Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.

Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'


Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?  

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tommyrot - Oct 17, 2005 10:13:01 am PDT #5172 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.

Thanks, Tom. If no one else pops up, I'll send it on to you.

OK. Profile addy is good.


Betsy HP - Oct 17, 2005 11:10:45 am PDT #5173 of 10003
If I only had a brain...

Apple Customer Service is teh BEST.

I went to the Apple store with my hyperclean iPod Mini and my sad story. The person agreed that it was probably beyond hope. I explained that my son really loved Minis, and now they were discontinued. She went into the back of the store, found a couple of open-box Minis (opened and returned), gave me the open-box discount, and then gave me the recycled iPod discount.

Rock on.


evil jimi - Oct 18, 2005 2:33:35 am PDT #5174 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Xerox printer codes track documents ... [link]


le nubian - Oct 18, 2005 11:28:47 am PDT #5175 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Salon article about lack of high speed broadband service in the U.S.

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DebetEsse - Oct 18, 2005 2:31:48 pm PDT #5176 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.

So, my tale.

When I moved in in July, I set up the Internet. It worked. When my roommates moved in, I set up the wireless router (which one of them had), but it refused to let me set up a password system. I called my tech support. He said that the router was broken and a new one was needed. Roommate #1 said we should call her brother. We did. He had us set up a MAC address filter. Since then (and even then), the router gets pissy when you try to talk to it (the 192.168.1.1 stuff. Getting to the Internet is stable, unless you try to talk to it, or anyone else tries to get on.). It crashes. It also does not let anyone other than me and RM#1 on the wireless, even after I try to change the settings.

Now, the diag light is on solid, and it's not letting me on at all, wired or wireless.

Any ideas on how to fiix it or convince the roommates that, no, it wasn't working fine before?


NoiseDesign - Oct 18, 2005 2:34:33 pm PDT #5177 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

What type of router is it? Most of them have a hard reset button that will return them to factory defaults.


DebetEsse - Oct 18, 2005 2:36:23 pm PDT #5178 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Linksys. I shall try that


NoiseDesign - Oct 18, 2005 2:38:52 pm PDT #5179 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

On a linksys you need to press the reset button and hold it in until all the lights flash off. I think it's around 10 seconds.


DebetEsse - Oct 18, 2005 2:44:09 pm PDT #5180 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Yup.

Diag still on, though


Volans - Oct 18, 2005 11:18:32 pm PDT #5181 of 10003
move out and draw fire

We had the same problem with ours, and I don't remember how it got fixed. Often the reset button would work, and sometimes unplugging the power to the router for about 20 seconds would work. Sometimes using Windows "Repair Network Connections" would work. Our laptop kept setting up a bridge that wasn't needed and preventing itself from getting on the wireless network; you might check that.

Anybody use or know of flash music players? My DH has asked for one for Xmas, and I'm not sure where to start looking. I'm checking c|net for reviews, but I don't even really know what I'm looking for.