dbminter
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I had the PS with the parallel port in it as well - poor thing died a year or so ago tho
Let me guess: it no longer spun up discs? Probably a dead motor assembly. I had already had Sony replace a dead motor assembly for that reason before in 2001. Then, 3 years later, it died again for the same reason: Sony always uses cheap parts. Great designs, but, cheap execution.
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I won't worry about later prettier upgrades. Hell I still have my original chunky V4/5 PS2......
Pussy!
I STILL have my Version 1 PS2! 
I USED to
still have my ancient Playstation from 1997, with the parallel port in the back. Until UniversalVideoGames.com, the guys I sent it in to repair it, since they'd done repair work for me before, went out of business, back INTO business, and back OUT again, absconding with my system! 
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No, blame the bloody writer for such a line.
It's like a similar one from Surface, where the fancy doctor character says, of an image sequence of DNA she's looking at: "This is mammal DNA!" HOW does she know it by looking at it?! It could be frog DNA or anything just from its looks.I always wondered how she knew it was a UNIX system by looking at a GUI. It looked more like your typical CG computer screen to me.
You know the kind, where people type in specific, near full sentence commands such as "Shut the park gates because dinosaurs attacking." Yet, the computer miraculously can interpret such a command line system. 
It was on IMDB's news page today.
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I believe my disc had been a CD-Audio burned to the CD-RW in question as well. In a previous test. Let me see if I can recreate the situation by using the disc, burning a CD-Audio image to it (Using a spoken word CD, since the title I recall from the disc was for one.) and trying the same test again.
However, I am more apt to wonder about the application that created the image or burned it, outside of ImgBurn. Based on the age of the disc I think was used, I burned the audio image with Alcohol.
pfeerick, do you have Alcohol installed or have you used it to burn images in the past?
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Ah, how times change. Remember when Silicon Graphics wowed the world with dinosaurs in Jurassic Park? Well, now they're the dinosaurs. Yes, they've filed for bankruptcy protection. "This is a Unix system. I know this!" Must be why they went under?
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Pardon me, but, I was busy rehearsing my black face routine when this interrupted me! 
I did, though, notice the posters, side by side, of the English and the Spanish version.
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Ah, it will be safe to know that the controller has a tilt sensor so that when unsuspecting Japanese people wearing yellow trot beneath them that they will snap from their moors holding them suspended magically in place and squash them! Good riddance!
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Quick everyone db needs that prescription NOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW !!!
Now, how can I be held responsible for the truth? Huh?
The song exists. I can't help that. But, to assuade your fears, rest assured I bore the ravages of the free clinic today (Surprisingly, only 4 people were there already.) and got my atenolol. Although why you care if my hypertension stays down or not is beyond me...
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Yes, the miracles pills even restored my eyesight from the ravages of myopia and killed the folicles in my face so I ne'er need to worry about buying razors again! These miracle piles even increase muscle mass, dipilitate the chest, cause the growth of spontaneous tattooes on the thighs, shrink your shorts, grow tans, and change physical matter in proximity, such as the text on a newspaper.
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I didn't know the broken displays were toxic - you live and learn....
In fact, here in the US, there are strict laws governing the dispoal of hardware. Same with batteries. We throw them away all the time when they're dead, but, we really can't. And, some batteries like those in UPS backups contained lead acid in them.
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Laptops are absolute bastards to work on. You almost need a shoehorn to get the bits back into the case. The problem you have though is different. Most critically, a standard 3.5" IDE HD has 40 pins. A standard 2.5" IDE laptop drive has 44 pins. What you need to do to retrieve the information off the laptop drive is use an adapter that allows the smaller drive to interface with a standard PC. (44 pins on one side to connect to the HD and 40 pins on the other side to connect to an ordinary IDE ribbon cable in your desktop PC).
<searches Google>
Found one.
Thanks! This was something like what I was wondering if they made! This would make the idea I had work.
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DB;
Can't you just hook up an outside monitor to the laptop using the little monitor hook up serial port thingy on the back...or side...or in a closed compartment somewhere on the machine?
Well, I should have explained that in addition to knowing next to nothing about laptops, I am troubleshooting this problem via e-mail.
