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Confession time. I have never liked Celerons. Come to that, the only chip in the whole damn P6 family I have ever remotely enjoyed using is the P-III. The real P-III, I mean, not that slug-like P-II dressed up with 512k external cache they started the P-III name with. The EBs, though, give that...

Confession time. I have never liked Celerons. Come to that, the only chip in the whole damn P6 family I have ever remotely enjoyed using is the P-III. The real P-III, I mean, not that slug-like P-II dressed up with 512k external cache they started the P-III name with. The EBs, though, give that...

Confession time. I have never liked Celerons. Come to that, the only chip in the whole damn P6 family I have ever remotely enjoyed using is the P-III. The real P-III, I mean, not that slug-like P-II dressed up with 512k external cache they started the P-III name with. The EBs, though, give that...

Thanks to Sulo Kallas for sending me this little post from the old SR, which he saved before the MBF. The thread was on the topic "most unusual computer-related injury", or something similar. If you feel inspired, add your own tales below. ---------------------------------------- Quite a few...

Oh, I shouldn't worry guys, Tea can look after herself. In case of real need, she can just morph back into me! And don't you worry, DB. There are those who think that there is something untoward going on between you and Tea, but you and I know that it's just a beautiful friendship. Tea kind of...

That was Benvolio, wasn't it? I always get those two mixed up.

Please note: the folowing is my own interpretation of the situation as it stands, and should not be taken as a formal or even accurate statement of Storage Forum policy. (I am but one voice amongst twelve, remember.) I think it makes sense though. Debate as to the formal framing of the rules...

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I'm out at Belinda's amongst the gum trees right now - a poor line, but what do you guys make of this? Tracing route to storageforum.net [66.96.239.250] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 130 ms 131 ms 130 ms bal-as2-loop0.netconnect.net.au [203.87.45.254] 2 120 ms 131 ms 130 ms...

"Imagine if he'd gone on a 6 month holiday whilst still in control!" He did! I don't think it was six months, but he used to just disappear for weeks at a time. Getting www.redhill.net.au registered was a saga that went on for a couple of years. We were actually up and registered as...

Try: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48973,00.html Interesting read. But why the hell would anyone give a shred of support to that self-important retard? See my post above.

Shugart: 1 Tandon: 10 Kaylock: 20 Microscience: 50 Miniscribe: 100 Alps: 200 Micropolis: 500 JTS: 1000 Conner: 2000 Quantum: 5000 Western Digital: 10000

MFM: 1 RLL: 25 ESDI: 100 IDE: 500 SCSI: 1000 FCAL: 2000

Tenderfoot: 1 Bigfoot: 20 Protege: 50 Pioneer: 100 Trailblazer: 250 Medalist: 500 Barracuda: 1000 Expert: 2000 Cheetah: 5000

It's administered by a listed company, Melbourne IT, now. So far as I know, they do a perfectly good job of it. James? Time? Pradeep? You guys know anything about this?

FIC used to be the biggest, but then PC-Chips (about #5) and Elite (#2)merged. I think FIC have lost some market share this last year or two. Dunno where ASUS get their size from, or their market share come to that. Their cheap boards are crap, and their half-decent boards are far too dear...

Well, I couldn't downgrade, could I?

"... and a single, grouchy person in charge of .com.au domain registrations ... " Why the hell else do you guys think my business site has been a .net for all these years? "Oh no, you can't be a company. .com is for commercial operators only. Where is your ACN (Australian Company Number)?" "I...

Oh, sorry Groltz, I forgot to mention that I'm on dial-up. I figured trying your cure couldn't do any harm, even so. After that, if no results, I'll try IE 6.0. (I'm really due for a clean install, and probably go back to NT 4.0 rather than my current W2K, but I'll play around a bit first...

I once bought 200 hours of dial-up with TPG. Used about three hours, had loaded about 10 whole page views in that time (and no, I don't mean graphics-heavy stuff), consigned them to the "never again under any circumstances" list.

Don't tell anyone, James, but we are going to all club together and buy him a cassette drive for his Commodore 64.

Hell guys, I quite often do more than 1GB a month just on dial-up!

<URL=your.url.net>click here</URL> gives you this: click here

You know if I had the time and the skill-set, if I was a retired lawyer, say - I'd sue Telstra for deceptive trade practices. They have ads all over TV promising "UNLIMITED INTERNET ACCESS, $29.95 per month". Make a great big deal of it. In the fine print, they say "300MB download limit". Did...

Big Pond sucks. Telstra sucks. Ziff-Davis sucks. On-line polling sucks. Actually, we find Telstra's Internet (dis)service very easy to deal with. You walk in with your PC under your arm and a problem with your Netconnect account, or your Primus account, or your Optus account, we say "no...

AU$193 ex-tax for Win 98E, ME or XP Home. 2K or XP pro, about $300-odd. Far too much, in other words.

