Let's have a rant thread! ~*Stress Relief*~

[Niphredil Ithilmir]

I've never figured out what Luxembourg does, either.  

[t0shi0]

@Charlie: Charlie's an anime fan? What else don't I know? gonk
@Niphie: Luxe-wah?  

[Niphredil Ithilmir]

Luxembourg.. tiny country between Belgium and France.. I think. Somewhere in that area, anyhow. ^^;;

I think Charlie was just using anime as an example.

o_0;; 'using' is an anagram of 'suing'..  

[tamcharles]

tamcharles

Andrew's computer is still down... can't even boot. I'm uploading new sata drivers in hopes that it'll work.

Opening it up was like walking into an attic. Dust everywhere as far as the eye can see. rolleyes

*RANT ALERT!*

Well this is not exactly how I wanted to spend my first night free from exams and such. confused

But Andrew seriously needs help... rather his computer. Apparently the warranty had just expired on it but luckily it chose to die at the end of a semester so no real hit to school projects. Sadly it *seems* to be a failure with his SATA drive (300Gb of 1's and 0's are now all 0's).

It has trouble booting, with an errie 50% chance in showing a black-screen moments after the XP splash-screen (yeah, seems like windows or an HD issue eh?)

Well, it's one or both it seems. I can't even install windows or run a windows repair because XP won't recognize his SATA drive without a 3rd party driver (via Floppy) -- sadly the only Floppy drive I have available to me causes a FDC (Floppy Disc Controller) error and then crashes the system (yes I matched up the 1:1 pins).

I even tried running a loop-back Linux Distro (Ubuntu) in hopes of being able to mount the dricves and salvage something at least -- but that was no go. It GPF'd (General Protection Fault) itself into a 0-level Kernal Panic (term init) and errors with the APIC it seems -- oh and bypassing it doesn't work either. *kicks Microsoft for not building SATA support into the XP CD*

So now, as a last resort, I've taken an old IDE 5.25" 8GB Quantum HD and I'm installing XP on it. Hopefully from there I'll be able to jury-rig some kind of SATA access to get at the data. But it's not looking good... he's got data up the ying-yang (twice what my computer can store!) I'm hoping to get some kind of network connection running at least. Hopefully that'll solve some problems...

I'm seriously hoping this last attempt works. If it works, I can just go out and pick up a new IDE 80Gb drive for cheap and install that as the boot drive. From there, he'll have his old drive as a 300Gb media drive... but for now it's wishful thinking.

Okay... back to work... *groan* talk2hand confused  

[tamcharles]

tamcharles

tamcharles

Andrew's computer is still down... can't even boot. I'm uploading new sata drivers in hopes that it'll work.

Opening it up was like walking into an attic. Dust everywhere as far as the eye can see. rolleyes

*RANT ALERT!*

Well this is not exactly how I wanted to spend my first night free from exams and such. confused

But Andrew seriously needs help... rather his computer. Apparently the warranty had just expired on it but luckily it chose to die at the end of a semester so no real hit to school projects. Sadly it *seems* to be a failure with his SATA drive (300Gb of 1's and 0's are now all 0's).

It has trouble booting, with an errie 50% chance in showing a black-screen moments after the XP splash-screen (yeah, seems like windows or an HD issue eh?)

Well, it's one or both it seems. I can't even install windows or run a windows repair because XP won't recognize his SATA drive without a 3rd party driver (via Floppy) -- sadly the only Floppy drive I have available to me causes a FDC (Floppy Disc Controller) error and then crashes the system (yes I matched up the 1:1 pins).

I even tried running a loop-back Linux Distro (Ubuntu) in hopes of being able to mount the dricves and salvage something at least -- but that was no go. It GPF'd (General Protection Fault) itself into a 0-level Kernal Panic (term init) and errors with the APIC it seems -- oh and bypassing it doesn't work either. *kicks Microsoft for not building SATA support into the XP CD*

So now, as a last resort, I've taken an old IDE 5.25" 8GB Quantum HD and I'm installing XP on it. Hopefully from there I'll be able to jury-rig some kind of SATA access to get at the data. But it's not looking good... he's got data up the ying-yang (twice what my computer can store!) I'm hoping to get some kind of network connection running at least. Hopefully that'll solve some problems...

I'm seriously hoping this last attempt works. If it works, I can just go out and pick up a new IDE 80Gb drive for cheap and install that as the boot drive. From there, he'll have his old drive as a 300Gb media drive... but for now it's wishful thinking.

Okay... back to work... *groan* talk2hand confused

It seems the fancy 300Gb SATA drive is the problem. Having disconnected it, we're getting somewhere. sweatdrop

Now my brother is running a Athlon 3200 @ 2.2ghz, 1Gb RAM DDR333, and 8GB HD... gonk  

[Minielf]

Whoa, so many comp specs there. eek  

[tamcharles]

Minielf

Whoa, so many comp specs there. eek

Well I was once in computer science... before I became just a tad less nerdy and dabbled in biology. sweatdrop cool  

[Niphredil Ithilmir]

Ouch. That sounds.. uck. I'm quite proud that I actually managed to follow a few of those words..

..am trying to teach myself CSS for the new profiles thingy. Then realised that there's a whole tutorial on it specially for gaia.. stressed  

[spawnofebil]

Real people code in binary. I used to sit there making entire programs out of 1's and 0's.

Sometimes I didn't even have 1's and 0's; I had to use I's and O's.  

[Niphredil Ithilmir]

That's different.. coding for programs and for webpages.. sweatdrop  

[tamcharles]

spawnofebil

Real people code in binary. I used to sit there making entire programs out of 1's and 0's.

Sometimes I didn't even have 1's and 0's; I had to use I's and O's.

That's funny! biggrin

But the hardest stuff is actually the low-level hardware languages like assembly. High-level programmers in C++ really don't even want to deal with assembly and are thankful for all the prepackaged modules like stdio.h... wink 3nodding  

[Niphredil Ithilmir]

Waa. I spent ages and came up with.. erm.. a xanga skin and a site template for my freewebs thingy.. Anyone know of a free webpage hosting site which lets you edit ALL of the coding?  

[t0shi0]

I am so out of this. xD ^^;;;  

[Niphredil Ithilmir]

t0shi0

I am so out of this. xD ^^;;;

xD Who isn't? ^^;;  

[yalie5]

my god i hated webdesign... yesh webmaster as a career? I think not. But comp graphics is much more fun. screw html! dreamweaver's better hhahahahahahahahahahhahaha... oh yesh and a rant

Yeah... not going to shop at albertson's anymore. stupid crappy photodevelopment. I had to wait 4 f*king days for them to develop... and they still didn't get them done! wtf is up with that!!!!! scream gonk scream gonk at least in New York 1 hr photo meant 1 hr photo. not like 30 min. photo= 4days and more!! stupid american capitalist... omg!! 4 days!! that's not right!!! What the hell are these people doing!!! I'm shopping at publix from now on... and I'm getting my photo's developed at CVS or WAlgreens stare retards... 30 mins doesn not mean 4 days!!! scream gonk scream gonk stressed