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Yes I agree that with font scaling, poorly written applications don't look good at all. I'm running at 120% scaling, The only apps I notice are fuxored is PS 6 (some of the menu bars), and ironically, Windows Update download windows which are quite a challenge to use. There was also a problem...

Shocking. IMO the TigerMP shouldn't be run with anything but Reg. memory. Now the MPX may permit the use of two unbuffered modules, but for maximum stability Reg ECC is definitely a requirement. I think it is time to tell your customer that you cannot take responsibility for the stability of...

Prof it is time to move out of that socialist hole that is Europe and move to somewhere when you can have a bit more freedom. I would suggest Australia but we are also going far down the socialist path.

Well the only real reason you would run in less than UXGA would be to get decent performance out of games, and if the video card is capable of good performance at UXGA then there is no need surely :) I also have a Dell 2000FP 20" UXGA panel, and the blacks on this laptop are far superior to the...

OE for Mac? Isn't that the one that runs in classic mode, entailing a 1 to 2 minute wait while OS X starts up classic? What a pile of stinking poopy.

I don't think it's goigng to freeze anything. It just won't install on a machine using a common pirated key.

Go with the 32MB GF4 Go, it is much faster than the older GF2 GO. Well worth the $70 or so dollars. Also because everything looks like crap at non-native rez, you need all the grunt possible to run everything smooth at UXGA. It plays a DVD on the video out while I use the LCD for work without...

If you are clumsy and think you may need it, the Complete Cover warranty from Dell is very good, it covers accidental damage like your laptop falling off the couch etc. Anything that isn't deliberate, or caused by fire or theft. The Dell 15" UXGA screen spare part costs around US$699 to give you...

I use Lightning Download (apparently related to Get Right but without all the spyware crap. 30 day shareware). Of course on a modem, the only really useful thing is the resume download feature lol.

James, you got PM :) Actually I haven't had any response from the seller of the ebay cart yet, so it may hopefully turn out to be a dodgy seller lol.

I guess you wouldn't have received my email then :) Could you please give me a price on a LEXMARK OPTRA S 1382625 TONER cart? Thanks, Pradeep.

I got a Leadman 500W once. Lasted a couple of days and then crack, the smell of ozone, and no power. When I took the PSU out, there was something rattling inside. Managed to extract it thru one of the vent holes, looks like a piece of black plastic that had blown apart. My recommendation: avoid.

By second version do you mean the X15-36LP? That is available from Hypermicro for $209.

I didn't think XP Home allowed downgrade rights? Have they changed something? I know that OEM XP Pro recently had the EULA changed to permit downgrading.

Bastard! But does yours have the duplexer option? :p Mine has only 12MB tho. Right now the toner cart looks like it's going to cost me more than the printer lol.

Tea you WordPerfect hussy!

The best bang for buck I have seen in tape backup is the Excrix VXA series of drives/tapes. They have a new version, the VXA-2, the drive is from US$999 for internal SCSI version. One 80GB (160GB compressed) tape is US$89. Now cheap 5400 rpm IDE drives in carriers will be cheaper, but still...

To make myself feel better, I must tell you that I picked up a Lexmark Optra S 1650 16ppm printer with 10/100 LAN for about AUS$300 :p Now I just have to win a 17,000 page toner cartridge.

Damn that's a good deal. Pity the banana bandito got in before me.

Some are bigger than others ;)

Why the hell do they insist on serving absolutely gigantic pictures (file size wize) of the top of the drive? I thought they were struggling to pay for bandwidth costs?

Isn't Tora Bora in the Pacific? I guess it must be in Afghanistan if Bin Laden was there. The military did use FAE's there, which pretty much have the destructive power of a very low yield nuke, without the fallout.

More traffic the better in my opinion. We still have plenty of bandwidth left don't we?

It's a New Zulunder on his way to get some fush and chups from the dairy :D

Yup I did. How could I not after seeing the pic of Little Johnnie and Yoda lol.

Ouch! Perhaps you could get a 300 disc DVD changer to replace it? How many CDs do you have?

