The BSOD should give you some hex error codes. Stick that into google and see what you get. The code is usually (surprisingly) fairly specific and you can normally at least narrow it down to an individual bit of hardware or driver.
Press F5 (or is it F8?) before it gets to the windows logo screen, I think you may get the option to chkdsk from there, though I doubt that will solve any problems. Knoppix (and linux in general presumably) is very much better at reading from dodgy disks than windows, so don't take that as in indication that all is well. I also wouldn't take HP at face value, just because they say it isn't their fault doesn't make it true.
You could also try BartPE, it's indespensible for fixing windows though you do need a copy of XP to make it work. Probably one of the HP disks is an XP disk, you just need to work out which one.
Neither spy-bot, adaware nor any other anti-spyware "solution" is 100% reliable. In fact both those apps have caused me serious problems themselves in the past, one even corrupting the TCP/IP stack once (god knows how).
You must be doing something aggravating to the OS then. I've used XP basically since it came out, and post SP1, the only BSODs I have seen have been due to a) serious hardware failure (on a Dell laptop), b) Spyware and c) me pulling a PCI card out while it was still on.
I would vote for b) (or possibly a) as it's an HP laptop) given the symptoms you describe.
I would not be shocked if that happened on a linux system. Well, I would be shocked if the screen went blue, but not if it stopped responding. I've seen centos systems both panic and just freeze due to bad ram and simply an old (non-DMA) HD.
Nuclear power is not cost-effective, it only survives because it solves some short term political problems (ie reliance on foreign energy suppliers). The appearance of it being cheap on the open market is caused by the immense level subsidy it recieves from governments (they fund both construction and decommisioning, unlike coal and LNG plants).
Well, the UK they call it "Chip & PIN" and in New Zealand (where they've had this and wireless card readers for years) it's called EFTPOS. It's also probably got a different name in every country in Europe cos they all have it. It's just a card payment system where you put a PIN number in instead of signing the paper. Pretty simple.
However, I doubt apple have rewritten the credit card company's rules to introduce this system into the US, so they're probably just getting people to sign those little gidgets that the couriers use (here in the 1st world anyway)
The same reason that applies every time someone brings this up; because to implement it fairly the federal government would have to persuade the states to drop their own sales taxes.
Is this going to happen before hell freezes over? I think not.
The link to sIFR (which presumably is what you are talking about) is old and bad. http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/ is the proper landing page.
The point is that it doesn't need XHTML + CSS + Javascript + Flash, it will render normal text if you don't have/want them. And yes, it works with FlashBlock too, as is mentioned in the article.
I think that font-fetish is something most people don't get. No one notices good font selection, yet they notice bad and it makes a huge difference to the readability and feel of a page. The web would be a much poorer, more HTML 2.0-looking, place if we could only have three fonts.
Yeah, the Civil War might be an exception, although that wasn't a foreign army occupation, that was a civil war. What you say about the revolution echoes what I just said; they managed to win over 75% of the population because of the British treatment of the population at large.
You only need to look at any news channel/website to see that the war in Iraq is *not* over. As another poster says, the US is going for a technical win, then will get out ASAP. The country will then most likely descend into anarchy and either spilt into 3 (Kurdistan, Sunni Iraq and Shi'ite Iraq) or produce a dictator in the image of Saddam.
The Iraqi's perception of their new government, along with the rest of the world's, is that it is a US supported puppet. Whether that is actually the case or not is irrelevant, that is the perception. As soon as the US stops propping them up, they will collapse and everyone will be much worse off than if the whole thing had never happened: The US will have spent trillions and still won't have its oil; The Iraqi people will be completely fucked, surrounded by armed fanatics on all sides and radicalised by the shit treatment they have had; the region will no longer be stable, the Turks will invade if it looks like the Kurds will form a state, Iran will invade if it thinks it's threatened, Kuwait will grab as much land and oil as it can, Syria , Jordan and Saudi Arabia will all stick their oars in, and finally Israel will do something monumentally stupid and all hell will break lose.
The only way that won't happen is if the US drops its childish objections to Shi'ites being part of the government and puts serious pressure on Turkey to give up with the Kurds, and Israel has a major policy shift (which might well be happening). They might yet come round, but I'm not holding my breath.
I think that's a simplification, but generally true. Military tactics alone didn't win the America its independence (in fact I think in purely military terms, the British had greater success than the American forces during the WoI), but they played a part in a whole bunch of factors, most of them political, and most that the US would do well to pay attention to now.
One I can think of off the top of my head is that if a large proportion of the population does not want you ruling them, you will eventually fail. You can try to suppress them with guns and bombs but that only makes more of them oppose you, and harder. If neither side give you eventually end up with Chechnya or Palestine, situations that are insoluble without a major shift by both sides or one side disappearing completely.
See also: The British Empire in general, Vietnam since WWII, The USSR in Afghanistan, The Dutch East Indies, The Crusades, the Turks in the Balkans etc, etc, etc
(There are exceptions to this, the Polish annexetion of Prussia is one that springs to mind. That was under exceptional circumstances though)
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HTML is never going away. There 3 gazillion sites out there all built with HTML. Which browser is going to be the first to stop supporting HTML?
