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Oh, and while it was good to point out the ATA133 interface is to all intents and purposes no faster than ATA100, I think they kind of missed the main point about it, no?

Heck, CNet could hardly tell the difference between an X15-36LP and a D540X...

NRG : Always remember: clothing beats soap as a gift, every time. Happy birthdays, guys.

Yeah, me too. I'm waiting for Jake to say it's okay to start arranging a time. I think the new baby is keeping him a tad busy! Merc, Pradeep and I met in Sydney airport - I was coming back from Tokyo and he was going to NZ. I bought him a couple of sticks of Nanya 256MB registered CAS2 RAM back...

Yes. Notorious, that's us. Infamous, even.

"Most" people? I think not. Go into any mainstream music store and try to find any vinyl at all. You'd even be hard pressed to find cassettes.

http://reviews.cnet.com/techtrends/0-6014-8-20069949-1.html?tag=st.re.9870989.fs.6014-8-20069949-1 What do you think? Are we obsessed with unnoticeable differences in speed?

I might be too late, but I'll also throw in a positive vote for the Brother low end printers. I wasn't a Brother fan - they used to be good, but went downhill bigtime for a number of years - but these printers have singlehandedly restored my faith in the brand. That's saying something.

No worries Bill. :mrgrn:

Not so hasty, Bill - I don't know what he's suggesting with f****. I can think of one with f***, but the 4 *s have me stumped.

Didn't think he really needed any help.

Slowly. Once I'm on top of my new duties at SR, I'll revisit this. That'll be a couple of weeks I'd say.

Seems unlikely they're illegal, the photo seems to have been taken at Fry's.

That's not stateful packet inspection, that's NAT (network address translation). Stateful means that the firewall actually inspects the payload of incoming and outgoing packets to make sure that they're legitimate. It also looks at a packet stream in its entirety rather than considering packets...

Indeed, that was how my photo was taken. I'm not a fan of photos of myself either, and I have done a pretty good job throughout my life at avoiding 'em. On occasion though, like this one, I think it's only polite to post a picture of myself, despite my usual reservations. I just won't ever...

Perhaps I should just give up trying to remember the figures and wait until my jet lag has lessened somewhat.

Actually, I'm 30.

Merc, you're right, I was working from memory. Either way, either the online population is more geared in that direction than the general population, or people are lying to try to get certain personality types, or their estimates of numbers of population in each category are wrong, or finally...

Or between 20 and 30% of those responding to the online test. Weird.

NT.

I missed July 4th altogether - I left the US on July 3rd and I arrived here on July 5th. Darn that international date line!

It's all good for the rest of the global data market - which at this stage seems to consist of basically C&W and Equant, that's it. Then come the strong regional players - BT Ignite in Europe, AT&T in the US, and PCCW/Telstra/Reach and Singtel in Asia. Whether Worldcom pulls itself out of the...

Thanks Tony. Not sure I have your e-mail address; perhaps send me an email at my work address and I'll reply.

Ah Tony, you're older than me and still much less cynical. I'm glad, keep it up. I'm afraid I'm now more a "rip the bandaid off" type than the "slow removal" type. My experience has led me to believe that often I was doing something for what I thought were all the best reasons, but turned out...

Darn, lost a post. Quick summary : Hardware cost is a relatively small component of overall software project cost. The last software build team I ran had a capex budget of $40M; I only spent $7-8M of that on hardware. Things like SAP rollouts, even more so. I believe that Sun will continue to...

Perhaps the NAT isn't properly set up? You can always test straight TCP connectivity by telneting to the destination PC and port.

That's some serious dust buildup you have there. :)

I'm not laughing about it Prof - I'm living it right now! :mrgrn:

JoJo, It depends what part of the marketplace you're aiming at. Where I work we don't really even deal with companies unless they have more than ~USD20M a year to spend on their network with us, so my view is biased in that direction. These sorts of companies are only going to consider Solaris...

Also make sure you enable TCP and UDP packets through the various ports.

JoJo, I think you need to decide if you want to do courses for fun or profit. If it's the former, then by all means do the RedHat course. If it's for profit, your list would look quite different. As Merc says, it would include things like Solaris Administrator (which actually would help you...

