Oregon Update
Larry Jaques
First the freeze, which got my pipes and left me waterless, but only
for 8 hours.
Then the HVAC system went crazy, slowly losing its effectiveness to
warm the house over the past 3 days, able to run only 30-45 seconds at
a time. It was 57F this morning when I got up, the temp supposed to be
69F. The tech got here at 9 tis morning and left at 9:45 with a grin
on my face. The moisture drain tube had frozen up. We broke up the 9'
long 3/4" diameter icicle and she started working again. Whew!
Oh, and speaking of getting screwed, did I tell you guys about the
64GB thumb drive I ordered from China? It came in today and it's a
Sony. Beautiful little thing. It's marked 64GB and shows that to the
operating system, but it only holds about 4 gigs. I'd shoot the
little commie bastid who sold it to me but he's all the way around the
world. Now to see if eBay or Paypal will refund my fees...
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STOP LIVING LIKE VEAL
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F. George McDuffee
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Some of the high capacity thumb drives are set up with a small
partition that will show on your system when first plugged in and
which has a program you need to run to access/show the big
partition. The program I have is called launchU3. You can
password protect the big partition using the program.
Unka George (George McDuffee)
..............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).
Wes
>What a week.
>
>First the freeze, which got my pipes and left me waterless, but only
>for 8 hours.
Beats finding a hump in the floor from a burst pipe in the crawl space. DAMHIKT.
>
>Then the HVAC system went crazy, slowly losing its effectiveness to
>warm the house over the past 3 days, able to run only 30-45 seconds at
>a time. It was 57F this morning when I got up, the temp supposed to be
>69F. The tech got here at 9 tis morning and left at 9:45 with a grin
>on my face. The moisture drain tube had frozen up. We broke up the 9'
>long 3/4" diameter icicle and she started working again. Whew!
That sucks. I love my propane operated range. In a pinch, it will heat the house while
I'm there to keep an eye on things. I also have a wick type kerosene heater, that gets
broke out if I still don't have a furnace running, usually due to an electrical outage, no
way I'm leaving the burners on on my stove if I'm not home.
8F atm. Noticed it was getting a bit cold. Damn set back thermostat set back while I'm
still awake.
>
>Oh, and speaking of getting screwed, did I tell you guys about the
>64GB thumb drive I ordered from China? It came in today and it's a
>Sony. Beautiful little thing. It's marked 64GB and shows that to the
>operating system, but it only holds about 4 gigs. I'd shoot the
>little commie bastid who sold it to me but he's all the way around the
>world. Now to see if eBay or Paypal will refund my fees...
I think if you check the thread you posted about that, I was a bit skeptical. This fraud
has been rampant for camera memory chips for a long time.
Wes
--
"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller
Stormin Mormon
Try reformatting the disk before you send it back. Plug it
in, see the drive in windows explorer. Right click on the
thumb drive, and select "format disk". That should destroy
all the programming and crap you didn't want anyway.
--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
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"F. George McDuffee" <gmcd...@mcduffee-associates.us>
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Stormin Mormon
frozen drain. Now, slope the drain more steeply, and maybe
some heater tape?
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Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
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"Larry Jaques" <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote in
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Tim Wescott
> I hate that launch U-3 thing. All I want is storage space. Try
> reformatting the disk before you send it back. Plug it in, see the drive
> in windows explorer. Right click on the thumb drive, and select "format
> disk". That should destroy all the programming and crap you didn't want
> anyway.
A mere reformatting does not, as far as I know, partition a drive -- they
would have had to drastically change the format program.
'course, I'm not up on windows utilities. You want whatever passes for a
partition manager.
Tim Wescott
We got the freeze here, but lucked out (knock on wood) on the frozen
pipes.
What part of Oregon? I'm far enough away from Oregon City that I can
have dead cars on my property, yet still far enough away from Estacada
that my neighbors all have different last names*.
* I'm gonna get into trouble for that some day.
John R. Carroll
His OS doesn't support that capacity in the form factor.
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John R. Carroll
Buerste
"Larry Jaques" <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote in message
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Bad Karma from a previous life of stomping baby bunnies. And, this is only
the beginning! Work it all out now so that in the next life you will be a
professional Bikini-Waxer!
Tim Wescott
Huh. I knew those were usually formatted as FAT16, but I thought it was
just tradition. So Windows doesn't support formatting a thumb drive as
anything other than FAT16?
John R. Carroll
Depends on the version and the OS in my experience. His drive has a BIOS.
I've got a USB 2 external and an IDE internal drive here that 200 Pro will
only see at 100 GB but the 64 bit Version of XP Pro formats to300 GB. Even
using Acronis' partitioning software I can't get what I want out of 2000. I
believe it's an ATAPI dependency issue because the 300 GB Maxtor external is
fine on either computer.
