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Thanks Will. A 740 would be nice. No floppy drive? Shame on you. Floppies are an essential No real computer is without one. The Cuda. Hmm. I have Cuda 4s, the 40GB but same drive so that's close enough. What mode do they ship in? And how do you switch them? A doenload thingie from Seagate I...

And just in case no-one has noticed yet, I see that my typing paw is making bludners again.

Though I have to admit, the two that really get to me are the verbal rather than the written ones. I've lost count of the number of people who used to come in and ask for a "Pentnium" - where do they get that "n" from? And possibly even worse, the "Selearion" as in "sell" + "ear" plus "eon" -...

And here was me thinking that they were made out of cooked up silicon. But whenever i look at he spelling of that word we pronounce "thurahbred" I despair for the chances of anyone trying to learn to spell. Whar a stupid language.

By all means, Tim. The more drives the better. E_Dawg8 put a fair collection of VSEEK files on a page at one time, but he's off doing his bank-manager thing these days and the site is defunct.

You could use them to keep the coffee hot.

Sol, I seem to have mislaid my VSEEK file for the WD1000JB. Would you mind re-running it for me? You will need VSEEK.EXE - www.redhill.net.au/zip/vseek.exe and for convenience VS.BAT - www.redhill.net.au/zip/vs.bat Very easy to use. Yoiu can run it in a DOS windows under most operating...

Wheras, as you can no doubt figure all by yourself from reading the post above, I am known as THE LEXDIXIC ONE.

We have a system. I take them apart, Kristi puts them back together, and, whenever we are looking the other way, dives in and Tannin takes all the interesting bits home with him. We have started calling him THE RAMBURGLER

Nice one Bill. :) For those who missed it before, LiamC's excellent little site can be found here: http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/liamc/

I'd be more active, Bartender, but I only just got bloody Tannin to let go of the keyboard. For some reason completely beyond my ken, he just spent hours doing a ridiculously long and carefully researched post by way of discussion of the airliner market with Jason over at Storage Review...

How will SATA improve performance?

Hasn't got the class it used to have, that's for sure. Nevertheless, it's my second-most visited web site still. I seem to go through phases with SR. Sometimes (like just now) I read and post there quite a lot. Other times I'll go a week or so and hardly visit.

OK! Let's roll.

I have two Mozila installations. The OS/2 version is even slower. But I'll await your report with interest just the same.

Quite right, Sol. Much better to take some other poor bastard's machine apart instead.

Indeed, Time, a good job. I just did a really, really quick and dirty duplicate test: I took the source of www.redhill.net.au/d-c.html, a page with a fair number of tables and lots of embedded images, cut off the </html> at the end, and hit SHIFT-INSERT numerous times to create a file long...

Don't hold your breath, JTR, it won't happen anytime soon. For me, I'm mostly interested in affordable, deliverable performance. In the sort of thing that I can expect to sell plenty of, and see people really benefit from. And in computing, that means faster storage. The performance...

I thought you were a stock broker, not an arms broker.

Me neither, Rotund One. (There. Now I'm really off the list.)

So, if it's not bloated why does it take so long to load?

Eight days? That's one serious hangover, Tim.

Anyone noticed Tim's new location yet?

Put it down to old-fashioned Aussie service, Jo Jo. Or possibly boredom. Not many live threads at this time of night.

That was Kristi, Sol. She still has it. A Canon 660, if I recall. That thread: http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=60

There is a thread here somewhere about that. Time and the multi-handled iGary had quite a bit to say. Don't buy an Epson scanner without reading it!

It's a fresh install, or nearly so. 0.99. Any program that needs a fast-load kludge is exactly that: a bloated kludge. Good God, we are talking about a web browser here, not the Brooklin Bridge. Page rendering speed? I wouldn't know, I'm on dial up. Load speed is what I notice. And if a...

(Totally irrelevant to anything) I see Cougtek is up, that mean's it's time for me to hit the sack. Sometimes, especially on Fridays, I get into a frame of mind when I feel like surfing round this place or SR but don't have a great deal to say. That's when it's nice to have a busy forum. You...

Found that Sound Blaster microphone. It works, but the volume is incredibly low, quite unusable. I seem to remember striking this problem before, or at least having the odd customer bring a system to me with that problem, and fixing it (I think) by swapping soundcards. As I recall, the ISA Sound...

Let he who is without sin among us cast the first stone.

Are imaginary people allowed to play?

A good thought, Sol. Last time I tried Odin it was buggy as all hell, but that was a while ago and it's time I gave it another look.

10K IDE. 'nuff said.

Post the full headers, Coug.

Nope. I got this the other day though. Return-Path: <reply@seekercenter.net> Delivered-To: twilson@netconnect.com.au Received: (qmail 2876 invoked by uid 1087); 8 May 2002 10:57:55 -0000 Delivered-To: twilson-tea@redhill.net.au Received: (qmail 2872 invoked by uid 620); 8 May 2002 10:57:55...

Quite right, Tim. It is just a lame excuse, I think.

She says she can't think of a good handle.

You are very welcome, Jake. :) Doug is a marvel.

Oh, hello - your post makes sense after all, James. I had a blank space there. Must have been because I was downloading in the background and didn't wait long enough.

Guess I'd better, Coug. I still have those two boards. I'm not going to use them for any of our usual systems, I don't trust them. Guess I'll wait till I get someone that gets up my nose and palm them off with the ECS board instead of our usual Epox and Soltek ones. But it will have to be a...

James: great post!

I bought two ECS SiS based DDR Athlon boards. The don't support Thunderbirds With Athlon XPs they are unstable The will probably go OK if I underclock them and sell them with Durons. Conclusion: new name, new board, same old crap.

MS Office Standard OEM: $430 MS Office Pro OEM: $540 Word Perfect Suite OEM: $40 And I'm making more per copy on the Word Perfect.

It's a monopoly, what can you do? In the last ten years, in real (i.e., inflation adjusted) terms, Microsoft have overseen a rise in basic OS prices of 1000% Buck. Yes ten times dearer than ten years ago. Windows 98SE: $220 Windows ME: $220 Windows XP Home Edition: $220 Windows XP Pro: $340...

Yup! It did it again.

I pobably shoud adjust my clock correctly. I have one of those nifty atomic clock sync programs around here somewhere.

12:20 and I never pinned it down to the exact minute.

12:19, and I mean "better" hit.

Especially for James - coz James seems to be the internet and coms guru round here. All summer long, every night at 1:20AM exactly, my ISP cut me off. Every single night. This used to drive me nuts because it was just ten or fifteen minutes before my usual bedtime, and it seems a shame to...

Quite so, Barry. Indeed, I think it's reasonable to expect GUIs not to require any kind of fancy hardware whatsoever. The current craze for incredibly inefficient desktops reminds me of the gas-guzzling monster cars of the '60s: big, clumsy, horrendously inefficient, unreliable, over-complex...