Lightning Rod Gets The Zot

The Poet's Eye ^ | Lightning Rod

[Anoreth]

I’m sure they profit somehow by adding new programs, else they wouldn’t bother.

[Tax-chick]

New cookbooks, and also it keeps members interested and attending meetings.

Sally decided to try finding common denominators by adding the original denominators together. Sigh.

[Anoreth]

Ah, yes. New math.
Today I’m going to buy flannel shirts and another blanket.

[sionnsar]

What happens when she tries to boot it? How far before it hangs, or displays error messages, or whatever?

[Tax-chick]

I think I’m going to order a complete set of Key To Fractions.

[Dead Corpse]

Pull the plug. Plug it back in again.

Either that, or press and hold the power button for a slow 10 count.

As long as it was only a software issue, it should come back up ok. If MS wants to check the file system prior to logging in, have it do so.

[Tax-chick]

She gets a black and white text screen, dialogue for “safe mode,” does a time, and then returns to dialogue for safe mode.

[Tax-chick]

She did that.

[ColdOne]

Morning!

[Dead Corpse]

Once it's off, have her turn it back on again and see what happens...

If something occurred to let the Magic Smoke out, the above suggestion won't have much effect.

[Tax-chick]

She thinks its spirit has departed.

[Dead Corpse]

If she knows how to get the cover off, she could try to blow the (standard, non-mutant) dust bunnies out and see if it just over heated.

Is it beeping at all? Any fans going? Drives spinning up? Anything on the monitor?

[sionnsar]

Morning. It’s a cold one here, snow and below-freezing temps. Sunny though.

[ColdOne]

Where are you? It is 11F right now for us.

[HKMk23]

Cool-ish, raining, snow down below 3,000ft, I-80 closed over Donner — looking like a very promising snow season up on top of the Sierra. Thanksgiving Day expecting clear skies but no temps topping the mid-50’s.

[HKMk23]

And NOW, NEWS from the cutting edge of physics...

[HKMk23]

Seriously, though...

These guys here appear to be working on some really interesting technology we could tap into to get the castle resupplied from low Earth orbit.

A couple of tidbits from their web page:

Our goal is to deliver propellant to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at less than 10% of the current cost. By using hydrogen gas gun launchers we will attain costs of $500/lb at the pump in LEO

Our solution blends a Jules Verne/Robert Heinlein concept of gun launch to space with 21st century hydrogen gas gun technology.

[Lee'sGhost]

Jumping in the middle of this, so may have been covered already.

I just had the same problem with company laptop. It was a bad hard drive. She should be able to interrupt the initial boot process and run diagnosis to determine such.

FWIW

[Tax-chick]

Thanks. She says the hard drive was used when she got it two years ago, and it now appears to be totally dead-o.

It’s tiresome being dependent on technology with such a short useful life!

[HKMk23]

You might also take a look at stuff from Teaching Textbooks. The combined audio/visual presentation, coupled with the keyboard/mouse input interface engages more of the human senses which makes the material connect more readily with every child’s learning style.

Son #2, in particular, was highly resistant to the read/write format of traditional workbook-type curricula, but absolutely took off once we set him up with the Teaching Textbooks Math program.

Check it out at their website, http://teachingtextbooks.com/ , but look through eBay and check with your local homeschool community to see about buying it used.