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bilmore 10-13-2005 01:22 PM
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The advantage of using Knoppix is that it can sidestep some problems that arise from, say, a Windows driver, because it is Linux.
Linux?!

Hippie.

ltl/fb 10-13-2005 01:24 PM
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I am glad to see that the website I posted did not seem to cause massive board-wide technical meltdowns. It was the last thing I did before my HP laptop shut down and refused to start up again. Because I had no backup internet access, I was unable to warn y'all yesterday.

As for the laptop, it tries to start windows but repeatedly fails. There appears to be some blue screen from hell that is intended to tell me that my computer is terminal, but it flashes off so quickly I can't figure out what it says. I may have to call one of those computer geeks who is always leaving messages on my home machine despite my being on every do-not call list, including those of vendors with whom I have done business in the past. This would require me to lift two boycotts: the one on businesses that leave automated messages on home answering machines, and the one on establishing any relationship, whether business or personal, with anyone who drives a PT Cruiser.
Um, let me know if you fix this, because this happened to me over a week ago (on a Dell). I have not yet worked myself up to calling the endless-hold people, though having neither TV nor internet access at home will push me to it soon. Luckily I was out of town earlier this week. I watched like 4 episodes of X Files in a row. It was not a good cure for insomnia.

I need to learn how to manage short trips to the east coast better. I feel like shit after them -- kills at least a day.

ETA, because I did not STP, I have not tried sticking the windows system disk thingies in the CD thingy to start it, but I pondered it. I too can't even get to the point where I would safe-start it anymore -- most recently, all it does if I press the power button is make the power and the hard drive lights go on (steady), blink the caps lock light 10 times, and then all goes dark. It really seems like it's trying to tell me something with that caps lock light, but I don't speak its language.

EATA, if the computer really is fried, I'm getting a mac next time.

baltassoc 10-13-2005 01:24 PM
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Originally posted by bilmore
Linux?!

Hippie.
Dude. Unchain youself from the shackles of The Man. Let your freak flag fly, man.

Replaced_Texan 10-13-2005 01:27 PM
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Thanks for the information. I'm making the boot floppies right now. I'm sure I'll go home to find no floppy drive. My work PC doesn't have a CD burner, and the IT Guys are at lunch so I can't ask them a favor before I have to leave.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were the motherboard, although that would suck as I've only had it for 14 months. I actually thought it overheated yesterday.
I had a laptop commit suicide two years ago by overheating and melting itself. The tech guys said that they'd never seen a keyboard melt like that before. BUT, they were able to rescue the hard drive, and more importantly, the data on the hard drive. Even if the computer is dead, dead, dead, the hard drive may be salvagable.

Mr. Man 10-13-2005 01:27 PM
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Thanks for the information. I'm making the boot floppies right now. I'm sure I'll go home to find no floppy drive. My work PC doesn't have a CD burner, and the IT Guys are at lunch so I can't ask them a favor before I have to leave.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were the motherboard, although that would suck as I've only had it for 14 months. I actually thought it overheated yesterday.
Sounds like a virus. In any event, if it is the HD the computer should not keep restarting, there should be an error message very early on in the start process. Windows is on the HD, only a basic startup is flash ram, if I recall. You'd be able to easily tell with startup floppy. The CD drive won't work anyway unless the driver is contained in the startup floppy. I had a HD burn out a few weeks back, taking 23GB of iTunes MP3s with it. I had it backed up, but the backup was f'ed as well for some reason. That sucked. I had to illicitly pull all the stuff off the iPod back to the computer (only 15GB worth however). Now I back up frequently.

Mr. Man 10-13-2005 01:29 PM
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Um, let me know if you fix this, because this happened to me over a week ago (on a Dell). I have not yet worked myself up to calling the endless-hold people, though having neither TV nor internet access at home will push me to it soon. Luckily I was out of town earlier this week. I watched like 4 episodes of X Files in a row. It was not a good cure for insomnia.

I need to learn how to manage short trips to the east coast better. I feel like shit after them -- kills at least a day.

ETA, because I did not STP, I have not tried sticking the windows system disk thingies in the CD thingy to start it, but I pondered it. I too can't even get to the point where I would safe-start it anymore -- most recently, all it does if I press the power button is make the power and the hard drive lights go on (steady), blink the caps lock light 10 times, and then all goes dark. It really seems like it's trying to tell me something with that caps lock light, but I don't speak its language.

EATA, if the computer really is fried, I'm getting a mac next time.
A diagnosis can be performed for the price of one pitcher of mango sangria, so I hear.

robustpuppy 10-13-2005 01:31 PM
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Sounds like a virus.
So you're saying the ONE time I told Trend Micro to come back later, I'm busy, I got fucked?

I'd really better be careful. Those wills and AMDs are out there.

bilmore 10-13-2005 01:31 PM
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Dude. Unchain youself from the shackles of The Man. Let your freak flag fly, man.
Linux coding can only be done by free-range hackers wearing all-natural hemp fibers while buzzed.

Hemp clothing is itchy.

baltassoc 10-13-2005 01:35 PM
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Linux coding can only be done by free-range hackers wearing all-natural hemp fibers while buzzed.

