Thanks for the reply - yep, boot from floppy just fine, and then the damned thing refuses to mount. Period. It's apparently happened with at least a few other people - it's discussed in a mandrake forum. The "solutions" sounded ridiculous to me, and they all failed: one was to add "nobiospnp" to the "append" lines in the lilo configuration file. No go. Another was to delete the floppy icon from the desktop (I shit you not), and re-establish it. Supposedly worked for some - not for me. I get the "unrecognized device" error.
Now here's the kicker - before I changed motherboards a few months back, I had Mandrake 8.0, and everything, including the floppy, worked fine. Now even 8.0 doesn't see the floppy drive. Asus has nothing to say about it, and from the paucity of reports at Mandrake, it looks like only a handful of people have experienced the flacid floppy problem. Lucky me, I guess.
I've tried arranging a triple boot (existing win98/2000 dual boot in place) for months, with relatively little success. The annoyances with the major distros have been minor, but enough to keep me looking for something better (read: easier for a newbie to configure). Here's my experience:
Red Hat 7.2 - installs fine, and everything works but eth0 (no matter how I try to cram via-rhine into the mix).
Mandrake 8.(whatever's-the-latest) - installs fine, adsl up and running, but floppy drive completely inaccesible, which prevents me from stripping the linux boot sector to floppy so I could use the windows bootloader. No amount of fumbling with google searches and mandrake help resolved the issue.
Lavoris/Lycoris nee Redmond Linux - installed smoothly, ran smoothly, but that part in the install about selecting whether or not you want GRUB installed to the MBR doesn't work - GRUB is written to the MBR no matter what, scrapping my plan to use the windows bootloader (and necessitating that I go through GRUB to get the windows bootloader to start my primary OS (win2000 - boo quietly, please)
Slackware 8.0 - no-go from the start. Text-based install started, failed to find my keyboard, and was promptly abandoned.
Now, I'm not saying that anyone with a pair of neurons and some understanding of linux wouldn't be able to fix these things, get my triple boot working, and have me singing the praises of Linus within a five minute keyboard-clanging session, but this is NOT accessible to people who expect to pop in an install CD, wait 20 minutes, and start downloading porn. The floppy drive failure in Mandrake was most disappointing, since that's supposed to be the distro for newbies, and because I had to use the damned floppy drive to boot mandrake (having installed lilo to hda3 instead of hda)!
I'm back to a single-OS setup now (yes, still win2000), and planning to just buy another system on which to experiment with Linux. The point of that ramble was that if Linux is not ready for Windows-proficient users wanting to make a change, or experiment with something new, then it's certainly not ready for for the "ooh, I can make the cursor different colors!" crowd. Here's hoping Mandrake 8.2 fixes that floppy glitch, and saves me the cost of a second system.
Kathleen Fent-Taco?
Commandress Fent?
Captain Taco ('cause you know she'll be giving the orders)
Or will we steer clear of the military/culinary naming conventions?
How is this any different from the already-established right of some wackjob or another to publish the Anarchist's Cookbook? Is it OK to publish bomb-making instructions on paper, but not on the web? I think the bomb-making stuff is the least of this kid's worries. The whole troop.cgi deal may be more damaging for him, although it does appear that this was done before website defacement became the equivalent of terrorism, so I would think he's safe from ex-post-facto application of the new (anti)patriot laws.
Or he could be in a cage in gitmo right now awaiting his state-sanctioned murder.
Edward Penishands was great for the late 80's anti-drug message it sent - you can bet Nancy Reagan had a hand in that one.
What surprises me is that nobody here has cited the "Buffy the Vampire Layer" movies. Granted, no Willow, but you gotta give 'em credit for source material choice.
"Angel of the Morning," from which the Shaggy tune "Angel" is blatantly ripped (not the Steve Miller Band's "Joker"), was recorded by Merrilee Rush in the early 1960s (possibly late '50s?) and repopularized in the late '70s/early '80s by Juice Newton. Agreed on the premise of your post, but had to niggle on the attribution error. BTW - didn't Vanilla Ice have Billy Joel's permission WRT "Pressure/Under Pressure?" That was much more than a sample he "borrowed."
Actually, I was referring to the "first post" from CordMyer, in which s/he asserted that all squid have 10 arms, that 2 were typically elongated, and that "the other 8 are used for propulsion." I'm not sure exactly how this new breed is said to get about, but I thought known squid types did move by a form of underwater jet propulsion, not by using 8 arms for propulsion. Other squid also have the "wings" on the mantle noted on the new mystery beast, but those aid in directional control, not in propulsion.
