Jon, I might also suggest Partition Magic as a third-party utility to wipe the drive.
I'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.
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esse - Mar 28, 2005 2:22:50 pm PST #2219 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Theodosia - Mar 28, 2005 2:31:19 pm PST #2220 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
VW, for what it's worth, I've been having trouble with LJ staying logged in with my Opera for the past two days. IE has been just fine in the same time period.
Jon B. - Mar 28, 2005 2:48:45 pm PST #2221 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Of course, I don't know if that'll work on a 200 GB drive without an outside formatting utility, which you can probably download from the manufacturer's website.
Western Digital's DOS based utility (downloaded from their web site) did the trick. Thanks DX!
Jessica - Mar 28, 2005 2:51:58 pm PST #2222 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Taking it out of Norton's list and putting it back in seems to have solved the Tivo problem. Unless of course it's just finished updating. I guess I'll know in half an hour.
tommyrot - Mar 28, 2005 4:38:20 pm PST #2223 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How does one reformat an iPod HD? It's just totally frelled, and doing a restore multiple times hasn't helped....
eta: Crap. I can't even do a restore anymore without the iPod locking up.
Maybe tomorrow I'll try the iPod on a different computer.
evil jimi - Mar 28, 2005 8:13:51 pm PST #2224 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
never mind
Jon B. - Mar 29, 2005 1:33:18 am PST #2225 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Firefox has a new security update: [link]
Tom Scola - Mar 29, 2005 4:33:20 am PST #2226 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Does anyone know of a good, ideally free tool for making pretty graphs of a large amount of raw statistics I'm gathering?
Rick - Mar 29, 2005 8:21:16 am PST #2227 of 10003
Does anyone know of a good, ideally free tool for making pretty graphs of a large amount of raw statistics I'm gathering?
I don't know how much time you want to invest in this, but there is a highly regarded set of statistical/graphing tools available from the r-project, which is a collaborative freeware effort by academics. It's not the most user-friendly thing available but it's flexible, free, and very good.
On the very limited but easy side, you might be suprised at what Excel and Powerpoint can do now.
le nubian - Mar 29, 2005 12:13:49 pm PST #2228 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So I got a new software update on the Tivo. This new update includes a feature where I can turn off the Tivo magic lights at the front of the unit.
Why would I want to do this? Why did they include that feature?
There is one feature I'm dying for and they had to include that one?