Topic: The continuing story of the bungling computer.
+Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk — 12.9 years ago #27,917
So, my system drive crash/died last weekend while I was away from home. I couldn't get it into any sort of functional order again until yesterday. I managed to boot from it once after running checkdisk from a Hiren's boot CD on my mom's laptop. Once I put it back in my computer, it continually attempted to boot into startup repair instead of the regular OS. Startup repair simply told me that there were no restore points and would proceed to shut down.I decided to load Hiren's again and try some other utilities. I noticed a bunch of stuff in the FOUND.000 directory that checkdisk recovered, but strangely it recovered an entire directory with filenames instead of just .chk files rounded up to the nearest sector size. Any idea what this folder used to be?
+quack !DIIsquackU — 12.9 years ago, 1 minute later[T] [B] #327,047
lol it's your temp folder. nothing of value was lost.
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+The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY — 12.9 years ago, 3 seconds later, 1 minute after the original post[T] [B] #327,048
·Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk (OP) — 12.9 years ago, 49 seconds later, 2 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #327,049
And then I ran HD Tune on the system drive. Results were not so great.·quack !DIIsquackU — 12.9 years ago, 54 seconds later, 2 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #327,050
@previous (Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk)
then stop running all sorts of disk analysis tools, ruining more data.
buy a new HDD and clone it before trying shit.
DO NOT touch it until then.
then stop running all sorts of disk analysis tools, ruining more data.
buy a new HDD and clone it before trying shit.
DO NOT touch it until then.
·Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk (OP) — 12.9 years ago, 9 minutes later, 12 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #327,054
@327,047 (quack !DIIsquackU)
I suspected it might be, but I didn't recall ever seeing a 'cookies' folder when I go through my /users/owner/appdata/local/temp/ directory. I knew vista had more temp folders than the one I check regularly, just wasn't sure where they all are.
So anyway, now I'm just running Mini XP off the Hiren's live disc. I guess that makes this a physical VM.
I suspected it might be, but I didn't recall ever seeing a 'cookies' folder when I go through my /users/owner/appdata/local/temp/ directory. I knew vista had more temp folders than the one I check regularly, just wasn't sure where they all are.
So anyway, now I'm just running Mini XP off the Hiren's live disc. I guess that makes this a physical VM.
·quack !DIIsquackU — 12.9 years ago, 2 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #327,056
@previous (Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk)
but seriously, why do you keep messing with that disk? if you suspect a head crash then running full scans will only make things worse. just clone it and then work with the copy.
but seriously, why do you keep messing with that disk? if you suspect a head crash then running full scans will only make things worse. just clone it and then work with the copy.
·Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk (OP) — 12.9 years ago, 9 minutes later, 25 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #327,063
@previous (quack !DIIsquackU)
The only important thing on it was the operating system, which is pretty shot at this point. The rest is just porn, downloaded music, and chan pictures.
The only important thing on it was the operating system, which is pretty shot at this point. The rest is just porn, downloaded music, and chan pictures.
+Syntax — 12.9 years ago, 8 minutes later, 33 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #327,069
+Anonymous E — 12.9 years ago, 5 minutes later, 38 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #327,071
·quack !DIIsquackU — 12.9 years ago, 11 seconds later, 39 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #327,072
·Anonymous E — 12.9 years ago, 2 minutes later, 41 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #327,076
·Syntax — 12.9 years ago, 5 minutes later, 46 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #327,084
@327,071 (E)
One day when they write the obituary on Microshit - 3 Things will mark the downfall.
1: Decade+ of Blue screen crashes - Instead of providing a functional UNIX like O/S MS poured money in2 Gates wallet
2: Vista as the demark point - Sure Win 7 is stable ...Only took 2 decades as market turned to Mobile
3: Failure to realize portable devices wood take over and they ended up the last to fit in.
One day when they write the obituary on Microshit - 3 Things will mark the downfall.
1: Decade+ of Blue screen crashes - Instead of providing a functional UNIX like O/S MS poured money in2 Gates wallet
2: Vista as the demark point - Sure Win 7 is stable ...Only took 2 decades as market turned to Mobile
3: Failure to realize portable devices wood take over and they ended up the last to fit in.
·Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk (OP) — 12.9 years ago, 7 minutes later, 53 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #327,088
@327,069 (Syntax )
It's a long story. Of course, this would be the thread to tell it in, if you want to know,
@previous (Syntax )
Honestly, I wish microsoft would have stuck with the PC market.
It's a long story. Of course, this would be the thread to tell it in, if you want to know,
@previous (Syntax )
Honestly, I wish microsoft would have stuck with the PC market.
·Syntax — 12.9 years ago, 13 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #327,102
@previous (Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk)
> Honestly, I wish microsoft would have stuck with the PC market.
Problem is that its a dying market and real fast. However currently no one has a clue what business's will end up with. None of the portable devices when connected to large screens are the answer.
PC's are except it will come down to is this a large enough market to keep a HP or similar company happy.
> Honestly, I wish microsoft would have stuck with the PC market.
Problem is that its a dying market and real fast. However currently no one has a clue what business's will end up with. None of the portable devices when connected to large screens are the answer.
PC's are except it will come down to is this a large enough market to keep a HP or similar company happy.
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·quack !DIIsquackU — 12.9 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #327,105
@previous (Syntax )
no, syntax, the pc market will not die. lol.
nothing replaces a keyboard and mouse.
except maybe for 14 year old girls.
no, syntax, the pc market will not die. lol.
nothing replaces a keyboard and mouse.
except maybe for 14 year old girls.
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·Syntax — 12.9 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #327,107
@previous (quack !DIIsquackU)Some kind of desktop something will survive for offices. My guess is its going to end up similar to with 99% of stuff being done in a cloud.
But if you look at the current large companies in Desktop biz - their market is collapsing fast. HP for instance is about to lay off 29,000 people world wide.
+Anonymous F — 12.9 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #327,108
Windows 8.1 is the best operating system I've ever used.
·Anonymous E — 12.9 years ago, 42 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #327,109
·Anonymous F — 12.9 years ago, 55 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #327,110
·Syntax — 12.9 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #327,112
@previous (F)
I never used Visa because no client I worked with wood allow it.
The super large companies always take a long tyme to ok the use of a new O/S - With all the internal home brew programs they use - it takes the IT dept forever to test and ok a new O/S
With Vista a mass of companies early on said NO WAY to MS. So sales and complaints of Vista flooded in2 Microshit - Getting the OK for me to go from XP on PC to Win 7 was real fast.
Still no OK on Win-8
I never used Visa because no client I worked with wood allow it.
The super large companies always take a long tyme to ok the use of a new O/S - With all the internal home brew programs they use - it takes the IT dept forever to test and ok a new O/S
With Vista a mass of companies early on said NO WAY to MS. So sales and complaints of Vista flooded in2 Microshit - Getting the OK for me to go from XP on PC to Win 7 was real fast.
Still no OK on Win-8
·Anonymous E — 12.9 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #327,113
·quack !DIIsquackU — 12.9 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #327,115
i hope they wont proceed on the path they went on with windows 8 or i will be stuck with 7 for the rest of my life
·Syntax — 12.9 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #327,117
@327,113 (E)And so did the very first PC I had from IBM back in like 81? or so.
No blue screen on start up - However a bit later lots of blue
3.1x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Blue by You.
NT 4.0 was SO MUCH MORE BETTER.
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+Anonymous G — 12.9 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #327,119
@327,105 (quack !DIIsquackU)
> nothing replaces a keyboard and mouse.
>
> except maybe for 14 year old girls.
How pedo!
> nothing replaces a keyboard and mouse.
>
> except maybe for 14 year old girls.
How pedo!
·Anonymous E — 12.9 years ago, 14 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,138
·Syntax — 12.9 years ago, 10 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,146
@previous (E)
I was a casual visitor at Verizon's IT labs and more then a casual visitor at Qualcomm IT dept.
In both places during the Vista tests - techs wood scream bloody murder. Later internal cartoons wood b pinned to office doors. Later CTO's cut off any work on Vista and figured that MS wood be forced to dump Vista and move on.
I have 5 in place Sun Work stations and a 6th on the shelf for use as back up and on occasions during a new Satellite launch its full up and running. Never once has a Sun with UNIX crashed on me.
