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OK, let's ask another question: what is the norrmal transfer rate of that model drive? I have been assuming that the first part is normal and the second part abnormal, but is this actually correct?

Oh. Zilly me. Of course, now that it has been pointed out to me, I realize that I should have said "lock up your grandmothers!"

Run and hide! Lock up your daughterz!

But guyz, what about the practicality? Look at all that useful space! Much better than the BMW thing. Prof Wizard is right: Germans make the best cars by far!

Two platters of different densities? Fair go guyz! Can you imagine the design and engineering expense? Effectively, you'd have to engineer an entire new model of drive twice. Nope. I don't buy it. As for LLF, nope. It ain't that either, because... (Excuse me Tea. Can I see a long post about...

Yup. I set mine the exact same way. Minimum BS, maximum screen.

Or, if you are realy lucky, a Trabant.

Cool! A great effort, Andrew.

1: Smoothwall is working fine. 2: Junk Spy has its little issues, but is also working fine, all things considered. 3: The mail in different places problem has sorted itself out without my bothering to do anything much, now that I have 24 hour connectivitity. I leave my home mail client running...

If they want my money, it has to be fixed. Of all the things I hate in browsers (and there are plenty) wasted screen space is Number One.

Ugly. Bet it goes like shite off a shovel though. Guess I could get used to the looks if you gave me one. :)

http://www.opera.com/graphics/docs/screenshots/opera-7-win-beta.png Well-hidden, isn't it?

The days when the LLF set the interleave under user control finished a long, long time ago. Can't be that. On the other hand, the wise man, when he runs out of sensible ideas, resorts to stupid ideas. WTF? You have nothing to lose, so why not try it?

I'm much too young to be married. And if I wasn't, what on earth makes you think I'd marry Tannin? (I think P5 is more my style. At least he has a proper amount of fur. Or possibly The Giver, because he liked my poem.)

And I zhould hope not!

It'z bizzare. I await an explanation with interest.

Fushigi, if I translate that rough figure of yours into the way that I think about reliability, which is drives per 100 fail inside the three year warranty period (for me, three years is the period, I know that various drives differ), I get 6 failures per 100. This surprises me! I expect to get...

If Tannin would bother getting off his high-horse and condescend to address the real world issues instead, he might have told you that it seems to be generally understood that the key hardware components are: Mainboard CPU Hard drive Micro$oft change their policy on this matter constantly. We...

I really really hate it when I type three-quarters of a long reply and when I look up at the screen again my browser window ain't there anymore. :( I could retype it from memory, but it's never the same second time around. WTF happened?

Hey - the domain name just propagated! I was at http://swordfish.dnsvelocity.com/~handruin/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1416 and just tried http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1416 and it works! Cool! Take a bow, Handruin.

Neat avatar, Skeet! Essentially there are (I think) five 15,000 RPM hard drives, and four of them on the market at present. All are SCSI (of course) and in consequence expensive. Seagate Cheetah X15. 9GB and 18GB. The first 15,000 RPM drive and for a long time the only one. Still a serious...

It iz faster! Neat!

Woops. That last line just snuck in while I wazn't looking. (See my old zig.)

Back in the Sixties and Seventies, before tobacco advertising was banned, you couldn't switch on the TV or go to the beach without hearing someone's transistor radio (remember transistor radios?) playing those ubiquitous Viscount ads. (Did you have the Viscount brand in the States? I guess not...

The IBM Feature Tool, Liam. You can grab the Windows verzion or the Linux verzion from theze linkz. I assume that if it works on Seagate it should work on Maxtor. Do Maxtor not have one of their own? Or have they, in Seagate style, decided that useers are too ztupid to be trusted with uzeful...

I'll be gathering a little experience in this area myself soon enough, Clocker. But at present have none. I trust that you are learning lots so that you will be able to assist me when the time comes!

The IBM utility works on Seagate drives, I guess it works on Maxtors too.

I rather like the new colours. A fresh look. Personally, I have never liked white backgrounds with dark text, but I know that I'm in the minority there so I get used to it. But the front page link to the forums is still tiny! I've lost count of the nunber of people I've directed here that can't...

Great avatar, James! Who was responsible?

Great post, Blakewry!

PC 2700 at 1600? Yeah. Celerons used to run PC-133 at 66, so WTF?

Video cards for family and gaming systems are easy right now: generic 64MB TNT M64 at the low end, generic 64MB Gforce II MX-400 in the mainstream, 128MB Sparkle Gforce III Ti200 in the upper mid-range, Leadtek Ti 4200s and 4600s at the high end. I have not the slightest intention of trusting my...

Ah, Tannin? Have you ever noticed that when you go into rant mode, your spelling goes to pot?

Phew! You guyz had me worried there!

Hoolie Doolie! The long-time champion of bad documentation slips in a ripsnorter! What next? Iraq submits fully and completely to weapons inspection with good grace and no tricks? John Howard says 'sorry' to our original inhabitants and declares that the future of Australia lies in partnership...

DB, your shiny new avatar, courtesy of ZteveC, is here. I think it suits you. Enjoy!

Hot damn that's a seriously fast hard drive, Blake! In fact, it's approximately 28.8 timez fazter than my X15. Iz it for sale by any chance?

Looking good, Your Grace. Your layout and choice of illustrationz is excellent. Not sure about "lost sales" though - every time someone breaks a hard drive, someone else gets to sell a new one! But an excellent start.

Email it to me, Zteve. Tea (at) redhill.net.au

Neat! Ahh, that iz a metal paperclip, I take it Slo? i.e., not a plastic one but the material popularly known as "tin"?

NEWSFLASH: Dateline Storage Forum, 11th November 2002. New avatars abound, and there are one or two more still to go since the great avatar swap. Lotz of creative onez, too. But of them all, I have one particular favourite - yes, even better than that wonderful new one of mine, showing me in...

So, where are all the other new avatarz? You guys are zlacking! (Woopz, I mean "slacking". Zorry about that.)

I do apologise, sir. This puts me in a weak position to be asking a favour, but I shall ask it anyway: seeing as we both spell by intuition, and seeing as your intuition leads you to a preponderance of correct spellings, and mine leads me into a morass of error, I wonder if you might be able to...

That iz a really ztupid idea! It couldn't pozzibly work. How do I know that the zame letter iz ztill underneath? It could be anything now! Here: watch what happenz. S Eek! It works! Ekaf, you are a geniuz! Err .. Genius.

Yez. The ... er ... the one that you zaid. It'z in between the "a" and the "d". All the otherz are normal.

Juzt the one, Ekaf. It'z hard enough trying to manage without juzt one key, it would be ridiculouzly hard if he had blanked out any otherz bezidez the ... er ... the one that I can't find.

I don't think I'm zuppozed to mention where my thumb iz, Coug. Tannin zaid it'z not polite. Oh oh! Bad newz! Tannin relented juzt now and zaid he would remove the paint from the keycap with the letter I can't uze anymore, zo I can zpeak normally again, but he uzed the wrong zort of paint and it...

Well, that'z juzt the trouble, Cliptin. I prefer to mizz out on Flazh, and in fact one of uz went to a great deal of trouble to remove it not too long ago. But then there are occazions when I do want to look at it, zuch as to zee your link juzt now. It'z a trade-off. On balance, I find zurfing...

Flazh.

Zend that garbage man around here for Tannin'z ztuff. Tell him to bring a big truck.