I have a not-so-pretty view of this.

Post #119,497 by inthane-chan 9/29/03 11:31:15 PM Reply	I have a not-so-pretty view of this. Greg, lay off the fucking gloating already. He's asking for help, he's posting relevant details about the issues he's encountering, and you're not helping things. Bite me. I may not respond to his posts, but I don't taunt him. In that final hour, when each breath is a struggle to take, and you are looking back over your life's accomplishments, which memories would you treasure? The empires you built, or the joy you spread to others? Therin lies the true measure of a man.
Post #119,516 by kmself 9/30/03 6:40:23 AM Reply	I have to agree While there are posts I do or do not see, I ignore what I'm ignoring. Unless I choose not to, to make a positive contribution. \r\n\r\n Greg: Lay off. \r\n\r\n Norm: Suggest you take the hint that if you're not getting advice here, you might also want to back off the posts, or try another channel. --\r\n Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
Post #119,518 by pwhysall 9/30/03 7:32:15 AM Reply	Agreed. Greg: Norm's an idiot, we know that. It doesn't need restating. I'm frankly surprised by the childish nature of this stunt. Norm: If you want help, ask for it; you know what you have to include (you've been told enough times, but if it's still not sunk in, read [link\|http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html\|this]. In fact, read it anyway. That goes for all you other punks out there, too.) A stream-of-consciousness diary about one of your fucked up computers is not going to elicit help or enlighten anyone. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #119,544 by orion 9/30/03 11:02:31 AM Reply	Right now I don't need help the hard drive died, end of story for now. I'll bookmark that page and read it when I get the time. My mistake for writing a diary of the steps I took to try and get my brother on Linux. I followed the Howto, and the only thing I forgot was to install WINE as root. WINE worked, the Diablo II install was working, until the hard drive decided to die and click annoyingly. Don't know why, but I have pathetic luck with hardware. RMAed the drive, will try again when the replacement comes in. System at home I tried to install Linux on, the motherboard went bad and wouldn't boot anything, not even a floppy. Another spare system either the CD-ROM or IDE controller went bad and gave me Media Errors on a Linux install. Seems to run Windows fine if I keep hitting retry on install. If I had the money for another system I'd buy it and have a system to run Linux on. But I am broke, and living check to check. I only have one good system, and there is only room for one OS on the hard drive. *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*
Post #119,546 by deSitter 9/30/03 11:12:13 AM Reply	Re: Right now I don't need help I've often suspected that drives need a burn-in period of light activity to seat the head bearings under real-world conditions. All metal bearings have an initial adjustment period - so for example if you drive your new car too hard in the first 1000 miles or so, you'll shorten its life by half. The first thing you did was install 10 operating systems - that means a LOT of head motion in the early life of the drive. Also, how you mount the drive determines if work against gravity is going on. The tolerances are so tiny that even the slightest unnecessary stress should be avoided. Third - are you sure the ancient OS/2 DASD interface didn't overstress the drive by doing something stupid like fucking up the interleave? Next time, install Windows and live with it for a month, then start tinkering. -drl
Post #119,576 by jake123 9/30/03 2:28:48 PM Reply	OS/2 DASD interface Trust me, it didn't. The worst that might happen if he's using one from about 97 or so would be a failure to partition due to not recognising the size of the drive properly. In fact, OS/2 on HPFS is probably one of the easiest systems on drive hardware out there. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #119,519 by CRConrad 9/30/03 7:36:34 AM Reply	Thane, a tip: Edit lets you change the Subject line, too. When you redirect a thread here, you can first post with some innocuous headline (like you did; and yes, I saw your "jokelet", the variation on Greg's subject line), for the original forum, and then change it to something more appropriate -- like, say, "Greg, stop being such a gloating ASSHOLE!" -- for this forum. Greg, a hint: See "Thane, a tip", above. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #119,704 by inthane-chan 10/1/03 11:03:16 AM Reply	Well, yes... ...but the title was such a pretty play on words I had to keep it... Asshole. ;) In that final hour, when each breath is a struggle to take, and you are looking back over your life's accomplishments, which memories would you treasure? The empires you built, or the joy you spread to others? Therin lies the true measure of a man.
Post #119,555 by folkert 9/30/03 11:50:48 AM Reply	Warning: Two (2) occupant limit, riding my ass. Dammnit... /me shoots Self... then shoots his foot. Last time I swear. If I do it again... I'll... I'll... no I just won't do it again. As for my being a pain in the ASS... I'll try and stop that too. One tip for Norm, EDITING your posts on these kinds of things make the Story flow. Also allows you to not look like and idiot replying to yourself over and over again. My apology is offered for those that I offended... and for you Norm as well. I shouldn't add insult to injury. One other thing, you all should have noticed my posting has significantly dropped the past month or so... it'll stay there as well. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Please fasten seat-belts during duration.
