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Did anyone mention hot chocolate yet? Kristi and I both love hot chocolate.

Yup. But it was quite some time ago, using Mandrake 8.0. It was a little better, as I recall, but still horrible. Maybe a year or so on it's different. It was certainly easy enough.

On the other hand, my SR to SF ratio is about 1:3, which should help balance matterers out again! :)

Yup. Us too. We rarely use a stand-alone soundcard anymore. Back a couple of years ago, we always did. Now it's only for the keener gamer. Santilli, ESS have been making sound chips (just the chips - not the actual cards) for many years. They became famous for cheap, rather nastly little ISA...

But there is more! (Tea checks calender. Nope. Not April 1st. Frowns, scratches ear with foot, decides that it must be a mistake.)

Also on The Reg today, the UK governent, which got into a lot of hot water over it's previous very obvious pro-Microsoft at any price stance, has now announced some sort of institutionalised preference for open source software. The document is titled: Open Source Software Policy Document and was...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26278.html If true, very interesting.

My productivity just improved quite a bit with the installation of cable here at home. So I now have 2 real 24x7 machines, the XP 1800 and the TB1333. The office cable connection is coming on Monday next week. Right now I have zero crunching at work: neither of my two machines (TB1000 and XP...

BLIP! Guilty as charged, Your Worship. I must have blinked.

Hmmmm ... But would that only do it to Internet Explorer and not to Opera, Moz, and Netscape? Whatever. It works again now. Anyway, It got me into the habit of mostly using Opera instead, so that was a hidden bonus.

Tannin and I drift into and out of the habit. We hang around for a few weeks and post a bit, then we just lurk for a while, then we don't bother at all for a while. Then one day, for no particular reason, we get the urge again and post four or five times a day again for a few weeks before we get...

PCI Sound Blaster cards are notoriously difficult about PCI slot assignment, James. For example, in a VA-503+ (and most other three slot boards) they absolutely, positively refuse to work in slot 3, rarely work in slot 1, and almost always work perfectly in slot 2. Four slot boards are much the...

Hmmmm... Does she have orange fur? Do you suppose that she and I are related?

Ahh, I was about to ask about mainframes. And in-between things of the AS-400 flavour, come to that.

Now, Time. We do indeed have a "morally corrupt government" and "complicit media (who are only interested in sensationalism, not truth)". Not many people despise the Howard Government more than I do. The media, however, have become quite hysterical allies of the well-meaning but terribly...

We are indeed a long way apart on this one, James, and are no doubt destined to remain so. Still, for the benefit of other readers (or possibly because I never could resist a good argument) I'll ponder in a little more depth. I have paid little or no attention to the situation vis-a-vis UN...

Ahh.. Thankyou Time. They are going to quote for the job before they start, so I'll see what their quote is. If it's too high I'll do it myself. Or, more likely, chicken out and call the sparkie.

I think you read that "dumping on" into my post, Mercutio. I have nothing against it in theory, just a complete and total lack of use for it. I have never personally worked on a system that hade a use for file system security. (At least not to remember.) Doubtless in the corporate world, it's an...

PS re installation of cables: Time, I gather that they don't care how much work they have to do, just so long as I don't care how much money I have to give them. I could probably buggerise about and save $50 by hiring someone else (well, maybe save $50), or save a fair bit more than that by...

Ahh, James. I'm not ignoring your advice. :) As I mentioned, I'm up to my eyeballs in other stuff right now, so I won't be paying proper, thoughtful attention to this till I get the horrible paperwork out of the way. About the end of this week, I hope. But in the meantime, I need something that...

The problem, Buck, is not actually with the Woomera detention centre. It is with our stupid legal system. Out of a sense of misguided fair-play (or, more realistically, out of a sense of legal-fee greed perhaps) it is perfectly possible and indeed commonplace for illegal immigrants to stay on in...

Ahh. I see your second post now. No matter, I figured it out. Tell me, what makes them cheap and cheezy? Are there better tools I should be checking with?

Thanks i, looks good so far. I can see that I have a great deal of reading ahead of me just the same. More generally, the setup of Smoothwall was so easy that I'm inclined to think I'll do the office that same way. It means an extra machine, of course, but it obviously need not be powerful. The...

Ahh, thankyou James. Well, I had a good careful look at the fine print, and so far as I can tell, there is no barrier at all to using my bandwidth as I please. Cool!

Sicko? Don't be ridiculous, Mercutio. HPFS is NTFS. Same thing, different label. Which was done for marketing reasons (and the usual shaft-the-opposition anti-competitive stuff of course). Essentially you have three versions of it: 1: HPFS. Written by Microsoft, used in both OS/2 and Windows...

In a word, yes. All modern browsers (and in this instance by "modern" I mean anything since fairly early Netscape versions - i.e., all modern ones and most old ones too) can and do resize images as part of the browser design. They are not particularly good image resizers, not compared to PMView...

