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It's not so much the parts, o rotund one, it's the twin evils of taxation and Microsoft. Windows accounts for $220, much more for a real Windows suck as 2000. And there is another $150 tax. Take those two out and the FVS (second system listed, the one with the TNT and 40GB) is $1290, the...

The other big seller is the same except: TNT-M64 32MB 40GB Spinpoint 380W speakers and it's $1660 Add $240 for an XP 1700 DDR rig. (Epox or Soltek KT333 board.)

The Workhorse (as we call it) is AU$1570 right now, Mercutio. That's: A-Open case, AMD certified 250W Epox KT-133A main board or similar Duron 1000 256MB A-grade PC-133 8MB 2-D video card, any brand Samsung keyboard (some other no-cost options) Logitech optical mouse (more no-cost options)...

One mod that I would like to see is a smaller edit button for the mods. It hasn't happened yet, but one day one of the people with mod powers will see a long post by someone, go to hit quote, hit edit by mistake and not notice, wipe out all of the post except the little bit they want to quote...

Bonzo Internet Buddy ...... Aghhggggaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Bedtime for me, Coug, but briefly, I have been very, very happy with our MSI graphics products. But I know nothing about this particular one.

An interesting tale indeed, Clippy.

Hang on a second, Pradeep, I'll look it up. I don't have our total sales figures here but you can make a rough estimate by remembering that we sell enough Athlons and Durons to support two full-timers and two part-timers in reasonable comfort. Yup, we seem to have sold ... er ... I have the...

On the other hand, it's extra clutter.

PS: Even money that you can't uninstall it without hacking your registry, hand-editing your startup files, and/or manually deleting leftover bits. One chance in three the uninstall process buggers up your network settings. One chance in seven you need to reinstall Windows to get the damn...

Huh? It's a Norton product, isn't it? What did you expect, functionality?

(Or as close to 100% correct as I can, given that the damn products change all the time.)

Ahh, thankyou Coug. I was about to write that in one of our sales document thingies and I always try to be on the safe side and make sure that I have those 100% correct.

OK, ignoring the new 533 FSB models that have not hit the streets yet, P-4s run a 400MHz FSB, yes? What speed does a DDR-equipped P4 run its RAM at?266MHz? Or is it an even fraction of the FSB - i.e., 200MHz?

About three weeks is the usual period, James.

Yeah. The computer is OK, it's the brain that needs the upgrade. Still, it could be worse. At least I'm not Tannin.

Damn, I mean. I really hate it when I hit "submit" and the modem link takes just long enough to let me spot an error but not long enough to hit stop. :(

Darn it, I was just warming up. I hadn't had the chance to make my characters look ridiculous enough yet. (amm sleep requirement. When are they going to bring out an upgrade for the human being?) Oh well, I guess Bill and Tony et al were doing a good enough job of it all by themselves.

I presume he means 512k in both directions. An assymetric line would be, for example, 512k download, 128k upload.

Barry, your utility is indeed a useful tool. Thankyou! I used the rawrite utility for Windows 2000 you linked to: it worked no problem and is so easy to use that even Tannin can understand it. Would you like me to put sb010.zip up on my server? I have no particular bandwidth limit to worry...

I have actually dead dead drives for photos. I might use it in the workshop, load anti-virus software on it and use it to scan customer's drives. If it fails, who cares? Then the photos. :)

A truly bizarre thread, James. I have not the slightest doubt that it's just one guy, or at most two, joining up under aliases. So, seeing as he can do it ..... Funny thing, you know, there seems to be a steady stream of new members joining, and - oh what a coincidence! - they all have...

OK, problem solved. Win 98 fixed it. I have no idea why. Thanks for all the suggestions, guys. Remember, the drive has been formatted - well, actually completely wiped, Buck - that's our usual habit: WDCLEAR -T3 GDISK 1 /CRE /PRI /FOR /Q reboot SYS C: IDEIN (batch file, copies MSCDEX.EXE...

Hmmm ... OK Professor, a good start, but let's see if we can't refine it a little. Forget the jewels, order some porn, or perhaps outlandish sex toys - doesn't matter so much, just so long as it is distasteful, and prefferably illegal in Doug's home state. But don't use his credit card, use his...

And if you are a rabbit .....

What the hell. (shrug) I post links from SF to SR all the time and no-one notices. I have been posting links from SR to redhill for four years or so and nobody minds. I've had links from redhill to SR for nearly that long too and nobody cares. If Sean and the SR-is-God-Nazis want to get all...

