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Ahh. Tis true: she is a great cook, real old-fashioned country style stuff. I didn't know you were a Z-80 man, Prof. :)

Fushigi's summary expresses my experience of and feelings about VIA, ASUS and ALI perfectly. Making a moderately sub-standard product is one thing. Charging 50% more than the going rate is another thing. Doing both at the same time is unforgivable. ASUS still make better boards than ECS, in my...

Yes Gary. For some reason unknown to me, it seems to be working properly again now. I have no idea why.

All three in one go! Extraordinary. But tell me, would you have felt differently if it had promised to increase any dog's ... er ... doghood?

Ahh, and a fitting thing it is too. Perhaps you will take Tannin's thought in leiu of the deed. And this time, I will pay more attention to my typing - curse you hairless but nimble-fingered ones with the oposable thumbs - and remember to include my sig.

Whoah! 1001 already (plust this one). Who got it?

A question for you, Gary. Did Intel ever win any of their suits against the other CPU manufacturers? I know that, bar the odd minor quibble, Intel lost every suit they brought against AMD, and also against Cyrix. But what about the others, the bit players in the CPU game: Chips and Technologies...

If there was ever a time when AMD were set to hit the wall, it was quite some time ago. Their worst period was back when Intel and Cyrix were both making 200MHz class chips and they were only selling glorified 133MHz 486 things. (The AM5x86-133.) Their incredibly ambitious K5 project was dead in...

DOH! Why didn't I think of that? Or read your post before I wasted a half hour walking round the office with a floppy disc? (Yeah, yeah, I could use the network, but it's easier to use a floppy disc than it is to mess about setting up all those temporary machines with file sharing and stuff.)

But seeing as there are a mere 11 posts to go now and it's the middle of the night in America, odds-on it will be me, the Prof, James, or Pradeep. One of us right side of the globe people anyway. Unless it's that thrice-dammed Cougtek sneaking in again, just like he did for the 1000th post in...

Anyway, it would be cheating to make 10,000 posts all the same.

Being the irresistable spam magnet that I am, I get about six of those a week, Prof. You are just lucky this was your first one. I can promise you it won't be your last!(Alas.) I laughed at my first one of those too. In fact I posted it, or possibly I gave it to Tannin and he posted it. Either...

Take a look on the Folding at Home results board for that massively scoring member named P_133_6_10_02_10PM, Prof. If I am any guess, that is Clocker's ultra-powerful Pentium 133, overclocked to 133MHz. I'd say he started that work unit at 2:10PM on the 10th of June, that he's running it 24...

P_133_6_10_02_10PM 1 work unit, 0.6 points. Way to go!

My F@H Athlon farm warms the workshop up enough that there has only been one day this week we have bothered switching the reverse cycle A/C on to heat the place. :) No joke! I won't be crunching in summer. :(

Hic!

I have been enduring a lot of the same problems as you, P5. It seems to have more-or-less righted itself this last day or two though. A problem with the Stanford servers, I think. No doubt Tean Storage Forum is overloading them! JoJo - me too. I think I have about 2/3rd as many machines...

I get that too, Pradeep. It usually just downloads itself a new core and sorts itself out of you leave it alone. Sometimes it even keeps your half-completed work unit intact!

You need to get your ears adjusted, JoJo. I ain't behind you. But you will probably pass me again overnight (my time - it's 2:00 AM here and I'm about to hit the sack). And you may well find that you draw ahead again after a few days. My collection of machines is diminishing (though there is a...

Oh, excuse me, I see that Handruin thought of it first. No matter. Let's see if we can improve on Flagreen's picture a little.

Koggit: nice to see that someone around here has a brain. Well posted!

Oh, you know the Librarian, James. Well, he's a lot older than me, and not nearly as good looking, but I'm often told we are quite alike - which is no surprise really. He's my brother. Or possibly my half-brother, I'm not quite sure. We apes are quite relaxed about these things.

I seem to remember asking this before. But, if I learned it, I forgot the answer already. My IE 5.0 (Win 2K) has stopped refreshing pages except when I explicitly click "refresh". It's set to check on the default "Automatic" setting. I switched it to "every time" just now, but it doesn't seem...

Netscape Communicator 4.6 scrolls.

Works OK in IE 5.0 Win98SE.

Athlon XP 1600+. 3 months old, never overclocked. CoolerMaster HSF. AU$170 Direct deposit or COD OK. May take more than 11 minutes to respond if desired.

