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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / June 2006Pang Charles W. is off topic fo sho
have you noticed the new trend with programmers these days? no matter the genre of code, wether... mind f.ck, fortran, or visual basic they seem to be lightening up in their end user error messages I got a legitamate error message once it said, "don't rush me"... which I thought was cool and down to earth I just got one that said... Error! Don't Panic! lol it's really not that funny, but it is funny in it's setting because someone wrote that sh.t.. my all time favorite error message is... <drum roll> Critical Error! No Keyboard Found! Press F1 to continue. >have you noticed the new trend with programmers these days? >no matter the genre of code, wether... mind f.ck, fortran, or visual [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >Critical Error! No Keyboard Found! Press F1 to continue. I have seen that last one... an Award bios error I think. I set my bios to boot through errors. As for the rest, I'm not familiar with them. But if I'm being plagued by errors, I do not want cuteness. I want information. My new computer was down for about 10 days because of a blue screen that came out of nowhere. Microsoft tech support wasn't able to run it down (I suspect my Smith Micro USB modem driver) and I had to reinstall everything from the ground up. What a mess. I have a cleaner system now, though, because I installed everything at once in the right order. I can only hope the blue screen doesn't reappear. I'm gonna go to Starband and ditch this flaky cell-phone connection. Starband has almost gotten their act together since they pulled out of Ch. 11 and my tenant is a dealer. Charlie > My new computer was down for about 10 days because of a blue screen > that came out of nowhere. my monster server is down right now i've been to hell and back trying to rescue the drives I've tried several live linux CD's, and a slew of rescue disks... at this point, I am looking to boot from a 3.5 floppy... mount the ntfs volumes and put them on a tcp/ip network. works for me, it has ran headless for 3 years now anyway. I am in denial that my number one drive is shot... blue screen can be scary, hard to say why I'm sure. > I'm gonna go to Starband and ditch this flaky cell-phone connection. > Starband has almost gotten their act together since they pulled out of > Ch. 11 and my tenant is a dealer. I think I"ve heard of Starband, don't forget direcway is sat provider as well. I have pictures of where they launched one of their satellites from the equator. for direcway it costs 100.00 a month for one year,(this buys the equipment and service) then it drops to 59 a month.but direcway is now hughes.net I installed a 15' tall steel post for a customer, so they could mount a satellite dish. the direway people mounted the satellite on my steel post. The post has 4 angled feet bolted to it and then the angled feet are anchored in the concrete. The top end of the steel post is tied to a brick wall by two 6' pieces of angle iron. I enjoy odd projects like that. Lastly, if I get an extra 500.00 I can go up the street from here and buy a server that is as large as a trailer size forced oil heater. That should make a fun winter project. I looked inside the cabinet of this server... super clean! and allegedly works just fine. Lots and lots of phone jack ports on one side. On Thu 01 Jun 2006 09:47:20p, mnemonic wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav (news:1149212840.532961.13930 @i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com): > blue screen can be scary, hard to say why I'm sure. The_top_line_will_tell_you_why You just have to listen.  SignatureCheryl > The_top_line_will_tell_you_why > > You just have to listen. > > -- > Cheryl I've never heard that before, Charlie says MS couldn't nail it down I do know that the beeps and lights on the power-up can provide alot of info for trouble shooting. >> The_top_line_will_tell_you_why >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >I've never heard that before, Charlie says MS couldn't nail it down No. I'm 75% sure it was one of two things -- either the proprietary nvidia hdd driver (I am now running the MS driver) or else the flaky Smith Micro USB modem driver. Whatever it was did not leave a memory dump, and I think the hdd driver would have, so SM is my main suspect.. MS was willing to set up a live debug, but that would have been a lot of work for me and them, so I just rebuilt my drive with slightly more conservative settings here and there. >I do know that the beeps and lights on the power-up can provide alot of >info for trouble shooting. At the bios level, but this was toward the end of the boot cycle. Charlie >On Thu 01 Jun 2006 09:47:20p, mnemonic wrote in >rec.pets.cats.health+behav (news:1149212840.532961.13930 [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >You just have to listen. Really??? I paid MS $99 and worked with their tech support for 2 weeks by email. They collected a cab full of information about my system, but they couldn't figure it out and had to refund my money. Charlie >> My new computer was down for about 10 days because of a blue screen >> that came out of nowhere. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >year,(this buys the equipment and service) then it drops to 59 a >month.but direcway is now hughes.net Yeah, well, Hughes has something they call a "Fair Access Policy," which basically means, broadband for everyone who doesn't need it. Download more than about 150mb at a pop, and they slow your connection speed to sub-56k for the next 12 hours or so. Starband has a policy with the same effect, but they implement it differently... through a rolling seven-day average. That means I can download an ISO or porn movie now and then without problems. Hughes has overall better technology, but Starband (which uses a couple of abandoned military satellites) is more tuned in to the market. Their new 481 modem has Linux support, and I want to gradually migrate to Linux because of this slow-motion Vista train wreck. Based on what I have read, Vista is a giant Trojan Horse for consumers, checking to make sure your files are all legal downloads, etc. I'm not a software/content pirate (except by accident) but I have seen already that Media Player will mis-identify legal content as pirated, like home-made stuff with proprietary codecs, all legally done. The public is gonna scream bloody murder, cause untold revisions, and I do not want to be there. >I installed a 15' tall steel post for a customer, so they