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It's OK, Gary. He's wearing feathers.

I like it Coug. Forgive me not paying as much attention as I should, I've been kind of tied up with a few layout issues of my own lately. (Learn CSS in one day - yuk! Getting there though.) One thing to suggest: the top ten news itens cut off only half way across the window. It would be nice if...

Ha! I never noticed that. When did that come in James K? I don't remember seeing it before, but maybe that's because I was running different Windows versions till just recently. Or possibly because it's difficult to see the dialogue boxes properly through the red haze that Internet Explorer...

Opera 5.x was a pretty nice browser, good enough to make you think about switching. Opera 6.x is a browser that has arrived. Fast, stable, more HTML compatible than any other browser on the planet (definately including IE), and you know what the really nice thing is? These guys are working for...

Windows Browsers Navigator 4.x for a long time. Note: Navigator, not the bloated horror they call Communicator. Geadually found myself using Internet Explorer 5 more and more, and it's probably fair to say that it became my primary Windows browser about a year or so ago. Netscape 6 probably had...

The reason there is less traffic than usual, Mercutio, is that our most popular, highly-skilled, prolific, and all-round-readable member is very busy updating her web page. But don't worry, she will be back in a week or two. Gin and tonic, please.

Now that Tannin has opened his big mouth, everyone just sit back and watch him comprehensively fail to answer William's question. If he manages to understand it, that is.

Plextor are so bloody dear over here that I've never even seen one in the flesh. Even Sol won't pay Plextor prices. TEAC have always made excellent optical drives. I have a TEAC 24 x 8 x 4 in my main CD burner box at the office. It's smooth and quiet, the tray mechanism is much superior to...

Winbench is discredited. Ipeak still has some serious issues to address - don't be misled by SR's hysterical articles proclaiming how perfect it is - if it was half as proven as they say, they wouldn't have to make nearly so much fuss about it. Sandra and HDTach ... well, I'd rather use...

Almost 4GHz? Don't tell Sol, Pradeep - that is one serious overclock!

Hmmm..... What are we? 85 members? Ars has quite a few thousand, I think If you gentlemen will allow me to guide you on matters of stategy, I advise this: we cheat!

Now just a darn minute there! Who said anything about the right to carry firearms here? Sure, there are a few hangovers from the Wild West floating around the place and vomiting in the gutters, but there are more than a few of us from the civilised lands where carrying a firearm is considered...

When it comes to money, Tannin and I are insane. We just wanted to be able to use any computer with the camera without fuss or bother. For example, after work yesterday, I went to my girlfriend's place, took some shots and was able to show them to her right away - despite the fact that her...

Excuse brain-fade. That's the FD-100, not 1000. It's a new model, may not be on their web site yet. 1.2 Mpixel, 3x optical zoom, f6.4 Saves as JPEG, 640 x 480, 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 1024. (There is digital zoom too, but digital zoom is crap - better to simply take the wide-angle photo and use...

In another thread, Pradeep asked about our new digital camera. We got a Mavica FD-1000. Sony. Yeah - i.e., beautifully built, under-specced and over-priced to buggery. But we wanted the convenience of floppy disc storage. It is bulky and a bit heavy, but that's the price you pay for fitting a...

www.redhill.net.au Tannin was there when Tom was still trying to get into medical school.

Ahhh .... Is that what it was all about. (Where is the sticking derisive finger up icon?)

Here is a strange one, something I've never heard of before. The Western Digital Protoge debuted in late 2000. An unassuming 5400 RPM drive designed to fill the low-cost, low-performance niche, with but a single platter and a 12.5ms seek time. WD sold them for a good long while, in 10GB...

I know what you mean, Coug. Many are the small problems and the big mysteries that I just leave because I don't have the time - or, to be more to the point, don't feel motivated to make the time. Such as proper benchmarks on the JB I used to have. Yes, used to have. I had thought to take a...

By the way, past tense of "shoot" is "shot". I have no idea why, it just is. Hmm .... pretty stupid, isn't it.... I shot him I am shooting him I will shoot him I hit him I am hitting him I will hit him I fired him I am firing him I will fire him Aucune merveille nous les anglophones sommes...

Because only the good die young.

Now would they be real impressions? Or just virtual impressions? I'm sending you five virtual dollars. Seeing as they are virtual dollars,they can be whatever currency you want.

Actually, Adcadet, I'm not so sure about that. If I were to simply time a big XCOPY, yes. But that's not what I do. I'm doing the big XCOPY to move my existing data over to the new drive, and then rearrange thing till I have my system more or less organised again, and then attempting to keep on...

Hmmm .... I feel torn two ways on this. On the one hand, that endless barrage of CNN and Fox News reposts bores me stupid and means that I don't visit SR's Bar and Grille very often anymore. I think a lot of people, like Steve and me, have voted with their feet and tend to avoid both the SR...

