Hello! I actually watched your very first show about steak here in PBS, it was the first thing in my life that made me interested in cooking. Every time I watch an episode of Good Eats, I always end it wanting to go cook something.
I had a technical question, we always see these shots coming out of refrigerators and ovens. Do you actually have little windows in the back of your appliances or are those props built up for the shows? I always assumed they were props but you never know. Also, is that really your house you shoot in? I love the Magritte hate with chicken painting.
NT4, downed with a forward slash
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My favorite bug is in NT4. I changed the LMHOSTS file, after which I rebooted. During the bootup process, I got the dreaded BSOD, which caused me to reboot, during which I got the BSOD...
I suddenly realize I'm probably going to be stuck rebuilding this machine, seeing as how its all NTFS thus I couldn't use a boot disk to fix whatever the mysterious problem was (at the time I was unaware of the linux ntfs-enabled bootdisks, alas.) I spend some time thinking back on what I was doing, really all I had done was change this one little dinky thing in the lmhosts file. Then I realized I had a copy of the lmhosts file on the network drive where I had originally edited it. I opened it up, and noticed my new entry had a forward slash instead of a backslash. Surely this couldn't be the root of my problem could it? Yes, experimentation throughout the rest of the day proved that making an entry with a forward slash instead of a backslash caused the machine to crash on bootup (when the network is loaded) and thus renders said box unusable.
I then called Microsoft to report this highly irritating problem. They asked me to send them my lmhosts file, which I did. They said they tested it on several machines there and most of them were fine with it, although a couple exphibited the behavior I described.
Here's the kicker. When you report a bug to Microsoft support, they don't charge you for the support call. Even though they reproduced it on at least two machines and basically made an entire NT4 server USELESS they determined it was NOT A BUG and said I just shouldn't use forward slashes, and that I would not be receiving credit for the call.
This was the day I swore upon god that I would never give them a single dollar of my money ever again.
The company that designed Monopoly is Pat Lawlor Design, comprised of the industry kingpins who made games like The Addams Family, Twilight Zone, Funhouse, No Good Gofers, and countless others (although not Monster Bash, sorry.) One of their software guys, Louis Koziarz, even wrote software for Taco's beloved JackBot. Check out their website as well as the Stern Pinball website.
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Hello! I actually watched your very first show about steak here in PBS, it was the first thing in my life that made me interested in cooking. Every time I watch an episode of Good Eats, I always end it wanting to go cook something.
I had a technical question, we always see these shots coming out of refrigerators and ovens. Do you actually have little windows in the back of your appliances or are those props built up for the shows? I always assumed they were props but you never know. Also, is that really your house you shoot in? I love the Magritte hate with chicken painting.
My favorite bug is in NT4. I changed the LMHOSTS file, after which I rebooted. During the bootup process, I got the dreaded BSOD, which caused me to reboot, during which I got the BSOD...
I suddenly realize I'm probably going to be stuck rebuilding this machine, seeing as how its all NTFS thus I couldn't use a boot disk to fix whatever the mysterious problem was (at the time I was unaware of the linux ntfs-enabled bootdisks, alas.) I spend some time thinking back on what I was doing, really all I had done was change this one little dinky thing in the lmhosts file. Then I realized I had a copy of the lmhosts file on the network drive where I had originally edited it. I opened it up, and noticed my new entry had a forward slash instead of a backslash. Surely this couldn't be the root of my problem could it? Yes, experimentation throughout the rest of the day proved that making an entry with a forward slash instead of a backslash caused the machine to crash on bootup (when the network is loaded) and thus renders said box unusable.
I then called Microsoft to report this highly irritating problem. They asked me to send them my lmhosts file, which I did. They said they tested it on several machines there and most of them were fine with it, although a couple exphibited the behavior I described.
Here's the kicker. When you report a bug to Microsoft support, they don't charge you for the support call. Even though they reproduced it on at least two machines and basically made an entire NT4 server USELESS they determined it was NOT A BUG and said I just shouldn't use forward slashes, and that I would not be receiving credit for the call.
This was the day I swore upon god that I would never give them a single dollar of my money ever again.
The company that designed Monopoly is Pat Lawlor Design, comprised of the industry kingpins who made games like The Addams Family, Twilight Zone, Funhouse, No Good Gofers, and countless others (although not Monster Bash, sorry.) One of their software guys, Louis Koziarz, even wrote software for Taco's beloved JackBot. Check out their website as well as the Stern Pinball website.