5 years ago XHTML was going to be a transitional phase on the way to XML. There was actually a small window of opportunity when a switch was possible. A period when most site builders were still programmers and the web was small. Now, however, everyone builds web pages and the web is almost infinite. Inertia now rules.
Of course the browsers don't have to stop supporting HTML, they can just start supporting the new replacement. However, how many years has it taken to get the three major browsers to render any given valid HTML page in the same way? They're close now but it can still be a pain in the arse.
True, this guy's scum. But if he's so clever, why does he submit stories? (and he must submit a LOT to get a few through, unless he knows taco personally), why not just put his sites in his sig, or the website field? they also get shown on high PR pages. I should know, my crappy site had PR 4 until a couple of weeks ago, and the ONLY link to it is here.
It's fairly irrelevant anyway, as after you go past page 9 of the results you get:
"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 409 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."
So who's to say that google really have 800k results? Google? they're not very objective. Maybe they just make numbers up to make their searched look good? I wouldn't put it past them, abuse of power is becoming a Google speciality.
Economic pressures are great because you don't have to mandate any laws, the price of the commodity forces a change in the market.
Economic pressures work great in a true free market. Unfortunately America, and the world in general, does not operate a true free market. Oil companies in particular are subsidised to the hilt. OK, it all comes out of your taxes eventually, but pump prices would be double what they are now without the gubment funding pipelines, tax breaks, wars etc.
The water companies are subsidised even more, but water is not a commodity like Oil. Not yet anyway.
There is also the Law and Order aspect to think about. If Joe Twelvepack down the road can afford to drive a hummer, the Joe Sixpack just thinks, "Ah well, maybe I need a better job". If Joe Twelvepack can afford to water his lawn while Joe Sixpack can only afford to wash once a week, I think his reaction might be a little stronger.
Fundamentally, you need water to live. Oil is convenient, but you don't need it to survive.
wtf? Who exactly is questioning the viability of MySQL? (apart from the stallman-esque uber-geeks on certain internet message boards). InnoDB is GPLed, the code works now, so what's the problem? If oracle decide to turn the tap off tomorrow, the existing code will work quite nicely thank you very much. As to SCO, anyone who is truly worried about SCO should get their head seen to. If MySQL AB decide to give them money then fine, that's their problem, but it I don't see that it matters one whit to your normal sane user.
No, I know about that. In fact I actually think the US version of the original sentence would read like so:
Mexicans never seem to need assistance from the "state" nor do any Hispanic immigrants. They adopt and are often the most successful members of society.
That's a fairly sweeping statement. I assume you live in the US, as Asian or eastern european immigrants who manage to get there will be the ones who have enough money to pay for their tickets. It is very difficult to hide in a transatlantic airliner, not so difficult to hide in the back of a truck.
The perception of the "man in the street" and several national newspapers here in the UK is that Asians and Eastern Europeans are *entirely* reliant on the state. This is not of course true, but is about as valid a viewpoint as yours.
Frankly I think the whole "media by amateurs for anyone with enough time to find it" idea is dumb. I have no desire to see other's photos (when did we stop being bored to death by slideshows?) or their poorly produced, grainy, and generally uninteresting videos.
lol, but I really enjoyed the 3 minute video of the view out of the window of some train in holland!;)
"Ideally by building this into a thriving business"
But what's it going to thrive on? A business NEEDS a revenue source, be it only selling advertising space or selling IP to google/yahoo/megacorp. I can't see that from their public facing persona, but then maybe I'm just being dense.
What ees this "saturday night live"? Who is Phil Hartman? Why wasn't he funnier?
Anyway, still no-one answered the question... If you're going to put $3.5 million you're going to want it back at some point, so how are they going to make money?
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That I can't argue with.
Press F5 (or is it F8?) before it gets to the windows logo screen, I think you may get the option to chkdsk from there, though I doubt that will solve any problems. Knoppix (and linux in general presumably) is very much better at reading from dodgy disks than windows, so don't take that as in indication that all is well. I also wouldn't take HP at face value, just because they say it isn't their fault doesn't make it true.
You could also try BartPE, it's indespensible for fixing windows though you do need a copy of XP to make it work. Probably one of the HP disks is an XP disk, you just need to work out which one.
Neither spy-bot, adaware nor any other anti-spyware "solution" is 100% reliable. In fact both those apps have caused me serious problems themselves in the past, one even corrupting the TCP/IP stack once (god knows how).
oh yes... don't tell me you haven't tried it just to see what would happen ;)
I would vote for b) (or possibly a) as it's an HP laptop) given the symptoms you describe.
I would not be shocked if that happened on a linux system. Well, I would be shocked if the screen went blue, but not if it stopped responding. I've seen centos systems both panic and just freeze due to bad ram and simply an old (non-DMA) HD.
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However, I doubt apple have rewritten the credit card company's rules to introduce this system into the US, so they're probably just getting people to sign those little gidgets that the couriers use (here in the 1st world anyway)
Restricting editors to non-anons is hardly going to slash their userbase. Idealism seems to trump pragmatism in the wikimedia world.
Is this going to happen before hell freezes over? I think not.