Post #119,568 by orion 9/30/03 1:21:13 PM Reply	Apology accepted (new thread) Created as new thread #119567 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=119567\|Apology accepted] *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*
Post #119,625 by kmself 9/30/03 7:35:28 PM Reply	Re: Warning: Two (2) occupant limit, riding my ass. Problem is, with you riding y'self, there's no room for the rest of us ;-) --\r\n Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
Post #119,705 by inthane-chan 10/1/03 11:03:27 AM Reply	Groovy. Figured you'd see the light. In that final hour, when each breath is a struggle to take, and you are looking back over your life's accomplishments, which memories would you treasure? The empires you built, or the joy you spread to others? Therin lies the true measure of a man.
Post #119,909 by boxley 10/2/03 8:26:30 PM Reply	fuckem, I thought it was funny although posting the sign mighta saved some grief. You could use the same format for some of my posts, just as fucking accurate sometimes. thanx, bill "You're just like me streak. You never left the free-fire zone.You think aspirins and meetings and cold showers are going to clean out your head. What you want is God's permission to paint the trees with the bad guys. That wont happen big mon." Clete questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #119,932 by Ashton 10/3/03 2:21:17 AM Reply	Not to worry Everyone's tolerance for repetitive D'Oh type fluff seems to vary with hormones, the latest Shrub utterance and random fluctuations in the %-oxygen in the local smog. Hell.. 'my' 'State' seems about ready to install as leader a complete, incompetent non-entity to replace an (actually elected!) uncharismatic semi-competent known entity! Just for the stupid fucking Hell of it.. WTF - Britney's Pears for Prez AND Veep? (Nobody wants to look at the present ones' chests) But I can't see any practical way to bite several million consummate assholes. Either. Some days ya just Gotta bite a cat, anyway.. Uh.. never mind.
Post #119,960 by inthane-chan 10/3/03 9:49:06 AM Reply	For the record... I have ZERO desire to look at Britney Spheres^h^h^h^h^hears. Give me a real woman any day of the week, not that plasticized photocopy asshole. In that final hour, when each breath is a struggle to take, and you are looking back over your life's accomplishments, which memories would you treasure? The empires you built, or the joy you spread to others? Therin lies the true measure of a man.
Post #120,064 by boxley 10/3/03 11:54:48 PM Reply	Ahem, If you woke up for your morning piss and found it bent over puking in your toilet, you wouldnt be tempted to slap it once before calling the badge to have it removed? thanx, bill "You're just like me streak. You never left the free-fire zone.You think aspirins and meetings and cold showers are going to clean out your head. What you want is God's permission to paint the trees with the bad guys. That wont happen big mon." Clete questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #120,066 by inthane-chan 10/4/03 12:40:09 AM Reply	Not even. I don't have the typical North-American Potbellied Beersucker attitude towards women - I like them real. No plastic, no makeup, no rediculous getup. My wife thinks I'm weird for that... But I think it comes down to upbringing, personally. P.S. Fuck you. What, this is the flame forum, after all. :D In that final hour, when each breath is a struggle to take, and you are looking back over your life's accomplishments, which memories would you treasure? The empires you built, or the joy you spread to others? Therin lies the true measure of a man.
Post #120,068 by Ashton 10/4/03 1:23:36 AM Reply	Fucking Mollycoddling - Hah - seems about time for the Flame-Fuck Cannon, then.. OK (that's coddling.. not cuddling) - the latter, an expression largely alien to those an ocean away from the Mother tongue, and possessed of the sensual subtlety of a HeyBabeLet'sFuck patois / mollycoddling Obvious-ass frippery: Izzat All you Ever Think of? Something to Eat? Let us next parse HowItIs in Puritan-besotted Fear-of-Death-obsessed wastelands, inhabited by over-armed under-civilized twits: that.. the same word used by the terminally dull to connote a desire for a tenderness they cannot return, except to mime it - is PerZackly the same word, uttered in the expletive, for: Die You Sucker! No wonder we're fucking invading Other fucking countries because we've got the Fucking Guns - and don't think we need Fuck-all else. (And Shrub n'Dickie are gonna teach Them Murican 'morality' !! ) IT STARTS in grammar school, from: Confusing Fucking and Fuck-You. And it NEVER gets any brighter in this desert of dulled human sensibilities and of loudmouthed Lying hucksters - So.. STUFF yer frickin n' friggin n'whackin (on or off) n' other badges of The Holy-Guilt-ridden -- the Language! of a sexually repressed / diseased / preoccupied /Fucked-^UP^ nation of perennial sexual adolescents and titterers: who ain't gots the First Idea of how to make poetry amongst the genders.. and lack even the self-perception of this auto-mutilated impoverishment! ..ever to try to Find Out What They Lack. [/flambeaux] ie Have A Nice Day, er Bang! Bang! After all, the poverty of one's psyche - begins from being carefully taught trite homilies by a shallow parent within a banal culture. And Walking Tall with that burden.

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