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Ahhha! You have not seen Jake's skill with tools, Cliptin. In particular, his deft touch with soldering iron, pliers, Dremel, tinsnips, spray gun, rivet gun, hammer, axe, and tactical nuclear weapon. If it don't fit, don't worry: Jake will make it fit. :wink:

Now [i]that[/i[ is a really good idea!

I've been offered the motherboards at a pretty reasonable price. I thought about them at first, but they don't include a floppy controller, which I consider an unacceptable design compromise. One day, yeah, but not this year.

It will run fine, Blakewry. Well, as fine as anything does on Win ME, anyway. I haven't tried it, of course, but it runs OK on Win98SE and on Win 2000, not to mention 95B and NT, so I don't see why not. Runs on Linux too.

Not yet, Pradeep. My instincts tell me that it will be dreadful, but everyone who has seen it says otherwise, including real LOTR experts, it seems. That many good judges can't be wrong. But I'm going to do the same with Lord of the Rings as I did with Star Wars: wait till the third one comes...

If I put Gollum in, no-one else would get a vote.:( Not even Sam or Frodo. So I left them all out, and all the other good guys too - notice that Bilbo isn't there either.

Isn't it funny how the obvious can come as a complete surprise sometimes? Now why didn't I figure which way you'd vote for myself, Prof? :)

I like his level head, Dozer. No matter how brave and wise and travelled he becomes, he is still the same old Sam. You can take the boy out of the boondocks, but you can't take the boondocks out of the boy. Or something like that.

Slo's mention of Lord of the Rings brings this to mind. Of the nine adventurers, which one do you like the most?

This one is beautiful. :)

When it comes to Western Digital, Buck knows all. He has secret, arcane sources of knowledge which he is sworn not to reveal on pain of a particularly elaborate form of death, or the ninth burbon. (Whichever comes first.)

That sounds like the go then. Consider me persuaded. Thankyou gentlemen.

Yup. You seem to get some lots of boards with three-parts knackerd batteries, other ones are just fine. (Menatl note to self: remember to order another couple of dozen, we are out of spares. If you buy in bulk they are heaps cheaper.)

Oh. I forgot Clocker. :( But wait! Wait! That just means, according to my arcane statistical calculator, that Clocker is bound to be the next one to get moderated! It's a certainty. You can bet your fur on it. It's elementary, my dear Tannin.

Blakewry, congratulations on your election to that elite within an elite: those select few SF members who have been the subject of a moderation action. James the Fearless, Tea the Witless, and now Blakewry the Penniless. May I draw on extensive training in statistical analysis to point out...

Second the motion, Sir.

Not at all, Tim. Two nice new avatars from Jake and Buck. I vote approval.

Good summary, Blakewry. And if you take it a little further back, there was the original VP3 an the much improved MVP3.

I strongly suspect that the delay, if it eventuates, will be for marketing rather than purely technical reasons. AMD seem to be feeling very upbeat indeed about the 166MHz FSB Athlon XP family, and (in my estimation) are expecting them to last quite a while as the top dog on the desktop. On the...

Because life is like a box of chocolates. Sometimes they last three weeks, sometimes they last almost forever. I have no idea why. (Batteries, I mean. Chocolates last about three minutes.)

Yes, he is being a little harsh, but not without reason. The way we see it, it's like when you have a convicted criminal. He serves most of his term and then you let him out on parole, but the minute he shows one little sign of returning to his life of crime, you lock him up again and throw away...

Is this better?

Eight minutes to make that little post, and I wan't dragging my feet. One quick preview and bang: posted. Your Worship, I rest my case.

Ahh: a perfect example. The "thanks for posting window" came up in short order, about four seconds, and the thread re-loaded in another ten seconds or less - closer to five. (i.e., a little sluggish but OK.) Then I immediately hit "reply" to say "ha- just to prove me wrong it's working fine...

