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I jush bought 10 Papst 80cm fans and the one I plugged in is a long way off quiet. Is it a dud? Or is their reputation hohum?

Returning to the title of your thread, it looks like you really are living up to your name, Clocker! Your Folding score speaks for itself. Congratulations on your accession to the number 2 spot!

And, if we add in my new XP 1800 as well, enough to get us back where we ought to be - out-crunching Team Austechinfo. :)

:( I set up an XP 1800 today, along with an Athlon 1000. The 1000 was re-using an existing install on a little old Fujitsi 1.1GB drive - slow as mud but who cares - and worked fine. The XP, on the other hand, was a fresh install of Win98 on a 2.1GB Fireball SE. Installed Windows, copied the...

I take it all back. Anyone who can spell "chocolate croissants", let alone somehow manage to make just three of them last for an entire seven hours, has my sincere admiration.

I have informed The Grammar Police about this breech of protocol, and PMed the Soup_Nazi so that, if he wishes, he can come over here and defend his turf. Can just anyone post the Soup_Nazi's picture?

Yup. From the Junk Spy website: Of course, if you were not irretrievably wedded to Microsoft Outbreak, you wouldn't need an anti-virus program. :mrgrn: (Tea! Stop that at once!) (Sorry.)

I just downloaded and installed a package called Junk Spy. You can get it from www.junkspy.com I've tried many and various junkmail blockers before, but this one is far and away the best I have ever seen. So far, since I installed it on Friday, I have had 64 emails, with the following results...

Quite so, Mark. On my very intermittent connections, it is the only way to go. (Next week I am getting cable. I can't wait.) The trouble with having two copies is that it is all too easy to start one copy twice, and that results in an instant nuke of your work in progress. You have to create...

Hmmm .. Tannin tried to make me 38 just now, but I wasn't wearing it. So it seems that we have at least some free will. Actually, I've never noticed Buck's head go "tump" on the bar. He seems to subside quite gracefully most of the time, with just an imperceptable sort of gradual slump into...

This business of having Team Austech Info out-folding us is just not on. :( I just dug out a couple of systems and plugged them in here at the office, so as to do my little bit to keep them at bay. That leaves the Red Hill contributution to the Storage Forum team looking like this: Tea (home)...

Well, this is just the very thing Tannin and I were discussing, Buck. Do imaginary people age? Tannin seems to think that we do, but I'm not so sure. I rather suspect that I'll still be my current size and shape in 100 years. I mean, how old is Christopher Robin? Or Dorothy? Now those two were...

If he doesn't pass that thing soon, he won't know whether he is OJ or not!

Hey! E_dawg my man! Great to see you! Damn. it, where is Tannin when you want him? (Tannin! Get over here!) (Huh?) (Come over and say hi to e_dawg.) (I'm busy. You say 'hi' for me ... Who did you say?) (E_dawg.) (Oh. That's different. Hang on a tic. I'll be right there.)

Well expressed research indeed, Time. My Kyocera arrived a week or so ago, and we are very happy with it. To summarise in an impressionistic sort of way: Speed to first page from full cold (i.e., on standby for 24 hours): Fuji-Xerox p8ex: a noticable delay. Almost 30 seconds to complete page...

It's the same for me, using any browser. When I log into the front page, it takes me to the silly user prefferences page or some such. (As if I want to change my prefferences every time I visit.) I just figure it's a bit of phpNuke weirdness and hit BACK a few times. It's always done it.

Hmmm ... At US$350 plus the cost of tapes, that's not exactly good value for money. But the tape drive market is getting more and more high-end-only these days, mainly because of the advent of CD-R. And high-end or not, tape drives always were trully horrible things. Worse than Zip drives...

Ballarat is 120k from Melbourne. You got it Jake. Bush! :wink:

I have a 12X LG at home which has been perfectly servicable. Belinda (Kristi's mum) has one too. Sold a half-dozen Lite-On 16X drives a while ago, none came back. You can't complain about a 0% failure rate, though that's hardly a fair sample size. But the temptaton for me to play with other...

Depth of field is a function of the apature, and (b) the focal length of the lens, nothing to do with the recording medium, except isofar as a faster film (or film substitute) allows the use of smaller apatures. PS: how the heck do you spell "apature"? I know that is wrong but I dunno what is...

I don't know, Clocker. I'd have to benchmark it. Tannin might know, I'll ask him.

Worst drinking experience? I ... er ... don't seem to be able to remember it.

As Tannin mentioned in another thread, I'm reduced to just two machines now: the XP1800 and the T-bird 1333. Those two machines are 24/7 crunchers but restricted by the stupid no-net lack in the primitive folding client. The 1333 doesn't usually have a monitor switched on and I rely on the...