Not to question the authority of anyone whose post rated "+5" - just out to satisfy my curiosity: I thought squid moved by water-jet propulsion, squeezing water through the head/body (mantle?) and directing the flow with an articulated "nozzle." How efficient could propulsion by rounded tentacle be, anyway, for a creature that swims in open water, rather than "walking" on the ocean floor?
They stop pumping oil and BANGO! - no more vaseline. The conclusion is obvious. Big Oil represents the shine in your palm. Hydrogen's got nothing on that.
how close is Japan to Brando's Private Island of Dr. Moreau? Keep that pesky Kilmer kid, and that obnoxious Falwell guy out of the way, and this could be a good thing.
Gene transfer is not performed on blastocysts or other not-yet-human embryonic pieces-parts. Gene transfer (they used to call it gene therapy, then realized that it wasn't doing a damned thing in the early going) is performed on grown humans, and so far only those over 18 who are capable of informed consent. The transfer is simple - you "infect" a person with a viral vector (adenovirus is proving mighty dangerous) that is modified to deliver some chosen chunk of DNA (the payload) into the recipient. When the viral vector attacks a cell, its payload is freed to invade the DNA residing in the cell's nucleus, and since that DNA (like all DNA) is self-repicating, the hope is that the information carried by the payload will be reproduced within the recipient. So far, experiments in hemophilia and rare metabolic disorders have resulted in either (a) no significant change in the recipient attributable to the viral vector's payload, or (b) death or severe illness for the vector recipient. I should say, though, that the deaths attirbuted to adenovirus have mainly been from allergic reactions to the viral vector's protein shell, and not to the payload. But returning to the point, it's not manipulation of babies in utero, as posters here have theorized. The gene tranfer for CF mentioned in the article is for grown persons. 2012 is not unrealistic, if they can get some of 'em to live and/or show some results.
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"and start many fame wars...."
Dammit! Right when I'd gotten that Irene Cara song out of my head! Tell me, are these more like the West Side Story dancing gangbanger wars, or the "Thriller" dancing zombie wars?
"An ape born with out the genetic sequencing necessary to produce arms is a evolution of the ape line"
I thought it was just a mutation, until selected for continuation, after several generations of which it would represent an evolutionary alteration of the line.
Perhaps Civ III is a mere mutation of its predecessors. Civ IV shall tell.
Um, sound is vibration (you know, rattling the hammer and the stirrup causing them to stir different vibrations which tickle the "hairs" on the cochlea)...
"I have such an athlon, and the fan is hideously noisy."
Yeah, my Athlon 1GHz came with one of those hideously noisy fans, which only kept the temp in the ~62 degree Celsius range - too hot for my tastes. So I replaced that hideously noisy fan with a nice, solid Vantec with that black label, 7000rpm turbine-engine-whine fan (what? I can't hear you - my computer's on...). Keeps me down in the 50-52 deg C range with just the stock silicone goop that came with the Vantec unit. I bought the arctic silver ii, but it arrived too late, and I have the patience of a republican on "Get Bill Clinton Day," so it's sitting on my desk, cruelly tempting me.
Question - worth opening it back up to glop on the arctic silver? 50-52 deg C is a nice, cool range, and the acoustic foam I use to hold the noise down in a bitch to wrap around my case...
Your recollection of bad 80s television is causing my circuits to malfunction.
Cool idea, but does it come with one of those cool cylon-ish red lights in the hood, and that fancy 18-wheeler you can drive in and out of at 80+MPH? More importantly, are Erin Gray and all that Hasselhoff leather included in the sticker price? And do you really have to fight bad guys just 'cause you drive one?
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Now here's the kicker - before I changed motherboards a few months back, I had Mandrake 8.0, and everything, including the floppy, worked fine. Now even 8.0 doesn't see the floppy drive. Asus has nothing to say about it, and from the paucity of reports at Mandrake, it looks like only a handful of people have experienced the flacid floppy problem. Lucky me, I guess.
Now, I'm not saying that anyone with a pair of neurons and some understanding of linux wouldn't be able to fix these things, get my triple boot working, and have me singing the praises of Linus within a five minute keyboard-clanging session, but this is NOT accessible to people who expect to pop in an install CD, wait 20 minutes, and start downloading porn. The floppy drive failure in Mandrake was most disappointing, since that's supposed to be the distro for newbies, and because I had to use the damned floppy drive to boot mandrake (having installed lilo to hda3 instead of hda)!
I'm back to a single-OS setup now (yes, still win2000), and planning to just buy another system on which to experiment with Linux. The point of that ramble was that if Linux is not ready for Windows-proficient users wanting to make a change, or experiment with something new, then it's certainly not ready for for the "ooh, I can make the cursor different colors!" crowd. Here's hoping Mandrake 8.2 fixes that floppy glitch, and saves me the cost of a second system.
Commandress Fent?