Had one with a Powersupply fail back when I was a employee of Qualcomm but hey that's kinda normal fail for any electronics. None of the Suns here in home office are older then 2 years as client demands send back as a new one arrives. Otherwise for sure hard drives might fail -
I was a casual visitor at Verizon's IT labs and more then a casual visitor at Qualcomm IT dept.
In both places during the Vista tests - techs wood scream bloody murder. Later internal cartoons wood b pinned to office doors. Later CTO's cut off any work on Vista and figured that MS wood be forced to dump Vista and move on.
I have 5 in place Sun Work stations and a 6th on the shelf for use as back up and on occasions during a new Satellite launch its full up and running. Never once has a Sun with UNIX crashed on me.
Had one with a Powersupply fail back when I was a employee of Qualcomm but hey that's kinda normal fail for any electronics. None of the Suns here in home office are older then 2 years as client demands send back as a new one arrives. Otherwise for sure hard drives might fail -
·Anonymous E — 12.9 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,150
·Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk (OP) — 12.9 years ago, 27 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,167
@327,117 (Syntax )in 98 the blue screen was how you accessed task manager
So, the long story is, my computer was a 97 Gateway running XP, until halfway through 2011. I went on a 3 week trip and my computer got shut down. When I got back and tried to power up it, I got nothing. So for a while I just had a loaner laptop from my friend with lousy battery life. The screen on that one shorted out in late 2012, so I went back to this really old laptop that had died several times, and it somehow was able to be resurrected. The problem was it would seize up if you moved it a little and it wouldn't continue until you got it back into the sweet spot. Oh, and you have to keep it running, because it tends to crash if you cold boot it. So that was ok for a while, but the seizing problem meant that Ubuntu would abandon all communication with the USB ports fairly soon after boot up. In windows it just spammed you with power surge errors on the ports constantly, and since windows didn't have drivers for the wifi and speakers anyway, to hell with that. Eventually I got sick of not being able to put anything on my flash drive, so I nigger-rigged the pictured setup together. My friend saw that and said it was unacceptable, so when he came to visit in march, he brought his old minecraft server box and a flatscreen with a cracked stand for me. Well, I didn't find out until later but the HD in it was messed up. Windows refused to install no matter how many times I tried. Well, I tried booting with the XP drive from the nigrig, but it didn't seem to get along with the hardware, and I didn't have any blank drives of my own, nor sufficient space to backup a dive for wiping. So my last resort was the SATA drive from my mom's dead laptop. And I mean the laptop itself was dead. The power connector had been replaced once, and had broken a second time, plus the trackpad wasn't properly connected so there was no left click functionality. The drive itself was ok though, so I put in in as the boot drive and finally I had a working machine. Aside from windows realizing that it was no longer connected to VAIO hardware, and assuming this meant I had cloned the OS to a new drive in order to run multiple copies on one license.
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·Anonymous G — 12.9 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,171
·Syntax — 12.9 years ago, 21 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,185
@327,167 (Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk)
Damn LoL Just damn.
Kinda reminds me of my ham radio days. Back then I was using tubes that were not market available like special things from Bell AT&T and having to patch something in to keep it working until I could con a AT&T person to swipe a new one for me -
I R hardware kinda EE not so much software but I have on occasion forced in PERL code to patch this or dat for me.
But I sure remember one late night for a couple 5 hours on phone to India Microshit customer service about MS telling me with a blue flag on right bottom screen telling me my O/S was not licensed and they were shutting me down down down and they did. So on phone and then proof of a corporate account - daisy chain of diff customer service people.
Then having to patch in from email to me in2 Registry.
That legal key is a bitch to install once the original gets corrupted.
Almost made me want to return to DOS days
Damn LoL Just damn.
Kinda reminds me of my ham radio days. Back then I was using tubes that were not market available like special things from Bell AT&T and having to patch something in to keep it working until I could con a AT&T person to swipe a new one for me -
I R hardware kinda EE not so much software but I have on occasion forced in PERL code to patch this or dat for me.
