On Mar 26, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 01:50 AM Thursday 3/23/2006, Dave Land wrote:
On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:05 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Being pretty much in 1-1 correspondence with machine language, it
also offers you the opportunity to get into
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 01:50 AM Thursday 3/23/2006, Dave Land wrote:
On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:05 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Being pretty much in 1-1 correspondence with machine language, it
also offers you the opportunity to get into places you probably
shouldn't be and mess things up
I give up.
My backup HD is fully readable and writable from Linux, all
auxiliary windoze programs can read it, but evil windoze itself
keeps giving me the stupid and meaningless error
Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
I have lost too much time. Time to FR.
But since I will waste precious
At 07:15 AM Friday 3/24/2006, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
I give up.
My backup HD is fully readable and writable from Linux, all
auxiliary windoze programs can read it, but evil windoze itself
keeps giving me the stupid and meaningless error
Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
I have lost too
On 3/22/06, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Fool wrote:
Fat32
There's your problem _Right There_.
Unless you are using some version of win9x that needs to be able to see
this partition, you need to be using NTFS. It's better in every
way. And you can compress NTFS
At 01:50 AM Thursday 3/23/2006, Dave Land wrote:
On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:05 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Being pretty much in 1-1 correspondence with machine language, it
also offers you the opportunity to get into places you probably
shouldn't be and mess things up royally, even (in fact,
maru dubshinki wrote:
Actually Linux can read NTFS, and fairly well. I once helped
a friend set it up so he could listen to his music collection -
but the real problem is that you have to go in via the command
line (AFAIK), and Windows is *extremely* hostile to CLIs, what
with all the
On 3/23/06, Steve Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
Actually Linux can read NTFS, and fairly well. I once helped
a friend set it up so he could listen to his music collection -
but the real problem is that you have to go in via the command
line (AFAIK), and
My backup HD seems to be corrupted under game mode [Windows XP],
giving an error message [in Portuguese] that probably translates
to:
Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
It's a MAXTOR, and it is functional in Linux. I _may_ have hit
the computer the last time I switched to game mode, prior
to
On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:07 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
My backup HD seems to be corrupted under game mode [Windows XP],
giving an error message [in Portuguese] that probably translates
to:
Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
It's a MAXTOR, and it is functional in Linux. I _may_ have hit
Charlie Bell wrote:
Is there any way to recover the HD for Windows XP without FR?
Spinrite might do it, it's a dos thing. Don't have a copy handy
unfortunately, my windows stuff is all in Cyprus (and I'm in Oz
still with my iBook...).
Just as curiosity, I checked the spinrite site.
On Mar 23, 2006, at 12:00 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
Is there any way to recover the HD for Windows XP without FR?
Spinrite might do it, it's a dos thing. Don't have a copy handy
unfortunately, my windows stuff is all in Cyprus (and I'm in Oz
still with my
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charlie Bell wrote:
Is there any way to recover the HD for Windows XP without FR?
Spinrite might do it, it's a dos thing. Don't have a copy handy
unfortunately, my windows stuff is all in Cyprus (and I'm in Oz
still with my iBook...).
The Fool wrote:
Is there any way to recover the HD for Windows XP without FR?
Did you try using chkdsk.exe?
Yes, but it was useless, like any other Windows XP resident
(evil) tool. They either repeat the meaningless error message,
or recomend FR.
I will[*] try using Linux tools like
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
Is there any way to recover the HD for Windows XP without FR?
Did you try using chkdsk.exe?
Yes, but it was useless, like any other Windows XP resident
(evil) tool. They either repeat the meaningless error message,
or
The Fool wrote:
Is the HD partition FAT, Fat32, NTFS or other?
Fat32
And shouldn't you be ysung Windows 2000 or win98SE for your 'game
computer'? XP adds nothing but heartache and errors to a game-machine.
I bought the computer with Windows XP.
You should always keep your data (games,
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
Is the HD partition FAT, Fat32, NTFS or other?
