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Look, I've been thinking about it, and I reckon I could get by with 24. Would that be OK?

sorry....

I have a list ..... but whatever their faults, it's difficult to condemn 9 other human beings, very difficult. How about 29?

Stupid ape.

vBulletin eh? You've been thinking about that one for a long time, Doug. I imagine I can get used to the new colours OK. (Stupid ape.)

I haven't shaved in years. I have an electric barber's clipper, and do three things with it: Bare clipper for the upper lip and lower lip #1 comb for the beard #2 comb for my head Shaving or a beard trim is OK, cutting your own hair is rather tricky till you get the hang of it. One thing...

I don't think my place in central Australia had any problems with dropouts - but then that's the kind of place where when it rains (if it rains) you throw a party and invite absolutely everyone that lives within a 100km circle of you. (Yes, both of them.) As for snow .... hmmm .... certainly no...

I've used sat briefly, and it was just fine - faster, in fact, than my cable internet at the office. There was a bit of latency, so I wouldn't want to use it for playing on-line games in real time, but perfectly acceptable for all other uses and barely noticable. This was in the outback at a...

I have met some seriously bad rock climbers - I'm talking guys who were capable of climbing hard stuff here, but hopeless safety. Lunatics. Most are good, sure, but there are bad ones.

So ... can anybody provide any reason why I should care in the slightest? WTF was WiinFS supposed to do that you couldn't already do with NTFS? Or even FAT, for that matter. Another classic case of a Microsoft "solution" running round looking for a problem. It's no wonder their products suck...

Simple: if you run out of bombs and it's a high-value target, just climb to 40,000 feet and drop the magnet.

I think CNN Sport went to the World Cup and died over there of boredom. Or else forgot the passsword

I watched a game just now. (Brazil vs Japan, as it happens.) Can't say I thought much of it. Possibly more interesting to watch than Gridiorn, but maybe not. 10 sports that are better on TV than soccer Baseball Rugby Union Football (real football - i.e. Aussie rules) Track cycling, esp the...

Happy, happy, happy. Should be more of it.

Yeah, there was some weirdness. I couldn't acceess the top-level pages (forum index for e.g.) but could get the individual pages. Top-leevel pages gave me the dreaded white page of death. But it's fine now.

Hmmmm ... given that the material in question is aluminium, an entirely non-magnetic substance, it would indeed be unlikely!

I don't know quite what it means I don't really understand it, not as a whole. I probably don't agree with quite a lot of it I certainly do agree with much of it. It made me uncertain. It made me think things over. It made me feel things I hadn't felt before. I need to read it again to...

Most (all) systems have a BIOS setting to support/disable USB keyboard and mouse directly in the BIOS - i.e., without needing Windows or any driver sofware. What happens if you toggle those on and off? Oh, and reset the BIOS to the factory defaults too - that's always worth trying for all sorts...

Nice to know that somebody read it, Deadwood!

I rather suspect that this is because people are in that awkward situation where they vaguely know a little about the subject but not enough to make fools of themselves, Greg. I vaguely remember being told how wonderful reg cleaners can be by someone that was fairly computer savvy some years...

You get those emails all the time, Coug. Well, every month or so. A typical request is (e.g.) 100 Pentium 4 CPUs, or 50 200GB SATA hard drives. This is obviously a pretty common scam. I have never bothered trying to figure out if it's aimed at getting the systems/drives/etc. and not paying for...

Interesting, Merc. Trouble is, I don't believe it. It would be an absolutely astonishing thing for Intel to do - astonishing two ways: for many, many years they have barely been capable of challenging AMD on the performance front, never mind trumping them; and they have never, ever, ever offered...

Ha! The SATA power connector is far, far worse than the connector it replaces. I can't believe that whoever decided on this flimsy, clumsy, and generally stupic connector was a working techie. It is, in a word, complete crap.

Excuse me posting on-topic here, but I have to confess that I haven't bothered following Intel's progress with their new chips at all closely. Frankly, it's been so long since Intel had a compelling product that I simply stopped bothering to consider anything that wasn't AMD. Hey, how long...

I lost interest when we got to the rank stupidity of claiming that a decline in population would lead to "devastating" economic impact. When debate sinks to including statements as absurd as that, it's time to go elsewhere in search of conversation. Which I did.