Er, that wasn't very clear. How come I have cable now but I still type slow? What I meant was that I set it up as red & green and then just plugged my two network cables in at random. I'll read up on this properly when I get a half chance in a few days, but for now, just the short version -...

Ahh. Yes. Next time, I'll make sure that I use two different NICs. This little box has two identical ones (brand new Realtek 8139s) and I had no way of knowing which one was red and which one green, so I just figured that I had a 50% chance of getting it right and plugged it in at random. My...

It may well be obsolete, but it can multi-task far better than any Windows version ever did, o Doggy One. Or, no doubt, given the massive code-bloat that MS can't seem to avoid these days, ever will. But yes: the multi-tasking advantage of the NT family Windows products over the 9X family stuff...

Your problem, o doggy one, is not the lack of a second CPU. It is the lack of a decent multi-tasking OS. :wink: All jokes aside, no version of Windows that I have ever seen can multi-task particularly well.

Damn it Buck, I'm three parts inclined to send you those tickets right away. (An extra one for my friend the Bartender, of course.) Plus, just in case you need an extra bit of advice or help with it, a ticket for Mercutio. Only problem I have with that is that Tannin seems to have secreted his...

Just slipping in for a quick note of appreciation to all - James and Mercutio in particular - I'm going to be tied up with taxation paperwork for he next few days, so I won't get to read and explore the material here in any depth for a while, but I will get to it. Right now, I have simply...

2.5GB a month on each line, Pradeep, so 5GB total. 11c a MB if you go over the limit. Plus, all you can eat (which doesn't count towards your 2.5GB) between 1:00AM and 7:00AM. Cost is $99 setup plus $75 per month (for each line). They don't seem to care what I do with it. Unless it's hidden...

Awesome! I can't believe how fast this is! (Yup, my cable is on at home. Next the office.) Wow!

Yup. My new XP 1800 has been trying to get an initial work packet since Sunday AM. It's now Tuesday AM. :(

5: Atilla the Hun is generally better than Telstra.

1: Nope. It's cable, not ADSL. Neighborhood cable. 2: Doug already has an excellent backup system (as he outlined just now). I see no reason at all to stop that system, which is practical and convenient. Besides, I'd rather trust Doug to remember to burn CDRs than me! (Really. I forget...

Wanna borrow one of the Red Hill batch files? Nahh. You can write batch files yourself, I rather suspect. I don't know that I've ever used the Windows GUI to make a boot disc. Oh yes, I did once, just to see what happened. Then I went right back to using Tannin's batch files. It's easier. (None...

AUP? I figure that I won't be generating that much traffic and that what they don't know won't hurt them. My idea is not to switch my main site over, just to provide myself with lots of space for things like pictures of hard drives for Buck to drool over. And for Doug to push a copy of the...

Do you accept bananas?

(a) What happens if you just SYS A: from the command line? (b) If that fails, from DOS Mode? (c) Use Norton Utilities for DOS (you are bound to have one lying around) to make the disc bootable. (Long shot this last one, but if all else fails it might be worth trying.)

Within the next week or two, I expect to have a cable system up and running and connected to my office network (see this thread for details - and also if you want to help me set it up right). That will give me: 1: A cable link in the 512k class. (They no longer cap the cable link speeds on...

Forgive me for the length and complexity of this. I'm hoping that you guys will be able to make some sensible suggestions to make email a usable practical thing for me, as opposed to my current chaotic non-system, which is all but useless. First, the background (I've hacked the addresses in...

On the whole, I guess popping zits is to be prefered. Though, on the other hand, I guess if you are popping zits in public already, then it's odds-on that you are only 20 years, a toupee, and a bottle of fake tanning lotion away from the outside of that under-age disco. Pretty tough one to...

Hey, Coug, am I the first to notice? Wow! I never get to start off the milestone threads. Cool! And, if I may say so, 1000 posts shot through with humour, wisdom, and real depth of knowledge. Congratulations! PS: When are you going to knock Mercutio off his perch as the #1 poster around here...

Thanks Clocker. I'll chase that up a little later (I'm here at the office working late doing Tannin's horrible bloody tax return for him and not free to spend any time worth talking about right now.) (Typical Tannin, by the way. It's just like him to bugger off into na-na land with the faries...

My XP1800 has been trying to get an initial work unit for 36 hours now. No dice. There is no networking problem: I can ping out just fine, and surf the web from it too. What could be wrong?

Oh we don't mess about with cooling here,

Hmmmm .... I see. Nope, Time, I bought these from a firm that the other place put me in contact with. They are a general electrical wholesaler, I gather, and don't know anything at all about computers. I asked for case fans and they said "what's a case fan" so I told them 12V, 80cm, 25mm thick...

Excuse me, I meant to say "is their reputation hokum?"