Actually my priorities at the moment are to enjoy the rest of my holiday (up to Wednesday). :) It'll then take me about 26 hours to fly back to Australia. After that, I'll have a think about any inititatives to kick off with. If anyone has anything they feel strongly about, either post it here...

I'm one of the very few that hasn't seen Saving Private Ryan. :) Prof, wasn't the Swordfish scene further into the movie than the beginning? Merc, The Replacement Killers is well worth a rental, particularly for the way it is shot and because it has Chow Yun Fat in it. (And Mira Sorvino...)...

Thanks guys. Make sure you all immediately rush out into your front yards to wait for the white and blue Cable & Wireless trucks to pull up to your respective homes. I'm sure they'll be arriving real soon now. :roll: :mrgrn:

I think these two are mostly for those of us who live outside the US but visit once a year or so : 110: The first thing you do when you visit a new city is find out where the computer stores are. 111: The second thing you do is work out when you might have time to visit them. This stage may...

The opening to "Raiders" is pretty good, it certainly sets the scene for the rest of the movie. I've always loved "Blade Runner," particularly the Director's Cut. That and "The Abyss" are about the only Director's Cuts I've liked better than the original - usually they become ego vehicles for...

I wonder why no one at SR noticed when Bill outed himself in this thread?

Why buy the cow when everyone's willing to give the milk to you for less than it cost them to make? Transoceanic cable will be required for a long time to come. Modern undersea cables carry up to 7.5Tb/s, the maximum wireless speed is 54Mb/s for local area networks, or up to 1Gb/s for short...

The Replacement Killers was on TV tonight and it made me think about this topic - it has a pretty good one and is exquisitely shot, pun not intended. What do you guys reckon is the best single scene - usually before or during the opening titles - for an action movie?

Merc, happy to sell you what you're asking for - I don't have prices for faster than OC48 though. The local loop charge alone is quite respectable. :) I don't see much point in C&W buying up startups in Silicon Valley - I reckon they have most of the bits they need to execute their strategy...

My understanding was that it was "enrage" in the context of having rabies, ie. rabid. I dunno, it's a Swiss thing. *shrugs*

The latter. I'm also mulling an opportunity at a rival telco to become a global account director in Melbourne. Normally I wouldn't consider it, but the account turns over $54M/year and has good potential for growth. But then again, it'd be a pain to uproot us from Sydney.

It used to be much more. Until we bought Exodus, the investors got a special dividend and C&W did a 1.5bn pound share buyback the net cash position was over 7bn pounds (~$11bn). Holding cash is a pretty good strategy at the moment, I think, given the instability in telecoms at the moment. It...

Since we're bringing up obscure French phrases, here's my all-purpose French colourful insult, excuse lack of accents : "Va te faire encule par une vache enrage." Coug, I have no idea what your sentence says. I'm in Canada again at the moment (Halifax) and I'm reminded that I can't understand...

I might be able to provide a not-too-old photo once I get back home. Does someone have some webhosting space they could lend me?

By whom? No one has stepped up to the plate to buy Global Crossing. No one has offered to buy Williams. No one's making noises about buying Worldcom's carcass. Telcos don't have any money, let alone around the $7.2bn to cover C&W's market cap + a sale premium (usually about 50-100%) =...

Wanna buy some stuff from a financially stable company, Fushigi? :) The only thing Worldcom has that's worth buying is their customers, and I reckon most of the big ones of those will be up for grabs over the next month or two anyway. We've had (large) customers call us up and tell us to...

I'm still running a GF2 GTS! :cry:

I'll just echo those others that have already said this : Either spend a bit more money and get a better flat screen monitor, or buy a good curved screen one. This is something you or your dad are going to be looking at for years. It's simply not worth harming your eyes for the sake of $20-30...

Well, they may have the best and brightest staff, but they won't have me for much longer - my long awaited movement over to KPMG seems immenent at last. :) Actually, C&W's position is an accident of history - they've been an international carrier for about 140 years. When they owned Global...