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Not really a problem, just a matter of curiosity. I'm running W2K. Up until recently, when I wanted to hang up my modem web connection, I'd bring up the "connected to XYZ ISP" thingy in my task bar, click "disconnect" and wait, oh, maybe a half second or so. But I suddenly discover that I have...

P_133_6_10_02_10PM 1 work unit, 0.6 points. Way to go!

I seem to remember asking this before. But, if I learned it, I forgot the answer already. My IE 5.0 (Win 2K) has stopped refreshing pages except when I explicitly click "refresh". It's set to check on the default "Automatic" setting. I switched it to "every time" just now, but it doesn't seem...

Generally speaking, OS/2 is a breeze to configure, but tonight, seeing as I decided to finally get around to doing that hard drive upgrade on the spare back office system that I've been sort of half doing for months now, it decided to be a bitch. I've had my 9GB Quantum Atlas IV spare for ages...

In the other thread, Cougtek wrote: I feel the same way, or at least I did until just now when I discovered this page: http://www.statsman.org/folding2stats/html/index.html and from it we can learn a great deal of interesting stuff. I pasted the numbers into Quattro Pro just now (at which...

Where is Tannin when you need him? I'm trying to do this on my own, and I'm lost. This morning I finished hooking up the NT box in the workshop (K6-III 500) to the TCP/IP thingie, slipped Folding@Home console onto it, and it's crunching away quite happily. But that damn Couchtest character is...

I've been dissatisfied with my three year old MAG DJ810 19 inch monitor at home for some time now. At 1024 x 768 it's damn near perfect, but the moment you push it up past that res, it's unpleasant. Odd that it looks so good at 1024 but even at 1152 x 864 it is clearly below par. So, the other...

Went to see the Royal Shakespeare Company this weekend. Not doing Old Bill this time, but an anthology of writing and song by and about the kings and queens of England. Ian Richardson is a master. http://www.oncueonline.com.au/oncue/shows/sydney/hollow_crown/ Wonderful stuff.

Here is an example of a supplier's email sent to me today. Taking the Nvidia prices as a benchmark (for they are around about the normal $A going rates for Nvidia based stuff) is there any reason I should look at any of the ATI cards in prefference? TNT2 M64 32Mb $58 TNT2 M64 32Mb PCI $73...

Err, seeing as we get to vote more than once here, what if I want to vote for two people who happen to be in the same group? Handruin and Flagreen, for example? Well, you are SOL (and I don't mean our highly esteemed member from the northern side of Ballarat).

Can you vote in more than one of these polls? Why not?

OK, you know the form.

Blame cas for this one. I saw his neat new avatar and .... well, this is the result. I'm not sure how many options I can squeeze into a poll format, so I'll just work my way down the member list in post-count order, and combining the multiple personalities so as to save a litte work. (I'm...

Sol, I seem to have mislaid my VSEEK file for the WD1000JB. Would you mind re-running it for me? You will need VSEEK.EXE - www.redhill.net.au/zip/vseek.exe and for convenience VS.BAT - www.redhill.net.au/zip/vs.bat Very easy to use. Yoiu can run it in a DOS windows under most operating...

Anyone noticed Tim's new location yet?

Especially for James - coz James seems to be the internet and coms guru round here. All summer long, every night at 1:20AM exactly, my ISP cut me off. Every single night. This used to drive me nuts because it was just ten or fifteen minutes before my usual bedtime, and it seems a shame to...

OK, ignoring the new 533 FSB models that have not hit the streets yet, P-4s run a 400MHz FSB, yes? What speed does a DDR-equipped P4 run its RAM at?266MHz? Or is it an even fraction of the FSB - i.e., 200MHz?

Sort of speaks for itself, this one. It's a screencap from my email program, cropped a bit to save bandwidth.

I just wanted to post to say what a fantastic job Cougtek is doing on the front page.

Recently, a group of computer scientists (all males) announced that computers should also be referred to as being female. Their reasons for drawing this conclusion follow: 1. No one but the Creator understands their internal logic; 2. The native language they use to communicate with other...

