Use the WD-40 to remove the duct tape or Velcro adhesive residue.
You might be able to remove the Velcro adhesive residue with those alcohol impregnated pop-up wipes that computer stores sell at ridiculously high prices. If not, wet the wipe with de-natured alcohol or WD-40.
Actually, the body count was 5 but the 5th was a young man who wasn't politically savvy enough to die right away and get counted during the 15 minutes that anyone was paying any attention to the story, but rather lingered for a day or three before succumbing to his wounds.
Tell her that's fine as long as you get keys for every lock, schematics for all the surveillance and alarm systems, et cetera. Tell her you wouldn't *dream* of abusing your new powers.
If you don't have a network (it was my main home machine) you can't boot from it no matter what kind of NIC you have. (Well, okay, I'm messing around with peer-to-peer a little bit, but I don't think that's what you meant by network) My internet is dial-up right now and I don't have a speed dial setting in my bios.
It's not that I *like* being dependant on floppies, but when it comes to the PC platform they're pretty much the common meeting ground.
So the only way to euthanize the floppy is to euthanize the whole x86/IBM-PC platform? Maybe that's a not so disguised blessing.
As much as I hate to not be able to upgrade one piece at a time, hate to see stuff that still works (or that can be repaired) wind up in landfills, and grudgingly admire the way they've been able to keep kludging or grafting new stuff onto a 20+ year old design, maybe it's time to quit trying to come up with rocket boosters for an open cockpit bi-plane and start from scratch, rethinking everything, power supply, processor, bios, OS, storage, security, both physical and electronic, display(s), case and form factor, expansion methods, maybe even something instead of the WWW that doesn't require having to use 2 or more browsers because of incompatibilities, something that'll combine and replace your cable box, VCR, TIVO, Playstation, stereo, TV, home security system, thermostat, and computer in one modularly configureable system with *real* plug and play.
If the hidden forum thing still works, I'd be interested in reading what other Slashdotters think about what this new platform should have, do, etc. at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=no_legacy
So Partition Magic, which is made by PowerQuest, screwed up your hard drive, and you fixed it using Lost and Found, which is made by (wait for it, as the English say), PowerQuest.
How 'bout a web site where people can post anonymously along the lines of "Company A paid consultant B ridiculously large amount of money C to perform simple and/or unnecessary job/service/ D or to give them totally inappropriate and/or inaccurate advice E", with all the specifics inserted.
Maybe call it stupidcompany.com or cluelesscompany.com.
Get some very good lawyers to write the "All opinions belong solely to the posters and dissenting views are welcome" staements, trade it out with them for advertising.
If the company mentioned wants to, they can post "No we didn't pay anywhere near that kind of money for a Linux firewall.", or "Yes, we paid that much but we got X,Y, and Z for it as well.", or the consultants can post rebuttals, and readers can browse with their BS meters carefully calibrated and decide for themselves where the truth lies
If the site catches on, smart companies will go there to find out which consultants to avoid as they would the plague, as well as which companies to avoid joining in any sort of partnership or synergy or whatever they're calling it this week.
I'd be interested to know where 8.4 Gb hard drives can be purchased cheaply. Used ones on eBay go for about the same as what you can get a 20 Gb for at Circuit City if they haven't quit carrying anything smaller than 30 Gb, and the few places still offering 8.4's new have them priced for about what they sold for when they were the biggest thing available.
And I'd really like to find some good 2.1's at the same price per byte as the 20 Gb I just got.
Take another look. The case is mostly see through! You can see the motherboard and everything without even opening the case. Which of course means just that much more inticement to open it up and start hardware hacking. That may be the smartest thing about this whole deal. Looks like there's an extra slot for a hard drive controller card or whatever.
Riser board in the middle for all the ISA and PCI slots, usually 3 one side, 3 the other, PS2 mouse and keyboard ports, serial, parallel, and video sockets along back edge of motherboard (but not ATX stacked style). Think 5 year old Aptiva, Presario desktops.
Quick, before they put up the drywall, install conduit for any and all wiring, especially the wiring that you don't know that you're going to want or need yet. Then, when old standards change or new ones come along, you aren't looking at a lot of drilling or sawing or replastering and repainting, or settling for not being able to upgrade because of the hassle.
