I am often my own worst enemy...

Hehe, one reason why I never, ever throw away memory when I take an old box out of service. Once I was able to sell some memory that was no longer being made and got a pretty good price for it.

Backing up (imaging with IFD) the college laptop. Using an extra laptop hard drive connected externally.  "It's dead Jim."  I laugh. I cry. Just can't get the sucker to spin up. Ready to throw it in the trash.  Shut everything down and go to unplug the power adapters.  I laugh. I cry.  I've got the wrong power adapter plugged in...not the one to the externally connected hard drive. Oh well...what's a half-hour compared to some of my goofs. LOL

Originally posted by Don Watkins Welcome to my world....

But at least it's not.....answer here

Good. Cool.

Now...why does it ring a bell (the video scenes)?

My daughter pointed out the "supernatural" in a comment someone left. I thought they were just making a reference to the supernatural in general...didn't know it was a TV series. (Goes to show how much TV I watch anymore.)

I feel your "blueness" altho I've never had that problem yet.  I try awful hard to avoid those inks and have ..... so far.  Recently I took my Canon print head thru some extreme remedies trying to get it straightened out with much colored hot water and alcohol and other concoctions.  Not real sure it worked yet.  For some reason I can't get the software to order the printer to deep clean the jets. 

Don - I think you are way out on top with the ink cartridges.  I and needles don't get along under any circumstance, for any reason.  I wish they would perfect giving shots with a hammer hit to the hand.

Karl - You might try Palmolive Green dish washing liquid along with scrubbing with a brush.  It's the best cleaning solution I know of, other than gasoline.  Gasoline just doesn't go well with the brushing part, IMHO.

Have an old Seagate external USB drive that's so small that it's not really useful any longer but I figured hey, let's just throw another drive in it, have a bunch of those laying around.

A real puzzler how it was put together, not even a screw visible and sometimes moving that plastic around doesn't turn out so well.

But finally I did without breaking anything.

Then remove 12 screws before getting to the meat of it.

It wasn't beef, it was pork. That is an IDE interface and all my spares are SATA.

I did get it back together and it actually works but an hour down the tubes.

Yet another growth opportunity.

Hehe, yah. But now I know, it can be done, I'll just try and make sure that next time it's a SATA drive.

LOL!  I sure do enjoy the beasts.  There is so much satisfaction when you figure out something.  Like, I thought I had it worked out where I could keep different OSs from breaking each other by installing them on separate drives. heh, heh... The new Ubuntu, version 9.10, now has grub 2.  It will fiddle with the mbr on the other drives in your box!!!  Bah!  Messed up my perfectly good Win7 RC setup.

Oh yeah, beware of grub 2.