Re: Irregulars Question: Copying Drives with Norton Ghost

[Bryon Daly]

On 8/26/05, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> Has anyone ever done this to copy the contents of the old drive to a new
> (larger) drive? I have been working on doing so for hours: a couple of
> times it has reported that it copied successfully, but the computer would
> not boot with the new drive as drive 0. Can anyone tell me the "trick" to
> getting it to work: I have tried a number of different combinations of
> settings and none has resulted in a new drive which will boot up.

 Isn't Ghost a disk imaging program? IIRC, it's intended to do drive backups
by creating a sector-by-sector copy of the disk (as opposed to a 
file-by-file
copy), which can then later be restored to those same sectors if data was 
corrupted. In that way, things like special boot sectors are preserved and 
restored. 
 If the target disk isn't identical (ie: it doesn't have the same sector 
format 
(and cylinder/head count)) , all that boot stuff may not end up in the right 

places for the new bigger disk to be bootable. Aside from bootability, are 
the disk files readable at least? You might be better off using a standard
disk backup program (of the file copy sort) - I think some of those are
able to make the target disk bootable even if it doesn't match.
 I don't use Ghost, so I'm not an expert. Perhaps there's some options 
available to make it work the way you desire. Hopefully Doug's friends
can help you there.
 -bryon
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Re: Irregulars Question: Copying Drives with Norton Ghost

[Doug Pensinger]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:06:06 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Has anyone ever done this to copy the contents of the old drive to a new 
(larger) drive?  I have been working on doing so for hours:  a couple of 
times it has reported that it copied successfully, but the computer 
would not boot with the new drive as drive 0.  Can anyone tell me the 
"trick" to getting it to work:  I have tried a number of different 
combinations of settings and none has resulted in a new drive which will 
boot up.


A few of the people I work with use Ghost all of the time, if you still 
need help I'll ask them what the story is.


--
Doug
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Re: Abstinence Only Sex Ed: 65 out of 490 Girls Pregnant in Ohio School

[Trent Shipley]

On Friday 2005-08-26 11:28, William T Goodall wrote:

> Or we could outsource it to countries that can manage it cheaper like
> China or India and have them shipped over at 22 or whatever when they
> have their degrees and are ready to start working. Brought up using
> European standards of language and beliefs of course :)

That has been the American policy for decades.

We call it the brain drain.

It hasn't worked so well in Europe where the culture is not built around 
assimilation of immigrants.
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Re: Abstinence Only Sex Ed: 65 out of 490 Girls Pregnant in Ohio School

[Robert Seeberger]

The Fool wrote:
>
> See what happens when Jeebo-Fascists like JDG get power:

Can you lay off John and anyone else on this list you disagree with?
There was absolutely no call to even mention John in your post.
Regardless of what John believes or how much you may disagree with 
him, you have no business making him the posterboy for whatever 
crusade you happen to be on.

You just dropped a long way down the credibility slope AFAIC.


xponent
Foolish Pride Maru
rob 


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Re: Mindless and Heartless

[Dan Minette]

- Original Message - 
From: "Matt Grimaldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: Mindless and Heartless


>
>
> Matt G wrote:
> >> Perhaps someone wants to argue that GWB
> >> should *not* have to endure a half-hour
> >> with her, and maybe even that he's not
> >> accountable to her (or even the public).
>
>
> Dan Minette wrote:
> > Why, because of her views, is half an hour
> > with her more important than half an hour
> > with her other son, or his father (both of
> > whom seem to  think his death is a nobel
> > sacrifice).  How about all the others within
> > a first degree of kinship (parent, child,
> > sibling)?  Don't they have an equal right
> > to half an hour?  That would be more than a
> > full time job for a year.
>
> *Her* views drove her to camp out in TX,
> which I don't recall anyone else doing.
> That has to have earned her something.

Maybe, but why more than a meeting with the national security advisor
(Rice's old job)?  When I look at these things, I try to generalize the
principal.  Do anti-abortion protesters against Democrats who are that
vocal get the same consideration as she does?  If they don't, I would argue
that one cannot use the view that they are wrong and she is right gives her
a privledge that they don't have; because that's a subject that is debated
within our societywith significant fractions of the population taking
different sides.

I'm trying to think of precidents where an individual citizen with a
complaint was able to force a meeting with the president in modern times.
If there was a precident, it would be useful to use it for comparison
purposes.  If not, then the setting of such a precident is a fairly
important act...one with significant repurcussions.

> There definitely should be some minimal show of
> resolve by those without the power to force
> an audience.  Automatically assigning
> limited time to all comers is oviously not
> a practical solution.  Do  you really
> want to argue that since GWB doesn't have the
> time to see everybody, then he should see
> nobody?