But I sure remember one late night for a couple 5 hours on phone to India Microshit customer service about MS telling me with a blue flag on right bottom screen telling me my O/S was not licensed and they were shutting me down down down and they did. So on phone and then proof of a corporate account - daisy chain of diff customer service people.
Then having to patch in from email to me in2 Registry.
That legal key is a bitch to install once the original gets corrupted.
Almost made me want to return to DOS days
·Anonymous G — 12.9 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,186
·Anonymous E — 12.9 years ago, 39 seconds later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,187
·Syntax — 12.9 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,189
·Anonymous E — 12.9 years ago, 52 seconds later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,190
·Anonymous G — 12.9 years ago, 5 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,196
·Syntax — 12.9 years ago, 4 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,204
@327,190 (E)Sorry maybe its my fault (usually is re text speek)
@previous (G)
A very few seem to have the decoder ring 4me
+M.B. !HS8PU6P2TM — 12.9 years ago, 3 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,210
@327,115 (quack !DIIsquackU)> i hope they wont proceed on the path they went on with windows 8 or i will be stuck with 7 for the rest of my life
> Baw windows isn't working accordingly with my aspergers!
·Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk (OP) — 12.9 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #327,288
@327,185 (Syntax )Funny thing is, I've installed multiple copies of XP Professional with the same key and never had a snag. My friend tried to get me a new vista key with his technet account, but apparently they've even phased vista out for technet subscribers. Logically if you're gonna stop selling keys then you ought to release a patch to stop the "please buy a key" nag.
About 2 or 3 weeks ago this computer locked up and I had to hard reboot, and since then it started having issues with explorer crashing within a few seconds of launching. Of course, when explorer crashes, it auto-relaunches, so I got stuck in this crash loop where the only option is to force it to quit before it crashes and then just run stuff directly from cmd which resulted in this desktop picture.
·Anonymous G — 12.9 years ago, 21 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #327,672
@327,185 (Syntax )
> Damn LoL Just damn.
>
> Kinda reminds me of my ham radio days. Back then I was using tubes that were not market available like special things from Bell AT&T and having to patch something in to keep it working until I could con a AT&T person to swipe a new one for me -
>
> I R hardware kinda EE not so much software but I have on occasion forced in PERL code to patch this or dat for me.
>
> But I sure remember one late night for a couple 5 hours on phone to India Microshit customer service about MS telling me with a blue flag on right bottom screen telling me my O/S was not licensed and they were shutting me down down down and they did. So on phone and then proof of a corporate account - daisy chain of diff customer service people.
>
> Then having to patch in from email to me in2 Registry.
>
> That legal key is a bitch to install once the original gets corrupted.
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion; only in order to get ahead he early sought for a means which could distract unpleasant attention from his person. And what would have been more expedient and at the same time more innocentthan the 'embezzled' concept of a religious community? For here, too, everything is borrowed or rather stolen. Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religiousinstitution,iffornootherreason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafteris absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survivalafter death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a manforthe hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.
The Jewish religious doctrine consists primarily in prescriptions for keeping the blood of Jewry pure and for regulating the relation of Jews among themselves, but even more withthe restofthe world;inother words, with non-Jews. But even here it is by no means ethical problems that are involved, but extremely modest economic ones. Concerning the moral value of Jewish religious instruction, there are today and have been at all times rather exhaustive studies (not by Jews; the drivel of the Jews themselves on the subject is, of course, adapted to its purpose) which make this kind of religion seem positively monstrous according to Aryan conceptions. The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine. Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took to the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity,who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business existence. In return, Christ was nailed to the cross, while our present-day party Christians debase themselves tobeggingforJewish votes at elections and later try to arrange political swindles with atheistic Jewish parties-and this against their own nation.
On this first and greatest lie, that the Jews are not a race but a religion, more and more lies are based in necessary consequence. Among them is the lie with regard to the language of the Jew. For him it is not a means for expressing his thoughts, but a means for concealing them. When he speaks French, he thinks Jewish, and while he turns out German verses, in his life he only expresses the nature of his nationality. As long as the Jew has not become the master of the other peoples, he must speak their languages whether he likes it or not, but as soon as they becamehis slaves,theywouldall have to learn a universal language (Esperanto, for instance!), so that by this additional means the Jews could more easily dominate them!
