Good old hyper threading. Thanks. Good looking machine Jafo.

I could say something smart arse like: "Well you could always use the one you keep in the bathroom/toilet." ,but the fact is, they make all this new fangled stuff for the young pups with good eyesight, not us old codgers with failing eyesight and reflexes so slow we miss 'press delete to enter setup' during the extraordinarily fast boot-ups.

Technolergy, ain't it grand!!  Everything's getting faster and smaller... it's either a mere flash before our eyes cos it's so fast, or just a blur cos our specs ain't strong enough to see the detail.

Now you should be angree 'Old is not gold'.

That's odd. I seem to be heading in the opposite direction.

Well, I guess I won't be selling the old 32bit laptop yet, I got one RC in the works and another three lined up.............anyway, congrats on the new toy!

That is exactly what I mean... as middle-aged spread encroaches and then goes rampant, we slow down as technology get faster and smaller.  Worse still, our eyesight is failing as a result of a mis-spent youth... so everything is getting harder to see to boot.  And speaking of 'boot' (now I've got this Phenom II quad core) my rig boots that fast I have to keep my finger spring loaded on the delete button... or I miss the "enter setup" part and Vista is asking me for my password.

How times change!  There was a time when 120mph on my Honda was a thrill... hehe, now the fastest thing I wanna be on is my computer chair.

Well...I bit the bullet and have swapped systems.....this new one is now my main machine.....the other will be cleaned, rebuilt and passed on to Terry ....anything's an improvement over that 1.6G desktop case.

Weirdest thing though.....now I'm using the MS wireless mouse and diNovo board.... scrolling the volume in Winamp only works one way.....up....

Which when listening to Spinal Tap is the only way it should go... no point them going all the way to 11 if you don't.

BTW: for those who are interested/didn't know, Spinal Tap have a new album out... Back From the Dead.  Joost is doing a feature on Tap... and they're still as wacky as ever.

I've never heard of Spiral Tap. Call me when Korn or Metallica get there new albums out this year.

WHAT??? You've NEVER heard of Spinal Tap?  See if your local video store has a copy of "This Is Spinal Tap" for rent... it is a comedic rockumentary featuring some of their music and worth the watch... there's also a music CD of the same name,, and a later release "Break Like the Wind" featuring Steve vai and other big name musos.  Also check out the link.

Dunno about Korn, but Metallica have an more recent album many wouldn't have heard about, "Beatallica"... it's Metallica doing Beatles songs using their own style and lyrics.

I'll pass thanks...

Like on what... Spinal Tap or Metallica doing the Beatles???

If it's Spinal Tap and you went to the link, that not the be all and end all of what they're about.  While some of their lyrics may be a bit tongue in cheek, the music is good and well worth a listen... as is the movie worth a watch.  Oh, and don't take any notice of the fact that these days they look like a bunch of aging rockers tripping out on magic mushies, it's 30 years on since the movie and original album... not that they can't still put a good tune together.

If it's the Metallica album, well yeah, some people migth think their doing the Beatles is sacrilege... but when were they ever reverent.  You either like 'em or you don't.

I'll pass on Spinal Tap.

I havent's seen Spinal Tap in years but I do remember some of the funny bits were the parts where the guy couldn't get out of the egg and when the drummer spontaneously combusted.

Oh well. they're one rock n' roll phenomen you won't get caught up in, then.

Yeah, they've been quiet for a while, though they did the "Break Like the Wind" ablum in the early 90's... 92, I think.  Other than that, they've been mostly quiet since the 70's and 'This Is Spinal Tap'... until now, that is.

I have the movie on DVD and still watch it occasionally, for the comedy as well as the music... and yeah, I like those parts as well, plus when they performed "Sex Farm" at the USAF base.. when Derek Smalls got beeped at the airport metal detector for having a cucumber wrapped in tin foil down his pants.