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Since, oh maybe three or four hours ago

I don't know American cars, but it sounds a little like tappets to me. If it's a pushrod engine, they often develop play in the tappets as they age.

Don't buy a new HP. HP printers (and their other products too, come to think of it) have gone way, way downhill sinnce the days of the 6L.

And I'll let you in on a little secret, Flagreen: if you were to stop calling them "fries" and start calling them "chips" I would be very disappointed in you. "Fries" is the correct word in your native language, which is American. (Which, of course, is closely related to but certainly not the...

It's not in the slightest difficult to believe, JTR. Indeed, it is exactly as I would have expected, though I was not aware that NYC was quite so different as you relate. (Is it a little like Berlin, which Berliners and Germans alike seem to regard as a world apart?) One of the interesting...

What is "Hey Dad?" We don't watch TV here in the Tannin household, so I guess that it's an Australian-produced TV show, yes? Is it Australian? Or is it just more disposable, Americanised Hollywood pap that just happens to be set in Sydney instead of Boston?

That's the thing with culture, Tim. You can't go back. As Tannin might note, that Would you like fries with that order? story of his is utterly ridiculous, not because it doesn't, in its own peculiar and light-hearted way, deal with a very serious issue, but because only a genuine Australian...

Any very well posted indeed, Doug.

Quite so, gentlemen.

You mean Rupert Murdoch, Cas. A very interesting man. As I recall, the Murdoch family originally came from South Australia, though doubtless he lived in Melbourne for a time. Sir Keith Murdoch was the main man, Rupert is his son. Rupert would be about 65 now, I guess. Sir Keith was a media...

Ha! I've never noticed a thing, and I do both (CTRL-N or click on the icon again) pretty much at random, and often run dozens of windows. I guess that's what happens when you have an XP 1900, an X15, and 512MB of RAM just for web surfing. :wink:

A weird story, Mercutio. Ahh, are two dollar bills rare or something? You know, I think that if I lived in the States, I'd have huge trouble getting used to the money. I mean, who ever heard of having the $1 and the $100 the same colour?

Oook, oook. Stupid. I knew that. I was thinking of some kind of box thingie, I presume it has a hard drive in it, that you use for .... Can't remember. James has one, or was thinking about buying one. Or something. Tannin is still sick with the 'flu today, he's been at home in bed for five...

CTRL-N and FILE - NEW WINDOW do different things?

It's some kind of music or video piracy tool, isn't it?

Prof, the story is not even the slightest bit true. But it ought to be.

I could have made the exact same post. I will be interested to see what answers pop up.

Huh? Flagreen, you read all the way through to the end of that, and you are still thinking in terms of ratioinality?

Poor Maxtor. Everyone is saying rude things about Maxtor. It's probably going to be a really nice drive, when it eventually arrives. (And if it really does arrive in January or so, then it will be a whole lot sooner after the announcement than the previous three or four top-end Quaxtors ever...

Cool! :)

Tannin, do you have the faintest idea of what you are doing? Who made that post you just replied to? (Er ... Dozer?) I think you better leave this Storage Forum thingie up to me. You are not well.

Slo, please pay some attention to the synchonisation between your two spiders (three posts above). The one of the left is two-tenths of a second behind the one on the right. Try to get him to stay in step please.

Guys, guys. Gary is much too classy a gent to work for scum like Microsoft. Nope, Gary works for a large, honest, and if my guess is right, a very worthwhile organisation. If not the people that play with little toys like the one in the picture, then maybe a major subcontractor. Hey -...

Not at all, Mr Ekaf. In this context, "nice warm room" simply means that you need to keep the temperature somewhere over 270 degrees C. Or, if you are in a hurry and don't have 200-odd years to wait, then perhaps a little warmer. 500 degrees should do it nicely.

Oh, glass becomes a liquid. According to one of those excellent articles that Mercutio linked to, all you need to do is have a nice warm room and plenty of paitence. You can see results (assuming you are using precision instruments) in as little as a few hundred years.

Yes, I ... (Wait ... who am I at the moment? Ahh, I seem to be Tea. Right.) Yes, Tannin included taxes and shipping.

