Re: [techtalk] Re; Smoking kills!

2000-12-16 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:06:46AM +0100 or thereabouts, Magni Onsoien wrote: > David Merrill: > > > Sounds like a good idea. Should work in a washing machine as well, > > > shouldn't it? I use to take mine intop the shower, that's also a bit > > > cool. "I just had a shower with my keyboard today

Re: [techtalk] Re; Smoking kills!

2000-12-16 Thread Magni Onsoien
Telsa Gwynne: > I cleaned my dec keyboard out simply by > (a) my husband demonstrating the necessity by shaking it over me > (there are times when I could cheerfully hit him...) > (b) giving it a good rattle myself over the bin > (c) pulling all the cruft I could find out o

[techtalk] [techtalk] Using CD-Rom drives with linux.

2000-12-16 Thread Tania M. Morell
hi, CDRDAO sounds like what I need so I downloaded it along with pccts (which is required to install cddrdao). I installed pccts successfully, but now when I go to install cdrdao, I get this, and the error at the bottom: [root@caladan cdrdao]# rp

Re: [techtalk] Re; Smoking kills!

2000-12-16 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 03:52:54PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Magni Onsoien thought: > > Hehe :) Someone once spilled a bottle of Coke into som DEC-server some > years ago. The server continued and reached an uptime of ~400 days > before it sympathy booted together with it's sister.