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Gah! (Tea beats furry head on table. Le voleur congelé de bicyclette has tricked her, again!)

Posted when the site came back up again, stupid. (Tea!) Err ... I mean "Posted when the site came up again, good sir - as might perhaps have been obvious from the context of my remarks." (I'm not zure that that is much better. Ztill, I zuppoze it will have to do.) Sorry Blakewry. I was just...

Buck, I think you are the victim of a trans-pacific glitch. I've been having trouble accessing Storage Forum the last day or two, and several other US sites, while I've been able to go to other places without delay. Several times Storage Forum has just timed out on me. I'm pretty sure that this...

I don't wear a watch either. I don't have anything particularly against them, though they do strike me as one of the more ridiculous human-invented ways to decrease your quality of life and increase your stress. But the real reason I don't wear one has nothing to do with being banned from using...

Hi Sherif! Nice to see you again. :)

God damn! That's a 100% increase! Trojan attacks are out of control!!!

Yes, it's terribly, terribly sad. Living here with Tannin is nice (even though he's not talking to me right now, I'm not sure why - it's not as if I actually did anything), but ... well ... how would you feel if you came over here to stay with me for a few years and then you watched the news one...

Handruin is making good sense, EdwardK. The need to rebuild the array so often scares me considerably.

Bahh. You can't give me orderz. You and who'z army? Click See? There is nothing in the slightest wrong with the system.

Oh ztop panicing. It's juzt a zimple modification to the zyzem filez. All I have to do is unsip thiz file, double-click on Zetup, and -

Hey! Now why didn't I think of that? Of courze! At Prezent I am managing my one-zimian zpelling reform campaign by zimply remapping my brain, but it would be zo much eazier juzt to rewire the keyboard logic inztead. My thankz to you, Honold. Now where did I file that copy of WinKeyZwap?

Indeed, Honold: a hot thread, and a good time waz had by all, it zeemz. And next time Dell have a ztupid deal, be zure to let uz know about it. Hell, if they are cheap enough, I'll buy a dozen myzelf and rezell them for a tidy profit. (Zeeing az Tannin iz on holiday right now, zomeone haz to...

And zpeaking of efficienciez, Tannin, I doubt that Dell would wazte three copiez of the letter 'L' in the word "zmaller" when two would do. :)

Read the thread. Second post down.

Railz zuck.

We are not getting 0.13 Athlonz in anything below the 2200 grade at thiz ztage. The AMD warranty covers the CPU against self-deztruction, that iz all. It dozent cover you against zyztem inztability cauzed by overheating. Here in Auztralia with our zummerz, it iz a zignificant concern. For...

Lookz like a great combination, Mercutio, bar one thing: that XP 2100. They are a good chip, no doubt about it, but (az you know) cooling iz an issue with them and you need to take a good deal of care to get it juzt zo. I zuggezt going juzt a tiny ztep further up to the XP 2200. I am really...

Back before I waz born, Tannin uzed to play with zoldering ironz and have a reazonable underztanding of the fundamentalz of electronicz. He could have explained the difference between reziztive and capacitive impedence, or how a PNP tranziztor junction workz. Or zo he claimz - if you recall his...

Zpinrite can do this. Un-mark the zectorz, I mean. As for the cauze, well, I have no idea and I will await the reply of a proper ztorage guru with interezt.

I can carry him to the door eazily enough, Bartender, he'z only ztruggling a little bit, but I need zomeome to help drive him home. Damn American carz - I can't reach the pedalz!

Bahhh ... What a load of rubbish. It's the monkey and the owl that makes the difference. :)

Oh dear! I zeem to have ztarted an abberant zpelling crase. Er ... Excuze me, make that: "I zeem o hve zred n bbernt zpelling crze." If his goez much furher, hings re going o get difficult o red! Blake, thiz iz pozzibly a good time to try one of my favourite tricks: what we call "a spare...

WD's technical information in recent timez, az pozted on their zite, leadz to one pozzible concluzion and one concluzion only: WD zuck.

