Hello! Hmm, as I said, a mass of those modules are just lying around here, so you have to pay nothing for it... it would be good if you could pay the transport fees (ca. $4 or something like that), and that's it. How many modules do you need?
Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger ----- Original Message ----- From: "DSC Lithuania" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:19 PM Subject: Re: 386-4 MB startup question > >Hello! > > > >The parity message doesn't seem like a real error to me, but exactly like > >the behaviour of the parity boot b boot sector virus. What do you think?? > > > I think since the computer I was transferring files between and this one > *also* > developed the same error, that you are exactly right. I've got F-PROT, and > am going to go to war against the virus. Also, I would appreciate the > memory, if you'd be willing to send it. And if you are going to ship the > one, then the Debian 2.2 would also be good. > > Sooner or later (probably the latter) I expect to really upgrade the memory > and/or motherboard, and when that happens the Debian 2.2 upgrade will be > ideal. > > How much would you like for it all? > > - Mike Rudmin > 8-4 Laisves Kvartalas > 5730 Silute, Lithuania / Lietuva > > > V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v > V v V v V v V v V v > > Below this line: My own approximate version of the Lithuanian national > fairy tale. It would > make an excellent HOWTO 8-> . Read if you want, ignore if you want. > > > The story of Egle and the snake-king > > Once there lived a girl named Egle. She lived with her parents, two > sisters, and three brothers. One day, she and her sisters went swimming, > and when they were done she discovered that there was a snake in her > clothes. > > Now, this snake was of a kind that is considered to be good luck; but still > Egle wanted her clothes back, so she asked the snake "please give me my > clothes". The snake replied "I will if you promise to marry me." Egle, > thinking that this was all a joke, agreed, and the snake left the clothes. > She put the clothes on, went home, and told her parents everything that had > happened. > > Several days later, her village was inundated with snakes. The snakes > approached her parents, and asked for Egle's hand in marriage for their > king. Egle's father decided to try to give them a duck that was dressed in > Egle's clothes, and indeed the snakes left with the duck. However, as the > snakes went into the forest, a cuckoo bird said "That's not Egle". So the > snakes took the duck back again, and demanded Egle. > > Again, the father tried to give them a sheep in Egle's clothes. Again, the > snakes took the sheep, and again the journey was interrupted by the cuckoo > bird. At last, Egle's parents gave their daughter to the snakes, and the > snakes took Egle to a fabulous palace under the sea. There, the new bride > met her groom, and discovered that he was not a snake, but a magical and > handsome prince named Zilvinas. She fell in love at once, and they were > married. > > Some time passed, and Egle had four children, three boys and one girl. > > After this time, Egle was lonesome for her family, and asked Zilvinas if she > could visit them. Now, Zilvinas knew that Egle's family would try to kill > him if they could, so he said no. But she begged so hard that he relented, > but said "I set before you three tasks. When you have completed them, you > may visit your family." The first task was to wear a pair of iron shoes > until they wore out. The second task was to make lace without any yarn. > The third task waa to carry water in a pail full of holes. > > Now, if Egle had done these things herself, and figured them out, she would > have been fine. But she considered the tasks impossible, and instead asked > an old witch for the answers. The witch told her how to do each task, and > she did them. Her husband knew that she had cheated; but he had promised > and was true to his word. So he said "You may go for seven days only, but > the eighth day you must return. Come to the seashore and call me by name, > and I will come to you on waves of milk." > > So Egle went off with her children. > > For seven days she visited her family, and they pressed her to stay. And > indeed, she missed them so much that she decided "what can one day hurt?" > But when her family saw that she wanted to stay, they decided that her > marriage to Zilvinas was indeed a mistake. So her brothers cornered her > children, and began beating them, asking "how do we call your father, and > where is he?" > > Now, the child named "Oak" stood strong, and so did his brothers "Birch" and > "Poplar". But the youngest, a little girl named "Elm" , was flighty and > fluttery like the leaves of the Elm, and her strength was no greater than > that of the elm, whose branches shatter at the first storms of winter. So > before long, she told the brothers her father's name, and how to call him. > Then they went down to the ocean with swords, called him, and slew him. His > body was borne away by sorrowful snakes, and was never seen again. > > But Egle, unaware of what had passed, decided the next day to go home; and > went with her children down to the sea. She called her husband; but instead > of seeing the white foam of milk on the sea, she suddenly saw the sea turn > to blood. And she realized then that her husband had been killed, and asked > her children if they knew what had happened. Then the children told her, > and she was overcome with grief; and praying, was turned, along with her > children, into a tree. She was turned into a fir tree (Egle), while the > others were turned into trees of their own namesakes. > > > > >
