don't do
business with Blockbuster.
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #124:
user to computer ration too low.
.
try r-studio
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #10:
hardware stress fractures
mycommand.sh | tee mylogfile
Also you can redirect all output with 21
mycommand.sh mylog.txt 21
Not sure the equivilent windows commands.
Christopher Fisk
--
When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of
a bottle. They're on TV!
-- Homer Simpson
the equivilent windows commands.
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #301:
appears to be a Slow/Narrow SCSI-0 Interface problem
connecting to one port on
one machine and sending massive amounts of encrypted traffic? Thats a
recipe for disaster on a military network (I would hope)
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #37:
heavy gravity fluctuation, move computer to floor rapidly
into something else (hell, even their new
AOL)
http://www.connectedsw.com/Questions/57266
http://www.connectedsw.com/ScreenShotsePreserver.php
Does that do what you need?
$25
Christopher Fisk
--
I AM NOT MY LONG-LOST TWIN
I AM NOT MY LONG-LOST TWIN
Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 4F03
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Chris Reeves wrote:
OK, I've got someone who has an old laptop with tons of locally stored AOL
mail (supposedly) now they have all sorts of main.idx files, but I'm
struggling to figure out a good method to extract their email
data back into it.
Christopher Fisk
--
I CAN'T SEE DEAD PEOPLE
I CAN'T SEE DEAD PEOPLE
Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode BABF05
non-grey table cell (The cell is red).
I was notified 5 or more times during the process that 911 calling had to
be activated, and would *NOT* work before activated.
Idiots.
Christopher Fisk
--
I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the
price is always so low. -Calvin
the signup process you are
notified multiple times that you need to setup 911 calling. It's the
first thing I did after I created my account, just because they were so
specific about it.
Christopher Fisk
--
Loosely confederate colors of Benetton
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, G.Waleed Kavalec wrote:
I'll bet if 208.20.76.243 hacked into the DOD, they would get located.
In real time?
Christopher Fisk
--
MY BUTT DOES NOT DESERVE A WEBSITE
MY BUTT DOES NOT DESERVE A WEBSITE
Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 3G04
needs to be done.
In fact, once you actually set the number up you are told it's not
immediate, that you need to wait for a confirmation email before it's
setup. (My confirmation email came in 30 minutes)
If you are too stupid to use VoIP, then stay with POTS.
Christopher Fisk
--
Leela: Now
ATTACHED.
That hard drive i dropped and destroyed, that is seagates fault that they
didn't have 4 inches of foam all the way around it for the trip from the
box to my computer.
Where does it end?
Christopher Fisk
IT'S POTATO, NOT POTATOE
IT'S POTATO, NOT POTATOE
Bart Simpson on chalkboard
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 02:35 PM 3/23/2005, Christopher Fisk typed:
Where does it end?
It seems to me that you have some things confused. One may be life or death
while the other is not altho you may feel like dying if you forgot the heat
sink that doesn't count. If life
911 signup.
This would be a landmark case that sets precident if Vonage were to lose.
It wouldn't just affect Vonage.
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #16:
somebody was calculating pi on the server
, connected with a router) sends fine with exactly the
same settings. Anyone ever see this?
Norton or another AV getting in the way of the SMTP session?
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #384:
it's an ID-10-T error
compared to the router which was acting as a DHCP server. I changed everything
back to automatic but I could've manually put in the correct values as well.
You also might want to check out fixlsp or lspfix (Whatever it's called)
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #22:
monitor resolution too high
, but it won't permit me to do that. How do I resolve this?
Thanks
Winterlight
Apache? IIS?
In general people will assume lowercase. I'd be suprized if they were
typing it in in uppercase. Just rename the file from upper to lowercase
and you will fix the majority of the issue IMO.
Christopher Fisk
to create
restore disks? Not positive on that though.
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #149:
Dew on the telephone lines.
. A windows 95 disk, a Microsoft Bob disk, a Myst
Disk, a disk for everything! None of this restore disk that doesn't even
put everything back onto the system no sir'ee!
*cough* er... sorry.
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #386:
The Internet is being scanned for viruses.
similar is what
you are looking for?
so any thoughts on how I can protect the key in this batch file?
If you find a 100% secure method you will be way ahead of the game. DRM
implemented at the hardware level? =)
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #120:
we just switched to FDDI.
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
Any way to do software linux JBOD?
Linear Mode RAID in linux is JBOD.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4
Hope that helps,
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #80:
That's a great
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, FORC5 wrote:
just saved me a bunch of
Is your customer satisfaction level 97%?
