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Not all Clippy. Just had to race off to the office and deal with 1,679 queries over the counter, closely followed by 1,898 phone callz. No Ztorage Foruming for lunch either. I don't exactly spot anything shiny, but it was a beautiful day and when Kristi mentioned the magic words "shop" and "ice...

Just a quickie - what's the best and easiest way to clone a drive for a system running Win NT? I need to do this right away (well, OK, after I go to bed, get up, shower, and drive to the office), so I don't have time to order software and wait for it to arrive or anything, just have to clone an...

Oh, just summarise the thread. It zhould only take you ... oh .. about 8000 words and a couple of months. :)

Love your new av, Steve. :)

The way I see it, if it ain't a factor of ten, it ain't worth bothering with. Not if you have to change formatz. In practice, a factor of about 50 seems to work. Notice how not one single floppy drive replacement product even looked like taking off until the 100MB and 120MB Zip and LS-120 drives...

OK guyz, it's big statement, out-on-a-limb time for me. DVD's are damn near useless. The counts against them are: They cost quite a lot more than CD-ROM drives - my retail is $100 for a DVD (Samsung) with 12 month warranty versus $$70 for a CD-ROM (Mitsubushi) with a two-year warranty. They...

Hmmm ... Trust Tannin to get it wrong. There is another American motherboard manufacturer that has (or used to have) a similar market positioning, isn't there? Maybe he was thinking of that other one.

I take it, then, that malt vinegar is the stuff they use to pickle onions in?

Amazing place, Prof. Brilliant idea. I can't get Tannin away from it. Lucky for me that I get to decide what to do with the computer some of the time, otherwise I'd never get to hang out here anymore. Besidez, the Wiki people are not very friendly. I mean to say, it'z a pretty poor thing when...

Oh, SuperMicro is available here, though I don't know how complete the range is. Not very, I imagine, their sales volume must be tiny. Last time I saw a SuperMicro board in the flesh was ... oh ... uhnnnn .... (Tannin?) (No problem Tea. It was ... er ... ) (Can't you remember either?) (Not...

As Mercutio more-or-less said already, Cliptin, some ATX cases come with extra holes so that they are dual mode, some don't. Choose your case carefully and you can save a lot of messing about with the Dremel.

Thanks Coug. In this particular case, his frame of mind was that he'd waited a long, long time to replace his 866 (or whatever it was) and Gigabyte BX board, so he wanted to go the whole hog. He is delighted with it. Sounds like the 8PE667 Pro should be the one I go for more generally though.

It's mid-January already and I'll be adding a few machines before too long, when the brief Ballarat summer is over and the horrible long winter sets in. About May, I guess. Till then, I'll be pumping the electrons through the air conditoner instead.

Coug, you seem to be the #1 expert on P4 boards. What do you think of the Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra 2? I just sold one - my second-ever Pentium 4 board and chip - to a regular who wanted to stay with Intel. He asked for about three different P4 boards by name, none of which turned out to be...

+ Zorry Mercutio. I thought it waz Tannin's.

Errr ... let me see if I've got this straight. You expend energy to separate hydrogen and oxygen from sea water, pump the gases to wherever you want them, and then burn them - i.e., turn them into water, which then evaporates, turns into rain, and falls back into the sea. You are right, Slo. A...

A "likometre" by the way, is about 1100 yards. (woops!)

Whooah! How could I have forgot the worst bit? You looked at an atlas lately? Or taken in some film of the countryside of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel? (I think I'm safe in saying you have seen some recently, Clocker.:wink:) Seen the countryside? Does it remind you of Arizona? Well...

There are three big problems with hydro power, Clocker: 1) It comes nowhere near to dealing with the power demands of typical Western civilisations. Bar a couple of weirdo countries with more snowfields and fiords than they have people (zorry JoJo), hydro is only capable of providing a small...

I'm afraid not, Your Holimess. Displacement on demand is where I'm sitting in the comfy chair in the office and Tannin pushes me out so that he can sit in it. (Tea! What did you call Blakewry just now?) (Relax. It was just a typo.) (So who don't you fix it?) (Don't want to.) (Right then...

I think you'd want to veneer the timber to help it resist warping - i.e., like plywood but thicker.

No need to be offensive, Honold. If you had cared to read my post before replying to it, you would have seen that I said nothing of the sort. I said "most practical people", leaving room for the reader to infer what he will, according to the explanation that seems to him to fit the observed...

Exactly: everyone who bought socket 370 or socket 423 is now screwed. (Never mind all the incompatible different versions of those sockets.) PS: Most practical, hands-on people who work with hardware all the time do not have Honold's irrational hate for VIA products. Nor do we take a single...

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OK. I worked it out. It's an announcement, so it just stays at the top anyway. I didn't recognise it because they look different with this skin. Now my ego hurtz.

