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tommyrot - Sep 08, 2005 5:55:09 am PDT #4414 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.

Yes, and if that toolbar is not visible, go to Tools - Options - View.

eta: then look at "Nonprinting characters."


Sophia Brooks - Sep 08, 2005 5:59:32 am PDT #4415 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thank you!

I miss my mac....


Zenkitty - Sep 08, 2005 7:18:29 am PDT #4416 of 10003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Anyone know anything about BitTorrent? I've dl'd a couple, uhm, documentaries, with no problem, but for the last one, although it says it's finished, I only have a folder with lots of little files in it - there's no completed product. Isn't it supposed to knit all those together automatically? What do I do?

Also, why is it that when I go to the website, there are lots of seeders and leechers listed, but when I go to dl, there are no peers in my list? How come I'm not connecting to the seeders that are clearly there? I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, and this is frustrating.


Jon B. - Sep 08, 2005 7:25:43 am PDT #4417 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I only have a folder with lots of little files in it - there's no completed product.

Do the little files have suffixes like r01 and/or rar? If so, they are compressed RAR files and you need a utility like winrar to decompress and piece them all together. [link]


Zenkitty - Sep 08, 2005 8:39:32 am PDT #4418 of 10003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Yes, they do, Jon. I'll try that, thanks. I'm still baffled as to why it didn't do that automatically, though.

Also, great tag.


le nubian - Sep 08, 2005 8:42:50 am PDT #4419 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Zenkitty, IME, rar files don't automatically stitch themselves together.


§ ita § - Sep 08, 2005 8:43:16 am PDT #4420 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm still baffled as to why it didn't do that automatically, though.

It expands into whatever the poster started from. That was their call.


Zenkitty - Sep 08, 2005 8:47:20 am PDT #4421 of 10003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

It worked! Yay!

The other files I've downloaded with the same program did stitch themselves together. This one left me to my own, sadly inadequate, devices.

Anyone know the answer to the other vexing question, why I can't connect to the seeders who are clearly there?

I both love and hate technology. I need a live-in geek.


§ ita § - Sep 08, 2005 8:49:29 am PDT #4422 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The other files I've downloaded with the same program did stitch themselves together

I warrant those were put up in one piece.


le nubian - Sep 08, 2005 10:07:45 am PDT #4423 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ita, right I believe. You can put files up in one piece or put them up in 72 pieces in a folder.