Totally pointless post to grab post #1000 in the Computers forum. :)

No Tim. Don't think I will, actually. Not unless I pull it out and replace it with a smaller, lower-performance drive, which I may well do, as I need neither speed nor space for this task. The JB is wasted in this machine. Then I could play with it in some other machine. The best would be to...

I have the same exact mainboard with a 1700+ Can you post a link or two to those benchmarks? I'll run them.

Ahh, I see that you are up early once again Flagreen. Top of the mornin' to you. I think you'll beat your arch-rival CougTek today, he was posting up until about 8PM my time, which is to say ~ four hours ago. He will be sleeping it off right now, no doubt, while you are enjoying the best part of...

Actually, the only semi-decent Compaq consumer boxes I've seen for quite a few years, possibly ever seen, were AMD-based. They had one of their Presario boxes that was made by Mitac and almost standard. (!) Mini-tower, VIA MVP4 chipset, half-OK soundcard embedded on the main board (better than...

Just put the following lines into your STARTUP.CMD. (Alter the details to suit, of course.) C:\MUGLIB\LOGON.EXE username /p:password /v:local net use x: \\server\requiredresourcename EXIT Oh, but you'll need to upgrade your operating software first. Any OS/2 version less than ten years...

Oh, sorry. We cross-posted.

Coug, you have way too much time on your hands.

No takers? Crumbs, Clocker, that's a genuine bargain you are offering. There ain't nothing wrong with a fair-dinkum TNT, they are an excellent performer, even today. Hell, if you don't get a US buyer for it, I'm sure I could get 90 or 100 little Oz dollars for a it. Take off our tax and my usual...

The trainer job sounds good for you, Mercutio. Part time leaves you free to do other things with your life, decent money, and I think you would make an excellent teacher: good grasp of theory, plenty of hands-on practical experience to back it up, straightforward expression, and a good listener...

I think I might have done a rather stupid thing tonight. I got my drive today - a 100GB JB, they must not have had stock of the 120GB version - and, of course, I raced home with it and plugged it in right away. Now that I've put precious data on it, it ocurrs to me that it's quite possibly in...

It's not shareware! You buy it on a CD. www.lotus.com will have details.

Who cares what Tannin thinks? I'll let you know what I think - which is much more important. :wink:

The price of SmartSuite is just incredible. Roughly between 10% and 5% of the Microsoft product. In software terms, that's the bargain of the century. And you get Organiser (which I'm told is good) and FastSite, which isn't bad if you like that sort of thing, and ScreenCam too.

I've been watching the hysterical praise the 8MB cache WD 120GB drive has been getting around the traps, and wondering if it is really half as good as people are making out. It just seems a little too good to be true. How the hell can an IDE drive with a 7200 RPM spindle and a seek time in the...

A Samsung SCSI drive?! Good Lord, I didn't know there was such a thing. I bet it was horrible! I have yet to try the Barracuda ATA IVs, only the marks 1, 2 and 3. Guess I better broaden my experience a bit.

It's probably worth underlining the particular nature of the outage, Doug, just FYI, as it was a rather unusual one. Normally, when a site is down, you get "can't find server" errors. This was "can't find file" errors - i.e., the server was up but so far as it was concerned there were no files...

Oh dear. Not good news. I'm starting to think that you need to pay top dollar for a decent TFT. (The A-Opens aside, and getting hold of the damn things is difficult. I can get any number of the Acers, but the Acers are crud.) I think, from that graphic arts and movies point of view of yours...

Hell Buck, you know me. I blame Microsoft for the proliferation of bloatware, excessive OS prices, blue screens of death, failed installs, destabilisation of independant standards, lack of innovation in the software industry, for buggering up the classic 101 keyboard, for Australia's balance of...

I see you managed to insult Picard again.

Well, how about I fill you in on my day? Been the quietest day I can remember on Storage Forum in quite a while. I know it is the weekend, Sunday night over here - that makes it, er , first thing Sunday moring on the East Coast USA I think, but that's no excuse. And for once, seeing as you are...

Dear oh dear. What on earth has happened to the China Thread? First it's ping-pong balls in the unmentionable, then it's naked and mindless brutality not even trying to disguide itself as a sport, and then it's bloody guns again. sigh And everybody seems to be ignoring it. Guess it's up to me...

I keep looking at this thread and thinking I ought to have something to contribute. But ... I just don't follow that high-tech stuff closely enough. Can't see the forest for the trees, I guess.

Been looking at the SR review of the new Samsung 7200s. Doesn't look very encouraging. Ever so slowly, they are creeping back to higher seek times. :x

You are a strange man, NRG = MC²!

Been looking at the Computers forum over at Storage Review. At the rate The Prof is posting, he'll have more posts than Jehh by Tuesday lunchtime!