jaclaz

Some reference to chocolate covered bananas and XYZ kind of problems: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.html and to the Standard Litany (needed but completely missing in this thread): http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html jaclaz

Is it me or you used an unreadable (tiny) font size? Can you set ti to "normal"? jaclaz

Yep , the "PC caught on fire and school data was on the water soaked hard drive" could be added as corollary to #32 here: http://www.jobprofiles.org/library/students/the-ferris-bueller.htm More seriously it is UNlikely that water actually entered the mechanical part of the HDD, so, yes drying the disk in the oven at 60° is perfectly "sound" . jaclaz

Maybe if you actually post your batch, someone can find what is wrong with it (and no, the PATH has nothing to do with it). jaclaz

As a matter of fact I wasn't at the time that much impressed by the Start button of Windows 95/NT4. I came (like everyone else) from Windows 3.11, but I had on most machines Norton Desktop that provided a nice "mac like" kind of interface to it. What I remember as "astounding" was when i first installed (from floppies!) a Windows 95 Beta were the graphics of the installer, can you remember those bluish images that flickered on your screen at night hinting hidden future marvels such as the MS ergonomic keyboard, CD's and strange new cables, with the buzzing of the floppy drive accessing sectors chanting a lullaby in the background .... of course, as often happens, things that happened when you were some twenty years younger tend to have an augmented aura of mystics when remembered.... jaclaz

The modem must be put in "waiting mode", it is described in the article (still AT commands), it may work or may not without the ring/line voltage, the rest is "connection wizard" http://www.maturion.de/dreamcast/mterlouw/inconect.htm on 9x it is "Dial-up server": http://www.maturion.de/dreamcast/mterlouw/configpc.htm jaclaz

But you didn't ask for answers or tools, you asked for ideas instead: anyway a suitable tool has been suggested, DMDE: http://softdm.com/ (and yes, I know that next post will be asking an "automagic" tool capable of fixing those names ) Maybe fsutil would do: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/fsutil_file.mspx?mfr=true cannot say if it works on dirctories as well jaclaz

The funny thing is that when it came out, you were 14 or so , and most probably you would have considered it "cool" . If anyone needs/wants (BTW WHY?) to see it in all it's aberration, a number of educative screenshots are available here: http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html And yes, BOB is also "responsible" for Comic Sans MS: and consequent slow suicides and for some of the senseless characters of the animated help in later versions such as "rover", BTW - and this says a lot of things about the Patent Office - the thingy has been patented: http://nbnl.globalwhelming.com/2009/01/05/14-microsofts-weird-animated-characters-patents-you-have-never-seen-before/ http://www.google.com/patents/US5682469 jaclaz

I would say very close. The actual power consumption, once detracted the amount of light emitted by the actual screen (which should be more or less a constant for a given "type" of display, i.e. LCD vs. LED vs. Plasma ) all goes away as "heat". As an example, given that MarkJohnson's current display: is 27" in size uses 67 watts of power when fully lit is a LED monitor replacing it with this one that uses roughly 40W: http://www.aocmonitorap.com/root/anz/product_display.php?id=35 will need to add a 30W heater to get the same temperature in the room http://www.rittal-corp.com/products/product_details.cfm?n1Id=4&n2Id=20&n3Id=33&pn=3105330 jaclaz

I edited the previous post, numbering the questions. Right now we have ONLY 1/6th of the answers (not counting the unanswered questions in the previous post) : jaclaz

Hmmm. What EXACTLY have you attempted in the RC? Can you try with a more "complete" environment such as a PE? Have you tried renaming including a "forbidden" char in the filename? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/142982/en-us Have you tried using Unlocker (or a similar tool) to allow the renaming in the "fully booted" OS? (beware, risk of crash ) http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Unlocker.shtml How EXACTLY were the filenames destroyed? Do the short filenames appear for newly made files/directories in the running system? In the worst case you can still manually hex-write them with a tool like DMDE. (you will need to know where your towel is ) jaclaz

What is the output of DIR /X ? Is it a NTFS filesystem? What is the content of HKLM\\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation (if any?) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210638/en-us jaclaz

I have not the graphic capabilities to produce a storyboard, a textual screenplay should do anyway . There are two characters: Sarcasm (in the following abbreviated to S) Victim (in the following abbreviated to V) The scene is a "transparent background". Before the scene takes place S has said something sarcatic, naughty, snappy, provoking, catty etc. to V. The scene opens on S (on the left) that is therefore whistling trying to look innocent/indifferent/detached. V is obviously upset/angry/exasperated at S and enters the scene (from the right) in such an altered status of mind . Suddenly V extracts an object (the object could be a ball, but better a knife or a pie) and throws it towards S. S who was only seemingly minding his own business but actually very attentive to the movements of V, quickly ducks, thus making the thrown object miss him (the object may end it's trajectory outside the scene or splat/crash on a "wall" on the very left side of the scene). V is surprised and deluded of having missed his intended target and exits sadly the scene on the right. S straightens up with a large smile on his face (having successfully avoided to have been hit) and optionally either shows his tongue in mocking fashion at V or downright mocks him explicitly The scope is to convey the idea that what has been said by S is intentionally (and jokingly) said to provoke a reaction from V . Now, for NO apparent reason : jaclaz