That is not my arguement.The arguement that I have seen was that the
loss of her son meant that GWB had a moral obligation to meet with her
privately, after meeting her earlier as part of a group.  Since I think
I've established that there are roughly 4k-6k people who are in that
position, we see that he can't meet all of them.

Your arguement is that many of the rest of them are not dedicated enough
with him to camp out at his door.  I think that it is reasonable to assume,
in politics, that people don't camp out at a leader's door (insisting that
they must see him) to tell them how wonderful he is doing. I think it is
reasonable to see this as happening mostly when someone strongly
disapproves of the action.

I'm trying to think of a good way to define the precident.  The best I can
define is: "people who feel that the improper action by the government (led
by this president) has resulted in the death of a loved one have the right
to see the president if they show strong committement by camping near where
he is until he sees them.



>
> So are you saying that the only time and
> place that a politician should be held
> accountable for his decisions is in the
> voting booth?  Come on, you can do better
> than that.  USA politics already don't
> work that way.

So, you are arguing that a politician will change his mind based on
pressure from someone who will not change the chance of his being
re-elected, or having people in his party re-elected?

> Also, while we're at it, he won by what,
> 2% of the popular vote, at most?  Isn't
> that a pretty good statement that total
> public support is tepid?  It's certainly
> not a 65%+ carte blanche "mandate" to do
> whatever he wants.

I think the influence of having or not having a mandate is a bit
over-rated, with regard to getting what you want. Lincoln won with only
39.8% of the vote.  The Democrats won significantly more votes (47.6%), but
they split between a Northern Democratic (29.5%) and a Southern Democratic
(12.6%).  He governed very strongly, redefining the power of the federal
government.   Nixon and Johnson had mandates, and it did them little good.

Once a president is re-elected, he doesn't worry about personally being
rejected by the government.  The contraint on his actions are in Congress
(and to a lesser extent the Supreme Court).  If the opposition controls one
or both houses of Congress, then he needs to compromise.  If his party has
a clear majority in the house and at least 60 seats in the Senate, the
minority party cannot directly slow down or stop legislation.

So, what constraint on the government is there in this case?  Many/most of
the folks in the House and Senate are planning on running for re-election.
If they take action that is unpopular with their own constintuancy, then
they lower their chances of being re-elected.  (As an aside, the vastly
increased number of 

Irregulars Question: Copying Drives with Norton Ghost

[Ronn!Blankenship]

Has anyone ever done this to copy the contents of the old drive to a new 
(larger) drive?  I have been working on doing so for hours:  a couple of 
times it has reported that it copied successfully, but the computer would 
not boot with the new drive as drive 0.  Can anyone tell me the "trick" to 
getting it to work:  I have tried a number of different combinations of 
settings and none has resulted in a new drive which will boot up.



-- Ronn!  :)



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Re: Abstinence Only Sex Ed: 65 out of 490 Girls Pregnant in Ohio School

[William T Goodall]

On 26 Aug 2005, at 5:14 pm, Alberto Monteiro wrote:



The Fool wrote:



1 in seven.



1 in eight. 7.6 approximates to 8.



In a school given $70,000 of your tax tax dollars to
promote a fundamentalist version of abstinence only sex education.

See what happens when Jeebo-Fascists like JDG get power:



This is good, isn´t it? Only by having young girls catch babies
we will be able to revert the ageing process of the population.

Maybe Europe should adopt this program too!



We need to recognise the real economic value of motherhood and start  
paying mothers a lump sum of $50,000 for each child they produce + a  
salary for the years they take off their other career to raise them.


Or we could outsource it to countries that can manage it cheaper like  
China or India and have them shipped over at 22 or whatever when they  
have their degrees and are ready to start working. Brought up using  
European standards of language and beliefs of course :)



--
William T Goodall
Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web  : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk
Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence  
whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the  
silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more  
likely to be foolish than sensible."

- Bertrand Russell

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Re: Abstinence Only Sex Ed: 65 out of 490 Girls Pregnant in Ohio School

[Alberto Monteiro]

The Fool wrote:
>
> 1 in seven.
>
1 in eight. 7.6 approximates to 8.

> In a school given $70,000 of your tax tax dollars to
> promote a fundamentalist version of abstinence only sex education.
> 
> See what happens when Jeebo-Fascists like JDG get power:
> 
This is good, isn´t it? Only by having young girls catch babies
we will be able to revert the ageing process of the population.

Maybe Europe should adopt this program too!

Alberto "I love Bush and thank him for the oil prices" Monteiro

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Abstinence Only Sex Ed: 65 out of 490 Girls Pregnant in Ohio School

[The Fool]

1 in seven.  In a school given $70,000 of your tax tax dollars to
promote a fundamentalist version of abstinence only sex education.

