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.
You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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§ ita § - Mar 31, 2006 6:30:56 am PST #7767 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Spidra Webster - Mar 31, 2006 8:00:30 am PST #7768 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
My new Mac mini just arrived!
::does Cabbage Patch::
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2006 9:39:15 am PST #7769 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Jessica - Mar 31, 2006 9:56:30 am PST #7770 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In case anyone wants one, Apple's refurbished section is already showing Macbook Pros available. That was quick!
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2006 11:59:00 am PST #7771 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
HiddenSky - Apr 01, 2006 8:01:43 pm PST #7772 of 10003
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
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.
tommyrot - Apr 01, 2006 8:06:15 pm PST #7773 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.
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....
HiddenSky - Apr 01, 2006 8:27:59 pm PST #7774 of 10003
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
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.
meara - Apr 02, 2006 8:56:15 am PDT #7775 of 10003
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?
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2006 12:19:23 pm PDT #7776 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Anyone use uknova.com? It's not letting me log in, denying that my registered e-mail address is in their database--but I'm looking at my confirmation and previous password reset e-mails, and it's the same address?
Also, the signup screen is blank.