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Ginger - Nov 06, 2006 4:25:46 am PST #9411 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

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I've found that WD-40 works just as well.


Polter-Cow - Nov 06, 2006 9:55:23 am PST #9412 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Motorola DVR Possessed by Evil.


tommyrot - Nov 06, 2006 9:58:31 am PST #9413 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.

Perhaps no one but me might find this useful, but....

Windows/Mac/Unix (Firefox): The Aging Tabs Firefox extension keeps an eye on your open Firefox tabs, highlighting your active tab and fading the aging tags that you haven't used in a while.

If you're someone who's perhaps a little too tab-happy in Firefox (a pack-rat for tabs, perhaps?), Aging tabs could be a great way to find the tabs that are ripe for the chopping block.

Not only do I tend to have multiple tabs open - I usually have multiple Firefox windows open, with multiple tabs open. Sometimes I even have Firefox open on multiple computers....

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brenda m - Nov 06, 2006 10:10:19 am PST #9414 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh, that's totally me.


Kalshane - Nov 06, 2006 10:15:36 am PST #9415 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.

Motorola DVR Possessed by Evil.

That's pretty much all of them. While I haven't had it think its full when it's not, my DVR has had all the other issues hers has and I'm on my 2nd DVR from Comcast.


esse - Nov 06, 2006 10:25:29 am PST #9416 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Ha, tommy, that's totally me too. tab mix is great for letting me ctrl-tab through all my tabs to see what, exactly, I have open. but that'll be useful too.


Polter-Cow - Nov 06, 2006 10:27:12 am PST #9417 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

When I first got a DVR, I immediately received a bad one and had to get it replaced. The one I got to replace it went bad in about a month. And the one I got to replace that one also went bad in a few weeks. The fourth one finally worked.

When I moved here, they were actually OUT OF DVRs because they were replacing so many, so they gave me a regular digital cable box initially. That box was bad.

The tech actually brought a couple DVRs with him in case one of them was obviously bad. I've had mine for a couple months now with no catastrophic problems, thankfully.

It just baffles me that they have SO MANY bad boxes, and they just sort of expect the customers to deal with it.


NoiseDesign - Nov 06, 2006 2:19:19 pm PST #9418 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

It looks like my Tivo might have a failing hard drive. I'm not really too surprised. It is about four years old I think. It has lifetime service so I'm going to replace the drive with one from Weaknees. I gave my series one to my parents and it is still running. It was one of the first series ones. It has been running since 1999 or maybe late 1998.


tommyrot - Nov 06, 2006 4:01:52 pm PST #9419 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 am trying to help someone connect their XP laptop to a wireless network (I've never done that before). I connected two Mac without any problem, but the XP laptop keeps saying "Acquiring network address." So it says it's connected but it never gets an IP address.

Any ideas?


esse - Nov 07, 2006 4:50:33 am PST #9420 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

If it says it's acquiring the network address, I assume that it's seeing the network and has made contact with the server, and there is some hiccup in getting the router to assign an address to the network card.

Here's what I've had to do in the past when confronted with that problem, particularly on Mac-configured routers with my Dell laptop.

1) disable the network card.

2) if you have internet access, through a direct port or through some other means, download the specific driver software for the network card. Most PC laptops don't have proprietary cards, and the card manufacturer usually will have specific software outside of the Windows network set up. Download and install.

3) restart the computer.

4) first try re-enabling the network card. sometimes a reset and a restart will make it work; who knows why.

5) if that doesn't, open up the proprietary network software and attempt to connect via that program. if it asks you to disable window's wireless network function, that's fine, you don't really need to use it exclusively anyhow.

6) if it connects via the proprietary software, bueno! if not, check the router settings.

hope this helps.