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As I understand it, AMD are capacity constrained at present — i.e., they can already sell every chip they manufacture, at the prices they currently charge, so where is their incentive to lower prices? In fact, if they did, three things would happen: AMD sales volume would stay static (because...

No one else seems to be following the rulez, Time, so go right ahead and tell us how you really feel. :-?

Just to clarify, once the problem manifests, the laptop keyboard and the external keyboards do exactly the same thing. - if you type 1234 on either keyboard you get "!@#$" no matter what, and if you type qwer you get "qwer" with capslock ON and "QWER" with capslock OFF! Weird.

Yes, it's a Thinkpad, Merc, but it always happens when I'm using an external keyboard. But then unless I'm on the road, and quite often even then if I can be bothered taking it out of the car, I always use an external keyboard with the laptop. Not always the same keyboard though. This present...

That page is wrong, Bozo. Typical bloody Microsoft. The whole thing works as advertised, except that it fails to copy the driver to the correct location, and fails to warn you that it hasn't installed properly, and when you have finished the install and reboot, it fails to warn you that the...

Yeah, fair enough, but I can spell "Canada" without a degree in keyboard gymnastics. :) 25C should be no problem for a week: it's a lot easier for the fridge to cope with 25 than with 35 or 40 - vastly less energy to expend.

Working normally and all of a sudden capslock is on, but the capslock light is off. Press shift to switch off capslock (or capslock, depending on which you you have the keyboard prefferences set) and the alpha keys work normally, but the capslock light goes on! Worse: * a: the number keys...

bahhh wrote longish and moderately thoughtful reply, lost the whole thing see other thread for gory details

Done. Works a treat. Oh, Howell, not going to be required now but that's an interesting emulation thingie you linked to, but from their website it seems that you can use it to emulate Linux, Linux, or Linux at present. Wouldn't it be easier to just run Linux? Or am I missing something...

Hmmmmm .... Windows in its various flavours from 95 on upwards can't even get close to the degree of control over DOS and 16-bit Windows programs (and thus the practical usability) that OS/2 offers. (Well, actually, I'm running Ecomstation, which is an updated version of OS/2, licenced by...

Done the firewall thing, Bozo, thanks. (Though it would be an easy one to forget.) I use hardware firewalls pretty much exclusively. A Linux box, Sol? I'm certainly thinking about it - but as a server, not a workstation. I still need the OS/2 main workstation because no other operating system...

Looks like he's headed in the right direction, Coug. But what does he want the inverter for? An inverter chews up a heck of a lot of power. He needs a 12V fridge. In fact, I was assuming he already had one, as if it ain't 12V, then there is no way on earth he is going to run fridge and inverter...

Gas fridges have some severe drawbacks. They need to be kept absolutely level, and they can be a significant safety risk. (I have a friend who totalled his car - the gas fridge or bottle went wrong somewhere along the way, and his car was burned out to a black shell, a total write-off. They...

You need a Thumper (or similar product) Coug. Here is a link: http://www.kookaburragas.com.au/camping_power.htm In Australia, the most-recommended brand is locally made and probably not available OS, but there are bound to be others where you are of equal quality. Thumpers are expensive...

Thanks guys. Time: I got so carried away looking for a completely different thing in Tweakui a while ago that I clean didn't think about looking for this thing in it. Howell, Sechs method looked easier so I went that way, but I didn't know the shift key trick, which will be handy to remember...

A minor one this, but it's driving me nuts. In Windows 2000, you can tell the OS to always assume user ABC with password XYZ is logged on. You do that through changing the properties of "my computer". You can't do it that way in XP. Nor, so far as I can tell, can you do it in any of the other...

There are several points to make here, Paugie: YM or any of the various similar systems will destroy your time budget. The number of things you simply won't have time to get done because you are constantly being interupted by messages will mount up and up and up. Yahoo is NOT a trustworthy...

Damn it Tea, I told you to turn left when you got to Egypt!

Not sure that I need to read up on this stuff, Tim. I can guess most of the important bits - not 100%, no doubt, but close enough for prractical purposes. And I can't do anything about it either way, so why stress myself out about something I can't hope to change in even a tiny way? I have...

Seeing as 5.0 is working for me, Time - well, as "working" as Acrobat ever gets, which isn't very - I think I'll sit on the current situation and wait till there is a new video driver update for the Thinkpaad, then try 7.x again. Thanks for letting me know, by the way, that Acrobat 7 actually...

Not a chance. Brand new machine, perfect condition, 100% fresh install, not the slightest sign of any other problem. Gets used many hours a day, works very hard with lots of tasks, so if there were systemic problems, I'd know about them. Will's video suggestion has some merit - indeed, I did...

Larry Niven is always good. I reread his Oath of Fealty yesterday, Paugie. Oh, and I reread Lucifer's Hammer a couple of months ago too. Good, but not as good as O of F, IMO. I could wite a lot more about this superb author, but I'm going to bed instead. Life is like that ....

Back to the subject: I just gave up on Acrobat 7. Pox, pox, pox. I gave it a clean system, 100% healthy, and it just falls over all the time. You can usually get away with a single instance of it - usually, not always - but it's slow, it has offensive advertising, and it just generally sucks...

