In a message dated 9/2/01 16:08:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>It is necessary is that you maintain body contact with the computer
>so that both of you are the same potential.
Dear Jr,
Yes, without question you are right in all that you say. And this is what
scares the beejabers out of me in providing advice to people who might dare
try stuff without researching the holy mother loving chit out of the subject.
The "finer" points of this procedure aren't usually followed. It blows me
away that someone will try something simply because someone told them to. All
I see are fat fingers with loads of rings.
I wake up in night sweats.
Stop and think. I don't care if a person doesn't know squat about computers
or electronics ..... if it doesn't make sense, then don't do it! Good lord,
NOTHING is magical about the appliance we use. Apple made this stupid
computer thinger an appliance. It shouldn't be anything more than that.
A lot of questions have been coming up that we've talked about already. I
know that the history file can't be maintained since the very beginning.
Bless your heart "Mom" for even having the interest with the StarMax computer
in the first place .... you will find such great rewards in your next life. I
won't repeat something that came up before. If you don't like it then bitch
to "mom."
I can't answer stuff about USB and I can't talk about stuff that pertains to
OS 8 or later (although I run a computer under OS 9). I know squat about CDRW
and all the hi-breds because it was never necessary for me to learn these
things. I do know basic things about OS 1.0 through 7.6 though. I know SCSI
like the back of my hand. I've learned a great deal about the IDE drives,
but I've learned that I haven't learned enough about them. I know this
business about PRAM and how the Mac polls and searches for an OS.... ANY
operating system ANYWHERE. I also know that what you tell the Mac go look for
as a start up disk isn't always what it will look for first.
The thing that I've learned that is tried and true from the first issue of
the MacIntosh line is one must always work the simplest solution first and
then go on from there. Even before the Mac was birthed, when computer
"errors" were brought before us, we always asked to see the three ring circus
.... you must repeat the problem three times. Three rings is a charm. I don't
care who you are (corporate America or the lonely user), you paid your
nickel. You must prove that you've played three times. Three times. Three
times. Three times. Don't forget that number.
Three rings is still a charm even today. Sure, sure, there are so many of us
that want to help .... we all really want to help but some of us can't. Lord,
some of us actually do help but a lot of us try to help and make things even
worse. It is getting harder and harder to tell who can help and who can't. I
thought I could help for a time but I see now that my help is so terribly
limited. I'll never find my third ring. I believe that I am finished in what
I can do here. I know that the last thing that I can help you all with is to
remind you of the trinity .... make solid verification three times
Before I go, I want to tell you something This "blessed drive" thinger makes
me even more nervous than my husband's blood sugar dropping some 40 points.
Yes, there is something about an "apple blessed drive" but you guys make it
out like we need this blessing crap in order for the human race to breath
again . I'm game to believe. I want to believe. It isn't right though. Not
true under OS 1.0 through 7.x as all you need is a system folder that the
computer recognizes as some sort of OS for the Mac. In my experience this
doesn't matter if the OS in a floppy, an IDE drive, or a SCSI drive. As in
the very beginning, the Mac looks first to floppy, then to any and all
attacthed perireferals for an operating system. If an operating system can't
be found then a the infamous Mac with a question mark is displayed. I know
that things changed with OL 8 and 9,
All the same you guys make me nervous.
Linda
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