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No, I'm not. As I said, according to the ICOA report on air routes, Sydney - Melbourne is the third busiest air route in the world, counting number of passengers carried. Note that's prior to Ansett biting the big one, but still. It doesn't seem to still be available on their web site, but have...

So here we are in Florida for our annual global sales conference. Day two of the conference, someone grabs a mike and announces that Worldcom has been busted cooking the books. At the start of day three our managing director stood up and slowly dropped nine pennies one by one into a glass -...

Sorry Clocker, this trip is turning out to be pretty busy. I don't have my inventory of RAM sticks in front of me because I'm OS. The major cost to you is going to be the shipping unfortunately - I expect I'd sell the sticks themselves for 50% of the Crucial price for a similar piece. I think...

I'm scared about using a Live! in a dual system. Are my fears still valid? The horror stories a year ago were rife.

Do you really need CAS2? I have about 1GB of CAS3 kicking around not doing much.

Sorry, but that's absolute twaddle. Before Ansett went south Sydney - Melbourne was the third busiest air route in the world, according to ICAO (and widely quoted in the press when Virgin Blue launched). For the record, I live close to the centre of Sydney in Redfern. It's the first station...

Lying? Lawyers? Say it ain't so. Next you'll be saying there's no Santa Claus. :mrgrn:

Apparently the church I went to is that of the BSODing sound card.

I'm pretty sure I'm in Sydney. At least, that's what I put in the "location" thingy over here. ;) <--- Is that $395 just for the board? Do you want the CPUs (1700+XPs) and RAM too? (2x256MB of Nanya registered CAS2.) I don't think the Alphas will fit, aren't they the ones you secure through...

Yes. I don't recall if I told the fun story of when our phone line went on the fritz - lots of crackling on the line - and we called Optus (our local and LD provider - okay, okay, I get an "employee" discount (still! Even though we sold them about 9 months ago)). It was Tuesday. We jumped...

Dan's

Liam, perhaps you can buy mine. ;) (What's a "good price"?) 1. No 2. Yes, but it's USB1, not 2. 3. Yes 4. 80mm ones using an adapter, on top of a Bitspower 60N or whatever it is. Check out [url=http://www.dansdata.com]Dan's[/url for a review of the Bitspower stuff. Anyway, it's quiet and cool.

... yeah so I'm flummoxed as well. One machine having problems I could understand, but two different ones on totally different chipsets?

I must say I haven't noticed the much vaunted dual CPU "snap." I didn't really notice a huge difference in day to day use going from an Athlon 1GHz to dual 1700+s, actually. Obviously frame rates in games are better and DiVX encoding - wow! - but it wasn't a difference that was worth the extra...

Can't wait. :roll:

Dual is great when you need to encode DVDs into MPEG4. I can't think of a single other instance where it has been truly worthwhile. When I bought my dual system about 9 months ago, I did a great big burst of DVD encoding my entire DVD collection (only about 30-40 DVDs) so I could stream them...

Any Counterstrike, there, Clocker? :mrgrn:

I think she's Cherie Blair, not Booth.

Thanks guys! Buck : The usual, "your wonderful hardware is working without a single care in the world. Windows and it are having an intimate relationship, the beauty of which will be the subject of poetry for decades to come. This is the sort of love that ordinary people aspire to but can...

Coug, Thanks very much, I'll have a look at the article when things are a bit less frantic at work. I have the full set of tools from Tim, which means I have 5 copies of CD Winbench, among other things. I also have CDTach, DVDTach, etc. The problem I have with measuring C1/C2 errors is that I...

I should mention that these BSODs also went on when I was running Win2K. Don't recall it being a problem under Win98SE though.

Well, since someone was laying in to Creative, I thought I'd spread the joy. I have a couple of generic boards (by Eagle) with the CMedia 8738 chip on them. They cost me about USD10 each, but they do everything I ask for (I think the Santa Cruz and the Game Theatre are built on the same chip...

Who'd have thought the Grammar Police would be so musical?

