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Sci-Fi Channel has decided to cancel Stargate: SG-1. After 10 years, half of them on Showtime, and assorted years sent into rerun syndication, this show finally gets the axe... and it stayed on the air THAT long?! Sheesh!

Supposedly, a trial is getting underway in Oklahoma about a case of a cannibal who strangled some 10 year old with the intent of eating her later. Now, if it wasn't for the victim's age, I'd have made the obvious joke here. BUT, here's an older news item where someone should have proof read this, man. The jokes just write themselves! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192123,00.html Gag Order Imposed in Cannibal Case Tuesday, April 18, 2006

I find it ironic the choice of terms. Blue Pill. Vi-ag-ra spammers would have a field day with this.

The Golden Rule is not from the Bible. Unless you count Leviticus "Love your neighbor as yourself" which did precede Confucius: "What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others." Now, yes, Jesus did say "Do to others as you would have them do to you." But, again, unless we retroactively apply the different words to make a point, we can't really say it came from Christianity, especially since Leviticus was written in a time pre-Jesus. And the Old Testament was merely absorbed into the New Testament, despite the conflicts. After all, let us also not forget Mohammed/Muhammed/Moo-Ham-Ed said the same thing: "Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you." Which means, in the end, the Golden Rule is just as much shit as the rest of human philosophical belief. A bunch of words people apply as panacea to salve the soul once a week when they start to feel guilty about how the really behave to each other. Cliche is easier than action. So, what better way to end than on cliche? How about a song quote?! Singing to the Lord on Sundays Praying for the gifts he'll send But, we're the ones who take it we're the ones who make it in the end! Watch the buggers dance Watch them 'til they drop! Keep your wits about you and you stand on top! Masters of the land, always get our share! Clear away the barricades and we're still there! We know where the wind is blowing. Money is the stuff we smell! And when we're rich as Croesus Jesus! Won't we see you all in Hell!?

You'll see that whenever a file's in use and whatever has it can't be persuaded to give it up. Which is usually Windows.

Yes, the 166s is a DVD-ROM drive, with DVD-RAM read capabilities. I just had one inserted in my machine to test my wonderful latest issue.

Please tell me what the name of the folder is that hold the restore points. I TOLD you.

Yes, one of the few reasons I will accept there may be a god. No one can fathom the existence of those like us because if a god exists, he/she/it/they (Notice I purposefully placed the she and it sounds next to each other. For a good reason. ) are petulant little relativists, lying out of both sides of the mouth and the ass. You can't make sense out of it because there IS none. Just guided action for the sake of its own amusement. Rewards some and punishes others without rhyme, because when you're omnipotent and onyourass, you get bored. God's in his Heaven, all is right with the world, which is the reason why God is dead, and so is Nietzsche.

Sounds like a burner issue. There are burners with stupid proprietary features that render the discs only playable on them. Usually features designed to eke a few extra MB's out of some burnable space.

Guy Fawkes Day took on an entirely new meaning once The Sun accidentally typoed it as Gay Fuwkes day.

Also, DVDInfo doesn't seem to detect CD-RW for erasing. It will return that the disc type is a CD-RW but, in the erase dialog, it says a DVD-RW is there and won't erase the disc. Because it's expecting a DVD-RW.

The bottom line is, most likely, it's undetectable now because Vista isn't out in the wild yet. It's new and full of holes. I wouldn't be too worried about stealth malware just yet.

The folders in the System Volume folder MIGHT correspond to Registry keys. So, doing a searching in the Registry might help isolate some information. As for the file access being denied, you can experiment with Unlocker if you wish. Now, you're ENTIRELY on your own if you wish to but it can release files captured by Explorer.exe, and others. Not always without a reboot, which is useless in this case. And, there's no guarantee that writing over contents even if you could would work. Because the Registry might be expecting one thing and the file contents would say another.

Actually, you have had the same problems. Being able to turn off Java/Javascript for an individual page would stop the fucking annoying file upload stops on file servers. It's the Java that is causing the problem. The scripts aren't completing, and, normally, it should ask you to Cancel, etc. But, if it doesn't, you'll still think it's sending because Firefox STILL thinks it's sending, waiting for you to tell it to cancel the script. Which it sometimes doesn't tell you it wants. If Java was temporarily disabled, this MIGHT prevent the problem... then again, most likely, given how the fuckers operate, you'd NEED the Java just to run the upload.

That IS possible. But, I can't fix it if it is. SCANDISK in DOS did detect mismatching FAT's when a scan of C: was run. I replaced the first with the 2nd. BUT, the strange thing is, Windows SCANDISK and Norton Disk Doctor never detected the problem in Windows. And, the problem happens with either FAT as the main one. And, if the FAT is hosed, why does it only affect the DVD drives? Whatever is causing it seems to go hand in glove with another problem of mine I reported on in the past. At one point, all DVD drives stopped returning the Manufacturer ID's on CD's only. DVD's were fine. I solved it then by reverting to a drive image where that didn't happen, which was about a month old. Now, with the recurrence of this problem, that problem has returned. So, it has to be an error introduced by a software install or Windows changing a Registry entry itself as it's want to improperly do on startups. I just need to find the offending application, which is most likely the culprint. 90% of the fuckers out there never get it right. I am leaning towards one in particular. The strange thing is, it only manifests itself when ImgBurn is installed. Alcohol by itself was fine. ImgBurn by itself was fine. I need to thoroughly test more, since that test was last run months ago. And, given the changes in Alcohol, Daemon Tools, and that SPTDI or whatever the fuck driver is called that were added recently, who knows?

