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Nominations sound good to me then, :) Gigabyte = Toyota: absolutely. That one is spot on.

I don't suppose we could use imaginary CPUs? I have as many of those as you like. Failing that, I guess we will just have to settle for some imaginary results. Want me to create a hacked image of the resuts page, Coug? Not only will that put us in ... oh ... how about 4th place overall .. it...

Fool wants a doohicky because it would be "a far less nerve wracking operation for someone with fingers as unsteady as mine". Well, your mileage may differ, but I usually find that a little less gin helps. Of course, that doesn't always work. Sometimes it seems more effective to take a little...

Taken in isolation, Honold, just so. Indeed, I'd go a little further and call it just one step better than voodoo. But in the context of a great deal of very solid evidence from elsewhere, no. Here in Australia, the BOM and the CSIRO have done an enormous amount of research in the area - not...

Hoolie Doolie! Over here, the dams are bone dry. I'll see if I can dig out some pictures to show the contrast later on. But we better get used to it: it's all part of the global climate change pattern, and this sort of event is going to get more and more common.

Fool, this is the sort of thread that never expires, it just goes to sleep for a month or two at a time. Sort of like Tannin, really.

Yup: one crashed browser. Works fine with Mozilla and Opera, doesn't show the box with Netscape 4.x but doezn't crazh either. That was IE 6.0. PS: see my Zig.

Thankyou Jan. OK, I know I'm off topic in this thread, but do P-4s behave like that? I'd have a hard time forcing myself to run any modern CPU without proper cooling, but I gather that, if ou were dumb enopugh to want to do it you could use a P-4, yes?

OK, zo I'm ztupid. What else is new? :-?

Anyone mind if I ask a dumb question? (Why should anyone mind, Tea? It's not as if they are not used to it.) (Thanks, Tannin. Remind me not to forget about putting salt in your tea. Ahem ... Az I waz zaying ...) I thought that P-4s simply clock throttled themselves back to maintain a sensible...

I popped in several times, didn't have much to say, didn't say much. Mostly, I just enjoyed Time's wonderful link to t he office party thing.

Ahhh .... dat is juzt beautiful :roll:

They are pretty good at this PR ztuff. Maybe they should write a book. They could call it ... oh ... something like: "How to win friends and influence people."

Tannin. Mate. I have to say it. Great post!

You could do it with a Smoothie or a hardware router. Whether it's worth the effort is another question.

Duh. I didn't think of that. They don't have water here in Australia. Not so as you would notice, anyway.

Zubterainian house in New York? My word yes. Just the thing. Much zafer.

Ahh, thankyou, ZX. You have provided a perfect example to illustrate the point with which I was bludgeoning the Doggy One about the head a little while ago. Now there are two things you could do about that problem. (a) Launch a prosecution for illegal trade practices against the oil...

From the Inquirer: Intel: "has caught a group of 17 artists in American town jeopardising its intellectual property by using the word "inside". A report in the Boston Globe said that Intel has asked the artists' cooperative in Shelburne Falls, in Massachusetts, to stop using the phrase Art...

Doggy one, you are proposing a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between the role of governnment and the role of the market. First, for the purposes of this discussion, I will stipulate that the right-wing model of a free-market, capitalist society with minimal government is the...

Juzt goes to prove what I learned way back when I waz only a little ape at Tannin'z knee: RAID fanaticz are az loopy az a cat on acid.

Huh? Everybody measures power in cups of tea. :wink: Underground houses are great, Blake. Whether the problem be heat or cold, they offer enormous efficiency gains. The main problem is ensuring proper drainage, which is one reason why they tend to remain uncommon. In the opal mining towns of...

That, E-dawg, is flat wrong. Governments exist in order to defend their citizens - all their citizens. Governments have two primary tasks: (a) To defend the nation against external aggression (b) To protect the citizens of the nation from harm. It has nothing to do with "undermining the...

Indeed, that could be great news!

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story, Blake. That'z my theory and I'm zticking to it.

(From a Yahoo address) Dear Sir, We gain your particulars from Internet as one of the best Distributors and Suplier of HARD DISC DRIVE 20GB and 40GB in your country. Our companies are one of the current Government approved Brokers been commisioned to supply this Item to the C&F value of...

