Both feet in the bad-boot.

[reddragdiva]

We were looking to a quiet night in of wrapping presents and writing cards, then arkady messaged about a dead laptop giving the joyous UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME blue screen. A Hewlett-Packard XPsp1 disk was sufficient to bring up a recovery console; a couple of runs through chkdsk /r later and it's alive and well.

The article on Xenu has become truly excellent in the past week. Chris Owen has escalated the article to heights of Scientology lunacy that made even me, with nine years' experience, goggle and choke. There's something heartwarming about an encyclopedia article containing the sentences "A steady flow of flying saucers is still dropping off more entheta beings" and "In Los Angeles, a nightwatch was ordered to watch for returning spaceships." With references!

Comments

[poggs.livejournal.com]

"The purpose of this behavior is to prevent potential data loss due to the use of an incorrect IDE cable for the faster UDMA modes or due to continued access to a drive on which the file system is damaged. "

i.e. We broke it and we're dropping it like a hot potato because we can't fix it ourselves.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Get that thing outta my face.

[jozafeen.livejournal.com]

See that's what my old PC was doing but it went along with an horrific noise from the HD on boot so I have shunned it. Perhaps I should have another look at it.

[reddragdiva]

It's worth a try!

[ex-unagothae16.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the card!!!
Sorry, I forgot to let you know that I'd received it. It's adorable :)
I was hoping for another naked pinup girl, but cute is just as good and I love it just the same :)
THANK YOU!

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Wow, it even clears-up that lingering question I had (but was too afraid to ask) -- "Xenu" or "Xemu"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu#.22Xenu.22_or_.22Xemu.22.3F)

[reddragdiva]

I'll see what I can find you in the way of pinup girls ;-D