Supercaff! :)

Sorry Doug, still no dice. It's not the frame code itself that is the problem, so far as I can see, but the browser-detection routine. Why don't you email me a copy of the front page HTML source. Seeing as I'm the one with the odd-ball browser, why not let me debug it for you? I'm no good at...

I'd love it Flagreen. But I already have two of them. What am I going to do with a third X15?

Excuse me taking so long to get back to this thread guys. It got kinda hectic there for a while. I can ramble on about weird old hard discs or foam at the mouth about the Microsoft monopoly or AMD's thermal non-protection without troubling to switch the brain cells into circut, but for this...

Well, now that Tea has had her fun, I'll try to give you a sensible answer, good sir. The admin team is still discussing the final wording for the forum rules at present. However, the overall intention is very clear. We aim to have civilised, respectful discussion. (In the meantime, we have...

I too have this. I get it with any of my various browser and OS combinations: Netscape/2 2.02 (ECS), Communicator/2 4.61 (ECS), IE 5.0 (W2K), Opera 6.0 (W2K) and IE 5.0 (NT 4.0). I conclude it's not a browser problem! I think it has to do with having multiple windows open. That seems to confuse...

JTS had a pretty ordinary reputation. I came along to JTS drives late in the company's life, and tried a few of their "Champion" line - mostly 2.1GB drives. These were the last remaining drive on the market to user thin-film head technology, as opposed to MR, but they were not by any means as...

Why, sit back and watch Doug do all the work, of course! But seriously now, Mercutio asks a good question, and supplies the correct answer to it (at least in my view, anyway). It ought to be answered in more detail though, and I'll get on to it. As to your question James, there remains a good...

Hi Doug, a small bug report for you. The browser detection routine on the front page is a bit trigger happy. With both of my primary browsers, it gives me a plain, blank page with no links at all. On inspecting the page source, I see this: <frameset border="1" frameborder="no" framespacing="1"...

Another victim of the dark side. :(

Woops, wrong forum Greg. This belongs in feedback. :-? But, yes, Storage Forum has secure finances. It is here to stay. (In fact, this is not so much a matter of having high income as it is of having low expenses.)

Greg, that must be the shortest, most succinct post you've ever made. Are you becoming another EBB in your old age?

Bait and switch involves not selling a product that you advertise because you make more money on a different product. (Or whatever other similar reason applies in the particular case.) What we do is offer a superior product and recommend that people go with that one. The difference is, in the...

Soon as I get a chance, Jo Jo. In the meantime, I can tell you that I haven't tried the 80GB Samsung yet, but that if their previous models are anything to go by, it will be decently fast - nothing special but perfectly OK - very quiet, and utterly reliable. We have now sold many hundreds of...

If there is one thing that really pisses me off about the AMD chips I sell, it's that there is no 100% reliable thermal overload protection. To hell with putting it on the motherboard! The correct place to mount any safety device is as an integral part of the thing that needs protection. The...

No I don't, Jo Jo. But it is an easy enough task to do a Mandrake install on a spare machine - one that is built ready for a customer, say, but hasn't yet had the Windows install. (I can't believe how easy Mandrake is to install. Makes installing Win 98 seem arcane and difficult.) I'll do that...

The other day I came across a real rarity: a Conner Technology 15GB drive. No, not a Conner Peripherals drive, not the company that started when Finis Conner argued with Al Shugart and stomped off muttering that he was going to start his own drive company - which he did with considerable success...

I voted yes, but it all depends on the context. I despise cooking for one! Left to myself, I grab takeaway, open a can, microwave something pre-packaged, or just eat toast with honey and vegemite. But cooking for two or more, that's a different matter entirely! I love to do that.

Mine (when I signed up yet another alias the other day) took a long time. (This was user "Tony" in your disposable test area, Doug. Delete him any time you want to.) Do you want me to try signing up three or four times as "DeleteMe1, DeleteMe2" to see if it works better now Doug?

I was guilty of a small deception, Adriel, in the interests on clarity and brevity. We don't actually advertise those little systems, in fact we don't advertise at all, ever. (Bar the phone book and a 3 foot by 2 foot sign on the front of the ship.) But we do list them in our price list. They...

Cancel that - the question, I mean, not the greeting. I can see it fine now.

I said it in the other thread but I'll repeat it here. A floppy drive is like a spare tyre: you hope you don't have to ever use it, but you'd be mad to drive around without one. PS: obvious bias here - I build and repair PCs for a living. I don't care so much about how nice they are to use, I...

Hi Greg, Hi Prof., nice to have you guys on board. Is there a reason I can't see your avatar, Prof?

Jo Jo, I don't know what you did that I didn't do, or maybe it's a Mandrake-specific thing, but there is no way that you would look at the on-screen display of (e.g.,) Netscape looking at SR in Jive days and be able to use it for more than 5 minutes. I'm not talking ugly, I'm talking all but...