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By the way, the only thing that this drive is ever asked to do is backup files data off my network. Network speed is not an issue: I'm getting 12MB/sec over the network and a 16X burn is only 2.4MB/sec.

There is some weirdness going on here! I frigged around for ages last night, trying to get DMA back. It was there before, as I've had the 24X Mitsi in for quite a while, and burned just fine on it (at 16X though). Nero has done something to break my IDE drivers. So after numerous attempts, even...

He sure is a demon with the <shift-insert> key combo!

What? America pay attention to the World Court? Since when? International justice is for ordinary nations. The US of A is special. It's so special that it expects all the other nations of the world to give it immunity from the law, and exempt the US from any responsibility for war crimes, or...

Cool. My pleasure Jake. Any time you want to sell more stuff for less than the going rate, just sing out! You don't have to ask twice. I'll probably resell most of it, except for the CPU, which might as well go home, as I'm still runing an 1800+ Essentially, I just added up what I'd pay to buy...

Oh, shipping. I forgot to mention that. Write "Red Hill, Ballarat" on the carton. Call Star Couriers on 1300 657 590, tell them you have a pick-up, and use our tickets.

Sold! Put it in a box, Tim, and I'll do a direct deposit. It will take a day or two till the bananas I deposited into my trading account clear, I'll transfer to your account then.

Thanks Steve. I checked what my blanks are, and they are marked "Ricoh type 80 700MB 1X - 32X speed". I just installed NTI CD Maker but it doesn't recognise the drive, and I don't want to have to change drives in this machine yet again. (The NTI is bundled with BTC drives that we got to cover a...

Good question. I'm using the same 32X certified media we buy by the box-load and use for everything. It burns at higher speeds in other machines. I'll try a different brand though.

Mitsubishi 24X CD burner, Nero 5.5.something or other, Win98. Works fine at 16X. Utterly refused to give me any option higher than 16X burn. Read help files, visit Nero web site, endure their incredibly crappy Javascript that doesn't even work properly with IE 5.0, let alone a real browser (Moz...

Poor P5_133XL. I felt that I had come to know him well.

And that's where our beautiful keyboards came from?

(Tannin, you just told a fib!) (Me? I never fib.) (Yes you do. What about those Osbourne systems? They were heaps better value than yours.) (No they weren't. They just looked like better value. In the end, they turned out to be very bad value indeed.) (Yes, but you didn't know that at the...

Hoolie Doolie! 700 posts in this thread! (For those too lazy to flick back to Mark's previous post, he was pointing out that we are falling behind Macrumors and AustechInfo.)

I hear and obey. More machines coming back on-line now.

Eric Idle I shouldn't think Tannin would mind, Time. :)

But probably not to the same person.

Insofar as religion is an all encompassing world view (which is essentially what religion - any religion - is), "Jedi" is a perfectly acceptable and responsible thing to put on the census form. The response of the 70,000 people who wrote "Jedi" tells us a good deal more about those people than...

Ha! I was going to say the Catholic Church. They certainly have the turnover.

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Amongst their various useless and unhealthy products, McDonalds sell Coke. But Phillip Morris would have to be way up there.

If I get a chance, I'll call Jim (my customer) and refresh my memory of the details, then post them here, Time. You can't beat HP, can you?

Coca-Cola gets my vote. Is it not ironic that one of the most useless and over-priced products ever invented should have this honour? Or is that precisely the point? (Not bashing Coke mindlessly here, I like Coke, just calling it like it is.)

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Got it. My customer finally got a response from Hewlett-Packard. It was, of course, a Hewlett-Packard driver problem. There are various performance-related settings in the advanced section of the printer properties (as with most any printer). It turns out that one of them (I forget which one...

Congratulations to Cliptin, our new #1! Some serious folding was required to overtake The JoJo, and Cliptin just keeps on going better and better. Meanwhile, I've slowed to a walk. There is something seriously wrong with the Folding client at present. A week or two ago I had more machines...

I'd just like to add note of sympathy or one particular machine of mine, known as TM1280. TM1280 is one of my dedicated folding machines. I've taken to snaffling any spare hardware around the place and building it into machines. This lets me test out the lying-around hardware, folds some...

And at long, long last, we blast past Macrumours and into the top 40 - Team #38 at present, and likely to stay in that spot for quite some time, as the steps to the next few teams are quite large ones. Special notice for Cliptin, who has re-taken second spot from me once again with a wonderful...

Hot damn! What clever felows these software people are! Now who would have thought of calling a program that reads NTFS partitions "NTFS Reader"?

