Help please. Dip switches and mach 3 settings

[Radu_Andrei]

It means from what I.ve got, if I managed to understand it right, that Clive was a bit of a sod, by pointing out in detail the meaning of the lexicon used. No double chin here, just amused. :)
Still, I can.t help but asking, in usual dialogue, is this term used in a derogatory manner, or not? I mean like, for example in spanish, and perhaps in english as well, hijo de puta/son of a bitch, can be used as an offense, or as a casual expression, sometimes used by men to express respect to the achievements of other men, without sounding creepy. I can.t explain it better, but I.m sure you get the point. The tone of voice gives the meaning, not the words.

[Clive S]

sod it, its late good nite

[cropwell]

It means from what I.ve got, if I managed to understand it right, that Clive was a bit of a sod, by pointing out in detail the meaning of the lexicon used. No double chin here, just amused. :)
Still, I can.t help but asking, in usual dialogue, is this term used in a derogatory manner, or not? I mean like, for example in spanish, and perhaps in english as well, hijo de puta/son of a bitch, can be used as an offense, or as a casual expression, sometimes used by men to express respect to the achievements of other men, without sounding creepy. I can.t explain it better, but I.m sure you get the point. The tone of voice gives the meaning, not the words.

In fact, I was just obliquely pointing out that 'sod' can also be used as a verb e.g. 'sod off' means 'go away'. In English ' sod' is a fairly mild expression.
'Sod it' means that you are no longer interested in 'it' and also slightly annoyed with 'it'.

[Radu_Andrei]

Well.it.s quite appropriate for a non native english speaker to ˇˇsod offˇˇ at this point. Not meaning that I.m not interested or annoyed, but only that it.s too much english in here. :P

[AndyGuid]

It means from what I.ve got, if I managed to understand it right, that Clive was a bit of a sod, by pointing out in detail the meaning of the lexicon used. No double chin here, just amused. :)
Still, I can.t help but asking, in usual dialogue, is this term used in a derogatory manner, or not? I mean like, for example in spanish, and perhaps in english as well, hijo de puta/son of a bitch, can be used as an offense, or as a casual expression, sometimes used by men to express respect to the achievements of other men, without sounding creepy. I can.t explain it better, but I.m sure you get the point. The tone of voice gives the meaning, not the words.

You're quite correct Radu_Andrei, these expressions are often used as a bit of fun and in jest, or the opposite meaning of what the dictionary says they mean.

People down here in Austraya speak a language that is vaguely similar to English, so something like "you bastard!" is NOT actually derogatory, because we often insult people as a term of endearment.

[Radu_Andrei]

Got it. Thank you for the info AndyGuid.
As much as I enjoy the subject, I guess we should stick to the cnc topic.
I.m considering starting some yoga/meditation thing to become more focused, in order to overcome Rob.s lexicon temptations.

[Radu_Andrei]

Regarding the new desktop pc I received and tested. It has windows xp installed on a HDD. All drivers included.
I.m gonna leave it as it is now as it works just fine, but in the future, when the HDD fails, and will have to do a brand new windows installation, I would very much like to have the drivers saved somewhere.
How can I do this? Or is there a way to create a windows backup or something for the future new hard drive?

[Radu_Andrei]

Anothet thing that came up today, as I took the pc apart and cleaned it inside, I noticed something strange. At one point I turn it on with just the source, motherboard and HDD. But it refuses to start.
It says:
1. Detecting IDE Drives, CMOS Checksum Error - Defaults loaded. Here I can press F1 to continue or Del to enter Bios. If I press F1 I go to:
2. A black page with a lot of white writing, and among that is IDE Channel 0 - HardDisk Smart Capability - Disabled and a few second after this
3. WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT: WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/CONFIG/SYSTEM

And adding the DVDRROM to other IDE port, it does the same as mentioned above at the first attempt, and then it loads windowsxp just fine.
I.m suspecting that the hard disk might be close to its end, but as well it might be something else.
I.m quite sure the point 1 and were present since I bought the pc, but I did not paid attention as it always loaded the OS.

The pc still works with the DVDRom on it, but I don.t know for how long.
I found a few posts online about third party software to backup your drivers, like DoubleDrive, EasyDrive etc, but still does not hurt to ask, how do you deal with a new hardrive, new windows xp installation, in order to make it go smooth? Or is this error caused by something else?

[Radu_Andrei]

*point 1 and 2

[cropwell]

The most usual cause of CMOS checksum error is a low battery on the motherboard (They are most often CR2032's). For the small price of this battery, I would replace it anyway for every newly acquired secondhand computer.