Street spam musings

I always wondered where all those work from home signs came from. The Metafilter article that brought this to my attention describes how the street spam situation varies from city to city.

In my neighborhood, signs like that are usually just typed sheets of paper with the little tear-off-the-phone-number signs and stuff, often affixed to pay phones. I haven't noticed any cheap plastic signs lately, though I will watch for them. The plastic ones are rare. Non-spam items tend to contrast in some way: lost pets have a photograph, and garage sales are on fluorescent hand-written signs, often attached to cardboard boxes.

In Arizona, the big problem are the big random politician's names posted outside all the big empty acres that every Arizona neighborhood has. People don't seem to mind because the political spam hides nothing but even uglier weeds. I remember some stink a few years ago when someone put them along a tight curve and it blocked the driver's view of traffic.

They're all red and blue. I'd like to see a purple and green one. I'd vote for a Batman villain.

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Mad props to jecook for not only getting that damned fan on my new CPU, but getting the rest of everything working as well. I hadn't forgotten that when you switch mainboards, Windows 98 throws a temper tantrum, but I had forgotten the extent to which it would. Windows ignored the CD-ROM for a goodly time, but he forced the issue. Little yellow exclamation points ran amok in the Device Manager, and he slew them one by one. Now my system is oiled to perfection.

I feel somewhat ego-bruised that I couldn't do this myself, and that I had to take up so much of Jeremy's valuable time for my own technical shortcomings.

So what shall I do with this newfound computing power? Why, play some Warcraft 3, of course.

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My new motherboard has a built-in sound system that, when installed properly into Windows 98, cannot record ot play any sound.

To wit: Device Manager says I have a sound card, but the Multimedia panel and all my applications say I don't.

What is my best recourse? My Googles so far cannot locate anyone that has the same problem.

UPDATE: downloading the latest device drivers and installing it with the force-VxD option worked.