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http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=138 You'll find all the details there Clocker.

Last chance to disable private messages. Another week or two and I just couldn't operate without them.

An hour or two later and all is normal. (Well, only me and the Prof on board, but that's normal for this time of night.)

I'm loosing it. Once upon a time I would have noticed something like that in a flash. Getting old. Guess I've been away from laptops for too long. Maybe the thing to bring me back will be the quasi-laptop a couple of Taiwanese companies have started making just now: near laptop form, but mains...

Things is getting weird. I'm having a lot of trouble getting on. Internet Explorer says page not found. Opera tries but goes incredibly slowly, like 8 or 12 bytes a second - yes, bytes, not kilobytes let alone MB - and for some reason utterly unknown to me, Netscape 4.08 seems OK. On my office...

I logged on here a while back, perhaps two or three hours ago, and the front page said: Our users have posted a total of 2664 articles We have 64 registered users The newest registered user is GooRu In total there are 60 users online: 0 Registered, 0 Hidden and 60 Guests I plugged in my...

Ahh, Thankyou James.

I remember reading a while ago on the old SR forum that there are special steps you need to take to use >512MB RAM with Windows 9.X. Anyone know what they are? System has a Soltek DDR board and runs perfectly with 512MB (either a single Legend 512MB Infineon module, or 2 x 256MB Legend Hynix...

Your chances are fairly good, I think. Surges tend to take out the power supply side of things first and it's unusual to get too much damage further down the line. (Not impossible, mind you, just less common.) In general, power supplies, being straightforward analogue electronics, are easy and...

My Tekram card came with terminator and assorted cables. I think that is the standard way they ship them.

You're kidding me! X15 on a P-233? Hoolie Doolie!

Tannin: Storage Forum: 314 Storage Review: 78 Tea: Storage Forum: 105 Storage Review: 61 CNN Sport: Storage Forum: nil Storage Review: 2 Still posting as SR, but this place is home. I go to SR when I get bored here. When I get bored at SR I read The Register. When I've read The Register I...

It was inevitable.I see no harm in it. Microsoft have gone to a great deal of trouble to make life difficult for their genuine customers, so who cares what they want? They say it is designed to defeat piracy, but no pirate worthy of the name would be so much as slowed down by it. The only people...

Ha! Oh, many is the time I've wanted to do this. In fact many is the time I have done this, but not actually written it on the invoice, gutless wonder that I am. They pay up or they go elswhere - either way I'm happy. But shouldn't it work the other way around? Dear Telstra, Please find...

Once upon a time this place was preparing itself to take up the slack when Storage Review closed, so we deliberately laid it out the exact same way so that people would feel at home. Now SR continues and we have to forge our own identity. So maybe it's time to do something about the way the...

Tea is seldom wrong about that sort of thing. Let's examine the merit of the TweakTown article. 1: IBM drves have high failure rates. Do they? I have heard so many things about the 45GB Deskstar GXP that I find it hard to credit that there was not a major problem with that particular model...

Oh, and it's no use telling him to ask me to help with it. When it comes to video cards and cooling and overclocking, Sol is much better informed than I am. I just take his money, order arcane bits from around the country for him, and occasionally remember to offer him a coffee. We could try a...

The problem, James, is not getting Sol into my shop. The problem is getting the bugger out of it!

"Anthropomorphic Hard disk humor is so rare" says Mercutio. That is because people who can spell "Anthropomorphic" are not usually interested in hard drives. Oh, and it's Comrade Tannin, if you please.

Hang fire, I'll post the official details shortly, HD. Have to do some work first though. (If nothing else, I have to earn back some of that green stuff I just signed away in my bargain with The Giver!) (Yes - he got back to me. We have a bargain!)

Hi Bozo! Great to see you here. I've got two machines running it now, but the little one here at the office (a K6-3) is only cnnected to the web every three weeks or so. Does anyone know how much the program downloads at a time - i.e., how does it work out how many tasks to store to keep it busy...

Come see me late on Friday afternoon, Sol - you can borrow my Hitachi for the weekend. (Unless someone buys it, of course.) I must remember to get Tea to update this thread with her impressions of the Hitachi.

(One last time, while I am still a free man.) Forgive me being a little slow to respond, noble Giver. Next time you post to bait me, please try not to do it over the Aussie weekend - I find it very difficult to get in much time on-line between Friday AM and Monday PM. (Hence those mysterious...

Quite right, Mercutio. I gave it to him at just above my cost. Kristi did the data transfer in ~15 minutes and seeing as he just spend a fair bit on his other new bits a week or two ago, I don't need to bleed his wallet too hard. That's his only freebie though! When he comes back for the...

A drive under warranty, Vlad, I'd agree without question. "If in doubt, swap it out" is my motto. But it's his money I'm wanting to spend, and while I have the right to recommend, I can't insist on it. You will know from your own experience just how many stupid things customers want you to do...

Hi Sol, welcome aboard. The first question I'd ask is this: is the clockspeed actually dropping with increased multiplier settings, or is it just that the BIOS mis-reports it? If you haven't already done this, I should imagine that most any simple brute-force CPU speed test software should be...

