Knut Arvid Keilen <kkeilen@frisurf.no> Thou hollow-hearted friend. Thou
idle rascal. Thou fatal screech-owl. Thou dishonest satan. Ye henpecked
and ye confounded:

> Here is a good advice based on personal experience: Never mess with
> jumpers on hard discs !
>
> The explanations for the jumper settings are not always very good.
>
> There are typically two settings you can make for a hard disk (IDE
> and maybe also SATA type).
>
> The first one is for master (or single) mode. The other one is for
> slave mode.
>
> I tried a third one on a hard disc that contained multimedia files and
> pictures. I lost everything.
>
> At that time I did not have the recovery software on floppy discs.
>
> So do not mess with the jumpers !

Real meaning: "My wife found my porn collection and formatted my hard disk!"

--
alt.usenet.kooks - Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker:
September 2005, April 2006, January 2007.

"K-Man's particular genius, however, lies not merely in his humour,
but his ability to make posters who had previously seemed reasonably
well-balanced turn into foaming, frothing, death threat-uttering
maniacs" - Snarky, Demon Lord of Confusion

Fuckwitted alt.atheism atheist to Kadaitcha Man:
"Imagine if I were to suggest "I have a prehensile tail". You
would, naturally, ask for evidence."

Kadaitcha Man in reply to fuckwitted alt.atheism atheist:
"Not at all. I would unquestionably accept your admission to being
a monkey."

"I have forgotten more about IT than both you sorry bitches combined."
DUHane Arnold in <r_myh.20067$yx6.64@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.n et>

Snarky: "I think 'Wolfy's taking the piss..."
Kadaitcha Man: "In which orifice?"