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And I think I have one of Mark Turner around here too. Is this it? No. That's his younger brother. I'm sure I have a proper photo of Mark here somewhere.

Well, most of them, Simon. Take that Prof. Wizard for starters. Did you see that ridiculous picture he put up? Ha! I know you are fairly new around here, but I can tell you, I've known Constantine for years, and he doesn't look anything like that. This is the real Prof. Wizard.

Ha! "So what do we all look like", eh? What a lot of shonky fakesters you all are! Seems like there is not one of you who has the guts to post a picture of your real self. Do think you can fool me? Well, you might be pulling the wool over some members' eyes, but I ain't falling for it. So...

Well, she did want to ask you guys more questions about buying a VCR. Tannin was about to write in her questions for her in the VCR thread when he said that she ought to ask them herself. She agreed, but said "not right now". I think she is weakening. :) PS: I discovered her at lunchtime...

There! That's not a picture of anyone, it's just an ear.And anyway, I'm not going to say who it is, so I can't see that there is anything wrong with that is there? (I'm sure the Soup_Nazi won't really mind.)

I won't! I took it, I can post it if I want to.

Tannin, on the other hand, is not nearly so good-looking. Especially today. That's because it's Friday, and he is always at his absolute worst on Fridays. Here - See what I mean?

Well, everybody knows what I look like. That's my picture in my avatar after all. But here is a picture of me when I was just a baby, before I grew a proper amount of hair. That's Kristi holding me on the left, but you can't see much of her.That's a pity, cause she's pretty. Nearly as pretty as...

<IMG>www.rotting-energy.net/Forums/rating.png</IMG> gives you this: But <IMG>http://www.rotting-energy.net/Forums/rating.png</IMG> gives this: I dunno why, but that's what you have to do.

No plan to change any of my current video cardsfor the next couple of years. Ahhh, that's two G450s, a G400, two G200s and a Millenium II, I think.

Prof, you are supposed to lift a few barbells and do some press-ups and stuff, not just look at the girls, you know. :wink:

John Entwhistle was a true master of his instrument. I have one of his solo albums somewhere about the place, besides the inevitable Who ones. Live at Leeds is my favourite. A nit-pick perhaps, but I was saddened to see the BBC trying to show just how important the Who were by highlighting the...

So James - just what is it that C&W have done right? With most of the others falling over one by one, why is it that C&W are looking good? (Apart from the fact that they hire the very best and brightest staff, of course. :))

Getting rid of cars is a pipe dream. But I see no reason at all why we should not use them a great deal less than we do. We could sit around all year talking about ways and means, but (if I may take a leaf out of the New Right's book) by far the best and simplest would be to simply pay some...

Re: Definition vs. reality Ahh, and there is the nub of it. Well, as long as you can laugh there is not too much wrong with the world. And with that remark, Cliptin, for no particular reason you gave me a good old-fashioned belly laugh. Sometimes I'm glad I'm just an ape. You humans really are...

Hmmm.. Just got a call from my Targa rep. He must be reading this thread! Targa 17" flat is now $245x. That's pretty good. In fact, well worth considering. They are not a bad monitor. Made in Germany, decent picture quality. Dot pitich is about 0.25 or 0.26 I think. But I'd still go with a 19.

Far as I know, there is no such thing as a cheap flat 17. Flatties all seem to cost about AU$400 or $450. I've stopped selling them, because for almost the same money you can buy a decent 19 inch - not flat, but who cares? Size really does matter. Look for something like a 19 inch Delta or...

Here we have a perfect example of the way that most people misunderstand basic economics. It ain't like that at all Cliptin. On the face of things, that seems like a perfectly sensible point of view; something to balance up against Mercutio's argument that we all of us fund lots of things that...

Remember how I fantasised about a high-speed rail link from Ballarat to Melbourne a few posts above? Well, it's official. The Premier announced it today. Contracts are signed, the opening day is set: 64 minutes Ballarat to Melbourne. :)

Mark, as always, is perfectly correct. There is one wire in the cable which is dedicated to sensing media change. I'm not sure how practical these tips are, but a couple of things you can play with are: (i) Try forcing a media re-detect from the keyboard. The key combination is CONTROL-C. Old...

They have two sizes in service. From memory, the 200 and the 300. About 90% of the Melbourne Sydney trips are the bigger one. ("338" in Qantas speak - the "38" indicates that this particular aircraft was built for Boeing's customer number 38 (which is Qantas)). In theory, if they were to buy a...

What? And produce an ATA drive with a lower seek time? Hell, it might even be faster! Not a chance.

Weeeellll, it could stand for Goose Stuffing. Then again GS might be short for Great Sex. Or Gummy Shark. Or that wonderful old symbol of currency stability, the Gold Standard. Or Genuine Savings. Or possibly even Golden Showers. But my personal opinion is that GS stands for Greg Santilli. :)...

Naaa. Just a storm in a teacup. But hey Greg - it's good to see you around. Haven't seen the famous "gs" at the bottom of a post for ages. We've missed you.

That is exactly the sort of thing that our lot of Samsung drives did, Cliptin. Probably the same model. On burnt discs they were hopeless.

Funny that - Creative CD drives have been made for them by Samsung for a long, long time - ever since they ditched their wonderful rebadged Pansonic-manufactured 2X drives. And Creative drives, ever since then, have been marginally salable crap, of course. Still, if the new Samsung readers are...