Oh dear. I don't use Itunes. (What do you take me for, darling? - he says, waving a wrist in the air) I just fix machines after people install it and the system falls over. To be fair, I think Itunes is one of those programs that seems to be particularly sensitive to spyware infections: on a...

There is a difference? Oh yeah, I forgot. You can get rid of the other ones with Housecall or AVG. Silly me.

Jake! Good to see you back here. And nice to see that, in our lengthy discussion of pox-ridden software, you have cut straight to the chase and mentioned a serious contender for the most pox-ridden app of all. Not saying it ain't got some serious competition in the poxville stakes, but...

Everything Mercutio said goes for me too. I could probably add some, but he's already nailed the main offenders. Oh, plus anything Apple wrote that runs .. er ... I should say "crashes and crawls" on the Windows platform. And I can't say I have any time for any flavour of Microsoft Outbreak...

I agree with Coug: nevr liked their optical stuff. Oh, and their low-end monitors (badged "Samtron") are horribly unreliable.

As I understand it, there is a very good reason why AMD has taken so long to release a DDR2 unit: because of the different (read "less sucky") arcitecture, the AMD chips benefit only marginally from DDR2 so they made it a low priority. This is why DDR2 Athlons have taken so long, and this is...

My friend Bill. Always has a kind word for everyone. Usually. Well, mostly usually. Quite a lot of the time, anyway.[/b]

I'll have to compare side by side. Certainly the Rs I know well are more solid than anything in a non-Thinkpad (presumably except a Toughbook). I think they take the same batteries. I'd need tro double check that, but I think it's the same part number. BTW, I tend to switch most of the...

Hmmm .... Lighter: irrelevant. One pound less meand that I could have te same total weight and carry 70 litres of fuel and 40.5 litres of water on a trip instead of 70 and 40. Better Battery: is that a better battery, or better battery life from improved power management? My much-used...

You are right. When it comes to Thinkpads, Merc is da man.

Tim, if you take away the marginally lighter weight (which doesn't matter in the slightest to me) what does the T Series offer that I don't get with the R Series? Bear it in mind that I sell a reasonable number of Thinkpads, so I could probably move this R52 on to a new owner without financial...

Essentially, Bill, yes. I won't buy a Dell product because you can only buy them from Dell - and why on earth would I pay retail prices when I'm in the trade? That's a no-brainer. Besides, Dell products are the ultimate in mediocrity when they are good, and worse than that when they are bad. As...

Readers of my other thread will remember that my Thinkpad had a weird problem - viz, it would only start up off batteries, not i it was plugged in to the mains adaptor. The moment it had fired up, you could plug the power back in and it worked fine. Well, two days ago it died completely and now...

Could be, Merc. I hardly ever see the corporate one - maybe only once a month - always the retail pox. Oddly enough, the last one I had (on Friday) was a corporate which wouldn't uninstall because it was passworded, and the removal tool wouldn't touch it because it insisted I use add/remove...

Merc, I use them all the time. Like, on average, maybe 5 times a week. They work for me ... oh ... it would be less than once a month that I have problems, maybe every second month or so on average. So call it better than 95% success rate with them. What are we doing different? Here is how I...

Don't force the customer to switch to something that actually works. Leave the customer entirely 100% free to make his own informed decision. Note well: that's an informed decision. I don't mean the nitty-gritty of the technical faults NAV suffers from. (Hey, who has time to cover that list -...

One of the nice things about Norton AV ... er ... excuse me, I meant to say all of the nice things about Norton AV .... is that it won't install unless every last vestige of any previous installs is removed. Now, I hear you ask, how can this be a nice thing? I mean (you object) here you have a...

You know what I'm not going to watch this week? Everything! Well, same as last week and next week, actually. I'd rather have a heroin habit than a TV habit: I'd absorb an equal amount of useful information, have vastly more time to spare for important things, and undoubtedly enjoy the whole...

If you tell me that you are 6'4", I know exactly what you mean. If you tell me you are 192cm, I only know that you are pretty thall, somewhere a bit over 6 feet, I think. Unless I do the conversion, that is. But that's entirely my fault. I was born in 1959.

Take it to a general electronics repair shop, same place you would take you TV to be mended. They will be able to replace the cord for a fraction of what it costs to replace the whole unit.

Well, what do you do when you see somebody measure a length of wood and say it's "16 and five thirty-seconds of a foot", or reach for a calculator because they can't figure out how many feet there are in a litre?

Look, I was just telling the truth, OK? Nothing rude about telling the truth? Didn't your mother teach you always to tell the truth?

No it wasn't.

Unless you are anywhere except the USA and possibly a handful of other nearby places which, for reasons best known to themselves, share the bizare and nonsensical US date style. But then, are we surprised? Where else still measures stock prices in eighths, liquid in non-gallons, and weight in...

Will, thanks for your help with this. I've been away (as usual) and haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but as soon as I get a spare moment ....

Yike! I know what you mean about bad days. USB connectors used to be all over the place like a dog's breakfast but are - thankfully - pretty much standard these days. Older cases, as you will remember, used to have seperate individual front USB wires so that you could use them with any...

So how does the current VIA integrated chipset compare, performance-wise, with the Intel one? I'll take it on faith that the Nvidia one is superior - just as I take pretty much all video performance matters on faith these days, as there is nothing I do with a computer that any video card made in...