Technically, Lloyd invented an entirely new unit of measurement, the jigawatt. Most likely, he just didn't know the word correctly from the script. I take it someone is watching TBS.

You mean System Restore points? If so, this is Windows! Forget about it! You MIGHT have luck by copying over the System Volume Information folder for a drive to somewhere else as a backup and copying it back over. But, I would highly doubt it would work. You'd have to do it outside Windows or disable the monitoring on that drive, do the copy, and re-enable it, which would probably just overwrite what you just copied. Thus, defeating the purpose. But, that's Big Bill for you.

Is there a way to turn off Java/JavaScript for an individual page? Or for a temporary basis? Such as loading a page, turning it off, then back on? Like maybe with a "command line" in the Address field? And, I realize it may differ from browser to browser. Otherwise, now, it seems the only way to do it is to go into options and do it manually. Firefox is apparently getting buggier with new releases, and, the last update has produced a lot of pages where scripts become unresponsive. (The ' opening the Find introduced two or three revisions ago is still there and widely documented.) For sites where you're uploading something, this can just kill the transfer entirely.

Yeah, tried that one already. Changed both to Y and Z. Both changed to Y and Z. On reboot, though, only the 2nd drive retained its letter, Z. The first changed back to H.

Plus, if they let it slip, then, the emperor would be seen as being sans the clothes that he really is.

I never claimed I wasn't. After all, with problems like this one just the tip of my iceberg, I must be mad in that I'm still around!

Ah, it's definitely a fucker error. It is either caused by a bad application installation or a usual "Reboot Windows And It Stops Working" error. I swapped around the IDE cables for the two drives and got the same problem. The first drive, the Sony, will not accept the new drive letter. So, I swapped the cables around back to their normal position, and, got what I expected, the same problem. I took out the Sony drive and inserted the LiteOn in its place... and got the COMPLETELY unexpected result of... now... the 2ND drive, the NEC, has inherited the fucking problem! This means there is a Registry error somewhere, and, that means either an application installation or an ReWAIStW Error caused the problem. Either one, they all fall under the category of fucker error. Yep, typical Big Bill fucker error. So, the only fix is to restore down to a backup and following the INSTALL.TXT instructions from that step on. At each installation, test the drive letter changes each time, reboot, and see if it isolates a culprit install.

Nope! Renaming that key didn't do diddly, as I expected. It would only be effective on reboot... which is what is CAUSING the problem. Well, in the meantime, might as well do some more shit to waste my time. But, I can at least counter anyone who suggests it by saying I tried that. First, I'll swap around the IDE cables from drive 1's to drive 2 and vice versa. That will rule out the controller or the cables, since if either is the problem there, then, the 2nd drive will become the one that won't keep its drive letter. If the problem persists, as it most likely, will, then, I replace the 1st drive and see if it persists. Since that requires the MOST work at hand, I will end up most likely having to do that. I will put in the drive that had been in there before on this setup to minimize the possibility of introducing new elements into this already chaotic system.

No, it's nothing that easy. Never fucking is. What is happening is the first (I had said second. Turns out it's the first DVD drive that keeps getting the letter change.) DVD drive is getting its drive letter changed by something on Windows start. Why it and not the 2nd one, too, is the mystery. Anyway, the SATA internal HD gets assigned its drive letters first, but, the first DVD drive then shoves its ass out of line and steals the next free drive letter, which WAS and should be going to H:, instead of its assigned drive letter of R: Which it had been taking just fine until now. And, if the drive letter is changed to R: in Windows, it will stay as R: until reboot. Then, the 2nd DVD drive keeps its old drive letter, S: which it should be and which the first one should be doing, like it had been. Well, since H: is hijacked, the partition on the first USB HD that would normally get it must take the last free drive letter after all the rest of the 2 USB HD partitions get theirs AND R: gets its. So, drive letters are getting shuffled around when they used to not to. All because that fucker has decided to shove ahead of the line. And, I need some way to change this because Windows has made some change to itself, or some application changed it, that turned on some stupid ability to do this. A typical error I see all the time, that can only be fixed by restoring a drive image. BUT, my newest one that doesn't do this is from January 1st! FUCKERS! Problem has nothing to do with invisible partitions, etc. It's the DVD drive that is shuffling the letters around now when it hadn't anymore. No multiple Primaries, etc. Just the C: Primary booting partition and the Extended Logical partition to contain the Logical Extended drives.

Well, YOU'VE probably never had them. As I would guess anyone else who has had the luck to cross my path has probably never had them either. Of course, these are also people who, for those reasons, have had lives worth living, too. #39;(