Archive for April, 2006

XP rebuild

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Fred Langda got this one:

For example, if you already have some knowledge of the commands involved, many “Missing or corrupt HAL.DLL,” “Invalid Boot.Ini,” or “Windows could not start…” problems can be fixed with these five shortcut steps:

  • Boot from your XP Setup CD and enter the Recovery Console
  • Run “Attrib -H -R -S” on the C:\Boot.ini file
  • Delete the C:\Boot.ini file
  • Run “Bootcfg /Rebuild”
  • Run Fixboot

Dakota’s PC Build

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Dakota, Jade and I met yesterday to begin building a computer for Dakota. The goal here is to have Dakota put together all the parts for her computer. This picture is from the first day.

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Homeless housing solution?

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

“If the homeless runaways come up with any cash, they move into the Youth Hostel at 718 South Street (305)296-5719. They sleep 6 to a room, but it only costs $18.95 per night.”

Found that quote at  http://www.peeniewallie.com/2006/04/emergent_behavi_1.html

Think that would work in Medford? Set up a youth hostel and encourage the kids to rent a room and then over occupy it?

On one site they talked about the cultural need for a youth hostel…indicating that a city couldn’t be classed as international if it didn’t have one.

A search of Oregon Statutes for hostel didn’t really show anything regarding regulations. No search of Medford Municiple Code turned up anything either.

A search of Ashland Municiple Code did turn up some references. Unfortunately none of those lead to any full understanding of how Ashland treats the hostel.

Oh well, no easy set of links here. Phone calls now, I guess.

“Pyrotechnic fun”

Friday, April 7th, 2006

“Pyrotechnic fun”
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/05/pyrotechnic_fun_with.html