WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Tap tap tap..."

 ->  WC> No it was the color gun driver transistors to an RF shield.
 ->  WC> Got so hot it blackened and discolored the pins on the CRT.

 -> Oh... That would have been so hot as to liquefy the glass!

 WC> The pins were all blue - blackened,
 WC> Such a STUPID design flaw caused it too.

"Stuff" happens. (...When another monitor will *need* to be sold in four
years.)
 WC> 93 percent humidity today down here.

LOL! Well, you won't be suffering until the heat picks up too, I suspect.

We have registered 6% humidity at our airport! 30% +/- isn't that uncommon.

 -> I just read the latest in your JH debacle. You know he
 -> is just trying to cover
 -> his butt, right? I too know the "You must be paranoid."
 -> insinuation, so I can't
 -> be partial on that one, but little does *anyone* know
 -> the "stuff".we have to
 -> deal with, specifically regarding this 'hobby.'

 WC> Yeah, should have followed my instincts.
 WC> There were two very glaring inconsistencies with Jim's claims.
 WC> I mean he made claims for that card Promise Tech didn't
 WC> document and the first time I tried to "load Windows first" it
 WC> failed non-destructively.

Ah... Windows is being a sore spot for me too right now.
 WC> But by this time I was on a mission so I fdisked with Linux
 WC> setting the first partition 0C for C;, set is active with the
 WC> rest carved up for Linux.

If you didn't leave anything f/Windows, it'd get greedy! Anyway...
 WC> The Ultra66 requires DRIVERS, the drivers were obn the CD.

I just picked up a USB DVD burner with the Windows drivers on an enclosed DVD!
If it wasn't for the Linux box being able to see the drive straight off,
*Windows* wouldn't have a chance to see it! 
 WC> In the end I should have know better and should have left
 WC> Windows off this machine.

Don't you just HATE the should-a, could-a, would-a's? We've all had them!

 WC> Oh well, I've got that now.
 WC> I've vowed no more Windows for me.

Shoot, I'm almost there. My slot-1 machine just scrambled its FAT32, and I've
been trying to restore its operation to pull some stuff off the HD. If I could
boot off the DVD, I'd have RH on it by now, and just mount to the unscrambled
partitions. As far as I know, Windows won't even let me SEE the DVD until I get
the GUI back up, and then, I'd have to upgrade to W'98 to burn to the USB
port... Then, I'd have to bend over for Microsoft... As if I haven't been!
(Opps, I just saw a plan B. Gotta go! |-)

Viva la challenge!


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