OT: We Have RAIN!

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:41:37 -0800, "Richard Henry" Gave us:

Bovine flatulence and subterranean fossil decay is likely a bigger culprit.

And where does that blue haze come from?

...Jim Thompson

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Apparently bovine farts are a myth - cows have more than one gut and the gasses reverse course rather than completing the journey to the back end!

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pollution

Really? Some research:

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:40:52 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

Did you run scandisk on those drives?

If so, is the problem persisting?

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:42:23 GMT, "ian.field1" Gave us:

Cows flatulate. Not a myth. Where do the gasses created from the digestion of several kilos of food go? You must be getting a clue. It doesn't go into making the steaks taste better.

Awwwh! I thought it was tenderizer ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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No research - it was mentioned on some documentary or other, but not to say cows never fart just that most of the gas produced is belched!

What intrigues me is the claim that termites fart! One website shows a photo of a fossilised termite in a block of amber with a stream of bubbles from it's rear end. It probably suffocated quite quickly but carried on farting until the hardening tree sap glued it's arse shut!

Maybe someone could test this by feeding a length of det-cord into a termite mound and see if they can blow it up.............

Replaced PSU, no change other than "floppy presence check" was louder, so I left it in.

Changed RAM. Fixed MOST of the problems.

BUT! I still have a weirdness. I can "see" other machines on the network and they can "see" me. But any attempt to copy across the network to/from "bad" machine causes it to reboot.

So I still have an issue.

Other symptoms:

"Searching" the drive causes it to lock up.

But I can surf the internet.

OS is Win2K... where is "scandisk" hidden away? I can't find anything by that name.

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:49:51 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

In file explorer. Right click on any volume and choose "Properties", then "tools", then "check now".

As far as the network issue, On Win2K you have to have those that would share your files be a user on your system.

One way to rule out the OS is to DL a copy of Knoppix Live CD from kernel.org mirror (typically the fastest in the US).

Boot that, it has a comprehensive system test and detection routine. If there is a memory issue, it WILL find it.

Once in the os, you can run the SMB share server it includes and make whichever HD volume you want available to the other machines on your network. Attempt the file pass again, and if their is no failure, Windows is your likely culprit.

The Knoppix live CD places NO files on your hard drives, and is considered the best diagnostic tool for PCs there is.

It will also be fun for you to investigate the Linux OS in this manner without actually having to know anything about it.

Just some info queries:

What Video resolution do you run the system in question at?

Also from within windows:

In the info dialog page (right clic my comp, select properties, advanced, performance options, change) (after done examining select cancel cancel cancel).

It will show you what your current registry size is as well as the max registry size. It also shows you what your swap file size is,and on which volume(s) it is located. That should be at least one Gig. If you change the swap file size, disregard the cancel cancel cancel notation. If ther reg size is fairly close to the max setting, you should adjust that higher too. Mine is set to 54MB and my current registry is only 28MB.

Leave about at least ten MB over the "current size".

Swap 720MB initial / 2GB max

Registry 23MB / 91MB max

I'll download Knoppix

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

"The world's trees, shrubs and other plants do produce massive amounts of hydrocarbons - nine times as much as do vehicles, by some counts."

Maybe he was being, um, conservative.

John

Here's my very first google hit on the subject:

"Once the spectacle of sunset passed, the views of the valleys turned grayish shades of blue in the evening haze. The Cherokee Indians called the Smokies "Shanconage," or place of blue smoke. The almost ever-present haze is created by a combination of evaporation and transpiration; the forest exhales terpenes, or hydrocarbon molecules, from oils in the plants."

and there are lots more.

John

Where is Knoppix Live "CD"

All I could spot was DVD.

...Jim Thompson

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:14:45 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

I started here, but forget these first two, I found the direct link at the bottom of this post.

Then of course, select the english/brit icon.

Then at the top of the page is the "mirrors" selection

kernel.org is pretty far down the list.

Ah hell... forget that... here:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/

There is a 4.0 CD

The link to that is:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-2005-09-23-EN.iso

Which is really the only link you need. (I don't know why I didn't kill the others.)

Jim,

Have you tried swapping the network card? I have seen fnetwork cards go flakey and cause hang-ups and re-boots like you describe.

I'm wondering that myself.

BUT, this is a cheapy on-mother-board network adapter :-(

...Jim Thompson

Jim,

You can usually disable an on-board peripheral like the network adapter through the BIOS and then install a plug-in card. I keep a cheap PCI network card on hand just in case one of my integrated one goes south.

OK, I was going to just let you stew in your juices, and play with Roy and Fred for awhile, but I'm not that kind of jerk.

Go to Control Panel/System/Device Manager, right-click your LAN adapter, click "properties", and un-check "let network adapter wake up computer" or something like that.

Good Luck! Rich