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Apparently I was too vague. My bet is that the answer to both questions is: because saphelia is Trinton Azaleth. As you were.

jtr, if you'd like to start a business building alternative fuel vehicles, count me in. P.S. I have no money. :)

Well I moved on too. But as this guy has dragged the topic up again... Ok, I'll be the first to call it. Here's a brief logic puzzle: Trinton Azaleth doesn't have any friends, therefore "saphelia" is really ...

Uzi, 9 millimeter. Phased plasma rifle in 40-watt range.

Given one of the recurring themes around here, I wondered if she was the proprietor of this place.

That's a lot of porn. :mrgrn: Yes. Go whole-hog. Pick up a few of these instead.

Not to sound flippant ... same here. I remember being on the roof of a building with some friends once, explaining why everything in the night sky was moving through the field of view of my telescope. I gestured out towards the eastern horizon and explained that everything - all the buildings...

Interesting ... thanks for letting us know. I wouldn't have guessed that one.

Oh, sorry mubs. I missed the "Installation - Safe Settings" option that you mentioned you'd tried. I would hope that option turned off DMA. Still, if there's some way to be sure...

Have you tried telling the installer not to use DMA? I don't know about Suse, but with a Debian install all you would have to do is issue a "boot nodma" command at the boot prompt. As for stuff scrolling too fast to see it, try the "Pause" key. Under Linux that key actually works on occasion...

Hah. Of course. I'm still happy though. Heck ... maybe I need two of these things. Although if they can offer the 2001FP at that price, maybe they're clearing stock in preparation for a new model.

Capacitor trouble? A bad power supply perhaps? The "have to wait a while before it will work again" issue sounds so familiar.

Aww, thanks ddrueding ... and it's not even my birthday. :wink:

Yay! I reached double-digits!

As I understand it, the brown recluse spider just leaves a rotting crater, as opposed to being fatal.

Well, there are always lots of ideas around. Solutions are another matter. Did you ever give a Knoppix CD and dd a try? Just be careful which way you send the data! :o

I got one! :D My beloved ViewSonic PS790 monitor died on me 2 weeks ago. I wasn't sure what my options for a replacement were going to be ... until I noticed Dell was having another "sale". Their 2001FP was back down to $549.00 with free shipping. I'll be short on cash for a while, but...

Mozilla 1.7.5 or similar: $34.99 Firefox 1.x: $24.99 Netscape 4.x: $4.99 IE 5.0: $0.11 IE 5.5: $0.49 IE 6.0: $0.29

Those are both good suggestions. If I opt for the "hammer away until somebody turns up" solution, even the cell phone route could become a viable option.

The problem there is that my cell phone emits 3 beeps after an e-mailed message has arrived, and then goes quiet. I need something I can configure to squawk annoyingly for ages and ages until someone does something about it. I guess I should have included that requirement initially, but I...

That would be a lot easier. Perhaps a little less reliable (as it would depend on e-mail service being responsive) though. Text-messaging through my ridiculously cheap cell phone supports sending to/receiving from e-mail addresses, so I hope this is a fairly common option.

Thanks folks. I have the choice between setting something up under Windows XP or OpenBSD, so that software you found Mercutio will help a lot. I wish I understood better what sort of methods there are for getting a computer to signal a pager. There seem to be a few ... I guess I have some...

Imagine you have a task that needs to be completed by someone at work by a certain time. Let's say it's first thing early in the morning. It's a critical task that must not be allowed to fail. As a result, you need to make sure that the person scheduled to work that day and complete the task...

I like donuts.

It's popular in libraries/colleges/schools/universities/whatever. I didn't use it personally, but others I worked with waaaay back in 2001 were using it in teaching labs to provide software restorations on every restart. They were very pleased with it.

Oh, and that $9 keyboard? They shipped me the wrong one. *sigh*

Yes, I used to trust Hypermicro. Their customer service seemed to fall through the floor a few years back though. Haven't risked them since. Thanks for the comment about Zipzoomfly, Lunar. I would have chosen a retail option, except Newegg only offers OEM Samsung drives. :( I'll try...

Ok, I have a related question. Is there a store anywhere that has enough collective brain-power to figure out how to safely ship hard drives to their customers? It's 2005. What is wrong with these people? I just ordered a 120Gb Samsung HDD from N€w€gg. It arrived in a large box with a few...

You didn't save $20 so much as you deprived someone or some company of $20 worth of income. Really, if it was worth installing and cracking, it was worth the $20. If you didn't think it was at least worth $20, you wouldn't have bothered with it.

No, no ... I think you meant, "WD drives are pro-nasty."

Oooh, and: tea yreyD KUTr = EAT DRY TURKEY

Yes ... I think I'm beginning to see the message now ... or at least part of it: yrOliPiytPOIyrp = OILY TIPPY PRIORY

Handruin ... you're a genuis! Thank you! My ISP is run by a group of nutjobs. An MTU of 1500 has worked just fine for more than 2 years. And then suddenly, they start toying around with things. Now I need an MTU of 1464. This is so typical for them - stuff gets changed with absolutely no...

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in...

I've tried everything I have some degree of control over. My ISP's service has been going steadily downhill over the past 6 months, and it's looking like this is just the next item on a list of recent problems. I think this may be a good time to look at SpeakEasy's DSL service again. Sorry...

That's funny Tea - I thought the same thing about the title. :) Also: Nobel laureate rings energy alarm bell ... and then runs and hides in the bushes.

Tea, if you can grow two-foot-six genitals, I think you're going to be just fine. :mrgrn:

Oh, just in case anyone cares (hah), it has four 72-pin SIMM slots. It has what appears to be a relatively standard ATX I/O setup at the rear of the board (I have no I/O shield for it though), including 2 USB ports, PS2 keyboard and mouse ports, 2 serial ports, and 1 parallel port.

Ok, you can laugh. Anyone want a brand new VS440FX Intel motherboard, with a 200MHz Pentium Pro CPU? I just opened the antistatic bag for the first time in order to install the CPU (which is not new) and cooling fan (not new either). I have no idea if it works, but have no reason to suspect...

That is one cute cat! You are so lucky! I'm guessing it's a she. How old?

I should have added a :wink: to my post. (Just in case anyone was thinking about sending me one as a belated Christmas gift. :mrgrn: )

Good thing that baby's got a 34-pin floppy connector! People might have been unable to take it seriously as a modern piece of technology without it!

Actually, yes. I paid $20 for mine: MightyFax. Somehow, it always turns out to be an urgent, last minute situation when I discover I need to fax something somewhere. So for $20, spent nearly 4 years ago, I've had peace of mind for that whole time (I hate having to figure out where to find a...

Ok, I think I've narrowed this problem down. Details here.

Well, there's the problem in an illustrated form. The above two posts represent the maximum number of characters I can post to StorageForum. If you assume 2 characters for each line break (a standard Windows/DOS "Carriage Return" & "Line Feed" pair), that means I'm currently being limited to a...

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in...

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in...

I tried pasting in a few paragraphs from a book, and it didn't work. Then I tried pasting in 100 lines - each line blank except for the line number - and that did work when I went to Preview. So it definitely seems to be related to the total number of characters I'm trying to post.

Ok, well that worked. For the record, I'm not talking about a massive post or anything. Just a few than paragraphs of text.

This is crazy. I've tried both IE 6.0.2 and Firefox 1.0. It turns out it's not just when I go to create a new discussion, it's any time I try to post. If the size of the text is greater than N (where N is an unknown value), the connection to SF just times out. In Firefox I see in the status...