Fat32
There's your problem _Right There_.
Unless you are using some version of win9x that needs to be able to see
this partition, you need to be using NTFS. It's better in every
The Fool wrote:
Fat32
There's your problem _Right There_.
Unless you are using some version of win9x that needs to be able to see
this partition, you need to be using NTFS. It's better in every
way. And you can compress NTFS drives.
See if you can't dig up an old version of
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
Fat32
There's your problem _Right There_.
Unless you are using some version of win9x that needs to be able to
see
this partition, you need to be using NTFS. It's better in every
way. And you can compress NTFS drives.
The Fool wrote:
But NTFS is not visible to Linux.
I'm _sure_ there are versions of programs in specific linux distros
that do understand NTFS.
Ask some of the more serious linux gurus to help you (I'm sure
there's a newsgroup that can help you set it up right).
Now you force me to do
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
But NTFS is not visible to Linux.
I'm _sure_ there are versions of programs in specific linux distros
that do understand NTFS.
Ask some of the more serious linux gurus to help you (I'm sure
there's a newsgroup that
The Fool wrote:
Now you force me to do a little Linux bashing :-)
Never a bad thing.
Yes, because it keeps our criticism, not because
Linux is worse than the standard PC-alternative :-P
Also, I never found a newsgroup with gurus that could help me.
All my problems were analysed,
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
Now you force me to do a little Linux bashing :-)
Never a bad thing.
Yes, because it keeps our criticism, not because
Linux is worse than the standard PC-alternative :-P
But 99% of open source progams outside of the the
The Fool wrote:
Yes, because it keeps our criticism, not because
Linux is worse than the standard PC-alternative :-P
But 99% of open source progams outside of the the top 30 are
terrible, horrble, craptackularly bad.
Sturgeon Law Squared? 99% of everything is terrible, horrible,
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
Yes, because it keeps our criticism, not because
Linux is worse than the standard PC-alternative :-P
But 99% of open source progams outside of the the top 30 are
terrible, horrble, craptackularly bad.
Sturgeon Law
At 07:00 AM Wednesday 3/22/2006, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
Is there any way to recover the HD for Windows XP without FR?
Spinrite might do it, it's a dos thing. Don't have a copy handy
unfortunately, my windows stuff is all in Cyprus (and I'm in Oz
still with my
On 22 Mar 2006 at 11:16, The Fool wrote:
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
But NTFS is not visible to Linux.
I'm _sure_ there are versions of programs in specific linux distros
that do understand NTFS.
Ask some of the more serious linux gurus
On 22 Mar 2006 at 10:07, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
My backup HD seems to be corrupted under game mode [Windows XP],
giving an error message [in Portuguese] that probably translates
to:
Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
It's a MAXTOR, and it is functional in Linux. I _may_ have hit
From: Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 22 Mar 2006 at 11:16, The Fool wrote:
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
But NTFS is not visible to Linux.
I'm _sure_ there are versions of programs in specific linux
distros
that do understand
On Mar 22, 2006, at 4:07 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
My backup HD seems to be corrupted under game mode [Windows XP],
giving an error message [in Portuguese] that probably translates
to:
Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
It's a MAXTOR, and it is functional in Linux. I _may_ have hit
the
On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 07:00 AM Wednesday 3/22/2006, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
Is there any way to recover the HD for Windows XP without FR?
Spinrite might do it, it's a dos thing. Don't have a copy handy
unfortunately, my windows stuff
The Fool wrote:
You don't do it because it is easy. You do it because it is hard. If
you are really looking for some hardcore programmming to do as a hobby
try starting here:
http://romhacking.net
or
http://www.rpgone.net
or
http://agtp.romhack.net/
None of that sissy c++. All hardcore ASM.
