Comments for papertowel.org http://papertowel.org the personal weblog of david nestor Tue, 22 May 2012 15:34:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on To Sleep–Perchance to Solve! by David http://papertowel.org/2012/05/to-sleep-perchance-to-solve/#comment-6061 David Tue, 22 May 2012 15:34:19 +0000 http://papertowel.org/?p=1300#comment-6061 The computer didn't come with an O/S, and I was transferring a drive image from another computer, so there was no guarantee that Windows 7 would boot. In the past, moving a Windows 7 drive image from another computer has worked fine because Windows 7 is designed to be mostly hardware-independent. However, in this case, I needed to reset the Windows drivers for the hard drive controller. For some reason Windows Startup Repair (which fixes most other incompatibilities) couldn't do that automatically for me. Once I figured it out, I just had to download and run <a href="http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24245" rel="nofollow">fix_7hdc.vbs</a>, which took all of five seconds. The computer didn’t come with an O/S, and I was transferring a drive image from another computer, so there was no guarantee that Windows 7 would boot. In the past, moving a Windows 7 drive image from another computer has worked fine because Windows 7 is designed to be mostly hardware-independent. However, in this case, I needed to reset the Windows drivers for the hard drive controller. For some reason Windows Startup Repair (which fixes most other incompatibilities) couldn’t do that automatically for me. Once I figured it out, I just had to download and run fix_7hdc.vbs, which took all of five seconds.

]]> Comment on To Sleep–Perchance to Solve! by Mark J. http://papertowel.org/2012/05/to-sleep-perchance-to-solve/#comment-6060 Mark J. Wed, 09 May 2012 04:28:10 +0000 http://papertowel.org/?p=1300#comment-6060 Sleep-thinking can work, but I think it's just a sub-class of removing oneself from the problem at hand. Other examples which have proven succesful for me are shower-thinking, commute-home-thinking, and people-watching-at-Disneyland-thinking. More interesting to me than the solution you came to while sleeping is the answer to the following question: What prevented you from returning a new computer which failed to boot for days? Sleep-thinking can work, but I think it’s just a sub-class of removing oneself from the problem at hand. Other examples which have proven succesful for me are shower-thinking, commute-home-thinking, and people-watching-at-Disneyland-thinking.

More interesting to me than the solution you came to while sleeping is the answer to the following question: What prevented you from returning a new computer which failed to boot for days?

]]> Comment on To Sleep–Perchance to Solve! by Dad http://papertowel.org/2012/05/to-sleep-perchance-to-solve/#comment-6059 Dad Tue, 08 May 2012 19:35:01 +0000 http://papertowel.org/?p=1300#comment-6059 Aren't you going to share with us your newly discovered insight on how to wake up a non-functioning computer in case the same thing happens to one of us papertowel.org readers? Aren’t you going to share with us your newly discovered insight on how to wake up a non-functioning computer in case the same thing happens to one of us papertowel.org readers?

]]> Comment on Nifty After Fifty by David http://papertowel.org/2012/01/nifty-after-fifty/#comment-6058 David Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:16:35 +0000 http://papertowel.org/?p=1294#comment-6058 The problem is: I never have anything to talk about that takes more than a sentence or two, so all I do is post on Facebook instead! The problem is: I never have anything to talk about that takes more than a sentence or two, so all I do is post on Facebook instead!

]]> Comment on Nifty After Fifty by gailn http://papertowel.org/2012/01/nifty-after-fifty/#comment-6057 gailn Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:06:31 +0000 http://papertowel.org/?p=1294#comment-6057 Is this really your "dummy blog" and you have another secret blog where you really talk about stuff? Is this really your “dummy blog” and you have another secret blog where you really talk about stuff?

]]> Comment on Nifty After Fifty by gailn http://papertowel.org/2012/01/nifty-after-fifty/#comment-6056 gailn Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:06:02 +0000 http://papertowel.org/?p=1294#comment-6056 Time for more blogging!!!!!! Time for more blogging!!!!!!

]]> Comment on Sweet ‘n’ Sour by Natalie http://papertowel.org/2012/01/sweet-n-sour/#comment-6052 Natalie Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:28:45 +0000 http://papertowel.org/?p=1295#comment-6052 lol! lol!

]]> Comment on Nifty After Fifty by gailn http://papertowel.org/2012/01/nifty-after-fifty/#comment-6049 gailn Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:08:29 +0000 http://papertowel.org/?p=1294#comment-6049 Now we know how Mark Parisi gets his ideas. Now we know how Mark Parisi gets his ideas.

]]> Comment on “No Way To Handle Things, Who Made Me So Bad” by Foge http://papertowel.org/2008/10/no-way-to-handle-things-who-made-me-so-bad/#comment-6043 Foge Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:47:05 +0000 http://papertowel.org/wp/2008/10/no-way-to-handle-things-who-made-me-so-bad/#comment-6043 It's good to see someone tnhiknig it through. It’s good to see someone tnhiknig it through.

]]> Comment on Too Many Location-Based Social Networks by gailn http://papertowel.org/2011/12/too-many-location-based-social-networks/#comment-6040 gailn Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:51:15 +0000 http://papertowel.org/?p=1291#comment-6040 amen amen

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