Two Questions

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

>> Generally this happens when the BIOS has the Boot Device...
I have seen a MOUSE! kill the booting process in at least 2 opportunities.
Plug the mouse and turn on, puter dead.
Unplug the mouse and turn on, puter healthy.
To this day I haven't been able to come up with any meaningful explanation 
other than: 


Computers are like women:
Temperamental,
Complicated,
Capricious,
Unpredictable,
And they cost a LOT of money!!! 

AH, Gawd, I'll be incinerated on a bonfire now...
ET 


Dazed_75 writes: 

> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis at cox.net> wrote: 
> 
>>
>> 1) My daughter left her SanDisk iPod-type mp3 player plugged into a USB
>> port on my machine. When I tried to boot, the machine would not even do a
>> normal memory check and stopped short. Multiple times. When I finally
>> noticed the dern mp3 player and unplugged it, everything was fine. On
>> occasion I have also seen that a plugged in flash drive has messed up the
>> boot. Just curious--why would this happen? 
>>
> 
> Generally this happens when the BIOS has the Boot Device order/priority
> showing the USB device before the hard drive.  BIOS then attempts to boot
> from the USB device and that seems to hang the system.  I have seen this on
> maybe 6 different systems.  If you do truly want to boot from a USB device,
> it is safer to change the order so the HD is earlier than the USB (which may
> not show unless one is plugged in) and then use the Boot Menu (usually F12)
> when yoou actually want to boot from a USB drive.  And, yes, I know that was
> not the intent here. 
> 
>>
>> 2) A friend has a Canon Pixma IP 1500 printer that he's trying to get
>> working on his Ubuntu 9.04 installation. Although the IP 2000 is supported,
>> the 1500 is not. He's managed to find, download, and install drivers for it
>> (quite impressive for someone that is very new to Linux) but is now stumped
>> by a "missing filter" message. I've never had to jump through the hoops that
>> he's already done and don't really know what sort of a filter could be
>> missing. Any suggestions? 
>>
> I don't remember the wording, but when setting up the "new" printer, there
> is a button where you can tell the installer that your model is not listed.
> Clicking on that will cause the system to go get more info on additional
> models.  Has he tried that? 
> 
>>
>> From the specs, the (unsupported) IP 1500 seem to be the same basic engine
>> as the (supported) IP 2000, just degraded slightly in speed & memory. I've
>> faked out systems before by telling the add printer wizard that I really had
>> a similar--but supported--printer, but that was with an LPT connection. How
>> does one do something similar with a USB connection? (I'm hampered here in
>> that I'm trying to help via phone and haven't actually seen his box or the
>> choices on his screen.) This should be the easiest way to get him up &
>> running. 
>>
>> We'll both greatly appreciate any help. 
>>
>> Mark Jarvis 
>>
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