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I second the motion, Sir!

HP, scumbuckets that they are, only half-fill the cartridges in their new printers. Canon may or may not do the same, I'm not sure about Canon. Epson give you full ones. Watch out for the old "sell the printer with only one cartridge in it" trick, too.

Damn it, Jake, I just followed those links, became engrossed, and lost twenty minutes. Now I'm late for work!

Now stand aside, you monkeys, while I show you how a real ape does limmericks. The trouble, Mercutio is that "win" and "thin" don't quite rhyme. It's TAnnin with a soft "i", not tanNIN with a long "i", and probably best written out phonetically as Tan'n. Watch: There was an old despot called...

Hmmmm .. it's supposed to be a commercial website - i.e., to generate business for Red Hill. But what the hell? Why not?

It's my thread, and I can subvert it if I want to. :roll:

Bartender, I don't understand. Oh, I know that humans are born bald all over, and never grow a proper coat. It's not their fault, it's just something wrong with their genetics. And I know that this clothing stuff is supposed to be a sort of substitute, I understand that bit - though it...

I tried to interest Tannin, Mark, but they were not hard drives or CPUs, so he gave them the cold shoulder. The RAM boards would have been kind of fun though.

Can't do it, JoJo. Tannin nearly killed me when we got the power bill last month: 50% increase over the same time last year, and most of it undoubtedly due to folding. :( So I'm on rations: Kristi says I'm not allowed to use more than four spots in the workshop 'cause she needs the space to...

Absolutely! What's with this stupid 365 and a quarter? Why can't we have a nice, sensible 300-day year? Then Christmas would be here lots sooner. They could leave out all the tedious months, like July when it's too damn cold, and September when it's always bloody windy, and August when it's cold...

Update: we got the RMA replacement boards from Rectron (our Leadtek people) yesterday.In sharp contrast to our ECS RMA, they were prompt, and they replaced all seven boards. Having bought a box of different ones to tide us over, and being in the middle of the quietest trading month of the...

Hmmm. I just read that thread over. Still made me chuckle, but I'm not sure now why I thought it was so absolutely hilarious. Maybe it was one of those "you had to be there" sort of things. By the way, I did write a long, carefully-crafted post for that thread, by way of apology to Sivar - but...

Not at all, Slo. You merely triggered a post that has perhaps been in the back of my mind for a while now, I suspect. I am fond of Ami, and have for some time had the feeling that almost everyone seems to take him for a simple fool with nothing to say except some poor-taste jokes. You may be...

I think you under estimate Ekaf, Slo. He is stupenously naive, yes, often credulous, and his crimes against the English Lanuage are manifold: but he is no fool. Many of his posts are much more subtle than they look. Ekaf almost never comes right out and makes his point: perhaps in keeping with...

Just looked back at a few posts, maybe 20 or so. Can't find anything in the slightest offensive. What was it that Ekaf said that offended you, Slo? Did I miss something? Darn it, I Like Ekaf. He has style.

I don't actually recall anything Ekaf has said here that was anything other than simple, light-hearted fun. Perhaps my memory is faulty. Nor do I remember seeing Mustafa say anything outrageous. Just out of curiosity, Slo, could you link to something horrible they said for me?

Fushigi, there is a wealth of information in the earlier pages of this thread about strategies to deal with Stanford's poor servers, and with the design of F@H which does not (and according to the Stanford team) cannot "bank" results. They say the design is as it is because they need te results...

Tanin is a great fan of Big Bush, because of his magnificent achievement in drawing together the Gulf War coalition to begin with, and holding it together all the way through. If Little Bush can do likewise (and we must remember that the bar is higher now) then Tannin will become an unabashed...

Damn! My secret exposed. How did you guess? .. Oh, you saw me at your wedding, of course. (Tannin says thanks for the slice of cake, by the way.)

I have very long arms. Oh, and upper body strength only marginally less than that of a gorilla. Also, I am very good at climbing things. On the other hand, I am not too keen on this edged weapon thingy. My stepmother has a gilt-edged dinner set with blue willows on it. Is ot sort of like that?

Hmmm ... Maybe. I added an Athlon 2000 earlier today, to give me three XPs (2000, 1900 and 1700), plus various assorted Durons, Celerons, a K6-2 and a P-II 333. I got very discouraged a while ago when the Stanford servers were causing all sorts of problems and not leting work units go through...

