Oddly enough, the same thing happened to me. I didn't forget my password though.
I had the original Half-Life. Shortly before the release of Half-Life 2, I decided to reinstall the original. I hoped online to grab the patch and discovered the new "Steam" thing. I registered my CD key in the system. Even after having installed the complete game from the disc, I found that I had to download the game image just to get the current patch. It was over 700 MB. I was using a dialup at the time. Yeah, forget it.
*Close Steam, Uninstall Half-Life, Run Unreal Tournament*
I hopped on Steam again last Friday for the first time in nearly 5 years because I heard about the free UTIII weekend. After an hour of downloading UTII was still at 5%.
I killed the download and started downloading the Half-Life still sitting in my game list. In less than an hour, I was up and playing Half-Life. Just took 5 years of waiting.
Technology has finally made it possible to download and play a 800 MB game in a reasonable amount of time. Maybe I'll check back in 5 years and see about 8 GB games like UTIII.
FWIW, I've also downloaded LotRO (~11 GB) in the recent past. That took about 9 hours but I let it run overnight. It wasn't a case of needing a quick gaming fix or having a time-limited trial clock running.
I have to say that my recent experience with Steam hasn't really done much to change my initial opinion. It's still a poor alternative to having a physical copy of the game. Rendering the actual physical copy to landfill material doesn't help the situation.
She receives regular injections of botulinum toxin (botox) into the muscles surrounding her larynx. The botox relaxes the muscles effectively reducing the strength of the neural signals.
They have a guest host sit in on the days following a treatment. Usually, when she returns, she sounds much better for a while.
While eveyone is claiming this is just a frivolous lawsuit because the person did not read through the fine print of the Ebay site, you have just committed the same offence. This guy is not from the 'Land of Fruits and Nuts' as you said. He's from Pennsylvania. You couldn't keep your attention span long enough to read four lines of text? Why do you expect higher standards of others?
I can speak from some experience on this.
At my university, they had very few Linux machines. The labs that did have them were for our calulus classes. The ran Maple under RedHat. The systems at the time were probably very close to the systems which you describe. They were a pleasure to use.
I think Maple would serve to show the power of such a system.
Try going into your bios and checking for a setting called boot delay. It's often used for HD detection since the drive require more time (due to spin-up). Try turning this up a bit and doing a cold boot.
Good Luck.
Oh, and as far as the original topic. Never encoutered it in my cdr or dvdr drives. I would try the solution that some else has already mentioned. Remove the device from the hardware profile after succesful detection. Then shutdown. Unplug the IDE and power from it (check the jumpers of the other device(if present) on the IDE to make sure it's set okay for booting without the cd plugged in). Boot and check that everythings cleaned out. Shutdown and reconnect everything. Boot and reinstall drivers.
I should mention that you should try a new 40wire IDE if you have one and check for bios flashes for the drives as well as drivers.
If you ask me, the music executives have noone to blame but themselves for the current situation. They conned the majority of american consumers into believing that cds were far superior to vinyl media (lies). I hindsight, this was a very short-sighted attempt at turning a fast buck by creating obsolescence in an otherwise permanent product. Then, through price fixing they have steadily increased prices while production costs have declined. I do believe that piracy hurts the poor record companies. When the public has an opportunity to sample a product in whole, they can make an informed purchase if they chose. If most of the albums produced today weren't crammed with filler material, I imagine sales would not be declining at the current rate. Don't forget, these same companies have stated on many occasions that they would like to abandon the singles market and force consumers to purchase the full priced product.
Hmmm, you must live in my area. The store closest to my home is the big Krogers. It doesn't matter I still haven't shopped there in a month. The driver's license thing is news to me. Also, I've never had anyone request that I use the fingerprint system. It's probably a good thing too. I'm afraid I might make quite a scene if they were to treat me as a potential criminal for attempting to use a debit card.
The last election is another story. I'm very upset about it. I usually don't bother voting in elections because my opinions seemed to be in the minority. However, after the smoking ordinance was passed and the parking meters were put in at Northgate (both of which are harmful to the few small local businesses that we have left), I attempted to vote in this last election. As I found out, I live in an unincorporated (neglected) area of the city. This means that for one reason or another, I have the privilege of paying taxes to support the city but have no say in the direction that they chose or who they are. Wow, thank God for democracy!
Well, let me tell you, I live in the Bryan/College Station area. I no longer shop at Kroger for a number of reasons. This is just one of them. If you read the article in the Chronicle, the manager told everyone what the users pin numbers are (phone number). That's some great security. Bring something, know something, what a load of crap.
Basically, they picked our area because we are populated by an overabundance of people who know nothing but how to be conformists. Noone questions anything in our community. If this were Germany, the recruitment for brownshirts would start just down the block.
A couple of other problems I have with Krogers, no checkers after midnight and the loyalty cards. Basically, they don't feel it's worth paying someone minimum wage to work a couple of registers late at night so they installed some 'check your own ass out' registers. I once worked as a cashier. It wasn't a great job but it kept me from starving. I hate the thought of able bodied people being denied the right to work. As far as the loyalty cards, they suck. Nothing is on sale without them. The price of sale items is double if you accidently leave it at home.
Krogers can bite my ass!
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They apparently don't see the need for Vista64 drivers for WMP54G wireless cards.
The Ralink driver work for a while. Then, for no apparent reason, get corrupted and begin causing blue screens.
I've moved it to an XP box where it will work. I'll never buy another product from them though.
Oddly enough, the same thing happened to me. I didn't forget my password though.