could mount a >satellite dish. the direway people mounted the satellite on my steel [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >server... super clean! and allegedly works just fine. >Lots and lots of phone jack ports on one side. Yeah. Fun fun fun. Wait a year and they will pay YOU to haul it off. We need to form our own goddamn space program so we can use all the cool obsolete stuff that clutters up our lives. Charlie > Yeah. Fun fun fun. Wait a year and they will pay YOU to haul it off. > > We need to form our own goddamn space program so we can use all the > cool obsolete stuff that clutters up our lives. If I didn't know better I think you're suggesting we send junk into space you know just push it on out there... let it float around I always did wanna see what would happen if a comet hit a barrel of nuclear waste >> Yeah. Fun fun fun. Wait a year and they will pay YOU to haul it off. >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >I always did wanna see what would happen if a comet hit a barrel of >nuclear waste I've got computers coming out of my a.s. I get them all cleaned up and add them to my nice, neat row of computers with a tablecloth over them to keep the dust off. Nobody wants them. One has an athlon 1700, 640mb of RAM, a 64mb nvidia video card... all in a beautiful white micron case from a different machine. Somebody junked it. Another pearl is an HP omnibook 3000, a 386 laptop not much bigger than a pda... with a little spring-loaded mouse that pops out of the side, mint condition with all the original docs. I'll bet I could get $20 on ebay, if I found just the right buyer and included free shipping. For me it's gotten to be sort of a collecting hobby, and a cheap one at that. Ooh! Aldus Pagemaker 5 (win 3x) with the original box and docs! How can I pass that up for $2? Hey... HP portable inkjet printer with the original sales receipt ($379 plus tax), how cool. But useless... Charlie > I've got computers coming out of my a.s. I get them all cleaned up > and add them to my nice, neat row of computers with a tablecloth over > them to keep the dust off. Nobody wants them. well there you go, the clean case alone is worth keeping them each case represents a possible monster machine depends what you put in them... and a good case is worth 65-80 bux (good steak dinner) you got CD drives, floppies, IDE cables, maybe power supplies I went to a local home based computer repair shop last year for some part... the fellow was extremely organized. he had large storage containers, each container had different components, like hard drives, modems, graphic cards, columns of motherboards, etc... more like a work of art in my opinion, either that or a crazy making situation > One has an athlon > 1700, 640mb of RAM, a 64mb nvidia video card... all in a beautiful [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > get $20 on ebay, if I found just the right buyer and included free > shipping. lol, I found a PDA in the thrift shop.. it was color too brought it home, connected it to my com port... downloaded software, and put the sucker on the internet! I even upgraded it's os. very cool! for 1.00, I put some games on it and gave it to my nephew. > For me it's gotten to be sort of a collecting hobby, and a cheap one > at that. Ooh! Aldus Pagemaker 5 (win 3x) with the original box and > docs! How can I pass that up for $2? Hey... HP portable inkjet > printer with the original sales receipt ($379 plus tax), how cool. > But useless... A friend called me a couple nights ago, he got a med size box of immaculate CD's from his work dumpster... I think he told me linux redhat 6.0 (which ain't bad).. then a collection of visual basic, then a collection of various linux softwares, never heard of most of them, but sounded like programming tools. What distribution of linux are you thinking about? The only reason I haven't made the switch to linux is because I haven't found good multi-track recording software for Linux. but I had considered, Fedora and Redhat, I have both of them...from last year. I also have about 4-5 different Live CD's, those are pretty cool. seems like redhat was about 2-3 cd's and fedora was about 5 cd's I never heard of the addle download scheme you mention, although in practice it would probably never be a nuisance. unless you goto http://www.veoh.com/ it's a p2p hoam video hub, they probably allow more download for money. pfft there's too much confusion in there! said the joker to the bee > there's too much confusion in there! said the joker to the bee Good morning! Isn't it "the joker to the thief? It has to rhyme with "relief." > > there's too much confusion in there! said the joker to the bee > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > It has to rhyme with "relief." lol no... it don't have to ryhme just has to have phrase rythm oh pwease im the mnemonic besides, it's actually "confusion in here" you're thinking of something like.. fuzzy wuzzy was a bear fuzzy wuzzy had no hair > > > there's too much confusion in there! said the joker to the bee > > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > fuzzy wuzzy was a bear > fuzzy wuzzy had no hair *sigh* http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/watchtower.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: "mnemonic" <bigbadbarry@gmail.com> >lol >no... it don't have to ryhme [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >fuzzy wuzzy was a bear >fuzzy wuzzy had no hair "no reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke, "there are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." > > there's too much confusion in there! said the joker to the bee > > Good morning! oh, good morning you caught me with my pants down to my knees both times as I was just waking up both times i posted i always thought it said keeper and bees so you say it's jokers and thieves hey my isp is down right now, im posting through my cell phone too tedious to look this up but aha! I have downloaded ring tone lol > > > there's too much confusion in there! said the joker to the bee > > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > lol You are so resourceful ... :) Nice to see you. > You are so resourceful ... :) Nice to see you. aaaaaw man i new someone was logged into my live webcast this morning I didn't think it was active.. but my bandwidth meter kept peaking... what did you see? did you see everything..? > > You are so resourceful ... :) Nice to see you. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > what did you see? did you see everything..? EVrything. :) |
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