The kernel is probing all LUNs (0-7), and the CD-ROM is answering the same on each one. Try turning off the "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device?" option in the kernel configuration and re-build the kernel.
The ENTER key is one of the most used on the keyboard, uses the weakest finger, and takes one of the longest stretches to reach. That'd be the first key I'd want on a pedal. And since it's not a modifier key, it wouldn't take as much coordination to use...
Y'all realize that the dude in charge of all the CompUSA retail stores is also a founding member of that pro-"Microsoft innovation" association, right?
Here's the details: Hal Compton, president of CompUSA (retail arm) is a member of the steering committee of the Technology Access Action Coalition (TAAC). Here's the Slashdot article mentioning TAAC. TAAC's got a web site at http://www.technologyaccess.org, but they've messed up the style sheets there. If you can handle the nausea, start here instead.
I guarantee you I've stopped shopping at CompUSA because of this association, and recommend that people go elsewhere.
Like Jon says, "everything about the place is designed to insult, alienate or abandon customers." -- the same pattern that I hate about MS "innovation".
If people start believing that the Intel CPU ID is the only way to get true security on the Internet, it won't be long until sites say, "I'm sorry, but unless you provide you Intel CPU ID, we cannot provide you with secure access. Please buy a new Intel CPU now." Well, not those exact words, of course...
There's already a lot of sites that are so hardware-intensive that you can't use them without having a relatively powerful system, but at least they don't require that you purchase that system from a certain company.
Whether or not this CPU ID actually makes anything more secure is quite debatable. But reality often doesn't matter if marketing is powerful enough.
I hope this is just paranoid delusional rambling...
I don't care if Windows is OSS or not. It's a horribly overpatched and completely unreliable excuse for an OS that I can not and will not trust any farther than I can throw a sponge cake under water. The only reason I've got NT4 installed on my home system is that I often have to do MS Access development at home. Otherwise, I'd wipe that bletcherous OS-pretender from my hard drive in a second.
Sorry for the flamage, but I'm quite steamed with Windows right now -- NT4 just garbaged the partition table on my hdb last night, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE NO FAT/NTFS PARTITIONS ON THAT DRIVE! So, now I've got to fix that manually, or I've lost everything on/var,/home, and/usr/local.
Silly me, I thought that my Linux installation was safe from Windows' meddling just because it was mostly on a separate disk from Windows. What kind of an arrogant fool OS writes to the partition tables on drives THAT IT DOES NOT OWN!?
Feels awfully familiar, though -- MS seems to twiddle unnecessarily with the hard drives -- when I installed the MS Word 6 upgrade a couple years ago, somehow it fixed my system so that it could not recognize my hard drive until I did a couple power-off reboots. Pattern?
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The kernel is probing all LUNs (0-7), and the CD-ROM is answering the same on each one. Try turning off the "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device?" option in the kernel configuration and re-build the kernel.
As long as it's not the MS ODBC "Jet engine"!
The ENTER key is one of the most used on the keyboard, uses the weakest finger, and takes one of the longest stretches to reach. That'd be the first key I'd want on a pedal. And since it's not a modifier key, it wouldn't take as much coordination to use...
Y'all realize that the dude in charge of all the CompUSA retail stores is also a founding member of that pro-"Microsoft innovation" association, right?
Here's the details: Hal Compton, president of CompUSA (retail arm) is a member of the steering committee of the Technology Access Action Coalition (TAAC). Here's the Slashdot article mentioning TAAC. TAAC's got a web site at http://www.technologyaccess.org, but they've messed up the style sheets there. If you can handle the nausea, start here instead.
I guarantee you I've stopped shopping at CompUSA because of this association, and recommend that people go elsewhere.
Like Jon says, "everything about the place is designed to insult, alienate or abandon customers." -- the same pattern that I hate about MS "innovation".
If people start believing that the Intel CPU ID is the only way to get true security on the Internet, it won't be long until sites say, "I'm sorry, but unless you provide you Intel CPU ID, we cannot provide you with secure access. Please buy a new Intel CPU now." Well, not those exact words, of course...
There's already a lot of sites that are so hardware-intensive that you can't use them without having a relatively powerful system, but at least they don't require that you purchase that system from a certain company.
Whether or not this CPU ID actually makes anything more secure is quite debatable. But reality often doesn't matter if marketing is powerful enough.
I hope this is just paranoid delusional rambling...
Yup, that's the conclusion I've come to as well. Let Windows mess itself up on its own box, and keep it isolated from the real world.
I don't care if Windows is OSS or not. It's a horribly overpatched and completely unreliable excuse for an OS that I can not and will not trust any farther than I can throw a sponge cake under water. The only reason I've got NT4 installed on my home system is that I often have to do MS Access development at home. Otherwise, I'd wipe that bletcherous OS-pretender from my hard drive in a second.
/var, /home, and /usr/local.
Sorry for the flamage, but I'm quite steamed with Windows right now -- NT4 just garbaged the partition table on my hdb last night, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE NO FAT/NTFS PARTITIONS ON THAT DRIVE! So, now I've got to fix that manually, or I've lost everything on
Silly me, I thought that my Linux installation was safe from Windows' meddling just because it was mostly on a separate disk from Windows. What kind of an arrogant fool OS writes to the partition tables on drives THAT IT DOES NOT OWN!?
Feels awfully familiar, though -- MS seems to twiddle unnecessarily with the hard drives -- when I installed the MS Word 6 upgrade a couple years ago, somehow it fixed my system so that it could not recognize my hard drive until I did a couple power-off reboots. Pattern?
Fascinating that this happens just when MS is dumping more money into ads that say:
"The people who have made your PC fast and reliable with Windows now do the same for your Internet access."
#include <1984.h>
#include <minitruth.h>
#include <doublespeak.h>
while (perception == bad) {
fix_definition("fast");
fix_definition("reliable");
fix_history("Windows", "fast", "reliable");
assert_history("Windows");
}
PS. Wish we could use PRE tags... :(