My cheap hard drive crashed on my Myth front-end machine.
I had to reinstall Mandrake, so I thought I would try 9.1 .
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Just picked up the VIA EPIA M9000 Motherboard and the following
Mini Case.

This is going to be for my MythTV project.

I ran into some problems installing Mandrake 9. Notes are in the article.
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I needed to increase the startup time out for the Veritas Backup Exec RDP service. I installed the program on an older system, and found that the service was timing out waiting for other services to start. The default timeout seems to be 3000 ms. I added the following line in the registey where the service is started.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BackupExecRPCService

added DWORD StartWaitTime
value 120000 (Decimal)

Please remember kids, milage may vary and backup your registry before you try this at home.

Crow is an omen of change. Crow lives in the void and has no sense of time. The Ancient Chiefs tell us that crow sees simultaneously the three fates - past, present and future. Crow merges light and darken, seeing both inner and outer reality.
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We were in the process of getting our windows replaced today by Centra. I had to move out of my office while they replaced that window. Sitting in my living room reading I hear a crow. This crow is really loud and sound’s really close. So close, that I open my fireplace and see this pair of crows feet running around on top of the flue. What the ????, what a dumb bird!!! How did he get in the chimney?

Well Terry, one of the window installers from Centra took charge and started thinking of a way to get the bird out. Climbed up on the roof and looked down the chimney, nope too far down. OK, put on gloves and a long sleeve shirt and I will be the “Crow Hunter” cricky!!!

Take a look at the pictures The Crow Hunter.