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #384:
it's an ID-10-T error
sitting down and reading the letter to my aunt and asking himself
WTF.
Hope that analogy helps,
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #409:
The vulcan-death-grip ping has been applied.
On Fri, 6 May 2005, G.Waleed Kavalec wrote:
over 8 megs - wow! ;-)
You have any idea how many floppies that is? (well, I'm pretty sure the
Gladiator DVD is over 8 megs, I would be stunned if it weren't)
Christopher Fisk
--
Thank you. before I begin, I'd like everyone to notice that my report
. Do
you count that 1 hour scan as a 5 minute block of time (The amount of time
to initiate the scan) or as a full hour of time?
At 30 minutes before writeoff I have to guess that you don't mean actual
elapsed time.
Christopher Fisk
--
I WILL NOT USE ABBREV.
I WILL NOT USE ABBREV.
Bart
me anything
more than I already find from the sites I frequent.)
Christopher Fisk
--
Fry: I've only got two fantasies left: to be invisible in a
chocolate factory, and to be romantically linked to a celebrity.
Bender: I could pound your head 'til you think that's what happened.
Fry: Okay.
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Jerry Jones wrote:
... that lists one item for sale per day. The items are usually overstocked or
liquidation technology and electronic items. I remember seeing it mentioned
here before but did not keep a link for it in my favorites.
http://www.woot.com
Chris
--
If
are available from
http://lemley.net/smp.html I'm not sure if they will run under cygwin or
not, but it might be worth a try...
Christopher Fisk
--
Cop: He's making a break for it. Get him!
Fry: No, no, I was just picking my nose.
Cop: He's picking his nose. Get him!
certainly no electrical engineer.
Christopher Fisk
--
Bender: You know the secret of traditional robot cooking? Start with a good
high-quality oil, then eat it.
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Stan Zaske wrote:
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Forty-Eight Hours To Stop The Broadcast Flag
#1: Didn't happen
#2: You're about 24 hours late on the warning.
#3: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003730.php
Chris
--
If you want to stay dad you've
Active@ Partition Recovery v 2.0
http://www.partition-recovery.com/partition.htm
You can also try R-Studio, similar program type, same limitations -- will
tell you what it see's but you can only recover files under 64K with the
free version.
Christopher Fisk
--
Fry: Things are different
of recording it yourself, but
you do have the convenience of being able to get it after it aired.
Christopher Fisk
--
I don't understand this! Not a single part of my horoscope came true!
... The paper should print Mom's daily predictions. Those sure come
true. -Calvin
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Thane Sherrington wrote:
What comes around goes around and all that.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Christopher Fisk
--
Zoidberg: That's where I'm meeting Uncle Zoid for lunch to discuss my
Hollywood dream. The next time you see me, don't be surprised
confirmed deaths reported in the
early stages. I fear that we'll see a much larger number than 2 when this
is done.
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #285:
Telecommunications is upgrading.
the customers to your
competition as well, people distrust a price that seems strange to them.
Maybe a Why is our price so much lower FAQ?
Christopher Fisk
--
Homer: Little baby batter, Can't control his bladder!
Burns: Mmm...Crude, but I like it. What do you say we freshen up out
little drinkie poos
with Earl.
Christopher Fisk
--
Officers' club: We don't know but we've been told, our beer on tap is
mighty cold.
cBlog: http://chris.uasoft.com/
Looks like today is a wootoff day at woot.com. Anyone ever order from
them?
Might be some good deals.
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #335:
the AA battery in the wallclock sends magnetic interference
cBlog: http://chris.uasoft.com/
where He has to be there for
interaction during an update is eating into his profit. This update
doesn't stop the pirates, but it does cause annoyance to the legitimate
users. It fails the sanity test.
Christopher Fisk
--
Someday I'll write my own philosophy book. -Calvin
cBlog: http
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
Christopher Fisk wrote:
Normally this wouldn't be an issue for the kid, he would just ride his
bicycle, except that all the kids friends ever wanted to do was play ball.
They were afraid of the bicycle.
You _have_ to be kidding me. WGA takes less than
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
Christopher Fisk wrote:
The bicycle was the alternative to Windows, not WGA. WGA was the mother
coming out and putting her kid into timeout and docking his allowance for
not going in every 5 minutes and signing for the ball.
