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Quick! We have a Dell Optiplex G1 midi-tower that needs its RAM replaced, and Kristi and I don't know how to get the case open. Unfortunately, Tea is quite certain she knows how to deal with it. I've just dashed in here to shoot off this emergency message because I don't know what else to do...

On the radio just now, in the shower, I heard something that made my blood chill, and then boil. There was a peace rally somewhere in the occupied territories. Children, not adults, and perfectly peaceful. An ABC reporter was there, and I heard the whole thing. I'm not talking homicidal...

I always used to wonder if there was intelligent life in America. And now I can stop wondering, because not only is there intelligent life, at least some of it has that precious commodity, common sense. Here is the proof: It is beyond me how anyone can be proud to be an American. That's...

As you must all know by now, Australia is one of only three countries commited to war on Iraq (alongside the United States and Britain). As you probably also all know by now, my particular part of the country is a small rural town of about 90,000 people. Country towns in general are known for...

Sob. I pulled the pin on my glorious collection of early model SCSI drives today. Seagate Cheetah 1. 4.5GB. 10,033 RPM. The first 10,000 RPM drive ever made. Cost me $2500. Close to six years, 24 x 7, been in my home system, the accounts server, the technical server, and finally banished to...

A small aircraft develops a major problem. There seems no doubt that it will crash. There are five passengers, but only four parachutes. The first passenger says: "My name is Bob Dylan. I'm a singer and I have fans all over the world who would be hearbroken if I died. For the sake of my fans, I...

Well, I finally managed to crash Mozilla 1.2a. Useless bloody program. It just lost the plot completely, got slower and slower and, eventually, refused to refresh my screen. In the end I had to close it with the task manager. Mind you, I was asking rather a lot of it. Errr ... a very large...

Excuse cross post, but this gem that Handruin slipped onto the front page news is just too good not to pick up on. (From Ars Technica.) I love it!

Anyone know anything about smaller than standard ATX power supplies? I have a machine I need to replace the PSU in, that (curse it!) takes a more-or-less normal ATX PSU except that it is only 100mm deep instead of the standard 150mm. (I think a number of the vomit box makers use these too.)...

Best: Vereor Lord of the Rings Simply excellent. Index pages are not bad but the actual forums are the best by a mile: good looking and easy to read. Black Soul Another very good one. Darkside Laid-back, restrained, surprisingly clear given the colours. SubBlack SubGreen Prissy but...

I'm surprised that no-one has commented on this yet. Seems like an overclocker's dream, and makes you wonder what AMD think of it.

... about my new sig. General Marie Victor Nicolas de Fay Latour-Maubourg served under Napoleon in many parts of Europe, from Spain to Russia. Rewnowned for his aristocratic manner, his bravery, and his tactical acumen, he lost his leg to a cannon ball at the Battle of Lepzig in 1813 but...

Just have to say something about this one. A few weeks ago, I started playing indoor cricket again. I gave it away maybe six months back after I got tired of buggering up my hands with injuries. I'm no natural sportsman, but if you do anything for long enough you gradually get better at it, and...

My friend lives on seven acres. She has a wonderful native garden, including a number of rare species that she has nurtured, and it is alive with birds. She lives alone, survives on her slender savings, is rather frail and over 50, and her only company most days is her two dogs, Max and Ida...

A spin-off from my keyboard thread. I mean to ask what do you regularly use this key for, not "what have you once-in-a-blue-moon used it for".

Constantine has quietly slipped over the 1000-post mark. it seems. It's good to see my old friend of the small, small hours pass into the three-figure class, and I trust that his next 1000 posts will, like his first 1000 posts, be a lively mix of information, misinformation, opinion both plain...

We have had the Advertising Keys. Er ... sorry, the "Windows Keys". And we have had the Gimmick Keyboard ... er sorry, the "Internet Keyboard". But what, actually, has been done to improve keyboad layouts in the last 20 years? Precisely nothing. Coug still can't get a simple, easy to use...

