You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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le nubian - Feb 14, 2005 11:15:16 am PST #1675 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

So...due to some random circumstances, I have been checking my hotmail account recently. What a piece of shit hotmail is.

A couple of questions:

1) if you identify a sender as "not junk" why doesn't it remember it?

2) why is hotmail so bad?


DCJensen - Feb 14, 2005 1:18:57 pm PST #1676 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

As far as I can tell, Hotmail is not actually meant to be used.


§ ita § - Feb 14, 2005 1:59:32 pm PST #1677 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just learnt that there are very few Hotmail programmers. That might explain some stuff.


meara - Feb 14, 2005 7:10:18 pm PST #1678 of 10003

OK, someone help me out: You recommended here as a good place to buy memory. But I look there, and am v. confused. Which one do I buy? (Beyond the "do I get the 256 or 512?" choice). I have a 1Ghz 12" powerbook. And that's all I know, off the top of my head. Then I get confused.


Sophia Brooks - Feb 15, 2005 3:21:01 am PST #1679 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

If my goal for my home computer is being able to sit on the sofa and be on line, and I am a Mac only girl, will this be sufficient:

[link]

Would it be less sufficient if I wanted to install airport so I could use the campus wireless network?


Steph L. - Feb 15, 2005 4:46:55 am PST #1680 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

If my goal for my home computer is being able to sit on the sofa and be on line, and I am a Mac only girl, will this be sufficient:

Absolutely.

Would it be less sufficient if I wanted to install airport so I could use the campus wireless network?

It looks like that laptop uses an older Airport card, which might not be compatible with the current wireless technology.

(Or, other tech people -- am I wrong? If a wireless network is 802.11g, can an 802.11b card connect to it?)


Sophia Brooks - Feb 15, 2005 6:23:57 am PST #1681 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thanks Steph! Taking my ruby iMac on the sofa is proving problematic!


Jessica - Feb 15, 2005 8:08:29 am PST #1682 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If a wireless network is 802.11g, can an 802.11b card connect to it?

E's 802.11g computer connects to our 802.11b network just fine, but I've never tested it the other way around. I think 802.11g is supposed to be backwards-compatible both ways, though.


Steph L. - Feb 15, 2005 8:18:40 am PST #1683 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Hmm. If that's the case, then Sophia, that should work.

NB: The laptop you linked to does NOT come with a wireless card installed; you'd have to have that added. But it seems like it would connect to a wireless network.


Sophia Brooks - Feb 15, 2005 9:21:06 am PST #1684 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thanks again Steph and Jessica!