Why do I feel so utterly unsurprised?

Thanks Barry. I have a Mandrake 8.1 already, so I just have to find a spare box to install it on and grab the Mozilla. (Though I splurged and bought an Opera licence for the 'nix version just the other day, on impulse, and seeing I was already buying the Win32 one. I'll try that too.)

Cool! Thanks Barry.

At this stage, James, yes. The ones that can edit posts are Webmaster Handruin, the ones that can't are everybody else: you, me, The Giver, all of us. Handruin was a little naughty there: he should have said "I edited this post because I forgot to add Storage Review" or "to correct my spelling...

JTR, that is one great story! Really enjoyed it. And any temptation I ever had to play with non-rechargable batteries is definately gone as a result of it!

WD Diag said "SMART Error #2, call WD support." Fat lot of help that was! I talked it over with my customer and, in view of his wife's expressed intention to take to his anatomy with a pair of scissors if she looses her family tree data, he's decided he can spring for the cost of a nice new...

I don't think I've seen Titan coolers anywhere down here. But then, I tend to stay in my comfortable little hole and don't get out much. And these days, the profusion of coolers is incredible.

OK folks, we need to pick an official name for this site. What should we be? Storage Forum StorageForum StorageForum.net The Storage Forum storageforum.net Or is there some other variation that would look better? Vote early and vote often!

Sorry JoJo? How was that again? (Life Tannin.) (Huh?) (Life! You know, the thing you do between working and posting and sleeping.) (Err, like with a knife and fork?) (No, that's eating. The other thing.) (What? You don't mean ... well ... you know...) (Oh just forget it! You don't live...

Hi LiamC! Good to see you here! Yup. Put a Celeron A a decent BX board and it was a whole different banana. That 100MHz FSB was the secret, I think, plus all those extra MHz. But for us that was a non-starter: we could never sell overclocks as our mainstream systems, no matter how solid they...

Sorry Coug. My FTP software was doing weird things. So I tried again at home (using Win32 software instead of the OS/2 package and fot the same stuff. Huh? Turned out that my ISP had moved redhill.net.au to a new server and not bothered to tell me. So here I was trying to FTP into the usual...

Actually, Mercutio, I do support you in this view - or rather, seeing as I said it first, you support me in it! The quote below was posted here exactly a month ago today, on the 7th January. It is as good a summary of my views as any.

Perhaps I better do some translation here. "Piss off" is Australian slang. Over here, it means exactly what I wanted to express. But, being local dialect, it may well mean something rather different in the USA or Canada or the UK. I know that the related term "pissed" has completely different...

What do you guys make of this one? Customer of mine has a more-or-less new system: Gigabyte 7IXE4 main board (AMD 751), Duron 800, nice new case, Gforce II. He kept his old hard drive, a Western Digital 2.5GB, and CD drive - whatever crap Hewlett Packard palmed him off with in the first place...

Here at home: - Opera 6.0 - PMMail 2000 - Age of Empires - ZTree Win - Netscape Navigator 4.08 - Internet Explorer 5.0 - Describe 5.0 for Win32 - PM View 2000 Win - Quattro Pro 6.0 And for this I need an X15? WTF. Why not?

Greg, I'm getting quite used to it now, but Tea keeps complaining every time you post bits in the "subject" field. Says it confuses her. (Which, personally, I think is a good thing.)

Thanks Pradeep. Haven't followed you link yet, but I already have a firewall or two - ECS comes with a vast array of freeware these days, rather like most Linux distributions. I just don't know how to use the damn things! I think I'll start another thread for this stuff though, perhaps in Tech...

I've sold three or four USB to serial converters, all to doctors wanting to use their laptops with some kind of medical device that I forget the details of. Cheap, no-name ones from Anyware (nee APCA), one of those cables and assorted odds and ends places. No problems at all. Touch wood.

"If you should think someone obnoxious, don't spend all day dancing around the issue with niceties and platitudes." At the time I wrote that, I did not think anyone here obnoxious. No doubt people will laugh at me for admitting this, but I genuinely thought that you had morphed into an...

Dream on, Brother. This is Microsoft. They think technicians are the lowest possible form of life. But when you find a method, be sure to let me know!

Hey Clocker, great to see you back. You have just finally reminded me to join the team. If I'd known how easy it was, I would have done it long since. Now, seeing as I have my home system on the job (an Athlon XP 1700), what can I do about using up a few of those surplus MHz at the office...

I wasn't throwing any crap, Cliptin, just giving The Giver the courtesy of an honest and straightforward answer to his question. Despite his weird, abusive, and nonsensical response to it, the questions he began with remain valid ones, and ones that are worthy of discussion.

For desktop apps, AGP performance is a non-issue.

Well, that's one way to get my post count up! Every time I hit "Submit" I got a nasty-looking error message: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare server_parse() in /home2/handruin/public_html/phpBB2/includes/smtp.php on line 36 Had no idea that it was registering. Still, I guess you all have a...