Something has been bothering me with this spam - I can't see where the scamsters actually make money, unless they run a travel agent or an airline... The usual procedure with this scam is to ask for some funds up front, but that doesn't appear to be the case with this e-mail. Do you think they...

http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=177 ... last line, in bold.

Where's Pradeep when you need him? Anyhoo, Netgear seems to think it'll work. YGM.

I thought your needle had hit a scratch in your record.

I don't want to encourage him.

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Clocker, Will that board work on a Tiger MP (not MPX) board? If it will, I'll take it and get you to ship the card to where I'll be in the States next week ("The Boca Raton Resort and Club," apparently).

This thread, with Cas and Russ's (I thought) extremely restrained efforts to get people to see sense, is another example of why it's so exhausting to try to properly answer a question on SR - and why frequently I can't bring myself to bother any more. I'm afraid I think, "life's too short for...

It's a bit chicken and egg, methinks. Knowledgable people will visit more often if the quality of discussion improves. The quality of discussion won't improve unless more knowledgable people visit. Personally, I participate in the threads that interest me in Computers. I have permanently left...

In the words of that old joke : "I have to, but you, Prof?"

Okay, I can't help myself - I need to say one more thing. You need to think if you were in Amy's position, would you do the same thing to her as she is doing to you?

I don't think it does either. Plus elections every 6 months seems more likely to annoy the membership than improve quality of moderation (given we've been running for over six months already and have had the sum total of ... hmmm... let me see... one... errrr... one moderation event, and a...

You're correct that Balfour promised the Jews a homeland in 1917. Obviously given the source it's not terribly even-handed. Here's the story of someone's efforts to find out some more detail on what happened during this time : http://www.mediamonitors.net/isaacmelton1.html Chomsky has some...

I do this. I download all my POP3 mail via fetchmail onto my FreeBSD box. The I run it through procmail and a spam filter which sends back fake "message undeliverable" e-mails to the spammer *and* automatically complains to their ISP. Then it dumps the remaining (legitimate) mail into a...

A saying of my father's has always rung true for me : "It's always better to make a bad decision than no decision at all." You have to take responsibility for your own life, you can't try to be everything to everyone. Trying to keep everyone happy usually results in no-one being happy -...

Primarily Jewish terrorism, as far as I can tell. Far be it for me to point out the irony.

There's nothing stopping Microsoft sallying forth into the mobile communications device arena (again). If they want to burn spectacular amounts of money, that's certainly the way to go. Manufacturers have had to stop the bloodbath of subsidised handset sales recently, so things have improved...

Ditto. I've gone through one major episode a bit like yours Merc; in the end it got so messy she was threatening suicide (and then saying she was pregnant), and I got excused from my results for one year of university on psychological grounds. In hindsight I realise the clean break would have...

Halifax in Canada where I lived for 6 years was the site of the largest man-made explosion until the atomic bomb came along. December 6, 1917, during the first world war, a loaded ammunition ship collided with another ship and blew up - about 2,000 people died and up to 9,000 were injured in the...

Of course Sun has had the PCI chipset built into the CPU for quite a while now.

That must have been amongst the most famous disaster footage (although I don't think m/any were killed?) until September 11 came along.

I suppose the Titanic is a good one to start off with. Very strong != unsinkable. The V... whatever it was Narrows Bridge in the US that has that famous piece of footage of it twisting itself to destruction. I'm sure there are a fair few military examples too.

Grumbles: you make one little mistake in arithmetic, and you pay for it the rest of your life... :wink: I expect Tony to step in here with a list of examples from history of those whose arithmetical errors have caused catastophes (Barings Bank, Enron, Global Crossing, etc. etc. don't count). :?:

Thanks Merc for all your postings, for two important reasons - first, nearly always I find your posts informative, helpful, interesting or funny, and sometimes several at once. Second, you've created volume and interaction on this site which has really helped it get off the ground.

Bill, that photo is just fabulous.

No, you've got that backwards!

Let me reflect on that.