Shamus_McFartfinger

What? Where? Barry Humphries stamps? You?ve lost me.

30mb/s does kinda suck though mate... there must be something wrong there (as you rightly said!). Yeah. I?ll have a look on the weekend. I can?t see anything in the BIOS that would slow it down. I thought they?d be alot quicker as well. The drives are fast enough but seem to have a problem communicating somewhere. (2 minutes later) I?ve just checked the nVidia SATA/IDE driver settings and they?ve been set on auto from the BIOS to DMA33. Gee. I wonder why my drives are slow. (5 minutes later) Getting excessive errors from the drives at DMA133 which is why it defaulted to DMA33. It?s a sure bet my ribbon cable is stuffed. Getting 70mb/sec ATM though. 4am. Bedtime.

I see. It?s so clear now. Thanks. Can I ask a question? WTF is an AS-400?

For those of us not fluent in Geek , wtf is an AS-400? Server software of some sort, I guess?

Care to expand on that? I know a lady who gets 20-30 job offers a day and all she has to do is say ?OH GOD! OH GOD! OH YOU HUNK! OH GOD!? etc and so forth.

We will be more than happy to ship all of it to you... We don?t actually get *real* snow as it has to be assembled before we can use it. One of the problems with buying snow from Ikea, I suppose. *cough*

Just got home from work and threw the drive in another machine and started HDD Tools. 30mb/sec. Something tells me I need to replace a ribbon cable and have a look for a BIOS update. ETA is 3 1/2 hours. Damn sight f*cking better than 30. Great proggy mate.

No choice in the matter with the Seagate tools. It would have been nice if they included code that enabled DMA. PIO might be fine for a 20gig drive but for anything larger it?s a painful experience.

Yeppers. Basically returning the drive to its factory state.

Now THERE?S an idea. Why didn?t I think of that? Good thinking, mate. Sounds a hell of a lot better than 2mb/s.

I understand this bit but it makes you wonder why there would be 10 hours difference in the time it takes.

I used Seagate?s formatting tool and after 30 hours it failed to do what it was supposed to do. *sigh* You can have a bit of a read here if you like. http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq...llfmt_what.html

Pssst! Beard, madam?

Google is your friend. http://www.informationweek.com/windows/sho...63105444&pgno=2

We import it from Sweden.

Nope. But if I cool it down to something reasonable and then turn the aircon off, it?s back to 30C inside the house within an hour - even at night. 36C again today and 30C ATM (10pm). My family jewels are so sweaty I have to use tongs just to grab hold of the bugger.

Anyone done this recently? What a slooooooooooow process it is. 20 hours it took for a P3/550 to zero fill a 400gig drive. Eager to improve things, I threw another 400gig thingy into a P4/2.4 last night expecting it to be a little quicker. Nope. 24 hours later and it?s at 76%. WTF?

Yeah. We do get the heat and we get it for about 8 months of the year. Winter lasts about 6 weeks. 36C here today. 11pm here ATM and it?s still 30C in my loungeroom. (It takes weeks for a brick house like mine to cool down as they are constantly being heated during the day).

I did a managers? course about 8 years ago for work which was held in office space across the road from The Wickham Hotel. A pub (any pub) within walking distance seemed like a gift. Anyways, a group of us ran to the pub for lunch and were greeted by a person(?) calling itself ?Miss Plastic Fantastic? who would be doing Abba songs or some other shit later that night . Big fooking shock to the system as I?d never seen a gay bay before (and haven?t since BTW). Once this individual realised we weren?t ring pirates and were just there for the beer, he/she/it spent an hour cracking off queer jokes one after another. Funniest f*cker I?ve ever met..... even if he(?) was wearing a flourescent boob tube, fishnet stockings and high heels. Hell of an experience.

I heard a rumour you spent a few nights at the Wickham Hotel while you were in Brisbane. Tell me it wasn?t so? http://www.thewickham.com.au/home.html

We sent more than one athlete. It snows in more places than you?d expect but nothing like it does in Europe, Asia or USA/Canada. Being stinking fooking hot in summer is about the only guaranteed thing over here. http://home.iprimus.com.au/ozthunder/frost.htm

Ain?t that the truth.

A couple of hours north of Brisbane. Gympie, Hervey Bay, Maryborough (near Fraser Island) etc. http://www.fraserisland.net/

L_UK: Could the problem be the Matshita drive or have they fixed the problems with it?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060213/od_af...DRpBHNlYwM3NTc- Money really doesn't buy happiness, study finds Mon Feb 13, 12:18 PM ET SYDNEY (AFP) - Money doesn't buy happiness, and now there's a study to prove it. Australian researchers found that people in well-off Sydney are among the most miserable in the country, while those in some of the poorest areas are much more satisfied with their lives. "Only at very, very high levels does money actually have any impact to act as a buffer," said Deakin University researcher Liz Eckerman. "Money doesn't actually buy happiness and that's what was shown very clearly for the nearly 23,000 people we've interviewed so far," she told ABC radio. The findings, collated since 2001, show that while there are no extremes of well-being in Australia, the happiest areas had a lower population, more people aged 55 or over, more women, more married people and less income inequality. The survey assessed a person's satisfaction with their standard of living, health, relationships, life achievement, safety, community connection and future security. Robert Cummins, a professor of psychology at Deakin who compiled the survey's scorecard, put the difference down to the higher cost of housing and high population density in cities. "People in these rural electorates often have the advantage of additional disposable income since the cost of living, particularly housing, tends to be reduced outside the cities," he told The Australian newspaper. Of the 150 national electorates surveyed, one of the nation's poorest, Wide Bay in rural Queensland, was among the happiest.