Samsung, like most of the really big companies, make a wide range of stuff, ranging from the excellent to the distinctly ordinary. I haven't played with their monitors for ages, at least not to speak of. For what you get, I think they are a little dear. Their low-end monitors are no better than...

The day I contradict Buck on matters Western Digital, I will be feeling very brave. It is indeed a Western Digital trait to go playing with platter capacities. None of the other makers do that, at least not to speak of, but WD do it quite often.

CORRECT! Not bad at all, Bartendeer. We will have you knocking back VB, driving a Holden, and speaking with an accent soon, the way you are going. Yes, Queenslanders are known as "banana benders" because they come off the tree straight and they have to be bent to fit into the case. This is why...

Ha. You are quite right. I can't count. I went back and checked. On a more careful reading of their (badly designed) web page, I see that it's 29 flights. All 767s bar one of the morning ones that is obviously an international repositioning - 747s are not economic for that route, it's too short...

Woops! I'd thought they had the usual 8.9ms bull. Checking on their site I see that they are claiming 9.0 and 9.5ms for the ATA-IV. Is it not extraordinary that they can produce a faster drive, and yet claim a higher seek for it than the old model, and still be nowhere near their promised...

A slab is 24 stubbies. Or cans. A stubbie is a small bottle, the same size as a can... er ... 375ml, I think. "Queensland Yellow" is one I just made up. Queensland's most popular beer is XXXX (pronounced as 'four X'). It is despised by most of the nation, but loved by most Queenslanders. Time...

Yup. My figures are about right. Qantas has 20 scheduled flights going Melbourne-Sydney today (including some BA flights that appear on their timetable too). Assume that every one of those flights is a 767 (i.e., a large aircraft) and throw in the piddling little influence of Virgin Blue's...

I haven't travelled post 911, JTR, so that was going on what I used to allow, The airlines tell you to roll up at least one hour before departure, but that's just for bunnies who get lost walking around the terminal and wind up at the wrong gate or something. In reality, I used to aim at 15 mins...

Some examples of 5400 RPM drives that blew the 7200 RPM Barracuda ATA-III into the weeds. (Listed in order of access times - best first, worst last.) 14.2ms Quantum Fireball LCT 10 4400 RPM! 14.4ms Samsung SpinPoint V102005400 RPM 14.4ms Samsung Spinpoint V20400 5400 RPM 14.7ms IBM Deskstar...

Recent Seagate Drives - claimed vs measured seek Barracuda ATA-IV Claimed seek: 8.9ms Measured seek: 10.8ms Seagate's untruth: 1.9ms - 21% Barracuda ATA-IV Claimed seek: 8.9ms Measured seek: 11.2ms Seagate's untruth: 2.3ms - 26% U Series 5 Claimed seek: 8.9ms Measured seek: 13.8ms...

No no, my slab of Tassie's best, your stubbie of Queensland Yellow. That's 24 to 1 odds I'm offering, even if we were to agree on an exchange rate of 1 Cascade = 1 XXXX, which is questionable. (Not that I don't like XXXX, it's a damn good beer, but Cascade Pale Ale is just wonderful. Even Tannin...

The Hypermicro price is probably a fair one. The trouble with places like Ebay and Pricewatch is that they all too often include some ridiculous low prices that are not actually "real", just something to bring the suckers in. When you actually try to buy the item, it's suddeny "out of stock" or...

Ahh, in that case you need to talk to Time. Bananas, of course, are a high-protein fruit, and he is (so far as I know) our only banana bender. (PS: I don't expect anyone to understand this.) (PPS: except Pradeep, James, Soup_Nazi, Mutiah, DB, Tannin, Sol, and Time himself.)

From memory, DB, it's about 12 to 14 hours. I took the Southern Auroa up about five years ago and I think it was about that long. It was nice to be delivered right in the centre of town though: we actually walked to our hotel, no need for a taxi.

Well, in that case, Sharp is obviously the brand to get.:)

Time and others with the same point of view - if it's really 6000 RPM, I'll eat one. Fair dinkum, does anyone think a drive manufacturer would under report specs? And how much extra would they have to spend on non-standard parts to make that non-standard spindle speed? Long and the short of it...

No Coug. Mark often slips in a sly one now and then, just when we least expect it. And the end of the world is not soon. In fact, if I haven't mixed my dates up again, it's not till Tuesday. Mark, that virgin banana oil sounds delicious. Would you consider exchanging it for one of Tannin's...

Thanks Tannin. Much nicer. Hey, aren't you supposed to be at work already? You better get weaving! (Yike)!

Anyone mind if I ask Tannin to tidy up that poll question heading for me?

Anyone noticed that Seagate have announced the Cuda ATA V? 60GB/platter, Serial ATA to come as a running change in the northern autumn. They claim 560Mbit/sec and 9ms. I believe the first figure, don't believe the second one.

Hi Radboy!

Do you take bananas?

Using aircraft for short journeys is just lunacy. Even if we ignore the environmental and cost aspects, consider this example - and here I am using a relatively long journey, one that it is sensible to use an aircraft for. Let's say I want to go visit James. Now I'm not sure whereabouts in...

There's this little thing called gravity .... :) (Sorry. Couldn't resist that cheap shot.)