Re: Irregulars Question: Copying Drives with Norton Ghost
At 10:54 PM Sunday 8/28/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spent my weekend buying a 220 gig computer for $220 and then deleting/ uninstalling game after game I didn't get the needed CDs that go with them. And printers. And photos. And purchase orders with credit card numbers. Strange for someone to just let it all go through the estate sale. Probably a relative who had no idea what the departed had used the computer for. Perhaps an older relative who is still computer illiterate, as some of mine are. Frex, my sixty-something cousin, who went back to college and started substitute teaching after losing her husband a dozen or so years ago, only finally broke down and got a computer and learned to use it something like two or three years ago, and my stepmother still refuses to consider getting one, although I keep thinking about trying to fix up an old machine¹ and give it to her and get her hooked on e-mail . . . _ ¹Unfortunately, it would probably be cheaper to get her a new machine than to bring any of my old ones up to even minimal requirements to be useful today. particularly when one would have to start by purchasing a new copy of Win XP (as well as other software) for it, after fixing whatever went wrong that cause me to have to replace it . . . -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Irregulars Question: Copying Drives with Norton Ghost
At 10:45 PM Sunday 8/28/2005, Russell Chapman wrote: Ronn!Blankenship 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. Ronn, I was away for the weekend, so I didn't see this 'til now. I use Ghost every day, so I might be able to help. Did you get it sorted, or is it still an issue? Yes, it's still an issue: I didn't have any more time to fool with it this weekend. The problem, as simply as I can put it: The HD which came with this machine quit working back in January. At the time I was trying to copy some stuff off the HD0 from the old machine. When I put the old HD0 into the new box as drive 1 and turned the power on, the new HD in the drive 0 slot stopped working. I can only guess that whatever had caused the old drive to fail had somehow affected the new one . . . although I did not have an unlimited supply of either hard drives or money in order to allow me to experiment to confirm that hypothesis. :P (I was just glad that the secondary HD from the old machine, which had all my teaching stuff, etc., on it, seemed to be working and in fact continues to work until this day.) The only other HD I could spare at the time was an old 4.3GB Quantum Bigfoot drive (the latter term referring to the fact that it has the same footprint as the average CD or DVD drive rather than fitting in a 3-1/2 hard drive bay), which I reformatted and installed Win XP on in order to get something up and running. So I have been running on that one as drive 0 and the old secondary as drive 1 ever since. Earlier this month I received a couple of checks I had been waiting for, so last week I ordered and received two of Hitachi's new 500GB drives. I also picked up Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier which includes version 9.0 of Ghost at a local CompUSA. So the other day I installed the latter and then tried to use Ghost to copy the 4.3GB drive to one of the new 500GB drives and then make it the new system drive. (To be precise, I want to partition it and use probably 400GB for the new system drive -- hopefully allowing plenty of space for all the crap which Windoze by default assumes you want installed on the C:/ drive -- and put some version (TBD) of a *nix OS on the other partition. I also picked up the latest version of Partition Magic to go with the NSW. (I did have older versions of all of those, but of course they don't work correctly with XP.) The other new drive will go into the secondary slot and the old drive with all the data on it will go into an external drive box, at least until I have transferred all the data on it someplace else.) I put the new drive in as secondary (yes, the BIOS recognizes the full 500GB, so that is not the problem) and tried to use the disk copy function of Ghost to copy the old system drive to the new drive. It reported that it had successfully copied the drive, but then after I powered down the machine, removed the old 4.3GB drive and put the new drive in its place at the end of the IDE cable, and turned the power back on, it won't boot up, although with the old system drive in place I have no trouble reading the data which was copied to the new drive. I tried several times, playing around with the settings in Ghost (largely guessing, as the help file is not very helpful and the dead tree manual which came in the box even less), but never got any better results than that: a reportedly successful copy to the new drive, but the new drive will not boot up when it is installed as drive 0 and the old drive is removed. That's when I started asking for help. So, any ideas? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: FLCL and Paranoia Agent - G.I. Joe
From: Steve Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] G.I. Joe Sigma Six (coming) CGI, I presume, like the other recent GI Joe movies? My review: Mediocre. Painfully awful music (compared to the original G.I. Joe theme music it's just awful random noise). Character designs: Weak. Only Storm Shadow was good. No Cobra commander to reference. Missing in action: No Shipwreck, Flint, Lady Jay, etc. All cobra troops now seem to robots (BATS). Exposition: terrible. All Technobable all the time, and not the Good technobable. Voice acting: Weak. Destro, The Baroness and Storm Shadow were decent aproximations but the rest was just weak or awful. All vehicles are dogawful CGI crap. Plot: what Plot? The Fool Gives it a 3 out of 10. Hasbro blew it again. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
[ghostpost] Can Democracy Stop Terrorism?