Oh don't be ridiculous, James. I'm not talking about pings and it's disingenuous of you to suggest that I am. Loading this "reply" window just now, for example, took me 15 seconds. It doesn't always take that long, obviously, but it's nothing unusual. (As a side-note, SF has been really slow all...

No sympathy from me. A computer without a floppy drive is like a car without a spare type.

So. What's wrong with a VIA Cyrix III?

Awesome effort, Clippy!

Kristi just pointed out to me that the Leadtek boards seem to be one of the very, very few that actually work with those appalling ATI 8MB video cards we bought. (I think they must be clones using ATI chips - I can't imagine that ATI would make cards that bad. The drivers cause problems more...

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Interesting. I've always sort of wondered what they were for. Not relevant to me, but it's good to know this stuff. Thanks guys.

Coug, we go through a lot of motherboards. If there was a systemic problem here, you can be quite certain that it would have cropped up with some others of the thousands of boards we handle. The ECS K7S5A most certainly is utter crap. Three things tell me that: (1) it comes from PC Chips, which...

PS: if we do go with an edit period, what am I going to do about a new sig?

I voted for ten, although I've never actually come across a problem on any of those boards that allow editing posts in all the time I've spent on them. So I'd actually be in favour of no limit, but in the interests of some sort of unity plumped for the minimum practicable time.

It doesn't always take two minutes to load, of course, but it is certainly not uncommon.

.. and ... ahh ... a glass of venire on the rocks, please.

Going by the timestanp, it took me five minutes to spot my typo. That's pretty quick work. Needs to be ten.

Add an extra "s" to my "useles" please. Quite by accident, this is a good example of my point.

Recipts?

Keep your ventum to yourself, please. I'm a respectable girl.

I posted this before but the board ate my post. Two minutes ain't anywhere near enough. Do you guys even realise how long it take to load a page on dial-up, or over trans-Pacific cable? It can take damn near two minutes to (a) post the post, (b) load the "you have posted" page, and (c) load the...

Update time. I think I mentioned that we eventually sold that sample Leadtek board, but it came back with a weird error. Well, the guy who brought it back is a known loonie, so we replaced it first and asked questions later. Then he brought the second board (a Gigabyte AMD 760) back too, and we...

Sorry to be asking yet another stupid question, but what is the difference between setting up a share on a printer attached to a workstation on a peer-to-peer LAN and setting that same printer up on a printer sharer? (If any.) (I'm not knocking BW's box here, just curious.)

No hurry, Jake. Right now we have much bigger RMA problem (more of this in another thread shortly). Those big muvva heatsinks are seriously heavy! I don't think it did any particular harm, certainly there were no marks on the mainboard and the CPU was just fine. I think the video card took the...

Well, the bits seem to be mostly gone now. The Barracuda ATA drives went first, as did one of the Maxtors. (I'm sort of intending to repossess my camera from Belinda and take the other Maxtor's picture before I sell it.) The CD drive has gone, but I have to fiddle around to find out where I...

I'll be the first to admit that Tannin is crazy, Jake, but sometimes he gets it right. Tannin's office setup works damn near perfectly. His OS is bug-free, virus-free, and very, very stable. His applications are a sort of "best of" collection covering the years from 1985 (Word for DOS) to 2002...

Oh, I should have asked before. (Seeing as I have started already to drag your thread off-topic, I might as well go all the way.) What is the performance difference between: 1: A local printer 2: A dedicated print server such as the Jet Direct 3: A network printer attached to a workstation...

Hmmm, well, given that most of Tannin's office network runs OS/2, uptimes there are long things indeed. And seeing as there are already about a dozen computers and only two printers, neither of which does a great deal of work, I don't think so. But I take your point. But where are the nework...

OK, I saw the items. Hard stuff to move. The print server, well, what's the use of a print server? You can hook a computer into the network and connect your printer to that just as easily. And I have lots of computers. (Well, Tannin does. I just get to play with them.) Besides, it doesn't do...

Veni, vidi, voti.