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Yes, I have Coug. But the Silmarion is better organised, less bloodthirsty, and more consistent.

Gosh Will, he's nearly as good looking as me! Congratulations!

Hey! That wasn't spam! I didn't send it to everyone, you know.

Given the choice between having to troubleshoot a system with normally functional* Canon printer drivers and a system with normally functional ATI video drivers, I think I'd choose the ATI, though I could go either way. I'd choose either before a Lexmark. Xerox might be worth considering. As...

The parts of his defence that I can verify for myself - notably the great variation within the Bible from one author to another - ring true. Accordingly I am inclined to accept his assertions on the other matters. (Ahh yes, Jubal Harshaw. I grew up reading Heinlein thet way that previous...

I say AYE-SUS but I understand that the correct pronunciation should rhyme with Dr Suess. ASUS is an abbreviation of Asustech and that is certainly the way you say Asustech - A-SEUSS-tech. I didn't vote because, out of habit, I usually say it the wrong way. "A-SEUSS " is correct.

For years now my redhill.net.au domain has been registered through my ISP and in turn through connect.com. Connect.com are no longer handling the .net.au namespace, so I have to change to a new registrar. They suggest that I go to Melbourne IT www.melbourneit.com.au who are the largest...

Here in Ballarat, summer usually lasts from the 25th January to February the 4th.

You just got to spend da money I had a series of mechanical switchboxen, none of them was worth using at anything over 640x 480. Then I spent some two or three hundreds on a real KVM and it is fuss-free and has a good picture. I just ordered a second one with six or eight ports but it hasn't...

And Samsung have great drives and three year warranties.

But it isn't going to have a proper warranty - so who cares? I certainly won't be buying any.

Good question, i. Anyone know something I don't on this one?

Actually, that was Cliptin, I think. But kudos just the same.

You will need better bait than that. ;)

By the way, is it possible to actually remove Outbreak from a Win2K machine? Having some basic concerns about security, I remove all the shortcuts, uninstall the Windows Scripting Host, the Address Book, and and switch the system defaults to something else, but is it possible to completely...

Or, "would you prefer a reasonably reliable drive with a one year warranty, or a very reliable drive with a three year warranty?" Not one of the world's toughest buying decisions. I'm going to start buying SpinPoints ten at a time: one the word gets out, they are going to be in shortage.

So tell me Coug, where do you get your ganja? It's obviously pretty good stuff. No. It can't be that, the rest of your post makes too much sense. Damn it, the rest of your post is so depressing that I wish your were smoking too much ganja. I'll write to the Australian Competition and Consumer...

My version of IE doesn't have that tick-box, Cliptin. It must be a 5.5 or 6.0 thing. But further down in the "multimedia" section I tried unticking "play videos". That works. Is there a site I visit that won't work with that setting unticked? I don't think so, but I'll try it for a week or two...

Pay some attention to your desktop. (You probably already did this, but just for the record.) Remove as many icons as possible. Turn "view as web page" off (big difference), select "classic" folder view, switch off "remember the changes to each folder", and finally, go into your screen...

If they did, and if US law is anything like Australian law, then they are in big, big trouble. It is called collusion. To see just how seriously illegal it is, go to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission site http://www.accc.gov.au/fs-search.htm and type "collusion" into one of the...

No, ever since the Quantum merger, Maxtor has sold the most drives each year. Except, of course, for next year. Looking to find the largest manufacturer of drives in the future? Hellooo Seagate.

"Has made" = used to and still does "Once made" = used to but does not anymore. I read it. Those familiar with the Australian economy well recall the end of "Black Jack" McEwan's protectionist policy era. Protectionism was mortally wounded in 1972 when the Whitlam government slashed...

Only as a last resort

My question was: what century are you living in? In this century "the average tariff for the industrial sector applied by Australia is ... 4.5%. This average rate include tariffs of 0.8% for raw materials, up to 5.9% for transformed products and 6.9% for manufactured products." Clothing...

