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  1. Re:The 'trick' is to create a corrupt partition ta on Recovering Secret HD Space · · Score: 2, Informative

    As someone who QA'ed Ghost 2003 for Symantec, I agree with you. The VPSGHBOOT stands for Virtual Partition Symantec Ghost Boot. Notice the word Virtual.

    The bits actually reside in a contiguous sector file in the root of the primary partition. This file may be 8-100MB. If your disk is too fragmented, Ghost cannot create it.

    The real reason for this stunt file is to eliminate the need for a boot floppy to launch Ghost (a PC-DOS 7 program compiled with DJGPP)

  2. The Cluck Sucker on Chicken Run · · Score: 1

    I was involved with another kind of chicken vacuum a few years ago.

    It was basically a large stainless steel drum with a bolt-on lid and a sharpened pipe with a butterfly valve sticking straight up from the lid. The drum was drawn down to a 14 psi vacuum.

    A fresh, headless bird would be impaled tail-down on the pipe, the valve tripped and BUCK-AWWK!

    It was an offal job, but someone had to do it.

  3. Re:you're so fired on Properly Contributing to Open Source While on Company Time? · · Score: 3, Informative

    And, the shell script for Windows is????

  4. Re:Hydrogen Peroxide (H202) on Carmack Needs Rocket Fuel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Rudy Opitz, one of the Me 163 test pilots, is still alive and a gliding instructor in Connecticut.

  5. Re:Why not NITROMETHANE? on Carmack Needs Rocket Fuel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nitromethane can be overly exciting to use as a monopropellant. The flame front has a tendency to creep upstream, past the injectors, through the fuel lines and into the fuel tank.

    Backfire with a vengance.

  6. RC vehicles used before by USMC on USMC Shows Off New Toys · · Score: 2, Informative

    When the Marines took Kuwait City in the Gulf Warr, they drove RC worn-out trucks through the "impenetrable" mine fields.

  7. Re:Think that's bad? on Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part III · · Score: 1

    Several high school programs have community service requirements. Think of it as alternative homework. In my hometown (PDX), there is the International Baccalaureate program in some high schools (Cleveland, for one)with that requirement.

  8. Re:links on Debug your Code, or Else! · · Score: 1

    From the Laws of Combat:

    The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

  9. Re:Atanasof versus Mauchly on The Computer and the Skateboard · · Score: 2, Informative

    "used spinning cylinders with pins for memory"

    The pins were contacts for the capacitors that stored the bits. This was early _DRAM_. The capacitors bled down. One RPM was the refresh/read/write cycle. The physical positions of the pins only determined the location in memory and not the state.

  10. Re:Clark and Kubrick - classical scores on 2001: A Space Prophecy · · Score: 1

    I guess we can forget about the use of "Preludes to Eternity" 8-)

    Classical music has ALWAYS been used extensively by low-budget movies. It's cheaper!

  11. Re:Clippy is easy to toast. on StarOffice Source Released · · Score: 1

    Or just change the folder name. Check out http://www.panug.org/articles/paperclip.htm for how to remove him from either O97 or O2K

  12. Re:Commodore used to build decent computers... on Timex Sinclair ZX81 Back On the Market · · Score: 2

    Another way of looking at the Z80 is sort of like a 286, only faster.

  13. Re:Odd.. Was the ZX81 also sold in assembled form? on Timex Sinclair ZX81 Back On the Market · · Score: 1

    It most definitely was sold assembled. I bought one (before Timex branded them, but had always built them) for $149.95

    I also purchased (later) all sorts of goodies from MemTech (sp?), including a "real" keyboard and a 64K memory module. All of the inerfaces "centipeded' off the rear edge connector.

  14. Re:tacoma narrows bridge on The 20th Century: Loser Style · · Score: 1

    This bridge failure is a classic case of "flutter" induced by a solid deck with a solid web under each edge, creating a shallow upside-down "U". This is essentially an under-cambered airfoil and it "flew". Since it was still a "draggy" shape, the resultant von Karman vortices gave it a twisty motion as it bounced up and down in a sufficient breeze. This is one of the major reasons many current bridge decks are gratings or are perforated to equalize the pressure above and below the deck.