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You were a little blunt, 'tis true, but he made the big silly statement that invited it. Hey, you stick your neck out, you get your head kicked. That's what he did. It was an elegant, professional head-kick. What, in football terms, would be called a hard but strictly within-the-rules shirt-front.

Those prices are about what I pay too, Time. S520 = AU$292.80, 676U - AU$147 (both dealer buy ex-tax, one unit). I don't have a price for the camera. Lucky for me that we sell Canon scanners but Epson printers!

Cougtek: quite right. It isn't free. But then I didn't feel like providing a no-charge lesson in Economics 101. After all, he is supposed to be the trained accountant. Coug (again): Right again. But Tannin is getting lazier and lazier. He sits there in his comfy chair and dreams the day away...

RE "Carpool". Is that your house, Will? Wow! That must have been quite a party!

I just popped into this thread because I saw Mercutio's handle here and though that it must have gone off-topic onto something interesting. Oh well

But it wasn't really a real moderation as James was mostly only curious to see if they were alert or not. Also, there was the time I posted a particularly stupid bit of spam from a porn site (because it was so stupid that no-one would want to visit it) and Wild Bill Hiccup deleted the post and...

Excuse me, I made an error in my first sentence: I am a member of the species Pongo pygmaeus, of course, not homo. Only humans, chimpanzees and bonobos can properly be regarded as members of the genus homo.

Actually I am, of course, not a monkey, I am an ape and there is a significant difference. But despite the vast casm that seperates Homo pygmaeus from Colobus satanas or Papio hamadryas we are often classified together by ignorant humans as "simians" and, despite the gross error of this...

Nope. Getting warmer ....

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Ahh, forgive me if this is a stupid question, and bear in mind that my geography lessons in Borneo were a little light on in the frozen wastes department, but does Canada actually have a north shore? I always thought the North-West Passage was a strictly seasonal thing, and that Amundsen had...

Some fine nominations there, but I too second Jake's nomination. (JTR and PW are good men, but you humans need the common sense that only a furred creature can bring.) By the way, is this some sort of a world record? Having 400% more moderators than we have had moderation events? Just goes to...

"Red Hill, good morning, this is Tony." "Oh, hi Tony. This is Jason Smith of Namechanged Accountants. I'm just ringing to get a price on the latest version of Internet Explorer." (Silence) .... Just when you thought you've seen it all.

Hmmm.... $500 is too much, especially for a .org, IMO. And it's quite a significant domain name. We think of our Vietnam vets first, naturally, but the vast majority of the damage has been suffered by the people of Vietnam, of course. It's quite astonishing that they seem to hold us so little...

That is just beautiful. :)

Anyone been to Storage Review lately? Since yesterday there is a seriously anoying Flash animation appearing there, even though I'm using Mozilla at SR, and Moz is usually pretty good at this stuff. Not in this case, despite never having installed Flash or Shockwave of my own free will - only...

Alas you can't hot link to an image on Geopoxies, Tim. Email it to Tannin (tannin at redhill.net.au) and I'll stick it on his server. Looking forward to seeing this!

Based on vast experience totaling one unit, I'd avoid low-end NEC monitors. Yes, they are owned by Mitsubishi, and their high-end ones are well regarded, but that single example I sold was grainy at lower resolutions and has failed twice in two months. At higher resolutions, though, it stands up...

A little dear, but the higher-end Mitsubishis are always superb. Well, not dear realy: for what they are, they are excellent value.

I was reading the Melbourne Age today. There was an article written by their economics editor - no raving greenie, a cold, hard numbers man. It had some truly astonishing figures in it, ones fit to make any rational man weep for the stupidity that drives this country ever deeper into...

Looks like you are stuck with it, Onamataplatformwhoosiwhasisname. :) Maybe you could try being an xGary for a while, but I doubt it would make a difference. The name seems to be here to stay.

I don't usually count uptime, but my OS/2 systems routinely go for months at a time. The most frequent cause of a reboot is power failure. (Since our stupid, greed-motivated ex-Premier Kennet privatised electricity supply a few years ago, power failures have increased to be around two to three...

Looks to me as though IBM Storage is moving to deal with its one great crippling factor: production cost. This is something they desperately need to do if the company is to survive. I'm pleased to see it happening, because we all need IBM to stay in the market to provide competition. As for...

Coug: 1: "Ganja", yes: hooch, grass, weed, Mary Jane, marijuana, pot, dope, etc. Doubtless it has other names these days; I'm 20-odd years out of date. 2: SR's current benchmarks are deeply questionable. I don't take their "Office Drivemark" seriously. I have written at length on these...

Fine? Jail? Ha! Tsar Tannin would have them knouted.

