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In another thread, Adcadet asked was it possible to have an email address such as adcadet@storageforum.net This, he thought, was worth paying a small amount for, $10 a year maybe. Now that is a darn good idea! It doesn't cost a lot to run Storage Forum (at least not so far anyway), but there...

Storage Forum is alive: everybody be sure to update your bookmarks. I'll be posting this same message all over. (Why don't you put that in your sig, Tannin?) (Oh yeah. Good idea. Thankyou.) Why is it that I have to think of everythingh around here?) (Now look what you've done, Tea: messed...

Yup. Certainly in Jive days. Or was it UBB? Jive, I think.

The only problem I have with Linux relates the area where Apple have always been the best: the visual side. Guess I should tinker till I get it right, but even the most recent disto I have tried (Mandrake 8.1) just can't cut it when it comes to on-screen usability. Hey, I don't mind ugly - I'm...

Ahh, I knew you wouldn't be able to stay away forever. :) Welcome Ian.

Hi Jo Jo! Good to see you here. Enjoy.

SR is having issues. Tea and I both get the same.

Hmmm .... I was afraid people would say the Maxtor was the best. Knowing you guys, it will be the pick of them too. Wish the price was more reasonable. When you get right down to it, you can only get so many dollars for any particular system. Yes, it's fairly easy to squeeze a few extra...

Woops! Those were not LGs I ordered. I did buy two LG burners the other day, so as to have something faster than 8X in stock, and, as things panned out, didn't sell either of them! One is in Belinda's machine (girlfriend) (Belinda, not the machine), and the other I sold to a guy who brought it...

Well, CougTek, I guess the only way to answer that is to tell you a little bedtime story. Every word of it true, I assure you. Once upon a time - we must start thus, you know, for all good stories start with a "once upon a time" - there was a young man who was an only moderately talented...

Tim asked, "What else could MS do to IE? It seems perfect." No software that does not have an OS/2 version is perfect. Fact of life.

Hi JTR, good to see you with us. :) On the banner ads thing, the decisions in this madhouse end up being made by the admin team (you can read about all that stuff in the FAQ thread). There are twelve of us at present. (Fourteen if you count Tea and DB.) I'm on your side on this one: I'd go...

I love it Mercotiu! Great story.

Funny you should ask that, Will. We just ran out of the solid, cheap and reliable Panasonic 32 x 8 x 4 burners and the new model (a 24x I believe) is two weeks away, so we need an interim one. Yesterday I ordered 5 pcs sight unseen: LG ones. What is your experience of them? Good drives?

Not everyone. :)

Ahh, I see you are on the ball, Coug! I wondered if anyone would pick that up. I wrote the first two parts at the office, proof-read and posted the first one, ran out of time and emailed the second one to myself so that I could proof and post it when I go home. Hurried off, grafted my usual dour...

A computer without a floppy drive is like a car without a spare tire. Sure, you hope you don't have to use the damn thing very often, but I wouldn't dream of not having one. In the workshop, building and fixing machines eight hours a day as we do, they are utterly indispensible. That might be a...

This is turning into a very interesting thread, gentlemen. Lots to respond to. I like the Panasonic CD drives, Coug, because they are solid, reliable units with a two year factory warranty - nearly everything else has a cheapskate 12 month one, even Sony. And also because I am a creature of...

That's cool. Laughing at CougTek is always good. :wink:

Guess you already did, Stereodude, but just in case you haven't seen it yet, you'll find it outlined briefly in the FAQ thread.

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(Whoohoo! Played a side in the next grade up from us. And creamed them: 117 to 36! Err, maybe I should mention that there are ... um ... around about ... er ... zero sides in grades below us.) Now, the CPU mainboard and RAM options. 1: The standard one you get with every system unless you pay...

Now come the real machines. These all have a proper two year warranty, A-Open cases, AMD-certified power supplies, Honeywell keyboards, Logitech optical mice, Panasonic or Sony CD drives, 17 inch monitors, and 256MB of A-grade RAM (usually Legend or Crucial). In reality we build every one to...

In another thread, I started to ponder what sort of systems people buy, and what things they don't buy. That thread was about CPUs, but the question has more general relevance, I think. So here is a list of the systems we offer (which are probably not all that different to the systems that most...

Wheels within wheels, I see: the replies appear only in the "feedback" version of this thread, the copy in the locked forum remains untouched.

Ah! Very clever Doug: it just takes my reply and posts it to the correct thread in the new place, (If anyone is confused, I started out posting to this thread in the locked "The Day After" forum.) Is there any reason for that forum to be still displayed? Perhaps because you don't want to...

