From what I heard, 7-zip is pretty awesome about handling almost every kind of archive.
re: laptop backpacks, Lifehacker has a nice post with a number of links on the subject here, [link]
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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esse - Dec 06, 2006 12:04:15 am PST #9743 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
shrift - Dec 06, 2006 1:46:06 pm PST #9744 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
7-Zip for the win! Awesome. Thank you, Gud.
Liese S. - Dec 07, 2006 9:08:54 am PST #9745 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hmph. I can't figure out why my new laptop Eowyn can't see Rosie, but Rosie can see Eowyn. Everything was working so smoothly with my setup that I am miffed that there is the slightest bit of trouble.
Also, it has occurred to me only now that if I am using Frodo's network card for Eowyn to get online, then I can't transfer files from Frodo to Eowyn. I have to transfer them from Frodo to Rosie and then from Rosie to Eowyn. Harumph.
esse - Dec 07, 2006 9:30:36 am PST #9746 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Kubuntu is just ubuntu for the KDE environment, right?
amych - Dec 07, 2006 9:31:55 am PST #9747 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
SA, yep.
Liese S. - Dec 07, 2006 9:37:02 am PST #9748 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Okay, there. Now Eowyn & Rosie can both see each other. We'll have to see what happens with Estel gets home.
Gudanov - Dec 07, 2006 9:39:59 am PST #9749 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Kubuntu is just ubuntu for the KDE environment, right?
In fact, if you have Ubuntu installed you can just do "apt-get install kubuntu-desktop" and now you have Kubuntu.
Liese S. - Dec 07, 2006 5:03:54 pm PST #9750 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Does anybody have one of those wireless weather stations, where you stick a (set of) sensor(s) outside and it monitors indoor and outdoor temperature, rainfall, etc? Any brand or model recommendations? I want something midrange, not where the house looks like a total freak lives in it, but where I can gather some useful information, from the new land, etc. But not, like, crazy expensive.
beth b - Dec 07, 2006 5:32:18 pm PST #9751 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
my sister has one and we bought one for my dad - later today I'll look it up
Cass - Dec 07, 2006 6:05:21 pm PST #9752 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I think my mom was shopping for one recently. Suspect dad and stepmom likely have one as well. Emails shall be shot now, when come back hope to bring recs.