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The Memorex 4x rated stuff works at 8x for me in the NEC 3500. At least the spindles of the white printable ones.

Added another Nocona to the fleet. So I have the following crunchers: Two Nocona 2.8 One Pee4 2.8 One Pee4 2.4 One Pee4-M 1.6 There's a potential for another two Noconas in the coming days.....

Apparently most of the 8x rated stuff burns at 12x. I'll have to get some to see for myself. With the NEC 3500 @ around $80 I don't see the price premium as extravagant.

Congrats!

A push or self propelled is what I'm after Buck. We're only talking about 1/4th of an acre. Thanks for the info on the blowers, my only requirement apart from it being two-stage is that it has remote shute control, I hate having to wind a freaking lever to change throw direction :) Ideally the...

Thanks everyone. Yes I've been looking at the Hondas, the 4in1 looks good, tho as you say, disturbingly expensive. Hopefully I can borrow my father-in-law's mower for the rest of this season, get a snow blower and get the Honda mower next year. Maybe a Honda plow..... Road Runner/HD cable is...

Easier to hose off after Tea goes on a bender.

Finally closed on the house (yes after 10+weeks in closing time). Weeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now to get me a lawnmower.

It'll be interesting to see what kind of pricing/viewage plan they introduce. Could you for example have 3 dl'd movies availble at any one time on the basic plan? I'm guessing it would dl a new movie overnight (how long does it take to dl 7-8GB on broadband?)

When did you lose your license? I thought you were driving just the other week?

I went from Geneva to Paris, return. From Geneva it goes pretty slowly, until it hits the TGV lines, I guess in France. Couldn't feel the acceleration from normal speeds to TGV speeds at all, I only realised we were moving fast when I looked out of the window. I guess even in France they have to...

Having been on the TGV I can say that you really don't feel the speed. Sure the caternaries (sp?) zip by fast but it's all so quiet and smooth. Given that a motorbike is exposed to the wind, and very close to the ground, I can only imagine that it feels very fast indeed. Sort of like a go-kart.

Lunar, you better just declare bankruptcy now :) The mighty 1Ds-MkII has been unveiled, 16.7Mp of full frame glory. http://www.dpreview.com/articles/canoneos1dsmkii/ Now if the transfer speeds over FW are as good as the 1D-MkII then I'm sure we'll be buying a bunch.

I guess he could argue that he was going so fast that it was impossible for the pilot's reflexes to accurately time when he passed the second line. But the judge prob wouldn't be too impressed :)

Have a part time Nocona 2.8 Xeon on the job.

Congrats! *hiccup*

I can sometimes get Buffalo HD which is over 50 miles away. It all depends on what kind of hills/mountains are in the way I guess, and your antenna. Rosewood side panels? Sounds like an Elite model. Have you got many LDs?

I believe reviews of the combo pack in avsforum came out to be good, especially in the value for money side.

What about the Dell Insipron 700m? Around 4.1 pounds, with cd/dvd burner integrated, and 12" WXGA screen. Can be specced with the 755 (2GHz Dothan I believe). Integrated video, but you aren't going to get fast discrete in a 4 pound machine...

Looks cool jtr: Upon further reading NY State has it's own "assault weapon ban" which includes magazines greater than 10 rounds. And sadly, this one has no sunset. So we still can't buy them new. However you can always buy pre-ban ones, and guns for that matter. You just pay hyper-inflated...

Tony, I assume you'll be at a power point when burning discs on the external drive (at night?). An inverter in the car perhaps? Boost, that sounds like a scorcher of a machine, watch the nads there.

If you by chance rip CDs, then MP9/10 support variable bitrate WMP, and lossless WMP. As for DRM, things such as "obtain unique ID" and "automatically obtain licenses for downloaded music" can be easily turned off in options. Personally I find the newer versions make it harder to actually...

I used a CardBus FW card for a while with my old Athlon4 1GHz lappie. I can't remember the name, it may have been an OrangeMicro one. Only a few of them have an external power input/wall wart. I don't know of any that can provide a 6 pin powered port without the external supply.

Another choice would be getting a certificate for an Ozzie bookstore, such as this one: http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/certificates.asp?storeurl=angusrobertson&cert=online

It depends on how much the gift card is for. I've found shipping to Aus isn't too bad via the cheapest shipping method on Amazon. Plus customs doesn't seem to open up them big gray bags. Here's the costs: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/596190/ref=br_bx_c_1_4/102-6399150-3144131

I have my own domain etc, but it's nice to have 1GB of email storage, which is more than my hosting provider gives me for all my domains put together. Plus now I can give one to my mum, who is absolutely hopeless at deleting read mail. No money for hotmail this year around.

