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Well, now that people amazingly enough FINALLY agreed with me and declassified Pluto as a planet it brings up an interesting problem with Doctor Who history. Is Mondas the 10th planet anymore? Technically, I guess since Mondas entered Earth's orbit in 1986. The interesting thing, though, is with the new IAU definitions of a planet that caused the declassification of Pluto, it puts 3 objects in the running for planetary status, thus pumping up the number of planets in the system of Sol to 11. One of these, Ceres, was actually called a planet for a long time, until it was declassified as an asteroid around 1845, with the discovery of Neptune. So, Ceres might become a planet again, and, there's the interesting case of 2003UB313. Somehow, I doubt that people will accept a world called 2003UB313. Plus, if it's inhabited, what do you call the visitors should they come here? The 2003B313ians? Thus, to keep the name, I recommend that 2003UB313 be renamed... Mondas.

With a name like that, I guess the women in that country are forced to impregnate themselves with... wait for it, folks... basters?

Maybe Darkfalz uses an Internet cafe there?

Now, this one has me worried... After shuffling off all desired data to kept from the partitions on the SATA drive to a USB drive, and barely managing to fit it all, I went in and attacked it from the POV of removing any FAT problems. Booted from a CD, ran FDISK /mbr, ran FDISK and deleted all the partitions, created a new C:, formatted it with a quick format, ran FDISK /mbr again, ran FDISK again to delete the partition to create all unallocated space, and rebooted with the system recovery CD in, with all USB devices and PCI cards disconnected, save for the monitor card. Only the absolutely required stuff was connected, save for the 2 DVD drives. Just the PS/2 keyboard, the USB mouse connected by the PS/2 bridge, the monitor card, and the two DVD drives. The recovery CD went to work, XP, the "2002 SP 1" update release that came with the default system was set up... and, to my surprise... the two DVD drives did NOT assume the drive letters D and E. Strangely... utterly in shock... they assumed the drive letters R and S which I ALWAYS used before! BUT, I have to set that MANUALLY! The drives SHOULD have assumed the first two available drive letters. With only C:, nothing else, they SHOULD have assumed D and E on a virgin install from the recovery CD. Like they have done before. SOMEHOW, they remembered and saved their drive letters from BEFORE, when I had changed them to R and S in my last Windows setup. WHY? More importantly... how?

Christ! This guy should be nominated for this year's Darwin Award! Even if he didn't die! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060823/ap_on_...nis_pump_threat Wed Aug 23, 4:12 PM ET CHICAGO - Cook County prosecutors say a 29-year-old man traveling with his mother desperately didn't want her to know he'd packed a sexual aid for their trip to Turkey. So he told security it was a bomb, officials said. Now... the big question is this... why did he know he'd need a sexual aid... if he was travelling with his mother?

Actually, it wasn't that I was fighting with it. I was preforming all kinds of tests since I had one that was exhibiting the trait. So, I had become the guinea pig among the beta testers. Of my own choice, but, I wanted to see if there was a way around it. There wasn't. Especially if it was an ALI bridge of that series before, like Revision 5, where they added the ability to update the firmware of it. FINALLY. BUT, since there were, apparently, hundreds of thousands of these faulty, unsold chips in a warehouse, ALI got rid of them on the cheap, and dozens of manufacturers were using them to save a buck. To Hell with the user. IOMega was one. In 3 external optical drives of theirs, I encountered ALI bridges in the enclosures. I wouldn't be surprised if there was in the USB HD's. I think I will examine that one USB HD enclosure here in a bit, just for my and everyone's edification on the bridge in it. Since the drive is readily accessible right now, and the enclosure WAS easy to remove... AFTER I pried off the idiotic washer type piece of shit thing they had over the STRIPPED screw... So, one of the screws does not hold the drive in place. But, 3 out of 4 is fine.

IT'S PEOPLE! Actually, on second thought... I don't want to know WHAT the secret ingredient is... :& http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/od_nm/india_hitler_dc Mon Aug 21, 8:43 AM ET MUMBAI (Reuters) - A new restaurant in India's financial hub, named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas, has infuriated the country's small Jewish community. Yes, it's in poor taste... but, I freely admit... the first thing that went through my head when I heard of this? "Yes, but, is it kosher?" I didn't say I was necessarily PROUD that that was the first thing that went through my head... EDIT: I would also like to point out for anyone that missed it, that my response WAS satire against this idiotic idea! HOW could the owner NOT expect the backlash? Simple: he DID and went and did it anyway. Hence, my satirical stab above.

Well, the drives suddenly losing their ability to read CD-RW manufacturer ID's does not appear to be directly related to the issue. I have it now and the drives are NOT swapping their letters around. So, anyone have any FUCKING idea what could cause THIS? Why TWO drives should SUDDENLY STOP BEING ABLE TO READ ONE FIELD, CAN READ ALL THE OTHERS, CAN READ THAT FIELD OFF OF DVD'S, AND STILL SOMEHOW NOT MALFUNCTION?!

Granted, I've seen maybe 10 episodes total. But, no, I don't.

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.