I think Jake has too much money. :(

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How quick do you have to be to beat the glass flowing out of your window pane? (Sorry, JoJO, a cheap shot.)

One assumes that it was the relative success of Quantum's low-budget offering that is responsible for Maxtor's decision. It wasn't just in Australia, as I recall, but worldwide, and it applied only to the ultra-cheapo 4400 RPM drives - the Fireball LCT, which was the successor to the infamous...

Hi Andrew! Welcome back. :) Do you know what replacement mainboard costs? Typically US$500 to $1000. And do you know how many compent parts of a typical notebook are integrated into the mainboard, so that if the individual component fails you have to replace the whole main board? All of them...

My thanks to The Giver for that lucid and worthwhile post. It makes a very weak case for reperations, but it does make a case, and that is something no-one else has managed to do. Well posted! The fundamental weakness of the case is the logical fallacy that it rests on: that war reperations...

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Doug, that's a great little article. Thankyou!

You could, of course, just remember to turn off call waiting. But I suppose saying that would be unhelpful.

We used a modest number of them for a while, Buck. This was back in 15 inch days. They had excellent picture quality for the money and were a cut above most other entry-level monitors, for just a few dollar more. We had one or two go wrong, nothing out of fthe ordinary. I think they are a...

It's got to the point where I'm no longer really willing to sell XP with an internal modem, Buck. And it can be problematic with externals too. For the love of Mike, a Rockwell external modem is just about the simplest damn device it's possible to imagine. I can use CP/M with an external modem...

Cage? Good Lord no! Tannin's not in the least like that. I mean to say, if I was locked up (and I'd like to see the 43-year-old human who could get me into a cage if I didn't want to be put, or make the bars strong enough to stand up to a little gentle oragutan bicep exercise) ... well ... who...

(Shakes head, sighs heavily, considers entirely trivial issues with ncable.net, figures they are not worth mentioning in this context.) Bloody Big Pond.

XP running "just as good"? Huh? XP has huge problems, especially with modems. Maybe SP1 will fix that, maybe not. But there is no way on God's green earth that XP can deliver performance anywhere near that delivered by less eyecandy-ridden Windows versions. Best advice for the OEM (assuming that...

JTR makes a poor point when he says that finding a meaningful amount of money would be impossible. To come up with the hypothetical trillion dollars he mentions would merely require a one-third reduction in the US "defence" budget for nine years - a reduction that ought to be instituted in any...

Exotic? No, nothing fancy, Coug, just a Promise Fasttrack. (Runs and hides.)

SR's PNG: 1,154,444 bytes Simply opened in PMView and re-saved with the factory default options, it looks identical (I'm not going to waste my server space by posting it again), size: 710,219 bytes. Saved as an 8-bit GIF it looks very, very nearly as good. I can tell the two apart, but only...

I have my IDE drives configured to run off the Buslogic UW SCSI controller, E_Dawg. :) The system has three drives: Quantum Atlas IV UW SCSI 9.1GB Quantum Viking II UW SCSI 2.2GB Mitsubishi 40X IDE burner, was on primary slave, now on secondary master. No other IDE drives at all. Sigh

I probably have, Clocker. But customers have had the same issues from time to time, with several different brands of drive too. But I'll triple-check.

You can downgrade freely, Buck. i.e., you buy a copy of XP Home and install 98SE (or, if you want, ME, W95, even Win 3.1 if you want to). This is 100% legitimate. Or, you buy XP Pro and install NT 4.0 or W2000. Again, perfectly legitimate. But you can't install 2000 on an XP Home license - that...

Yup. And right now Nero owes me approximately AU$307.94

The "potential users of this service", James, include government agencies but are primarily businesses, and also community groups such as churches. Census data is made freely available to all, much of it at no charge, some of it at a small fee which helps defray costs.

There is an even simpler method: just say no to XP. And if enough people do it - make no mistake, there is a powerful groundswell now - it will be far more effective. Hit M$ where it hurts the most: in their pocket.I'll be running W2K for a few years yet, and by the time I want to upgrade, Linux...