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"Tom56" <buzz56@removethis.rogers.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Lawn Dart,
> So I guess it's safe to say you'll never flash your Bios to the latest
> version. hehe
> Tom
> heh couldn't resist...
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>
> Lawn Dart wrote:
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> > Hi Marcel,
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:41:50 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hiya Melissa...err Lawn Dart!
> >
> >
> >
> >>LOL!!! You finally changed your moniker, eh? I can't believe you
> >>listened to a crazy Texan who goes by the name of Dallas.
> >
> >
> > Hee hee! The "call sign" has indeed grown on me (thanks Dallas!), and
> > after "Sparrow", who's opinion on everything aeronautical I respect
> > without reservation, expressed a liking for the "call sign", I've
> > decided to accept my fate and be forevermore known to the simulated
> > flight community as "Lawn Dart".
> >
> > Perhaps if I ever do acquire my own "real world" flying contraption
> > (be it a "real" plane or "ultralight"), I may indeed have to have my
> > "Lawn Dart" call sign affixed to it. Sort of like the long since
> > grounded "Kiwi Airlines" (a name I thought was absolutely wonderful
> > for an airline, considering at least one of its possible meanings!).
> > ;-)
> >
> >
> >>>I have an old 386 notebook computer from 1994 (it was called a
> >>>"laptop" back then)...
> >
> >
> >>I have a year old notebook and still call it a laptop.
> >>Why did they change that anyway?
> >
> >
> > And who are "they" anyway, to go about willy nilly changing names of
> > this or that?!
Of course, come to think of it, I rarely ever
> > actually put the little computer on my lap, as it just wasn't the
> > most comfortable position from which to type.
> >
> >
> >>You could just have a look in the BIOS and study the various
> >>options. There's always the possibility of exiting it without
> >>saving any changes you might have accidentally made.
> >
> >
> > I have thought about that, and may indeed do it someday, but the BIOS
> > is something so scary to me that if I really have no great need to go
> > into it, I'll simply avoid dealing with it at all...just to be "extra
> > safe".
> >
> >
> >>I once downloaded a program, can't remember which one that was but
> >>it was a long time ago, and during the install I got a message box
> >>on the screen instructing me to adjust some of the BIOS settings
> >>according to the 'read me' file. Yeah right! And now you're gone,
> >>program!
> >
> >
> > This seems a reasonable enough approach to me!
After all, what it
> > adjustments to the BIOS have the desired effect on the program in
> > question, but affects other things in a not so desired way? Knowing
> > as little as I do about the BIOS, unless the program very explicitly
> > explained any and all possible "side effects" of such an adjustment,
> > I would be wary of just going ahead with such a thing just to satisfy
> > one program.
> >
> > - --
> > Melissa
> >
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