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  1. Not quite there on New Generation of Cases? · · Score: 1

    I fear it will not interest me, nor many others. Given the availability of the Highpoint RAID controller on motherboards, 4 bays for hard
    disk drives are needed, as well as the floppy disk drive. And only two fans? With those extra HDD I would suggest an extra two opposite the current two, one on top, plus two at the front bottom in front of the hard disk drives, I appreciate that this will pobably mean turning the case into a cuboid, but I would suggest that this is no bad thing. Further, the case should be big enough to cope with oversized motherboards (eg dual-CPU mbs).

  2. Typewriters on Building The Navy Intranet · · Score: 1

    Typewriters are EMP - proof. They're also vastly more sturdy than most computers. THey even work when there's no power.

  3. Pay on Do Long Work Hours Affect Code Quality? · · Score: 1

    Are you and your colleagues going to get paid for this overtime? If not, just say no. If he insists, walk. Even if the boss agrees, state that 12 hours a day will be the limit, and it will be every third week.

  4. The screen on How To Travel With LCD Gaming Screen? · · Score: 1

    Make sure the screen travels as hand-baggage. If it goes in the unpressurised hold, it will break, either from the atmosphere or from the rough handling.

  5. Backwards compatability on Longer Bar Codes Coming in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Gee, I wonder how difficult it will be to have older scanners display 'Enter price manually'; I wonder how much more difficult it will be to actually get the checkout clerks to actually do this.

  6. Now licensed? on Wireless Networking at 72Mbps · · Score: 1

    Is this technology now licensed for European use?

  7. What's the difference? on Download 600MB From The EU -- For A Demo? · · Score: 4

    I fail to see the difference between Europeans downloading something from America and Americans downloading something from Europe.

    We do have the internet over here, you know.

  8. What if Florida were a draw? on And The Winner Is... Nobody! · · Score: 1

    Here in the UK, constituency elections which end in a draw are settled by luck (drawing straws or tossing a coin), but what happens if the votes in Florida are tied?

    qts

  9. Concentration on Quake does not help 3dfx on The Good Old Days of 3Dfx · · Score: 1

    Virtually every reviewer benchmarks cards on Quake 3. The GeForce cards score highly here. They don't consider FSAA because it doesn't do much for Quake 3. Add in FSAA and GeForce performance plummets.

    I'm not really into twitch games, though I do enjoy a quick bash at Unreal now and then. I am into sims, and FSAA is a godsend. On a low-spec system like mine (dual Celeron 400), the V5 is much the better choice where FSAA is a must.

  10. Connect costs on Spam, ISPs, MAPS And Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Both in time and money. You may have unmetered telephone access, I don't. I have to pay for the spam that I receive. I also resent the time it takes to transfer it. I'm on a POTS line and if some spammer sends me a 1 MB file, then that take a long time to download. Time is money.

  11. Call me an ignorant Limey on EBay Pulls MS Auctions, Neutralizes Complaints · · Score: 1

    but in the lawyer-happy paradise that is America, why aren't disgruntled sellers sueing eBay and/or MS for defamation of character?

  12. We couldn't win; we mustn't lose on Apocalypse Not · · Score: 1

    Virtually all the work done has been behind the scenes, so of course people aren't going to see anything if all is well.

    What people forget, and we must explain, is that the problem is not just the rollover from 1999 to 2000, but the whole usage of dates.

    What we must do is patiently explain what we have done and what would have happenned if we hadn't done anything. I'm sure some corking examples are going to appear.

  13. Newsgroups and mailing lists on Are BBS-Like Communities Dead? · · Score: 1

    I find that newsgroups and mailing lists perform just the same job. With newsgroups, you just have to filter out the spam.

    Many mailing lists definitely have a sense of community. In this regard OneList is to be commended.

    One trick I use with newsgroups is to maintain a picklist, and look for posts from those posters - PMINews helpfully allows me to give the message title a different colour.

    Pity there isn't a Win32 version.

    qts@nildram.co.uk