tried setting up a DMZ NIC once, but it got way too complivated for me to understand. That, however, was with the (over-ambitious) intention of setting up a web server - something I don't need to do at present. I'll give it another go. Thanks, JoJo! (Have a mango.)

PS: I don't mind spending a bit of the old boy's money, though ideally I'd do the whole thing on a shoestring.

Bloody Tannin. Leaves everything to me. I've no sooner got back to the office than he tells me I have to figure out a better way to connect customer machines up to the cable modem for on-line virus scanning. Back in the old days, Tannin used to get a fresh copy of VET in the mail once every...

Phew! You had me worried there! No matter. Any excuse for a rant is a good excuse for a rant. Thankyou for helping me get out of jail, by the way. I've not used a "z" since. Well .... Maybe one.

Ahem .... To surprize many and shock not a few by posting on-topic: Just so, humour-challenged one. It's bloody near impossible these days. Sometimes I envy the relics of history (such az Tannin) who actually got to work with an OS that did what you told it to, rather than the other way about...

And that, my dear fur-challenged one, is just about the only reliable thing about the U-Series products -- they usually end up broken.

17GB? Uh-oh ..... I can only think of one 17GB drive, Gmac, and that's the utterly unlovely Seagate U-Series clunker. As U-Series drives go, that model was pretty reliable, but saying "reliable" in the context of "U-Series hard drives" is like saying "sharp" in the context of "eggs".

Hmmm ..... Nice! Very fast, well thought-out interface. I better take a look at the mail client as well - the Mozilla client is crippled by its poorly-chosen default mail location. Maybe they have fixed that too.