Quite right, Mark. I am a real imaginary person.

Just so, NRG. Athlon Classic was one of a kind. Athlon Thunderbird = Duron 600, 650, 700, 750, 800, 850, 900 & 950. Athlon MP = Athlon XP = Duron 100, 1100, 1200 & 1300. As Mercutio says, cache and FSB aside, the Athlons and the Durons are exactly the same.

Don't worry about your double post, Mark. Just ask one of the mods to cross your name out on the second one and write my name on it instead. That's almost exactly what I would say. I believe that in a marriage, unconditional faithfulness is an essential. Not a desirable thing, not a good thing...

Tea. Of course. :)

Quite so, Groltz. While I don't want to say anything unkind about my African brothers-in-fur, we orangutans consider ourselves a cut above the common chimpanze. We look quite different. Here is a young chimp, about my age. (I'm not sure who he is, I just found his picture on the web.) As...

Just so, Dozer.

lose Why do I always spell "lose" with a double "o"? And it looks like I'm a little late with my advice. Oh well, so be it.

Some good suggestions above on the "drinks for non-drinkers" front. Let me, as a confirmed newbie to alcohol and thus an expert in this area, make a couple of my own. Gin squash. Goes down easy, a nice, refreshing, slightly bitter flavour. Rates about 5 on the Macho Cool scale (where neat...

Just so. Well, some of the times. Other times it has simply served to remind me how much I loathe that particular something and turn my squeamishness into an absolute and complete rejection. I place nightclubs in the latter category. As for bars, it depends on the bar, on the noise level (I...

Hey Pradeep! Cool! I was wondering if were were going to to be graced with your mugshot ... er ... I mean portrait. Neat.

Kristi took one of them home. It came back. Promptly. Perhaps if she reads this thread she will give you the details.

Two boards, both unsalable because they hang and crash. Buy ECS at your own risk.

Excuse me, that was unclear. My 80% figure reffered to the installed base; the subsequent figure to what is selling now.

Approximately 80% of the retail market, that's who. Currently, given the choice, about 60% of new system buyers opt for Win98SE rather than XP Home exition. Another 10% pony up the extra dollars and go for Win2000.

Did they even have cameras back then? Or did you have to hire a man with a chisel and a slab of granite? (Don't be precious.) Great picture Steve!

Yup. A bit quieter than a Delta. That's about right. I don't think it stays on for all that long. I'm a little over-sensitive to it because when we had the p8ex in the back office we also had a cheap auto printer switchbox which kept triggering the damn thing every ten minutes or so, even when...

I'm enough hours ahead that if I try to count them I run out of fingers. Is that as many as 20 to 21? (But I can count pretty well just the same. Watch: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, lots!)

Your birthdays were probably yesterday my time, but no matter. Enjoy!

(Tea strikes pose, affects posh accent.) (Ignores fact that her cool, haughty, hand on hip pose looks ridiculous on a four foot six ape.) What are you saying? Me? Work on a printer? Darling, I don't do printers.

James, I went through a moderate yen for Brother lasers a while back, after I got tired of Hewlett-Packard. We sold perhaps a dozen of their then-current entry-level model, an 8PPM thing if I remember correctly, and found it to be perfectly OK. Can't remember if it was quiet or not. I think we...

I doubt that HP would be providing free replacements for a five year old printer, Pradeep! Hell, as I posted at length in another thread a while ago, HP can't even provide proper service on their brand new products. I think it must be the 1100 that your memory applies to. PS: Someone please...

Nope. I'm talking about this. It seems that there two major makers of quality audio editing software in the PC world, both German, Steinberg and the other lot, who I can't remember the name of. These are products in the four figure price bracket. Well, Apple just bought that other company...

The results were that I got a pro-forma faxed to me yesterday, did a direct deposit, and should get my goodies about 4:30 this afternoon. :) Vin - the guy I'm buying these things from - also sent me a link to one of the funniest things I've seen in a while, and a page that is absolutely sure to...

Steve, that's an awesome cooler article you linked to. Thanks!

Hmmm.. I already have some second-hand Hewlett-Packards. Though I guess something like a 4MP would do the trick. But, damn it, the Kyocera sounds just about spot-on. Now I'm hoping that the HP really is incurable. :( I think I'll just order a 1010 anyway. I think it's time I did something...

2c: Postscript would be OK instead of PCL.

I forgot: 2a: Parallel interface. A direct network connection would do at a pinch, but it would mean a lot of messing about with recabling. I don't care if it has USB or not, but it needs to have a parallel port.