| Author | Message | ||
     Hans |
Was almost a month disconnected from Badweb. My son said: "Oh, you have already the network card installed? and the cables and router at home? Installing the router will be a piece o`cake, within 5 minutes. Let me... " And after 3 quarters of an hour "Yeah, I am already late for my appointment" Well, there would be left only a few last crumbs of that piece of cake, so I could fix it myself. Well, I did. After three weeks struggling and, at last, the command: Format C:/s. To keep it short: It must have been a corrupted file that was not renewed by re-installing Windows 98SE on the working system. My advise: Have a bootable flop with the good old DOS system files and format.com, fdisk, edit, chkdsk, CD rom driver, msdexe, sys.com. Learnt also a good lifesaver: The from Windows given DOS command: scanreg/restore wich let you choose from some register settings which did startup the computer in a former session. Just back in time to catch up with Rocketman`s story. Hans. | ||
| Doof |
Ever considered switching to Linux? | ||
| Blake |
Hans! Been wondering were you were off to. Bonneville?  | ||
| Hans |
Hi Doof: Switching to Linux? NO. Since the compatibility problems with the formats on floppy disks, twenty years ago with CP/M, I decided to swim forever in the very middle of the fattest mainstream with computer things. But yes: Reconsidering now switching for Linux. Maybe a double boot system. However: The system seems to run well now: Except the new messages possibility. "No new messages." when I log in for the first time and after reading the e-mails. Even messages of the last 8 hours as alternative: Also "No new messages".  Blake: We have long term plans to visit America, for an extended visit of at least six weeks and, maybe first, a short, week visit, only to NYC. For now, I have to rely on the eye witness stories of the Bonneville adventures. And you can`t imagine how close we do follow the happenings, feed by the pics and sounds via internet, specially after we have met Aaron in person, apart from the European members going there. Hans. | ||
| Hans |
New message utility: If you set your bookmark here, if you want to login, skipping the entry page, the the new message utility does not work properly.  All goes well if you set the bookmark here: It seems to be the same address: Hans | ||
| Hans |
Well, Irfan seems not be able to get the screenprints small enough. The first pic is the screen with the choise for New Messages. The second, which is working well, is the screen AFTER making the choice for New Messages. Hans. | ||
| Court |
>>>>>Blake: We have long term plans to visit America, for an extended visit of at least six weeks and, maybe first, a short, week visit, only to NYC. Blake: I get him first! Court -Hans, let me know when you are coming and I'll take off work and show you around. | ||
| Aaron |
Come to Colorado, it's better! | ||
| Court |
Actually...come to BOTH. Having spent time in both, this could be your chance to see "The Capital of The World" Annnnnnnnnnnnnd some of the most beautiful country in the world. New York is where nearly everything in the world starts or is steered from be it finance, fashion or foolishness. Colorado is where the Swiss come to ski. By the way, in my opinion, Colorado is more gorgeous and more fun in the summer....taking, of course, nothing away from the winter. Lots to be said for sitting in Aaron's house watching deer graze on the hillside as well. We don't get much of that in NYC | ||
| Hans |
Still trying to get a nice clean small screencapture in jpg format the impatience hit me and caused me to read on Badweb and now I you hit me with your gestes of great hospitality. I don`t know what to say to show my appreciation and to be not ungrateful but nevertheless also to point out that "long term" was meant on a scale of years, not days. However: Your messages are printed out and my wife is witness. We will remember.  Hans | ||
| Hans |
I did what I never should have done: I said to my wife: Now I have it all right again with my computer: Cleaned up, faster, I can make a picture and get it on paper with natural colors within minutes, internet connection in no time and all other programs and updates are well installed again. That same night: KABOINK as if somebody hit the case really hard with a stick. No smell, no smoke, but the drive was spinning down and the monitor showed the dying characters in white "Monitor status.." in the centre of the screen and then total silence. And then you are on your own if you have stuck parts from different suppliers together till you have a computer. You CAN find a repair shop but then you have to wait and to pay. Suspected the power supply as it was the youngest part. Could not test it as it is the switching type and the switching goes from the motherboard. Suspected it also because that blow seems to have a lot of energy and that has to come from high voltage current. "Never open it because it has no serviceable parts" was printed on the outside. Good reason to crack it open and: Lucky: All seemed right but a tiny glass tube was black with metallic irregular mirroring fragments inside. That tube was 5 amp/240 Volts and welded in. The power supply was bad, but the course could be elsewhere. Could buy an very nice silent supply with an second HD which was just disassembled from a customers computer who wanted a standard package but only with a bigger HD. I had to go to Naarden where is now the place to buy for people as me. All nice parts suppliers where I did buy in the past had success, became bigger and more luxurious and their good service degenerated and became Complete Automerings Solutions and up went their prices. Not true: One went bankrupt. That was the one with personnel smelling to alcohol at ten in the morning. Now I have only to back up my HD on the second one to get peace of mind. But that can wait for awhile. That computhing bores me for now. Only using it. And yes it runs again: Email box filled with the good old spam about Mortgage as low as 4.9 % and how to get a dicker dick. And on Badweb the good continuing stories about LSR, electric boosters, Rocketman back on line and some new faces.....Did duplicate the hard disk at once. Only one jumper and it starts up from the second drive with all the goodies on it. Ha. HA. Hans | ||
| Libnosis |
Hans, Have you ever used "Partition Magic" and "Boot Magic"? Partition Magic makes it easy to create multiple partitions of various types so that you can install and run multiple operating systems. I woul also recommend creating a "shared" partition that all operating systems you install can see. I call mine my "data" partition. For example, I run Windows 98 (FAT32) and Windows 2000 (NTFS) on the same box as my C drive. I use "Boot Magic" to boot up to one or the other. I have another partition formatted as FAT so that either OS can see it. Make sense? I let the kids boot up to Win98 so they don't screw up my Win2k stuff. You can create Linux partitions as well as others if you wish. It's my favorite software, besides winamp.  just my 2 cents, lib lib | ||
| Hans |
Hi Libnosis, Very nice utility that Partition Magic an I know Boot Master. I think to have now have a good system. Two almost identical HD`s of 20 Gig and the second identical with the first. The first is already changing with an couple of spamprotectors, two programs to adjust the time with an atomic clocks with alarm and a new program to clean up all the leftovers of deleted programs in the register: Register First Aid. Very nice: the second time I used it I got a "Stack Overflow" , but after deleting some useless entries it had already found, it did its job on the rest perfectly. Those little programs I got from Internet are backed up on the second drive but not installed. The keepers can be installed easily and if the working drive becomes sick from DLL-rot I simply reformat, duplicate the back up drive, and place the system files at last. You don`t have to wait then to give answers if you want to overwrite system files. I think to be well protected now, even if the HD gives up, and no complications with different systems. Sure I did have a look at Linux: Which Linux? Excellent for beginners would be Red Hat: Nicknamed "Hangrat". Mmmm. No, Red Hat has some weird commands. "Snail" is the version to go for. Nah... Well I take the plunge. There we go again. Bye, Hans |
