Did Tiger have a "Go/Connect To Server..." option?
I think all flavors of OS X have had it (I know for sure that Panther did, but before that... well, we've seen that I'm fuzzy on the deets of stuff I set up a while ago).
Angel: Yeah, I never told anyone about this, but I-I liked your poems. Spike: You like Barry Manilow.
'Hell Bound'
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amych - May 19, 2009 11:44:22 am PDT #10022 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
§ ita § - May 19, 2009 11:46:34 am PDT #10023 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
we've seen that I'm fuzzy on the deets of stuff I set up a while ago
Apparently I'm fuzzy on an OS I used daily just a few weeks ago, so really, who looks bad?
le nubian - May 19, 2009 11:53:07 am PDT #10024 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I download a whole lot of stuff on webdav, ftp, and other places (e.g. rapidshare) and speed download has paid for itself over and over in ease of use.
but I understand about the not liquid part.
omnis_audis - May 19, 2009 11:56:15 am PDT #10025 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
sssh. rumor has it, U-verse is coming out with an app and gizmo to transfer recordings to the iPhone.
Polter-Cow - May 19, 2009 5:07:39 pm PDT #10026 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So I think I have a virus, but neither AVG nor Malwarebytes find anything fishy with my system. I scanned the HijackThis logfile and didn't see any virus names either.
If I'm using Paint and I go to File -> Open, the program closes the instant the window opens. Sometimes the window will open, but if I scroll down or navigate in the window, the program will crash. The same happens if I do the same thing in IrfanView. Or if I click on the "Attach" button in an Outlook Express e-mail to attach a file. As soon as it opens the window for me to choose my attachment, the program kills itself.
I can drag-and-drop files into the programs; it's not like they're incapable of opening files. So far I can't find a single other program that behaves that way; I can use the File -> Open command with no problem. Windows Explorer also functions fine.
Thing is, I don't even remember the last time I've even used Paint or IrfanView or the last time I sent an attachment in Outlook Express. Okay, maybe the last time was March 27. So I could have it had for a while without noticing. Unless it hopped in on one of the recent Windows Updates.
Do these symptoms make any sense? Sound familiar? I don't really know what to do.
ETA: Uh, motherfucking hell, it's definitely a recent development because I just tried to open a file from My Recent Documents (which I have done a lot recently), and Explorer.exe crashed with this error:
The instruction at "0x77ea01ba" referenced memory at "0x06080007". The memory could not be "read".
Shit shit shit shit. My last weird virus turned out to be a file called aax25F4.tmp.exe and AVG identified it as as a "Trojan horse Generic13.LNA," but that had different symptoms. And it found another Trojan horse and deleted it a week later. And one a week or two ago. But it finds nothing now! It just got an update, so maybe this thing is REALLY new or something. If the new scan doesn't find it...I don't know what to do!!
DCJensen - May 19, 2009 6:46:22 pm PDT #10027 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I recommend Malwarebytes, P-C.
Polter-Cow - May 19, 2009 7:05:50 pm PDT #10028 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So I think I have a virus, but neither AVG nor Malwarebytes find anything fishy with my system.
Gris - May 20, 2009 2:10:58 am PDT #10029 of 25501
Hey. New board.
what happens when I need to log in to an FTP/SFTP location?
Well, I have the username and password saved in my keychain, so it just opens. If you don't want to do that, it will happily give you a username/password dialog box if it needs to.
I don't use the ability very often, as I find CyberDuck to be more stable. If I needed to edit files on an FTP server, I would probably use the CyberDuck/Smultron option with Smultron as the external editor. I do use disc mounting for Samba connections pretty regularly though.
Polter-Cow - May 20, 2009 5:59:32 am PDT #10030 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Lavasoft Ad-Aware also found nothing. Gah. I'm going to see if Spybot will actually install, but otherwise, I'm out of ideas.
Theodosia - May 20, 2009 6:27:07 am PDT #10031 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Try reinstalling one of the more minor programs you're having a problem with? I'm wondering if your problem isn't a damaged common DLL that a number of programs share for duties like opening files, rather than a malicious virus. This is why reinstalling the operating system in Windows often is the simplest and best cure for a lot of problems.