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Damnit! I did a deliberate double-post over in another thread just now (juzt for a joke with my friend Buck), but this one, like Tannin'z rare romantic conquests, waz entirely unintentional. Ztorage Forum haz been really, really zlow for me this lazt day or two, I don't know why, and having an...

I'm not sure which Netcomm modemz we have used, Mangy One. The first lot were bad. Seemed to work for a while, then fux up zometimes and can't be fixed save by reinstalling everything from scratch. And then the problem quite often comez back a few days later. That was maybe about December or...

A friend zent me thiz today. I guess he would have zent it to Tannin, but Tannin doezn't have any friendz, only money. (And me, of courze.) 2003 State of the Universe Address by Swami Beyondananda Hello everybody -- it is great to be here ... and you know what? We really have no choice...

Zpeak for yourzelf, Buck

Zpeak for yourzelf, Buck

A friend zent me thiz today. I guess he would have zent it to Tannin, but Tannin doezn't have any friendz, only money. (And me, of courze.) 2003 State of the Universe Address by Swami Beyondananda Hello everybody -- it is great to be here ... and you know what? We really have no choice...

That is exactly the big deal, Tim. Why the hell should I have to download and inztall that Flash crap just to be able to use the net? PS: Nice tip: thanks, E_Dawg!

Juzt becauze it's Friday :(

I don't like zoap. And I bitez. Ezpecially on Fridayz.

What'z weird about that? XP is hopeless with internal modems. Always haz been. It workz, fux up, you reinstall the drivers, it workz again till you reboot, it fux up again. Very, very few internal modems can work reliably and consistently with XP. We have been through at least five or six...

It'z not "remote". It'z right here. Everyehere elze iz remote.

Good spotting, Clippy!

Exactly. Weirdness. You can't give one to a customer who might ever play with the system unless he's an expert. Plus the default install routines that load useless crap into your startup. Plus having to find the exact right driver and if you get one that's not completely correct it loads anyway...

Did zomebody zay banana? But let'z face it, when did audio manufacturerers agree about plug standards any better than computer industry morons .. er .. I mean "designers"? Well, OK, no-one is as bad as computer people, but the audio industry iz ztill pretty bad. Can you imagine it? 17...

Zorry. Zometimez I get my numberz mixed up.

151. You've described computers as slow as 2MHz as "new".

If I can kick Tannin out of his habitual lethargy, Fushugi, he could give you exact, to-the-penny numbers on that. I'll see if I can extract him from somnulance a little later on today.

What's a Valentine's Day"?

Nope. I juzt popped around to Groltz'z place to take a look at his Athlon, and his cooling fanz blow a little ztronger than I'm uzed to. Like a hurricane, actually. Think of it az a zort of an instant bad fur day. Az for FaztFuzkUp, I couldn't agree more. I don't think we need to wonder if a...

It's a known bug, Time. I've met it before. Word had always had problems with file saves, going right back to the earliest Windows versions. I guess there would have been a dozen or maybe 20 instances of it that we have met or been called about over the years. It's nearly always Word 97. Word...

Nice one, Steve!

But on the other hand. Bill, you write a simple, concise, accurate article which makes excellent sense. You have outdone yourself this time. (I think Tannin might be jealous.)

So what you're saying to me, Dïscfärm, is that: - = Poor Tannin. In both senses of the word. Barton, here I come!

I am starting to realise that the permanently surprised, quite possibly shocked, expression on my face in my new avatar is entirely appropriate most of the time. Zigh.

Thankyou Tim. I'm trying to find out if I should prefer "ANZAC" or "Anzac" (both stand for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps", of course). Originally it was an acronym and spelled in all caps. But the really common acronyms tend to turn into ordinary words after a while. Examples include...

"ThurowBread". Ahh. Thankyou Dïscfärm. That'z igzactly wot I kneeded too no.