To what an extent the whole existence of this people is based on a continuous lie is shown incomparably by the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion, so infinitely hated by the Jews. They are based on a forgery, the Frankfurter Zeitung moans and screams once every week: the best proof that they are authentic. What many Jews may do unconsciously is here consciously exposed. And that is what matters. It is completely indifferent from what Jewish brain these disclosures originate; the important thing is that with positively terrifying certainty they reveal the nature and activity of the Jewish people and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims. The best criticism applied tothem, however, is reality. Anyone who examines the historical development of the last hundred years from the standpoint of this book will at once understand the screaming of the Jewish press. For once this book has become the common property of a people, the Jewish menace maybe considered as broken.
..
>
> Almost made me want to return to DOS days
> Damn LoL Just damn.
>
> Kinda reminds me of my ham radio days. Back then I was using tubes that were not market available like special things from Bell AT&T and having to patch something in to keep it working until I could con a AT&T person to swipe a new one for me -
>
> I R hardware kinda EE not so much software but I have on occasion forced in PERL code to patch this or dat for me.
>
> But I sure remember one late night for a couple 5 hours on phone to India Microshit customer service about MS telling me with a blue flag on right bottom screen telling me my O/S was not licensed and they were shutting me down down down and they did. So on phone and then proof of a corporate account - daisy chain of diff customer service people.
>
> Then having to patch in from email to me in2 Registry.
>
> That legal key is a bitch to install once the original gets corrupted.
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion; only in order to get ahead he early sought for a means which could distract unpleasant attention from his person. And what would have been more expedient and at the same time more innocentthan the 'embezzled' concept of a religious community? For here, too, everything is borrowed or rather stolen. Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religiousinstitution,iffornootherreason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafteris absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survivalafter death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a manforthe hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.
The Jewish religious doctrine consists primarily in prescriptions for keeping the blood of Jewry pure and for regulating the relation of Jews among themselves, but even more withthe restofthe world;inother words, with non-Jews. But even here it is by no means ethical problems that are involved, but extremely modest economic ones. Concerning the moral value of Jewish religious instruction, there are today and have been at all times rather exhaustive studies (not by Jews; the drivel of the Jews themselves on the subject is, of course, adapted to its purpose) which make this kind of religion seem positively monstrous according to Aryan conceptions. The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine. Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took to the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity,who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business existence. In return, Christ was nailed to the cross, while our present-day party Christians debase themselves tobeggingforJewish votes at elections and later try to arrange political swindles with atheistic Jewish parties-and this against their own nation.
On this first and greatest lie, that the Jews are not a race but a religion, more and more lies are based in necessary consequence. Among them is the lie with regard to the language of the Jew. For him it is not a means for expressing his thoughts, but a means for concealing them. When he speaks French, he thinks Jewish, and while he turns out German verses, in his life he only expresses the nature of his nationality. As long as the Jew has not become the master of the other peoples, he must speak their languages whether he likes it or not, but as soon as they becamehis slaves,theywouldall have to learn a universal language (Esperanto, for instance!), so that by this additional means the Jews could more easily dominate them!
To what an extent the whole existence of this people is based on a continuous lie is shown incomparably by the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion, so infinitely hated by the Jews. They are based on a forgery, the Frankfurter Zeitung moans and screams once every week: the best proof that they are authentic. What many Jews may do unconsciously is here consciously exposed. And that is what matters. It is completely indifferent from what Jewish brain these disclosures originate; the important thing is that with positively terrifying certainty they reveal the nature and activity of the Jewish people and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims. The best criticism applied tothem, however, is reality. Anyone who examines the historical development of the last hundred years from the standpoint of this book will at once understand the screaming of the Jewish press. For once this book has become the common property of a people, the Jewish menace maybe considered as broken.
..
>
> Almost made me want to return to DOS days
·Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk (OP) — 12.9 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #327,843
So, I downgraded to Firefox 2.0 and now the virtual drive isn't constantly reaching capacity when I browse the web.
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 1 week later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #332,797
> 10GB IDE drive makes an unholy racket when it's on> not a single bad sector
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