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Jessica - Jun 23, 2006 7:12:09 am PDT #8362 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Ugly-ass watch = cool-ass phone!


§ ita § - Jun 23, 2006 7:14:55 am PDT #8363 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It needs Bluetooth.


tommyrot - Jun 23, 2006 10:36:58 am PDT #8364 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.

Can anyone recommend a clock for Windows XP? Preferably translucent.

(I miss the clock that came with Windows 3.x. You could make the clock as big as you wanted - at one job I had a second computer that I almost never used, so I just made the clock fill the whole screen and left it that way.)


tommyrot - Jun 23, 2006 10:38:10 am PDT #8365 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.

Geeky "broken image" t-shirt: [link]


Jessica - Jun 23, 2006 10:46:59 am PDT #8366 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Does anyone here use Compressor 2? I'm trying to test its standards conversion capabilities, and the damn thing keeps crashing. This is on a dual 2Ghz computer with 2.5GB RAM.

Searching "Compressor crash" and "Compressor close" on the Apple support site yields no results, so apparently this sort of thing Just Doesn't Happen. Any advice?

[eta that I've found a few relevant discussions in the Apple forums, but nobody seems to have ANSWERED any of them, so not very helpful.]


Jon B. - Jun 23, 2006 11:03:08 am PDT #8367 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Can anyone recommend a clock for Windows XP? Preferably translucent.

I haven't tried this, but it looks promising: [link]

Geeky "broken image" t-shirt

I know it shouldn't, but it cracks me up that the 3XL size is backordered.


Jon B. - Jun 23, 2006 11:03:53 am PDT #8368 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Another clock: [link]

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and another: [link]


tommyrot - Jun 23, 2006 11:05:43 am PDT #8369 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 haven't tried this, but it looks promising: [link]

Oh, I want something I can just stick on the desktop or in the corner of the screen. That displays in the system tray, which I keep hidden.


tommyrot - Jun 23, 2006 11:06:34 am PDT #8370 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.

Another clock: [link]....

Ooh, those are what I want - thanks!


Typo Boy - Jun 24, 2006 11:11:25 am PDT #8371 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Anyone know of a good group calendar that will work across many versions of windows? I tried to some simply outlook sharing with some folder synching software - but one of the computers on the Network is a really old one with NT 4.0. And Outlook 2000 keeps locking up on that one once the sharing program is enabled. It is a three computer network. I started with Outlook sharing cause they already know and love Outlook, but decided an exchange server would be a little too much for them - over kill for a three computer network in any case, and a pain for people who are not computer literate to maintain.

There are some simple programs out there that will keep multiple versions of outlook synched, but the clients for them don't seem to work well on NT. I thought of steering them to web based, but none of the major firewalls out there let you keep current on NT 4.0 - not zone alarm, MacAfee or Norton. But we are able to do simple printer and file sharing between the two XP computers and the NT one - so there ought to be something that will work.