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  • L l a u r e n

    you should see the screensaver that just kicked in!! :rolleyes::laugh:

    "there is no spoon" {me}

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    Jim Crafton
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    Well if it involves tea and the necessity of licking the screen, then color me interested! :)

    ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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      you should see the screensaver that just kicked in!! :rolleyes::laugh:

      "there is no spoon" {me}

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      Shog9 0
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      'k, i've gotta go lie down now, and i still had two threads to read. Thanks. :| :rolleyes:

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        Well if it involves tea and the necessity of licking the screen, then color me interested! :)

        ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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        El Corazon
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        Jim Crafton wrote:

        then color me interested

        I've always wondered.... what color is interested? is it greenish like money? is it bluish like the sky? or is it black like the unbound vastness of space? :-D

        _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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          Jim Crafton wrote:

          then color me interested

          I've always wondered.... what color is interested? is it greenish like money? is it bluish like the sky? or is it black like the unbound vastness of space? :-D

          _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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          Jim Crafton
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          Green...no, that's jealousy. Blue, hmmm, that's for the sky, and probably daydreaming, and black? Nah, that's too negative, you know, evil, the Dark One, the Dark Side, Darth Vader, et al. Maybe puce? Or perhaps burnt umber? What about khaki?

          ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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            Jim Crafton wrote:

            then color me interested

            I've always wondered.... what color is interested? is it greenish like money? is it bluish like the sky? or is it black like the unbound vastness of space? :-D

            _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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            Lost User
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            Octarine!

            The tigress is here :-D

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              Chris Maunder wrote:

              My computer promptly exploded.

              Well, look on the bright side your Blackberry can tell you the GPS location of your dead PC.:laugh:


              God Bless, Jason
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              Paul Watson
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              Blackberries have GPS? :confused:

              regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

              Shog9 wrote:

              And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                I did the unthinkable this morning: I plugged my new Blackberry into my computer's USB port without first installing the drivers. My computer promptly exploded. Well, not exploded. More sort of died instantly and let forth a pungent "something's burning" smell. Nothing would coax it back to life so I've spent the afternoon transplanting my hard drives into another machine, doing an XP reinstall/restore and trying to coax my data back to life. Everything seems mostly fine except that IE6 crashes each time it tries to install the latest Microsoft Update ActiveX control. :sigh: The Blackberry is untouched.

                cheers, Chris Maunder

                CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                Paul Watson
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                :laugh: Sorry to laugh Chris, I just love the way you wrote that; My computer promptly exploded. Funnily enough I plugged my Nokia into my Mac for the first time the other day and my Mac froze up. Previous to that I had been using Bluetooth but thought USB would be a wee bit faster for transferring a 1gig file. Your Blackberry melted your computer, my Nokia froze my Mac. Go figure.

                regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                Shog9 wrote:

                And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                  Blackberries have GPS? :confused:

                  regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                  Shog9 wrote:

                  And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                  Nish Nishant
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                  Paul Watson wrote:

                  Blackberries have GPS?

                  Apparently the new ones do.

                  Regards, Nish


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                    :laugh: Sorry to laugh Chris, I just love the way you wrote that; My computer promptly exploded. Funnily enough I plugged my Nokia into my Mac for the first time the other day and my Mac froze up. Previous to that I had been using Bluetooth but thought USB would be a wee bit faster for transferring a 1gig file. Your Blackberry melted your computer, my Nokia froze my Mac. Go figure.

                    regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                    Shog9 wrote:

                    And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                    El Corazon
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                    Paul Watson wrote:

                    Your Blackberry melted your computer, my Nokia froze my Mac. Go figure.

                    and Friday nVidia cards froze Linux. :) In the end all Operating Systems are at the mercy of device drivers... and the programmers who write them.... no wonder the mutant sea bass are ill tempered... :-D

                    _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                    • C Chris Maunder

                      I did the unthinkable this morning: I plugged my new Blackberry into my computer's USB port without first installing the drivers. My computer promptly exploded. Well, not exploded. More sort of died instantly and let forth a pungent "something's burning" smell. Nothing would coax it back to life so I've spent the afternoon transplanting my hard drives into another machine, doing an XP reinstall/restore and trying to coax my data back to life. Everything seems mostly fine except that IE6 crashes each time it tries to install the latest Microsoft Update ActiveX control. :sigh: The Blackberry is untouched.

                      cheers, Chris Maunder

                      CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                      Christian Graus
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                      Wow - I always wondered what happens if you ignore the 'make sure you install the drivers first' warning....

                      Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

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                      • C Chris Maunder

                        I did the unthinkable this morning: I plugged my new Blackberry into my computer's USB port without first installing the drivers. My computer promptly exploded. Well, not exploded. More sort of died instantly and let forth a pungent "something's burning" smell. Nothing would coax it back to life so I've spent the afternoon transplanting my hard drives into another machine, doing an XP reinstall/restore and trying to coax my data back to life. Everything seems mostly fine except that IE6 crashes each time it tries to install the latest Microsoft Update ActiveX control. :sigh: The Blackberry is untouched.

                        cheers, Chris Maunder

                        CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                        Marc Clifton
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                        Plugging something into the USB port smoked your computer? That's, like, insane. How would installing drivers have prevented that? Marc

                        Thyme In The Country
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                        People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                        There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                        People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                          Plugging something into the USB port smoked your computer? That's, like, insane. How would installing drivers have prevented that? Marc

                          Thyme In The Country
                          Interacx

                          People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                          There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                          People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                          Chris Maunder
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                          Marc Clifton wrote:

                          How would installing drivers have prevented that?

                          That bit was a joke. Losing a day's work when I don't have a day to spare wasn't :(

                          cheers, Chris Maunder

                          CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                            Marc Clifton wrote:

                            How would installing drivers have prevented that?

                            That bit was a joke. Losing a day's work when I don't have a day to spare wasn't :(

                            cheers, Chris Maunder

                            CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                            Patrick Etc
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                            What I don't understand is how merely connecting the device to the USB port caused the computer to go up. Worst case I would have expected it to just do nothing.. but to actually cause the mobo to fry? Just don't get it..

                            ------------ Cheers, Patrick

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                              Blackberries have GPS? :confused:

                              regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                              Shog9 wrote:

                              And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                              S Douglas
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                              Paul Watson wrote:

                              Blackberries have GPS?

                              Sounds like it > I have a Blackberry and it knows where I am[^]


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                                What I don't understand is how merely connecting the device to the USB port caused the computer to go up. Worst case I would have expected it to just do nothing.. but to actually cause the mobo to fry? Just don't get it..

                                ------------ Cheers, Patrick

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                                Rhys Gravell
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                                Happened to me a month ago with a USB Memory Stick that I had previously used in the same machine. I plugged it it, there was a fizzle as I did, a bit of a pop and no more PC, the MOBO was fried. Unfortunately for me the crash completely corrupted the (non RAID) hard disk and I only got to recover about 50% of the data that was on it too. I would suspect this is possible on any powered USB port as there is always the potential to cause a short when conecting a device, although I am certainly no expert in this area...

                                Rhys "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it" They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance." Terry Pratchett

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                                  Plugging something into the USB port smoked your computer? That's, like, insane. How would installing drivers have prevented that? Marc

                                  Thyme In The Country
                                  Interacx

                                  People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                                  There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                                  People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                                  eugene genis
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                                  not maybe something to do with the fact that the bb charges it's batery with a usb?

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