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Ahh, they have changed it now. Should I take a screenshot of the "force 6.04" link and page? Nahh. (Tea closes window, consigns another ephemeral web page to the eternal dustbin of history.)

Thankyou Groltz. Hey - here is something weird. Because I am lazy or stupid or something, I didn't click on your link, I just typed www.opera.com and clicked on the download link there. It leads to www.opera.com/download/get.pl?platform=win&force=6.04 - where your link is to the normal...

Ahh. Gil.com is a Brisbane ISP. I have a friend uses them for his dial-up, says they are good guys.

Cool! Thanks guys!

Ahh, thankyou Merc. I take it that I can download the setup.exe, hunt out the option, and then not install IE 6.0? I don't want to "upgrade" any of my own machines, just have the full install available on hard drive or CD so that I can install if needed. And I'll check out those modem CDs.

Don't have the DMZ set up yet, o Wise Human. Something to do with lack of time, which has something to do with spending the entire weekend, day and night, sorting out a customer's networking and virus problems (seriously nasty job that one) and all night tonight playing with AutoCRAP and...

Jim has a small office with two computers. His old machine is a P-III 733 (or something similar), his new one a Duron 900 DDR. Epox main board, Gforce II MX 200, 512MB DDR, internal modem, Win98SE, nothing else. I mean nothing else. Printer is an HP Deskjet 1120 A3 unit. When he prints a...

Not quite as stupid a question as it looks. I want to install IE 6.0 on a customer's machine to see if it resolves his AutoCAD printing problem (which we suspect may be caused by IE 5.5) All I need is the Zip file (or .exe, whatever) but the Microsoft site only offers setup.exe which is a half...

No, I can't go adding $80 to a system, Coug. All that does is price me out of the market. There are 30-odd computer dealers in this small town: $80 is well and truly enough to make you uncompetitive. For this sort of system, the last few percent of performance are neither here nor there. Not...

Plug in a Promise card? (Runs and hides.)

Thanks Jeff. The thing that is confusing me is that I thought the 845E was the chipset that did the 533 FSB, but I see the plain 845 (no suffix) listed as 533MHz too. Maybe it's a typo in my Gigabyte price list.

Thanks Coug, that was a really speedy response. Alas, the 8IGX is roughly twice the price of a good Socket A DDR mainboard (Gigabyte or Epox), 50% more than the two boards I just mentioned, and has on-board graphics, which we don't do unless we absolutely, positively can't avoid it - though I...

We almost never sell Intel CPUs anymore. Today, we sold our very first P4 CPU and mainboard ever. We might sell the odd other one over the next few months, might not - it depends on the price-performance equation, which at this stage still favours AMD. In fact at the moment, we are buying: A...

I tried smoking once Jake, but I kept setting my paw on fire. Tannin likes to smoke though.

Grrrrr! I hate it when I write a reply two minutes after the previous post but then get called away to deal with things and don't get back to hit "submit" until hours later.

The quote said polonium, which is, as I recall, one of the two radioactive elements that the Curies discovered during their pioneering work. Marie Curie expected that one of the two would prove to be more useful and therefore named it after her native Poland - hence "polonium". Alas for her, it...

Underclocked? Do you think you better to hang up your boots and give up your handle?

Swap out the power supply before you do anything radical

Seems to me that Jake is folding fast enough already!

Can you spare me 10? Then we would both be a nice, comfortable 17.

No experience at all, I'm afraid, JMP. But seeing as your post has been up for a day or so now, and no-one else has responded, looks like I'm all you get. Knowing nothing about the nForce chipset boards, what can I tell you? Well, the obvious: the chipset post-dates Win98SE and probably ME as...

I'm starting to think that you may have a hardware issue, Adcadet. I'd boot from floppy and run Zap again. Then boot from the Win XP CD and install from there, using the XP's installation routine's partitioning tool. If you still can't install, then it's hardware: CD drive, cable, the XP CD...

That's because Microsoft didn't write Linux. Linux works.

