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OK, jokes aside. Merc, if you ever need to stray away from your beloved VIA chipsets for Socket 754 and Socket 939, the Nforce 3 and 4 boards I've used work just fine, and the drivers are trouble-free. After considerable experience with the unlovely Nforce I and Nforce II chipsets, I came to...

I agree entirely. But for different reasons, of course. Are you a bit slow, Coug? I worked that out years ago. I think Merc does very well to get his systems to work reliably, considering the dreadful video cards he inflicts on them. Still, I suppose he does get lots of practice. Most of my...

Haven't talked to the customer yet, but I found my notes. The BIOS counts 3,145,200 where I would have expected 4,192,000. Sounds to me as if, for reasons best known to itself, it's only seeing 3GB. Given the info above (thankyou gentlemen) it looks as though our best plan is either: * Drop...

So. Given the amount of tea I habitually drink, I should be able to go away on a trip and run ... oh .... a dual-core Athlon 4800 with a 15K SCSI RAID array, and my 22 inch Mitsubishi CRT? No problems. I like it.

The trouble with buying a vomit box is that it is indeed a vomit box: non-standard components a lot of the time, poor warranty (only 12 months usually), very long service delays (nearly always involves shipping to Melbourne or Sydney), dreadful software setup, grossly under-spec power suplies...

And now I've kicked you onto the previous page. Gahhh. Oh well, at least on this new page the thread isn't too wide to read anymore.

Hi Bill! Good to see you here. Hope all is well with the world for you. (I was going to post to say that a couple of hours ago when I first saw you post and nearly fell of fmy chair, but I decided to leave your post on top, so that those of us who have missed your famous sig could see it from...

Sorry, never com across them. Don't you hate the way that companies sell you something useful at a reasonable price, then screw you to the wall for the small items that you have to have to use the thing? (Thinks: Canon lens hoods, Nikon batteries, anything to do with laptops.)

Thanks Bill. Fast answer, very helpful. I don't have the system here anymore, but as I recall, this is on the POST count, not in the control panel. He is running Windows 2000, no plans to change so far as I know, though if there are benefits for him, he might go for it. The main application in...

Are there known problems using 4 sticks of RAM in Athlon 64 boards? I have a system (Gigabyte PCI-E board, VIA chipset) that only sees 3.1GB on boot instead of 4GB. All the sticks of RAM work fine individually. Any pair works fine for 2GB. System runs stable with 4GB, just counts the wrong...

I needed a new cookie just after the original upgrade, then another one just now. I think that suggests that everything is working normally, at least for me.

Weird, but who cares. (Unless you actually are using your system to develop biological, nuclear, missile or chemical weapons. In which case, can I have some of your spare ones please? I have a little list.) I imagine that it's a side effect of Japanese law, which tends to be pretty gung-ho...

Sorry Mubs, I was ambiguous. I wasn't talking about an individual drive as a single unit, I was saying I can't remember the last time WD made a drive model that I actually trusted, not since their rebadged Deskstars, quite a few years ago now. Matbe their current stuff is good. I wouldn't know...

Can we write this in 72 point flashing type? Engrave it on stone tablets? Get it moulded up and brand it with a hot iron into the thick heads of the jumped-up, self-appointed psudeo-scientists over at SR? I first raised this point - ths vital, absolutely fundamental point - more years ago than...

It occurs to me that we here at the shop have become really, really boring these last few years. There is bugger-all variety in our products, and we tend to stick religiouly to a very small number of brands. Cases: Bliss, and whatever those things we get from Alice are. Power supplies: Bliss...

Also, IBM had a long and proud history of flawless execution, and the Deathstar line was soon restored to something approaching its former glory by the perfectly decent replacement models. The Deathstar 75GXP, in other words, was one bad drive out of a very long series of drives which varied...

Sure there were, only we didn't use silicon to make the chips back then, it was granite, or sometimes flint. Oh, and our montors weren't CRT or LCD, they were SAC (sandstone and chisel). Man, those old SAC monitors were great! 100% flicker-free, and (of course) rock solid.

I agree with Paugie: this latest batch are a vast improvement. Maybe there is a convention in these things, but for mine, the highlights add to rather than detract from the pictures/ Great work Dave!

Bahhh .... They need to stop taking the medication. Seriously, what planet are they on? Seagate had clear, see-through hard drives routinely available to dealers for display purposes years ago. I mean lots of years ago. I forget exactly when they started doing this, possibly before my time, but...

Working just fine for me.

Newer than an SR-71 Blackbird? That's easy!

I can tell you some basics that you probably already know. But just for the record: * Use the smallest f stop you can withut running into difraction problems - i.e., around f/11 or f/16. You might even try f/22 if you camera can do that. (Bigger f number = greater depth of field) * Use a low...

Someone famous - a Nobel Laureate in physics or something of that general nature - apparently said, 20 or 30 years ago, "In the future, your computer will be as easy to use as your telephone". Recently, he bought a new mobile phone and said, "Well, I was right. I no longer know how to use a...

Well spoken, Mark. This is the real issue.

Thankyou for those kind wishes, JTR, and I'll take this opportunity to extend my own to you, and to the entire SF community. Back to the topic: Severe lack of detail here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1541414.htm I'll post more comprehensive details later on when they reach the...

