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  1. Dell 2001 Flat Panel on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 0

    We have several of these hooked up to Matrox DVI cards (G550) in either single or dual-head config with Windows XP. We have had no issues like what you descibe and I would suggest that this is a problem with your operating system / graphics drivers.

    Have you tried reinstalling the O/S or moving the TFT to a different PC?

    Must be a slow news day today... this is tech support stuff, *not* slashdot material!

  2. Re:File Size on iMac G5 Porn Roundup · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, Y'know what, I'm not even gonna comment on that.

    Seeing as how this is slashdot and how the level of balanced criticism of "alternative" (i.e. non-*nix) software recently has been a little askew, I'd probably appreciate it if you didn't. I suspect that many others would appreciate it too. Well done for your restraint.

  3. Re:hqx on iMac G5 Porn Roundup · · Score: 1

    Servant Salamander from http://www.altap.cz/ will open more or less all archives including hqx. It will also do loads of other cool stuff and is my file manager of choice :-)

    Shareware, not freeware, BTW. There is a free version available, but I suspect it won't open all of the archives that the full version does at it is quite an old build.

  4. File Size on iMac G5 Porn Roundup · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Errr, is it me or does that 10MB archive file actually contain an 7.7MB tiff file?

    Unless my (Windows XP) PC is doing something very odd (unlikely), Apple have managed to compress this file and make it bigger!

    For comparison, a zipped version (done using the Windows built in stuff) is 7.4MB so it was hardly worth bothering in the first place...

  5. Revenge! on AOL's Merlin Compromised? · · Score: 1

    I am sorry, but I cannot get too upset with the thought of thousands of AOL subscribers being bombarded with spam. At least 50% of mine originates from AOL addresses... ;-)

    DIF

  6. Re:Solution to your answer on Large IDE Drives as Long-Term Archival Media? · · Score: 1

    Just bought the DLT8000 version of this baby. Only cost £2500 (UK) and it's flippin' brilliant.

    My advice is to use some half decent software with it too...otherwise you ain't seeing the benefit. BackupExec is my choice :-)

    SH

  7. 20 odd years behind, but better than nothing... on First Maglev Installation Going Up · · Score: 1

    Check this. Ok, it's being decomissioned for being shit, but it's still better than nothing ;-)

    I remember going on this when I was a kid in the 80s. Don't remeber much about it, except that it wasn't long enough and didn't have enough corkscrews.

    Anyone else remember it...?

  8. Re:Upstream is already capped... on Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers? · · Score: 1

    Nonsense.

    NTL in the UK allow servers, albeit not publicly advertised on the internet, but you can do it and it's in their T&Cs.

  9. Re:The other way around on Migrating Your Office from Windows to Linux? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm.
    I like Windows XP. It's stable, quick, runs the software I need, looks nice. Hell, I can even play games on it at lunchtime. And I mean *real* games! Why can't I be allowed to say this without:
    a) Being told that Linux is better on the desktop (it isn't, for me at least)
    b) Being accused of being a Microsoft corporate junky (I'm not, at least not when I last checked)
    Just seems a little odd, if you ask me. I think people on /. need to get some fresh air from time to time. Might I recommend here as a good place to start.

  10. Top class cock-up on When Shipping the Big Iron...? · · Score: 1

    I am not sure if this is true...I'm not even sure if it's accurate, but no doubt someone will correct me if it isn't. Apparently a large dutch ISP had a serious outage, which resulted in most/all of its customers being disconnected, after a delivery truck reversed into the box which contained the main power feed for the building. Now obviously, every good ISP should have a *serious* UPS system to protect their equipment in the unlikely case of a delivery driver doing just this. Unfortunately however, all of the UPS hardware had been removed to make space for the *new* UPS system which was in the back of the truck that killed the power :-D This might be an urban legend, or just plain old bollocks, but there you have it ;-)

  11. Re:Here's how we could get around it... on Reaching Beyond Two-Terabyte Filesystems · · Score: 1

    Woooo, dangerous comment to make on /. ;-)

  12. Re:Hidden away on Clear Hard Drive Mods · · Score: 1

    Read the link. Sigh.
    http://www.overclockers.com/tips821/