Randomness 4, Randomness Rebooted

xkcd *** · Post by xkcd *** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:07 pm

bobtheenchantedone wrote:Has anyone else noticed we have had several registered users on at any given time for most of the day? Or am I the only one that's been on that often today?

Don't worry, you're not the only one without a life at the moment. I've noticed too.

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:18 pm

Glad to know I'm in good company. : D

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:17 pm

I submitted a question, that is (I think) fun, and should have a very interesting answer.

orb360 · Post by **orb360** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 4:42 pm

Spontaneous Human Combustion...

That is _definitely_ how I want to die...

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:21 pm

You're more likely to spontaneously combust while wearing slippers.

Unit of Energy · Post by **Unit of Energy** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:02 pm

When I'm old and married, I figured that the best way to go is by carbon monoxide poisoning. Katydid and I had an odd conversation about this the other day. I decided on several other ways to go as well, just as long as I'm not widowed I don't really care. A tragic car accident would work too, but carbon monoxide poisoning is less painful.

Unit of Energy · Post by **Unit of Energy** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:03 pm

Is spontaneous cumbustion painful?

orb360 · Post by **orb360** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:00 pm

I dunno...

But it would be a cool death

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:50 pm

I have always wanted to die by laughter ever since I saw Mary Poppins as a little kid. And then I got asthma, and now if I laugh long enough I can die. The world's funny like that.

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:22 am

If you will something to be hard enough, it can be.

yellow m&m · Post by **yellow m&m** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:22 am

Does anyone know anything about imac g3's? I'm having a little trouble, and neither Nanti or I can figure it out.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:53 am

A link M&M shared with me. Please don't be eating anything upon reading this, it might cause some problems with breathing.

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:25 am

yellow m&m wrote:Does anyone know anything about imac g3's? I'm having a little trouble, and neither Nanti or I can figure it out.

What's the problem?

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:29 am

Fredjikrang wrote:
yellow m&m wrote:Does anyone know anything about imac g3's? I'm having a little trouble, and neither Nanti or I can figure it out.
What's the problem?

Well she has OS 9.2 or so, and we're trying to view files from her thumb drive and external hard drive. When we plug in the hard drive to the usb, nothing happens, nothing appears on the desktop, nor does the user preferences/control panel thingy register it. The thumb drive registers in the mac control panel but we're still unable to view files as the icon for it doesn't show up on the desktop either. The usb drives appear to work fine, because if you plug in the mouse or keyboard to them, those work just fine.

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:36 am

Sounds like a formatting issue with the drives. Do you know what they are currently formatted as?

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:37 am

Fredjikrang wrote:Sounds like a formatting issue with the drives. Do you know what they are currently formatted as?

If I recall, the thumb drive was fat32, but Yellow M&M would have to confirm that for me.

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:48 am

Hm. It should be able to mount a fat32 drive.

Here are some other things I found:

"Then check if your External Hard Drive is listed in the Apple System Profiler. If the driver listed is â€œUSB Authoring Supportâ€ or â€œToast USB Supportâ€, disable this Extension(s) in the Extensions Manager. These Extensions can cause a conflict with the Drive."

"A local MS-DOS (FAT32) volume, whether a whole disk or a partition, will not appear in the Finder ("mount") if it is larger than 128 GB."

The second obviously doesn't apply to the thumb drive,

yellow m&m · Post by **yellow m&m** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:47 pm

It just calls it USBMassStorageDriver. stupid thing.

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:09 pm

My friends, I love you all with affection unspeakable for the delight which has been provided this day.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:12 pm

bobtheenchantedone wrote:My friends, I love you all with affection unspeakable for the delight which has been provided this day.

Because you got in on the posting action today? Of course it was our fault that the last one was Sunday at one in the morning... (Not lying, you can check those times.)