'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Also, if you had to go to a local repair place, they'd probably have an easier time with an ND-built box than they would with something from a big vendor that uses all kinds of weird vendor-specific parts.
No kidding. Handbuilt machines are so much easier to deal iwth.
Handbuilt machines are so much easier to deal iwth.
Unless you're at a certified place. I used to work at an IBM/Compaq shop, and if the machines were under warranty, repair was usually replacement, and was a snap to get parts in and out.
My new Mac mini just arrived!
::does Cabbage Patch::
Note: The web blocker here doesn't let me see that page, but I did see the gizmodo entry on the woman's torso case.
In case anyone wants one, Apple's refurbished section is already showing Macbook Pros available. That was quick!
2005 Technology Brand Scorecard.
Interesting that Apple scored that low on the potential axis. Are they tapped out in the public eye?
eta: Excel 2007 video preview. Excel could never be exciting enough for me to pay attention to 57 minutes of video on it.
Firefox (v. 1.5.0.1 running on WinXP) has started behaving strangely for me when I try to access Amazon.com lately. (Roughly within the past week, but I don't visit regularly enough to pinpoint exactly when this problem started.)
When I try to load the site, it's hit or miss. One time, it will produce a blank page and the next time it will load correctly. When I look at the source code when the blank page loads, I can see the html and head tags then part of the CSS stylesheet, so I think it's having stylesheet problems. I might have to refresh the page five or six times before it appears. If I try any of the international Amazon sites with Firefox, they load correctly and IE has no trouble with Amazon.com. I'm stumped as to what could be causing the problem. If it was a widespread Firefox issue with Amazon's code, I'd expect that I would have stumbled across a mention.
I use Firefox 1.5.x on XP at work and have not had any problems with Amazon (and I've been on Amazon a lot in the last few weeks). I don't know the exact version of Firefox my work computer has, though....
If it continues for a few more days, I'll just create a profile backup then reinstall Firefox and see if it does the trick. I tried clearing my cache and removing related cookies, but it didn't do anything.
OK, this isn't urgent, cause it's not stopping me from anything, but it's WEIRD...
So, the other day I got tangled in wires and accidentally pulled the ethernet cable out of my laptop. Uh oh. So then the cable (or another one I tried) wouldn't stay in the computer, but if I held it there, would mostly work.
So I go buy a wireless router, and set it all up and such (which was hard, cause they made me wire it up to my ethernet connection! Grrr). And I've got it all set up, and it shows up as one of the options, and when I click on it, it asks for the password, and I put it in...and then it says "There was an error joining the AirPort network (nameIgaveit)".
Except...here I am, on the internet. WTF?