The firmware on the device has to be supported by the OS at whatever
capacity you want to use. Sony might have a BIOS update.
I haven't bothered with hardware since the mid 90's when the money went out
of it.
LOL
--
John R. Carroll
Lewis Hartswick
> that my neighbors all have different last names*.
>
> * I'm gonna get into trouble for that some day.
>
...Lew...
Jim Wilkins
format it NTFS.
Larry Jaques
<clu...@lycos.com> scrawled the following:
>Larry Jaques <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote:
>
>>What a week.
>>
>>First the freeze, which got my pipes and left me waterless, but only
>>for 8 hours.
>
>Beats finding a hump in the floor from a burst pipe in the crawl space. DAMHIKT.
VERY true.
>>Then the HVAC system went crazy, slowly losing its effectiveness to
>>warm the house over the past 3 days, able to run only 30-45 seconds at
>>a time. It was 57F this morning when I got up, the temp supposed to be
>>69F. The tech got here at 9 tis morning and left at 9:45 with a grin
>>on my face. The moisture drain tube had frozen up. We broke up the 9'
>>long 3/4" diameter icicle and she started working again. Whew!
>
>That sucks. I love my propane operated range. In a pinch, it will heat the house while
>I'm there to keep an eye on things. I also have a wick type kerosene heater, that gets
>broke out if I still don't have a furnace running, usually due to an electrical outage, no
>way I'm leaving the burners on on my stove if I'm not home.
I hear that. I got an extra 2F bump from the electric stove while
waiting for the tech.
>8F atm. Noticed it was getting a bit cold. Damn set back thermostat set back while I'm
>still awake.
Brrr!
>>Oh, and speaking of getting screwed, did I tell you guys about the
>>64GB thumb drive I ordered from China? It came in today and it's a
>>Sony. Beautiful little thing. It's marked 64GB and shows that to the
>>operating system, but it only holds about 4 gigs. I'd shoot the
>>little commie bastid who sold it to me but he's all the way around the
>>world. Now to see if eBay or Paypal will refund my fees...
>
>I think if you check the thread you posted about that, I was a bit skeptical. This fraud
>has been rampant for camera memory chips for a long time.
The vendor had been on eBay for 2 years with 33 sales, 100% positive
feedback...until the week after I bought. Now there are 5 negs and
mine will soon make 6. Damn!
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Don't forget the 7 P's:
Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance
Larry Jaques
<kb1...@gmail.com> scrawled the following:
>In XP you have to set the flash drive to Performance, then you can
>format it NTFS.
Aha, it started formatting after that. We'll soon see...
"Windows is unable to complete the formatting of this drive."
<sigh>
whit3rd
<cayoung61**spambloc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I hate that launch U-3 thing. All I want is storage space.
> Try reformatting the disk
Not generally gonna work (the U3 partition is read-only, like a CD).
What does work, is the Sandisk utility (available from their website)
but even THAT is awkward for us Macintosh users. I have to
fire up my toy/game machine to do it...
On MacOS, the extra partition loads and puts an icon up, and it
can't always be unloaded. Little leftover icons, they only go
away after a reboot.
David Billington
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:00:35 -0800 (PST), the infamous Jim Wilkins
> <kb1...@gmail.com> scrawled the following:
>
>
>> In XP you have to set the flash drive to Performance, then you can
>> format it NTFS.
>>
>
> Aha, it started formatting after that. We'll soon see...
> "Windows is unable to complete the formatting of this drive."
> <sigh>
>
>
company I work for bought, it seemed that if you transferred too large a
file to it, but below the FAT limit of its file system, it would choke
and be unusable and would give the same or similar message and could not
be re-formatted. Probably not worth their time but I'll pass on the
information.
wmbjk...@citlink.net
I doubt that's the problem in this case.
This site's http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/ a bit muddled, but it
describes the tidal wave of fake flash memory from criminal vendors,
and tells you how to test, what your recourse is, etc. Bottom line: if
you see a flash memory deal that seems too good to be true, then it
probably is. Be especially wary of vendors who've taken the time to
build up good feedback records by selling cheap $ items like screen
protectors. Once they've got their feedback rating looking solid by
selling that stuff, they dump out a bunch of fake flash and then move
on to a new ID.
Wayne
Wes
>I hate that launch U-3 thing. All I want is storage space.
>Try reformatting the disk before you send it back. Plug it
>in, see the drive in windows explorer. Right click on the
>thumb drive, and select "format disk". That should destroy
>all the programming and crap you didn't want anyway.
The only 'good' thing about U3 is it gets around security on the boxen at work. Having
once worked in IT, that really is a bad thing but I was speaking from the lusers
perspective.
U3 devices require an utility to wipe out the U3 functionality.