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I just got one of the Soltek DRV5 (Whatever) boards. Apart from the CPU voltage and the onboard sound, pretty much everything is done in jumpers. Well O.K not quite, but clock speed, Ram speed (dip switches) and Ram and AGP voltage (jumpers) as well as a few other things I'd list except that...

My PC has undergone some serious changes in the last couple of days so the new specs are: AthlonXP 1900+ @ 1669Mhz-------> ~8min/frame for Protein A This will be invalidated either tomorrow or monday though when I overclock my PC a bit more.

In reality this would be much the same thing, the second IDE controller would just be a promise controller, or simmilar tacked on to the PCI bus, usually for raid. The only real difference would be price and resaleability/upgradability. The onboard solution would likly be cheeper (unless you...

I don't know if this ones arround anymore but a couple of years ago I used hotdog by sausage software. Basically a text editor with the end web page in a seperate window updated as you go. It had shortcuts for all your HTML tags but it didn't put in a single bit of code you didn't write...

An edit button, an edit button, My kingdom for an edit button... (I'd post on the for sale or trade forum too, but that would be frowned upon) :(

Not quite, Ron was, or perhaps still is although I've heard little from him lately, a well known Ballarat entity. The main reason being that Ron is what we like to call a dodgy bastard. For example Tony used to give boxes of broken, unreliable or otherwise unsaleable parts to the Soup Natzi I...

The really dirt cheep answer is to just buy a server board with ide raid. You can set it to run as a separate raid controller most of the time I think. Of course if you ask storage enthusiasts for an answer on storage you'll get the high performance answer. My solutions probably pretty poor but...

As any new members reading this can see I'll be the one with the stuffed up and poorly formated posts. And as I'm only now beginning to notice my computer smells like radiator cooland and old socks. Not I think a good sign.

I had a simmilar experience recently. I just gave mine to Tannin and Tea.

:idea: If you were after somthing truly ego crushing a sig in l33t sp33k could serve for a time, badly written and almost randomly esoteric of course. Perhaps even a l33t h41ku to be truly cruel.

I haven’t tested it fully yet because I don't have a spare hard drive so I'll take it over to Tony this arvo and see if he'll put it in Tea's gene crunching farm for a bit to give it a run through. Then I have to figure out if I trust it enough to make it my main processor. With one pin still...

I seem to be making a habit of fixing hardware that many people would just throw away. My latest triumph is an Athlon XP 1900+, one of the pins was missing, one snapped off near the bottom and several badly bent. The one that came off entirely wasn't necessary (It wasn't actually attached to...

Actually I think there is a "Free" version of soundforge for about 30 days or so, can't see the job taking longer than that. You should be able to get it here

That’s probably one more than is strictly speaking necessary. Every episode of Seinfeld is much the same as all the rest. 1.Character comes up with the sort of stupid idea that occurs to everyone but which all real people dismiss immediately as stupid. 2.Other characters agree with idea and...

I think perhaps my intense hatred of vi came from a university unit called systems programming. Basically we had to write c programs in unix, which was fine. But we were expected to use vi. This really got me as having no experience with it I kept trying to delete with the backspace key and...

The ability to use the program easily within a week of first installing it is nice. Also having the backspace, pageup, pagedown, home and end keys working could be considered more than fluff. I don't think I can put it simpler than to say vi and all its spawn are evil, evil creatures which suck...

A couple of my friends recently purchased G4TI4400s. They leave antialiasing on pretty much the whole time and boy is it pretty. If the 4200s had been out at the time they might have gotten them since the price performance ratio does seem to be better just looking at bench marks. By the way...

I've got it on an XP1700+ @ 1681, but like Tea mine spends more time waiting for me to connect to the net so it can get more work than it does actually doing said work. That should change in a couple of weeks when I move out of home and get cable.

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I had a slightly similar disk story. A neighbour who I had done a bit of computer work for (Installed a bigger HD) called up and said she couldn't get disks into her floppy drive. The problem, she said, was just like when you try to put the disk in backwards, if I knew what she meant. After...

The final test results are in, tyhe RAM in question has been running in a machine for a couple of hours now with no sign of an error. Verdict, RAM can be repaired with silver paint and a toothbrush. :lol:

Well your stories of self injury sure beat mine. The worst I've managed was to drop a small ball of liquid bronze into my shoe (The joys of tech(shop) class). Not much to tell really except that oddly enough the most painful part was the small bits of my sock which got melted into my fingers...

I really can't be ure since I wasn't there but I would have to guess brute force would fit in to the picture.

A friend recently installed 512MB of RAM into a computer backwards. The result was some RAm with one of its gold tracks burnt off and a terible smell. I intend to atempt to replace the track with some silver paint and with a ridiculous amount of luck might get it working again. If anyone has...

Looks like stats will not be consolidated from this. I agree with Prof though. Isn't the storage forum team one of the fatsest producing teams? Starting again will really save us time. It would be better still if they had an OS2 client for Tanin and Tea to use though.