Damn it, Mercutio, Tannin libelled you savagely here and didn't hear a peep out of you. You are slipping, old son.

Hmmmm ... yes. Consider Tseng. Remember the huge gap between the release of the ET-4000 and the ET-6000 chips? Then, if I recall correctly, another huge gap while they readied their never-released follow-on part. It was never released because by the time they had it nearly ready, it wasn't going...

Digital, Pradeep. He has an assortment of Canons for film, plus the usual miscelleny of dark room gear and lenses and stuff that keen photographers collect over the years. Not sure the model, but you can probably work it out from the price. It was $2600 until the day before he bought it (maybe...

Those are rough estimates only, Buck. And assuming that I'm not really doing anything else much bar take pictures: i.e., getting on for constant use. At a family event, unless it was a wedding or something like that, you'd not take snaps at anything like that rate. This is when I've got a...

I've been meaning to buy a memory stick for some time, Buck. Not got around to it yet. Well, I did buy a 512k one, but discovered it was the wrong sort. (Bloody Sony.) But I gave it to my dad for his new Nikon, so it wasn't wasted. So 100% floppy at present. I should imagine that the only thing...

It's cool, Bill. :) Actually I had a bad moment. I mean I wrote to you "I checked that thing for explicit language and stuff before I posted it" and then I suddenly thought "Woops - did I really check it?" On rereading it, yes, it is clean, but it's the sort of spam that you just sort of expect...

Actually, it never occurred to me that anyone would want to mod that post, Bill. I checked before I put it up: no explicit language, no URL, no site name (in fact, I don't even know what the site name is, though I could find out easily enough), no explicit or even mildly suggestive images ...

Sort of speaks for itself, this one. It's a screencap from my email program, cropped a bit to save bandwidth.

Poor bloke. There ain't no justice. I mean, what do you have to do to be found innocent? Look, the guy told the judge that it was a complete accident. They still sent him down for ten hard weeks even though he was actually just trying to bite the nylon material of his opponent's shorts.

You shouldn't buy that cheap muck that Tannin sells. Also, remember the old rule about "mummy, can I just do it until I need glasses?"

Hmmmm.... Getting too complicated for poor old Tannin. I can see that I better take a hand myself. Here is the plan: (1) Ask Robert if he has still got my Shure (2) Institute a search for the Audio Technica. It sat on the shelf under the TV for some years. Maybe it's still there. (3a) If...

Just tried saving this thread, JTR. Works fine in Mozilla 0.9.9 and in Opera 6.0, but I get the same error as you in IE 5.0. Actually, when I want to save a thread, I usually use Netscape 4.x, simply because it gives me the plain text, completely unaltered. (Some kind soul showed me that you...

What's an EL wire?

Hmmm .... good news, I think. My XP 1800 has been running G@H for two or three days now and hasn't crashed. It was hopeless before. I think it hates the UD software. Since I disabled the UD G@H seems to be stable.

I just wanted to post to say what a fantastic job Cougtek is doing on the front page.

I understand that castration is relatively painless these days, what with modern anesthesia and so on. On the other hand, so is PC-cillan. It seems to work for me.

Thanks for editing my posts, Tannin.

You deleted it, you fool. Along with the rest of your site.

Oh, but it does ring true. You see, the thing is, the delay requires a human to press the button and flick over to something else. Normally, you get a pretty fair idea what's coming: you can sense that a caller is about to get abusive and you are sitting there with your finger on the button...

Damn. I'm glad I didn't know that when I read it. Still would have been funny, but the way he told it, I could just hear the whole thing happening. I was in fits! I could visualise it perfectly, especially the poor DJ. Some years ago I used to do a computer show on local radio, and taking...

That idiot Tannin had gone and deleted every single damn file off his server, just because he was three and a half GB over his 20GB limit and he was too damn lazy to try to work out which files were the useless ones that should have been deleted years ago. Oh no. That would be too bloody easy...

CPUs. Not relevant to your task, James, but CPUs are really, really easy. Or at least they are with the Mavica, which has excellent macro abilities. In fact, there is something of a mystery there. The Mavica has several pre-set focus buttons (well, one button, but you know what I mean) - 0.5m...

Not really a SCSI drive at all, just a re-interfaced Cuda ATA IV. Direct equivalent to the horrible old Medalist 7200 SCSI. Avoid.

Ahh, now what was that excellent movie I've seen once or twice - "Blaize Starr"? Just loved that Governer of the fine state of Louisiana.