But that's just my point! You she obeys! She obeys you! There's obeying going on right under my nose!

Wash ,'War Stories'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Jessica - Jun 18, 2009 9:05:59 am PDT #10523 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Yeah, once yesterday's OMGEVERYONESLAMTHESERVERS delays were past, it ran just like a normal update for me, and I've had no problems at all since the upgrade.

Me too. I downloaded it about 8pm last night and it took about 20 minutes from start to finish.


omnis_audis - Jun 19, 2009 7:34:05 am PDT #10524 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Aw. I kinda wish I'd done it before leaving for f2f.


Jessica - Jun 21, 2009 5:53:06 pm PDT #10525 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Is there a way to swap out a video file on YouTube while leaving the metadata intact? For some reason YouTube decide to upload the last 3 Dylan videos I posted at half-speed (while playing the audio at full speed). I have no idea why, but I'd love to fix it without breaking the links I sent to his grandparents.


JZ - Jun 22, 2009 2:10:22 pm PDT #10526 of 25501
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Pathetic plea for help, crossposted from Natter:

I've been trying for far too many hours now to upload a revised MS to a journal website for one of my bosses; it has to be a Word document, not a PDF, but every single time I upload it the PDF proof they send me back for approval is a 94-page mess ballooned all to hell with markups on every single edit that's ever been made on this miserable thing.

I've turned off show comments, show insertions/deletions, show reviewers, track changes; shut down the show balloons option in the application preferences; shut down all possible remotely edit-related tickyboxes, then quit out, then gone back in, and nothing is working. The document looks clean as a whistle in Word and like a fucking multicolor nightmare in their final PDF (looks clean and perfect when I convert my own original doc to PDF, but I can't submit that), and I can't find any other edit/proofing anything to opt out of.

I desperately want to get this thing gone by the end of the day, and I'm feeling unbelievably stupid. The upload-online submission process has given me exactly this glitch many times before, but I've always, always been able to fix it quickly and easily (including with the original version of this same document--this is a revised resubmission); now I am just Made of Fail. Please, please help?


Steph L. - Jun 22, 2009 2:17:24 pm PDT #10527 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

JZ, I suggested something in Natter.


Lee - Jun 22, 2009 7:51:24 pm PDT #10528 of 25501
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Does anyone have a rec for underwater cameras?


omnis_audis - Jun 22, 2009 11:20:39 pm PDT #10529 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

I seem to recall some rather inexpensive contraptions that let your current camera become an underwater camera. I think it was REI, not positive. Or how good they work. They are like double bubbles, so if the first layer starts to leak, you still have the 2nd layer to keep it protected. Not sure how deep they went. Just an idea if you want to go that route, you can research it.


flea - Jun 23, 2009 2:30:48 am PDT #10530 of 25501
information libertarian

I read this as "underwear cameras." I think I need more coffee.


Gudanov - Jun 23, 2009 4:38:39 am PDT #10531 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

I read this as "underwear cameras."

Now there's a Flickr photostream I never want to see.


brenda m - Jun 23, 2009 6:18:35 am PDT #10532 of 25501
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

Excel question - if someone set up a workbook and spaced all their content by including an extra row between each item, is there a simple way to get rid of those empty rows other than deleting one by one?