Captain Taco ('cause you know she'll be giving the orders)
Or will we steer clear of the military/culinary naming conventions?
Or he could be in a cage in gitmo right now awaiting his state-sanctioned murder.
What surprises me is that nobody here has cited the "Buffy the Vampire Layer" movies. Granted, no Willow, but you gotta give 'em credit for source material choice.
a CV. If someone's impressed, maybe they don't know how to spell resume, either.
Actually, I was referring to the "first post" from CordMyer, in which s/he asserted that all squid have 10 arms, that 2 were typically elongated, and that "the other 8 are used for propulsion." I'm not sure exactly how this new breed is said to get about, but I thought known squid types did move by a form of underwater jet propulsion, not by using 8 arms for propulsion. Other squid also have the "wings" on the mantle noted on the new mystery beast, but those aid in directional control, not in propulsion.
Not to question the authority of anyone whose post rated "+5" - just out to satisfy my curiosity: I thought squid moved by water-jet propulsion, squeezing water through the head/body (mantle?) and directing the flow with an articulated "nozzle." How efficient could propulsion by rounded tentacle be, anyway, for a creature that swims in open water, rather than "walking" on the ocean floor?
Hawking. Singular. No "s." Cool chair.
They stop pumping oil and BANGO! - no more vaseline. The conclusion is obvious. Big Oil represents the shine in your palm. Hydrogen's got nothing on that.
how close is Japan to Brando's Private Island of Dr. Moreau? Keep that pesky Kilmer kid, and that obnoxious Falwell guy out of the way, and this could be a good thing.
Gene transfer is not performed on blastocysts or other not-yet-human embryonic pieces-parts. Gene transfer (they used to call it gene therapy, then realized that it wasn't doing a damned thing in the early going) is performed on grown humans, and so far only those over 18 who are capable of informed consent. The transfer is simple - you "infect" a person with a viral vector (adenovirus is proving mighty dangerous) that is modified to deliver some chosen chunk of DNA (the payload) into the recipient. When the viral vector attacks a cell, its payload is freed to invade the DNA residing in the cell's nucleus, and since that DNA (like all DNA) is self-repicating, the hope is that the information carried by the payload will be reproduced within the recipient. So far, experiments in hemophilia and rare metabolic disorders have resulted in either (a) no significant change in the recipient attributable to the viral vector's payload, or (b) death or severe illness for the vector recipient. I should say, though, that the deaths attirbuted to adenovirus have mainly been from allergic reactions to the viral vector's protein shell, and not to the payload. But returning to the point, it's not manipulation of babies in utero, as posters here have theorized. The gene tranfer for CF mentioned in the article is for grown persons. 2012 is not unrealistic, if they can get some of 'em to live and/or show some results.
Dammit! Right when I'd gotten that Irene Cara song out of my head! Tell me, are these more like the West Side Story dancing gangbanger wars, or the "Thriller" dancing zombie wars?
Hrmmm... wonder if a $100 purchase with a 5% rebate is also only $5? Folks, this is why the mean old English teacher made you diagram sentences.
Oh - you're talking about the Homer Simpson from Charlottesville...
I think that's somehow incestuous. Get in the spirit of the season. They're raking in profits (while raping land, poor nations, sabine women...).
I thought it was just a mutation, until selected for continuation, after several generations of which it would represent an evolutionary alteration of the line.
Perhaps Civ III is a mere mutation of its predecessors. Civ IV shall tell.
read? pornography? That's too funny. Repeat after me: reading is for erotica, staring fixatedly is for pornography...
Yeesh - could've circumcised your finger with a delta black label.
Um, sound is vibration (you know, rattling the hammer and the stirrup causing them to stir different vibrations which tickle the "hairs" on the cochlea)...
Yeah, my Athlon 1GHz came with one of those hideously noisy fans, which only kept the temp in the ~62 degree Celsius range - too hot for my tastes. So I replaced that hideously noisy fan with a nice, solid Vantec with that black label, 7000rpm turbine-engine-whine fan (what? I can't hear you - my computer's on...). Keeps me down in the 50-52 deg C range with just the stock silicone goop that came with the Vantec unit. I bought the arctic silver ii, but it arrived too late, and I have the patience of a republican on "Get Bill Clinton Day," so it's sitting on my desk, cruelly tempting me.
Question - worth opening it back up to glop on the arctic silver? 50-52 deg C is a nice, cool range, and the acoustic foam I use to hold the noise down in a bitch to wrap around my case...
Cool idea, but does it come with one of those cool cylon-ish red lights in the hood, and that fancy 18-wheeler you can drive in and out of at 80+MPH? More importantly, are Erin Gray and all that Hasselhoff leather included in the sticker price? And do you really have to fight bad guys just 'cause you drive one?
Mmmmmm... beer nuts...