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See what I mean? You are too old, too slow. We need youth and vitality and optimisim around here. Blakewry is da man. Look Tannin, why don't you just go to bed and I'll bring you a nice glass of warm milk. OK?

It is compared with you, you old derelict. Or Coug. Or Groltz. Or ... who else was mentioned? Pradeep, Santilli. More old-timers. Move over grandpa. Got to go with us young ones.

I'm happy to vote for any of the fine people mentioned above. But I want to slip in my nomination (second - whatever) for Blakewry, cause he's a new boy around here and fresh blood is a darn good thing

sorry

So, what caused your mental disintegration, Edward? CD freakery? Porn? Or pop-ups?

This fellow, a Common Brushtail Possum, is not in the slightest endangered. Indeed, they are bordering on being a pest in urban areas, and in New Zealand (where they were introduced about 150 years ago) they are seriously nasty vermin that has been responsible for untold amounts of damage to the...

It's not all about Regent Honeyeaters, there are lots of species that are in trouble. One of them is the Grey-crowned Babbler. Babblers are very social birds that live in family groups of between 4 and about 15 birds. They move about together, feeding and building nests (not just for laying...

Well, I could tell you all where Tannin and I have been hiding these last few days, but seeing as Tannin already wrote this this time last year, I could just bump this thread instead. And, maybe, post a picture or two of the creatures we are doing it for. Hang on a tic, I'll see what I can drag...

I could be very tempted. I'd like a faster storage drive (to sit alongside the 18GB X15) but 36GB is too small. What I'd really like is a 180GB X15. sigh

The cost would be very small, Coug, and it would be my pleasure to ship it to you. But first I have to dig Tannin out and make him look high and low for it. There are bound to be spare ones around - we were an IBM OEM and used to buy 20-pack cartons of Warp 4 to sell with new systems - but that...

I probably have a spare licence or two, Coug. I'll have a hunt around when I get back. (Tree planting again this weekend.)

Want any help, Coug?

We sell the Seagates sometimes, when people particularly ask for SATA. Can't see the point myself: they are lots dearer and offer no discernable practical advantage. And there are disadvantages: if you use the SATA connector for one drive (at least on the board I was playing with the other day)...

Not worth a box, Blakewry. Just throw away the computer every 5 years. They have done some work to improve the atmosphere in the room, however. Apart from anything else, people have to work in there. And the tape seal, Buck, is doing just fine. The aluminium drive casing is pitted and dulled...

Naah. He's a nice guy. Remember that amazing corroded hard drive I passed around pictures of? The one I had to get out of the case with a hack saw? Same company. We got another one of those the other day: a clone, this one, ran till it was 90% rust, then stopped. "Can you fix it?" "Yep", we...

DAT tapes are cheap. (Errrr ... can I say "DAT tape"? Isn't that like saying "digital audio tape tape"? Or "ATM machine"? Where is the Grammar Police when you want him?) But that aside, I have to agree with this: Just so. Especially when it comes to anything from Ripmeofmega. Still, at least...

Yeah. The battery and data recovery money is sunk, but for the price of the new hard drive they could be 10% ahead on the new notebook. Shrug

Strange thing is, they (my customers) have just spent $200 to buy this clapped-out notebook a new battery, $1500-odd for the data recovery, and $200-odd for a new hard drive, all without a murmer. But they are balking at the idea of spending $2500 for a new notebook (which happens to have a CD...

Perzacaly! Next time I meet Michael Dell, I'll probably take his feet off. Somewhere in the shed, Tannin has a thing rather like the Heavy Duty Precision Impact Adjustment Tool, only one side looks different - sort of sharp and flat, if you know what I mean. I always wondered what that was for.

So, what do you do with important stuff? Buy premium-brand blanks? Keep it in a cool, dark, dry place? Re-copy it every 5 to 10 years? Al of the above?

I think you will find that it is expensive, SD. Very expensve. We just sent a ustomer's laptop drive to a data recovery firm and it cost roughly $1200 (about $550 US). And the problem was not too severe. No click-click. No point in telling you who, they are in Oz.

Gahh! I was trying to forget those ones. I've seen some other upside-down cases (not NEC) that were actually perfetly OK, but rather confusing.

It'z all liez.

Well, I think he is interesting. But then, being something of a history buff, I always find decrepit old relics interesting, Bill. Err ... that's both Bills. First time I've had two Bills to put together for ages, actually. Most of the time these days, I'm struggling to have two coins to clink.

