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And by the way, that reminds me, what the hell were you doing in Thailand anyway?

Excuse me, Tea. I was thinking I'd listed THG myself, when in fact it was you that mentioned it first. I really am getting vague in my old age. I put it down to lack of drugs and alcohol.

Tom is German by birth, but seems to be American by adoption. So American, in fact, that I'd actually forgotten he was German until reminded of it by this thread. Which shows how often I visit THG. I may even have been there this century, not sure. But in any case, what I had in mind was the...

Blame? What blame? If I read the thread right, the problems only arise when you override the BIOS settings and pretend thay you know better than the experts at Kingston and Gigabyte. Set it to the factory defaults and rest easy. In any case, how much faster would it be at 400MHz than at 333, if...

Old world charm, indeed. "Airplane" is not just one of the ugliest of Americanisms, it is also very recent. It only came into vogue in the US (nowhere else) around about the time of WW2. Actually, Americans fascinate me when it comes to language. One goes through life shaking one's head at the...

Oh dear. I looked it up. It is first past the post.

Hmmm ..... On the whole, then, I'd go with Option A if faced with an either / or choice. At least the Quuen is a fundamentally decent human being. Not a stupid one either, though she strictly limits what she says in public. So, if it comes to arse-kissing time, that's the better of the two choices.

Conversation between my father and his mother-in-law, circa 1965, when we lived quite near the airport. She was sitting near the window, he was further inside. She: Oh, that aeroplane has turned south, towards Tasmania. Would it be going to Devonport? Or Hobart? He: That depends. Is it a...

Whoooah .... You just lost me. If asked to guess, I'd have thoght that "diaresis" was something to do with needing a kidney transplant. (Yes, I know that's "dialysis" (sp?) but I'd have guessed "diaresis" was something to do with it. It must be the same root as "diacritical" (sp?), but I don't...

Huh? Does Canada still use first past the post voting? Hoolie Doolie, I thought Canada was a civilised country, with something resembling a democracy in operation. Is this the Century of the Fruitbat, or what? Tell me you are not serious.

And, most important of all, I am looking good to pass Tea's post count, assuming she stays lost in Finland for just a little while longer.

I suppose the other really famous blow-up model was the notorious Douglas DC-10. They had a host of sloppy design features that the old Douglas management would never have tolerated for an instant, and there was a well-publicised cover-up scandal as well. the two primary mistakes were: * The...

The blow up model? Well, most of them. Air safety was nothing like the fine art that it is today. But I guess you are thinking of the de Haviland Comet, the world's first jetliner by a country mile. It beat the 707, the Caravelle, and the DC-8 into production by almost a decade and was, in its...

Tannin wrote: Which Avro? Hmmm .... I guess you mean the 748 (later renamed to the HS 748 when the Hawker-Siddely combine replaced Avro and a grab-bag of other traditional Brittish aircraft manufacturers). I can't imagine that you are going back to the Tudor or the Lancastrian or the York, none...

Mubs wrote Gee, Tannin, you really stir old memories. I've flown a couple of times in Fokker Friendships, but I was so little then I remember nothing. Did you ever fly in an Avro? Propeller-driven. You always held your breath during take-offs; always felt like the bugger wouldn't make it into...

Seems worth giving this its own thread. Tannin wrote: As a kid, I probably had more flights in aeroplanes than I had ice creams. My family comes from Tasmania and nearly every set of school holidays it was off to Tas to stay with grandparents or various other rellies. Plus Sydney a few times...

Which Avro? Hmmm .... I guess you mean the 748 (later renamed to the HS 748 when the Hawker-Siddely combine replaced Avro and a grab-bag of other traditional Brittish aircraft manufacturers). I can't imagine that you are going back to the Tudor or the Lancastrian or the York, none of which I...

As a kid, I probably had more flights in aeroplanes than I had ice creams. My family comes from Tasmania and nearly every set of school holidays it was off to Tas to stay with grandparents or various other rellies. Plus Sydney a few times, Queensland lots of times, the Reef of course, the red...

The part that I really, really hate is the way it says "select alternative scan method" (or words to that effect), so you do that ('cause the Java one is horribly broken and won't run a lot of the time even if you do download bloody Java) and it gives you a choice of precisely one method - the...

Trend Micro comprehensively revamped Housecall a month or so ago. New Housecall versions are usually pretty bug-ridden for the first week or two, then get better. But this one has been around for quite a while and is still broken. Opinions please. And - importantly - alternative, for I'm...

I'm pretty sure I've seen combined UPS and PSU in a single unit. Long time ago though, way back in Baby AT days before ATX was around. If pushed to put a date on it, I'd say around late '386 or early 486 days. I don't think I ever saw one in the flesh, but they were a catelogue item from one or...

Weird. The index says last post by Doug, but the thread itself only has my previous post. Huh? No matter. I forgot to answer Buck's question. I think I was at ISO 200 Buck, but I'd have done better to use 100, so as to increase the effective shutter speed. (Yes, increase - i.e., more flash...