Blakewry said: "I have been under the impression that if a large vendor such as Dell, HP, Compaq, Gateway for example sell anything other than Windows with their PCs (not counting servers) that they will lose the cushy deals they have with microsoft and would be force to pay more for each copy...

If you can find zomeone to rezearch it, and zomeone elze to write it, Mr Coug, I volunteer to check the zpelling. :wink:

Replacing a Compaq with a microchannel PS/2? Blake, my friend, it's no wonder your avatar pictures you holding your head in pain, suffering and anguizh! Er .. if you don't mind a perzonal queztion ... do you enjoy pain?

Floatz their boat. I knew it was zomething like that. I think it's great that Eugene and Davin are still interested enough in the place to take the time to do this stuff.

Difference, schmifference. Whatever ... er ... whatever it is that someone said above. Oils their wheels or cracks their nuts or zomething.

Got it! www.info-zip.org

Infozip Free, open source, supports every operating zystem on the planet, and a few others besizes. www.infozip.org Err, link zeems to be broken. It's out there zomewhere.

Err, zorry. He's actually Tannin's brother. Which makes him a sort of brother of mine too, by courtesy, seeing az I am Tannin's baby sister. Maybe he's a ztep-brother in ztrict point of law.

By the way, about the guy with the three industrial sewing machines - he's no tin-pot little operation. I don't know what he's worth (didn't have much time to chat, it was a very busy day) but it turned out that he had a few beers with my brother a year or five back, at a time when my brother...

Ha! We cross-posted, Explorer.

Nonsense, ZX. ISA is a significant factor in the market. There is a great deal of very expensive industrial machinery that uses ISA. Two weeks ago I got a call from the local office of a big multinational confectionary maker, looking for motherboards that support ISA, for example. (A firm big...

Merc, that sounds like my sort of thing. Tannin, essentially, is a sour old bugger who isn't interested in anything that doesn't keep his brain working at 110% - and by that I mean in a traditional rational-logical sort of way. Broader, more emotional and subtle things are lost on him. He just...

Tannin, you don't have to be rude about it. (Why not? He bought a Dell didn't he? It's all true, isn't it?) (Well, yes. But you ztill don't need to be rude.) (Sorry.)

If opening the box is too hard, then it's too hard. Opening the box is by far the easiest way to do it. Compared to figuring out how to set up a network or anything else of that nature - forget it. Much, much harder. If the data set is small enough, he could email it to himself, but that's the...

Very, very few scientists are in the slightest doubt, JTR. There are te paid lackeys of the fossil fuel industry - and I'm deadly serious about that charge, the number of fake "independant" bodies out there that are funded by the fossil fuel companies is quite stunning - but them aside, the...

Well, that depends on how you define combustion. The body "burns" carbon and hydrogen by combing them with oxygen but, through the use of some very clever catalytic chemicals called "enzymes", manages to do so at low temperatures. The result, though, is much the same. The key issue isn't how...

On the global warming thing, the point of it isn't how much you burn, it's more what you burn. If you cut down a tree and burn it and then you grow another tree, the net amount of CO2 in the atmosphere remains unchanged: the new tree soaks up 100% of the carbon released into the atmosphere when...

There iz a letter to the Inquirer that I don't completely underztand. Tannin zayz that that iz juzt az well becauze it haz zomething in it called "bad language". I'm not zure what he meanz by that. Doezn't zeem to be any wordz that Tannin doezn't uze every time zomeone bringz a Hewlett-Crapard...

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Cool! Thanks Piyono. It'z easier to find Storage Forum in my list of bookmarks now. (Though I don't know why I should have Storage Forum bookmarked at all, really. I should just set it as my home page - it's always the first place I go to.)

There iz nothing wrong with the way I talk, although I mozt zay that I've noticed that quite a few of my human friendz are having problemz with their "Z"z. But that'z OK, I'm getting quite uzed to it, and I never hold it againzt them. They are ztill nice people, and zome of them are quite...

Mate, if you thinj global climate change is just a possibility", then you have a serious problem. Slip over here for a few days and I'll walk you round and I'll show you what it's doing. There is no "possibly" about it. It's a solid sute-thing fact. But that's not the point I wanted to make. I...

Don't listen to him. For a primate, Stereodude, you are pretty bright yourself. Tannin is bright too. Lotz brighter than yeast or even custard.

I'm the brainz of the family, Sterodude. Well known fact.