I have a few invites too if anyone needs, as soon as I added some contacts I got em.

I posted some test times on SR.com many moons ago, took around 5 times longer going intradrive copy on an x15-36LP as opposed to copy interdrive. I also had IDE times. I'll have to hunt them down.

We had this same madness in Australia for many years. When you wanted to a buy a gun you had to get a "Permit to Acquire", which would be sent to you 30 days after your application was paid for. You could then take your permit to a gun dealer to pick up a gun of the type listed on the permit...

OK, you need a drivers license if you are going to be driving on a public road. It's public infrastructure. If all you want to do is drive on private property, you don't need a driver's license. Therefore, when hunting/target shooting etc on private property, the same should apply. No license...

Welcome Jimshady. Personally I dislike caddys because it means it's going to be tough to fit a Blu-ray drive or whatever in a laptop. Just get a cheap 300+ disc CD binder and all your worries are over.

I believe it's something to do with being innocent until proven guilty. You are presumed to be responsible until you show yourself to be not, i.e. felony conviction/mental problems etc. People that leave guns in the reach of untrained children/adults shouldn't have guns, but the majority of the...

No matter what format the DRM will be on-disc, i.e. no phoning home to a server like the HD version of T2 (WM9) required. It will be robust. The days of ripping a DVD to your HDD for viewage later will be over. It remains to be seen if the HD players will output HD over analog component outputs...

Thanks David :)

Reminds me of a story of someone who boarded a plane, only to be presented with a seating area full of filthy garbage. He put it all in a bag, and upon reaching his destination filled up a Fedex box and sent it to the airline HQ. *Ponders half cooked meat on it's way to Wendys HQ* Tho you'd...

I have to differ that working a minimum wage job can somehow be related to being lazy. Lazy would be having the opportunity to work a minimum wage job and deciding to live on benefits instead. Millions work one or more minimum wage jobs just to survive, so don't give us some fucking bullshit...

Back in Australia my local seat was decided by 40, then 50 something votes in two consecutive elections. So you could definitely feel that your vote made a difference. When margins are in the millions tho, I guess it's a diff feeling. Fortunately the sec only lost about 3 weeks worth of...

Well today at work I managed to wipe the secretary's outlook.pst. Of which there was no backup. Still can't figure it out. Was playing with profiles at the time. Something about creating an Outlook account etc under the local user account, then trying to open it whilst logged onto a domain or...

anything at vdpc dot org Thanks :)

1 TB per disc and a GB per sec read speeds. Sweet.

16 year Olympic age limit is only for gymnastics. It's up to the individual sporting federations to set them. I don't know if there is one for swimming, but I think there was a 14 year old in Sydney?

US team was beaten by another basketball team (Macedonia?). They lose the next and it's all over. Now all we need is Hamm to hand the Gold over to the poor bastard who should have won if the judges could only count to ten. lol@cityk. If you want a nice USA-Aus almost Olympian scandal, this is...

Xeons, with their shared memory bus, don't give a great boost in performance. Remember that for 4-way Xeon operation, you need the Xeon MPs, and they are not cheap at all.

"He had apparently tried out and rejected the mass-market Busch beer in favour of local brand Rainier." Good to see he had taste :)

Thanks for the help everyone. Looks like I will be having quite a few drinkies. ztree reminds me of dosshell days. A little primitive for me. I'll get our software guy to write a little proggie when he gets back from Algeria.

Thanks miksmi. Unfortunately the end user for the program will be my boss or the secretary, and if I were to try to explain unix commandline to them it would be a disturbing experience. I really need a GUI tool. Having the directory structures as an Excel file should keep them happy for now.

Well I'm on the hunt for a file manager. Important features are the printing of directories/structure and also exporting same to an Excel file. Right now I'm reduced to dir>textfile.txt Also if I could tell it to only look a specified number of levels down and give me the count of...

No worries, Google image search proved quite fruitful.

That's an awesome post Merc, sounds like you had a freaking great time :) You better PM me the linky to the website in question. Just think, you prob wouldn't have had such a quality moment with Aria if you'd had that hunking piece of 10D wrapped around your neck ;)

Ooops, nevermind, I should have spent 5 secs with Google before asking. :oops: http://www.appligent.com/products/free_product_list.html