The point is that it doesn't need XHTML + CSS + Javascript + Flash, it will render normal text if you don't have/want them. And yes, it works with FlashBlock too, as is mentioned in the article.
I think that font-fetish is something most people don't get. No one notices good font selection, yet they notice bad and it makes a huge difference to the readability and feel of a page. The web would be a much poorer, more HTML 2.0-looking, place if we could only have three fonts.
The sifr link in the article is stupid. This is better
You only need to look at any news channel/website to see that the war in Iraq is *not* over. As another poster says, the US is going for a technical win, then will get out ASAP. The country will then most likely descend into anarchy and either spilt into 3 (Kurdistan, Sunni Iraq and Shi'ite Iraq) or produce a dictator in the image of Saddam.
The Iraqi's perception of their new government, along with the rest of the world's, is that it is a US supported puppet. Whether that is actually the case or not is irrelevant, that is the perception. As soon as the US stops propping them up, they will collapse and everyone will be much worse off than if the whole thing had never happened: The US will have spent trillions and still won't have its oil; The Iraqi people will be completely fucked, surrounded by armed fanatics on all sides and radicalised by the shit treatment they have had; the region will no longer be stable, the Turks will invade if it looks like the Kurds will form a state, Iran will invade if it thinks it's threatened, Kuwait will grab as much land and oil as it can, Syria , Jordan and Saudi Arabia will all stick their oars in, and finally Israel will do something monumentally stupid and all hell will break lose.
The only way that won't happen is if the US drops its childish objections to Shi'ites being part of the government and puts serious pressure on Turkey to give up with the Kurds, and Israel has a major policy shift (which might well be happening). They might yet come round, but I'm not holding my breath.
One I can think of off the top of my head is that if a large proportion of the population does not want you ruling them, you will eventually fail. You can try to suppress them with guns and bombs but that only makes more of them oppose you, and harder. If neither side give you eventually end up with Chechnya or Palestine, situations that are insoluble without a major shift by both sides or one side disappearing completely.
See also: The British Empire in general, Vietnam since WWII, The USSR in Afghanistan, The Dutch East Indies, The Crusades, the Turks in the Balkans etc, etc, etc
(There are exceptions to this, the Polish annexetion of Prussia is one that springs to mind. That was under exceptional circumstances though)
I meant a REAL alternative...
Yeah, pity there isn't any..
5 years ago XHTML was going to be a transitional phase on the way to XML. There was actually a small window of opportunity when a switch was possible. A period when most site builders were still programmers and the web was small. Now, however, everyone builds web pages and the web is almost infinite. Inertia now rules.
Of course the browsers don't have to stop supporting HTML, they can just start supporting the new replacement. However, how many years has it taken to get the three major browsers to render any given valid HTML page in the same way? They're close now but it can still be a pain in the arse.
True, this guy's scum. But if he's so clever, why does he submit stories? (and he must submit a LOT to get a few through, unless he knows taco personally), why not just put his sites in his sig, or the website field? they also get shown on high PR pages. I should know, my crappy site had PR 4 until a couple of weeks ago, and the ONLY link to it is here.
So who's to say that google really have 800k results? Google? they're not very objective. Maybe they just make numbers up to make their searched look good? I wouldn't put it past them, abuse of power is becoming a Google speciality.
The water companies are subsidised even more, but water is not a commodity like Oil. Not yet anyway.
There is also the Law and Order aspect to think about. If Joe Twelvepack down the road can afford to drive a hummer, the Joe Sixpack just thinks, "Ah well, maybe I need a better job". If Joe Twelvepack can afford to water his lawn while Joe Sixpack can only afford to wash once a week, I think his reaction might be a little stronger.
Fundamentally, you need water to live. Oil is convenient, but you don't need it to survive.
wtf? Who exactly is questioning the viability of MySQL? (apart from the stallman-esque uber-geeks on certain internet message boards). InnoDB is GPLed, the code works now, so what's the problem? If oracle decide to turn the tap off tomorrow, the existing code will work quite nicely thank you very much. As to SCO, anyone who is truly worried about SCO should get their head seen to. If MySQL AB decide to give them money then fine, that's their problem, but it I don't see that it matters one whit to your normal sane user.
Mexicans never seem to need assistance from the "state" nor do any Hispanic immigrants. They adopt and are often the most successful members of society.
The perception of the "man in the street" and several national newspapers here in the UK is that Asians and Eastern Europeans are *entirely* reliant on the state. This is not of course true, but is about as valid a viewpoint as yours.
Frankly I think the whole "media by amateurs for anyone with enough time to find it" idea is dumb. I have no desire to see other's photos (when did we stop being bored to death by slideshows?) or their poorly produced, grainy, and generally uninteresting videos.
lol, but I really enjoyed the 3 minute video of the view out of the window of some train in holland!But what's it going to thrive on? A business NEEDS a revenue source, be it only selling advertising space or selling IP to google/yahoo/megacorp. I can't see that from their public facing persona, but then maybe I'm just being dense.
Anyway, still no-one answered the question... If you're going to put $3.5 million you're going to want it back at some point, so how are they going to make money?
How *do* they make money?