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Well, it used to be true. Still is, to some extent. But I better update it, I guess.

Oh, Timwit. Don't be so ... so practical.

But on re-reading my thread title, cquin, I shold have said "revisiting the bookmark graveyard". That would have been more in keeping with the mood of my post. (Actually, I haven't had Tom's bookmarked for many a long year, not since he used to be at www.sys.pair.com/somethingorotherIforgetnow...

I thought I was here.

DOH! I just realised that I'm still in the wrong thread! I thought (from the title) that this was the thread about SF emails going astray, particularly the confirmation email that goes out when you first sign up and gives you the page to go to to activate your membership. This was quite an...

Don't be so negative, cquinn. Pride? No, not quite pride. Something a little different. I used to like Tom's, back years ago when he first started, and for a few years after that. But as the quality gradually declined and the arrogance - never a minor factor even at the very start - increased...

Hey Sol - you are crunching again. Cool!

At 35C ambient, there is nothing in the slightest wrong with your case temp. Hell, in summer, my ambient room temp is higher than that on a hot day. More case fans ain't the answer. And yes, I'd be very surprised to find that you didn't know how to apply a heat sink and some thermal; goo, Tim...

No. Sorry Tim. Not crazy. Just posted in the wrong thread. Read the other one (just below this one at present) and you will see the method in my madness. I was going to post here to expain that apparent nonsense above but you were too quick for me. :)

... I got an email, telling me that a new private message had arrived. Here is the header (some addresses suitably anti-spam hacked) Now the funny thing is that I actually got the PM ages before that: it is dated in my PM inbox as 30th July, 20:13, and I sent my reply at 20:48. (On whatever...

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In responding to the K6-III thread just now, I happened to follow a Google link to Tom's Hardware. You know, I had honestly forgotten that that site existed. I don't think Tom's had crossed my mind as a place to visit (or even as a place to stay away from) for ... oh ... maybe three or four...

You will probably find, Carolyn, that the ASUS won't work with a K6-III+ in any case. Very, very few boards support the II+ or III+ - it's not just a matter of having 2.0V support and setting the multiplier right. Nor is it one of those purely cosmetic issues that result in you getting a system...

(Woops! Sometimes I just don't think. Sorry. Can I make some sort of restitution by discussing my own fall from folding grace and subsequent return to a modest but still decent level of productivity?) (If you must.) Well, I started to get pretty discouraged a while back. The Workshop Nazis...

The China Thread, insofar as it was a one-size-fits-all massive giant of a thread devoted to anything and everything off-topic, never once went off-topic. Except, perhaps, when that bounder (whoever he was) started to discuss hard drive performance matters. But that was OK. It didn't last for...

As to your particular problem, Tim, I suspect tat you happen to have either (a) a more than usually hot running chip, or (b) a main board related problem. I'm assuming here that your case temp is reasonable - but is it? Do you have a figure for it?

There is a fair bit of variation between individual XPs, Tim. Or at least that is what I have found. How much of the variation one can ascribe to the CPUs themselves, and how much can be put down to other factors is a different question. Actually, it woulds be interesting to see what people...

Not a task that fits inside the K6-III cache and doesn't require the FPU, Coug. And I don't count these castrated Pentium 4 thingies as Celerons. It's a completely different chip, for the love of Mike! If there is any such thing as a "Celeron 1700" then I'm typing this on a K6-4/1800. :mrgrn:

A) What size bra does the dyslexic boxer wear? Q) Compaq.

Any FPU intensive task, Coug.

No no, Coug. It's great to see that the wonderful new Athlon XP 1600 is so cheap that you can pick it up for around the same price as an old K6. :)

As opposed, of course, to opera singers, who sing as if they have marbles in an entirely different part of the alimentary canal? (Tea! Stop that at once!) (Sorry.)

It's coming and going. Seems to be OK again now. But it was [i]way[]/i] slow for the past half hour, and everywhere else was OK. (Including several other US destinations.)

A different one this morning. The site isn't down, but for the last half hour or so it has been really, really slow. Everywhere else on the web is normal.

Oops!