Punk Rock came about precisely because the Seventies was the era of Disco, of Boz Scags, of the Village People, of Sherbet and Air Supply, of the shagged-out, scagged out, no-longer-creative overblown giants of the past who didn't know when to retire. Shall I name names? Why not? Greg Alman...

I thought it was funny - watching Tannin talking on the phone to someone he (a) has known for years, and (b) has never spoken to in his life before. Sort of like a blind date. But I better not laugh at poor old Tannin too hard - otherwise he won't let me borrow the XP 1600 to crunch proteins on.

I like Sixties music, sometimes a little Seventies (still a big-time Dylan/Stones/Neil Young/Jethro Tull fan), but mostly these days my prefferences have swung over to the 18th and 19th Centuries.

Sold! I'll ask Tannin to call you,

Hey! A real, honest to goodness spat! Great! I haven't seen one of those in ages. Now, let me see, which side shall I take? (Tea pauses, scratches tummy in a ruminative way.) Hmmm.. Line ball really. (Hey! Tannin! Wake up! How's about I wade in with a dissertation on Alt's manners...

I seem to be using Tannin's log-in again. Woops!

Coug: please send me some French swear words right away! I just lost 98/100s of a work unit the exact same way that you did. ProteinA too. Poxy damn program!

Your trouble, Coug, is that you swear at your machines in French. That's useless. The CPUs were designed in the USA, remember, and computing itself is a British invention. They don't understand French. You have to swear at them in English. (Let me know if you need any special tuition. If you...

Correa: a family of shrubs native to Australia. Korea: a country near China Does that help?

Starting to look like clean install time, Syrob. If you have a spare drive handy - any old drive will do - then you could test on the spare and not mess up your working drive until you know of it's going to work or not.

ALLLRIGGHT!!! Thanks to another great spurt of productivity from the JoJo, and a good, solid performance by all, we have now passed Team Austech Info! Great effort, Team.

Hmmph. Well, it works with the browser version we have at the office.

It's a browser thing, Groltz. Doug90125 has an old Mac which only runs older browsers. (Sorry to mess with your handle, Doug - but as a Yes fan, I dare say you won't mind.) Older versions of Netscape, which were no doubt designed for lower screen resolutions, screen wrap differently in web-based...

Can anyone answer my Windows shortcut question?

Watch out - you will get a beta expired notice. Obviously the gurus at Stanford have a new beta or a perhaps a 3.0 gold release almost ready - but they don't seem to think that there are parts of the world that run in different time zones. (Sometimes, really intelligent people can be so stupid.)...

90125. Awesome!

As I recall, there is a small download from Netscape that updates the certification thing. "cert.db" or some such. But, lthough that particular issue is solvable, it's one of quite a list, so I'm not sure if it's worth mentioning.

Now that is the lamest excuse I've ever heard!

Found it: http://www.sysopt.com/cachk4.html Nice pictures, Arne. It's hard to tell much by looking at the board. I mean sometimes the whole look and feel of the board says "I'm genuine", other times it screams "fake" at you. This one .... I'm not sure. On the whole, I suppose I'd guess that the...

Hi Arne, There are several utilities you can use to test your cache RAM. I have one here somewhere, I'll see if I can dig it out for you in a minute or two, and post it. Pictures of computer parts are always nice. :) That black Dallas thing is the real time clock module. Terible damn things...

It's the "something irrelevants" that get you. Every time. Below, my list of the most common "something irrelavants" that have caused me to do an otherwise unintended reboot. (Numbered just because I like lists with numbers in them, not in any particular order.) 1: Oh. I thought that was the...

Steve: good link. Thanks. Anyone: is there a way to make a shortcut "lock in" to an executable, so that you can't accidentally run two copies? Under OS/2, I simply adjust the properties of the EXE or shadow* by deselecting "open in new window" and selecting "always open in the same window"...

Pradeep, let's see if I have this right. You want to run two copies in the same machine, yes? Here is what I do: 1: Make two folders. Call them FAH1 and FAH 2 (or whatever you like) 2: Put a copy of the F@H EXE (console version) in each folder. It's easiest if you rename the files FOLD1.EXE...

This was a matter that was delegated to the moderation and conduct commitee, Prof. The five mod scheme was the one that they came up with, so that's the one that was implemented. Personally, I thought that five was maybe two too many, but I don't think it much matters either way. Presumably this...