My guess was that he was referring to the condition of San Francisco Bay and shorelines north, in the wake of the oil spill. <br>When I first half-heard the news reporter, I was attempting a frustrating install onto a pcmcia hard drive and I thought, "tarballs?" and envisioned tape carts and floppy disks littering <span id="marin_default">Rodeo and Stinson Beaches. Couldn't reconcile how they could be hurting the waterfowl, though...<br><br>Question: Anyone else having trouble with Ubuntu 7.10 recognizing pcmcia IDE devices? I was trying to prep one for use on a pc/104 '486 using my laptop. </span><span id="marin_default">Four different models of pcmcia hdd ranging from 340MB to 2GB, all result in a "cannot set transfer mode" error and timeout. </span><span id="marin_default">Earlier kernels are okay, other distros no problem (I tried DSL and Breezy CD's) and there are mentions in the kernel bug lists going back a year, but I've not
yet correlated version numbers with what is in 7.10.<br><br>-Frank<br></span><br><b><i>Lincoln Peters <anfrind@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Nov 18, 2007 11:02 PM, Walter Hansen <gandalf@sonic.net> wrote:<br>> first time I've ever heard tarballs mentioned on the news.<br><br>Where???<br><br><br>-- <br>Lincoln Peters<br><anfrind@gmail.com><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br>talk@nblug.org<br>http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk<br></anfrind@gmail.com></gandalf@sonic.net></blockquote><br><p> 
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