It's dead to me too. And I need to get in there, damn it! There may be important messages since I last checked it 20 minutes ago!
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
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vw bug - Feb 27, 2005 7:02:15 am PST #1886 of 10003
Mostly lurking...
Jessica - Feb 27, 2005 7:05:50 am PST #1887 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
(anyone else?)
Yup. All morning.
DCJensen - Feb 27, 2005 7:17:42 am PST #1888 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
It's a beta service. We've been fortunate for as much up time as we've gotten so far.
They are probably implementing something.
I hope.
brenda m - Feb 27, 2005 7:26:50 am PST #1889 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I've had no trouble this morning.
amych - Feb 27, 2005 7:33:23 am PST #1890 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yay! It's back -- right after the guy I was waiting for email from gave up and dropped by the house.
tommyrot - Feb 28, 2005 9:34:46 am PST #1891 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.
A straightforward (i.e. not very geeky) look at the problems associated with running outdated operating systems (eg Windows 98, Mac OS 9). Lists the various Mac and Windows OSs from Windows 95 and Mac OS 8 up to the present, what each OS can and can't do, and the level of support each receives from MS/Apple.
Polter-Cow - Mar 01, 2005 5:18:51 am PST #1892 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm using Win2k. When I restarted my computer, things became very wonky, and I discovered the problem was that my year had suddenly changed to 2165. What the hell would make my computer go into the future?
tommyrot - Mar 01, 2005 5:20:40 am PST #1893 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.
Dude. I told you not to put the Time Accelerator Field near your computer.
How old is your computer? The most likely problem is the battery that keeps your clock running (amongs other things) when your computer is not on is getting old.
Polter-Cow - Mar 01, 2005 5:41:52 am PST #1894 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
This computer was built in the spring of 2003. I just replaced the power supply the spring of 2004 (I think you remember that ordeal).
One possibility was that I was running low on virtual memory before I restarted. When I work on my thesis, I have Reference Manager open, which must be pretty memory-intensive, plus five or six IE windows open for the papers, and Winamp. I, personally, don't think that should be that huge a load on the system. I've got 256 MB of RAM, I think. Or maybe 512.
Rick - Mar 01, 2005 5:43:32 am PST #1895 of 10003
When I restarted my computer, things became very wonky, and I discovered the problem was that my year had suddenly changed to 2165.
A couple of years ago our departmental server went flukey and set the dates on all of computers as 2060. Most of the software stopped working because the licenses has long since 'expired.'
But there was one very patient bit of statistical software that started up fine, with the warning "The license for this product expired 22,637 days ago. If you do not renew your license soon, the software will stop functioning."