I'm the least computer literate old fogey on this site and I'm completely stuck with installing the drivers for 2.00. It's probably something completely daft I'm doing, but I hope someone can help me out.

Before I uninstalled 2.00-13, I checked that the RIOHD.SYS drivers were there.
Installation went great, but I can't find the drivers now: Where the Empeg is, it has a yellow question mark. I've followed the instructions down to "you should select the properties for the "Rio-car" etc.," but can get no further.

I tried uninstalling 2.00 and putting 2.00-13 back, but I didn't get the drivers back.

Anyone any bright ideas? - as I say it's probably me, I'd really appreciate some help.

This is a new FAQ entry that was just put in yesterday.

It doesn't cover for the new boxer chewing through the USB cable, out of boredom, whilst I was doing the installation. I knew it had to be something daft! - that's 24 hours that I could have been playing with the Empeg, so I'm not playing with the dogs 'till Sunday norning, as a punishment!

...thank goodness it wasn't the mains cable...and thanks, Tony, for your pointing it out - I can assure you that I didn't post, before checking the FAQ thoroughly.

Ah, sorry. I thought you'd said you'd uninstalled 2.0 Beta 13, which would have definitely removed the USB drivers. You didn't mention doing the hand-installation of the 2.0 final USB drivers as described in the release notes, so that's why I brought up the FAQ entry.

I missed the part that said you'd reinstalled 2.0 Beta 13 and it still didn't work. That should have clued me in on cabling problems.

Hey, it occurs to me. You know what we could make a million on?

We could design a manufacuring process where the cabling sheaths could be embedded with some kind of chemical that tasted really bad to dogs and cats. Patent it, and soon all cabling manufacturers will be using it and advertising "chew proof" cables. Maybe there's even a way to do it that wouldn't be palatable to rodents, either... that would be cool.

so I'm not playing with the dogs 'till Sunday norning, as a punishment!

Come on, admit it. One long sorrowful gaze from those longing eyes and you'll cave in before *Saturday* morning is over!

some kind of chemical that tasted really bad to dogs and cats

And I think we should call it "Vet's Surgery(tm)" and we'll all become millionaires if we can somehow bottle it. I don't know what it is about those places but dogs/cats are certainly allergic to them. Perhaps they have a 6th sense and can read their owners minds on the way in when we say to ourselves "I just know this is going to be expensive"!

you'll cave in before *Saturday* morning is over!

Yep, 7.15 Saturday-I was out- I needed the fresh air to get over all the drink and smoke consumed out of frustration, yesterday - I must hold the world record for fecklessly re-loading a program on the off-chance it'll work this time!

I think we should call it "Vet's Surgery(tm)"

Curiously enough, the Boxer we lost at Christmas used to march into the vets with a face that had a combination of; "Are any of the boys in", "Mine's a pint of Guinness" and "I hope you've got something nice and big to stick up my arse"(Maybe a Q-tips rectal thermometer?)

Of course, taking Tony's brainwave, something repulsive to dogs, cats, rats, pumas and Orang-Utans will probably smell, as well. I'm sure I read that they have a delicacy in Iceland, where they bury raw fish and dig it up and eat it weeks later, that should do it! - But would you still want to sit at your PC?

I'm sure I read that they have a delicacy in Iceland, where they bury raw fish and dig it up and eat it weeks later, that should do it!

Isn't that lutefisk? Or is that something different?

something repulsive to dogs, cats, rats, pumas and Orang-Utans

Sorry to spoil your potential fortune, but the product already exists. Check out bitter apple. My company used to have to spray this stuff on our network cabling back when we where a dog friendly office. IIRC it didn't have much of a smell, but the dogs couldn't tolerate the taste.

-Mike

Isn't that lutefisk?

Could well be, I'll have a search when I've got a minute: Lutefisk Computer Cabling Inc. sounds pretty good to me!

but the product already exists.

Does it work on rabbits? At my Mum's house, the phone-line quality was steadily degrading, until one day the phone stopped working entirely.

Inspection of the phone extension lead revealed what had happened: Chalky (our albino rabbit -- Mum's got great imagination when it comes to pet names) was house-trained, and while he was in the house, he used to sneak behind the sofa and chew on the phone cable. After a while, he'd chewed straight through it.

Maybe he liked the taste of the insulation, maybe rabbits have some kind of attraction to voltage, I don't know. Luckily, given that he'd chewed straight through the cable, phone wire is fairly low power.

I'm sure I read that they have a delicacy in Iceland, where they bury raw fish and dig it up and eat it weeks later, that should do it!

Well, I can't speak for your dogs, of course, but the dogs I've known would gladly eat stuff like that, although they might wait for some other creature to eat it and throw it up first.

Peter

I can only have wireless mouses at my house. For some reason, the cats are smart enough not to eat the power cables (I think they learned the hard way with a phone charger), but a mouse cord is too tempting for them. Really stinks haviing to devote so many rechargeable batteries to such a cause, but I don't have much choice.

It's not lutefisk. Lutefisk is dried cod that have been soked in potash lye for a while. It's regarded as a delicacy in Norway... Yuck! I'm not sure what the other fish is called.

Stig

Hakarl

Apparently, there's glerhakarl and skyrhakarl, which are the tough belly portions and the softer meat, respectively.

Yum.

Yeccchhhh. For someone who thinks even cooked fish is disgusting, that's gotta be the least appealing dish I've ever heard of.

The details on how to traditionally prepare it isn't exactly the best thing to read before eating. I think this line is particularly amusing: "Putrefied shark can become spoiled"
I guess it's not that bizarre considering cheese is basically milk that's been allowed to go off. And I've seen even more bizarre oriental delicacies whilst walking around china town!

- Trevor

glerhakarl and skyrhakarl

...Sounds more like something from Viennese operetta. Thanks for sharing that with us, I'll imagine the taste fror the rest of my days!

After the war, when we still had rationing, my mother used to serve haddock, once a week: I used to dread that day, I could see the yellowing item on its plate in the larder.

To get over this phobia, I booked into a Cornish seafood restaurant. The sauces were so rich that you couldn't taste the fish and by midweek, it was the sauces that I couldn't take any more off, I never got to taste the fish, so I'm none the wiser!