I is dumb. Tell me where
of software you generally need to buy hardware
at the same time right? And am I also correct in thinking you can't
resell them without an OEM agreement with Microsoft? I'm a novice in this
area, so my lack of knowledge on OEM policy may show a bit =)
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #138:
UBNC
selling illegal copies. It's going to
have to go through the courts before anything happens. Microsoft benefits
because the courts will order these black market OEM's to stop (if it
even makes it to the courts).
Christopher Fisk
--
GRAMMAR IS NOT A TIME OF WASTE
GRAMMAR IS NOT A TIME
We had 3 Windows 2003 servers flake out in the last 2 days. no updates
done, no patches, no nothing, just during a normal reboot they hung at
applying computer settings.
When we unplugged the ethernet we were able to log in, but things like
IIS, PCAnywhere, SQL Server were not starting
has used linux for almost 10
years now the install is actaully quite intuitive for me, but if I were
going from windows it would definately be best to go with Mandriva IMO.
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #261:
The Usenet news is out of date
).
Thanks guys,
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #82:
Yeah, yo mama dresses you funny and you need a mouse to delete files.
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Steve wrote:
http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/03/02/2035245.shtml?tid=130tid=92
Good article for this. Also, if you need to go the other way, Windows XP
has the ability to host a single RDP session. Setting it up is pretty
easy (So you can go from your linux
:/sbin/agetty -i -h -L 115200 ttyS1 vt102
and serial port, serial console support to the kernel.
Once that is done, you can configure the system how you want, setup X,
vnc, etc.
Good luck,
Christopher Fisk
--
I WILL NOT CALL THE PRINCIPAL SPUD HEAD
I WILL NOT CALL THE PRINCIPAL SPUD HEAD
Where does everyone buy thier DVD media? I just got a new DVD burner and
need to get some disks. Since this is actually my first DVD burner I'm
wondering what is good media and where is a reliable place to get it
cheap?
Thanks,
Christopher Fisk
--
Farnsworth: Oh no! I should do something
=)
Also, the gas we have now was made with oil that cost $50/barrel instead
of oil that cost $65/barrel, yet we're being charged the $65/barrel price!
Christopher Fisk
--
I WILL NOT DO MATH IN CLASS
I WILL NOT DO MATH IN CLASS
Lisa Simpson on chalkboard in episode BABF07
and
hydrogen. To then burn that hydrogen to power the car is just a waste of
energy. Why not just use the energy used to crack the water to power the
car? There is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine =)
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #330:
quantum decoherence
but neither will fusion (the sun will burn
out a few billion years). Not nearly as soon as oil though.
Christopher Fisk
--
Professor: While you were gone the Trotters held a news conference to
announce that I was a jive sucker.
AAC-RAID family. it's true
hardware raid, so you don't need to worry about using any extra CPU power.
It's a couple hundred dollars tho.
Christopher Fisk
--
Fry: Leela, there's nothing wrong with anything.
correctly.
I'm not familiar with any other VoIP provider's service though. I've been
really happy with Vonage.
Christopher Fisk
http://my.opera.com/community/party/
Christopher Fisk
government stopped?
I mean hell, it's thier Levees!
Christopher Fisk
government stopped?
I mean hell, it's thier Levees!
New York City has it's own tax collection. Send out the collector and get
money to work the Levees. It's not a state issue, it's a city one. That
is what I'm saying.
Christopher Fisk
--
A FIRE DRILL DOES NOT DEMAND A FIRE
A FIRE DRILL DOES
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Analyst wrote:
On 1 Sep 2005 at 14:03, Christopher Fisk wrote:
The issue is that the repair, maintenance, and beefing-up of the
levees, the very levees that broke through, was STOPPED in 2004, for
the first time in 37 years, because of the Bushies massive budget
cuts
questioned, Rice had security PHYSICALLY
REMOVE the woman.
I played online poker last night. How dare I gamble while thousands are
dying and homeless!
WTF Was the shopper there shopping for if she's gonna get upset if she
sees someone else shopping. Damn hypcrites.
Christopher Fisk
--
Peter
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/
--
`How do you feel?' he asked him.
`Like a military academy,' said Arthur, `bits of me keep
passing out.'
`We're safe,' he said.
`Oh good,' said Arthur.
`We're in a small galley cabin,' said Ford, `in one of the
spaceships of the Vogon
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Christopher Fisk wrote:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/
Sorry about this post, it was not meant for the list. Certainly
interesting though. =)
Christopher Fisk
--
Reporter: I have a three-part question for you, Mr. President, and a
one-part question
, and generally a
very public figure, as such she needs to portray the US in a good light,
and that includes dressing for success.