Boot off that Win98 boot floppy of yours and run fdisk to make sure the partition is marked A for active, Andrew. If in doubt, also type FDISK /MBR. That can't do any harm, and may be just what you need. - no - wait - you should be running the XP equivalent of that - what ever that is. Better...

Oh. And the really, really obvious - make sure you have checked your boot sequence in your BIOS. I have been known to have an entire computer in pieces loking for the hardware problem before I remembered to check that.

Hmmm .... A master boot record problem, that much is clear. Is the partition you created active? A non-active primary partition will give you that symptom. (As, of course, will numerous other things, most of which escape me at the moment.) Personally, I never really trust Partition Magic, but...

Doug should be in upstate Maine by now, JMP, catching mosquitos and slapping salmon. Or something like that, anyway. He'll be back in about a week or ten days.

(Carefully not replying to Steve's post.)

That darn Cliptin just keeps on raising the ante. Look at his daily output! (WTF are you running, Cliptin?) I currently have: 5 Athlon XP 1800 1 Athlon Thunderbird 1333 2 Duron 850 1 Thunderbird 700 all running 24/7 and he is still outpacing me! So, I am hunting around the place looking for...

I just wanna know why Tannin is getting all the attention in this thread. He has turned 1000 lots of times. This is my very first time ever! And I got up to 987 or something at Storage Review when they crashed it and put me back to zero.

Mark's Pentium 133 4 work units, 3.8 points Kristi's XP 1800 3 work units, 5.4 points Mark's Pentium 133 Been crunching for two months. Kristi's XP 1800 Been crunching for two days.

Time is very good at researching things. Tannin, on the other hand, has a gift for discovering ugly, unresearched brute-force solutions that sort of work anyway. When I grow up (if I ever grow up, that is) I want to be a real technician. Like Time.

welcome (ese my sig)

Good for you, Coug. Wecome back!

As opposed, of course, to their joysticks and other assorted crap products, which are absolutely dreadful. But when it comes to mice, Logitech are the best in town.

http://www.redhill.net.au/d-o.html#backpack For SCSI drives, you do nothing, bar install the card. You don't have to do anything in BIOS. And Zip drives don't count anyway, even IDE ones.

Errr, what was that, Tannin?

What is "G3 fax", Cliptin? For years and years, fax has run at 14.4 come rain, hail or shine. All fax machines run at 14.4, and all fax modems can do 14.4 for faxing. Always have. Did somebody change the rules?

My friend Tannin is so stupid, David, that he would probably get it going for you just because he likes playing with old computers. But he's in Australia, so that's probably not much help.

Slept at the office.

Two days without internet? Wow! What will he do?

Hi IFMU. Good to see you stopping by. I had a little trouble finding the link, but I tracked it down to this thread here - and it's great to see so many people getting a buz out of it. Cool! PS: Vlad - that was one grrrrreat post you started this thread with.

One thing to remember about MFM/RLL drives is that the parameters are not set by the drive as such, but rather by the drive controller - so, if you happen to have a 35 SPT controller in your machine (just for example) then 35SPT is what you need.

I've never tried using any modem as a host with any operating system, Time.

I have always found that the Rockwell/Connexant external chipset modems work just fine. I have seen individual models that didn't work properly, but very, very few of them. In general, I use and recommend X-Streama - these are the Australian re-badging of the modems made by Well Modem in Tiawan...

Neat! Great to have you with us, JMP. Be sure to post a little more often from now on.:) To get twin CPUs going, if I remember correctly, you need two copies of the console version. (This is for Windows - I don't know what the Linux arrangement is.) Make two folders: FOLD1 and FOLD2, for...

Your B: drive may have died, David. Maybe it would be best to plug your 5.25 inch A: drive into another machine and copy the program over onto it from there. Don't use your good, working boot disc! Use a spare one. Before you do that though, I think you'll find that the Seagate download is a...

Q: How would one normally describe Sol's spelling? Q: As compared to stumps, joists, bearers, and tongue and groove boards, what is the advantage of a concrete slab foundation? It's _____ ____? A: Woof.

James, please be more careful with your language. The correct term, as I'm sure you know, is "mulitdysfunctions".

Do pythons like catfish?