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Ah. Thankyou. I looked in there, must have run my eye right past it. Firebird? That's not a bad idea. I tried it a while back, went back to Internet Explorer (Tannin won't let me play with Opera or Moz - greedy bugger - I get stuck with his leftovers) but I bet it's improved quite a bit since...

How do I tell my stupid browser (Internet Explorer 5.0) not to use that pox-ridden "personalised menu" that leaves all sorts of stuff out until I click on it? I can never remember.

Huh? So what's ice hockey?

What it comes down to, is actual real-world impact on tasks that actually make you wait. Now this doesn't mean tasks that take a long time, or not always, it means tasks that you actually wait for, which is not the same thing at all. I'll give you an example. Let's take ... er .... system...

I'm predicting a three goal win by Sydney over Brisbane. Collingwod will dip out in one of the Preliminary Finals, and the other team to make the top four ..... Hmmm .... Port? Essendon? Hard to say.

It wasn't me. -- Chuck Berry

So ..... Have you recruited this guy for the Storage Forum folding team?

I am trying to force myself to read this thread. I am not enjoying the idea. It wazn't my fault! It just happened. (sigh)

Tannin, please stop trying to pretend that you are still the sharp-tongued angry young man with a gift for clear, rational thinking and exceptional clarity of exposition that you used to be (well, that you say you used to be) and get packing. (Ahh, I better explain: the three of us - Tannin...

Brother, you don't know nuffin!

I don't know how Im going to pay all this back guys, but I'm really grateful to you all. I think Tannin already told you that I ... er ... had to raise a little cash to cover my expenses. Well, anyway, I'd just like to say thankyou to Dave and JoJo and Mercutio and Fool and Fushigi and Belinda...

Whoohoo! I'm back! I have promised to be good, but first I have a whole lot of people I have to thank.

Bastards. Not that I was buying any anyway. I can't believe how bad WD's waranty replacement drives are: fair dinkum, we have at least one in three arrive DOA. Last three WD RA replacements we got: 1: 20GB Protege. Makes horrible clacking noise. Passes all tests flawlessly, however, so...

On the other hand, a black bow-tie sets off the orange rather nicely.

Only thing I can think of to say in favour of shirts is that, if you are going out for a little drinkie or something and you want to match your handbag and your shoes, its easier to change your shirt than it is to dye your fur.

Really? Great! I don't mind if I don't have to go to the office for .. oh .. about 5 years or so would be enough.

Drive to the US. OK. Go to Sydney and turn right, yes? (But gin is OK, is't it?)

Indeed it is. As you will read in the other thread (over in the Pub and Brewery) we are about to set off on something that adds up, more or less, to long service leave. Five weeks alone with a telescope, a camera, and lots of bird species we have never seen before. Bliss!

Ahh, thankyou, Ian. That makes a good deal of sense that way. I'll pop that somewhere into the back of my mind for pulling out when needed. Mostly, as you undoubtedly know, I only work on small networks - 2 to 4 machines is typical. BTW, we are still building heaps of Smoothies. It was your...

A good point, Ian. Which mainboards (if any) are using 3.3V PCI now? (I've rather lost track of matters technical lately.) Nice to see the old DTC still going, by the way. When he was a lad, Tannin used to swear by their MFM controllers.

3.5ms? That's plenty. SR's new benchmarks are pretty crap. I only look at the low-level numbers these days - the rest of it is more misleading than helpful. All depends on your purpose, though. For something like a low-performance second drive for bulk storage, it would be ideal. Personally...

Do they have bananas in Darwin?

I'll know soon.

I'll tell you later.

Tannin and I won't be around much, if at all, for the next 5 or 6 weeks, because we are heading off to points unknown with camera in hand. Yippee! We are taking a laptop, which has a modem, but probably won't be anywhere we can log in from very often. So be good. PS: as soon as Mrs Pradeep...

Up to you, Doug. You be da main man, and you won't go with anything that doesn't work right. I'm happy with the current setup, but you da man. If you think it's worth doing, go for it!

The Tekram ones are more-or-less the standard - at least if we define "standard" as "the obvious card you have if you are tired of paying Adaptec's stupid prices". I own one. It works just fine.

By the way, I have a slow brain too. Especially on Mondays.

Thankyou, Ian. I now feel well-equipped.

The links are only non-clickable if your mail client doesn't know how.

sorry greg i think i pick this stuff up frm tannin - who, as you know, is famous for heaping piles of derision on pr departments in general and the even more than normally oxymoronic quaxtor one in particular. he really is notorious for it. (which is one of the things i like about tannin, come...

Gahhh.... We have The Return of the Maxtor PR Department, it seems. And just as stupid as they ever were.

Ahh .. yes. Good idea, Doug. Not something that most of my customer base has a need for - but these guys might be an exception.

Wel, I might need Samba before too long for that place, Merc. They have seven machines at present. If they get too much bigger, we will hit the W2K ten-connection limit. And you can rest assured that we won't be shelling out insane dollars for a copy of the server edition! If I had to do it...

Whoohoo! Way to go, Pradeep!

Hmmm .... It's still downright hopeless interface design. If you have three options (as they do) it is axiomatic to have three buttons. Better than in XP though. Having set up the shares on the server, it took me maybe 2 minutes to set up the connections on the other W2000 machines and the...

Absolutely, Mr Green. Smaller peope, yes. With orange hair.

Oh, quite sure, Jan. Did you ever wonder how OS/2 got better than 10% of the O/S market for quite some time and yet you hardly ever saw it on desktop machines? It was huge in the banking market. No GUI, of course, and it's all locked down with a custom front end. ATMs were a major OS/2...

Any chance we can throw a huge party? Let's invite all the execs from Verisign, Iomega, Rambus, Microsoft, Hewlett-Crapard, Telstra, AOL, and, of course, SCO. Let's also invite the good Mr Osama and provide him with the biggest and loudest bomb he can squeeze into a semi-trailer. Or two, if...

.... and more Orangutangs ...

Never used a domain in my life. Nope, the thing that tricked me is that there are three possibilities, and two things to tick. Easy enough once you know how, but typically stupid Microsoft interface design. (Tannin knew this all the time, of course, but he refused to tell me unless I owned up...

Thankyou E_Dawg. I do believe that Mercutio has nailed it: as ever with these things, very simple once you know. It simply didn't occur to me htt you could untick boxes without ticking the opposite box, if you know what I mean. Microsoft have set up a three way permission system: allow deny...

The part where there is no domain controller? No domain, just a simple peer-to-peer network. Five or six users, and a horrible Hewlett-Crapard all-in-one printer on a JetDirect port. (Dreadful things - but I've got that particular bastard beaten into submission.) (Pradeep's link doesn't...

Ahah! I think you have spotted it Merc. Thankyou. Yes I was ticking "deny". A quick little experiement on this machine (which doesn't have any others connected to it, bar the firewall, so I can't test properly) shows me that you can tick "allow", tick "deny" OR just untick "allow". Weird. I...

Gdisk. Freeware from one of the companies that Symantec bought out a while back. Command-line based, horrible syntax, but very fast, very effective.

Typicaly OS/2, Jan.

No more Sol. Sol is in South Australia (having accepted a full time job). No domain. I already made users on the server, same as I do under OS/2 (which is vastly easier to do this stuff with). (Or possibly I am more used to.) It doesn't work. If I leave "everyone" ticked, everyone can access...

Besides, it was a stupid idea. Everybody knows we should be breeding for big bananas.

Its OK, Ekaf. Try not to do it again, OK?

Ekaf! That was my login you used!