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On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 22:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sunday 25 July 2010 10:18:33 Dale wrote: |
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> > Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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> > > When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. |
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> > And I would stand guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around. |
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> > ;-) Cutting power during all this wold not be good. |
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> Here in Africa we use pythons for that. |
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> Real genuine live 10 foot snakes. In a terrarium of course. |
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> Trust me, it takes about 30 seconds after the first housekeeping person sees |
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> it until none of them goes anywhere near your stuff. |
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> :-) |
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I like the idea of pythons, as they swallow the prey whole its much less |
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messy than the redback spiders suggested for use here in West Oz ... |
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someone would have to clean up the bodies in the morning. |
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Must be a coincidence, didnt update the MBR after installing grub and |
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failed to boot this morning - though the signs are more like disk |
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failure - even the live CD isnt helping :( |
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Another job for tonight when I get home. |
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BillK |
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