Argh. Stupid anonymous LJ posters. Someone posted a comment that I seriously didn't appreciate, anonymously, in my journal (and not some random porn or christian shopping or anything). I had IP tracking on, so I plugged that into a whois thing and found out they're from Cavalier Telephone (which is basically only in Virginia), so now I'm totally going "who is it? WHO IS IT?" thinking of anyone and everyone I know who might be posting from Virginia and pissy at me. Harumph.

(Edit: Needless to say, I've turned off anonymous posting for a while)

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thinking of anyone and everyone I know who might be posting from Virginia

Can't help you find the culprit, meara. We don't have Cavalier.

I've heard their ads mostly in the Fredericksburg area, if that helps.

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HiddenSky, I used your comcast address as my referrer. I hope that was right.

Yes, it was...thanks, I got an email saying the points posted! Welcome to the Tivolution as they like to say.

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PC World's 50 greatest gadgets of the last 50 years.

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I have a friend (no, really... if it were me, I would totally cop to it) that had his computer massively lock him out. Apparently when the Dept of Defense secures your computer and you forget the password, you are well and truly frelled. He took it to a sevice and they cracked in enough to give him a new profile and access to everything. Which, okay, good.

But he lost his iTunes playlists. Where does Apple hide that info? I have poked around but have had no luck.

I'm not past the point of telling him to just recreate them, but I'm also a lot curious as to where this voodoo logic is stored. Thus, hivemind pokage.

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Since it's the DoD, I assume it's a PC....

Anyway, my home PC is dead, so I should probably just wait until I get to work tomorrow, but... every Windows user gets their own user directory (with subdirectories for music, pictures, etc.). Since this guy has a new user account he's gonna have a new user directory. I'm guessing that's where the iTunes playlist would go. He should look in the old user directory (if he in fact still has access to that directory - he may no longer have the rights).

Or you can just wait until someone who knows what they're talking about to show up.

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But he lost his iTunes playlists. Where does Apple hide that info? I have poked around but have had no luck.

Is there a way to re-import them from the iPod, I wonder? (When my old computer died, I was able to get my contacts and calendar back by synching with my PDA.)

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Is there a way to re-import them from the iPod, I wonder?

yes, there is. Ephpod. (the site's down right now though.) i used it to import all of my music from my old computer to the new one using my ipod as the go between.

question. i'm using MyDVD to burn my Farscape eps to dvd and i've gotten up to the 10th episode and it won't add it. it tells me that "MyDVD is unable to use all of the files you selected, either because they are damaged or because they are not supported file types". episode 10 is the exact same file type as the others. what can i do?

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ephpod, I think, does not work with the new ipod firmware upgrade.

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He should look in the old user directory (if he in fact still has access to that directory - he may no longer have the rights).

I can get in to the old user name's documents and settings but just never found anything that seemed to bring the old playlists back. I don't know if I just haven't looked in the right spot or if some of his information was well and truly locked or erased with the DoD fussing.

I'm still curious as to where that info is stored and, as I am finally back home, I will poke at my computer tomorrow to see if I can find out where it is on a machine with actual working playlists on it. Reverse engineering...

Is there a way to re-import them from the iPod, I wonder?

This would work. But his iPod died while he was still overseas and he had a replacement, all emptified.

Maybe it's just a government conspiracy.

Ooh, evil stuttering post number...

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