Seem to be finished now, Time, at least we always seem to get the VIA ones now. Nvidia graphics, natch. Don't know the details. Don't care: they worked fine and that's all that matters to me. One of the few on-board chipsets that can cut it at 1280 x 1024, but no DVI, of course. Gigabyte may...

PS: I think it is a very bad idea to build systems that you can't reinstall on without special tools or drivers. Unprofessional, in my view. If your motherboards don't support native SATA, don't use a SATA boot drive, use PATA. (Or a different motherboard, as you please.)

That one would be my seond choice after, of all things, the Gigabyte Nforce III chipset all-in-one board. Costs just a few dollars more. Never thought I'd see he day when I would actually prefer an Nfoce chipset board to a VIA one, but there you go. Mind you, the differences are trivial, so much...

Price?

I haven't seen Tea for quite a while Doug. Last news I got was a postcard from Thailand, smelling slightly of pineapple daquari. I think she intends to walk home from there, probably because she spent all her money on gin and other alcoholic delights. Given her navigation skills, she's probably...

OK, OK, what gives here? Have you been a naughty boy again Doug? I've told you about spending all the housekeeping money on photographic gear. (Is anybody watching? Good, quick, tell me what you got!)

Just generic white goop. Mubs. Maybe some of the white stuff is perfectly OK, but who knows which sort is which? I use white goop for stuff that doesn't matter, and either Arctic Silver or a gold-coloured one that Geil gave us a dozen tubes of a few years ago. Both seem fine.

I am 100% with Sol on this one. With a car, the heat-critical components of the system (typically the lubricants in the turbo bearings) are not the bit that generates the heat. They have to stay cooler than the heat source (exhaust gases). In a computer, the heat critical component is the heat...

The white goop dries out. No question of that, I've seen it too many times, especially on stuff from the Athlon Thunderbird and Pentium III generation. Did they get hotter? Has the goop improved? Or, as Time so rightly points out, did it just stop mattering now that we have vastly better HSFs...

Wikipedia is wrong: in Victoria, the common beer glass sizes are 7 ("glass") and 10oz ("pot"). Scooners are becoming more common - the NSW influence - but still unusual. "Mexican" is deeply offensive, regardless of which state one lives in. This is not the US of f--ing A.

Oh, we just ignore you Sechs

Nope. This one was fair dinkum, Bill. He came in later on and bought a pair of second-hand speakers. I showed him how to plug them into the system and how to plug them into the 240V power and how to press the power button and how to turn the volume up and down. Carefully. Leaving no detail...

"Red Hill, god morning, this is Tony" "Oh ... yeah. (long pause) Listen, I got my computer fixed up there last week and it doesn't work." "Oh? What is the problem, Sir?" "Well, there is no sound. Doesn't make any noises." "OK. Hmmm (Thinks: I remember this one. It came in because it had...

Gahhh ... Proofreading. Who needs it?

Toshiba doesn't have jack Shite on its website. Have I done my Toshiba wireless network card rant here sometime not too long ago? If you misssed it, just fillin the gaps with some outrageously bad stuff, punctuate with salty language to taste - it will probably fit close enough to the facts as...

On computers per se, yes. But it is very widely used on peripheral and quasi-computer devices. The obvious example is digital cameras: every digital camera made today (so far as I know) uses FAT and/or FAT32. But hoolie doolie, who are they kidding? It's not like there is anything particularly...

Paugie, I reckon your best bet is dual systems. Now, before you start shouting and throwing your toys out of the pram, I'm not talking big $$$ here. You don't need an extra monitor or a whole heap of hardware, just an old system - a P III with 256MB or a K6 will run Win98 smooth as fish poo. You...

Who? Me? Never! welll ... only a little bit

I doubt that there are any drivers. Nforce driver support for Win98 was spotty even with the Nforce II.

Doug, Doug .... it's no big deal. Go out, enjoy, take pictures. Who gives a damn about minor details anyway? Really, you shouldn't stress about these things. Backups are important, the rest of it ... hey, it's nice, but it's not something you shold miss out on life for.

This has been happening to me for the longest time (1 year +). I'm not too fussed about it.

So I guess this means you don't agree with my "ASUS might make decent P4 boards" theory then .....

Full figures now available: December Internet Explorer 60.3% Firefox 29.3% Opera 3.7% Mozilla & etc 3.9% January (partial) Internet Explorer 61.1% Firefox 27.7% Opera 5.2% Mozilla & etc 3.9% Can we say Firefox down, Opera up, IE up as well, and Mozilla steady? No, not really, too soon to say.

Ha! Great post, Sol! Beyond Tunderbox - that just cracked me up. And as for the cable and pulley continental drift power extraction method .... it sounds like Nobel Prize stuff to me. PS: come and borrow those hard drives while I've still got them. I got 3 x 300GB PATA and 3 x 250GB STA, but...

Hey Clocker! Great to see you!

Was slow for me - very slow - a few times too, but been better this last day or so.

The VM400 chipset was a rather horrid little tart by VIA standards, we saw heaps of different boards that were rather questionable using VM400s, and went through a series of different brands looking for one that we could just plug in and trust. We found it eventually and, to our complete lack of...

ASUS is crap. There is no excuse for making stuff as poor as ASUS make when it's not even cheap.