Hemp clothing is itchy.
Dude. You download the software. You burn it to a CD. You put it in the cd-drive. The end.

Shit, if that's too complicated, or a burner isn't available, you have somebody mail you one for about $5, including shipping.

No muss, no fuss, no selling out Taiwan to the Chinese for political favors.

bilmore 10-13-2005 01:39 PM
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Dude. You download the software. You burn it to a CD. You put it in the cd-drive. The end.

Shit, if that's too complicated, or a burner isn't available, you have somebody mail you one for about $5, including shipping.

No muss, no fuss, no selling out Taiwan to the Chinese for political favors.
Oh, I know. I was talking about writing apps that run in Linux.

Cletus Miller 10-13-2005 01:41 PM
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ETA, because I did not STP, I have not tried sticking the windows system disk thingies in the CD thingy to start it, but I pondered it. I too can't even get to the point where I would safe-start it anymore -- most recently, all it does if I press the power button is make the power and the hard drive lights go on (steady), blink the caps lock light 10 times, and then all goes dark. It really seems like it's trying to tell me something with that caps lock light, but I don't speak its language.
That sounds like a power problem I had with a work-issued Dell. Try tightening all of the screws on the bottom of the computer (no need to open anything) and look to see if some might be missing. This is apparently a common problem with certain Dell models.

robustpuppy 10-13-2005 01:42 PM
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Originally posted by bilmore
Linux coding can only be done by free-range hackers wearing all-natural hemp fibers while buzzed.

Hemp clothing is itchy.
But I bet they don't drive PT Cruisers. Hybrids, baby.

robustpuppy 10-13-2005 01:42 PM
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Originally posted by Cletus Miller
That sounds like a power problem I had with a work-issued Dell. Try tightening all of the screws on the bottom of the computer (no need to open anything) and look to see if some might be missing. This is apparently a common problem with certain Dell models.
Also try unplugging it, removing and replacing the battery, and then plugging it back in.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-13-2005 01:50 PM
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Wow. If my hard drive is gone, then I'm really worried, because yesterday my husband and I signed our wills, trusts, funeral instructions, and AMDs. :eek:
You're married again?

robustpuppy 10-13-2005 01:54 PM
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You're married again?
Again? That weekend in Vegas didn't count because we had it annulled the following Tuesday.

Mr. Man 10-13-2005 01:54 PM
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Also try unplugging it, removing and replacing the battery, and then plugging it back in.
I agree with that, but was angling for the pitcher of sangria before I spilled it...

The reason I mentioned virus is that I got a virus alert from McAfee that said some sort of worm causes your computer to continuously restart and malfunction. You may want to check their site for the fix if that is what it is.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-13-2005 01:55 PM
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Again? That weekend in Vegas didn't count because we had it annulled the following Tuesday.
I thought you got married, got a divorce, and then mantrapped some guy.

robustpuppy 10-13-2005 01:56 PM
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I agree with that, but was angling for the pitcher of sangria before I spilled it...

The reason I mentioned virus is that I got a virus alert from McAfee that said some sort of worm causes your computer to continuously restart and malfunction. You may want to check their site for the fix if that is what it is.
Thanks all. My IT guy at work thinks it's the hard drive, not the motherboard, and offered to take a look at it if I bring it in to the office.

Unfortunately there are naked pictures on my hard drive. Of me, pre-pregnancy. Sigh. I really looked good.

robustpuppy 10-13-2005 01:56 PM
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I thought you got married, got a divorce, and then mantrapped some guy.
Wrong on all counts. Don't believe everything paigow implies about people, darling.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-13-2005 01:57 PM
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Again? That weekend in Vegas didn't count because we had it annulled the following Tuesday.
Wait. Am I your baby's father?

I thought that's why we decided to do it "that" way, so you wouldn't get pregnant.

Replaced_Texan 10-13-2005 01:57 PM
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Thanks all. My IT guy at work thinks it's the hard drive, not the motherboard, and offered to take a look at it if I bring it in to the office.

Unfortunately there's naked pictures on my hard drive. Of me, pre-pregnancy. Sigh. I really looked good.
Mention that. It'll give him an extra push to get the computer up and running again.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-13-2005 01:58 PM
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Wrong on all counts. Don't believe everything paigow implies about people, darling.
I'm clearly kidding about the mantrapping, but I honestly thought that you had been married and then divorced, NTTAWWT.

robustpuppy 10-13-2005 01:58 PM
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Mention that. It'll give him an extra push to get the computer up and running again.
Push. Heh heh. To get the computer up. Heh heh heh.

bilmore 10-13-2005 02:01 PM
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most recently, all it does if I press the power button is make the power and the hard drive lights go on (steady), blink the caps lock light 10 times, and then all goes dark.
Stupid question, maybe, but are you getting voltage out of your power supply? What you described is what happens when your battery is dead.

robustpuppy 10-13-2005 02:03 PM
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I'm clearly kidding about the mantrapping, but I honestly thought that you had been married and then divorced, NTTAWWT.
I didn't mean to imply there was something inherently wrong with divorce, either. I did end a long relationship early last year, but we were not married.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-13-2005 02:06 PM
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I didn't mean to imply there was something inherently wrong with divorce, either. I did end a long relationship early last year, but we were not married.
Right. Some of my best friends are divorced losers. God, what losers they are for getting divorced. Losers.