Good God! What century are you living in? Just what products do you think are subject to tariff or import restriction in modern-day Australia? We began slashing tariffs in 1972 - thirty years ago - and kept on slashing until there was nothing left. (I may disagree with the wisdom of this policy...

My W2K SP3 has never missed a beat. It's astonishingly stable. In fact, I don't think I can tell any difference in stability between W2k SP2/SP3 and OS/2 - and if you know me, that is high praise indeed. I simply can't imagine why anyone would want to run XP at any service pack level.

It's official: http://www.wdc.com/company/releases/PressRelease.asp?release=1438

That, I take it, is New Zealand money.

Easy as that? Cool! Thanks Pradeep.

If they are so good at writing prescriptions, why can't they fill in a ballot paper properly then, eh? Tell me that.

Well, of course. Planes and ships travel a lot faster and further than smelly old boots do, you know.

Quite right, Mercutio. The Simpsons is not crap. I plead guilty as charged. In my defence, I claim the following mitigating factors: 1: I was in a hurry and unclear in my expression. 2: Everything else on Channel Ten is crap. 2: They only appeared on Channel Ten after the other networks had...

It's easy enough to install NT or Win2000 side-by side with an existing W9X install, and then dual boot between them. But is there a relatively easy way to take a system that has an existing NT 4.0 install (which my customer doesn't want to lose if he can help it) and add a Win 98 install as...

Overall, the lowest TV ratings on record. Vast numbers of people just switched off. Of those that did watch TV on Wednesday: Nine (911): Half a million viewers down on last week's normal programming. (In this tiny market, half a million viewers is a lot.) Seven (911): Much the same as normal...

Australia has the following TV networks: Nine Network: the unchalenged market leader Seven Network: the perennial number two Ten Network: the poor relation. Struggles to survive. Has even gone broke at least once - which is considered almost impossible. Owning a TV network in Australia, where...

In commercial terms, it's a very wise move (regardless of any technical reason). AMD have every prospect of being the clear desktop performance leader for the next six months or so anyway (courtesy of the 0.13 micron Athlon XP). If they are to have a good return from high ASPs on the 0.13u XP...

(see my sig) :(

Yes Will: the druc companies spend an incredible amount developing and marketing psoriasis oitments that need to re-prescribed and re-prescribed, but there is hardly any basic research into a cure at all. No doubt it is the same with many other conditions.

Actually, I am a rusted-on libiterarian. I think any adult citizen is entitled to whatever drug they choose. (Subject only to their ability to pay for it.) Prozac, asprin, heroin, cynaide, paint stripper, I don't care. If I want to take it, it is no-one's business but my own. If it's bad for me...

Hey! I can't read the first six digits. :( (mumbles under breath)

I rememmbered. I was thinking of Tivo.

I think it's some kind of security thing, Constantine. I can get www.army.mil OK, or 140.183.234.10, but I can't ping it.

Ways to treat your guests, in order of rudeness (last is worst) 5: Fart at the dinner table 4: Insist that they view your entire collection of happy snaps from the office Christmas party. 3: Smoke (if they don't smoke) 2: Fail to suitably restrain your dog/parrot/alligator/child 1: Fail to...

No chance of that for us, of course. Generally speaking, we don't watch TV. In fact, one of the reasons Tannin is such a reclusive character and prefers electronic friendships such as this one (and chatting to imaginary people like me) to visiting flesh-and-blood people, is that he can't abide a...

No.

Huh? Can't speak for the rest of you slackers, but Tannin and I have been posting at a rate such that before too long we will need new handles.

I think that is only for Windows. Other systems can use a different port for it. Unless my memory is playing tricks on me. Which is always possible. Not that it's likely to worry Clocker too much. :wink:

I like the green ones better. :)

If there is a "fairly strong anti-American undercurrent to this and other recent threads", then it is simply because when discussion turns to matters of world cultures, that is the way most of the world sees things. No more, no less. Back in the days of the British Empire, there was a strong...

Island in the Carribean, isn't it? They make some kind of liquer, one of those odd-coloured bottles that the Bartender tries to hide when I come in.