Dagnab Audible, CD-ROM...and Microsoft because I always do

Fyi—Temperance’s intemperate home computer is belly up.

Will not reboot. Some am picking up e-mail from work via SBC web. Will see if we can fix this tonight, or tomorrow (both Mr. Snuffie and I have tomorrow off).

I’ve never used the CD-ROM / CD burner drive that Mr. Snuffie installed in my ‘puter. Last night, I down loaded, from Audible.com (my audio book/magazine subscription service), the installation program for burning CD’s from their mp3 files. All was moving along fine, until the point at which Audible must reboot your computer.

And that’s where it stops. We get a message that “Drive 3 has 256 heads”. Well, that ain’t right.

This happened late last night, so I informed a sleepy Mr. Snuffie this morning, before he left for work. He sweetly stopped to go into C-MOS, and disable the drive.

Still same message. He’s going to physically disconnect the drive tonight, and if it still gives that message, or won’t let us reboot, he’s going into BIOS.

And he’s wondering virus, because he can’t see how/why the Audible installation program would make any such changes.

Udate, 5:30pm: OK, it's up and alive. He went into BIOS (and is going to show me what he did for future reference).
Still don't know why it happened. Will do a virus scan. Bummer. I want my CD burner.

Any advice or tips? Ugly gut feelings?

Investigation New Orleans' Memorial Med Center Hospital (Euthanasia)

Was there a discussion of euthanasia for critically ill patients who could not be transported during the Katrina crisis? If so, where those decisions acted upon?

“Soon after Hurricane Katrina struck, the first unconfirmed reports surfaced of "mercy killings" -- euthanasia of patients -- at New Orleans hospitals. For months, the Louisiana attorney general has been investigating these charges. That investigation has centered on the actions of doctors and nurses at the city's Memorial Medical Center.”
“According to eyewitness accounts documented in court papers, in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina hit, a decision was made to euthanize patients on the hospital's seventh floor, a separate long-term patient care facility run by LifeCare Hospitals.”


Longish text file, and NPR sound file:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5219917