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Nice job Sol! I bet your dentist has nothing to complain about when you go and see him/her either. :wink:

BTW it looks to me as if iPowerweb are in the UK from that traceroute.

You don't wanna see my traceroutes. It takes about 160ms just to get to the US west coast from here (which by the way is much much better than it used to be before Southern Cross went in, the average RTD to the west coast was 350ms...).

I've got a Cornerstone 50/115sf 21" on my machine, my girlfriend has a pair of 19" (one Viewsonic G790, the other a Phillips Brilliance 109P) on hers. The colour saturation on the Cornerstone is unreal - streets ahead of anything I've ever seen. And this on a 4 year old monitor I picked up at...

What do you think of this mob? They are owned by the same people that host/manage my personal e-mail, which has been good so far. Pricing isn't bad, to my way of thinking...

Gary, let me introduce you to Greg's habit of putting half his post in the subject field. Annoying, isn't it? Greg, I have no basis to estimate 2nd hand pricing for those cards in the US, but on a pure bang-for-buck estimate it looks pretty fair.

So I've been lazy. I suspect the below won't help everyone, since my problem was more getting the XP box to remember the password to attach to the share, rather than it being a problem with XP specifically. I've reviewed my notes, and it seems most of my problems came from the smb.conf file...

Actually, I'll be in Boca Raton FL for a conference at the end of next month, so I'm sure I'll see him.

Also helpful is that the ad isn't shown in Australia.

Thanks for all the suggestions. And no, in Australia it's almost impossible to find a service that will give you 500GB of traffic unless you pay for it - 500GB x $120/GB = AUD60K a month. That said, this is a pretty specialised project for a very small market. 2GB of traffic a month should be...

My dad's project, actually. He's forming a non-profit organisation which will run a website. The website will (eventually) document every print of Australian flora or fauna published before 1900, mainly for research purposes. So basically it will be a database with a bunch of pictures and...

I dunno, they got a far better class of actor with episodes 4-6, methinks - at least they have emotions and seem enthused about the whole thing. With episodes 1 & 2 it's like they dug up some of the extras in Resident Evil to do the acting - wooden performances, stiff movement, little depth to...

It felt plenty fast from here. Maybe a little faster than Burst, maybe not. But for me, speed isn't the issue with Burst, it's reliability.

Well, I went to see it over the weekend. It was certainly better than Episode One - having your intestines pulled out through your nostrils is better than Episode One - but it wasn't what I'd call good. Why can't any of the actors actually act?! Slight spoiler (highlight to see): I thought the...

Smartdraw isn't bad, unless you're used to Visio. AFAIK it doesn't do network, database or website discovery and mapping, though, and that's what I often use Visio 2002 for.

I had some problems too. It turned out my avatar was too large, so I trimmed it down - you might want to try again.

I thought that was spelled "The Giver."

That's always been Intel's area of expertise rather than AMD's.

Time to quote that memorable song by the Scared Weird Little Guys : Deadly Animals By The Scared Weird Little Guys Redback, Funnel-Web, Blue-ringed octopus Tiapan, Tigersnake and a Box jellyfish Stonefish and the poison thing that lives in a shell That spikes you when you pick it up Come to...

Well, if there's anything I can do to help, let me know.

Huge congratulations Jake, and looks like a beautiful baby. I especially like the choice of middle name. ;)

Sol, I can almost guarantee you'll be disappointed with a dual system (Intel or AMD). Why? Because whatever your expectations are, the system won't achieve them (I have a dual XP 1700+ box). To all intents and purposes, it behaves like a single system except when : 1. I do some very complex...

Hard drive buffers are always read, never write. Loss of power wouldn't affect anything; the OS caches are usually read as well, except for certain applications (like databases) which have write caches as well. In this case the write is usually done through a three phase commit, so there's very...

I'm famous! :mrgrn: It must have been something that I did to the XP side, since as I said I have just changed both Samba versions and indeed server system architectures and I didn't have to change anything on the server end. Once I get home and I'm in front of my notes (I keep a journal when...

As usual, David beat me to it and did a better job. Nice post. :)

No, no, no. The idea behind the buffer on the hard drive is to collect data either in front of or behind the actual data needed "for free." In other words, it is data that isn't yet required (and may never be), but can be collected for little or no loss of performance. If all that useless (for...

I don't read the B&G at SR anymore - the S/N ratio is just too high. Jason has a lot to do with that, but it's not only him. Now that we have enough data to see how eg. The Giver operates (bait and switch the argument, demand unreasonable proof, taunt, drag the discussion into accusations of...

Well, I got it working at home. I have 2 XP desktops, an XP laptop, an Turtle Beach Audiotron, and a Win95 web tablet that all talk fine to a Samba server I have running on a P166 FreeBSD box (Samba 2.2.3a). It was working fine under Solaris on an Ultra 5 (Samba 2.2.2) too. The Samba box even...

Sorry, should have mentioned. The controller was U3 based and took a standard (ECC maybe?) 72pin SIMM for RAM.

I've used a couple such cards on Dell 2U rackmounts, although the ones I used may be specific to Dells. They are a thoroughly unexciting RAID card. The only claim to fame of the ones I used is that they have an onboard PCMCIA ISDN/POTS modem (56K/64K) and a port on the back to plug the phone...

BTW Bill, my avatar kicks your avatar's butt. :mrgrn:

This I thought was pretty disgusting.

I like "INeedAName" as a nick - saw someone with it on the Megatokyo forums.

Sorry, LCR = Local Call Resale.

Yeah, I was really happy with Dingo Blue too, although we only used them for LD and LCR. They must indeed be awesome at the moment, they have stacks of bandwidth in to Optus and from there it goes on our (ie. C&W's) international IP product, which flies. (Guaranteed 100% availability, guaranteed...

But the performance improvement is unnoticeable, isn't it?

Nice one Coug. :) BTW I'm perfectly happy with the ECS K7S5A boards I've used. I have one here at home running a TB1000 no problems at all - it's in Sharon's machine.

BTW you're going to have to get rid of Dingo Blue, given that they're closing down in 3 weeks.

Sorry, busy busy busy. One thing occurred to me - do you have a back to base alarm? Most do a callout in the middle of the night, and that will interrupt your modem call. Otherwise, I'd just call Telstra and ask. I'm afraid I'm not a voice network specialist, data is my thing (well, really...

My girlfriend overheard this bit and burst out laughing - and I could tell the Telstra guy was pretty embarassed. I think they ask you for specifics because a lot of people can't remember exactly when it was and end up being talked out of a credit.

What I found interesting was how they went from "no credits" to "okay, we do do credits actually." It seems like there's a series of argument hurdles you have to get past - bit like an RPG really.

Phooey! You're seven weeks late. :)

I've essentially stopped selling systems, because the things that people wanted to buy got gradually less and less fun to build, and just repetitivve instead. I only sell systems to people who want top end gaming systems/bragging rights, and I don't do much volume. Maybe one a week is all, if...

I wasn't angry, I was having fun. Something similar happened two nights ago. Telstra (our local telephone incumbent) sells me home DSL service. I use it in the evenings and the weekends, my girlfriend uses it during the day for her web consulting work. A few weeks ago the service was down for...

Yep, that's the sort of thing. Here it's called the "stealth decoder" and it costs the equivalent of USD45-50 for one that supports 3 lines.

I liked the "mini reply button by quote" mod. I think that would increase usability.

<- Has completed Ico; now back to Devil May Cry. :)

Why not donate them to a worthy cause? Like a local school or computer recycling program?

I can't get to it through Telstra (home) or Optus (work).