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #432:
Borg nanites have infested the server
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Chris Shaw wrote:
Anyone on this list familiar with VPN's would be willing to answer a
few questions off list??
It's certainly a broad question, but I'll help you out.
Christopher Fisk
--
My opponent keeps saying I give too much tax relief to the top 1%, but he
hadn't
consider that
thing large. Pretty soon people are going to be releasing 1U cases with
LCD and calling it a laptop.
Christopher Fisk
--
THE PRINCIPAL'S TOUPEE IS NOT A FRISBEE
THE PRINCIPAL'S TOUPEE IS NOT A FRISBEE
Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 9F12
.
Linux 2.6.11 (I need to update this machine) running Firefox 1.0.6 (I need
to update Firefox too)
Looks to me the thing this page is doing is using shockwave flash to
launch the popups, which I believe has been taken care of in recent
versions of firefox.
Christopher Fisk
--
Han Solo: Chewie
We have a device which uses laptop sized drives (2.5 form facter) and we
need to find a high performance drive for one customer. (We're running
into serious IO bottlenecks. Can anyone recommend a fast drive?
Thanks,
Christopher Fisk
--
I DO NOT HAVE POWER OF ATTORNEY OVER FIRST GRADERS
I
on CSS, so it won't affect any home made DVD's.
Christopher Fisk
--
Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.
George W. Bush fund-raising letter, March 24, 2000
Quoted in the Washington Post.
-called legitimate businesses.
http://www.tightvnc.org
It's a program similar to PCAnywhere. Legitimate and illegitimate uses
abound.
Christopher Fisk
--
Leela: Where were you at 10pm last night?
Professor Farnsworth: Where am I now?
types of hardware issues.)
Christopher Fisk
--
One's never alone with a rubber duck.
the BSOD myth with Windows XP. Sure, 9X and NT (and to a
lesser extent Win2K) BSOD'd a lot, but windows XP is much better about
that (never got a blue screen with WinXP - YMMV)
Christopher Fisk
--
I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the
legislative branch. I
to the trusted sites list.
Disable the Windows GDICheck Addon in Manage Addon's
Just a couple of things to try.
Christopher Fisk
--
My view is that state laws reigns supreme when it comes to the Indians,
whether it be gambling or any other issue.
George W. Bush, November 4, 1999
The Texas governor
amounts to tell
them how much they deposited.
Christopher Fisk
--
Hey, you know what'd cheer you up? You should get yourself a puppy.
-Amy A puppy? Nibbler loved to eat puppies -Leela
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, 007 wrote:
Unfortunately, neither the Intelligent design people or the evolution
thumpers have it right.
It's the Goa'ould.
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #428:
Firmware update in the coffee machine
are different than stuck pixels.
Christopher Fisk
or real dark or the image is black or real dark in color.
Take this with a grain of salt, it's all second hand coming from me.
A dead pixel is white or black, a stuck pixel is red, blue, or green.
Christopher Fisk
--
BAGMAN, IS NOT A LEGITIMATE CAREER CHOICE
BAGMAN, IS NOT A LEGITIMATE CAREER
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Bobby Heid wrote:
Ahhh, my boss has a dead pixel then. It is white. I though a dead pixel
was black and any other color was stuck.
That may be the case, like I said, going from memory here =)
Christopher Fisk
the bastard put
disease and religion on the world)
Christopher Fisk
--
Leela: Well, someone's in a good mode.
not work. It is a good thing I bought this monitor for shop use and
not for a customer. I simply will not sell monitors because of this problem
among others.
Did this video work for your LCD?
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #186:
permission denied
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Bobby Heid wrote:
If you are talking to me, my boss is off this week. I won't find out if he
tried it until next week.
Well, basically anyone who has tried it.
Let us know =)
Christopher Fisk
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Brian Weeden wrote:
Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server?
Paying for a service I am assuming?
Road Runner runs good servers for thier customers. That is what I use.
Only 2-3 day retention on binaries though.
Christopher Fisk
--
Homer
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Alex wrote:
Thank you so much, I totally forgot! Time to set the Tivo again
You unset your tivo? I just leave the season pass up and it keeps
everything tidy for me.
Of course, I probably still have a season pass for Jake 2.0...
Christopher Fisk
--
Stewie Griffin
set on time and offtime and it turns power on and off to the physical
plug.