Hmmm... Just wondering what happens if I try to reply to a locked thread.

Hmmm ... Not keen on them, don't especially dislike them. No opinion either way.

Quite so, Pradeep. We offer everything but we hardly ever get to sell anything except AMD. Last year, we sold: Duron: 300 or 400 maybe. Athlon: 100 or so. Pentium III: six. Celeron: two. Cyrix III: one (our sample). Pentium 4: nil. This year I expect to sell a higher proportion of Athlons - so...

Give me a break Coug - I haven't woken up yet. :) Still, at least I know who Mercutio is - the real one, I mean, Benvolio's sidekick from Romeo and Juliet - not this modern imposter from Illinois.

I've never managed to get too interested in RAID, preffering to just run a motely collection of SCSI drives and try to spead the workload as evenly between them as I can. In fact, I barely read any of the RAID threads on SR and so far as I can remember have never so much as seen a system that...

If I were you, I'd write and thank him most sincerly for the best damn belly-laugh you've had all year. Err, I take it the guy has a problem with his education. In particular, English literature. Not to put too fine a point on it, Shakespere. Or can't he read?

Want to add a "Where is TSF hosted?" answer Doug?

I dislike sticky threads Doug (be they announcements or any other kind) and I cringe to think what P5 will do to me after I jumped all over him for making one of his threads sticky the other day but ... yup ... I think this one ought to be an announcement. Thanks.

It occurs to me that they might start chewing up a lot of bandwidth. Time to worry about that when it happens, if it happens.

Interesting. No doubt it will take a very long time and do wonders for the financials of various legal firms along the way, but AOL, unlike the US government, are one of the very, very few organisations capable of going 15 rounds with Microsoft...

Should we merge the "The day after" forum into the "Feedback" forum?

Wait for one of us to die. :) No, not really, Tim. Hang fire for an hour or two till I finish my FAQ page. in the feedback section. I'll explain there.

Hi Tim! Welcome. At this stage we are in beta-test. We want to build up gradually, testing and exploring the best way to do things as we go. Mercutio invited you along (a) so you could serve as a guinea-pig, and (b) because it's time we got more peope involved. If there is one thing I have...

Hi all and welcome. This thread is to get you up to speed on Storage Forum. Please feel very welcome to respond to it, ask questions, criticise, and make suggestions. What is Storage Forum? We are a group of people united by a common interest in hard drives and storage, and the desire to...

Start here ...

Time I checked my pricing again, I can see. But last time I looked, the P-4 was not even in the ballpark. I don't mean a little down on the price-performance scale, I mean way down. Even a crappy i845 SDRAM equipped P-4 1500 costs way more than some serious AMD iron. If the SiS DDR chipset is...

Hi Sterodude and welcome! Right now a lot of stuff is simply being left to Doug, our no-life webslave. More formal procedures (for backing up and for a whole lot of other stuff too) are in the pipeline. More news shortly.

Helldiver! Cool! :) Good to see you here, and already making yourself useful with suggestions. Yes, you are indeed welcome here. In a little while I'm going to write up an introduction and background thread, no doubt with my usual dedication to never using a hundred words when a thousand words...

Hi Cliptin! Great to have you here. Yup, there is a fair bit of stuff you deserve to be filled in on. I'll get busy on it and post a sort of summary and introduction thing ASAP. Meanwhile, hang out, smell the flowers, sing out with any ideas you have, and enjoy. Tony

I take your point Mark. I guess another factor is that a lot of the more tech-aware people got tired of doing the same answer to the same question over and over - I know I did, though you never seemed to mind - and stopped replying quite so often as they used to. When TS had its own area, I...

Tea claims to be of indeterminate ancestory - it's kind of hard to tell under all that hair - but, to the best of her knowledge, is not Japanese. She most certainly does not do that ... er ... thing that Flagreen refers to. And she's a little shy, doubt she'll speak for herself. (Was that a...

Sounds like a good idea to me. Personally, I preffered the tech support in the general area, but (so far as I am concerned) if Mark thinks Tech Support is better on its own, then so be it!

Excellent! Damn it Doug, the service is so good around here that I vote you for webmaster! One hour: that sounds good. It often takes me about that long to complete a post. (Given that I type with the right hand only, and have been known to post at some length from time to time, I need all the...

Doug, do you know how long a login "lasts" for? I ask because I'm always having to log back in again whenever my login expires - every 20 minutes or whatever it is. Same deal at SR. Would it be possible to set it to last a bit longer?