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No problem, Prof. It was a long time ago. Back when James had all his hair, Bigfoots were still being manufactured by a company called Quantum, DB was drinking cheap cask sherry and keeling over after the second glass, Tin Mad Dog was hand-crafting anti-helicopter caps out of aluminium foil, and...

Tannin is too polite. It was A-Trend.

Québec Cool! Now, what's the alt-code for a proper em dash (the real one that printers use, not this silly minus sign that we all use as a substitute) and how many people's charsets will it break?

Thanks Coug. Now, can you teach me how to do the accents in the "Q" word?

What is it?

I think four is correct. Somehere between three and five, anyway. The problem children were: Several 5.1GB Maxtors. I'm not sure how many times any of the individual drives were RMAed, but we only ever bought about five of them and over the next three years we sent quite a few 5120s back for...

Stay calm, man my post, don't shoot till I see the whites of their eyes, and stand by for further orders. Yesir!

So, Captain Clocker, now that United Devices is closing up, where are we heading?

The Burner Box. (Another one of my various office machines.) Windows NT 4.0 Winzip (because I can't be bothered looking for something better) Easy CD Cremator 4.somethingorother Nero (some fairly recent version) That's it. Nothing else at all that I can think of. Not unless you count the mouse...

A brief statement from the Philadelphia stock exchange said that Rambus would be deleted from the list of semiconductor stocks as from February 22nd. The PHLX said in a memo on that day Broadcom and Maxim would be added to its PHLX semiconductor sector while Rambus would go. The news is of...

Epox vs SoltekDamn, I'm sure I answered this already, now I can't find the thread. Someone asked what I thought of the Soltek DDr Athlon board, seeing as they were going to buy an Epox but were alarmed at having heard that their friend had got two DOA 8HKA+ boards. And I distinctly remember...

The Hitachi was a mixed bag, Time. I forget the model number already but it would have been their entry-level one. 300:1 contrast ratio, as I remember. Picture quality was noticably down on the superb A-Open (400:1), though still quite good. I didn't even consider response time, as my own use is...

Finally got around to trying out your tip, Mercutio. The text zoom function is exactly what I needed, works pretty-much perfectly. Thankyou. Now I only have a short list of minor things that bug me. When you open a new window it opens in the foreground at full-screen, Netscape style. Internet...

Because you forgot.

This may or may not be relevant to your situation, CougTek, but I'll give you my two cents worth. Phone services are not all the same. Every country has a different dial tone. The dial tone you hear when you pick up the handset in Australia is not the same as the one you get in France, is not...

Two great posts, Mercutio! Actually you can download Flash for OS/2, and probably Linux too. I think it integrates with all the OS/2 browsers. But why on earth would you want to? Your comment about spending eight precious minutes just to look at a completely useless spinning motherboard logo...

It all comes down to mathematics. Light background + dark text = eyestrain. Single Webmaster + many different requests = stress Pink background - contents of stomach = vomit

Hi GMac! I haven't heard back from my friend with the extra RAM, but seeing as I gave him this URL he's probably read it for himself already. On the mainboards, it's funny you should ask that just now, as I spent most of last night doing a partial update on my long-neglected web page, and the...

Ahh. It was Gary. Go and stand in the corner and face the wall young Gary. Still, I guess you only have to scroll it a little bit.

OK. Who broke the thread?

It's incredible how some people will stand for that. I had one like that a few years ago. Total PITA. Eventually it got to the stage where none of the staff were willing to go to his site. No-one actually refused, but they took a request from me to visit Mr X like I was asking them to volunteer...

Groltz, you have returned to form in a big way my man! That's your best shonky link in quite a while. :) Oh. Woops. It's not Groltz the famous tongue-in-cheek Linker to Appalling Reviews Extrordinaire, it's ... er ... Clocker. Are you serious Big C? Or have you started on a new career in the...

I voted for the GF-III Ti 200, but actually I ain't planning on either. I am perfectly happy with my two or three G450s. Gaming performance is not important to me, but picture quality is. The Matrox drivers are not perfect, but they are certainly in the ball park, and they are still available...

Want me to try another test run Doug? Sign up as 20-odd different members, make sure I get the right number of emails?

"PC and the 12 Apostles". Hmmmm. If this were the Fifties and PC could sing, we might just make it into the record charts. Great name for a band. Bet you someone has done it already.

