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Tannin! What the hell are you doing posting under my nic?

Well, Prof, you might just get your wish. :) There is a fresh appointment for a moderator's position coming up. I'll be posting in the Feedback forum to ask for nominations within the next day or two.

Funny you should say that guys. I slipped into the office today for an hour or two - it's a cold and miserable day here in Ballarat - and the workshop was quite comfortable to be in without any heating at all. Don't ever say nine Athlons are useless!

Hi. I'm Tea. I'll explain a bit more about me a little later on. For now, I'm your Storage Forum Tour Guide. I'm going to introduce you to some of the more prominent members here. Let's start with .... hmm ... how about James? James is one of our Australian brothers. He knows all about fibre...

Sulo wrote to me that he had called it Vseek in honour of an old utility of the same name, Time. Doubtless that's the one. Your other thoughts I'll leave till the morning when I am a little more awake.

Hey - it just occured to me - you said a Mac clone! Now that's different. There was a time when it looked as though the Mac clones and the PowerPC chip were going to take the market by storm. We were really looking forward to selling them. Hey - PCs get boring, and anything that wasn't the...

Hi Doug. Welcome aboard. There are Mac users here, a small, hardy band, and I daresay they have a reasonable degree of expertise between them. So ask away. Or if you prefer, hop over to the Pub and Brewery, ask our friend the Bartender for a glass of your favourite tipple (yes, he serves an...

Could you expand a little on that, please Time? I'm not clear on your meaning.

Sulo Kallas wrote it.

Damit Jake, now Sol will want me to order one for him!

And I thought I had gender confusion problems! Nice one, Mr Green. :)

PS: about the power, Anyway, they help keep the workshop warm and save on the heating bill. :)

Nahhh. Tannin and Kristi pay the bills. I'm only imaginary, so I don't have to worry about mundane stuff like money. Actually, I think we should not only celebrate the Queen's birthday, but also Prince Phillip's birthday, and as many other royal events as possible. I couldn't care less about...

I actually own an Opera licence for the Linux version (I rashly bought a dual OS licence to "save money" instead of just the Windows one) but I've never tried it. I don't have a Linux box at present. But I can assure you, Opera on OS/2 is as terrible as the Windows version is good.

What happened to the dancing fat man avatar? I liked the dancing fat man.

Right, this is it kids. Over the top! Kristi and Tannin will gang up and kill me if I don't let them have at least a little bit of the workshop back on Tuesday (Monday is a holiday here) but in the meantime I have assembled a mighty arsenal with which to punish JoJo. (Tea!) Er... Sorry...

1: Much better compliance with web standards 2: Much more room for user customisation 3: It doesn't insult my intelligence nearly as grossly 4: Better security 5: Cross-platform 6: Not from Microsoft 7: If you hose your browser, you don't have to reinstall your OS 8: If you hose your OS...

Mercutio is dealing with a very difficult relationship problem right now. He's doing it hard under extraordinary circumstances. If you are reading this, Mercutio, stay with it. All things pass in time, so hang in there, my friend.

I thought England only lost finals. Or am I thinking of Collingwood again?

Ssssshhhh! Don't tempt me to make the obvious wisecrack.

It's crap likethat which makes me just go grrrrrr. I'll try it when I get home, where I have a W2k machine.

The key to the problem, as I see it, is not the benchmarking program itself, but the things that the benchmarking program measures. Now here I am not talking about the tasks that are taken as representative tasks for the Ipeak trace or the Winstone run. I don't have any particular argument...

Indeed, LiamC. Keep us posted please.

Not just Europe. It's been the same here. My personal theory is that their servers are unable to cope with the flood of results coming in from me and JoJo.

Excuse me - I mean 400, of course. (See my sig.)

Second place :) and getting further and further behind JoJo :( He da man! :wink: In hitting 300, JoJo has regained his 100 point break on me and now pulled out an extra 15 points. Team in 164th place and cookin! :) I need more machines! :cry:

Absolutely! A fantastic effort, Doug. We ordinary members expect perfection - and get it!

I thought the spelling looked funny too, James, so I looked it up on Google before I posted. Maybe I looked up a site that had his name spelt wrong.

LCDs seem to lag a little. Generally speaking, and avoiding the very top end ones because of the dollar factor, the latest generation LCD often seems a little sub-par to me, but by the time a given size screen has been replaced as the latest and greatest, the next size down often seems to have...

You got it J! Team rank #173 and counting........ Top 100 here we come.

I am. :)

First system, and the other three or four that will follow within the next month or two: AMD chipset. Then I'll switch to the VIA K8HTA/A and ship hundreds of them :) Rule of thumb: VIA's early implementations need care. Better to spend the extra. But they get them right after about three...

Trinton Assamouth was a blot on the good name of Sock Puppets.

Ahh, thankyou Cougtek.

Don't those 3com 905 cards have some odd-ball compatibility problems? I seem to rember people bitching about them over at SR.

(Tannin? Is it considered bad form to draw attention to one's own progress?) (Yes.) (Oh.) A silent pause follows. Tea is sitting hunched forward with her chin resting on one lightly clenched fist - a posture inspired, no doubt, by excessive exposure to Auguste Rodan as a child. Tannin is...

Me!

Generally speaking, OS/2 is a breeze to configure, but tonight, seeing as I decided to finally get around to doing that hard drive upgrade on the spare back office system that I've been sort of half doing for months now, it decided to be a bitch. I've had my 9GB Quantum Atlas IV spare for ages...

I'm going for Saudi Arabia!

Also, today's record was probablly more bona fide. Last time, the 11 users, at least three of them were ... um ... me. But I don't think I was any of the 13.

It's a Gary is drunk joke, I think.

The whole of Australia does daylight saving. Except Queensland, where they are temporally challanged. (Translation just for Coug, because his dictionary is getting worn out: still in the wrong century.)

Interleave is where four of you go to a really boring party, and you sneak out one by one without saying goodbye, hoping no-one will notice that you have all gone.

OK. I have all the threads dates 4th or 5th of June saved to my hard drive. We can roll back to midnight 3rd/4th June without loosing any posts. Provided my X15 doesn't let me down. No. R: drive - that's on the Samsung P40. (Why do I have an R: drive? R stands for "random" - it's the drive...

Hmmm .... I just saved the active threads, just in case. Then, if Doug needs to roll the server back, I have a record of the most recent posts. Just two threads so far, I'll go do a few of the other most recent ones.

Nope. But I grew up on time-travel Sci-Fi. Also, please let me know what price IBM closed at tommorow. If I can get a mortgage on my house at this time of night, we should both be able to retire, and buy SF a new server with the change.

QUICK! TELL ME WHO WON THE THIRD RACE!

Test post: if I am right, I won't be allowed to post this, because I posted three-quarters of an hour ago (real time) and that is still in the future (server time).

Oh, and on the K6-IIIs, Clippy, they are working machines that would be on anyway, and for their real tasks, they are ideally suited. I'm not going to mess up a perfectly good office network in order to crunch more proteins. Just add Athlons made up out of spare parts. I'm working on getting...

Oh yes. Easily. It would take me about two minutes. But the phone bills would destroy me! Roughly $60 a month extra.