At 06:24 PM Wednesday 3/22/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
The Fool wrote:
You don't do it because it is easy. You do it because it is hard. If
you are really looking for some hardcore programmming to do as a hobby
try starting here:
http://romhacking.net
or
http://www.rpgone.net
or
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 06:24 PM Wednesday 3/22/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
The Fool wrote:
You don't do it because it is easy. You do it because it is hard. If
you are really looking for some hardcore programmming to do as a hobby
try starting here:
http://romhacking.net
or
At 10:29 PM Wednesday 3/22/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 06:24 PM Wednesday 3/22/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
The Fool wrote:
You don't do it because it is easy. You do it because it is hard. If
you are really looking for some hardcore programmming to do as a hobby
On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:05 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Being pretty much in 1-1 correspondence with machine language, it
also offers you the opportunity to get into places you probably
shouldn't be and mess things up royally, even (in fact, usually)
unintentionally . . .
Bottom line: this
Keith Henson wrote:
But then I will not be able to _buy_ a new one!
Why not? You know what kind of processor you have and there are only a few
kind of heat sinks.
But what is the point of buying a new one if I don't fknow how to remove
the old one?
Alberto Monteiro
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:07:04PM +, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
But what is the point of buying a new one if I don't fknow how to
remove the old one?
Spending money to help the economy.
--
Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/
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Alberto wrote:
But what is the point of buying a new one if I don't fknow how to remove
the old one?
Do your kids have any pets? You could always rig up the fan to provide
ventilation in a small animal enclosure. Or you could build a micro wind
tunnel to test airborne nano-tech.
--
Doug
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Keith Henson wrote:
But then I will not be able to _buy_ a new one!
Why not? You know what kind of processor you have and there are only a few
kind of heat sinks.
But what is the point of buying a new one if I don't fknow how to remove
the old one?
The instructions for
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:55:59 +, Alberto Monteiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keith Henson wrote:
My CPU cooler is behaving strangely: it sometimes spins, other
times doesn't. Which means that I have to chance the damned thing.
Problem: is there any way to _remove_ it without breaking
At 15:07 27-12-04 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Keith Henson wrote:
But then I will not be able to _buy_ a new one!
Why not? You know what kind of processor you have and there are only a few
kind of heat sinks.
But what is the point of buying a new one if I don't fknow how to remove
the
At 03:07 PM 27/12/04 +, you wrote:
Keith Henson wrote:
But then I will not be able to _buy_ a new one!
Why not? You know what kind of processor you have and there are only a few
kind of heat sinks.
But what is the point of buying a new one if I don't fknow how to remove
the old one?
My CPU cooler is behaving strangely: it sometimes spins, other
times doesn't. Which means that I have to chance the damned thing.
Problem: is there any way to _remove_ it without breaking
everything?
Alberto Monteiro
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:18:57PM +, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
My CPU cooler is behaving strangely: it sometimes spins, other times
doesn't. Which means that I have to chance the damned thing. Problem:
is there any way to _remove_ it without breaking everything?
Yes.
--
Erik Reuter
At 02:18 PM 26/12/04 +, you wrote:
My CPU cooler is behaving strangely: it sometimes spins, other
times doesn't. Which means that I have to chance the damned thing.
Problem: is there any way to _remove_ it without breaking
everything?
Typically you can release the spring that holds it on with
At 09:51 AM 26/12/04 -0500, you wrote:
snip
If you oil the fans every year or two, they will outlast the computer
going obsolete.
Pictures here.
http://www.dansdata.com/fanmaint.htm
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Keith Henson wrote:
My CPU cooler is behaving strangely: it sometimes spins, other
times doesn't. Which means that I have to chance the damned thing.
Problem: is there any way to _remove_ it without breaking
everything?
Typically you can release the spring that holds it on with a
At 12:55 AM 27/12/04 +, you wrote:
Keith Henson wrote:
My CPU cooler is behaving strangely: it sometimes spins, other
times doesn't. Which means that I have to chance the damned thing.
Problem: is there any way to _remove_ it without breaking
everything?
Typically you can release the
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