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Oh great. I now know how quirky the VT8235 southbridge is. BTTV and IDE banging DMA out is freezing it.

So I have a few choices:

I can remove the card -- but it's a good card! Downside is that there's some fuzziness, so I'm still running it off the VCR.
I can force DMA off on all my IDE drives... which is only a temporary solution. I can send a bug report to the Linux Kernel developers in the meanwhile.
I can switch to SCSI drives... which means looking for a 60 meg SCSI HD and a CD-RW.

Boy do I need a good job.

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you still don't have a job? What gives?

Folks just aren't hiring!!!

I find that hard to believe. I'd only believe that if:
1. You live in a BFN area
or
2. The stock market crashed.

If nobody is hiring, maybe you are applying to the wrong places, or not presenting the right way. From what I've read, you've last has a job as a cell phone dealer... and that was like last year or something.

I know I can live off 100$ a month if I was forced to, but that would be camping on someones front lawn or abusing my parents generosity. Right now I'm still at my parents house because I keep thinking my job is going to explode in my face.

I've been applying to the Baltimore and Washington DC area, and noone's hiring. Ugh.

Maybe I should look into a KeenSpot East Coast comicbook store...

*grumble*
take your rosy outlook and cram it where the economy is. that would be the manure pile behind the barn. like it or not, the numbers are bull. rose colored glasses? hell, they had it done with corneal surgery.
over 3 million jobs were lost. that means at least 3 million people were out of work. we've created i think the current number is 524,000 new jobs. out of 3 million. that still leaves a net loss of 2.5 million jobs. no, people aren't hiring. you know why? because they already hired everyone they needed, and they have more than enough applicants in case they get another opening again.

It makes me wonder if the Canadian economy is in a similar condition ("critical") as the US economy.

possibly, but some of the outsourcing the american companies are doing is going north of the border, just just to india.

Though, the thing is, americans can't understand indian english nearly as well as canadian english.

No offense, but it also sounds like you need a life too... What the hell are you talking about anyway?

--Mozdoc

Making my PC happy.

Let me tell you how different OS's play with the hardware.

Windows abuses hardware. It slaps it around, demands everything and more from it, and is probably the Sadam Hussein of OS's. It crashes hard and fast.

Linux, FreeBSD, even OS/2 took a different tact and loves the hardware, carressing it. You could say they would marry it... but then you have these differences between what Linux expects and what the hardware does. Think of it as asking for lasanga in English and getting a Korean pizza instead. The OS's are smart, knowing you have to ask for it in Korean... But sometimes it's off.

My computer freezes if I have heavy accesses to my HD while watching TV on it. The developer of the drivers for my TV capture card (the Linux bttv driver) said "Hey, if you're getting crashes with the hard drive and bttv active, it's a mobo chipset problem, try a few switches."

Whatever Striker... you can keep your Linux crap, I don't care. I'm not particullary in a pleasant mood at this moment to care and hear you blab about how great all your low grade stuff is.

--Mozdoc

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