I am only a very small bird watcher, Bill. Yes, I have taken to getting up early in the morning to look at birds (and listen to the Magpies), but I don't have a fraction of the knowledge that this guy does. Anyway, if I was going to open a museum, I'd probably want something very old and...

Someone posted this on the BirdForum, where Tannin hangs out almost as much as I hang out here. Apparently a true story. Worth repeating. An elderly Florida lady did her shopping, and upon returning to her car, found 4 males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping...

Install a Winmodem ... Now I know you are serious. :) BTW, you can always take a notebook with you and dial in from time to time. Hell - come to Australia: Tannin won't have the slightest difficulty in thinking up things to keep you busy. (More is the pity - damn slavedriver.)

An excellent suggestion, I.

Damn it, Tannin has been talking to the customer. I hate it when he does that.Throws all my grand pland out of whack. David (the MD of the firm in question) has a notebook. He uses a simple routine: every morning, he synchronises his user files with those on the server, using Windows Briefcase...

Hoolie Doolie, now we are getting into deep water! Doug expressed my idea well, I think. This isn't a mission-critical system, but they want to do it right - as reliable as possible within reasn and without going overboard. Essentially, we want to be able to survive the failure of any...

I see no reason why it shouldn't work, I. 9GB of decent SCSI drive still performs very well, even on an old controller. It will almost certainly give you better seek times than a brand new IDE drive will. And the transfer rate makes surprisingly little difference to most jobs,

Hmmm.... On second thoughts, it seems to be targeted at creating image files. We don't want image files that have to be restored, we simply want to copy the whole thing to another drive, ready to plug in and go. Am I wishing for the moon?

Hmmm.... On second thoughts, it seems to be targeted at creating image files. We don't want image files that have to be restored, we simply want to copy the chole thing to another drive. Am I wishing for the moon?

TrueImage looks good, Merc. Reasonably priced too. Thankyou.

Hmmmmm ... all things considered, youd advide that I should stay with the Albatron, then? :) Thanks for the link, Pradeep. It seems to be mostly a review of the chipset drivers, but what they say about the card itself seems good.

:)

Yes, another one. My customer wants the best GF FX5900 he can get. Doesn't really care about the price. wants it yesterday. He ordered an ASUS nearly a month ago but ASUS have given us three firm delivery dates and not made any of them. My ASUS dealer told me, frankly, that they now have a 4th...

Oh, and Mr Flagreen: is Drive Image trouble-free? Or are there hidden issues? No problems with locked files or anything like that? I want to be able to set it up to simply image the whole drive over to the spare drive with a single click (well, OK, three or four clicks will be OK) and, if need...

Just ordinary W2K, Howell. In fact, I don;t actually know what you canachieve with W2K Server Edition (aside from spend a vast amount of extra money, of course). Anyway, we are looking at a network of ... er ... 1: ADSL modem 1: Firewall/DHCP server (a Smoothwall) 1: Main server 1: Accounts...

Simple question: what's the easiest way to achieve this goal: Server will run W2K SP4, 80GB At least one of the workstations will be identical on a hardware level. What I want to do is fit both machines with a hard drive caddy, and have a daily or weekly backup run on the server to image the...

Gods - AMD get more like Intel every day.

Please excuseTannin, Merc. He's not very good with words. (That's why he likes to keep me around, even if I do have trouble with my "z"s.) What he meant is that there is not a real person inside the shell. There are lots of different real people inside you and inside Tannin. (Hell, I should know...

You da man, Mr Green!

And yes, it was a great line - to type or to read. :)

Well, it started with the Wikipedia, but it's got worse. I wound up specialising, mostly, on fauna, especially birds. But all those dry as dust articles with all text and no pictures looked terrible, so I started trying to take pictures. And that led us to realising that we needed good advice...

Fushigi: yes. Spot on.

OK. I don't get it. :(

I've not tried Samsung LCDs lately, but their reputation is excellent. I am mostly selling Mitsubishi 172s, and they are very nice indeed, but I have not looked at many of the competitors. Samsung screens tend to be a little expensive, so one of the other guys may well have a suggestion to make...

Tannin iz always scratching his orgyans. Iz that the same thing?

Actually they aren't "Tasmanian Tigers" or Victorian Tigers. They are Thylacines. Or were Thylacines, I should say. There is not the slightest doubt that they are extinct. They just couldn't cope with introduced competitors.