I had the original Half-Life. Shortly before the release of Half-Life 2, I decided to reinstall the original. I hoped online to grab the patch and discovered the new "Steam" thing. I registered my CD key in the system. Even after having installed the complete game from the disc, I found that I had to download the game image just to get the current patch. It was over 700 MB. I was using a dialup at the time. Yeah, forget it.
*Close Steam, Uninstall Half-Life, Run Unreal Tournament*
I hopped on Steam again last Friday for the first time in nearly 5 years because I heard about the free UTIII weekend. After an hour of downloading UTII was still at 5%.
I killed the download and started downloading the Half-Life still sitting in my game list. In less than an hour, I was up and playing Half-Life. Just took 5 years of waiting.
Technology has finally made it possible to download and play a 800 MB game in a reasonable amount of time. Maybe I'll check back in 5 years and see about 8 GB games like UTIII.
FWIW, I've also downloaded LotRO (~11 GB) in the recent past. That took about 9 hours but I let it run overnight. It wasn't a case of needing a quick gaming fix or having a time-limited trial clock running.
I have to say that my recent experience with Steam hasn't really done much to change my initial opinion. It's still a poor alternative to having a physical copy of the game. Rendering the actual physical copy to landfill material doesn't help the situation.
You are transparent... I see many things... I see plans within plans.
Shareholders care more about turning a buck than protecting human rights? Say it isn't so!
She receives regular injections of botulinum toxin (botox) into the muscles surrounding her larynx. The botox relaxes the muscles effectively reducing the strength of the neural signals.
They have a guest host sit in on the days following a treatment. Usually, when she returns, she sounds much better for a while.
While eveyone is claiming this is just a frivolous lawsuit because the person did not read through the fine print of the Ebay site, you have just committed the same offence. This guy is not from the 'Land of Fruits and Nuts' as you said. He's from Pennsylvania.
You couldn't keep your attention span long enough to read four lines of text? Why do you expect higher standards of others?
I hate to keep replying to myself but this is a good starting point for a review of math programs... http://linux.about.com/library/howto/scientific_co mput/blsc4.htm
The program octave, which uses gnuplot for the backend, looks particularly interesting.
True. Maple is a commercial property. After a little research, I found a product called gnuplot that may be of interest. http://www.gnuplot.info/
I can speak from some experience on this. At my university, they had very few Linux machines. The labs that did have them were for our calulus classes. The ran Maple under RedHat. The systems at the time were probably very close to the systems which you describe. They were a pleasure to use. I think Maple would serve to show the power of such a system.
Try going into your bios and checking for a setting called boot delay. It's often used for HD detection since the drive require more time (due to spin-up). Try turning this up a bit and doing a cold boot.
Good Luck.
Oh, and as far as the original topic. Never encoutered it in my cdr or dvdr drives. I would try the solution that some else has already mentioned. Remove the device from the hardware profile after succesful detection. Then shutdown. Unplug the IDE and power from it (check the jumpers of the other device(if present) on the IDE to make sure it's set okay for booting without the cd plugged in). Boot and check that everythings cleaned out. Shutdown and reconnect everything. Boot and reinstall drivers.
I should mention that you should try a new 40wire IDE if you have one and check for bios flashes for the drives as well as drivers.
If you ask me, the music executives have noone to blame but themselves for the current situation. They conned the majority of american consumers into believing that cds were far superior to vinyl media (lies). I hindsight, this was a very short-sighted attempt at turning a fast buck by creating obsolescence in an otherwise permanent product. Then, through price fixing they have steadily increased prices while production costs have declined.
I do believe that piracy hurts the poor record companies. When the public has an opportunity to sample a product in whole, they can make an informed purchase if they chose. If most of the albums produced today weren't crammed with filler material, I imagine sales would not be declining at the current rate. Don't forget, these same companies have stated on many occasions that they would like to abandon the singles market and force consumers to purchase the full priced product.
Hmmm, you must live in my area. The store closest to my home is the big Krogers. It doesn't matter I still haven't shopped there in a month. The driver's license thing is news to me. Also, I've never had anyone request that I use the fingerprint system. It's probably a good thing too. I'm afraid I might make quite a scene if they were to treat me as a potential criminal for attempting to use a debit card.
The last election is another story. I'm very upset about it. I usually don't bother voting in elections because my opinions seemed to be in the minority. However, after the smoking ordinance was passed and the parking meters were put in at Northgate (both of which are harmful to the few small local businesses that we have left), I attempted to vote in this last election. As I found out, I live in an unincorporated (neglected) area of the city. This means that for one reason or another, I have the privilege of paying taxes to support the city but have no say in the direction that they chose or who they are. Wow, thank God for democracy!
Well, let me tell you, I live in the Bryan/College Station area. I no longer shop at Kroger for a number of reasons. This is just one of them. If you read the article in the Chronicle, the manager told everyone what the users pin numbers are (phone number). That's some great security. Bring something, know something, what a load of crap. Basically, they picked our area because we are populated by an overabundance of people who know nothing but how to be conformists. Noone questions anything in our community. If this were Germany, the recruitment for brownshirts would start just down the block. A couple of other problems I have with Krogers, no checkers after midnight and the loyalty cards. Basically, they don't feel it's worth paying someone minimum wage to work a couple of registers late at night so they installed some 'check your own ass out' registers. I once worked as a cashier. It wasn't a great job but it kept me from starving. I hate the thought of able bodied people being denied the right to work. As far as the loyalty cards, they suck. Nothing is on sale without them. The price of sale items is double if you accidently leave it at home. Krogers can bite my ass!