Ever come home from a weekend away, to find your computer
broke?
From when your dumb as shit brother installed Direct X 9.0?
Can we say "Format" ladies and gentlemen, along with Windows 2000
install and making one Mark K Sheppard the admin, with NO admin
priveliges for anyone else?
FUCK FUCK GODDFUCKING DAMMIT!
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MKSheppard
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FUCK FUCK GODDFUCKING DAMMIT!
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
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MKSheppard
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From now on, there will be no more fucking installing shit unless I approve it.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
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Sea Skimmer
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So how many times now in has he fucked up your computer or CD's?
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Your computer must be a serious POS if DX9 blew it up, I just converted all of my LAN systems to it and I'm not having any problems, in fact if anything I've gotten about a 25% increase in game performance with no negative effects on the OS performance... Of course I am running Win2k Pro... 
BTW Shep, if you do go with 2K (which is a smart move, it's the only good OS micro$hit has put out to date), DO NOT install any service packs other than SP2, SP3 has a lot of new holes in it and even integrated the tracking crap that XP has, SP3 is also rather unstable as I've found out in the past, but SP2 ran stable as a rock with no problems for 13 months before I decided to reload as a pre-emptive measure (one I'm still regretting).
BTW Shep, if you do go with 2K (which is a smart move, it's the only good OS micro$hit has put out to date), DO NOT install any service packs other than SP2, SP3 has a lot of new holes in it and even integrated the tracking crap that XP has, SP3 is also rather unstable as I've found out in the past, but SP2 ran stable as a rock with no problems for 13 months before I decided to reload as a pre-emptive measure (one I'm still regretting).
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MKSheppard
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Can't. I have a Slipstreamed SP3 CD. But this SP3 pack madeHyperion wrote: BTW Shep, if you do go with 2K (which is a smart move, it's the only good OS micro$hit has put out to date), DO NOT install any service packs other than SP2
the biggest PoS I have ever owned WORK with no BSODs......an
unheard of feat when running Win 98SE on that computer....
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
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The Great Unbearded One
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Slipstreamed? WTF? (I've heard of it but have forgotten what it is)MKSheppard wrote:Can't. I have a Slipstreamed SP3 CD. But this SP3 pack madeHyperion wrote: BTW Shep, if you do go with 2K (which is a smart move, it's the only good OS micro$hit has put out to date), DO NOT install any service packs other than SP2
the biggest PoS I have ever owned WORK with no BSODs......an
unheard of feat when running Win 98SE on that computer....
LOL, I know exactly what you mean...
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Sea Skimmer
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I have a friend who had trouble with his brother fucking up his computer and then his computer literate mom making it worse when she tried to help fix it. His solution was to disconnect the monitor to tower cable and bring it with him to school every day. Nothing else would stop them.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
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This is the same brother who is the incarnation of the Sin "Sloth"
The same brother who destroys CDS by brushing his teeth at the computer..
Mark you shouldn't trust some one who burnt out their brain on Something Awful years ago.
The same brother who destroys CDS by brushing his teeth at the computer..
Mark you shouldn't trust some one who burnt out their brain on Something Awful years ago.
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Re: FUCK FUCK GODDFUCKING DAMMIT!
You need to have separate computers.MKSheppard wrote:Ever come home from a weekend away, to find your computer broke?
From when your dumb as shit brother installed Direct X 9.0?
Can we say "Format" ladies and gentlemen, along with Windows 2000
install and making one Mark K Sheppard the admin, with NO admin
priveliges for anyone else?
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
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Good idea. Hey Shep, I have an old Packard Bell with a 486 and a 15" monitor I'll sell you. $$$
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Sea Skimmer
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I haven't seen one on a recent computer. Software driven security should work for what Sheppard needs however.Shinova wrote:Do comps nowdays still have that key and lock that locks the hard drive or something?
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
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Darth Wong
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Dual-boot with XOSL and two primary partitions. Total OS segregation.
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/RantMode/Blurbs.html
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Brother-Captain Gaius
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I have two, one for access to the floppy drive, CD drive, and power button; and the other locks the whole tower.Shinova wrote:Do comps nowdays still have that key and lock that locks the hard drive or something?
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1337 posts as of 16:34 GMT-7 June 2nd, 2003
"'He or she' is an agenderphobic microaggression, Sharon. You are a bigot." ― Randy Marsh
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ArmorPierce
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hmm, so how does Direct X 9.0 work on windows 98?
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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. ~Steve Prefontaine
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. ~Steve Prefontaine
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Slipstreaming means that SP3 has been integrated into the install CD.Hyperion wrote:Slipstreamed? WTF? (I've heard of it but have forgotten what it is)MKSheppard wrote:Can't. I have a Slipstreamed SP3 CD. But this SP3 pack madeHyperion wrote: BTW Shep, if you do go with 2K (which is a smart move, it's the only good OS micro$hit has put out to date), DO NOT install any service packs other than SP2
the biggest PoS I have ever owned WORK with no BSODs......an
unheard of feat when running Win 98SE on that computer....
LOL, I know exactly what you mean...
I currently use W2K SP3 on a few machines @ home and it works fine.
You can get them, though they aren't common anymore. BIOS locking it should work, OTOH.Sea Skimmer wrote:I haven't seen one on a recent computer. Software driven security should work for what Sheppard needs however.Shinova wrote:Do comps nowdays still have that key and lock that locks the hard drive or something?
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Darth Wong
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That's easy. Partition half your HD for FAT32 and Win98. Then, install software like Partition Magic to make a second PRIMARY partition in the remaining half of the drive. Use FDISK or some other utility to make the second partition active: this will make it think that it's C: and the first partition is D:.Ted wrote:How do you do that?Darth Wong wrote:Dual-boot with XOSL and two primary partitions. Total OS segregation.
I really wanna keep my mother from screwing with my stuff, though having two users on XP Pro still aint protecting my shit.
Now, install Win XP Pro on C:. You can switch between the two partitions by simply changing the active partition (can be done with a simple batch file if you have Partition Magic's command-line utility or handled with a boot-sector menu by XOSL). Each OS will think it's on C:. XP Pro will be able to see the Win98 partition as D: but Win98 won't be able to see XP Pro because Win98 can't see NTFS, so you'll be secured.
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"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/RantMode/Blurbs.html
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