It's always bothered me that Internet SERVICE is not considered the same as other SERVICES we all have - phone, electriciy, gas, etc. when it comes to provider liability...... - If your electric company suddenly surged your house with 300 volts and blew out all your TVs, appliances, etc - there woul...

While it might seem "panic time" - it's not. As I read it, this is just like 'back in the old days'.....when you had to put a hard drive into a customers computer but the system 'couldn't see' the whole drive. So, you F-disked it just the same, and at least got the thing running again. Sam...

Aitch - Never meant to be a pain - joined the thread on pg 2, and after that was curious as to what this was. As an OLD hardware & software guy, sometimes I am just curious. Crap like this used to keep me up at night.... since 1978. Once I found out what the problem was, I slept well. I have alw...

Between obxjerry's posts (3 bad computers) and 'prehistoric' posts describing HIS failures, I no longer know what to think. I have gone back to the start of this thread, several times, and still get lost before I get to the end. IMHO - too many machines involved, mixing symptoms of one machine with ...

If Microsoft was an auto maker, would they still be around today?? Give Me A F$(&$n Break. One more piece of evidence that the left hand knows not what the right hand is doing, within MS. Un-Be-Lieveable. 17 years ?!?!?!? I cannot remember, in all my 54 years, any other company whose products pe...

Now, wait a minute S-H-S - While I admit they might have great capabilities, I'm still not buying into the 'tin-hat' stuff....yes, the "on-star" stuff is real ( I remember hearing about '150+ cadillacs' suddenly shutting down, back around 1994, in SE US....) . However, what you are talking...

I guess I was composing while you were responding -
didn't mean to walk on you......

obxjerry- Drive-swapping.....No - your assumption is wrong.... CD drives, as well as Hard-Disk Drives, have a strapping option on their backside, right by the place where the cable plugs in. Often it will look exactly like the strapping options of a hard drive. You might see things like "MS SL ...

John - I am a Puppy newbie (18 mos) but all I can say is that you can't please everybody. I for one am SO thankful for Puppy, and Linux in general, that I am almost beside myself. Consider the size of your audience - millions, and yet you have only a few whiners.....people like you are what has made...

Hi - Your problem with the 'second' laptop, the HP - dont ignore overtemp warnings......they are usually real Overall, and at the risk of being branded a 'flamer' - - DON'T SMOKE around laptops, and indeed any other computers. I Know. I smoke too, but I can also attest to what it does to contacts. I...

Back long ago, I worked for a company that made "supercomputers", as they were called then. Some of us on the test floor wondered what the Govt. could possibly want with all this computer power. Then in the early '90s I learned of a program called the 'eschelon project' - a joint venture b...

Concern over topic-for-forum here, but with my background I can't help it......to moderators - I apologize..... obxjerry It can get confusing swapping drives around, from one machine to another, and STRAPPING MATTERS. You have 2 IDE channels, each with a MASTER and a SLAVE scheme. Pulling a CD out o...

obxjerry - Seems obvious, yet might get overlooked.....after following the advice on HOW to write a boot disk, be SURE to set the little write-protect tab on the diskette B4 you put it into ANY machine. This in fact is hardware write-protect, which no virus can get around as it is 'AND-ed' with the ...

Benali72 - Having been in hardware for over 30 years, I've never heard of an HDD getting 'healed' with any magic software. Once the surface is damaged, it really IS. Software can re-map it so bad sectors are no longer used, but eventually it will have a nasty crash. In my experience, bad sectors can...

Im new - 2 mos with Puppy, 4.30. I dont have a Mac but a 10-year old Toshiba laptop. I found it getting very HOT. Searching thru posts I finally put the "acpi=force" command at the end of the 'kernal' line in the menu.lst startup file. Now my fan works as it should. As for thermal value, m...

Just my $.02 - Having gone thru and discarded several other small distros of Linux (Xubuntu, DSL, etc.) I settled on Puppy because of ease of installation and the ability to run on my aged (2000) Toshiba laptop. I have a newer laptop dual-booted with Vista and Ubuntu - I haven't used the Vista side ...

I'm TOTALLY a Linux/Ubuntu/Puppy newbie - forced into it basically by Microsoft, whose "planned obsolescence" finally made me mad. I've only been poking around Linux for about 6 weeks now - have Ubuntu installed dual-boot on my newer Dell laptop (got tired of seeing Vista beat the hell out...