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050901faessay84506/f-gregory-gause-iii/c an-democracy-stop-terrorism.html?mode=print Definitely worth a read. Apologies for the tiny mail but I need to get some rest. Ritu ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Abstinence Only Sex Ed: 65 out of 490 Girls Pregnant in Ohio School
On Aug 28, 2005, at 5:49 AM, The Fool wrote: From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] The fault with ab-only sex ed lies not in JDG, but in the implementation. Simply posting the article without specific referent would have been much more effective, I think. No the fault lies in the diseased ideology of certain religious fascists. For a while I was an angry atheist too. But as sincerely as you might believe there's abundant evil in religion in general -- certainly the *capacity* to forgive vicious behavior exists in religions, as well as the capacity to suggest, even promote such behavior -- the argument is simply going to be better made with less vehemence. Specificity helps as well, rather than making generalizations. As an example, if you draw a parallel between hijackers flying planes into buildings and True Believers blowing up abortion clinics, you make a point that can deeply shake even committed right-wing fundamentalist believers. If you point out that al-Zarqawi's calls for destruction of infidels are very, very similar to Pat Robertson's recent endorsement of annihilation of radical Muslims, you've got a strong case that most people will be unable to ignore. In neither indictment is there a larger connection made about the evil of religious tendency; in both cases what you do, hopefully, is get religious people *thinking* about what they believe, what they preach and, ideally, about how they behave. That, to me, is considerably more effective than pointing out that Christianity has disturbing overtones of genocide in its history, as well as ritual cannibalism. It's not religious thinking that is the problem; religious thinking *can* piggyback onto the real trouble, but it is not the actual source of the trouble. The root problem is *any* tendency to blindly follow *any* leader, *any* tendency to want to adhere to a creed, *any* tendency to insist that one's own group is right while The Others are all wrong. As such, fundamentalist religiosity *is not the disease* -- it is a *symptom*. That tendency was one of the reasons the US was so primed to attack Iraq on shallow and highly questionable evidence, and that's why you still get apologists now insisting that Bush and co. did the right thing. But if you were paying attention in 2002, you saw that many, many people who backed attacking Iraq were not of a right-wing persuasion. They were simply afraid, and angry, and wanted to both get revenge on those people (the meaning of the term varied from person to person) and regain a sense of personal safety and security that they felt they had lost. That's not an unnatural tendency, nor is it a bizarre or difficult-to-understand desire. And it seems to me that *some* people get involved with fundamentalism for similar reasons: They're afraid of that which is different from themselves, they want the world to be easily comprehensible, and they don't feel comfortable with (or perhaps are unskilled at handling) ethical ambiguity. And there is absolutely no way you can sway or affect their thinking by, in essence, promoting a direct frontal assault on ideals which form a major component of their inner landscapes. As your quote of Goldwater pointed out, most people tend to be hard aligned to their faiths. What you might have missed is that the street goes both ways; just as it's possible for a fundamentalist to be so hardlined that he thinks it's sensible to kill medical doctors who perform abortions, it's possible for an atheist to be so radicalized that he advocates abolition of religion, and sometimes the religious; this view is every bit as alienating as is the fundamentalist mindset. I believe they are different aspects of precisely the same outlook: I'm right, you're wrong, and that's all there is to it. Which is a totally useless argument; it is, quite simply, dogmatic thinking, regardless of who is actually doing the thinking. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Irregulars Question: Copying Drives with Norton Ghost
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: I tried several times, playing around with the settings in Ghost (largely guessing, as the help file is not very helpful and the dead tree manual which came in the box even less), but never got any better results than that: a reportedly successful copy to the new drive, but the new drive will not boot up when it is installed as drive 0 and the old drive is removed. That's when I started asking for help. So, any ideas? I'm assuming that you have been using the Windows version of Ghost (in which case your experience is fairly typical). If you can create a DOS boot disk with CD-ROM drivers, that is the ideal. Start the computer in DOS, and run the DOS version of Ghost from the CD, and choose disk to disk copy. If you can't get the CD to work in DOS, it is possible to copy the ghost.exe file to the boot disk and run it from there. This will normally solve the problem. There is still a full menu interface, you don't need all the command line switches, but there's no mouse. (of course, the command line switches can do the whole thing if that's your preference, and that's how we use it because we use it so routinely). Failing that, I think that Partition Magic is going to be your best bet from here on in. Ghost *should* have done the right thing - your theory sounds right, but the 500Gb drives are a new wrinkle that I havent' dealt with before. and Ghost may have trouble with them. We had some trouble going from 40Gb drives to 120Gb drives, and ended up having 30Gb partitions on both (because they are student computers with no data at all, the remaining 90Gb is just wasted, as is most of the 30Gb...). Because we didn't want or need the space, we didn't put much effort into solving the problem. Give me a yell if you need any specifics, I've kept this big picture coz you sound like you know your way around a PC, but I can give you specific instructions if you want (and a generic CD-ROM driver if it will help). Cheers Russell C. --- This email (including any attachments) is confidential and copyright. The School makes no warranty about the content of this email. Unless expressly stated, this email does not bind the School and does not necessarily constitute the opinion of the School. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and notify the sender. --- GWAVAsig ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
