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le nubian - May 27, 2005 6:38:36 pm PDT #3145 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I just tried that search tool and it took me to some porn sites (oh my god let me wash my eyes out with soap) when looking for "Law & Order: CI."


Sue - May 27, 2005 6:45:23 pm PDT #3146 of 10003
hip deep in pie

Yikes! So...I guess there are some bugs.


le nubian - May 28, 2005 6:03:37 am PDT #3147 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

FYI...re: Tivo To Go viewing problems.

I thought I had upgraded to Windows Media Player 10, but I was actually using WMP 8. Upgrading seemed to pretty much solve my problems.


§ ita § - May 28, 2005 5:38:38 pm PDT #3148 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am sad. I went and bought a Pioneer DVDRW drive. But it doesn't work with the stupid customised bezel of my Vaio. I need one that has a door narrower than than the whole unit, and the button to open it bottom right (the Pioneer was one of two).

On the upside, I also got a Uniden 5.8GHz phone and a 200GB drive (and discovered I have one more HD bay than I thought).

But going back to Fry's -- ick.


Theodosia - May 29, 2005 2:40:16 am PDT #3149 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Going back a bit -- iMuffs, despite the name, might actually finally convince me to get an iPod and a Bluetooth-compatible cellphone.

Also, I'd like to commend the general geekery concerning baking the tapes. My boss has the master tapes for a couple albums of guitar music that he recorded in the 70s that he's considering getting transferred to digital, and I didn't understand from his description what a delicate process it was, or why it would cost several thousand dollars to do it.


Jessica - May 29, 2005 1:23:31 pm PDT #3150 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Documents To Go came with my Clie when I bought it, but only the Windows version. I still have it on the Clie, but without the desktop conduit bit, it's not very useful. Since it was bundled with the Clie installation software, I don't have a registration number. Anyone know of a way I can download the conduit for free? (Other than the 30-day trial version.)


Jon B. - May 30, 2005 2:14:06 pm PDT #3151 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

This could be useful - [link]


Jesse - May 30, 2005 6:46:31 pm PDT #3152 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So, a friend of mine has a computer that's apparently overrun with adware and spyware and whatever else, to the point where she can't really do anything on the computer because of all the popups. She's got a couple of programs to help, AdAware and Spybot and some other thing she paid for, but they aren't doing the trick. She's run them in safe mode and all. Is there anything she can do other than just reformat the hard drive and start over?


Typo Boy - May 30, 2005 6:49:59 pm PDT #3153 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

As much as I hate it, MacAfee is great for getting rid of a heavily infested computer. And if it is that heavly infested it probably has viruses as well as spyware and trojans. I have heard of cases where people end having to just reboot from CD and reformat their hard drives, but I have not run into one that bad yet.

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The reason I prefer McAfee to Norton in this case is that McAfee has fairly decent anti-spyware besides the anti-virus. Norton is actually a better anti-virus prevention program (though I have my own reasons for disliking them too), but McAfee seems to work better as a cure.


Typo Boy - May 30, 2005 7:52:19 pm PDT #3154 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Serial: Also a blog I frequent recommends these two freeware programs:

Freeware from McAfee: [link]

Trend Micros damage cleanup engine Make sure to download the template and engine to the same directory [link]

I have not tried these myself.