0.0.0.0 is the official IP adress for Nowhere.
Except sometimes, 0.0.0.0 is the IP address for Anywhere.
255.255.255.255 is, of course, the IP address for Everywhere.
That reads like the prologue to the next Neil Gaiman novel.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
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Steph L. - Oct 15, 2005 7:37:58 pm PDT #5113 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
tommyrot - Oct 15, 2005 7:41:45 pm PDT #5114 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.
0.0.0.0 is nowhere.
0.0.0.0 is now here.
Think about it.
Betsy HP - Oct 15, 2005 7:55:37 pm PDT #5115 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
Can't hurt to try. There was a trifle of a failure-to-remove-from-pockets issue.
HiddenSky - Oct 16, 2005 7:43:38 am PDT #5116 of 10003
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Sometimes when I turn on my computer (Dell XPS), the BIOS doesn't kick in and I get a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner. The system just hangs there and if I hit the power button, it immediately shuts off. Usually when I power it back on, it loads correctly. Any ideas as to why it doesn't always boot up correctly?
DCJensen - Oct 16, 2005 7:46:53 am PDT #5117 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Pull the button battery out of your motherboard (this will reset the cmos, btw) and use a voltmeter to check its strength. If it's less than 3 volts, replace it.
SeanK, you might try this, too. Cheaper than replacing motherboards.
Sean K - Oct 16, 2005 9:34:09 am PDT #5118 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Thanks, Daniel.
Now, can someone tell me why, on my Mac, in Firefox, hitting the Tab key from this posting box does not highlight the Post Message button? Because I've now lost about fifty-seven posts by hitting Tab - Enter, which does not do what I expect it to do.
On the Mac, instead of highlighting the button, then activating it, it jumps to the next text box (the search thread field), and hitting enter runs the search query.
Is that something native to Macs? Is it something I can change? Because it's causing me to want to drop kick the machine.
Which would hurt my foot a lot.
P.M. Marc - Oct 16, 2005 9:36:14 am PDT #5119 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Sean, I think it's a bug or something. I don't know. If I weren't so stubborn, I'd have left Firefox for the Mac ages ago. It's less stable than S3 Faith.
I suggest, umm, Opera or Safari. Though I haven't checked tab+enter on them, because I never use it anyhow.
Jessica - Oct 16, 2005 9:36:16 am PDT #5120 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Is it something I can change?
If someone has the answer to this, I'd love to know it -- I'm not sure if the inability to tab into non-text fields (like the Post button, and drop-down menus on other sites) is a Mac thing or a Mac/Firefox thing. (I suppose I could test it with Safari right now, but that would be too easy. Plus, I'm supposed to be on my way out the door to go grocery shopping.)
Steph L. - Oct 16, 2005 9:36:32 am PDT #5121 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Sean, in Safari, hitting tab from the posting box *does* jump it to the Post Message button. Do you have Safari installed/are you willing to switch?
P.M. Marc - Oct 16, 2005 9:37:30 am PDT #5122 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
(I suppose I could test it with Safari right now, but that would be too easy. Plus, I'm supposed to be on my way out the door to go grocery shopping.)
HEE!
Okay, that's the part of my message I *didn't* post. But both are true here, too. (I should really finish getting ready so we can get the groceries before lunchtime.)