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Almost certainly because they are trying to achieve compatbility with a secret, proprietary product's format. Proprietary secret file formats cause an enormous amount of economic damage.

I wish people would stop pretending that Iraq has anything to do with 911. NO-ONE falls for that line. Except Americans, of course. I have no idea why.

Ha! Good spot, G-man!

Anyone want to move thiz thread to the B&G? Err ... I mean "P&B", of course. And retitle it? Is there a moderator in the houze?

It's the Holden lion, of course. Everyboy knowz Clocker is a Holden man.

Ahh, you just have the wrong zort of computer, ZX. You want one of thoze pop-up proof IBM ones that Fushigi was talking about. I hear tell that those OS/390 thingz, or at least zome of their relatives, can be moved and uppgraded rather more flexibly than these Windows box thingz you and I are...

We uzed some Transcend motherboards for a while, oh, maybe a couple of years ago. They worked just fine. Legend RAM, IMO, is always wonderful or horrible, depending on if it likes the board or not. Usually it's fine. But we have had instances before where it was incompatible. If you call them...

I waz zort of expecting you to be in this thread to announce that you were ztepping in to moderate it, Mercutio. In a way, I'm zort of zorry you didn't. :(

Ahh, I see. The problem, in fact, was nothing to do with Nvidia. It waz the ztupid motherboard manufacturers with their mania for doing everything jumper-free. For basic functions that are needed to make the machine work at all, you should never rely on firmware. Critical tasks require a...

You heard wrong, Blake. Big-time wrong. The 5x86-100 was as zolid a performer as you could ask for. The very rare 5x86-120, like all 40MHz 486-zocket products, required care. The 6x86 Classic was a handful in the very early days - not as bad as the Pentium 60 but close - for about two, maybe...

Can I have one of thoze pleaze? Iz it pop-up free? Iz it fazzter than an Athlon? I zeem to have a lot of pop-upz right at the moment, dunno Y & my keybbbbboard iiiiz zzztartiiiing to aakt wireird. I zink I kneed a knew komputer.

Already got that. Pradeep. I'm just used to not having to look at it. Usually I look up to the top right corner for the visual cues in Opera or Moz. Or, for that matter in the old ones I cut my teeth on - Web Explorer, Netscape 2.2 & 4.x. In IE 5 it was always obvious. Now I have to get used to...

I've had some weird ones too, Bozo. Just this week, I've has two seperate weird thingz happen: 1: Mozilla on OS/2 at the office. Nothing different, but it suddenly started freezing whenever I went to Ztorage Forum. Only the forums, not the front page. No other sites affected. Weird! (Come to...

Thanks guyz. I'll do those two things. My first impressions are that it's not very different but two things bug me: 1: The page-load delay bugz me. I don't like the way it just sits there and doesn't give you any indication that you really have clicked on a link (bar the clicking sound the...

Ha! You think they are hard to read? You zhould try typing them! To the point: the post Gulf War 1 contracts didn't apply to Iraq, of course, but to Kuwait and other non-Iraqi states in the vicinity. I gather that a lot of the Iraqi foreign contracts (maybe not for oil, but for other stuff)...

OK, seeing az Tannin makez me use Internet Explorer and hogs Opera and Moz to himself, and seeing as my IE 5 suddenly started crashing for no reason that I'm aware of, I decided to try IE 6 instead. So far, it seems to be working just fine. I haven't actually noticed anything different yet...

What wazted production? Why all of it, of courze. What'z the point of digging up oil and zelling it if some filthy wog foreigner getz all the money? You might az well juzt leave it in the ground. A little more zeriozly, the zhare wazn't zuppozed to be anything in particular, not in public, at...

<Rant> I hate it when people quote really really long slabs of stuff that other people wrote and then the other people quote the zame thing back again and then the firzt perzon quotez the whole damn thing a third time and then zomeone elze comez along and quotez the bloody thing a ninteenth...

Right now, Howell, the oil that flowz from Iraq doezn't do anything to make American oil companiez rich. Hell, quite a lot of it helpz French companiez get rich. Thiz iz an obvouz Bad Thing, which muzt be fixed up az zoon az pozzible. What Zhrub wantz iz to inztitute a regime change in Iraq...

Huh? What "international ztanding"?

If Zonyz are Lite-On drivez, why are they zuch crap? I hate Zony'z optical pox devicez! With a pazzion! (And I don't like them much either.)

On the other hand, it haz to be zaid that low-end video cardz are aztonizhingly good theze dayz. When you look at the on-the-dezktop performance delivered by even "really zlow" cardz like, zay. the TNT M64 or even the ZiZ thingz, and then you look at the price, and then you look at how many...