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You might be able to remove the Velcro adhesive residue with those alcohol impregnated pop-up wipes that computer stores sell at ridiculously high prices. If not, wet the wipe with de-natured alcohol or WD-40.
Of course it'll have to be taken away from you again as "pun"-ishment for the second line.
That suggestion was in the Register story of a day or three ago mentioned in one of the above posts.
Actually, the body count was 5 but the 5th was a young man who wasn't politically savvy enough to die right away and get counted during the 15 minutes that anyone was paying any attention to the story, but rather lingered for a day or three before succumbing to his wounds.
Tell her that's fine as long as you get keys for every lock, schematics for all the surveillance and alarm systems, et cetera. Tell her you wouldn't *dream* of abusing your new powers.
"Who will watch the watchers?" goes back to the ancient Greeks or Romans, I'm just too lazy to dig up the exact details at the moment.
That's Bipedal Transfer Mode for all you network engineering types.
How can anybody be a karma whore anymore now that only down moderation (or an "unfair" meta-moderation)affects one's karma?
It's not that I *like* being dependant on floppies, but when it comes to the PC platform they're pretty much the common meeting ground.
The problem with Windows is that it continues to get better and get worse at the same time.
Godwin's law ain't named Hitler's law, so let's not inadvertantly honor Stalin in any way. How 'bout Maxwell's law?
Not a bad idea at all, but a month ago when my partition table evaporated I'd have been hard pressed to boot from the internet.
As much as I hate to not be able to upgrade one piece at a time, hate to see stuff that still works (or that can be repaired) wind up in landfills, and grudgingly admire the way they've been able to keep kludging or grafting new stuff onto a 20+ year old design, maybe it's time to quit trying to come up with rocket boosters for an open cockpit bi-plane and start from scratch, rethinking everything, power supply, processor, bios, OS, storage, security, both physical and electronic, display(s), case and form factor, expansion methods, maybe even something instead of the WWW that doesn't require having to use 2 or more browsers because of incompatibilities, something that'll combine and replace your cable box, VCR, TIVO, Playstation, stereo, TV, home security system, thermostat, and computer in one modularly configureable system with *real* plug and play.
If the hidden forum thing still works, I'd be interested in reading what other Slashdotters think about what this new platform should have, do, etc. at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=no_legacy
I believe the word you intended there was "celluloid".
hmm... , indeed.
Maybe call it stupidcompany.com or cluelesscompany.com.
Get some very good lawyers to write the "All opinions belong solely to the posters and dissenting views are welcome" staements, trade it out with them for advertising.
If the company mentioned wants to, they can post "No we didn't pay anywhere near that kind of money for a Linux firewall.", or "Yes, we paid that much but we got X,Y, and Z for it as well.", or the consultants can post rebuttals, and readers can browse with their BS meters carefully calibrated and decide for themselves where the truth lies
If the site catches on, smart companies will go there to find out which consultants to avoid as they would the plague, as well as which companies to avoid joining in any sort of partnership or synergy or whatever they're calling it this week.
But whatever you do, don't ever tell the company itself that it got screwed. You will never be forgiven for being right.
And I'd really like to find some good 2.1's at the same price per byte as the 20 Gb I just got.
Yeah, but I bet a lot of 'em would like to visit. :-)
During flu season, telephone sanitation peole are more important than you might otherwise have concluded.
Take another look. The case is mostly see through! You can see the motherboard and everything without even opening the case. Which of course means just that much more inticement to open it up and start hardware hacking. That may be the smartest thing about this whole deal. Looks like there's an extra slot for a hard drive controller card or whatever.
As opposed to trying to arrest them in the middle of a rowdy crowd of football fans where plenty of innocent bystanders could get hurt?
But how do we know that you aren't, unless we keep a very close eye on you?
Riser board in the middle for all the ISA and PCI slots, usually 3 one side, 3 the other, PS2 mouse and keyboard ports, serial, parallel, and video sockets along back edge of motherboard (but not ATX stacked style). Think 5 year old Aptiva, Presario desktops.
Quick, before they put up the drywall, install conduit for any and all wiring, especially the wiring that you don't know that you're going to want or need yet. Then, when old standards change or new ones come along, you aren't looking at a lot of drilling or sawing or replastering and repainting, or settling for not being able to upgrade because of the hassle.