I should be surprised to discover that anyone complained about their lyrics before their first album came out. I mean, who can make out the lyrics in an AC/DC tune unless they read the liner notes?

I should be surprised to discover that anyone complained about their lyrics before their first album came out. I mean, who can make out the lyrics in an AC/DC tune unless they read the liner notes?

Oh dear. I didn't think of that. Just as well, really, as I'm far too young to understand it. :wink:

Steve's definition is good. But seeing as I wrote the rest of this already, I'll post it anyway. It's an English thing, JoJo - by which I mean "English English", as opposed to "American English" or "Australian English". I'm not sure where it originally came from, but it refers to the...

An awesome performance, JoJo! Great effort.

Excuse me, I seem to have posted using Tannin's handle.

Hi HellDiver! Nice to see you popping in.

My office cable hook-up is not done yet, Doug. I hope to get it next week sometime. Also, I have to build a Smoothwall box (easy), run some new network cables around the place (tedious but easy) and set up a box in the orange zone running an FTP server (or whatever system works out to be most...

I gave a little more again, if it makes you feel better, guys. But I have not regretted it for a moment. Eugene and Davin brought me a great site, some wonderful friends, and several good years. Indirectly, they made this place possible. So my donation wasn't personally acknowledged, and hasn't...

No Time, from Comnet in West Melbourne. So far as I know, Westan don't carry them, only the Mitsubushis, which are (in my opinion) nothing special at all. Unless they have improved this last year or so, of course. They used to be very ordinary.

I'll leave exact recommendatios to someone better qualified, Steve, but FWIW my feeling is that you should go for as big a unit as you can reasonably afford, because computer power consumption is going steadily up and you will have the UPS for quite a long time. There is nothing worse tyhan...

Three new machines and a new member. Cool! Stick around, Mars. Someone has to drill some sense into these guys, and Buck and I need all the help we can get. :wink:

Site was down again for five or ten minutes just now.

Never. IBM are just like that. Always have been, always will be. PS: Buck, just how do you define "flop"? By Microsoft standards, sure, but by any other standards it has been a resounding success. I don't think anyone could regard an OS that, at its market peak, was selling ten million copies...

Honeywell 101WN - that's the one, Time. I have about four of them. I wasn't aware of the model number but you prompted me to turn this one upside down and, sure enough, that's what it is. This particular one, like most of mine, is Osbourne badged, but I understand that they were all actually...

A Co-Co, i? The incredibly ancient Tannin seems to think that they ran a very unusal and rather elegant little chip - was it a 6809? I think it was. Yes, here it is: (From Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present: http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/jbayko/cpu1.html#Sec1Part6 ) That's old, my...

Hmmm... I can get older and slower than that without too much trouble. Well, if I raid Tannin's collection I can. I think the lowest-tech thing he has that is still in working order is his 4MHz Z-80 box from 1985. But that's not old. 1970s is old. But wait! There is his 2MHz Z80 portable! An...

A very simple, practical method, Steve. Not sure if I'll ever get keen enough to do that, but thankyou.

Is there a function key equivalent? Shict-alt f12 or anything like that? It would be relly useful. (But not useful enough to go and bugger up all the workshop keyboards with those poxy get-in-the-road-all-the-time Windows keys, of course.)

What's win-break? (I don't have any of those perverted keyboards, just honest 101-key Honywells. Unless I were to break a new ne out of a box, of course.)

The simplest one is probably the best: plain old Cadbury Drinking Chocolate. In a normal sized cup, one largish teaspoon of drinking chocolate, a little sugar (one spoon is enough for me) and a generous dash of milk. It's best to slip the result into the microwave for a few moments to bring it...

Alt space. Thankyou Time. I'll tell Tannin right away. (Bet you he has forgotten again by Tuesday.)

I consider you a wise old man, Mark. Anyone who has to take their shoes off to work out how old they are is ancient.

On Acrobat I have to agree with Cas. It is one of the very few applications that can screw up OS/2's multitasking to the point where the vital system processes (comms links and such) continue but the system becomes unusable until Acrobat has finished doing whatever it is doing. (Printing is the...