Can anyone help me with a copy of Nero or Easy CD Cremator to suit a Sony 24X burner? I'm not asking for wares here, I have any number of spare physical copies of Nero, CD Cremator and NTI CD Maker, and will ship the drive with whichever one of these is appropriate. Trouble is, the damn OEM...

Dear Redhill. I am a student at Bungay High School, and I am currently writing a project on the physics of hard drives. I have found your site very helpful in telling me how they have developed over the years, but I was wondering if you could please explain to me, or direct me to someone who...

Monday was a superb day. I took it off to deal with a number of long-put-off urgent domestic tasks, not least buying a new lawn mower. I figured that it was time I stopped messing about with cheapskate solutions and went straight to the heavy-duty quality, a Honda HRU 215SP: 5 horse motor...

I played cricket again this week and, after another successful evening (we came second), retired to the bar for a quiet one. And there unfolded a story that had me in stitches. This ain't a joke, it's a true story - but you'd never know it if I didn't tell you. Albie is on of the guys on the...

I wrote a fair bit on drive reliability the other week, and posted it at SR. The issues SR had with their server change were a powerful reminder to me that anything posted there could dissapear without warning, so I thought I'd better put them somewhere where I know that they are safe. Also...

"... to eat here, please." "Would you like fries with that order?" "I'm sorry?" "Would you like fries with that order, sir?" "Fries," I say - quite expressionless. "Yes, fries." "Fries?" "Yes sir." He points. "Would you like some fries with your burger?" "Fries? Fries? Fries?! Those are...

My brother lives in Bahrain. There is only one ISP in Bahrain, and they have a half-brained censorship system that comprehensively fails to filter out pr0n sites - it blocks some but not others - but does really dumb things like blocking perfectly innocuous sites at semi-random. For a while...

Just a blue sky idea here, maybe one of you guys can give me a bright idea. Our price list is about 11 pages long. It's much more than just a price list, it's a short, comprehensive guide to buying a PC wisely. And, of course, it tells people what a nice company Red Hill is. :) At present, I...

Some of you might have noticed that I've been off the air these last couple of days. I thought I'd tell you all why. Belinda and I left Ballarat after work on Friday and drove about 300 kilometres more or less east and arrived in Benalla just before 10 o'clock. Most of the others were camping...

Dear President Bush, Good to see you doing well in your new job. I know that we belong to different parties, but we are both Americans, and that is the most important thing, after all. I have noticed that you have been having a bit of trouble with planes being hijacked and flown into...

There ain't nuffin like a lawyer ... http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,104075,tk,dn081602X,00.asp

This one has me really puzzled. This one particular machine has heaps of trouble sending in Folding results. Now I know that sending results to the Stanford servers is problematic at the best of times, but it is on a cable Net connection (i.e., always on and decently speedy) and it shares this...

I was not feeling very well on Friday so I came home early and I seem to have fought off the cold I was coming down with. But I was horribly bored and grumpy. So I applied my usual cure: a large handful of money and a good bookshop. The results: McCrum, MacNeil and Cran: The Story of English. A...

In another thread, I mentioned the excellent performance of the old K6-III CPUs on integer tasks. Then Cas said: Now this raises an interesting question. My main workstation/server was a K6-III 500 for a long, long time. (Actually a 450+ overclocked to about 560 - 5x multiplier, 112MHz FSB.) I...

Hoolie Doolie! What time is it in the States? What are you guys (Gmac and SYROB) doing up at this time of night?

Why is it that Tea keeps getting tiddly little 0.6 point work units that always finish running on her stable of Athlon 1900s long before they have a web connection to send results in with and get more work with, while my pair of K6-IIIs - not by any means the world's best number crunchers - keep...

OK guys, we have all played this game before. You are about to be consigned to a desert island for a good long while. You are allowed to take a stereo system and one recording. No cheating: just one disc. (But we will stretch a point and allow a double album if you wish - but only if you are...