Neat! Great to seee you folding with us, Will.

Hi CJ. Welcome. Love your avatar!

Darling, there is a world of difference between being beaten to death with a Barracuda and suffering those same blows from a Micropolis drive. It's like the difference between dining at the best cafe in Paris and choking on a bone in your caviar on the one hand, and accidentally taking yourself...

BW, we have gone off-topic. We are talking about Mercuitio's Nvidia solutions now. I think.

Bloody idiots. What's wrong with the other 96%???

I have the ??c bought in .. er ... 1983 was it? It's a ??c instead of a 10c or a 12c because the badge thingie fell off and now I can't remember the model number. It put me through stats at Uni. Also, a pair of the 32s model from maybe 1995 or so. All three work just fine, except that one of the...

Over here, and I suspect in the UK too, his views would be regarded as left of centre (roughly in the middle of the left, I think, though I'd have to read it again to place it exactly). But "extreme"? Certainly not. He's not as far left as our Prime Minister (by definition a "mainsteam" figure)...

Another vote for Housecall. Or, if you want an almost-free one: PC-cillan OEM, which comes from the same people. You get it free with motherboards (depending on the brand), you install it, you register it, and it downloads updates as soon as they become available. "Great" you say. Then, one day...

Yup. It's that time of year again. Time for me to once more waste $10 of Tannin's money on our annual sample of the Linux water. One day we are going to do this and say "Hey - wow! We can finally stop selling Microsoft junk!" I doubt that that happy day is here yet, but every time we look at...

One trusts that DB's chosen avatar would be something that would meet with the approval of the moderation comittee then. :o

Naturally, there would have to be a rule forbidding collusion between two formerly amicable members in order to falsely create an impression of an argumentitive history between them. :wink:

He's a retired diplomat, Cliptin.

If we are not to accept James' father's view, how else can we account for the conspicuous silence of the other Arab states? This seems to me a key question. Sure, they will be under significant US diplomatic pressure, but that seem to me insufficient to account for their silence. Anyone have an...

Grrrr ....

Buying one ECS main board is a gamble, Mercutio. Buying sixty ECS main boards would be suicidal. Far better to go with the ASUS or the Shuttle. Both companies have had some monumental stuff-ups, but at least they don't do it as a matter of habit.

Excellent post, Mark

I was just reading The Giver's post in another thread, and wondered where his avatar was. And that led me to wondering if I should search for something suitable and suggest it to him. And that led to to wondering how much fun it would be to have a "Choose your Opponent's Avatar Week". For...

Seems to me you need some horsepower, Mercutio. This video editing thing is particularly scary from a budget point of view. I've changed my mind, now that I know the workload. I think you have to go with decently powerful machines, even if it means fewer of them. It's late and I'm sleepy, so...

Is the calculator RPN, Clocker?

Now some numbers. Assuming a reasonable quantity buy (10 or more), I could sell you (if you were here in Ballarat) this system for AU$730: Our cheapest half-decent case. (Plenty of room, nominal 350W PSU that probably puts out 280 on a good day but still manages K with Athlon 2000s. Decent but...

A very interesting question, Mercutio. Anything I can offer won't be directly relevant, of course, but for the sake of the exercise, and assuming that US$350 equals $AU700, here is what I'd do: First, examine the possibility of using a proper all seperate components design. That takes about...

I get off on whiteboard markers

Coug, I have been accused of many things in my time, but perfect truthfulness isn't one of them. :wink: Why else do you think I included other such Storage Forum urban myths as P5's sense of humor? But If I may revert to telling the truth for just one moment, the "blind hatred" of yours that I...

Here's your chance ....

Question: Complete the following word analogy: Add is to Subtract as Multiply is to: 1) Divide 2) Round 3) Randomize 4) On a Pentium, all of the above Answer: Fur.

Take that, you horrible little computer. Play up on me, will you? Well, we saw about that, didn't we. Now you're singing a different tune. :evil: Yup: the fresh install did the trick. I used Windows 95 this time, instead of W98SE. Not that that was the reason, I don't think. I think the...

Nope. :) But I guess the Jakearnaught will be running me down soon enough, 'less I climb a convenient tree. Great folding effort, Jake. Darn it, I've bought enough high-power hardware from you to hold you off for a good while longer, but that damn Tannin kepps on selling it all out from under...