For fun go to your command line and issue the trace route command for the domain name 'bad.horse'
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Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
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DCJensen - Oct 16, 2015 5:44:57 pm PDT #24633 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
meara - Oct 16, 2015 11:02:05 pm PDT #24634 of 25496
meara - Oct 16, 2015 11:02:45 pm PDT #24635 of 25496
I have zero Windows help, but hi DX!!
DXMachina - Oct 17, 2015 3:34:53 am PDT #24636 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Hi meara!
DXMachina - Oct 17, 2015 7:01:55 am PDT #24637 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
So, this morning I started diagnosing, after first checking to make sure that it still was booting to an XP splash screen. It was. So I opened up the box and started disconnecting things to try to isolate the bad actor. I disconnected the two storage drives, then booted up with just the SSD, and lo, there was a Win 7 splash screen and then the desktop a few seconds later. Knowing the SSD was good, I then reconnected the 3 TB media drive, and that worked. So I figured that it must be the last drive (500 GB) that was problematic. But when I reconnected that one, it worked, too. WTF?!?
The upshot is that the machine is working again simply by virtue of unplugging and replugging two hard drives, which makes little sense. This is why I hate computers.
It wasn't all for nought. I'd picked up a 4 TB drive a little while back for an upgrade, so as long as the machine is opened up, I might as well install it.
Jon B. - Oct 18, 2015 5:11:05 pm PDT #24638 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
DX -- In case the problem ever happens again -- is the SSD boot drive plugged into the lowest numbered SATA port? I had lots of trouble successfully booting my PC until I rearranged the plugs so that the booting SSD was plugged into SATA slot #1.
DXMachina - Oct 19, 2015 5:19:22 am PDT #24639 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Thanks, Jon, I did have to switch it to SATA port 1 back when I installed it, so that wasn't it this time. I think what happened here is that the BIOS lost track of the SSD somehow, and instead got fixed upon the old 500 GB drive I had in there which used to be the boot drive when it was an XP machine. That's the only thing I can think of, and it's sort of similar to what you're describing.
Dana - Oct 19, 2015 5:29:08 am PDT #24640 of 25496
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
We used to have a computer that booted from a RAID array and occasionally would lose track of where it was supposed to be booting from.
Strix - Oct 23, 2015 6:30:04 am PDT #24641 of 25496
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Technology question. So my laptop is dead according to the HP repair site and I don't know when I'm going to be able to afford to get another.
I have a galaxy S5 Note phone, the one with the stylus . Is there some kind of usb plug in, is there some kind of keyboard that I can plug into it so that I can type without it taking hours and without me making 8 zillion mistakes?
I don't even know what I'm talking about, which is why I'm asking you guys. Anyone have a clue about how I can find a keyboard thing to attached to my phone so I can use it to type on a little better while I'm waiting to save money to get a laptop? I'm desperate here.
Tom Scola - Oct 23, 2015 6:34:03 am PDT #24642 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
You can pair your S5 with a bluetooth wireless keyboard.