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Funny you should say that. It looks like they deleted all the posts - at least, there seem to be only two posts in the whole forum, one by Doug, one by Admin, neither of which I can read.

Serious audiophiles seem to sneer at them, but I've had good results with CMedia 8738-based cards. Their main advantage is that even the cheap ones tend to come with 6 channel output and SPDIF out, which is great. And when I say cheap, I mean cheap - if I can get them retail here for less than...

Another thought - recently there was a survey of bank customers and what they thought of the level of service they were getting. CBA did the best because, according to the report, "CBA's customers have lower service level expectations than customers of other banks." Perhaps if you keep lowering...

I can see how anyone that thought that Telstra's service was good would need counselling.

Another one! Do you think they could be any less specific?

Cool. I tried to post the first one above, and it told me to go wait a while until posting something so soon after my last post. So I sat around for a little, added a few words, posted it and blammo - it had posted both! Now that's weird.

Surely a console is at such a low pricepoint that the R&D to develop the upgrade would never be recouped, especially if the upgrade has to be sold for less than the new console. In short, it'd be cheaper to toss your old XBOX and buy the new one (a YBOX or whatever) than to buy the upgrade. It...

Surely a console is at such a low pricepoint that the R&D to develop the upgrade would never be recouped, especially if the upgrade has to be sold for less than the new console. In short, it'd be cheaper to toss your old XBOX and buy the new one (a YBOX or whatever) than to buy the upgrade. It...

Yes. Yes it is.

Make sure you're running the latest BIOS, for a start. Also check any DIP switches or jumpers on the board that may be stopping you. I've heard that some boards don't support multipliers above 11.5, whether this is a BIOS or a design issue I'm afraid I don't know. Hey, Sol, since you're in...

May as well. You could also move your USR card into the 5th slot. Of all your cards, it's the least likely to require bus mastering. Then you could put your SB whatever card into the 3rd slot, which given its finikyness (sp?) is probably the best place for it (other than back in the shop, in a...

I was going to mention this before : Am I to understand that there are two groups of people on this board, those that can edit, and those that can't?

Flagreen, Are you allowed to put the same post at both BBSes? :) Should I check 2cpu.com's forums too?

I've never played any of the Warcrafts, or Starcraft, or any of the C&Cs for that matter. Is that some sort of record? :)

Oh, puh-leeze. Next you'll be saying that the Monkees didn't play their own instruments.

Isn't this a bit of a storm in a teacup?

Doesn't Ghost 2002 Enterprise work? 1. Unpack existing XP ISO (or whatever it is you have). WinISO does this nicely. 2. Dump all those files and folders into a new folder on your HD somewhere. 3. Expand corpfiles.zip into that folder. It will want to overwrite a number of files, allow it to...

Build OSF/1 executables that run on Alpha? ;)

According to my girlfriend, we have another outage at the moment on the DSL service to go with the 7 hour one we had last week. Yay. Vlad, I see in the news today BT is halving the price of its ADSL service...

It all sounded pretty much correct to me. One thing - competing telcos can (in fact must) put their own DSLAM equipment into Telstra's exchanges (and pay for the privilege) in order to provide ADSL service. It's similar in the US. The issue with ADSL is really what Telstra charges for...

30 in March.

I thought it more interesting than the usual Bueller quote.

I think the better question is : why is my Internet access so expensive?

Sprint sucks?

Well, I am 11,000km away. That's pretty standard for connections to the US, although on Optus it would be about 70ms quicker because they use Southern Cross. In today's lesson, kids, we learn why it's a bad idea to use AT&T as your IP carrier. The tracert to SR goes much the same until here ...

In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone? ...the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered? ...raised tariffs, in an effort to...

I quite like Doug's titles, but all joking aside, they are a bit gender biased. I do like Mercutio's - they're non gender-specific, they're computer/storage related, and don't link post count with knowledge - nice! I'm not completely sold on them, though... perhaps a bit more thought is in...

Amen to that.

I think it's pretty nifty. I don't know what it does, but it's nifty. :)

US traffic congestion usually comes from public peering points like MAE East (where most European ISPs meet the US ones). If you (or your hosting provider) buy your connectivity from the only two companies with a real global IP network - Worldcom and Cable & Wireless - then service should be...

The state of international cables into Australia is interesting (err... well anyway, it is if that sort of thing interests you - skip the following if it doesn't). For a long long time in Internet time, say about 8 years in real time, the only optical cables in and out of Australia were...

Yeah. My issues are that I know way too much about Internet backbones in Oz and I therefore know that there's only a handful worth considering - Optus, Telstra and AAPT (because they buy it from Optus). UUNet is dreadful, and everyone else is pretty much irrelevant. Going to Netspace is...

Mercutio, just assume that you have my sympathy at the pitifulness of your Internet connection in perpetuity. It'll probably make things easier.

I stared at the reply box for a while, but I didn't have a response to that one. :-?

Yeah, but given that I only bought this house 18 or so months ago, it seems a bit tough to go through all the trouble of selling then buying just to get better Internet access. :) Besides, I get Optus Vision here, but I have the privilege of being on what must be the only node in Australia that...

Newbie -> No Life, not good. Can we get rid of the titles altogether, please? Post count alone seems fine to me. (I don't judge people, exspecially here, on a basis of their post count, it's just more of a interesting statistic.) Thoughts?

Rackspace seems to give you root on their boxes for $99.95 a month... hmmm. We'd have to be making good money out of the mailbox @storageforum.net thingie. :)

To whom it may concern : In mid December 2000 I signed up for the Big Pond Broadband ADSL service. At that stage it was 89.95 per month for 512K/128K service and unlimited downloads. At that time the ADSL service was so poor (availability, throughput) that I lodged an official complaint in mid...

Tastes like chicken, I'll bet.

I haven't seen the 570V out here yet. The cheapest I have seen the 560V retail for is A$931.70 inc. GST. The 570S goes for A$1,270.50 retail. Halve the prices above to get rough USD equivalents. I'd buy everything overseas if it wasn't for the fact that (a) I get slugged 10% of the purchase...

Where's Skallas when you need him?

You can also find low profile cards for video (AGP/PCI) and NICs which obviates the need for the riser card and gives you more expansion options. Of course your case will need to support low profile cards, I'm afraid I can't help you there. Low profile cards (if you haven't come across them...

Yes, hence I was hoping a higher level of interest in the mail @storageforum.net option so as to defray Doug's costs. (I'd just go ahead and build it, but I need Doug's agreement on the DNS stuff, see the other thread.) Doug, it's 29.95 per month or 299.50 per year at Burstnet. That works out...

Seems like she is probably a bouncer, too.

Technically, since you're only hosting the link, you're not responsible for content. If you extend the rule to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" then since people wouldn't want others to steal from them, the MS example you give above is covered. I would much rather try and...

Doug, could you switch your account to being directly with Burst.Net? I see they have a "Mega Linux" plan for $29.95/month which seems to meet your current requirements. It might make support less painful...

D'Oh! kyou = you. :oops:

With zoneedit, kyou can set up mail forwards for particular addresses for those who don't actually want a new account, just a new address.

Thanks Doug! I think you have a fair time to go. 1000 messages = 2.57MB 1 message = ~2.6KB/message 70 new messages a day = 182KB/day 500MB will take 2,813 days to fill = 7.7 years Your transfer rates look pretty good, too... 33MB a day, of which (say) 30% is testing = 23MB/day = 3.5% usage...

Sorry about that last sentence, it was very poorly constructed. I hope you get the gist of it, though.