You may need to use Powerstrip or similar, to get the resolutions you want.

Looks to me like is is pondering the foolishness of leaving the bog roll at home :D Did you see any foxes whilst you were on your outing Tony? $10 bounty for each one now.

It uses the Northwood core (512KB cache etc)

It's a mobile CPU. But I have it set to max performance, no battery saving going on.

I was comparing the F@H performance. Compared to even a single process running on my dual XP 1.47, this P4-M 1.6 is probably half as fast.

The mere fact that Dell pays around $50 (I can't remember the exact figure) for a copy of WinXP makes it exceptionally difficult to compete in the low end.

Jebus that's the most advertising I've ever seen on a parked site. Quickly Prof get an index page up there, even if it is blank!

Dreamweaver MX uses homesite for the coding section I believe.

Sol, will you be upgrading from your GF4 to a 9700 or waiting for the NV30?

Tony no taxes have been removed from petrol. There was an automatic increase in the excise (tax), I believe every 6 months. This has been abolished (and rightly so, it was increasing at a far greater rate than the CPI). I believe it also had to do with the fact that petrol was more expensive...

Well I guess we aren't really a tempting target for terrorists, nobody exciting sitiing in our prisons waiting to be sprung out via hijacking demands, etc. Much more attractive to attack the "godless americans". If you agree that someone could sneak a gun past the security points - and...

Are you reffering to the end of the auto increase in the petrol excise to correspond with the CPI? That excise was a tax on a tax, a frigging disgrace and should have been removed a long time ago. I thank jebus every day that I don't live in the UK with their insane 300% tax on petrol.

I don't understand why having armed air marshalls on flights is a bad thing? They reintroduced em after the Black September hijackings, and AFAIK there wasn't a single hijacking on a US airline till Sept 11th (by which time the program was running with just a handful of marshalls, apparently...

The GST in Australia has moved the onus of tax collection from the tax office onto the small business owners who can least afford to spare the time and effort. And Kerry Packer still doesn't pay a single cent of tax in Australia. If you have the money and influence you can get away with it.

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzQwLDQ= They are comparing a 1.5GHz Athlon (an entry level cpu nowadays) alongside the 2.53GHz p4 with GF4 Ti4600. With all the quality settings at high and FSAA and anisotrophic filtering on, the 1.5GHz Athlon rapes the far costlier p4. The 9700 Pro is...

Yeah I was just talking FoldingTrashTalk ;) I have come to the conclusion tho that p4's suck at folding compared to AthlonXPs, especially when comparing the fpu units.

The current ATI drivers seem to be OK. Now the biggest problem occurs when upgrading them (I don't know if your customers do that). Upgrading the drivers requires you to uninstall the previous ones, it's not a good idea to just copy them over the top like you can with nVidia. Unfortunately for...

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzQw Very impressive performance, in particular a 1.5GHz Athlon system with Radeon 9700 Pro performs far better than a P4 2.5GHz with GF4 Ti 4600! Looks like an excellent upgrade. Also looks like great news on the AMD front, with faster CPUs around the...

Please, I piss on your wussy 500,000 step units. Phear my 5 million bad boy! [August 19 05:24:07] Working on Unit 01 + Working ... [05:24:07] Folding@Home Client Core Version 2.47 (June 14, 2002) [05:24:07] [05:24:07] Proj: work/wudata_01 [05:24:08] nsteps: 5000000 dt: 2.000000 dt_dump...

That's not how the zero coaster systems work, they just carry on from where they paused, there is no extra session. No lead out/lead in. Otherwise when you open up a CD that has had a couple of burn proof events, there could be 5 or ten different sessions.

The responsibility of the tongs is something I try to avoid, even if the barbie is at my place. You soon see the foolish ones that take hold of the tongs uninvited, they are stuck there for the arvo. And if the meat is too raw / overdone, you know who gets the blame ;)

Looks like core 0.78 is out for Windows. Annoyingly it is now crunching on a protein, instead of doing genes like I told it to :(

Certainly there is no setting for specifiying the RAM cache amount.