For Epson printers there's a box you can buy with ethernet on one end and parallel on the other. Works great.
She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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Rob - Oct 08, 2005 6:59:19 pm PDT #4842 of 10003
DebetEsse - Oct 08, 2005 7:07:01 pm PDT #4843 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Ah. Cool. Thanks.
Costs more than its worth for me, though. But, good to know
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2005 1:28:36 pm PDT #4844 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sumi - Oct 09, 2005 2:48:30 pm PDT #4845 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
So, the upshot is that we may be able to download BBC shows via itunes?
Jessica - Oct 09, 2005 2:59:32 pm PDT #4846 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So, the upshot is that we may be able to download BBC shows via itunes?
Only British iPods, if it's anything like the rest of the Beeb's plan to offer their content digitally. (The idea being that the TV license should grant a wider range of usage rights than is currently available through the television.)
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2005 4:22:09 pm PDT #4847 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Verizon Unlimited Broadband Access: $59.99/month.
Anyone used it? Know of its goodness?
Jessica - Oct 10, 2005 5:49:41 am PDT #4848 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nutty - Oct 10, 2005 7:29:21 am PDT #4849 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Hey, all. I'm doing some data-moving and discovered I am over my head.
I have an old PC and a new PC, and would like to just move stuff from the old to the new (and can't use floppies or CDs, and the old guy's modem is prehistoric). Have two parallel ports, and a parallel port cable. Have plugged these helpful doohickeys into each other.
Went to look up what to do next, and ran into way more in-depth blah-blah than I think I need, but I don't know where to look for simple "click on this this and this, drag and drop" instructions. Alternatively, I'd be OK with simple DOS commands. I can wrap my brain around the idea of calling up the old machine, via the cable, and telling it to send me stuff; I just can't quite find the right Google terms for "okay, in this one instance you are allowed to treat me like an idiot."
Theodosia - Oct 10, 2005 7:34:47 am PDT #4850 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jane, did you give up on the USB thumb drive idea?
Nutty - Oct 10, 2005 7:40:22 am PDT #4851 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Thumb drives have minimum requirements, which don't tend to be met by the old machine. "To work with Win98, you may need to download XYZ" is not helpful when you can no longer download to that machine.
Which I discovered about ten minutes before I bought one, so yay me for reading the fine print!