Wow. Just got quite the pang of nostalgia.
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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§ ita § - Oct 20, 2006 10:24:08 am PDT #9274 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DXMachina - Oct 20, 2006 10:42:01 am PDT #9275 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Now, if they could make some of the toasters to look like #6...
Typo Boy - Oct 20, 2006 11:33:23 am PDT #9276 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.
Safety question. I'm replacing an old wired doorbell with a wireless one. I can snip the old live wires (with rubber handled snips, one at a time) so I have foreshortened live wires in the hold, then cover with the plate of the new doorbell (which uses a battery). Is this safe? The unconnected live wires are basically what a socket is yes?
tommyrot - Oct 20, 2006 11:40:05 am PDT #9277 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.
Safety question. I'm replacing an old wired doorbell with a wireless one. I can snip the old live wires (with rubber handled snips, one at a time) so I have foreshortened live wires in the hold, then cover with the plate of the new doorbell (which uses a battery). Is this safe? The unconnected live wires are basically what a socket is yes?
My boss (who used to be an electronics engineer) says that this is fine, except that you should cap off the live wires.
Ginger - Oct 20, 2006 11:44:39 am PDT #9278 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Doorbells are low-voltage wiring, so there shouldn't be a problem. You might want to tape the ends or put on those wire end things. To be perfectly safe, you can always take the wires off the transformer.
eta: inevitable crosspost
Gris - Oct 20, 2006 12:55:29 pm PDT #9279 of 10003
Hey. New board.
So, I've got an interesting problem. For putting grades into the Board of Ed computer system, the software we use creates some Excel spreadsheets for us to fill out. The first several columns are unchangeable things like student name, course name, room number, and so forth. These columns are, sensibly, protected - can't be edited without a password.
For some reason, though, on my Excel: Mac 2004 (and the same version on a friend's Mac), the protection extends to the cells we should be able to edit. Like, the ones where we're supposed to enter the grades.
Any idea what could be causing that? I have no idea what the password is.
Kalshane - Oct 20, 2006 12:59:52 pm PDT #9280 of 10003
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Both yesterday and today I've been having problems actually using the 'net.
I've been able to log on but everything runs extremely slowly. I ran my McAfee and it found nothing.
Sumi, if you're running Windows, I would recommend downloading Lavasoft's Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy and have them check for spyware on your PC. I know McAfee has some anti-spyware capability these days, but IME those two programs in conjunction do a pretty good job of catching 99% of what's out there. Plus Spybot has some immunization ability. (Don't install the tea-timer function, though, as it's annoying and doesn't help all that much.)
With Ad-Aware, after it's finished scanning, click on the Critical Objects tab and only remove those. Otherwise it will wipe out your Most Recent Documents list and your most recently viewed web page URLs, which is annoying if you make use of either of those functions.
Consuela - Oct 20, 2006 3:36:12 pm PDT #9281 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Flying toasters! Funny--my little brother worked for them, back when people would actually pay money for screensavers.
sumi - Oct 20, 2006 5:32:21 pm PDT #9282 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Okay. Lavasoft ad-aware. That sounds good. I will say that I was more patient tonight and did not have the same problem.
DCJensen - Oct 20, 2006 6:15:10 pm PDT #9283 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
I'm looking for a copy of the original Opus and Bill screensaver where they shot down the flying toasters (Before Broderbund sued them and won).