Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.

Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?  

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Lee - Sep 09, 2005 12:34:38 pm PDT #4443 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I like the way Jess thinks too.

Perkins, what's in it for me

Sushi and Tequila and some hella fun roads to drive fast on.

(Not together though)

(though if you the one driving fast, I could be eating sushi or drinking tequila)

(not together though)


Jessica - Sep 09, 2005 12:34:55 pm PDT #4444 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

It seems like it drops the signal about every two months

Mine does that too -- I think the upstairs neighbors' wireless network is confusing it, poor dear, because it never did this in the old apartment. I've found that if I switch the network setting from "closed" to "peer-to-peer" and then back again, it usually does the trick.


NoiseDesign - Sep 09, 2005 12:38:42 pm PDT #4445 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

My Tivo connection has been rock solid on the internet since day one. I did it back when you had to pay for the home media option. I've been both wired and wireless. Currently I'm back to wired since I'm moving files on and off the tivo across my network and there's a slight speed advantage that way.


brenda m - Sep 09, 2005 12:49:46 pm PDT #4446 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

Currently, it's claiming not to find a DCHP (is that right?) server via wireless or plugged into the cable modem, and I can't tell if it's my equipment (Tivo, modem, router, etc.) or something on my provider's side that's frelled.

Does anyone have any thoughts, by the way, on where the problem is most likely to be?


tommyrot - Sep 09, 2005 2:33:34 pm PDT #4447 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.

Brenda, I'm not sure what your network setup is.

Do you have a wireless router? Is it set up to be a DHCP server?

I believe the most common home network scenario (or at least mine) is for your ISP to give you a single IP address (though their DHCP server) and then you set up your router to provide multiple IP addresses on your interior network by having your router be a DHCP server too.


brenda m - Sep 09, 2005 3:28:24 pm PDT #4448 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

Do you have a wireless router?

I do.

Is it set up to be a DHCP server?

I have no idea.

I'll try to figure out what I can tomorrow. thanks for the info.


tommyrot - Sep 09, 2005 4:55:24 pm PDT #4449 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.

Just holding a Nano is... damn. It's the perfect electronic device (at least aesthetically).


Sean K - Sep 09, 2005 5:32:44 pm PDT #4450 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

So, after a few weeks of wrangling with it, setting up my small spare hard drive as the master, installing XP again on that drive, downloading the (I thought) appropriate virus removal tool, and other fun shenannigans, I have finally looked at the old main bad drive and run the fixtool on it.

It says there is no W32.sasser.worm on my computer. Either drive. My problem is not a sasser worm, though all my online research says it is.

I'm beginning to think my drive is utterly unrecoverable. I tried just fixing the installation, but that didn't work. Now I'm reinstalling.

Anyone know of some new fucking virus thing that screws up lsass.exe, but is not actually the sasser worm?


Allyson - Sep 10, 2005 11:32:03 am PDT #4451 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Everyone knows I can't code for shit. Well, everyone who would care to think about my coding abilities, anyway.

I'm trying to just put together a small little thing on my book, and for some reason, I have three columns showing up when I just want the text to fall in blocks under each other.

Also, does anyone know why there's an enormous space between the apostrophe and the "s"? Should I try a different font?

[link]

Appreciate anyone with the time and patience.


Consuela - Sep 10, 2005 11:37:39 am PDT #4452 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Allyson, I don't see 3 columns.

You've got a superscript 1 instead of an apostrophe here:

When Allyson Beatrice isn't watching television, she¹s