So, I don't even HAVE the laptop, or a laptop at all, to use a reference. Which was why I was asking for any possibilities on the choices I came up with. IF it was possible to connect a laptop to a monitor, then, someone could tell me and that would be the easiest solution. However, I wasn't aware IF that could be done, if a laptop had a port for that reason. So, I was acting only what I knew, which would be that the monitor surely was directly connected to the laptop because of their design. Hence, operating on only what I knew and with that being the case, I figured the best bet would be to remove the drive and try to connect it to a PC. But, I didn't know how they were connected. Now, it seems one can get a 44 to 40 pin adapter and, if one has an external enclosure, just connect that to the IDE to USB bridge and connect the power, or, open the PC and connect it internally. -
I'm sorry but I don't I don't have time to reply. I need to find someplace that can repair my shoes. Does anyone know of a good Cobbler?
That is the corniest joke I have heard in recent memory! It left me an empty husk!
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BTW, that phrase I used actually has a meaning.
It was part of a series of 10 phrases used in 1940's radio to test potential announcers to see how well they could speak and be understood.Only YOU would know some shit like that.
Not only that, but, the entire list of ten phrases was turned into a song called "One Hen, Two Ducks" and performed by people such as Jerry Lewis.
One hen
Two ducks
Three squawking geese
Four limerick oysters
Five corpulent porpoises
Six pair of Don Alverzo's tweezers
Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array
Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt
Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic, old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth
Ten lyrical, spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who hall stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time.
I only had problems with the 8 brass monkeys and stumbled over the phrase hall stall, because, what the Hell's that?!
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But nooooo. We let the most pissant, miserable shit-hole countries (excepting Britain, Norway and Canada of course) dictate the price of oil to the richest, most powerful countries on Earth with three of them possessing nuclear weapons (US, France, China).
Actually, we don't possess nuclear weapons. For about 20 years now, we've had nookular weapons. They're stored at our public liberies.
Ah, the laziness of the public school system! 
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You've just had your prescription refilled, haven't you?
No, he just nicks mine.
No, I tend to stay away from sweet smelling medicines you must burn in order to take as prescribed.
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Bizarrely, many of these spams contain nothing at all. Just a bunch of addresses, usually nonsense, and maybe some completely random collection of letters, but often just...nuthin'. Can't these people do something useful, like steal cars? At least that keeps the insurance companies in business. SPAM just pisses people off.
Yes, I, too, have been perplexed by this sudden generation of new blank Spam. I mean, if there's no come on, how does a Spammer make any money? My only guess is they hope you'll be so confused you have to wonder what is at the other end of that address and click it.
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Erm I think the UK has one or two
weapons too - but nice rant anyway !! 
No, a brand new model see through pistol does not count as a nuclear weapon...
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He has an older model.a Segwayerrrrrm..I thought they were electric????
On the contrary! I have a newer, gas-hybrid electric corn ethonol fueled Segway. It's fact, it's called the Segue Segway, since it is the bridge to the new generation.
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I admit to knowing virtually nothing about the specifics of hardware used in laptop computers. So, when someone presented this problem to me, I thought I'd see if anyone could help me out with it.
Basically, what happened was a fit of rage
that smashed the liquid crystal display, thus, rendering interaction with the device impossible because there's no way to see what's going on. So, how to get the data off the hard drive? With my limited knowledge, I could only think in terms of a big picture; and maybe others can fill in the details.Is there a way to connect a laptop to a standard PC monitor?
Is there a way to connect a laptop to a PC for data transfer where you don't need to manually set the laptop as a "sever" basically, sitting there waiting for requests to send files?
How are hard drives connected inside of laptops? By what cables? Is there an extender/bridge/convertor/enclosure that works to take a laptop HD and connect them to a PC by USB, Firewire, serial, parallel, or IDE?
Thanks!
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I'll try to remember.
All I can recall from earlier was I got the same type of error as I had before in the past. That there weren't enough sectors available to burn to. But, that came up in a separate dialog, so, what might have been in the right display is anyone's guess. -
No, a Segway, but, gas is so expensive now that's how much I'd pay.
Of course, we here in the States have had a good run of prices here because we aren't taxed to death (YET!) for gas like many places in Europe. 
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I've only had this happen a few times, anyway, so, they can be all chalked up to whatever fluke circumstances created the same thing for me earlier. Whatever they were.
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Must have been a fluke, as I can't re-create it. Same image, same disc, same drives. Burned the disc in one drive, then, attempted to overwrite it in the same, which succeded. Then, put the disc in the other drive, burned it, succeeded, attempted to burn over the contents, succeded there. Then, swapped the disc back and repeated the first test again with the same results. Oh, well.
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When it comes to dead optical drives, I do have an edge, remember?