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Stephanie - Feb 18, 2005 4:26:36 pm PST #1740 of 10003
Trust my rage

Is it possible to get an RSS feed (using Firefox) for my LJ flist? I can only figure out how to get a feed for my own entries, which, you know, I already know.


DXMachina - Feb 18, 2005 4:43:41 pm PST #1741 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Gmail looks like it may be going wide very soon. I was on the waiting list for a gmail account since May and I finally got an invitation to join the service.

I got one today, too. Not that I plan to use it (someone else already scarfed up "dxmachina@gmail.com"), but hey, not feeling as left out.


Ginger - Feb 18, 2005 5:23:31 pm PST #1742 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm posting wirelessly too. I think Steph and I set up the same modem on the same day.


Strix - Feb 18, 2005 5:53:16 pm PST #1743 of 10003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Hey, quick question...my PC is running suspiciously slow, and although I have all the typical protections, I think I may need to root out some spyware.

Recs on the best free downloadable one(s)?


DXMachina - Feb 18, 2005 5:56:15 pm PST #1744 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Get Spy-bot and AdAware, and use them both.


Steph L. - Feb 18, 2005 5:58:17 pm PST #1745 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Gotta love freeware named Palantir.


Gris - Feb 18, 2005 9:47:30 pm PST #1746 of 10003
Hey. New board.

Nonian: There is a hacksy way that involves loading your flist with a custom theme, if you are a Paid member. I can try to find it for you, if you want, but it may be a little tricky to get working. I've never tried to use it, as I only very recently went Paid and my flist has lots of drabble communities.

ETA: [link] it doesn't work too well with protected entries, unfortunately, but seems to work for normal ones, assuming one is paid.


tommyrot - Feb 20, 2005 1:08:06 pm PST #1747 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I needed to replace the lithium batteries in my Apple WiFi Bluetooth optical mouse after about 7 weeks. Is this normal? (The batteries I replaced were the ones that came with the mouse, so they could have been sitting on the shelf for a bit.) When the Cube goes to sleep, it seems to send the mouse to sleep too, so I would think the mouse would use little power then.

I think the batteries cost $7 or $8 for a pair of AA.

eta: anyone want a 450 mhz PII cpu? (motherboard is dead.)


Stephanie - Feb 20, 2005 1:53:17 pm PST #1748 of 10003
Trust my rage

Thanks, Nova, but I don't have a paid account. It would have been a nice feature, but I really don't *need* it.


DXMachina - Feb 20, 2005 2:18:39 pm PST #1749 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

anyone want a 450 mhz PII cpu?

Tom, if no one else wants it, I can swap it in for the PII-350 on my #2 machine.