Everybody hatez theze onez! At thiz ztage, I think you have two optionz: (a) Do nothing and hope the problem doez not recur. Rough guezz at your chancez of zuccezz: 33%. (b) Wipe the entire Windowz inztall and go from zcratch: thiz can often nuke that hidden zoftware glitch that you can't pick...

Hi Mubs and welcome. Don't worry about being here courtesy Tannin. We promise not to hold it against you!

I am fond of onions. On the other hand, I think ebookz zuck big-time. Ezpecially if you have to look at them on a flickery white zcreen.

Navigator 4.08 doesn't have a problem, or at least didn't when I tried it just now. It might be Communicator specific.

And I hope I have to zay it only once: the leather-clad fearzome one haz pazzed me and I am now zixth! :(

October and November are always quiet, Jo Jo. In fact, we rely on them being quiet, otherwise we would never get to do nice things like having holidays! Just an update on the Leadtek boards that we got replaced; we have used three or four of the rerplacements now and no problems whatsoever. By...

This attitude, if it be common in Blighty, may explain why the English Cricket Team is performing as it iz. Alternatively, losing 17 tests in a row (or however many it actually iz at prezent - if it ain't 17 yet it zoon will be) may be the cause of the attitude. Chicken? Or egg?

I can't believe how much nicer SF is to visit now that it's green. Seriously, it's just so easy on the eye. I admit that I hang around the place quite a bit anyway, but I'm finding myzelf cruising around just looking for new poztz so that I can admire the look of the place tonight. One small...

Ha! None of you horrible, boring white zcreen people can read this! I can zay what I like and no-one will know! (Except Tannin, of course. Tannin knowns everything. Well, at least zome things. Zome of the time, anyway.)

Who said it ain't easy being green?

Tannin isn't being helpful. He didn't really understand the question: light blue on anything light coloured = eyestrain. While I don't like the glaring white of the current zcheme, at least it'z got good contrast between the black and the white. But zeriously, no-one in their right mind can...

It's cool, Zplazh. Iz that "mültï-dïërësïs'd ëntïtÿ" Discfarm, by any chance? And if zo, why the English-style spelling of "disc"? I thought the Grammar Police waz then only one with that particular fetizh. Oh, and ...

There iz no zuch thing az too much green!

Hoolie Doolie! That's quite a thread!

Which Al Gore was that? Al Gore-Ithim? Or Al Gore-Tex?

As a matter of fact, there is. Skeet can play cricket; he's rather good at it. Or he used to be before he grew a wife, steady job and a waistline. NRG? Can they call on you to be Skeet's opening partner?

Yeah. Pity he wears his head backwards though.

I've had unresolved issues plugging a USB 2.0 external IDE box into USB 1.x machines, so I wouldn't discount that theory.

Alas, Tannin cut off his potted history of the low-level format at around 1989 or so. (Which is probably the most recent thing he can remember with any clarity.) After that, several things changed. First, the very, very best drive and controller combinations of that era became capable of the...

Awww. OK. Sorry Buck. I didn't mean anything nasty.

Uh, OK. Sorry Buck. (Tea uncrosses her fingers.)

Er ... Well, not exactly. What does it mean?

Sensible ideas, LiamC. JTR is having useful thoughts also.

Antlers? Nope. But I have it on the best of authority that he does wear hornz!

Mmmm. Guess I'll wait for beta 2 then.

Zlight thpeech impediment, Gary. Tannin made me a zmall nightcap the other week, and I just can't zeem to thake the effectz off. It'z worst with the thibliantz. Our Doug ain't going to be pleazed to hear that the confirm email thingy iz ztill playing up. :(

Further to Mark's theory, a hardware problem with the second platter should result in a saw-tooth pattern, as it is all-but universal for multi-head drives to read as below: H0T0 H1T0 H2T0 H0T1 H1T1 H2T1 and so on. This is because a head switch operation is much faster than a even a single...