Ask me anything

[alevensalor]

I want the rest of the DUers to stop picking on me for being so... well, small on the post counter, if you get me, so go ahead, ask me anything. I'm a software engineer and computer geek, so any tech questions are cool.

~A!

[Lefta Dissenter]

1. why won't my win98

quick restore work??? It keeps giving me error messages, even after I totally erased the entire hard drive first, per compaq's instructions.

There, that could get you up a few posts!

[alevensalor]

6. Ok

So you completely scrubbed the machine (formatted the hard drive), and are booting from the CD-ROM, or a floppy disk?

What error messages are you receiving specifically?

~A!

[Lefta Dissenter]

12. completely scrubbed

then booting with the compaq quickrestore disks (edited to clarify that they're CD's) that also format the hd. The last error message appeared after the first disk had been whirring and counting along, all looking good, and then it seemed to lock up (no more counting up) and I got the QuickRestore Error #134: 9 Please contact Compaq Service or Dealer message. That's never good. :argh:

[alevensalor]

14. Yeah, that's bad

Sounds like a problem reading from the disk. Try cleaning it, or buffing it off, check it for scratches and all that, you know?

~A!

[Lefta Dissenter]

20. Okey

Dokey! Thanks.

Hey, look, you're up to 200 posts!

Now you'll only occasionally get a :hi: 'welcome to DU!' :hi:

or a 'See ya, Freeper'

[achtung_circus]

2. Why is the sky blue? nt

[alevensalor]

Well I think

It has something to do with the Democratic states being on the coast. Liberal conspiracy, don'chaknow.

~A!

[achtung_circus]

11. WRONG

The skly is blue as a result of the refraction of light rays through the atmosphere reflecting the blue end of the spectrum.

[alevensalor]

15. I know, I was trying to be cute.

:spank:

[IronLionZion]

44. wrong! the sky is not blue!

it's clear as smog!

[achtung_circus]

46. Come across the lake.

Although the ferry apparently went tits-up. The sky was blue here today.

[IronLionZion]

47. ooh Toronto! I'm coming the weekend after Thanksgiving

I was joking about the smog. There's no smog in Rochester! :P

[achtung_circus]

51. But...

Thanksgiving is in October?????

[GingerSnaps]

3. What's the average length of a butt crack?

:shrug:

[alevensalor]

10. I'm going to have to guess....

About twice as long as the t'aint.

~A!

[qnr]

4. How are these related: Stella, Colleen, Candy?

[alevensalor]

16. Not a clue

Chick's names is the best I can come up with.

~A!

[qnr]

23. Well, just trying to up your post count :) For future reference:

 Stella: Atari in-house name for the 2600 project
Colleen: Atari in-house name for the Atari 400 project
  Candy: Atari in-house name for the Atari 800 project

[alevensalor]

24. Wow, that's awesome!

I did not know that! Thanks!

~A!

[achtung_circus]

5. Why does a tiger have stripes? nt.

[alevensalor]

21. To hide from Republicans. Duh!

[katinmn]

7. Are Bush and Rice boinking each other?

[alevensalor]

13. that's pretty awful

Thanks for the mental picture. I can see it now:

CONDI: "George, oh... you're such a great husb...mmmm..president."

Fucking uggh.

~A!

[katinmn]

25. here's one of him looking down her shirt

[alevensalor]

32. Wow.

You're fucking sick.

But you know that.

~A!

[achtung_circus]

8. How do they

get the caramel in the Caramilk?

[alevensalor]

18. I have never heard of caramilk

So I dunno.

~A!

[achtung_circus]

26. Cadburys Caramilk

Milk chocolatey pockets with golden caramel filling. Also of note is an advert for this bar which ran in Canada for many years which asked the question what is the secret of Caramilk? i.e How do they get the liquid caramel centre inside the chocolate bar. There are many discussions and heated debates on usenet about how it's done!

You broke 200.
Rock on!!

[alevensalor]

31. People will fight about anything, eh?

Yeah, 200+ Woo-Hoo!! I'm home!

I love you, you democratic undergrounders, you!

~A!

[katinmn]

9. oooooooohhh. You wanted computer related questions.

[alevensalor]

19. Any questions are cool

[seraph]

17. Ever see "Logan's Run"? n/t

[alevensalor]

22. No but I heard it was good.

[seraph]

27. There is a place called Blockbuster.....

Old movie, but quite good for it's time. It still stands up as a decent flick.

[alevensalor]

30. Blockbuster?

What is this magical video wonderland of which you speak?

~A!

[achtung_circus]

28. Who's been picking on you?

I want names!

[alevensalor]

29. Nobody, Rove told me to say that.

;)

[achtung_circus]

33. Good.

Well, not that you are following Rove's instructions, you understand. Good that no one here has been naughty. But tell me more about this Rove person of whom you speak.

[alevensalor]

39. Well, he's not very nice.

He beats me, espacially if I say the C-word.

~A!

[achtung_circus]

40. Condeleeza?

cuneiform?

[alevensalor]

41. Shhhh!

No, c-c-c-Constitution. *shudder*

~A!

[Der Blaue Engel]

34. Why can't 123-4567 be a phone number? n/t

[Der Blaue Engel]

35. Why can't it be MY number?

[achtung_circus]

38. Well, it can

anything to keep you happy and non-violent- just step away from the cat.

[achtung_circus]

36. Because the prefix "1"

routes you into the long distance system.

[alevensalor]

37. What achtung said.

[UrbScotty]

42. What does Uranus look like? (nt)

[alevensalor]

48. Brown. Cloudy.

~A!

[Endangered Specie]

43. Is it acceptable to call '~' a squiggle,

or is that blaspheme... and what is it REALLY called?!

[alevensalor]

49. It is called a tilde.

Pronounced till-day.

n : a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization

~A!

[IronLionZion]

45. what does your DU name mean? nt

[dreamcollector]

50. Have you had any Kerry Dreams?

I'm collecting them for a book. Bush?

[alevensalor]

52. I had one

where I was talking with a coworker about how my son (whos is 11 mos old) got his draft card in the mail. Freaky.

~A!

[alevensalor]

53. Very simple

First letter of my first name (Anthony), and my full last name.

~A!