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beekaytee - Aug 24, 2006 1:35:13 pm PDT #8703 of 10003

Compassionately intolerant

Whoa. Sorry for the thread killage.

I've worked out my dvd drive issue via a call to Tekserve in NYC, which came very highly recommended by a 'builds his own' tech contact.

Looks like the LaCie D2 DVR is the way to go. USB compatible and not very expensive. Bonus...lightscribe permanent labeling on the appropriate media.

Really though, all I need to do is read data dvds and play movies.

Low expectations...that's me!

tommyrot - Aug 29, 2006 10:15:40 am PDT #8704 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.

Geek humor: [link]

amych - Aug 29, 2006 10:17:15 am PDT #8705 of 10003

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

heh

beekaytee - Aug 29, 2006 11:24:08 am PDT #8706 of 10003

Compassionately intolerant

Woot! New memory has been achieved. 1024 on board baybee...

Bring on the upgraded software!

Typo Boy - Aug 29, 2006 12:06:41 pm PDT #8707 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.

Geek humor: [link]

Care to explain the joke for those of us apparently not Geeky enough.

tommyrot - Aug 29, 2006 12:13:22 pm PDT #8708 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.

In the Unix/BSD/Linux/Apple command line world, you are limited by your login as to what you can do. Unless you log in as root, in which case you can do anything. Logging in as root is considered dangerous because you can really mess things up - especially if you forget you're actually logged in as root. But sometimes you need the unlimited power of the root user.

'sudo' is something you preceed a command with if you want to execute just that one command as root, reducing the chance of you screwing up.

beekaytee - Aug 29, 2006 12:22:08 pm PDT #8709 of 10003

Compassionately intolerant

Prophylactic Simon Sez. Yup. Geeky.

Strix - Aug 29, 2006 5:57:48 pm PDT #8710 of 10003

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Question: Lately, whenever I plug in my flaah drive, all my music files start loading to it automatically! A screen pops up when I plug it in that asks me if I want it to automatically perform a function with Media player, and I always click "Take No Action" but the little bastards start streaming over to the flash drive anyway.

Can someone help me make the madness STOP?

Gudanov - Aug 30, 2006 6:59:44 am PDT #8711 of 10003

Coding and Sleeping

You might open up Media Player and go to the 'Tools' menu and select 'Options...' That will bring up the dialog of many choices. Select the 'Devices' tab and see if there is some device you can whack to keep Media Player from sync'ing.

That's just sort of a guess, I don't really use Windows for anything not work related. Hopefully someone more Media Player experienced can come up with a more definite idea.

Gudanov - Aug 30, 2006 8:54:57 am PDT #8712 of 10003

Coding and Sleeping

Cool, a timeline of Linux distributions.

[link]

Okay, maybe not cool to everybody. Okay, maybe not cool to most people. Okay, maybe only cool to me.

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