this website made me laugh.
a spoof of ebay's "live help."
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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le nubian - Jun 29, 2005 4:26:14 pm PDT #3564 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
le nubian - Jun 30, 2005 6:23:38 am PDT #3565 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jon B. - Jun 30, 2005 6:30:15 am PDT #3566 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Slingbox for Tivo
Oh my. That is nice.
Wolfram - Jun 30, 2005 6:40:57 am PDT #3567 of 10003
Visilurking
Not just for Tivo, right? If I'm reading right, I can use this for any DVR (like ReplayTV) or cable box.
Jon B. - Jun 30, 2005 6:44:25 am PDT #3568 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Anything that can by controlled by one o' them IR beaming thingies.
le nubian - Jun 30, 2005 6:46:59 am PDT #3569 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
True. My friend sent it to me in reference to Tivo.
le nubian - Jun 30, 2005 6:53:26 am PDT #3570 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommyrot - Jun 30, 2005 7:31:24 am PDT #3571 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.
New in OS X Tiger:
Network Diagnostics
Quickly and easily locate the source of network problems and restore connectivity with the new network diagnostics tool.
What are they talking about? Where is it?
I don't think they're talking about Network Utility.
eta: Also, what's this?
AirPort Network Diagnostics
Troubleshoot an AirPort network with an easy-to-use new tool that features specialised diagnostics capabilities.
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2005 8:49:36 am PDT #3572 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Okay, guys, tell me what happened:
Terrible storm. Power surge, and I'm betting my computer was on a plain old power strip instead of a surge protector. It restarted.
And started making funny noises. I have a little dealie that allows me to have four drives: two hard drives, a Zip drive, and a floppy drive. Normally, it auto-detects them instantly. Now, it was crankity cranking as it detected them individually veeeerrry slowly. But finally, it did.
Then the primary drive failed. Run Setup. Press F1 to continue. I pressed F1.
It hung up trying to boot.
I Ctrl-Alt-Deleted, and I hit Del to try to go to Setup. Same thing happened with the loud noises and the failing primary drive and the inability to boot up. I turned the computer off, realizing my drive was probably fried.
I unplugged the power strip from the outlet. I also prayed.
One of those things must have worked, because an hour later when I plugged the power strip back in, the computer booted up without a hitch. It of course did a little consistency check, and there seemed to be a few corrupted Temporary Internet Files, but that was it. Everything back to normal.
So. What was it? God or electricity?
tommyrot - Jun 30, 2005 8:51:44 am PDT #3573 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.
P-C, when lightning struck, aliens entered your computer. Don't worry - they'll die on their own .
(Whitefont for WotW spoilers.)
eta: Wait, have you seen WotW yet?
But seriously, that'w weird. But the turning it off probably unscrambled it, so it sounds like no permanent damage was done.