There are actually already all the answers needed (with the exception made for the specific results of a direct test of the fbinst formatting to the specific machine). fbinst is an exceptionally good tool , that achieves almost (if not fully) 100% bootability on *any* system. In order to achieve this exceptionally good results it goes - in several ways - beyond and well over "common standards". A stick partiioned/formatted/prepared with fbinst is a VERY good solution if - like in the case of WinsetupfromUSB it is an "install media", or if you prefer it is used in a "format once and forget about it" approach. Still, since it goes out of the said "common standards" it is incompatible with a number of tools (particularly "Commercial" and "Easy to use" ones) related to partitioning/re-partitioning/etc. so it is NOT a good-for-all solution. As a matter of fact also installing the grub4dos grldr.mbr to the MBR (and following few "hidden sectors") is already out of these standards, and this is the reason why (besides the mentioned incompatibilities with some BIOS/Motherboards of the grub4dos MBR code) - normally - I don't suggest the installing of grldr.mbr, but rather using a "common" MBR code that simply loads the Active Primary partition. The above mentioned "incompatibilities" are NOT however a problem for "people that know where their towel is", but the number of really hoopy, froody guys/gals is relatively limited, whilst the number of whiners is exceptionally large, so the warning is nothing more than a preventive measure for the latter peeps, in order to be able when (and they will before or later) come whining because they lost some data or managed to - just after having made the "perfect" ultimate booting thingy - mess it up badly, to tell them: jaclaz

@larryb123456 The .gif produced is very nice . But I have to agree with dencorso (limited to this specific case ). Though normally I am very nice guy , from time to time, and expecially with friends, I like to mock them a little. The "whistling" in itself is already a form of that, but in "severe" cases, the "whistling smiley" needs to avoid the "reaction". The "left" part of the .gif you made is PERFECT (maybe the actual whistling before the ducking could be a little shorter). The "right" part is almost perfect, but the smiley actually smiling after having completely missed the "whistling smiley" kind of spoils the effect. I had expected that the the thrown object would have come "out of nowhere", but I like the idea of the actual thrower entering the field of view, only it must appear already upset (and that is why it throws the object) before throwing the object and frustrated after having thrown it and having missed the target. The "character" that enters from the right must be angry when it enters the field of view, like: and "frustrated/disappointed" when it exits the field of view after having missed the "whistling guy", like: Additionally when the "whistling smiley" comes out again after the ducking it should be extremely satisfied as it managed to both provoke the reaction and avoid the consequences of it, more like: The key to the animation storyboard is that it has to be used when something intentionally provoking, possibly catty, or naughty or absurd has been stated. See here the post that made me think of the *need* of such an emoticon: (Fuwi has since 2008 developed a nice tool - based on the HP USB formatting utility - to properly format/make bootable USB sticks and is thus possibly one of the top experts on the tool and it's behaviour ) http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21702&hl= Thank you very much for the time that you dedicate to my "queer" requests. jaclaz

Yep, this is a known issue when proprietary (old but still perfectly working) equipment is using ISA. Look at the price of this thingy here (though it could actually be a solution in many cases): http://arstech.com/install/ecom-prodshow/usb2isa.html though seemingly not always "easy-peasy": http://disbauxes.upc.es/?p=2394 jaclaz

Just for the record, the dcxxxx have issues with the grub4dos MBR (this may depend on versions of both the Motherboard/BIOS and grub4dos of course). At the time Fuwi removed the grub4dos MBR code moving the loading to the bootsector : http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=&showtopic=21702&view=findpost&p=154855 jaclaz

You may have issues with the ringing/powering of the telephone line, but it's doable. See here: OP in there - as often happens - left as soon as the going got tough..... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/quotes?qt=qt0479926 jaclaz

I am not sure to understand the issue (actually I am sure I do not understand it ). The thingy has command line usage: The issue is that the BTW a minimum of data on the location of the keys is given: What is the problem in running the tool as Runonce or RunOnceEx or however at first GUI boot? jaclaz P.S.: Sorry submix8c, cross-posting

I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/quotes?qt=qt0282091 Iron. http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php jaclaz

Have thoroughfully reviewed the given page? http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_key.html jaclaz

Actually you should in theory also hook the re-mapping of the hard disks: jaclaz

I thought that people were complaining because they know perfectly well how to use windows 8 new features and design BUT simply hate them. jaclaz

Another request. From time to time I need could make use of an emoticon expressing "ducking quickly", in the sense of: Ideally it could be based on the "whistling" one: suddenly "flatting down" to avoid a ball or other object thrown at it.... and then re-appearing after the object has gone, like - as an example - the left emoticon in: BTW, nice robot dance jaclaz

Very possibly I am wrong , but checking WHY exactly a given new version was posted as hotfix might give some hints and possibly let us decide that after all a previous version would be preferrable (or not): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/usbcoreblog/archive/2009/11/13/list-of-the-latest-usb-hotfixes-for-each-windows-version.aspx jaclaz