Tired of seeing bad news about climate change? Well, here is another one, it is now official: in Australia, last year (2005) was the hottest year ever recorded, and the rate of increase has gone up too.

Yep, in an input box. Tools - Options - Advanced and de-select 'Begin finding when you begin typing'. - already de-selected long since. The bug is still there. It doesn't occur all the time, just every now and then. Nice try, Fushigi but no cigar. Will, your ability to find documentation for...

F*%$##@(!!!! Firefox! It's doing it again! Just about the only thing I use this third-best browser for is visiting another forum ('cause it's easier to have different browsers for different places when you have a million windows open all the time). And, not for the first bloody time, every...

I have trouble with that one. Only way I can remember loose and lose is to ask Tea. (She spellz "lose" with a "z", of course - "looze".) The one that drives me absolutely stark, raving bonkers is people who can't pronounce "kilometre". Every time I hear it spoken as "kil-om-et-er" instead of...

One always winds up with the sense that Apple can't make up their minds: when writing for the Windows platform, are they trying to create something really good that works as well as possible, or are they trying to show that, despite their marvelous software skills, even Apple can't make a...

PS: depending on if you are buying a decent brand of hard drive, of course.

I don't usually recommend buying packaged external drives. It is generally cheaper to buy a USB (or Firewire) enclosure (I pay less than AU$20 for perfectly functional 2.5 inch ones) and then fit the drive of your choice into it - 7200 RPM if that's what you want. It is also more flexible (swap...

Come to think of it, I arrived here in this thread with an entirely different tale to tell. Customer came in a month or so ago to buy WinXP and have it installed, so that daughter could use her new iPod. No problem, it was a decent machine, added som RAM and away we went. Came back today...

What moron woiuld buy a proprietary machine to run a business on? Well, OK, lots of morons do just that. But it's so stupid. When you can't even replace a bloody power supply for chrisake ..... it's pitiful. Four weeks and counting for a job that on a real computer wouldn't even rate a trip into...

That's about ... er 15 or so isn't it? (I haven't used degrees F for 30 or 40 years now, and don't relly remember how they translate anymore. And I'mm too lazy to look it up or multiply it out.) Isn't that rather warm for the time of year in your location?

Send it over here! Send it over here!

Oh they are. That's the really slimy thing about it. It's easier to demonstrate by example. (For Bloggs below, substiture Jews, Blacks, Muslims, Americans, Women or apes with orange fur, as desired.) Blogs commit murder Murder is a horrible crime. Last year, 804,403 crimes were committed...

Huh? According to The Inq, "Western Digital is the second hard drive manufacturer after Seagate, with Maxtor in third place". Since when? Was I sleeping? I noticed when Seagate overtook Maxtor once again to reclaim its traditional place at the top of the table (and was completely unsurprised by...

Yes and yes, Mubs. It works just fine. 10GB FAT32 Win98 partition, 190GB NTFS WinXP partition. Thankyou for your help gentlemen, customer has gone happy ... and it's time I did the same.

In my previous post I highlighted that a single terror event could completely turn your numbers around ... No you didn't. I already used figures for the worst terrorism event period in American history to generate those numbers. Those numbers already include something approximating your...

Thankyou Tim and Paugie, I'm on the way with it. Win 98 install complete, XP to do a little later. I partitioned the drive 10GB/190GB (we hardly need any room for old 98 games, probably 3GB would have been enough) and I'll convert the 190GB D drive to NTFS so that Win 98 can't tell it's there...

It's been so long since I was asked to do a dual boot setup that I can't remember how to do it! Customer has a decent machine (Athlon XP something-or-other) and wants us to install a shiny new copy of Win XP on it (to replace the pirated one that the kids put on). I'll be upgrading it to a new...

Sterodude, your "wrong, wrong, wrong" post is completely nonsensical. The figures I gave you are for total deaths[/i] - i.e., the number of individual people killed. It has [b]nothing to do with the number of fatal incidents in which those people were killed. Read the numbers, huh? You are...

I agree with both the statements above. They are both self-evidently true. Where then is the sensible, practical, non-paranoid policy that ties them together? James?

You got it in one. In the United States, in the two year period that included the worst terror year ever (i.e., 9/11), 142 times as many people were killed by road accident as were killed in terror events. In other words, you could have a 9/11-scale terror event occur every single week and...

A short list of areas urgently needing government attention and a little bit of funding in order to save lives. To merit inclusion on this list, the area of concern must: * (a) kill many, many more people than terrorism, and * (b) be an area where a tiny fraction of the money wasted on...

And your point is? If you are suggesting that the current mania for invading privacy and curtailing hard-earned civil liberties and wasting truly vast sums of money on pointless "security" measures has got something to do with saving lives, you are on the wrong planet, and whatever it is you...

What LiamC said.

Reluctant as I am to defend the second-worst major browser on the planet, that Firefox myths page is, in the main, biased crap that tries its best to twist the truth as far away from the facts as humanly possible. It displays a masterly gift for misleading by telling only that part of the truth...

Unnnh ... M$ haven't done anything in IE for the Mac since version 5 - this is old, old news indeed. That 0.087% of Mac users with a brain switched long ago. As for the others ..... who cares?