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Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2005 9:24:34 am PDT #3574 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Wait, have you seen WotW yet?

No! Thanks for the whitefont.

But the turning it off probably unscrambled it, so it sounds like no permanent damage was done.

Yeah, I'm baffled as to why that fucking worked. I mean, the unplug/plug thing has worked for satellite receivers and TVs, but I didn't think it would work for the damn computer. It sounded awful, man. I was sure the drive was toast. It was all HDD ERROR OMG.

tommyrot - Jun 30, 2005 9:35:55 am PDT #3575 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.

It could be the hard drive controlers were all scrambled, and a cold reboot reset them. Perhaps when the computer is turned on, some hard drive controller chip(s) receive programming from some BIOS chip or something.

Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2005 9:39:07 am PDT #3576 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

That sounds plausible. So it was probably turning the computer off, not the unplug/plug, that did it.

Also, God, apparently.

Typo Boy - Jun 30, 2005 2:24:22 pm PDT #3577 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Also P-C while I'm sure everything is cool if you have not done a backup in a while, tonight would probably be a good time. Which reminds- definitely time for me do a new backup.

Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2005 2:46:58 pm PDT #3578 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I don't really have proper backup materials. At least, not externally. I have two hard drives. The C drive is the system drive and expendable except for the fact that OE has to put my mail there. The D drive is the data drive with all the important stuff. But I don't have a DVD-burner or anything.

Wolfram - Jun 30, 2005 2:51:54 pm PDT #3579 of 10003
Visilurking

Thumb drives are the new zip.

§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 2:53:28 pm PDT #3580 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thumb drives are the new zip.

For those who have a lot of money -- I have a 1GB jobbie do, but that's only for the stuff I cart about. Couldn't start to back up my system on it.

Though, if I were shopping, cute!

Wolfram - Jun 30, 2005 2:58:47 pm PDT #3581 of 10003
Visilurking

Well for true system backup the cheapest method is a DVD burner and some DVDRs. But for documents, databases, emails and small sets of pics I find that my 128MB thumb drive ($10.00) works like a charm. If necessary I use a second system and make more than one trip.

tommyrot - Jun 30, 2005 3:13:41 pm PDT #3582 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.

HELP!!!

Can someone please give me one or two DNS server addresses? I'm trying to help a friend get online.

eta: Or can someone tell me how you get the DNS servers that an XP Win 2000 machine is using (using DHCP)?

Tom Scola - Jun 30, 2005 3:26:57 pm PDT #3583 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

If you use the "ipconfig" command from the command line, it doesn't tell you what DNS servers it's using?

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