I'm tempted to dial Barnacle 02's Bride Web Site for a Package Gal Deal.

Bah, no yum @ boogers.

Glenn may serve apples on silver platters with a side-order of green parsley? No shindig.

No kick Glenn's Plan either.

You know I'm enjoying it here.

But at a drop of a bucket- N.S.!

Ducks quack. barnacles smell fishy?

Bambage? You work for the NSA or FISA?

Know, I'll never marry, no date, no sip, or no kiss.

The Democrats DON'T CONTROL CONGRESS!!! People!!!

If that doesn't end as a point in the media and among our much revered pundits then the election is going to go decidedly against the democrats in 2008!

WHEN the democrats have over 60 votes in the senate, THEN you can crow about 'controlling Congress'. UNTIL that happens, don't say it!

It WILL come up in the next election on how the Democrats 'controlled' Congress and got absolutely NOTHING DONE!

No, of course not. Because Harry Reid has this cut and dried on/off switch in his brain that says: "Opposition = confrontational, Majority = conciliatory". The Republicans have no such little map, they are confrontational all the time, majority or minority.

So Republicans, while still in the majority but knowing they would lose it, deliberately refused to come up with a budget for the next fiscal year.

And now that they are in the minority, they are stifling the government, knowing that the Democrats will never call them on it because Harry Reid believes that if the Democrats confronted, it would be like when the Republicans shut down the government under Clinton = backfire.

So the President threatens a veto and Harry says "Yes, massa". The Republicans threaten to filibuster and Harry says "Yes massa". Never, ever call their bluff, Harry, somebody might not like you. Never make the President actually get out that veto pen, never make the Republicans actually snarl government with a filibuster. Massa will find a way to blame it on you Harry. Timid Harry. Just lie down and get walked over, while the Republicans execute their plan of making Congress look like it can't get the People's work done with the Democrats in charge. Never go to the microphones and tell people that the Republicans will be filibustering tonight, turn on your TV if you want to see what people look like when they defend spying on Americans, defend torturing prisoners, defend defying the Geneva conventions, defend loser strategies in Iraq. Just take every bill you propose and ask the Republicans if it would be okay to bring it to the floor today. At least the constant walking on kneepads keeps the Senate carpet clean, right Harry?

Did anyone post this yet?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20884696/site/newsweek/

Isikoff's "web exclusive" on the telecom's lobbying efforts toward retroactive immunity.

And bebop, ya wacky bastidge, the NSA won't have me because I never kiss and tell...

Just fielded a call from a DCCC fundraiser. Boy did he call at the wrong time. I unloaded on him. Told him he wouldn't see another dime from me, or a lot of other dems, if Congress didn't grow a spine soon. I almost, but not quite, felt sorry for him.

They want to run things like a corporation? Fine. Show me the results I expect for my money.

Bebop-o, it's unrealistic of me to think that my small contribution to the "outhouse" will float upstream in sufficient quantity to sully the rivers of the powers-that-be, but maybe they'll notice if enough of us poop on 'em. ;->

Hay.

Bambage says he'll not tell if I smooch up to you?

I batten down the outhouse door during wars and electrical storms. I'll sit there for 3 days or more and wonder if I can telephony who? Should I go to a Stop/Go blinking electric orange light and just swerve to the left/right? O, Be. Behave?

Be careful.

No hop like a hungry carrot eater bunny.

Be NO one to jump on a politico's band-wagon.

No pinch too hard. No be too angry at me either.

Lawbreaking is still illegal even if George Bush says it should be done. Does that principle really need to be explained?

Well, yes, actually! Fuller response at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/20/05058/0927

Thanks for this post. I would hate to get used to being "governed by surprise."

Thanks. Take care of that sinus infection, please.

Thanks for the kind words. It's appreciated. I haven't had many sinus infections in my 48 years on this dirt ball and it's killing me. All the ... well, you know the mess involved :-)

It's a Dell XPS200. It normally runs Windows XP. The software I was talking about boots freeDOS, and then runs the Watcom DOS extender, before loading, so it could be doing anything internally, the fact that it runs over DOS is not a limiting factor.

Wow, I haven't seen a DOS extender based proggie since Autocad R14 many years ago. So apparently the "cloning" program you use is DOS based to the max, meaning it won't even run in a typical DOS environment and instead needs a specially tweaked memory configuration. Well, that's how they "used" to run, needing a unique HIMEM.SYS statement for extended memory and possibly even expanded memory. All in all they were a bitch at times, tending to take over the whole machine.

What I meant by "mounting" was that on boot, the software asks if I need USB drivers. If I say no, the keyboard and mouse are accessed via DOS so the machine's BIOS functions provide access to them. If I say yes, then the software takes over all the USB control via drivers, thinking they are all storage resources, and in the process, overrides BIOS control of the mouse and keyboard, so it freezes waiting for keyboard input that never comes because it has overridden it.

So with that digression aside, basically you boot with this freeDOS disk, don't choose to use the USB drivers (otherwise you lose access to the KB and mouse) and either manually execute the cloning program or it runs automagically?

And when you did this previously, I assume your SATA drive was found without any issues? Mainly IIRC cloning programs could care less about partitions and format and simply make a sector-by-sector copy to a different media or location using its own propriety file format.

Now, the program doesn't see the drive at all, correct? And of course Windows XP can't boot from it as well, correct? Just wanted to verify that I am understanding correctly the whole situation.

If this is accurate let me know and I'll offer a few suggestions you can try (which you may have already done since I get the impression you aren't a total newbie neophyte) to ascertain for sure it's the drive and not something else like the controller or the motherboard or even the cabling.

HTH

-= KB4Hire