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I should have kept my list going. Manicures/pedicures, knock-off watches, little ornaments, jade of various types, and cheap (cheap) clothing. The weird thing is you can be being assaulted in the street ("sir, sir, you come for pedicure and massage!") and then when you say no, they say "DVD...

Yes, I just went across the border from HK to Shenzen and people literally come up to you in the street and offer to sell you DVD movies and pirated software (PC, Xbox, PS2...). Oh, and to sell you manicures/pedicures, knock-off watches, The weird thing is what is on offer. I mean, games I can...

I thought it was really good too, but I saw it in the cinema which adds a certain impact to the first 15 minutes of the movie (ie. immediately before he picks up the piano). Recommended.

Why penalise users elsewhere in the world? Why single out China and Taiwan?

I don't care what they call the outlines, I just want them so I can do actual maps of Asia. These are respectively sovereign states, recognised by the UN, why would Microsoft express an opinion on their legitimacy or otherwise? Given there are more than 45 million Intenet users in China, that...

So, is the nForce going or staying? 'Cos I want one to mess around with!

PST Response: Visio 2002 Professional Chinese Maps Support Reference Number; 2Q-1HP3U3 Hello James, Thanks for your enquiry regarding the availability of Chinese maps (People's Republic of China and the Republic of Taiwan) in Visio 2002 Professional. For diplomatic (geo-political) reasons...

Obviously since The Oracle died during the filming of Reloaded without doing any scenes for Revolutions, they will have to do some plot adjustments. Carrie Anne was pretty far advanced in her pregnancy by the end of the filming so I suspect less and less leather outfits in Revolutions.

I'm pretty sure that's the definition of "bread and butter." To continue the food analogy, the SCSI drives would the "cream."

Went to see it on Friday. I was disappointed by the first 20mins or so, but the rest of the movie was even more of a rollercoaster ride than the first one - very exciting. Overall not as good as the first but still pretty good.

Yeah, probably. Sort of like thinking of that great comeback to the guy that pushed in front of you in line, only weeks too late. :) I've just been flat out at work...

6 dead, 2 injured.

5 dead and 3 injured is my best too. As far as I can tell there's a fair bit of luck involved depending on how the pedestrians start out. Sometimes there's a nice cluster of women and children you can shadow until there's enough bystanders to make it worthwhile.

Two break-ins, both while I was home. The first was during the day, the person opened the kitchen window and took some cash, a mobile phone and a laptop. First thing I heard was the back gate slamming. The second was about 5am on a Sunday morning. I woke to the sound of a wooden-sounding...

Don't knock it until you've seen it.

AUD or USD?

Actually go ahead. You'll get more for it that way and I'm supposed to be saving money... Plus retail here they're not all that much more so if I rethink it later I'm not hugely out of pocket. Thanks though.

I think you'll find it's impossible to back up Exchange's files while it's running, unless things have changed in 2000. So unless you want to stop the Exchange service while you back it up - and given that the data is large this means stopping the service for potentially several hours, not a...

Is this still available?

Actually Japan has some of the most comprehensive and detailed international TV news I've ever seen. And that's without me even understanding the language.

I don't know of any ISA NICs that support failover natively through their drivers under Unix. You're better off going through the OS. You're using Linux so yu have a number of options - the code from Oracle at http://otn.oracle.com/tech/linux/open_source.html is probably a good start, or just...

This argument is largely incoherent to me so I've been ignoring it.

Bugger.

Actually Fox News is the one that scares me the most.

S'okay. I'm in Singapore next week so maybe I can pick some cheap stuff up there... it's a terrible temptation. :)

The Morgan Poll is an anomaly. All the other polls I have seen locally have all had around 70-30 disapproval of Australia's policy towards Iraq. Logically, you just don't get three quarters of a million people out protesting against a policy (and none protesting for!) if the support for it was...