I seem to have the quiet bug again. It's all Rocco's fault, those Zahlmann Flower pictures have been working away at the corners of my mind, eating into my sensibilities like acid into a stone. Anyway, I just went silly and ordered a box of assorted quiet stuff from these guys. I know I should...

Dear Dr. Jeckel, A few weeks ago my #1 ISP closed up. I have another account with the people who host my web page and which which offers better service than Dingo Blue, but is expensive - $1 per hour flat rate - so I use Netconnect sparingly. It was time to look around for a new service...

In another Thread: Ah, now here you raise a point which is a very hot topic right now. The final authority for decisions around here rests not with Webmaster Handruin but with the 13-member Admin Team. (You may recall that you yourself were invited to be a member of this team when Storage...

Well, I finally got around to updating my Opera 6.01 to 6.03. As a firm "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" man, you can see that I was really bored this afternoon. Yeah, sure, there was supposed to be a security problem with 6.01, but hey - this is a machine I run Microsoft products on! Why on...

It's time to select a moderator again. So far we have chosen: First Moderator 18 month term, 1st January 2001 to 30th June 2003: Flagreen Second Moderator 18 month term, 1st April 2001 to 30th September 2003: Mercutio The third moderator will serve the usual 18 month term and be appointed on...

http://www.activewin.com/awin/comments.asp?HeadlineIndex=9618&Group=1&redir=%2Fsearch%2Fresults%2Easp%3FSearch%3Dkeyword%26Keyword%3D%2522windows%2Bupdate%2522%26Month%3D%26Day%3D%26Year%3D%26&redirname=Search Moved over here from the original thread...

Hi all and welcome. This thread is to help new members get up to speed around this crazy place and introduce you to some of the veterans. I'm Tannin. Right now I'm Chairman of the Admin Team, which is a fancy way of saying that Webmaster Handruin does all the work and I take all the credit...

Hmmm... The Giver is alive and well and handing out gratuitous insults in the SR bar and grille once more. I think it's time I changed his sig. (I have that right, remember.) The question is, gentlemen - what should I change it to? Answers below, please.

Something has gone screwy with the server's clock. Refer my posts in the Folding@Home thread for details.

OK, what do I need to do to get another machine to share my Internet connection? Connected machine: Win 2000 SP 2 Modem link Internet connection sharing enabled on my dial-up link (tick box) Realtek NIC Plus an X-over cable Other machine: Win98SE Realtek NIC Installed protocols: TCP/IP (LAN...

HTF do I switch off the accoustic management crap on a Barracuda ATA IV? or a U Series 6? (Or, if this is what they are supposed to perform like, HTF do Seagate figure they can get away with selling this crap?) Compare with something decent: (Samsung P40.) VSL files at...

OK, now you've gone and pushed one of my buttons. Cliptin, please step foward, salute and accept the much coveted Tannin Order of Merit (with crossed f-nodes). You, sir, have said the first sensible thing about hard drive cache I've read since at least Tuesday. This is the whole point about...

Just wondering if we need the two sections in the forum listing: "community" and "off-topic". Ideally I'd like to see a reduction in the number of fora, but I can't see which one would go - they all have their place. But it would be nice to see the entire lot of them, so as to be able to tell...

Seems to be my week for asking advice. In the workshop we have a data transfer computer. At present it's a crappy old SiS chipset integrated motherboard with video and a Cyrix 6x86MX-233 and it's nailed to the wall. Attached to it is keyboard, mouse, monitor and floppy drive, plus two IDE...

I want to record some hard drives. Maybe some of you guys are too young to remember what hard drives used to sound like, but in the old days you could tell the exact make and model of a hard drive from across the room without opening the box. Hell, when Louise (the first of my various...

Go here: http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=2594 Scroll down till you find Dextroz's post, about six posts down. Read it. Then go change your pants. :lol: :o :-? :roll: :mrgrn: :lol: :D