Posts by Les Matthew

I wish I could say the same for Asus motherboards

I've had no less than five Asus motherboards fail in the last eighteen months and a similar number of PSU's which also managed to trash three AMD CPU's.

@@Daniel Jones

"Yes, but at least when she flogged it off"

Don't you mean, when she gave it away for a fraction of its value?

Re: The reason for royalty

Unlike royalty that got all its power from being nice gentle little minnows.

Speaks volumes

when 45% turn out is considered record numbers.

@Jim

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9932054-7.html

That may shed a bit more light on the subject.

Re: Oi! Gordon, you plum! Get yourself a dictionary!

He has, It's called the dictionary of spin.

Bestiality?

Beer goggles can now get you into some serious trouble boys and girls.

Re: @Graham Wood

"Paris because she's never had a beard"

But she has had a close shave.

@Milky

"Just save up that bit more, get a mac, run bootcamp, dual boot, be legal (option), everyones happy!

Interesting though, how so much more people are now looking at ways to get Leopard on their system.... Y'all love to hate it, but ya still want it he he he."

Is it just me or is there a large dose of irony here?

@Nathan

"I don't quite see how Opera can claim that, when if Windows wasn't bagged with IE, how would its users download Opera? Please, name an O/S that doesn't come with a basic browser."

Yep, nobody could download before browsers arrived on the scene.

@James O'Brien

I always thought one of the reasons that SCSI drives were more expensive was because they are individually tested unlike IDE/SATA drives which are batch tested.

Some SATA drives cost the same as SCSI drives now.

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(12242)Western-Digital-150GB-Raptor-SATA-10K-rpm.aspx

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(12407)Fujitsu-147GB-Ultra320-SCSI-hard-disk-drive.aspx

HMRC are not the only ones

to lose discs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7334249.stm

8800GT

Nice card but be aware that these cards are long, about 9 inches and they have a power connector to go on the end too. So I should make sure you have enough space for card and power connection to fit.

@Jared

Point taken. ;)

In my defence, when I see desktop I think home users and general office work, what you describe I think workstation.

Wankers and Bankers? I'm having trouble seeing a difference between those two at this moment in time. ;)

@Neil Hoskins

Dawgeh, is that you? ;)

@phix8

"I don't like religious people with medieval world views using technology - it smacks of hypocrisy."

The trouble with that is they have most of the juice that is needed to power technology.

@Chris Bradshaw

"Al Qaeda and Hamas are trying to recruit and build community support."

Flying planes into sky scrapers, suicide bombings and indiscriminate firing of rockets are real community builders.

@censored

"How do they get the 1000 fans, without marketing, management, advertising etc?"

"Without it, a musician is just one of a million with undiscoverable myspace pages."

I don't know about anywhere else in the world but in the UK we used to have this thing called "The Transit Van".

Maybe the idea of actually getting up off your arse and slogging it round the country doing gigs is a bit too much for today's budding musicians/performers. Do they all expect instant success with mega sales and stadium concerts straight off the bat?

End of the Universe? No problem

my table at Milliways is booked and waiting.

@Bob ter

Kids aren't cruel, they're just brutally honest. ;)