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Tannin, if you like history, then I'd recommend Richard Overy - Why the Allies Won (WWII). And if anybody is into arguing who, what, where et. al. of WWII, this should be a must read.

Tannin, My Life As a Dog was simply brilliant. I'd forgotten about that one.

Nothing beats EdTV (Matthew McsomethingorotherthatIcan'tspell) for taking the piss out of product placement - mmm Jenna Elfman. Puts the Truman Show to shame. Another good comedy with Jenna is Keeping the Faith (Ben Stiller, Dude from Fight Club/American History X - Ed Norton?)

I have to admit a liking for The Usual Suspects - though I think Gabriel Byrnes acting is the standout. And hey, he is in Stigmata (one of my faves) and Smilla's Feeling For Snow - damn, I sense a disturbance in the force. Speaking of TUS, did Lock, Stock or Resevoir Dogs get a guernsey from...

folding? Are we talking chips into folding ($$$) ;)

I am in two minds (only two? mwwaahhhaaahhhaaa) This is a cut-and-paste from a post I made on RWT, link here http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&PostNum=1354&Thread=3&entryID=16715&roomID=11 the responses should be well worth reading ..."Vincent Diepeveen...

Howell, good question without an easy answer. All the "good" movies I listed I thought were good, and a variety of film critics generally looked upon favourably as well. But it's a subjective thing. There isn't a right or wrong answer - and people who try to tell you that there is, is...

Just got back from reading this http://us.imdb.com/top_250_films and there are some good movies in there, but there also seems to be a lot of populast movies. Just because a film is popular doesn't mean it is good. This got me thinking and I was wondering what movies other SF peeps liked. I...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9056 Worrying - _if_ true.

Time, What we want to do is run the FSB at its rated speed so we know there is little chance of error. The NB controls access to SB, memory and AGP. If we have stable operation at stock speeds (which is only an assumption) and systems aren't being run way out of spec, ie a 1800MHz processor...

JTD, try setting the FSB to 200MHz and the memory to 166MHz or 133MHz. Test. What this will tell you - your board can (or cannot) handle high FSB. Your memory should run fine at 166 (PC2700) speeds. Next set your FSB to 166MHz and memory to 200MHz. If the problems reoccur, then the problem...

..."They told us it was full"... No Homers Club? Ah, the ancient order of Stonecutters...

Well Coug, that's made up my mind. I have bought just about every performance upgrade drive since I started to care about performance 850MB Seagate Decathlons from various Maxtor/Seagate drives 4.3GB Fireball ST (I think) -> 850MB Seagate Decathlons 13.6GB Fireball KA+ -> from 4.3GB Fireball...

NAS is way out of my depth Handruin. I might list it as an option though. I won't be actually doing the work.

I wish. No. A lot of this stuff would be required for audit purposes. And its a two way street, they have a lot of incoming stuff

Off site server for backups is not possible. AFAIK, they only have a 56K connection to the 'net. They have to have some backups off-site for redundancy. Emails. They mass mail documents to clients. A 5MB document sent to 60 or so clients. Yes the email needs culling (I have already...

Hijack! Glad I did a search first. A business approached me about backups yesterday. They are a small (9~10 person) operation but their data is growing at an exponential rate. 12 months ago, they had about 3GB of data that would fit on a DDS-2 tape (4GB per tape? - their current solution)...

According to WD's site, 600JB's are still 40GB/platter. I was unhappy that WD were advertising them as 60GB/platter. They would not return emails and eventually changed the specs on their site to reflect a 40GB/platter model. After talking to people directly in the U.S. WD apologised and...

Delicious Mark! :lol:

Bah, VIA Marketing should be lined up against a wall and shot. KT266 KT266A KT333 KT400 = KT333A KT400A = KT400 KT600 = KT400A if they had kept their nomenclature straight

Mubs I dunno about that. I've seen some dumbass (as our northern hemisphere friends might say) things done involving fitting cards, motherboards and hammers (literally). <shudders>

I can't claim this - saw it over on Ace's. Volcano 7+ - take the wacky ThermalTake plate off of the top of the fan - it's noticeably quieter. Marketing gone amuck methinks. Also, for the last four or five cases I've had, I've been adding 80mm exhaust and 80 or 92mm inlet fans. I perused...

That was part of the deal - I get to choose next time :) 2007/8 will be interesting. Cue maniacal laughter.

AWD v RWD v FWD Canberra winter mornings, rounabouts. It's dark, it's very slippery and there's black ice. Subaru's are popular here... BTW, it's fun watching Commodores and Falcons going back arseward into the scenery. Of course, if the standard of driving were to improve, then it would...

To chime in with Tannin's first post and a later one by e_dawg - my Holden experience. In '99, traded the Subaru WRX ('95 model) in for an Astra - gasp! Hey, it was the mortgage, kids thing and the Sube's insurance was killing! Besides, it had been borrowed once - NSW highway patrol 0, My...

