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Must be related to the red mist :)

LOL that is why Clocker has such a complicated scheme to protect his address. Anything that requires human thought to make usable is much trickier for a spam bot to decipher.

They prob fixed it in another location. IIRC the problem was that if drives were actually running in UDMA, win2k would show them running in PIO mode. If win2k shows them running in UDMA then they really should be. Also you will be able to tell from the lack of cpu util when using the disks.

There is nowhere in winXP where you can specifically set the speed you want when SpeedStep kicks in. However in the BIOS there are a few mysetroiusly described options, including max power saving, more performance etc. Remember in the BIOS you need to use ALT+P to move between setting pages...

Adcadet, here's a tip you may not kow about regarding purchases from Dell. They have this "price protection" scheme, which you can request within 30 days of invoice date, and they will compare the current price for your system to the price you paid (ignoring special offers/rebates etc). If the...

I think I'll wait for SP1 I think :)

Install SP2

The new Epson 860 with 2 picolitre droplets should be out in October, will be interesting to see how that goes.

OK I got an email back from einstein: Subject: Discontinued/Back-Ordered/Erroneous Parts & Products MAXTOR HD-XT4G160J8 160.0GB | (4G160J8) 64MB XD Picture Card for a Fuji Digital Camera D-LINK WLS CLT ADPT (DWL-810) BELKIN BLUETOOTH USB ADPT FOR DT AND NB (F8T001) PIONEER CD-PIO/DVDRW/A03...

OK site is up and running at a much faster pace then yesterday. Unfortunately when I input my order num and zip, I get: Order Status: Deleted Bastards! The least they could do is send a frigging email. I'm checking my online statement to see if they charged my card. It takes a day or two...

Hmm I logged on to check my order status and there is some crap about maybe an order deletion. Tim, do you get the same?

The certificate only began on the 10th September 2002, I hope that's a renewal. I would have ordered 10 of them but the olde Visa wasn't up to the challenge. Oh well we shall see on Monday :)

Damn that site is slow like a sloth. Quickly, must get two at least.....

http://www.officeprinting.xerox.com/cgi-bin/product.pl?mode=remanufactured&cache=miss One for $1299. But a big screen TV is also tempting.

ACDSee is great for making clickable thubmail pages etc. So much flexibility. Tho I'm ashamed to admit that for simply viewing pics, the winXP image broswer does an adequate job :oops:

*dribbles from mouth* Sigh, they seem to be going for around $1,500 on ebay. The cost saving on paper alone could soon make that up tho.....

When you say fill, do you mean filling with 5 sticks of each colour? What's the photo output like, does it look like a photo?

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5471 You can get dl a utility from c't which shows whether prefetch is enabled, and can switch it on and off. It would be interesting to see if the p4 Xeons come with it disabled. ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/ctp4.zip

LOL :mrgrn:

Oh yes, one of the major benefits of both laser and thermal is that they have far greater duty cycles than the inkjets. And speed.

Pretty good, though they can't compare to a 6 colour inkjet for photolike quality. At least the entry level US$1000-2000 models can't. Also the cost of four toner carts is not cheap, tho I guess the cost per page is less than an inkjet. Main benefit is being able to print on normal paper...

OK I see the problem. It looks like the Epson tests just print one after the other till the ink runs out. The methodology is not clear. Now this doesn't really correlate with real life use, where one would prob print a few images, have a few days non-use, then some more etc. The clogging only...

When I say head clogging I mean that when I print the test pattern, some of the lines aren't printed. I do the head clean thing, sometimes twice, and the test print works fine again. I got the C80 when it was first released, so I would imagine that the inks were relatively fresh. Now if I were...

OEM = non Epson (from carrotink.com)

Absolute bullshit if I've ever seen it. I have used the original Epsons that came with my C80, and they clog just as much as the OEM tanks I'm using now. At least they aren't spewing the "non Epson inks will void your warranty UD that they used to spew. They are simply trying to justify their...

