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As the beneficiary, I urge everyone to get in on the fine deals. ;)

The only real minuses about Hobart that I can see are that it is a fair way from anything else urban (almost 2 hours flight to Sydney, about an hour or so to Melbourne, and REALLY far from places like London, New York, etc.), and there are only a certain number of things to do. If you like...

At least, on this monitor they are.

Those are really white teeth. *impressed*

Gah! JTR1 = JTR1962. Sorry, I suck.

No, it's not deja vu, we're voting here for the new forum moderator to join our brave band after Time asked to be left out of the nominations. This is for an 18 month term starting on the 15th of October 2002. Note as president I will only vote in order to split a tie. (I'm sorta making rules...

Dunno about fearless.

"Bridge Connections" even.

VPN tunnels and your NIC should appear as seperate connections under Network Connections. Theoretically you should actually be able to route between them (right click on one, select "Bridge Coinnections"). You should then be able to connect to both your local network and your office network at...

It's mightier than the sword, I hear.

... and I've since reformed. :wink: Okay, I'll leave this thread going until the end of the US weekend, then run the poll for a week (unless a clear winner emerges earlier), then nominate the new moderator in time for them to be ordained on the 15th. So far the nominees are... Prof. Wizard...

I only paid about AUD580 in the end, buying it new in Singapore. It's a very nice camera, far better than what I need indeed. Not much use at all, really. The movie mode is a bit of a novelty, and you can get a respectable amount of video into a 128MB memory card. But what practical use is it...

Canon Powershot A40. Nice camera.

Fear keeps them in line.

Well, it's that time again (actually, it's well past that time again) - time to nominate a new moderator to join our select band. As usual, this is for an 18 month term which will start from the 15th of October 2002. Just as a reminder, our current moderators are Mercutio and Cliptin (Flagreen...

AUD800 for the duallie, AUD650 for the Sun. Plus shipping.

No, they roped me into a "key employee" contract and what with one thing and another - basically more responsibility - it's been quite hard to get back out. KPMG has been very patient, and I'm aiming for a resolution pretty soon. We had a VP out here last week, we have two senior managers and...

Ah, Pratchett.

We've just lately started selling a lot of IPLs from Australia to India, and also a few IPLs from Japan to Australia. Conclusion, it's cheaper to provide Japanese support in Australia and Australian support in India. Go figure. (Although it's tough to find Japanese speakers in India.)

Every time you phone Vodafone in Australia your call is in fact answered in India. They get 3 months of "Strine" language training, accent and all, and every day before they start their shift they are given a briefing on what the weather is like around Australia, what the results from the game...

Look out, the Greek police will be beating down your door if you continue showing an interest in computer games...

I agree, pricey. Although some of the Cisco cards aren't bad value.

Congrats. Did you use encrypted passwords in the end?

My point is that for official consumables the pricing really isn't all that bad.

As far as I can tell the toner is about AUD320 (say USD170) per colour (C, M and Y) for 10,000 pages, and we got about 5,000 pages from the starter black toner that came with the printer. New black cartridges seem to be about AUD130 for one that does 10,000 pages. We do a lot less colour...

Buying a TiVo.

MyIE (disparaged by association elsewhere here by people in favour of other browsers, but works well for those of us bereft of the same clarity of vision), includes popup killer functionality. It also gives you tabbed browsing - might be worth a look for home.

My browser setup doesn't allow me to get popups, so I didn't actually notice. Isn't there a good popup killer for OS/2?

Actually, it's not bad at all. Better than my equivalent French would be...

If you set your 60GXP on fire I hear that the heat can sometimes fix the problem too. If this does fix the problem, let us know at our forums. :roll:

I'm afraid I can't help much with Win2k. (XP makes life easier because the Policy Editor allows you to switch off encrypted passwords to 3rd party SMB servers, as opposed to fooling around in regedit.) However, I've never had much fun trying to use encrypted passwords on Samba servers - I know...

This is perhaps a bit out of left field, and way more than you were intending to spend - but the Oki 7200C is really quite good in my experience, and it functions as a proper office workhorse printer as well. I think the resolution is 600x1200 dpi in colour, and it uses a different toner...

Can you tell I've been busy? :( Sorry. Pradeep : Got your cheque today, thanks. The Sun box takes standard VGA monitors, not that fixed sync stuff. Jake : Yeah, it is. As for what revision, I think it's 1.02. Anyway, it's the one before the revision with the new clock chip that gave you more...

My point was not in the specifics but in the general. (Besides, we're only discussing one specific example of a wider change.) Today there is an enormous range of cuisines, and it is widespread across the country. Even I can tell the huge difference between what things were like food-wise 20-25...

*shrug* I've said what I think. Several people in the thread have said essentially the same things subsequent to my post. It's a defensible view, even if you don't agree with it.

Go figure. A Slashdot discussion missing the point!

He's just such an entertaining writer. And the whole no-nonsense approach is so refreshing after the hordes of hardware sites where 0.5% is considered a "huge difference" in performance. He wisely sticks to the basics - does it work as advertised, does it do something useful and/or fun, is it...

It's not a great source of pride, but Batelco is actually a Cable & Wireless company. The rules under which they block sites are imposed on them by the government, and they must comply. If you think the situation in Bahrain is bad, I can tell you some stories about Saudi Arabia and China that...

Slo, I'm afraid I see that as being a very anti-globalisation (dare I say, John Howard-esque :wink: ) view of the world. 20 years ago if you went out for a meal in Australia, to use your example, your choice was basically bad UK-inspired food (meat and 3 veg, all overcooked), or the early...

Note, you'd also need a Smartcell battery to go with it. Dunno what you can get it for - a new set of 4 goes for $1700 or so, but you should be able to get them singly for less new and even less from auctions. Full disclosure here. :wink: When I bought it it didn't have a battery; I borrowed...

Hey Tony, wanna buy my Matrix 3000 UPS? Surely with 2750W of output power, you could run your whole shop off it for at least a while? I'm thinking of getting rid of it because with 3 big fans it's a little noisy for a home environment. It only cost me about AUD140 including shipping ($50 at...

What are you trying to achieve, Bill? Just wondering...

Kate on "The Panel" pointed out we don't have a day to remember the 12,000 people that died at Bhopal, for example. I think what annoys me most are two things : 1) Everyone refers to it as "the day America changed" or some variation thereof, but I can't actually see much evidence of...

Thanks Merc. It's a fair cop. :mrgrn:

Merc: Dunno. Probably not all that much, about USD30-40 I guess. Cliptin: I think I'd rather sell the whole thing as a single lot if I can. Jake: Make me an offer. ;) Bill: Thanks for the advice, I might give that a go.

*clears throat* I can't hear a thing over the noise of the crickets chirping. Was that a tumbleweed that just rolled past?

Another one : Old glass windows are thicker at the bottom than at the top because glass is still a liquid.

I like Flashget, but I fear it is replete with spyware. That aside, it works well, has an intuitive interface, and isn't nearly as clunky as some others I have tried.

For future reference, the below might be of help. Telstra service rep : Do you have another network card in that machine? Answer : No. I didn't know you could even have two in the same computer. Are you saying you can? Why would you want to do that? Some people are crazy! etc. T : Now run our...

Err, obviously the "I don't see why not" was in reply to your previous post. :mrgrn: I'm about to go home and see if the DSL connection is up... wish me luck. :roll: So, lack of availability refunds again this month, it seems? Has that been every month since they introduced the idea? Why...