Go, Drosophila, Go

[filkertom]

Thanks to the vagaries of algorithms, a famous text on flies was briefly listed on Amazon for $23,698,655.93 (+$3.99 shipping).

Gotta love computers -- they don't do what you want, only what you tell them.

What's your latest twitchy software story? I've got a problem with USB drives not being recognized (I think it's a glitchy cable), and -- after several tries in the past -- my Win7x64 has finally recognized ASIO4ALL.

Comments

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

This one was a weirdie. It seems that, when Win XP gets a string of errors reading from a CD or DVD disk, it downgrades the drive from optimal DMA status to the slow, horrible PIO status so it can read "slower." But it never recovers. You have to run a little script and reboot your computer to reset it. I lucked into a web site that explains it: http://winhlp.com/node/10

The most common cause for this happening is a dirty or scratched CD or DVD disk. Which happens to a lot of disks, no matter what care we give them.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is very commonplace. when you can't access the net, a way to get it back up again is to delete the entire interface in System and let Windows rediscover it. Then it'll be at the right setting.

This is why I use SATA for everything now - no DMA mess to contend with.