even though I did have extra screws. . .

It's almost impossible to disassemble and reassemble an electronic device without producing a screw or two. It's how screws reproduce.

I agree. I fixed my niece's digital camera yesterday. Clearly the problem included excess screws, as I had three left over.

Nothing rattles, and it works. No problem.

Otoh? I managed to get a minor burn from my soldering iron...

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I am giving away my old computer tomorrow and have just taken a turn at cleaning all the personal stuff off. I deleted all the internet stuff and mail profiles and documents. Anyone know specific other things I should do? Is there some way for me to unregister myself?

nevermind - I am just erasing the harddrive.

I'd also repartition the hard drive, too, at least.

Even if you trust the recipient.

I have a widget question.

I like having the weather widget on the desktop instead of the dashboard, but every time I open the dashboard to look at something else, the weather widget reverts to being a dashboard widget and disappears as soon as I go back to the desktop. Is there any way to make it live there permanently?

Putting widgets on the desktop is (or, at least, was, when it first came out - I could be outdated now, I'm not sure) a hack, not intended for actual use. So, my guess would be that the answer to your question is "no, not really."

That said, there are almost certainly programs out there that would give you weater information and ARE intended to live on the desktop. Versiontracker might help. Or, you could even install Yahoo! Widgets, formerly known as Konfabulator, which is almost certainly the program that inspired Dashboard in the first place.

I just got a 160G la cie hard drive so I can finally fix my computer issues!

So I have a question or three before I start.

I have to wipe the disk and start anew, which I've never done.

I know I need to transfer all my documents and such to the la cie, as well as a couple of programs for which I have no disk, like my FTP and such.

But then I think I'm supposed to partition the hard drive on my computer. Is that really necessary with the la cie?

Appreciate any advice anyone has while I go and research on my own!

I have a live journal question. I've noticed that some journals have customized pictures at the top. How do I do that? Or at least point me in the direction in the lj faq. I've been searching that thing for a while and still have no idea.

Allyson, if you'd like I'd be happy to come over and walk you through it one of these evenings. I made it through January and now have some time again in Feb. Also, now that I've got time again we can finish up your recording if you'd like.

Aw, ND, you're so sweet. I think I accomplished everything almost correctly.

I say almost because I lost three things in the move: My ISP, FTP, and ALL OF MY iTUNES.

Seriously. All my writing, emails, art, all those files which meant the most of me were perfectly fine, but I made a mistake somewhere and mu iTunes songs are just gone. I was in a fetal position for a few minutes, took a deep breath, repeated "First World Problem" several times, and now, I am calm.