>

Strike two.

>

Am I plonked now????

I promise!

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Strike two.

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> Lady, you're about one click from being plonked! >:-/
>

Ouch, that hurt!! .oO([Sigh!]Another Cassandra revealed!)

> I'll see you in flames - I'm about to win a brand new car!!
>

Congrats! I'm sure your wife will enjoy it!

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> >
>
> Uh-oh... DB is crossdressing now...
>
> Dennis? You okay up there?
>
>
[b]Bailiff, whack his bippy...

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Lady, you're about one click from being plonked! >:-/

I'll see you in flames - I'm about to win a brand new car!!

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> The remaining 5% is a guesstimate, but it'll have to be redone. I'm not sure
> how many lines there were in those files, but the replacement CPU will have to
> do until there's more money. We'll probably be behind for another 72~96
> hours, but a lot was recovered .o0(mostly files, RAM, a CD drive, PCIs,
> cables... idiot spent $100s on lights and doesn't even have a power strip...)

Well, what can one say? Some just luuuuve the bling! ;-)

>
> So aside from the stuff I still have pending, I'm off the hook until
> the weekend.
>
> Unless Mr. Murphy intervenes...
>

He will, believe me, he will! The sun never set in Codeland, there'll always be a hot spot to visit, a fire to put out!

Let me tell you about your future, kiddo: Ten years from now you'll find yourself still single, living all your life in company with your computers. If you decide to marry someone, because you need someone to take care of your laundry, you'll marry one, your mother set you up with, or one, you order from a mailorder company from Asia or the Eastern Europe.

On your honeymoon you'll answer the phone when your company call, and after a little while, you'll find yourself more at home at your work, as there're no reproachful looks at you! And she'll soon learn how to spend all the money, you earn, by herself, going out shopping with her girlfriends, going on restaurants with her girlfriends, going out in general with her girlfriends!

And if you have children, you can't be sure you're the father, as she might have been out with, not a girlfriend, but.... .oO(fill in the blanks!) So when you see your children look a little different than you would have expected, with no traits from your family, you'll just think that it must be dominant traits from her family!

And if she doesn't divorce you after a while, you'll most probably die young of a heartattack..... But, what the heck, she'll be a rich widow, so she'll soon find someone who's NOT in the IT business! ;-)

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The remaining 5% is a guesstimate, but it'll have to be redone. I'm not sure how many lines there were in those files, but the replacement CPU will have to do until there's more money. We'll probably be behind for another 72~96 hours, but a lot was recovered .o0(mostly files, RAM, a CD drive, PCIs, cables... idiot spent $100s on lights and doesn't even have a power strip...)

So aside from the stuff I still have pending, I'm off the hook until the weekend.

Unless Mr. Murphy intervenes...

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> It wasn't, but legend has it that the command key was. I do like it,
> though I use the NMI symbol to only to show when I've got something hot to
> handle, like a blown out CPU, HD, power supply, mobo, and a few other
> components...
>
> It took five guys two days to undo all that damage, and we're still missing
> two files. But 95% of the work was recovered.
>

So, can the rest 5% be restored or are they lost?? And are you off the hook now?

> Today's Lesson: Don't add bling to your machine
> if you can't understand the difference between anode and cathode...
>

Yeah, I saw these last week in the hardware store!! Look pretty cool, even I'm not into the bling stuff though! But I'm sure they can sell some!

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It wasn't, but legend has it that the command key was. I do like it, though I use the NMI symbol to only to show when I've got something hot to handle, like a blown out CPU, HD, power supply, mobo, and a few other components...

It took five guys two days to undo all that damage, and we're still missing two files. But 95% of the work was recovered.

Today's Lesson: Don't add bling to your machine if you can't understand the difference between anode and cathode...

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> It's called the interrupt switch. Pressing it generates a level 7 interrupt
> on 68k Macs, also known as NMI, or non-maskable interrupt.
>
> Basically, press that switch, and you've halted the entire machine. If you
> don't have <a> href="http://developer.apple.com/tools/debuggers/MacsBug/">MacsBug[/url]
> installed, then you're dead in the water.
>
> I've been using it since I got interrupted yesterday. I'll replace it with
> the better avatar once I get everything back to normal... whatever that
> is...
>

Never gonna happen, believe me! ;-)

How about Foamy!!!!

P.S. I like this one though! Nice and clean design! Almost like Scandinavian design!

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Looks much better.... thanks, rob....

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>

Uh-oh... DB is crossdressing now...

Dennis? You okay up there?

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> > Let's... be happy now.
>
> AAH! I'm blind!
>

Heh, don't stare into happy's eyes too long because they're a little hypnotizing.

> Let's... be happy now.

AAH! I'm blind!

Let's... be happy now.

It's called the interrupt switch. Pressing it generates a level 7 interrupt on 68k Macs, also known as NMI, or non-maskable interrupt.

Basically, press that switch, and you've halted the entire machine. If you don't have MacsBug installed, then you're dead in the water.

I've been using it since I got interrupted yesterday. I'll replace it with the better avatar once I get everything back to normal... whatever that is...

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> Thank you, Rob.

NA, it looks like you got half a hood ornament there.

Thank you, Rob.

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> Why don't we all let bygons be bygons and go back to arguing about what kind
> of coffee is the best or whatever it is we argue about politely in here? :-)