There are thirteen admins now, Flagreen, fourteen if you count me. :) Still, we could always shoot a couple. I'd recommend starting with Tannin but if you need it I can give you a little list of other names as well. When I'm in my other phase (i.e., when I'm Tannin) my given name is Anthony but...

Speaking of McDonalds and coffee and Senior Citizens, Flagreen reminded me of this one. Fella walks into McDonalds. He sees an old couple in the line in front of him. They order one Big Mac, one packet of chips, one small Coke. (I can't quite bring myself to say "fries", not even on a site...

Yeah, there was a thread about it somewhere. The guy responsible, apparantly, was not punished in any way, just "counselled". Hmmmm....

Quick! Tell Santilli!

Oh, I have quite often been tempted to inset one into a position it was probably not designed for, but I've always been restrained by my confusion as to whether it should go in tip first, handle first, or sideways. :wink: For years I distrusted magnetic screwdrivers: I used to use a dob of...

A properly equipped toolkit has the following items: Screwdriver, extra long, magnetic tip Needle nose pliers Nut driver Flat blade screwdriver Stumpy screwdriver Double-sided tape Multimeter Soldering iron (mine is the old-fashioned sort - has a "d" in it) Weirdo screwdriver that you...

You bet we did!

I wish somone could find a use for computers which didn't involve paying huge amounts of money to Microsoft on a regular basis. :wink:

Sorry about that. Sometimes it's hard having a split personality. I thought this was Tannin's thread. Forgot that it was me that started it, not him. (If we can't remember which one we are, what hope have you guys got?) :oops: Back to the topic at hand. I'll try those two things when I get...

Obviously, someone who programs in C a lot.

Not exactly a tech support question, but it seems to fit better here than in the "Computers" forum. I just installed the latest Mozilla build (0.9.8 ) for OS/2. (I'm actualy running ECS here, the new OS/2, but no matter.) And, as I so often seem to find, the fonts are weird. (I had exactly the...

Wow! Just trying out Mozilla/2 for the first time in quite a while, and it has really, really improved. Still got some font weirdness, but maybe I can figure a fix for that. (Right now the text I see here is tiny.)

At the Office: Quattro Pro 6.0 for Win 3.1 Still my favourite spreadsheet by a mile. 123 ain't bad, Excel wastes horrendous amounts of screen space, I bought a copy of the very latest Quattro Pro the other day, and then threw it away. 6.0, the last of the "real" (i.e., Borland) Quattros, still...

Tea wishes to extend her heartfelt thanks to the noble Giver, a fine gentleman and a fellow lover of our mother tongue. ----------------------------- On a side issue, CougTek, note that I made quite sure I made my vote a matter of record (i.e., posted about it), so that no-one would be misled...

Err, excuse me. Lucky I didn't use any of that colourful language Tannin taught me in the workshop. You know, he can get quite graphically descriptive when he's working on a Hewlett-Packard. Frequent repetitions of the word "poxy" seem to indispensible to the task of computer maintenance, for...

WTF? I did @*&$# vote! I voted the same as Tannin, for "Storage Forum". Or I meant to. Who is rigging the damn ballot paper? I wanna recount!

Oh you horrible horrible man! How could you vote for that peversion of a fine old language? For quite possibly the one and only time in my life, I agree with Tannin.

Mercutio? Thou? -- why thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast.Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarreling.

Who sez Tannin's dominant? Step outside and say that again, Mr Smart-arse Montague. And just remember that the bigger they come, the harder they fall.

Illegal to drink and type! Whooah! What about our good friend DB? Why isn't he allowed to take his usual down here under the bar? THIS IS DISCRIMINATION! Goodbye all, I'm calling my lawyer.

I have sold exactly one LS-120 drive. I've sold maybe 50 Zip drives. Funny thing that, I hate Zip drives with a passion, and rather liked the LS-120. It sat in stock for about 18 months and I eventually managed to flog it off for half what I paid for it. Just the other week, I had a customer...

Hic!

Seven.

I was on at much the same time, Prof. It was working OK for me. But quite often I have problems. I suspect that SR's server belongs to an interconnected chain of some kind that a lot of places share. (Don't know the fancy terms for this stuff - help me out James?) I say this because often when...

Just so, Vlad. And naturally, when it came around to time to order another box of motherboards, I ordered Epox. They have been utterly trouble-free for me. The Solteks too. My seat of the pants nerve, for some reason, tells me to use the epox boards for more mission-critical jobs, but I have...