Does anyone know of a search engine that is, or can be set to be, fully case-sensitive? Google, for example, translates everything to lower case. Alta Vista uses a scheme to (if I remember correctly) treat lower case as upper case but not the reverse (i.e., searching for "tea" will find "tea"...

I don't think I want to add one to their hit counter. I'll ignore the page and not click the link.

Naaaah ...... I started being rude firzt. All'z fair in love and CPU warz. You want to see "rude to Tea", you need to go read some of Tannin's postz. Now there is a zeriously grumpy human.

The picture, by the way Buck, iz me looking at Groltz'z Athlon zyztem. It zeemz to cook along nicely enough, but I think he needz to turn his cooling fanz down a little.

Zorry. I forgot. (Zometimez I do that. I need more potazzium in my diet, I think.)

Whooah there ZX! The Barton 3000+ is nothing more than an Athlon XP 3000+. Yeah, well, what else could it be? I might as well say "The Pentium 4 2400 is nothing more than a 2400MHz Pentium 4". I would have thought that the extra cache would really boost the athlon's performance and help it...

Zorry.

The benchmarks are weird. Ace's and X-bit have the best coverage, zame az usual. What it boils down to is that there are three or four completely different types of apps, and that the processor you should buy depends entirely on which of these you are most interested in. Business apps: Barton...

Poor old Tannin. Be gentle with him. I told him it was obviously an old one, but he wanted to tell it anyway. It made him laugh. Well, me too. But I laugh at everything.

Yeah, specially when the competitor is part-owned by the competitee. Like beating yourself at solitaire, really.

Thanks, Pradeep. Sony Mavica errr ... FD Somethingorother and a Transcend 128MB memory stick. I couldn't run CHKSDK on it (under W2K) as it claimed the device was in use by something else. (Which it wasn't.) Or else, depending on the mood of the gods, simply claimed the drive had no media. Or...

I like (3) the best, but (2) would be just fine also. It would be nice to see the news more integrated with the forums - to my shame, I miss most of it. Speaking of news, is the war over yet?

Zeriouz viruz infection, Zir. Very zorry, nazty bug, nothing elze we can do. gdisk /batch GDISK> 1 /del /all GDISK> 1 /cre /pri /-32 /for /q GDISK> 1 /cre /ext GDISK> 1 /cre /log /for /q (reboot) A:> sys c: A:> idein (reboot) C:> e: E:> setup $45 dollarz thankz.

U-seriez drives are proof positive of the existence of a higher power. Or some kind of a power anyway. Thiz iz why they alwayz smell of sulpher.

Do I recall someone posting a question about CHKDSK equivalents for CF media here? Or was it over at SR?

I'm confused. What iz an "organise"?

i don't think so

But there iz already a Very Best of Storage Forum page. What'z the point in making another one?

Not that you wanted to know, but I wanted to tell you anyway. Hmm.... I must make a note of that phrase. Could come in handy.

Wow! Cleveland? Or Windsor? I take it, then, that you are no longer calling yourzelf "V-8 Gent"?

Thankyou, I'd wait for the shuttle. (Well, I'd wait for the shuttle just so long as there was no chance of running out of bananas, I mean.) I don't think the Russians have too great a record so far as space safety goes themselves. Not that I'm criticising - hey - if it was easy, you'd buy...

Huh? It's never stopped anyone in the past. Time, I really must speak to you about this deeply ingrained streak of ... I'm sorry to use such a hash word, but no other will fit ... of rationality. In international realpolitik, adventures in imagination is the stuff what rulez. Read zome hiztory.

You are right, Mr Homer. Complete withdrawl is not an option. Once you are in the cage with the crocodiles, you can't just turn your back and walk away. Indeed, what to do? I can't see a whole answer, but the first step has to be to get serious about being even-handed, and stop turning a blind...

From now on, I will always use essess in all my sentences. From now on, I will always use essess in all my sentences. From now on, I will always use essess in all my sentences. From now on, I will always use essess in all my sentences. From now on, I will always use essess in all my sentences...