I pretty much agree about the acting but would have to say its not all thier fault. I think part of it is that the lines in the first 3 were just better. I don't remember any part of the original trilogy in which C3P0 punned for a straight 5 minute stretch in the middle of an intense action...

Actually Funnel web spiders are an example of Australia’s rich and poisonous Arachnid population. Our poisonous insects are a quite distinct and mostly imported mix of European Wasps and Fire Ants among others. Mostly, however, our nasties are pretty localized with Funnel Webs mostly only...

I was sure I already posted this but what can you do. The soundblaster Live! cards are Creatives first obvious active atempt to capture the Audiophile market segment that I'm aware of. For this reason they descided that the card would not need to amplify anything much as true Audiophiles would...

Well I'm relieved to see I didn't entirly waste my time with the uni computers. Since statsman wasn't updateing I thought I must have.

To test a specific drive just type vseek n where n is the drive number. The drives are numbered starting from 0, aparently the numbers are assigned logically starting at the primary master and continuing through primary slave, secondary master etc. I suspect that drives on a secondary card would...

Id say it could well be one or both of these things. I guess I'll have to pull the damn thing out to test it though. And with all the crap arround it which could be causing a problem that could be a bit time consuming.

Well the PCs are going at it and should be all night. The sad thing is that there are 25 in this room alone and I can only use 2. I'll see how my stats look in the morning.:)

I thought much the same thing when I saw it but wasn't sure since I havn't had much experience in the area. I have run PC Mark on this drive (I know its pretty dodgy but I was boared) and I don't have the results to hand but it wasn't very good. Tony sugested I might try running the WD testing...

Double the fan noise becomes an entirly different issue in a water cooled system. There are no cases even available with the kind of space that would require. I don't really want a dual system. But if it came down to it I don't think a P2.4 would make a huge diference where a dual XP wouldn't...

The one that gets me is Aluminum. Entirely off point I know and I'm very sorry but really. At least there isn't some idiots heritage dictionary which proudly lists the Tulipton. The other two that bug me are cup-o'-chino, and its derivative mug-o'-chino (what am I buying a suit? Can I have a...

There you are done and dusted. I managed to find three other drives to try. I only got one working though and it wouldn't Vseek. Or if it was I'm not waiting for it 'cause it wasn't doing anything. The drives are: A WD Caviar 280 80Mb A Seagate ST-157A 40Mb A Conner CP-342 40Mb If any of these...

In the paper today I saw an add from Dell. They have a P4 2.26Ghz with an optional upgrade to a 2.4Ghz for $599. I'm not sure how expensive this make the board and processor combo but wouldn't a dual XP be cheaper?

So get a pocket knife and some electrical tape and make them. If the knife make you edgy just the tape will do nearly as good a job.

In order to leve Genome running over night I'd just load it onto the two PCs I'm allowed to log on to at once and set a blank screen saver with a password. If anyone wanted to use the machine they'd just reboot it (Most would assume it was off). People do the same thing all the time with other...

Bugger, sorry guys wrong thread. Had too many open at once and I just stuffed up. If anyone could find it in their hearts to move that last post I'd be most grateful.

I've been trying to think of ways to boost my Genome work without actually leaving my computer on more of the time (My parents pay the electricity bill and I value my life far too much). One of the options I've been considering is ways of using the uni computers. There are usually a couple of...

Actually AMD just recently announced that the current Durons would be phased out near the end of this year about when the clawhammer is released. The then current Athlon chip will apparently take on the Duron name and become the budget AMD chip. With 3GIO, serial ATA and other technologies not...

I'm not entirly sure how much a CD Burner weighs but assuming its about 750g-1kg then it should cost about $14AUD to post. Of course if you wan't it this quater that would be $16AUD for airmail. So add $7-8. If a burner weighs less than 750g then you can make that $5.50-6.25. Sorry if its a...

I think I'll give the P4 a miss, although your offer is tempting in a way. I'd rather not face having to change my mainboard too soon, and my current one should take a thoroughbread. Once you start messing arround with motherboards all sorts of issues crop up like, will the hoses reach the CPU...

A Sony CRX145E 10X4XSomthing(32 I think) Reasonable condition, blue, only a couple of years old, and I have to admit I bought it from Ron (But the box was sealed and the thing works). Great burner for anyone who doesn't want to burn copy protected CDs, doesn't mind waiting 10 minutes and likes...

Its getting to be time to trade in my processor on a newer faster model. Why? Is it running too slow? Is it unstable? Is it becomeing a bottleneck? Well the simmple answer to all these questions is no. I'm just bored and my case light won't be available for another two months, so when the...

I recall Tony having a flatbed scanner a while back which had a special negative scanner built in. A HP I think.

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Maybe you could look into running the client in an emulator Tanin. There are a couple listed here which might do the job. A quick search might turn up somthing better though.

Come now why is there a question? Post them to Tanin for a photo shoot. "I'm ready for my close up now mr Wilson..."