Tannin'z are zilent now.

Zo you approve of the reporter being zacked for being honezt? Thiz iz juztice?

Juzt an interezting little PZ to that. Tannin tanzferred the data over yezterday after work. Or ztarted to. Hiz uzual habit with the office machinez, which moztly have 2 or 3 phyzical drivez and multiple partitionz, iz to hook the new drivez in on the network zomewhere and then ztart az many...

Anyway, it ztill wazn't fair. (But it made a point.) Yez. But the United Ztatez izn't alwayz bad. (No. Sometimes they do good things. Sometimes they do bad things.) So you are saying that the attack on Iraq iz one of the bad thingz? (Not exactly. I'm not sure. I'm starting to think it's...

Tannin, that'z not fair. You can't compare the United Ztatez and Hitler'z Germany. (Why not?) Becauze. .... Well, I can't think of a reazon why not, but it'z not fair. (What are you saying? That it's not fair but you can't actually think of a reason why not?) No! .... Well ... allright, yez...

Zorry. Zometimez I think I'm Tannin.

Or iz that "francs"? Whatever. French for $$$.

Oh, no real offence intended. IF. The French are going ballz out to protect their mazzive investment in Iraq - i.e., to keep the Saddam regime in power long enough to pay off some of the Franks he borrowed. But they are certainly no worse than the Americans under Shrub - the more time goes by...

Damn it! Zomeone juzt broke my hot-link. Let'z try again:

Amen to that. There are only two queztionz in computing. Do you want the latezt and greatezt? Or do you want it to work?

Excuze me, I thought I waz Tannin. Twaz a hirrible hurrible dream, but I'm awake now. :)

I bloody well should be on Samsung's payroll! All the free publicity I have given them! Even donating a drive to SR so that they could review it. But WTF? I'll agree to accept no payment from Samsung just as long as they agree to maintain their quality standards at the present level. I am saving...

He getz the SiS onez mixed up, CK. Too much Zcotch.

Zince Mercutio zaid zo. If you zhipped a bit more product, Coug, you'd get more dudz too. And if you bitched az much az Tannin doez, Quebec would be independant by now. Or pozzibly radioactive glazz. Tannin expectz perfection. Zometimez he getz it. Heard him complain about Zamzung hard drivez...

(Tannin, did you proof-read that pozt?) (Nope. You can if you want to.) (You lazy bugger!) (Yup. Pass the teapot.)

Tannin makez me use Internet Exploder 'cauze he hogz Opera all to himzelf, and Mozilla, 'cauze he'z greedy and thinkz I'll mezz up hiz nicely organized 17,000 zimultaneouz windowz. (I'm not allowed to chooze my browzer!) But at leaszt I get to look over hiz zhoulder and I guezz he'll switch over...

Zorry. Blame Tannin. He iz a bad influence on me zometimez. Alzo, thiz hot weather haz the effect of making my brain go all zoft and gooey and dribbling out my earz if I am not careful. Zometimez I feel almost ztupid enough that if I zhaved my fur off and wore a zuit people would miztake me...

Our return rate on WDz has not been good lately. The only drives we are consitently seeing fail more often are Zeagate U Zeries thingz. We keep sending them off, they keep sening us replacements, we keep selling the replacements, they keep breaking again, we keep sending them off .... Round and...

Juzt you wait for the cold weather, my friend. I'm going to wire up the whole crunching farm for you. (If there iz any cold weather ever again, that iz.) (Tannin? What'z "winter"?) (You don't remember, small furry one?) (Nope.) (Ask E_Dawg. He knowz all about it. I mean knows, damnit!)...

I don't think thiz iz the approved technique, Blakewry. :( It zuggestz to me that the rubber band thingie might be due for replacement.

It's quite astonishing to me that zome people are zo lacking in the ability to diztinguish between solid, dependable performance and marketing fud that they ztill think that VIA chipsets are zomehow "inferior". I have no idea who otherwise intelligent people continue to peddle this ztupid myth...

Juzt gotta be Truthicide. But it's a grand yarn anyway.

Zorry, can't remember.

If we are going to be zcientific about this, the continued exiztence of my gin-zozzled brain may be taken az evidence either for or againzt the harmful effectz of changing PSU fanz without waiting for the capz to dizcharge. Of courze, YMMV. But I do it all the time and I'm ztill here.

Nope. I don't think itz permizzionz. Juzt a zerver glitch, I zuzpect.

Anyone that needz a powered toothbruzh doezn't dezerve to have toothz.