Day: October 13, 2006

Yeh, I’m blowin’ ’em at Windows right now.

*sigh*

So, I wanna have SATA on an old (no, really: OLD) Win2K machine. So what do I do? Easy: buy a PCI SATA controller card and install the thing. But since I only want to add another drive, not replace the ones I have, I bought a controller card that would not interfere, as some unfortunately still do, with my primary IDE channels on on that machine.

Install (after checking the jumpers to make SURE it installs correctly) and sure enough, the hardware recognizes it. Windows notices a new piece of hardware and prompts me for the driver, which I have already plopped into the floppy drive. Everything installs as smoothely as can be. Reboot and… man the boot process is taking a looooonnnng time!

Hmmm… 15 minutes to boot. (I know, cos I just let it sit until it booted on through. No problem; I had another machine to work on.)

Checked for the drive I have attached. No drive found. Hmmm… Checked in device manager. Yep. The SATA/Ultra IDE card is there, listed as working, no problems. Update the driver anyway.

Reboot. Loooooonnnnng boot time.

This is crap.

Bag that. Pop a Puppy Linux live CD in. Boot. Hmmm… Normal boot time for a Puppy Live CD. Sees the card just fine. Open a Media Manager window and there’s the drive. Mount it. Browse around, make directories, transfer files, etc., just fine.

Was, naturally, a Win2K problem. Now I need to attempt installing the card/drive on a newer machine with WinZP [*heh* just noticed the”WinZP” typo. You know what I meant]. Probably will be fine, but man… *sigh* I guess I need to dual boot the old Win2K machine in Win2K and Puppy for a while.

Thing is, Puppy’s running from a 68MB CD, loading in RAM and then using another 500MB of disk space (plus 1GB for programs I install) as a swap file.

And running just fine. And using the extra drive on the SATA card. Lil down under Linux “hobby” distro blowing by Win2K Pro.

Not all that surprising, really. Can’t expect a bloated giant to be nimble enough to both watch out for newer tech and be backward compatible at the same time.

I guess.

*heh*

(Yeh, OK, one gripe: for some reason I’m not getting Opera browser to load in this session of Puppy. I think maybe I didn’t install it on this machine the last time I had a Puppy Live CD in it. So, I’m having to use the crappy Seamonkey 1.0.4 Mozilla browser. *yech* Oh. Well. At least even it is better than Internet Exploder. Speaking of which–ya seen the crappy tabbed browsing implementation in IE7? What a joke. Enough rants. Outa here.)

Snow.

And more snow.

It’s “global warming” dontcha know.

Now, before climate alarmists start whining that it’s not fair to cite local conditions to support an argument against global warming, let me remind any who might erroneously wander by twc thinking a reference to global warming will earn them a warm reception, global warmists, climate alarmists are steeped in the “special cases” argument, whereby they make errors of composition.

“The antarctic ice cap is melting!” Yeh, and the sky is falling, too. So? Global warmists have made much of the fact that ONE portion of the Antarctic ice cap is melting… while ignoring the fact that the large majority of the Antarctic ice fields are growing, and at a greater rate than ice is being lost elsewhere.

On balance, the Antarctic ice fields are greater than five or ten years ago, but that doesn’t stop global warmists from screaming, “The ice is melting! The ice is melting!”

Local conditions.

Now, should I cite the studies I read that demonstrate that the global warming alarmists are liars? Nah. Useless. Senator James Imhoffe tried that in his speeches from the Senate floor (the texts, available here, are replete with credible citations). What did that net Imhoffe? About the same that it nets any scientist—anyone, no really, anyone—who dares to flaunt the global climate alarmist party line. As you’ll read in the linked articles, some global warmists are calling for “Nuremburg trials” for “global warming deniers” and equating them with Holocaust deniers.

Scum. That’s what anyone who believes there ought to be open, rational examination of the facts is: scum. Anathema. Evil.

So, let’s just not go there. Why, without any thought whatsoever (or, actually, via lobotomizing ourselves and eliminating rational thought) we can beat the global warmists at their own game by irrationally arguing every little cold wave is proof positive that they are wrong.

Makes as much sense as global warmists’ lies.

Dumbasses.

Pinky and the Brain, Vol. 1

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Well, I’m not planning to take over the world, in the manner of the Brain, but I have been pondering several things recently. Continue reading “OTA/Are you pondering what I’m pondering, Pinky?”