Oh bloody hell, alright. I've manfully been resisting but that's just too good a deal to pass by. Package it up and let me know what the postage is going to be to Sydney. If you could hang on to it for a week that would be good, since I'm going to be in Singapore next week. Also let me know...

I have no idea how you get to that conclusion, but then I don't agree with your theory that terrorism has changed in any fundamental way. The goals of terrorism are no more or less realistic than they were before. And if terrorism is no longer tied to a country as you say, how does attacking...

A letter from my dad to The Economist: You give too exclusive credit to France for defeating the US-UK in the Security Council. The six 'uncommitted' Council members played a big part by resisting horrendous arm twisting. The substance of the issue also weighed heavily: to most of Iraq’s...

Anyone see this ? http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/articles/howto/FAH_Diskless_Farm_1.html

But the US supports Israeli state terrorism. The US helped train Osama bin Laden. The US used to support Hussein, even in the full knowledge that he was terrorising the Kurds. The US supported Russia when they brutally crushed Chechnya, a nation looking for self-determinism. The US deposed a...

I disagree vehemently on a whole pile of levels. Suffice it to look at a couple. First of all, I don't agree that "these days are unprecedented." Terrorism, state sponsored and otherwise, has been going on for decades - the only difference as far as the US is concerned is it has recently...

Glad you solved your own problem there. :)

I prefer MyIE2 to CrazyBrowser (if nothing else, the name is much better!) - you can find it here.

Yes, he can be quite sensible. ;) I thought the SMH had a couple of interesting things to say : http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/14/1047583703813.html ... which includes this frightening statistic : "Most astonishingly, some 45 per cent of Americans now believe that Saddam was...

You might be interested in a short article my father wrote recently. At the NPC on Friday, the Prime Minister made a reasoned and eloquent case for his policy of support for US policy on Iraq. He deserves a reasoned response and the public deserves an explanation of why these arguments have...

Doubt it's a heat issue too - I have a Deskpro EN SFF even which doesn't overheat with 2x WD 1200BBs and an aircooled P2 350 all running 24/7 in it.

Thanks for that, really interesting. Nice job you did there. Do keep us informed of any improvement in overclocking speeds you manage to achieve.

I think that last title would go great in the forum rankings thread.

Yeah I assumed they weren't running Win2K advanced or datacentre.

My point was that the switch doesn't need to be smart. However, the drivers for the NICs do need to support teaming, or you're stuffed. I don't know if NICs from different manufacturers, even they individually do support teaming, will work together. When teaming is successfully turned on, you...

Please someone point out to Tea where the "s" key is.

Also I repeat my point that if you're bonding together ethernet cards to increase the bandwidth out of your server (the usual requirement, after all) then the switch does not need to be intelligent to support this.

Not unless you want switch-assisted teaming, ie. you want to double the pipe to the box in both directions. If you just want to double the output of the server into your network through NIC teaming then it shouldn't care what sort of switch you use...

Thanks for that. The story of the Super Guppys was interesting too.

Hey now. Amiga was good. All the Unix purists will turn over in their graves - I just reformatted the last Unix box in my house (a FreeBSD one) and installed Win2K Server instead. (I finally got competely sick of all the workarounds in order to get Samba network shares to attach automatically...

Thanks. Merc, "Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes" Not necessarily - perhaps the discussion that followed was more of interest than the original question, and thus it wasn't answered. :) Thanks Coug. Is there much difference in the video encoding capabilities of the various AIWs?

Not to be annoying here, but what, what, what is the difference between all the different ATI models?! Even the sites I go to for their love of feature tables (Anand, Tom) don't really seem to be clear on it. Plus it's hard to map it back into what I'm familiar with (ie Nvidia card speeds).

Thanks all. What does "Pro" add to a standard 9100 card, just clock speed or also memory path bandwidth? What's the difference between a 9000 and a 9100? The Sapphire 9100 Pro 64MB here is $315, a bit expensive. I haven't seen a Sapphire non-Pro yet. The ATI 9000 64M is $139. The ATI 9000 Pro...