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That's a great story, Steve - a real triumph against the odds. I'm pleased for her, for baby, for all concerned, and my day is brighter for it. I'm glad you shared it with us.

I'm with you, Mercutio. Hate the damn things. Unfortunately, Tannin says that front USB is a significant selling point (or, to be more accurate, that not having it is a good way to lose a sale) and insists on buying cases that have it. If the case has it, you have to hook it up, otherwise people...

Me neither.

Standard? Ha! There are plenty of standards. At last count, about 631 different ones! There are three common schemes used by motherboard manufacturers, and a host of others. The most common one is: V - + E V - + E (Where "V"= +5V, "-" = data -, "+" = data +, and E = earth.) Another variant...

Most new-manufacture cases now have a pair of front USB connectors with a handful of long loose wires that you plug into the mainboard, Clocker. Many of them have audio connectors too, though for these there is a problem in that not many systems have suitable output connectors for them...

Guess we should leave te next post for Cougtek, huh?

If we all get together and pazz the hat around, maybe we could help that poor perzon buy a nice wooly jumper. It muzt be zad being a human and not having enough money to buy warm thingz.

Fat wallet? If I ever bought anything from those scoundrels, Tannin would box me over the ears for having a fat head.

As I recall, yes, Your Holiness. Been a while since I was running multiple copies to try (not terribly effectively) to deal with the vaguaries of dial-up connections. There is no other reason to change the machine ID unless you have multiple CPUs. It's all covered earlier in this thread. I...

Hoolie Doolie! You're a hard man, Steve. Not even Tsar Tannin would execute our i. Well ... probably not anyway.

Great research, Steve! So .... shall we kneecap 'em?

Average as in mean, median or mode? Seriously - without knowing what sort of "average" you are intending, I couldn't say. All three are different.

You are a cruel, cruel man, Blakewry. Have a banana, Mubs.

Not this week.:( He zays I have to wait. I waited yesterday. Why do I have to wait again today?

Put that way, it does make more sense. And yes, Celerons in the 1000+ class are excellent little things, especially in notebooks where the low power and the high power (depending on if we are talking Watts or computations) are an excellent combination.

A 333 Celery faster in Windows than a 350 P-II, NRG? Yes, I believe you, I've seen the same myself, or certainly seen them run near-enough to equal. Big cache good, fast cache gooder. It seems to only be the faster multipliers that get severely affected, which puzzles me a little, you'd think it...

266 & 300: zero cache, bad 300a & up, 128k cache, good ~500 to 766, crippled by slow bus-zpeed, bad 800 to 1400, 100MHz FSB, good 1700 up, based on old P4, bad.

Zo iz the working all the time and not being allowed outzide because I have to fix zome ztupid personz computer up again and wondering why zomeone can't just blow up Chriztmazz with a big bomb. :(

Good point, Fushigi. Anyone know enough to expand on this with a wrap-up of error correction and external connection methods? We should know thiz ztuff.

Mubs, I suspect that, despite your careful measuring, you are running into cable length problems (effectively, if not in strict point of fact). As a general rule, every time you add a mechanical connection, or more particularly a swoitch, you add noise to the system, and possibly add delay as...

Whooah there! What are you doing to the poor man, NRG? 66Mhz bus Celerons are zo s s s l l l o o o w w w ... Really. On a machine with a 100MHz FSB capability, pulling the main board and the RAM both back to 66MHz will kill the thing. It won't actually be slower than the P-II, but it won't be...

It's not how hot the room makes the PC, it's how hot the PC makes the room! It was 37C in Ballarat yesterday (100F) and the next two days are forcast to get hotter. When I got home last night at 9:30PM, the inside temperature was 38. The main machine can go on again when it drops belw 30, but...

My machines are all shut dow n because of the heat :(

www.jake.dog www.clocker.tic www.jojo.nut www.james.wine www.blakewry.pope www.tea.me www.time.none www.gmac.lost www.myself.me/i www.polizie.ot www.ekaf-ami.fake www.thegiver.bias www.drunkenbastard.xxxx Shall I go on?

