Recent content by cbh

Wow, nostalgia. Now that's what computer circuit boards are supposed to look like! They're just too dull nowadays.

I was imagining a 300mm raised floor, the ones which hide all those red-hot water cooling return pipes which lurk there, waiting to burn careless fingers which stray too close... Still, better than the 1½m raised floors that I can't climb back out of again! Er, apologies to the OP for being...

They make their best cases in-house. A model 3090 enclosure would probably fit the bill: They look more impressive in real life, though! :D

I quite like my LCD in some ways, but the colour saturation sucks (to use the standard technical term) compared to my previous CRT. Dunno where there's a decent 20" LCD for ~£300 either, this bugger cost over twice that and I'd say it's only just acceptable compared to anything cheaper. At...

I really like the look of the front panel a lot. It's let down by the side somewhat, which is hideous: it'd be a massive improvement if they'd just put in a simple square window, but "simple" seems to be something which offends TT's sensibilities at times. But it looks great from the front...

I voted for the TJ03, and I do own one so it's not just a case of "it looks nice on their website"! IMHO it looks great in either silver or black; mine's silver, but it was a hard decision. I'd also like to say a word in favour of Silverstone in that they reply to emails promptly and they're...

I was about to say that it's normally just belts that have cans (the belt equivalent of a magazine, I suppose), but I remembered that some large shells (like 105mm tank shells) also come in quite impressive looking metal containers. A bit unwieldy, though!

I agree that it's a pain in the arse that they insist on providing driver software on floppies. I still haven't got the hang of that newfangled technology yet and I wish they'd go back to sending out card-decks instead. Much more reliable. Chris.

Well, it was the '70s and the show was infamous for being allotted a ludicrously tiny special effects budget by the BBC: that they managed to afford to make any props at all was no small miracle! The "tribute to Orac" does look rather better than the original, though.

The show was Blake's 7, a sort of anti-Star Trek with miserable endings. I've shamelessly swiped a picture of Orac off someone else's website so you can see the thing in question: It also had the inevitable flashing lights, it whirred and was generally grumpy, sarcastic and unhelpful.

Its æsthetics (or lack thereof) are all that's stopping me descending into major jealousy. At least let me believe that looks are more important than specs for the sake of my sanity. :D My old Supermicro SC830 case was a bit too much concentrated beige for one place until it got windowed...

If envy's an ugly thing, I'm looking really ugly right now. Oh well, I don't care, I have a better-looking case anyway. :p

Yes.

I'll never buy another Seagate. Admittedly it's going back quite a few years, but their ubiquitous 1GB and 2GB SCSI drives in the early 90s seemed to have a 3-year failure rate of over 50% from a sample size of a few dozen (from various batches), which is not good, and the firmware on their 4GB...

In particular it's the metadata that I'm worried about: a file or two I can probably handle (although that would be annoying) but larger-scale filesystem corruption is another matter entirely, certainly not something I want to experience again (last time it happened was using async-mounted...