Christopher Fisk
--
I WILL NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE SOLUTION WHEN I HEAR IT
I WILL NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE SOLUTION WHEN I HEAR IT
Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 2F20
global settings.
Is there a setting to force outlook to always print in black and white
instead of color?
Thanks,
Christopher Fisk
--
Han Solo: This is not going to work.
Luke Skywalker: Why didn't you say so before?
Han Solo: I did say so before!
to attempt to clean as opposed to
formatting, you can get yourself a Bart disk and boot from that and run
your antivirus, or take the drive out and put it into a USB2/Firewire and
scan it from a known good machine.
Christopher Fisk
--
`That young girl is one of the least benightedly
with a router that
supports port forwarding.
Christopher Fisk
--
Peter Griffin: Nothing else has worked this far / So I wish upon a star /
Wonderous shining speck of light / I need a Jew / Lois makes me take the
rap / Cause our checkbook looks like crap / Since I can't give her a slap
/ I need
gambling on how long it's going to take, and you leave knowing they at
least have a backup from that day in case there is a disaster after that.
Plus, you can sit down and watch TV while the thing is running the
reinstall.
Christopher Fisk
--
Hmmm, look at those eyes. He's trying to hypnotize me
?
You may think it's giving up, I think it's smart business.
Christopher Fisk
--
I can't remember any specific books.
George W. Bush, August 26, 1999
The candidate's answer when asked by an elementary school student to name
his favorite book as a child. Reported by the Associated Press.
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 04:00 PM 10/02/2006, Christopher Fisk wrote:
In a business environment, yeah, removal is fine, but as a favor for
someone, go the full reinstall route IMO, it's more sure thing, less
gambling on how long it's going to take, and you leave
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 04:04 PM 10/02/2006, Christopher Fisk wrote:
Here is the thing, I do this for a living, and the never being defeated
thing is fine, but when you spend 10 hours on something that you could have
fixed in 3 or less with a reformat how happy #1
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 04:27 PM 10/02/2006, Christopher Fisk wrote:
Because data is data, it's not executed, it's not stored in registry, it's
much easier to verify with virus scanning software.
When was the last time you saw a tiff file with a virus?
What
aware of the exploit in GDI libraries. I'm also aware that
cleaning just the data instead of Data + Executables + DLL + Registry,
etc, etc, which I can be more sure of. Thats the data only field.
Christopher Fisk
--
[watching a baseball game]
Stewie Griffin: Why does that man drop his club
about the ones not published?
Christopher Fisk
--
Leela: If you could change form, why didn't you change it in the one place
that counts?
at the registry and hard drive
files. So right now, it seems like a pretty good tool.
I'm not saying it's not a good tool, I'm saying (And they admit) that it's
certainly not 100%.
Christopher Fisk
--
[Meg walks in on Quagmire with a hooker]
Glen Quagmire: Hey, Meg, you just bought me another three
to $400-$500 I start suggesting a better alternative for the customer,
bringing the customer better value for their money.
Christopher Fisk
--
Now, by the way, surplus means a little money left over, otherwise it
wouldn't be called a surplus.
George W. Bush, October 27, 2000
From a campaign
, a backup and format is in order.
Christopher Fisk
--
Loew's Qaddafi's Mann's Grauman's Chinese Theater
machine than this one for the same
price it is going to cost for me to do the repair?
I'm providing value to the customer, and I can't do that if they aren't
receiving value in return.
Christopher Fisk
--
BOFH Excuse #277:
Your Flux Capacitor has gone bad.
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Hayes Elkins wrote:
Just like viri - wait a day.
How many companies do you work for that are ok with an extra day of
downtime?
Christopher Fisk
--
WEDGIES ARE UNHEALTHY FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS
WEDGIES ARE UNHEALTHY FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS
because the client can buy Chuck's favorite eMachine.
$200 is 2.5 hours of work. How long does it take to clean the machine,
verify the data, install all the windows updates, update the drivers,
check capacitors, run memtest and other repair tools, etc?
Christopher Fisk
--
I don't want to look
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 10:49 AM 15/02/2006, Christopher Fisk wrote:
$200 is 2.5 hours of work. How long does it take to clean the machine,
verify the data, install all the windows updates, update the drivers, check
capacitors, run memtest and other repair tools
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 10:49 AM 15/02/2006, Christopher Fisk wrote:
Personally I just do the safe method on backups, I have an easy way of
making ghost backups, so I just ghost the drive to a spare I have on the
bench for the process, then I can be sure I won't
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