Too right it isn't! 15C is cold, 10C is bloody freezing!

Not at all, Sol. Customer picked up the system today, complete with GF4 MX440. PS: If you are reading this, Tannin has a job for you. Yes, the Ansonia's external burner has finally arrived!

Nonsense! I'm game. I'll probably have to put up with wearing Tannin's body (I'm not very good at materialising in my proper fur yet) but I'll be my real, sweet tempered lovable self. Looking forward to meeting you all!

Is that no cruel, extreme and unusual punishments? Or no allowances?

Sometimes I wonder why these messages don't start a self-sustaining chain reaction, leading to complete core meltdown - er, I mean server gridlock. Seriously! There are so many morons around (you should see some of the moronic things I meet at work - no, you probably see enough of your own) that...

Grrrreat idea. Absolutely! I guess the only question is, is it best if it shows the user's local time when posted? Or local time now? On the whole, I think local time now is better, but maybe there are mattters to ponder about that. (Oh, and I take it you don't see a layout problem?)...

Brrrrrrllfsp! On the whole, I prefer it when my green doesn't glow in the dark and set off radiation detectors.

I like your dress, Andrew. Who is the nerd with the tie? (Tea!) Sorry. I withdraw the word 'nerd". I was only using it for dramatc effect anyway. (That's better!)

:)

Excellent summary, Mercutio. I'd add two points to it, one a matter of emphasis, the other of current state of play.On the first, I think it's beyond argument that OS/2 was responsible in very large part for the dramatic improvements in both power and stability that we have seen Windows go...

By the way, the competing quote was for about $1750. I quoted on four variations - Athlons from 1600+ to 2400+ with a couple of different main board choices and minor other stuff - ranging from about $1900 to about $2300 They have gone with the top quote. In another thread, Tannin wrote about...

You think he could remember how?

Also, just for the record, the method is: Be sure to include the "http".

Tannin is usually good for a little server space too. (Especially when I don't tell him about it! :) )

I am sitting here holding a purchase order. Well done guyz! He has gone for: Epox KT-333 board Athlon XP 2400 512MB PC-2700 GF 4MX440, 64MB 40GB Spinpoint 7200 Lite-On burner Videocom 19 inch

www.timwhit.com Hey - that's neat! I see that www.tannin.com belongs to a cybersquatter, and www.tea.com is cybersquatted and not for sale. Oh well. Nice one Tim. :)

I have very little experience with them, Tim, but I would be very surprised to see it go any slower than anything else, so far as office apps go. In theory the nForce 1 is a couple of percent slower than a KT-266A. The reality is you will never see the difference. I'd go with it.

CWT Channel Well Technology Model: CWT-150SFX (PS3C) Ths suggests that it is indeed an SFX form PSU, but the dimensions are wrong. sigh

Answer Buck's question, you old fool! Yes, Buck, it's nothing that is VIA specific. It currently has a Duron 700 in it.

A spreadsheet without macros is like a beach without water.

But then, so is custard.

THE SCENE: Outdoors, a sunny day with fluffy clouds drifting by.. Three children are lying on a grassy bank, looking up at the clouds. THE CAST: Charlie Brown, Linus, Schroder. THE SCRIPT: LUCY: What do yu see in the clouds, Schroder? SCHRODER: I see a bust of the Ludwig van Beethoven, at...

Neat! I just found some ACAD benchmarks over on Ace's. http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000270 These are summary ones, time in seconds, so lower is better: Radeon 8500 127.6 GeForce 4 Ti4200 128.77 GeForce 4 Ti4400 129.23 GeForce 4 MX440 129.91 Parhelia 136.74 In other words, the...

Cool! MX-440 it iz.

JTR: yes, I'll be quoting on a Samsung 40GB 7200. The last time I played with video and AutoCAD was a while ago. A friend/customer and I spent some time in the workshop with his K6-2 or K6-III trying to find a way to juice it up that he could afford. We went from his old PCI card to an 8MB S3...