Shape Shifter 10-13-2005 02:06 PM
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Nothing is worse than musical theater, but I agree that some subgeneres are worse than others, and Billy Joel may top that. Not that I actually mind Billy Joel, but argh.

I went to the Elton John / Billy Joel concert. Sort of. I lived right next to the stadium and listened from a balcony. It was pretty decent, in a quiet hits of the 70s kind of way. Based on the crowd I watch filing in and out, I think you underestimate both of their 40-60 y.o. white suburban fan base.
Fag.

futbol fan 10-13-2005 02:07 PM
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I didn't mean to imply there was something inherently wrong with divorce, either. I did end a long relationship early last year, but we were not married.
You found out he wanted to buy a PT Cruiser?

sebastian_dangerfield 10-13-2005 02:13 PM
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Unfortunately there are naked pictures on my hard drive. Of me, pre-pregnancy. Sigh. I really looked good.

Well, thankfully its just your IT guy. He's got hot tail lined up around the corner of the building... Anyone else would probably masturbate all over his Superman comics and Taco Bell wrappers to those pictures.

"Irwin, I need you to look at this hard driii..."

"Shut that fuckin door! SHUT IT!!! SHUT IT!!!"

sebastian_dangerfield 10-13-2005 02:15 PM
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Right. Some of my best friends are divorced losers. God, what losers they are for getting divorced. Losers.
Interesting. Most of my friends are still married.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-13-2005 02:17 PM
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Interesting. Most of my friends are still married.
Actually, I don't have any good friends who have gotten divorced. Yet.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-13-2005 02:21 PM
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Unfortunately there are naked pictures on my hard drive. Of me, pre-pregnancy. Sigh. I really looked good.
The resolution on this monitor is poor, but I have to admit.... you've got a nice rack there. But the landing strip is so 2002.

Why the strange faces. You look like you're modeling for a car show.

greatwhitenorthchick 10-13-2005 02:21 PM
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I thought you got married, got a divorce, and then mantrapped some guy.
That is me. But I am not knocked up. yet.

Penske_Account 10-13-2005 02:25 PM
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I want it recorded in the Book of Life that I have atoned as well as Hank, and I am leaving this one alone.
I am going to confession this weekend and then perhaps we can start anew. Platonically.

Not Bob 10-13-2005 02:27 PM
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I'm clearly kidding about the mantrapping, but I honestly thought that you had been married and then divorced, NTTAWWT.
That's fringey and me. It was an amicable divorce, though, so no worries. In fact, we're kinda like Bruce and Demi -- and Str8 and I get along real well.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-13-2005 02:31 PM
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The resolution on this monitor is poor, but I have to admit.... you've got a nice rack there. But the landing strip is so 2002.

Why the strange faces. You look like you're modeling for a car show.
You told me on PM that you hated her huge nipples.

ThurgreedMarshall 10-13-2005 02:59 PM
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I'm not infatuated with the rule. But I do think it makes more sense than yours.

First off, the problem was that not only the catcher, but all of the fielders, thought the ump called him out. The catcher rolled the ball to the mound, where the pitcher could easily have picked it up, had he known. They weren't faked out by the runner going to the dugout, they were faked out by the ump. The White Sox figured out first that everyone was mistaken. Oh well.
This is quite often how it happens. In fact, frequently the pitcher is running off the mound before the catcher throws the ball back towards the mound. Although unlikely, allowing a batter to go all the way to the edge of the dugout and then letting him turn around and run to first is absolutely ridiculous.

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The problem with your fix is that it will create arguments as to whether he was going to first or going to the dugout in many instances.
Doubtful, but I see your point.

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If his swing follow through carries him away from first, how do you rule?
Not your best example. As for your other example, like for a righty, whose team is at home, I see your point about him taking a step toward the dugout and (kind of) first base.

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Could you draw a better rule than the current one? Sure. Why not say the dirt circle around home plate? Put some chalk down, and make it relevant on this play and plays at the plate. That might be better. But I don't think it solves the problem of last night.
Last night's problem needs to be solved by having the umpire say, so everyone could here it, "Out." If you don't hear it, much like a whistle in football and basketball, you keep playing.

TM

Penske_Account 10-13-2005 03:03 PM
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You told me on PM that you hated her huge nipples.
What's to hate?

ThurgreedMarshall 10-13-2005 03:04 PM
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I regret having given my daughter a name that sounds a lot like my mother's dog's name. Imagine her embarrassment of mixing them up.
Pee all over her couch?

But I don't think the dog would notice.

TM

baltassoc 10-13-2005 03:05 PM
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Right. Some of my best friends are divorced losers. God, what losers they are for getting divorced. Losers.
Thanks, man.

Just the boost I need to make it through the rest of my day.


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