But as for the best stupid quote, from a field of outstanding quality, this one is my favourite: That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass , and I'm just the one to do it. Nice one, Dozer. :)

By the way, I take it that we are talking about this man: KEP ENDERBY Born Dubbo, New South Wales, 25th June 1926 and educated at Dubbo High School 1939-1943. As a teenager won numerous golf tournaments and championships. Served as a trainee pilot in the Australian Air Force 1944/1945. Studied...

Backwards geology, Constantine. Australia was almost connected with Asia during the ice ages, when sea levels were low, but not quite. Back before that, in the dinasour era, Australia was part of Gondwana - the great southern continent, which also included India, New Zealand, New Guniea...

Not so. It is now official that Samsung is staying with three years. That's one 120 billion dollar company that is a major player in the hard drive industry now and looking good to become a more significant force still. Hitachi/IBM have made no announcement about not making an announcement but...

Excuse me gentlemen. Tannin seems to have embroiled himself in the stupid political threads over at SR's Bar and Grille of late, and hasn't been giving me my fair share of the computer. Some random comments arising: 1: Comparisons to the utter crap made by ECS do not fill me with joy! Having...

My Gigabyte rep called me today and they have sold out of the AMD 760 chipset boards that they were specialing out. This was inevitable, as they were going way below cost. But they have offered me Leadtek SiS-based boards at around the same price. We got one to try out a while ago and it seemed...

Hmmmm ... Neat idea. I like it.

Is that why the site has got so slow?

Unless you have a really good reason - the only one I can think of is a severe lack of space - I'd suggest buying a standard ATX case. Micro ATX and its various unsavoury relatives is really, really restrictive. It will work OK for your P-III but it's virtually certain to turn into a white...

Hmmmm... Thanks Time. I think that some people would go for it, though about 25% lower price would make a big difference. Worth doing for an 810, possible for a C61 ... C41 .. yeah. We have usually bought our Epsons through Comnet, a rather low-rent mob here in Melbourne that are pissing me...

The USB connection wires have to be all seperate, unless you want to tie yourself to one particular brand of motherboard. All the different mainboard manufacturers (may their twisted souls rot in Hell) use different pinouts for their USB headers. Some of them (FIC, hang your head in shame) don't...

What's the deal with Epson's extended waranty, Time? (I probably should already have this info somewhere, as Epson send me all sorts of stuff, but I never find the time to read it all.) Does the user buy it direct from Epson? Or some other scheme?

This was at home, James. W2K box. Tannin gets first dibs on browsers so he monopolises Opera. I have to make do with IE. CNN Sport and the Grammar Police and Ekaf-Ami have to share Mozilla. (Moz is best if you have multiple log-ins, but to ugly for my taste.) At the office we all squeeze into a...

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Ye Gods! I clicked that link and got the page plus no less than three pop-ups! Yuk!

We used to get the following pattern with Epsons: 1: wonderful reliability in the initial period, practically zero percent return rate. 2: significant number of failures on the first cartridge replacement. Always the first one - if they survived that first cartridge change, they would go...

Minor correction: add extra emphasis on stability to left-hand side of equation, subtract broad application compatibility from right-hand side. You win some, you lose some.

Excuse me, JTR. It was a light-hearted question. I didn't intend you to take it seriously. But I'm sort of glad you did, as your answers were more or less the very same answers I give to that very same question when people ask it of me. Nice to know that there are still a few throughly rational...

GP, I really think you shoud stop giving Cougtek a hard time. His English is 17 and a half light years better than your French, and roughly 50% better than that of most native English speakers.

I can't speak for inket refills. I haven't owned an inket, let alone refilled the cartridges, since my wonderful old Deskjet 500. (Err ... that was Tannin's, I mean. I wasn't born yet. Sort of a racial memory, or something.) The DJ500 lasted for more years than I could count without using both...

Tannin is extremely bored. Tannin opened this thread! He didn't actually read it - there are limits to these things after all - but he did click on it. I'm banning him from the computer for the weekend. I think he needs to get in touch with reality. (Whatever that is.)

Far be it from me to talk about people who make odd-ball choices in their operating systems, but why are you running Win98 on that system anyway?

Hmmm ... I think that if I were to spend a half-hour on it, I could make a pretty good case. Fortunately for Storage Forum members, I don't have that half hour handy.

I understand that it has the odd name - "unlawful use" because if you call it "stealing" people can say "Oh no, Your Worship, I wasn't stealing it, I was just borrowing it to drive to Alice Springs. I was going to bring it back. Honest."

Hmmm .... Thanks guys. It looks as though Melbourne IT is the way to go then. It's not ridiculously expensive compared to US prices, well, not enough to worry Tannin anyway (he is a notorious spendthrift), and they are a professional, competent organisation. No point in going tio the States as...