Not me. I only like football.

Not actually what I was complaining about, David, but certainly a handy tool. I doubt I'd use it myself, as it's not the synching of bookmarks & etc. that I have a problem with (hey, mostly I don't use bookmarks too much anyway, I just remember the URL a lot of the time and type it in - mostly...

Ahh, thankyou. I think I pretty much answered that one already. You can't build any more dams: there are no rivers left worth damming, and we already have more storage capacity than we have water to fill it with. OK, they haven't quite got out of the 1950s mindset in Queensland or Tasmania yet...

Hell no. Mate, I was taught about the idea in primary school, and I'm pushing 50. (Translation for over-the-water friends: primary school, the school you go to when you are 5 to maybe 10-12 years old.) I should imagine that the first person to think about it was probably Edward John Eyre...

I have no isea why anyone thinks Tyan motherboards are so good. The few thgat I have tried have been no more than ordinary at best. In any case, I have always regarded VIA as the best of the chipset makers for AMD CPUs; their Intel platform stuff has traditionally not been a strength.

[quore="LiamC"] (a couple of paragraphs cheerfully ignoring what I just wrote.) No matter: your summary of the deep history of human occupation here is essentially correct, so far as we are able to tell, and not ignoring substantial scientific controversy still remaining. My point, however, is...

How do you feel about dams? I can't answer a question as broad as that. Which dams? But I can usefully mention a couple of things: the most important of these is that there is really no room left for dam building. Name me a river in inland or western Victoria (i.e., the part of the world I live...

Cross-posted from another place because I thought some people here might be interested. Some homespun rules of thumb, passed down from father to son for many generations in my family. Or possibly some rules that I make up as I go along - you decide. Rule 1: For long-lens work, primes are...

Australia is the driest inhabited continent on Earth. Australia is the least damaged inhabited continent on Earth. Hard to believe, when you look around you at the vast and terrible destruction we have wrought on this once fair continent, but unquestionably true: Australia retains a more intact...

Working backwards up the thread: At that point, we have then proved utterly beyond all doubt that we are the most virulent of all plague organisms. The only fair and rational thing to do, given that, is to exterminate the human species before it infects and destroys other planets in the...

Over my dead body.

DOH! I forgot about that bit. But, come to think of it, it would quite possibly still outperform a Dell. I mean we are not exactly talking rocket-powered performance machines here, and if there is a way to make a perfectly decently-speced machine perform like a crippled refugee from the...

I agree with Mercutio practically 100%. Only points of difference are that I don't have any real relevant experience with Shuttle products since K6-2 days (but they were fine for me back then) andI do use non-VIA chipsets as well as VIA - primarily the excellent Nforce 3, which we have used a...

Is it really saturday already? Great! I hate Fridays!

PS: we used to use A-Open cases too, and switched for the same reason as you. The Bliss cases are, IMO, a step up in quality - in the same league as an entry-level A-Open, but just a little more solid, a little better.

Slip over and have a look at the Bliss cases we use, Scott. They will probably fit your requirements perfectly. They are, from memory, $75ex including a 300W Bliss power supply. This is a plain non-fancy PSU that gives you a genuine 300W (i,e., much the same as the A-Opens you are familiar...

What sort of price range are you looking at, Mangy Dog?

Of course, the first line in a lot of other people's spam filters is to reject anything that comes from yahoo, but that's another story ....

LONG ANSWER: Some otherwise perfectly intelligent people have inexplicable blind spots, and quite often will defend their irrational choice with tenacity and ferocity. Talked to a Mac user this decade? Or someone who insists, overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that Internet Explorer is a...

Least of all Tea herself ....

With Tea, who knows why she does anything? And wouldn't red ones be easier to find in the grass?

We dropped copper coins, oh, maybe 5 to 10 years ago. The 1c and 2c coins stopped circulating quite a while back. I'd prefer that they dropped the useless damn 5c coin too: you can't buy anything worth having with any sensible number of them, so why bother? Rough value translation for USians...

stupid ape

PS: note the above post carefully. Tannin, yes, me, posting in a gaming thread. Enjoy it while you can, 'cause it's probably the only one you will see for quite a while. Oh, and it took me past Tea's post-count once again. :wink:

Hmmmm .... One assumes that the hyper-threading on the A64 was ... er .... not exactly active?