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Jon B. - Sep 15, 2005 7:26:09 am PDT #4510 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Never NEVER respond to an email, or click on a link enclosed in an email, asking you to verify any personal information.

If there's any chance that it's legitimate, then you can just as well open a browser window, enter Amazon's home page URL (or whoever's) by hand, and log in as you usually do. If they need you to update something, they'll let you know on their website.


sumi - Sep 15, 2005 7:50:56 am PDT #4511 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Thanks!

I've had the odd paypal phishing message but this is the first one I've had that claimed to be from Amazon.


Liese S. - Sep 15, 2005 12:44:55 pm PDT #4512 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

If there's any chance that it's legitimate, then you can just as well open a browser window

It's funny, 'cause I ignored email from earthlink for months once, asking me to update my credit card info. It didn't provide a link, it just wanted me to go to the regular site and log in normally, but I never read that far. It totally looked like spam to me and I just ignored it.

Then one day I remembered that my credit card did have a recent or upcoming expiration date after all, and I probably did need to update it. But it took me forever to do it, because I kept squinting suspiciously at the web interface, even though I'd come there by hand.


brenda m - Sep 15, 2005 6:36:37 pm PDT #4513 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

My goddamn Tivo just reconnected itself.

After more than a month, nothing works, wireless connection, cable connection, nothing I do has any effect, and now I'm sitting here, and suddenly it wants to change the channel to Futurama.

I mean, that's good and all, but for fuck's sake.


Fred Pete - Sep 16, 2005 3:42:22 am PDT #4514 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.

Our TiVo gave us hell last night. When we got home, there was a message saying that our satellite provider had changed info, and we needed to go through Guided Set-up again. We tried this several times and kept getting an "Error S03." Whatever that means.

Unplugging and rebooting TiVo did not correct this. TiVo service suggested that we try recycling (unplugging) both the TiVo and the phone line. This got us a green screen with a "serious problem that TiVo will try to fix, but it will take about 3 hours and if it doesn't work, call Customer Support again" message.

Fast-forward 10 hours to this morning. Still getting the green screen. Will call Customer Support again when we get home.


DCJensen - Sep 16, 2005 4:02:47 am PDT #4515 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

A site on the 'net suggests

try "Reset thumbs ratings and suggestions"


Sophia Brooks - Sep 16, 2005 8:36:44 am PDT #4516 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I have another Access question.

In Filemaker, there was an option to have a value list with check boxes, and you could check more than one box.

So, if a person was interested in BOTH Advanced Peri-Operative Cardiac Nursing AND Spanish for Healthcare Professionals, I could check both boxes, and this person would come up in a search for either class.

I need a way to do this in access....


DXMachina - Sep 16, 2005 8:50:01 am PDT #4517 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

You could set up a bunch of yes/no fields, one for each option, i.e., Advanced Peri-Operative Cardiac Nursing would have a field, and so would Spanish for Healthcare Professionals, then list all the available options on the form as check boxes. If you don't want this on the main form, you could put them on a subform that's either imbedded in the mainform, or as a pop-up.


Sophia Brooks - Sep 16, 2005 9:32:34 am PDT #4518 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thanks!


tommyrot - Sep 16, 2005 12:51:09 pm PDT #4519 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.

So who wants cake a 19,200 x 2400 pixel monitor?

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eta: Yes, that is 19 thousand....