Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?  

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Jessica - Jan 03, 2006 12:17:00 pm PST #6266 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Here's a handy tool -- compare TV sizes of different aspect ratios. (Useful for figuring out how your new flatscreen compares to your old tube.)


SuziQ - Jan 03, 2006 12:20:12 pm PST #6267 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

le nubian - I was gifted with the Monster one. It has been used around the Bay Area with much success.


Gudanov - Jan 03, 2006 5:21:33 pm PST #6268 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

This is why I like my new linux computer. I'm uploading a video file, downloading a video file (both on my local lan), encoding an mpeg2 file to divx, watching a wmv movie streaming off the internet, and posting here with everything running smoothly.


tommyrot - Jan 03, 2006 5:34:49 pm PST #6269 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.

Yes, but can you manage your recipes and chart your biorhythms?


Gudanov - Jan 03, 2006 5:44:04 pm PST #6270 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Well, sure, it's no BeOS but it's better than my old setup.


NoiseDesign - Jan 03, 2006 8:41:08 pm PST #6271 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

One of the theatres I design at is still using the BeOS for their audio playback system.


Ginger - Jan 04, 2006 10:14:40 am PST #6272 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I have one cable channel that's all colored fuzz. Sadly, it's UPN, so I'd like to have it working before the new Veronica Mars. After waiting a very long time being told that my call was important, I got a person who kept insisting that I had to make sure the *television* channel was tuned to the channel. Both my cable box and television manuals say that you don't have to do any television channel programming, just put it on 3. After I hung up, I tried programming the television anyway. to no affect. Have any of you ever heard of that?

She kept saying, "We don't want to have to put in a service ticket, do we?" in the tones of a German prison guard.


Jon B. - Jan 04, 2006 10:25:35 am PST #6273 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Have any of you ever heard of that?

No. If you normally use a cable box, then you don't mess with the TV channel.

"We don't want to have to put in a service ticket, do we?"

Ummm.... yeah "we" do!


DCJensen - Jan 04, 2006 2:45:06 pm PST #6274 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

It sounds like one of the cards in the box downstream is going bad. The tech will be able to clear that up with a mad dash up the pole, or maybe pulling a card in a box somewhere.

Unless it's my house, then it'll take severl months and seventeen phone calls before someone believes I have cable issues.

This is why I don't have cable any more.


Strix - Jan 04, 2006 4:42:25 pm PST #6275 of 10003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I'm trying to reload Azureus, and keep getting told I need to have port 50678 UDB open. I tried going to my Security and adding the port, but it asks me for a name, and I don't have that.

I just want some TV, man!

Help?