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Wiro Posted Dec 12, 2004
My dad wants to know if you want some A4 paper?
and when are you due back?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Dec 12, 2004
A4 paper could come in handy, but I'm not desperate as I just bought 1000 sheets. As for when I'm due back, I'm not entirely sure at the moment. I'm waiting for a lift round to Alan Bisset's with a DVD drive for his new(ish) PC; we may fit it, or we might just drop it off and hit a supermarket. Either way, it'll probably take more than an hour.
That is, when George finally shows up... 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Dec 12, 2004
He just 'phoned; I'm off out now. Back in an hour or so - I'll post here when I'm "in"... 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Dec 12, 2004
I just got back in and dumped my shopping. 
The whole thing took a little longer than expected. 
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Wiro Posted Dec 12, 2004
My dads started drinking 
What times are you going to be in tomorrow? he is going to be going about town.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Dec 12, 2004
In theory I'll be in all day.
In practice I might not be awake before, say, 11am...
It's just been one of those weekends. 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Dec 13, 2004
DVD player just arrived... 
Yup, he went to the wrong house last time. 
I gave him some homebrew 
to try...
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Wiro Posted Dec 13, 2004
cool, and i was so adimently told that it would have been the right house even though he couldn't remmeber of the number that he rand just the letter.
Ah so thats whats in the bottled I nearlly sat on.
How do I make linux mount a partition when it turns on, and also for some reason i can't change the permisions when i do mount it to let anyone write to it other than root.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Dec 13, 2004
Somewhere in the "/boot" partition, I seem to remember a plain text file called "mountlist", where you... er... list the drives to mount at bootup. 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Dec 13, 2004
It could have been elsewhere... I haven't actually installed Linux for about three years.
Try asking on your thread in the Programmers' Corner.
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Wiro Posted Dec 13, 2004
I sort of have there lol, don't think i have said anything about the mouting automatically, but have said soemthing about not being able to set up permisisons to let me write to the drives.
thanks anyway
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Wiro Posted Jan 5, 2005
I don't spose that you happen to have a power adapter for a Dell Inspiron 7500.
Either working or duff.
If duff, the problem being somewhere other than the conenctor to the laptop, so that the connector could be taken off and spliced to a working adapter.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jan 5, 2005
Sadly, no, but Maplin have (probably) still got generic laptop PSUs reduced from £39.95 to £19.95...
btw, I passed on the DVD player to my pal James; he says "Thanks!". I just got my new DVD recorder, and I'm off to wire it in... 
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