My Epson C80 requires a head clean at least once a week. Using geniune inks. I imagine that as the droplet size reduces, the chances of clogging increase. The C80 has 4 picolitre minimum droplets.

I don't know about the older Canons. but the newer ones have the printhead seperate from the ink tanks. You can actually get a new printhead as a spare part (couple hundred $$$ tho). The main pain with the Epsons is the chip on the ink tanks, which makes refilling rather difficult (though there...

I don't think they ship it outside the US, so you would need someone to deliver to and for them to send it to Aus.

Damn that one-click ordering makes it so, so easy :) It should be banned.

Bloody hell, now I just have to wait for the Nigerian secret police to deposit their millions and then I can contact Mr. Almend.

Naughty Prof, I never thought of you as a brazen criminal before......

Steal Motor Vehicle Unlawfully using a motor vehicle without the consent of the owner or the person in charge of that motor vehicle. This offence category also includes off-road vehicles, caravans, trailers, etc. http://www.police.wa.gov.au/AboutUs/pdf/OffenceDescriptions.pdf Hmm, I have way...

Well a .com can be registered via a US based registrar, so US$16-$19 per year.

Congrats to Mum and Dad :) A cute baby.

Unfortunately there is no real competition in the Aus domains. If Melbourne IT is anything like Verizon I would avoid it. Verizon are a terrible registrar. I had a really bad experience just last week. Someone else had bought a .org domain from buydomains.com. Was working fine, changed the...

Did you see this one? Researchers find suicide rates rise under conservative rule. A study has found that suicide rates in Britain and Australia surged during the last century whenever conservative governments were in power. http://www.abc.net.au/news/politics/2002/09/item20020919093334_1.htm

I have the C80, I'm certain it uses black for black, because the blacks don't have the faint tinge you get when it is equal mixes of the 3 colours. I recommend it, prints on Espon Photo and HP Photo paper are very good. Uses the DuraBrite pigment based inks. I estimate probably 60-70 full 8*10...

There's a couple of DVI KVM switches on the market, they will switch DVI video instead of ordinary VGA. Beautiful crisp digital video, at up to UXGA. OF course cost is rather astronomical.

Sounds like IE got a bit ahead of itself and declared prematurely. Hopefully if you wait till it is finished (in the background) and it has copied from it's temp location to the save location, it will work OK. Or you could attempt the dl again using a DL manager, if you don't want to possibly...

Well I just got my ass handed to me by Wraith. :mrgrn: Draygan was present as well. My skillz are sadly lacking. Things have certainly changed since the days of Doom2. UXGA was far too sloppy on this laptop, had to drop down to 800*600 to get it smooth. Touchpad gaming is tricky lol.

SmartFTP is a very nice FTP client. Completely free too. None of that trial period crap like Cute.

Well even on broadband the failure of a 100-700MB file is a pain in the bottom. Also with good intelligent use of mirrors, you can get better dl rates than you would get from a single source.

Prof it is time to start using a download manager. I'm impressed by Lightning Download (from getright but without the spyware).

*Starts downloading...7.5 hours remaining* :(

What a deal! And I thought the 120GB 5400rpm drives from Outpost for $109 was a good one.

It's basically designed to enable the recording of HDTV to an optical disk, as opposed to the current route where you have to use either a D-VHS tape deck or a hard drive based system. The 36Mbit/sec is identical to the bitrate of D-VHS I believe.

Was being the operative word. I don't have much confidence in a company that simply pulls out of numerous world markets. A frend of mine got a top of the line Gateway laptop a few years back, he was having problems with the IBM hard drive, so they asked him to send it in to be fixed. He took...

You should start up your own class action against IBM, claiming that you are dissapointed that you didn''t get a dodgy drive.

Save $25 and get the TigerMP (no stock tho)

Apparently winXP SP1 was supposed to allow you to uninstall IE, OE, Win Messenger etc. I find that when I go into add/remove programs->components, I can untick those apps, but all it does is remove the links and start menu entries.