From: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti+fossil woes
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:59:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031119055935.GL65844@cassie.foobarbaz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311190451.hAJ4pol09651@augusta.math.psu.edu>
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:51:50PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
> Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com> writes:
> > Unfortunately, the BIOS setup for this particular machine
> > (an old Dell optiplex) seems mostly neutered. You can't do
> > anything you describe. Considering it's a Dell, I am leaning
> > very heavily toward buggy BIOS. I have an extra case and
> > (decent) motherboard that I can moves the entire system to,
> > so I think I will try that and see if I get more reasonable
> > behavior.
> >
> > Never send a desktop to do a server's work. *sigh*
>
> Dude! You got screwed by a Dell!!
Hah!
> (Okay, sorry; I realize this must be frustrating, and I mean no
> animosity, but I couldn't resist the illusion to the infamous
> ``Dell Dude.'')
Yes, very frustrating, and I know you mean no animosity.
Humor is good at times like these.
Thanks. :)
--
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-19 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-14 23:18 Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-14 23:23 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-14 23:34 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-14 23:37 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-14 23:43 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-15 0:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-15 1:00 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-14 23:43 ` boyd, rounin
[not found] ` <20031116013757.GO834@cassie.foobarbaz.net>
2003-11-18 12:40 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-18 14:08 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-18 15:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-18 22:35 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-18 23:10 ` jmk
2003-11-18 23:18 ` mirtchov
2003-11-18 23:30 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-18 23:59 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-19 0:35 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-19 1:12 ` okamoto
2003-11-19 4:51 ` Dan Cross
2003-11-19 5:59 ` Christopher Nielsen [this message]
2003-11-19 0:03 ` jmk
2003-11-19 0:20 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-20 6:04 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-20 9:26 ` C H Forsyth
2003-11-20 10:14 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-18 15:36 ` SPAM: " jmk
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