Yes we do have to make it expensive, Cas. The reason is that, like all non-renewable resouces, there is a more-or-less unlimited supply until there isn't an unlimited supply any more, and the transition happens very suddenly. The market takes its pricing from the balance between the cost of...

1: LPG is a hydrocarbon. It's easier to get a clean burn with LPG, but more expensive to make vechicles to use it, and to transport it, and incredibly dangerous from the point of view of a 911-style attack. A shipload of LPG going off in New York harbour would make the Hiroshima bomb look like a...

A tax on a tax? What on earth are you talking about? The more expensive we make petrol, the better for our current account deficit, our air, our roads, the faster we develop better, cleaner fuels, and the longer it preserves our fast dwindling reserves of oil. In the longer-term, it helps...

There is a simple method. Breathtakingly simple, and very, very effective. All you do is you tax petroleum products. You adjust the level of taxation however high you need to achieve the desired fuel efficiency improvements. You don't bring it in all at once, you phase it in over several years...

Hmmm ... A fair point, Jake. I think I'll resort to St Augistine's prayer: "Oh Lord make me chaste. But not yet." But does no-one have any comment/confirmation/refutation of the Ti 4400 being axed?

I'm very wary of selling any ATI cards, except the Rage 128 8MB cheapie, because of all the horror stories I have heard about their drivers. Besides, it makes life really easy if all our cards (bar the 8MB ones) can use the same set of drivers. I care about reliability and compatibility far...

From our blurb:

Last week I ordered a couple of GF4 Ti 4400s from Leadtek. Rectron (our Leadtek people) called me to say that they had no stock and did not expect to be getting any. Apparently, Nvidia have decided not to make any more Ti 4400 chips. This seemed a bit hard to believe, so I rang around. No-one...

What's with the great drop-off in our stats? I still have the same number of machines crunching, more or less, but my output has dropped way off. So has evereyone else's, it seems. I'm not seeing any of the dreaded "unable to send results" messages, so where are all those spare electrons going?

By the way, I'd just like to announce that Tannin and I have come to a new arrangement. From now on, so as to avoid those messy disagreements that you guys may have noticed, and also because we have run out of entire plates to throw that haven't been glued back together three times already and...

Cliptin surges into Second spot! Great effort, Tea,. Cliptin, you is really crunchin. 113 points in a day must be our record. And at last report, we had this lineup: 1 2465 The_JoJo 3 2445 Cliptin 4 2229 Tea 2 2168 Clocker 5 1732 handruin Cliptin: you da man! But we still need...

Dear Mr Cliptin, I received your instructions to produce a 100 point day, and am doing my best to comply. At my productive peak last weekend, I had ... er ... 17,133MHz in total (that's if I count the Athlon XPs at their PR rating). By this afternoon, I was down to a piddly 8183MHz, and I'm...

Coming right up, Clippy. I've fallen in a hole lately. For a while there I had: 5 Athlon XP 1800 1 Athlon Thunderbird 1333 2 Duron 850 1 Thunderbird 700 Then last weekend I went stupid and walked round plugging every spare CPU I could lay my hands on into a motherboard, and going through...

Degrees. You might measure them in SI, Coug, but I assure you, they are quite different. In particular, small numbers of them are much colder down here. I'd have to do some extensive testing to make exactly sure, but roughly, 5 degrees C here is about the same as -15 in Canada or Norway. This is...

When it comes to revisiting one's own code, I know what you mean! "Slapped together" your code may be, but it still retains the admirable qualities of readability, simplicity, and efficiency. I can tell you already how to fix the Nutcrape thing. There are three possible methods: (a) Remove...

For an HR that handles ..... try this:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/liamc/ in case anybody missed it. A good effort, Bill. I never did like the old layout too much, it always looked a little cramped and fussy, this one ismuch nicer. OK, I don't like fliickery white backgrounds and prefer the old colors, but that's just a personal...

Not free, Greg, but you get what you pay for. Free to download to try out, but the free version has advertising. Register and no more ads.

Please send 15 or 20 of those degrees of yours over here right away! I know they are only weakling little Canadian degrees, which are not as warm as our Australian ones, but we would love to have a few of them just the same. (You do use the normal Canadian/European degrees C in Quebec? Or have...

Most assuredly the 100% genuine article, Mercutio. He owns two of them, I gather: the 98 he bought for the old machine and the 02 for this newer one. The HP Deskjet, although an injet, does have a fairly substantial amount of its own RAM. At least it can go on printing graphics for quite a...

Thanks Time. We did the clean install, he installed AC2002, had the same problem, then uninstalled 2002 and replaced it with AC98. I agree that it doesn't sound like hardware, but there is no convincing people of that untill you have proved it. Over the years I have gradually come to believe...