At the risk of getting flamed, I think Subaru's flat fours sound great. In-line 4's sound like sewing machines.

The answer is probably not black-and-white. The "incompatibility" could be as simple as a wrongly programmed SPD. Anyone who sets their RAM timings manually would find a setting that works and so not suffer the incompatibility. Also, Crucial use memory chips from manufacturers other than...

Blakerwry, I only have PC2100, but in searching for answers to my troubles I came across this - http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9486

I have been struggling with the 8RDA+ as well. Crucial PC2700 is also incompatible - yet works fine with their PC2100 or PC3200. Go figure.

My understanding is that text/pixel clarity at higher resolutions has more to do with the quality of the filters and DAC's. Quality of course costs - but if the GPU becomes cheaper, then a more substantial portion of the budget can be spent on these other things. I must admit to being a bit...

I thought this thread interesting for many reasons. I have been hearing and hearing about ATi's image clarity and (early) NVIDIA's lack of, so I picked up a Sapphire Radeon 7000 VE 64MB (DDR) for 2D work in my wife's computer. She does Graphic Design work. The monitor is a Mitubishi 19"...

After spending 3 or 4 years doing Access/VB, I know I prefer Delphi :) Prof, I'll dig up some titles for you later. The absolute, most important thing to do though is to understand the Delphi object model. I've watched a ton of VB/C++ programmers code Delphi - thinking it a toy language -...

I'd be really interested to see what CPU & chipset these things are happening with. Buck says one thing, Tannin another, Mercutio etc. My line of thinking goes something like this. Each one of you system builders probably has a favourite combo of components - CPU/mobo/RAM/Vid. What I am...

Slight reality check - I hope I'm wrong though. Super I/O functions are already built in to current nForce south bridges - why is is separate in this "diagram"? Isn't the AMD 8131 chip a K8 (Opteron) part? I thought it was the PCI-X tunnel? Is that relevent to this board? This could be a...

Thank you Tea :oops:

Ev'nin' all. Hi CityK, didn't know my notoriety had spread :) My Barton piece has certainly generated some traffic. I don't know why biz people don't get the fact that for 95% of business use, Athlon makes a compelling case. Certainly I have never seen any of the majors spell it out. P4 =...

Tannin, if you've got a VL-bus card, I'll take it. - especially at that price. Let me dig out the board and see if it boots first though...

Would anybody really like to see how far we've come in say 10 or 11 years? That's how old my 386/40 is. I think I bought it in '92.

Athlon Model 2200+ vs AMD 386/40 - battle of the Titans...

Tannin, I'm sure I have a 387DX-20 co pro floating around if you want it :) I was at one time going to put a heatsink on it and see if it would run @ 40MHz with my AMD 386/40 in a VL-bus motherboard, I also have a Promise VL-bus controller for the slot, so you should be able to get an 8GB drive...

Glad you mentioned it Bartender, Makers Mark please :)

Yeah Sid M. I only bought the original Civ because I had enjoyed RT so much. Now everybody says he is the Civ guy. Young whipper snappers! :)

Dunno about now, but the thing that got me hooked on PC's was a friend who had an Amiga 500 + expansion and Railroad Tycoon - then an Amiga 2000. Was RT the first "Tycoon" game? Yaeh, I thought AmigaOS was pretty cool

Damn, took it again and filling in the one Q I missed and now I'm PalmOS :oops:

GNU/HURD, Scary thing is, I've never heard of it :?:

The important mem setting for this kind of data is Tras http://www.lostcircuits.com/advice/bios2/7.shtml Most BIOS' on VIA boards tend to set this fairly aggressively in Turbo mode.

Mr. Farm (accented), you spelt Netscrape with an "e" instead of a "u" by mistake. Try to be a little more careful next time OK... :wink:

Yeah Jafar's a bitch. Forgot to mention Warlord & Node Mastery. The only problem with my strategy is if someone rumbles me early. I also go for a balance, evens in White, Red and Green (I'm after Transmute, Earth to Mud, Web, Earth Lore, Giant Strength and Change Terrain) and a little Blue...

MoM? - yep. Strategy - high-elven longbowmen. Find the nearest source of Mithril or Adamantium and research Metal Fires and Eldritch Weapon by hook or crook. I had an AWE32 (full length ISA) and I still miss it. the only add-on sound I use now is my old Aureal 1 Xitel Storm VX. Damn...

Forgot to say that I use AC 97 sound on my 8K7A+ and 8KHA+ with no problems. Only have cheap speakers so I can't see the point. The games I mainly play are Civ III, MoM (in a DOS box under Win 98), MOO2, Panzer General 2 and sometimes Unreal. Haven't experienced any problems so far. I...