See what happens when Jeebo-Fascists like JDG get power:

<>

Today on the local NPR station, Canton City Schools Superintendent
Dianne Talarico broke the silence. She announced today that Canton City
Schools would be "investigating" whether or not the system should
abandon abstinence-only programs and look towards something that will
prevent teenage pregnancies.
By all accounts, and from my own personal meetings with her, Talarico
is a good woman who cares about her students. I've never seen anyone
work harder to secure a levy to save jobs and buildings like she did in
early 2004, and I believe she will see the light on this issue as well.
But the lesson here is simple. Abstinence-only was taught at Timken
High School. Since that lesson was adopted, one out of every 7.6 girls
got pregnant. 

For those asking for links to show that Canton City Schools was under
an abstinence-based sex education agenda, here's the link you need:
<>

-
Because Ignorance _Is_ Strength!

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Re: Peace words

[Leonard Matusik]

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:17:12 -0700 Nick Arnett wrote:
>I like this, ..

 

>..Those who take lives in the service of country
>find nothing glorious in killing because they know that each enemy death is a
>fellow human. Differences over politics, religion, race mean little.

>The truth is not, "Greater love has no one than this, to eliminate one's
>enemies." The great truth is, "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down
>one's life for one's friends." Those are words that lead to blood and tears,
>words that are neither soft nor nice, yet they are words of love, a love we
>are called to extend not just to our friends, but also to our enemies.

>May we always use strong, direct and tough words of love. 



and how! Thanks for that Nick.  I was always taught that war is a 
punishment for sin. (sins committed on both ends of the rifle)...

I'll tell you though, I've taught my kids more about Islam since 2001 than they 
care to know!

LeonardJMatusik [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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Re: Irregulars Question: Excel suckz

[Alberto Monteiro]

I would like to thank the help, even though I could solve
the problem before I read the suggestions :-)

Of course, my solution was working stupidly, and using Excel's
bugs to get what I wanted :-)

> (1) is there any way to mix lines and columns in a graphic?

Yes, if and only if we have _exactly_ the same number of columns
and lines, and give the columns first. Since the stupid thing plots
half of them as columns, and I wanted 1 column + 3 lines, I simply
triplicated the columns!

> (2) is there any intelligent way to plot only meaningful values?

Yes: I replaced the meaningless data by 1/zero 

Alberto Monteiro

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Re: Irregulars Question: Excel suckz

[Dave Land]

Alberto,


(1) is there any way to mix lines and columns in a graphic?


Yes. Fortunately, it's one of Excel's built-in custom chart types.
It's so "not-custom" that the description of the chart begins
"Classic combination chart..."

Here's how: From the "Insert" menu, choose "Chart..."

Select the "Custom Types" tab, scroll down the "Chart type:"
list and select one of "Line - Column" or "Line - Column on 2nd Axis"
(or whatever appears after the "2", because it's cut off in the
dialog on my Mac...).

That's what I think you're asking for: a chart that has columns for
one data series and a line for another series.

This might be helpful:

"Create Multiple Combination Charts in Excel"
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=211


(2) is there any intelligent way to plot only meaningful values? For
example, if I am plotting densities (A1:A10 is volume, B1:B10 is mass,
C1:C10 is density, but not all of them have decent values: B7:B10 or
maybe B8:B10 are zeroes), I would like to restrict the plot to numbers
that are not zero/zero.


This one's equally easy, and, Doug Pensinger's no-doubt excellent
advice notwithstanding, doesn't even require that you write a macro.

Create a new column next to your funky column with the following formula
in every cell:

=IF(C2=0,NA(),C2)

(where "C2" is the a cell in the column that may contain zero values
that you want to replace).

A line chart that crosses the NA cells will just skip over them,
something like this:

+---+
4  -|   |
|   *---*   *   |
3  -|  /.   .\ /|
| /  . .  \   / |
2  -|/.   .\ /  |
|   *---*  . .  *   |
1  -|   V   |
+---+---+---+---*---+---+---+---+
'   '   '   '   '   '   '
a   b   c   d   e   f   g

Where the missing data is in row 'd', of course. (The dotted line
forming the big ugly V in the middle is what you'd get with your
raw data.) For the sake of clarity, and because my obsessive-
compulsive disorder is relatively under control tonight, I didn't
include the bars on the ASCII version of the chart above, nor the
legend. I hope you can handle that :-).


Alberto "I hate M$ and all the crap it sells" Monteiro


Anyone who knows me at all knows that I am no fan of Microsoft
operating systems or business practices: I worked for Apple for
seven years and Sun for three.

On the other hand, I have been known to say that Excel may be the
best piece of general-purpose software ever created by humans.

Basically, If I can't figure out how to do something in Excel, I
assume that it's because I can't figure out how to do something in
Excel, it's probably not because Excel can't do it.

Dave

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