Jessica, I'm getting a "can't connect." I am using Gaim. Is there something I need to put in the "resource" area?
Giles! I accidentally killed Spike. That's okay, right?
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
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le nubian - Aug 23, 2005 5:23:29 pm PDT #4179 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jessica - Aug 23, 2005 5:25:26 pm PDT #4180 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't know anything about Gaim, sorry. (I'm using iChat.)
tommyrot - Aug 23, 2005 5:25:45 pm PDT #4181 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.
Check here for info: [link]
eta: Gaim instructions:
1. Add an account, select "Jabber" as the protocol.
2. Your screen name is everything before the '@gmail.com'.
3. Server is 'gmail.com'.
4. Click "show more options" and make sure "use TLS if available" is checked. Leave "Force old SSL" and "allow plaintext..." unchecked for now. Connection port should be 5222, connection server should be 'talk.google.com' without the quotes.
5. Ta-da! Just login and you should be good-to-go.
amych - Aug 23, 2005 5:28:38 pm PDT #4182 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
... but gaim is on the other machine. It's in a whole 'nother room!
le nubian - Aug 23, 2005 5:30:01 pm PDT #4183 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh! that's awesome. thanks tommy!
le nubian - Aug 23, 2005 5:49:43 pm PDT #4184 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
For years, Silicon Valley hungered for a company mighty enough to best Microsoft. Now it has one such contender: the phenomenally successful Google.
But instead of embracing Google as one of their own, many in Silicon Valley are skittish about its size and power. They fret that the very strengths that made Google a search-engine phenomenon are distancing it from the entrepreneurial culture that produced it - and even transforming it into a threat.
Sean K - Aug 23, 2005 11:39:15 pm PDT #4185 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Well, fuck.
My computer is crapping out on boot up again. I hadn't had a chance to do more than run some disk clean up and defrag stuff on the drive the last time I recovered it, as I have been quite busy of late.
Now, when I boot up off the CD and run chkdsk, it's telling me the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems.
I'm not really worried about getting my files off the disk, but I'm beginning to worry that my computer may be done for.
Sean K - Aug 23, 2005 11:50:43 pm PDT #4186 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Yup. The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable errors.
Sean K - Aug 24, 2005 6:23:24 am PDT #4187 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
AAARGH!
Okay, on the thirda attempt last night, chkdsk ran all the way through and seemed to work. However, now on boot up, when Windows tries to start loading, some dll tries to pass an invalid parameter to something.
So, I tried to boot up from the CD to the repair console, except now it asks me which of the ONE Windows systems I would like to log in to. When I select the one it lists (by pressing "1" and hitting ENTER), it asks me for an ADMIN password (which I have never used), and I don't have one. Three wrong guesses and it forces a restart of the machine.
Anybody have a help on this one? "admin" and "administrator," or "(nothing)" are the only default passwords I remember, and none of those work.
dcp - Aug 24, 2005 6:31:37 am PDT #4188 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
However, now on boot up, when Windows tries to start loading, some dll tries to pass an invalid parameter to something.
Ummm...this sounds scarily similar to what happened to my aunt last week. We think she got hit by a Sasser worm variant. The boot process would hang with a message window titled "lsass.exe system error" (that's a small case L, not an upper case I) that said a process was trying to pass an invalid parameter.
eta: a better description of the error message box