OT: A True Loss

[Trajan]

Pay-day looms near, and I will transfer a bit of wealth to the PBW efforts.

[rdouglass]

Hey Atrocities,

I've been reading about your string of bad luck (I'm not so sure I'd call it all luck, however). I can maybe help out. I do have a significant number of spare parts - power supplies, mthrbds, etc. and I'm pretty sure I have a motherbd that'll hold that P2 if you need one. I'd be glad to send something your way if you need it.

PM me if you need something.

[oleg]

Indeed, there is no any piece of bad luck in Atrocities' ordeal. He should know better before touching anything ST related. Anyway, if any other efforts to resurect his site fail, I have secured some space in one russian provider. Connection speed might be a problem but they do not give a damn about any ST-nazis complaints for sure.

[Trajan]

Now there is an idea. Use a "corrupt" Russian(sorry for any offense to Russian members of the community) provider. They don't give a fig about USA trekkie concerns. And maybe if they really proactive they will help you with "dispute resolution" Joe Stalin Style.

[Atrocities]

You guys crack me up.

rdouglass, thanks for the offer, but I too have tons of spare parts. I was going to take the parts that are still good and build a new P4 system. I loved my P2, and still have no clue as to way it crashed and burned. I think perhaps the Power supply or the Chip toasted.

It made a loud POP while booting, continued to boot, then Popped again, everything went down, and then the smoke came out. Pulled the panel, and could not find the source of the smoke.

Then today while starting up this PC, Scandisk (Win2k) says that my new secondary drive (HD) has errors and has to be repaired. That was a surprise. (I had killed a bunch of ad ware programs before shutting it down Last night.)

That or the damned HD is about to fricking fail again. Will be the second HD from Western Digital to fail in 6 months. They will replace it of course, but with what? The used, burned out one I had to give them in order to get this used burned out one? Hummmm

Oh by the way, my shiney new Sony Digital DVCam Corder that Sears sold to me as new... Well, why does the memory card have pictures of people sitting around a lodge up at Mt Hood? The damn thing is used! Any suggestions on how to approach this?

[oleg]

Originally posted by Trajan:
Now there is an idea. Use a "corrupt" Russian(sorry for any offense to Russian members of the community) provider. They don't give a fig about USA trekkie concerns. And maybe if they really proactive they will help you with "dispute resolution" Joe Stalin Style.

No offence is taken because they are not corrupt - they got no two kopieks for hosting sites like this. The major difference is that most russian sites are not triger happy about any kneejerk reaction of outlander jerks. They will certainly react very severely to any complaints from legal copyright owner (paramaount pictures in this case) but they are not legally responcible to moral distress of every other loser on the net !

[Dracus]

Look in the power supply for a bad cap or burnt resister