You know what the really great thing about wise old sayings is? You can ignore the bloody things, that's what it is. I was surfing just now, looking for details on the ultra-crap VX Pro main board I just laid my hands on (for photographic purposes only, of course), and this particular site that...

Guess the subject explains it pretty well. Anyone have an explanation for this? The system is a K602/450 on a solid but performance-challenged little Biostar board with integrated everything and no secondary cache. It's running Windows 95B with IE 5.0, and it has trouble on the web. It worked...

In another thread, Pradeep asked about our new digital camera. We got a Mavica FD-1000. Sony. Yeah - i.e., beautifully built, under-specced and over-priced to buggery. But we wanted the convenience of floppy disc storage. It is bulky and a bit heavy, but that's the price you pay for fitting a...

Here is a strange one, something I've never heard of before. The Western Digital Protoge debuted in late 2000. An unassuming 5400 RPM drive designed to fill the low-cost, low-performance niche, with but a single platter and a 12.5ms seek time. WD sold them for a good long while, in 10GB...

Totally pointless post to grab post #1000 in the Computers forum. :)

I've been watching the hysterical praise the 8MB cache WD 120GB drive has been getting around the traps, and wondering if it is really half as good as people are making out. It just seems a little too good to be true. How the hell can an IDE drive with a 7200 RPM spindle and a seek time in the...

Been looking at the Computers forum over at Storage Review. At the rate The Prof is posting, he'll have more posts than Jehh by Tuesday lunchtime!

A brief statement from the Philadelphia stock exchange said that Rambus would be deleted from the list of semiconductor stocks as from February 22nd. The PHLX said in a memo on that day Broadcom and Maxim would be added to its PHLX semiconductor sector while Rambus would go. The news is of...

Epox vs SoltekDamn, I'm sure I answered this already, now I can't find the thread. Someone asked what I thought of the Soltek DDr Athlon board, seeing as they were going to buy an Epox but were alarmed at having heard that their friend had got two DOA 8HKA+ boards. And I distinctly remember...

Speaking of McDonalds and coffee and Senior Citizens, Flagreen reminded me of this one. Fella walks into McDonalds. He sees an old couple in the line in front of him. They order one Big Mac, one packet of chips, one small Coke. (I can't quite bring myself to say "fries", not even on a site...

Not exactly a tech support question, but it seems to fit better here than in the "Computers" forum. I just installed the latest Mozilla build (0.9.8 ) for OS/2. (I'm actualy running ECS here, the new OS/2, but no matter.) And, as I so often seem to find, the fonts are weird. (I had exactly the...

My Internet Explorer has gone the way of all things. When I visit Storage Forum it loads most of the page, then appears to freeze. Eventually I have to close it from theW2K (SP2) task manager. Al other apps carry on just fine. Been using Opera instead. Getting to like it. After that, I restart...

Been using the A-Open TFTs quite a bit lately. Very happy with them. Alas, A-Open are out of stock and don't look like having any for quite some time. There are plenty of Acers, but the Acers are nowhere near as clear and sharp. Looks like we have to switch brands. I have easy access to LG and...

OK: let's put this forum to the test. Here's a curly one. I have a regular customer who wants a small server, which must fit into a 2U rackmount case. Anticipated workload is small, we plan a single 40GB 7200 RPM IDE drive for it. I have to work within my customer's specifications. And no, I'm...

Mostly I like the Western Digital WD400BB, and we sell a fair number of them. Just going on gut feel, they seem a fraction faster than the Samsung 40GB 7200s that we often stock, though I often wonder if that is my imagination. But 40GB 7200s are in mild short supply right now and we have been...

Everyone please note that www.handruin.com will be replaced by www.storageforum.net sometime in the next few days. So when you come here ... and it ain't here ... just remember www.storageforum.net

Everyone please note that www.handruin.com will be replaced by www.storageforum.net sometime in the next few days. So when you come here ... and it ain't here ... just remember www.storageforum.net

Praise to Webslave Handruin for getting our new domain name registered: www.storageforum.net It will take a few days before the new name works, but it is safely in Doug's hands now. The site titles have already gone from "Post Storage Review" to "www.StorageForum.net". Hmmm.... I'm not sure...