OK, your Holiness, let's get down to tin tacks. Like Mercutio I don't even try to keep track of Intel's lunatic-pace of change for the sake of change anymore, but see what happened after Socket 7 and try to list the main ones. AMD first: Super 7 Slot A Socket A (100 FSB) Socket A (133 FSB)...

Huh? Who zlipped in the timewarp? I logged on, read Buck's last post, slipped over to take a look at the Intel vs AMD upgradability thread, read that, composed a reply, posted it, came back to the index, saw that Buck was the most recent poster, in this thread again, clicked on it, and would up...

With all due respect, Your Holiness, you've lost the plot. Intel architecture vs AMD archiitecture gives you, in general, an approximate 3X better upgrade prospect with the AMD.

If for any reason you can't upload to Storage Forum, I have the key to Tannin's website. :roll: Just drop me an email. (Not that there should be any need, so far as I know, but if it's helpful, just sing out.)

Excuse me! I share 100% of my genes with orangutans, young Mr Wizard. And about 95% or so with humans. Which is a little embarassing, but I'm used to it.

Mubs, you can't offend Tannin. Trust me, I've been trying my hardest to offend him for several years, and have failed utterly. He's just too darn thick-skinned and, not to put too fine a point on it, not very bright.I mean, have you ever tried to offend a bowl of yeast?Like that.

Unless one of the dedicated folders at the office is running. I'm 99% certain none of them are. But often, with the exact same single system, I get about half as many points. The FAH scoring system suckz!

Just a perfectlt ordinary Athlon 1900, Coug. Not overclocked or anything. I've been playing with the idea of upgrading it to 2400, but thus far am too lazy. Besides, seeing that it's basically just a dedicated web browser and already has an X15 ... don't you think it's fast enough?

Stop romancing, Tannin. I've seen your teeth. Hey, only the week before last you smiled, and I saw at least two teeth. Big ugly yellow ones.

He meanz teeth.

Ha! You should have seen Tannin! Here, especially for Steve, is the photo I took of him early on New Year's day. I think I must have messed up the developing or something as I am sure his eyes were more bloodshot than that.

Quite so, CityK. Tom Bom the Dil doesn't even come off if you use drugs. The idea was good, and quite possibly necessary for the development of the plot, but the execution wasn't up to it.

Quite right, Coug. As a general rule, I am sane between 2:00AM and about 8:00AM every morning, though there are other moments when it overcomes me for a while.

I use ad-aware. I was wondering why the updates seemed to be so slow. Thanks for the update guyz.

Whatz a resolution? I think you need lotz of people to make one of them. Something to do with the streets of St Petersberg and drinking Molotoff Cocktailz, I think. And please don't think we apes are backward just because we took so long to master our opposable thumbs: trust me, developing the...

Well, it's 2003, and ... just checking .... yup, I'm still the same old me. So far as I can tell, I am still the same indeterminate number of years old, and still like bananaz. Guess that meanz it's going to be a good one. :) Happy New Year to all!

As a rule of thumb, 1st-gen notebook screens are always marginal. You can sit in front of them trying for hours and weeks to persuade yourself that the picture quality is brilliant, and that that great big pile of hard-earned wasn't wasted .... but in your heart, you always know the truth.

What are you saying, Clippy? But they sure help? Personally, I believe that Coug is just like me: entirely capable of being as mad as two snakes without any chemical help whatever.

I guess you don't need me to tell you this, but never, ever, ever buy a hard drive at a swap meet (AKA "computer show"). I've seen tradesmen lay bricks with more care and less mechanical shock than they way stallholders treat hard drives at swap meets. Controller cards, motherboards, software...

Who imagined us? And why aren't they on stronger medication? PZ: I don't look at the keyz either, bar the numbers and the @#$%^ symbols, and I touch-type Tannin-style. (i.e., with just one paw.) I can turn an ergonomic keyboard into wallpaper almost instantly.

Mercutio too: he'z got a brain. Tannin, by the way, says that those weird-looking ergo chairs, once you get used to remembering that (despite the posture) you are at the office working, as opposed to at the chapel confessing all your sins, are really comfortable. Not having his rattley old...

Bahhh. Didn't you guys read my old zig? Mark iz no fool: A tidy desk iz a sign of a crippled mind.

Dam it, Kliptin, I zught u ver for ril. I voz xtremly hapy to hir it ... zen disapointed. But no mater, zanks for ze larf. :)

I'd look out for a second-hand 80MB/sec controller. You won't lose any performance at all, and you should be able to pick one up for small change - nobody wants "old", "low-tech" SCSI gear. By the way, I don't think you'll be too sorry about not having the 10K II any more: I find that, so long...

Thankyou CityK. I don't know if you saw my previous avatar, the one that Buck found depressing, but it was entirly appropriate to my mood. Just in case you missed it: I couldn't wait to finish up the working year, and felt as if I was chained to the office for the duration. But now, the...