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Steph L. - Jul 10, 2009 4:11:38 pm PDT #10664 of 25501

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I love this answer from that thread:

Every Gigabyte counts as 5oz of extra weight for your computer.There has been cases (in computers with 1Tb of Hard drive and more) of people left eMule activated 3 days and when that people returned to the computer,there was a hole in the floor instead.

Juliebird - Jul 11, 2009 8:30:46 am PDT #10665 of 25501

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

My wireless on my laptop has ceased to work, and when I go to the Control Panel, HP Wireless Assistant won't open. Any thoughts?

DCJensen - Jul 11, 2009 10:31:48 am PDT #10666 of 25501

All is well that ends in pizza.

Go into device manager (Control Panels->System->Hardware-> Device Manager) and see if it's listed.

if it is, is it disabled? Enable it.

It it is and it's not disabled, uninstall it and reboot, and see if it will reinstall.

If it is not listed, there is a menu item up top that says "Show missing devices" or some such, find it and uninstall, reboot, etc.

Juliebird - Jul 11, 2009 12:06:49 pm PDT #10667 of 25501

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Yeah, okay, it's not there at all. HP is saying that my model (though not necessarily my series) of notebook tends to have this problem. Now I have to find out which BIOS?? I have and therefore need to update to. I think.

tommyrot - Jul 11, 2009 12:43:07 pm PDT #10668 of 25501

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Is there any way to record streaming mp3 audio to disk, so I can grab songs from the file (using Audacity)? I may end up using Audio Hijack Pro, but that entails grabbing the audio after it's been uncompressed, which means I'll have to compress it again to mp3, and it'd be nice to avoid the resulting quality loss.

Juliebird - Jul 11, 2009 1:44:23 pm PDT #10669 of 25501

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Updated the BIOS and Wireless Assistant with the recommended upgrades and still nothing. I've rebooted the laptop seven times so far. Nothing.

tommyrot - Jul 11, 2009 1:54:08 pm PDT #10670 of 25501

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, so what I did was do a "Save as" on the link for the streaming audio. This got me a 4k pls (playlist) file. I opened that in Text and grabbed the URL of the actual mp3 stream. I made that into an html file with a link to the URL. Then I opened that html file did a "Save as" on the link. I got the whole stream as an mp3 file this way.

Please tell me everyone knows this trick. Also, I don't know if this works on non-mp3 streams.

DCJensen - Jul 11, 2009 1:54:13 pm PDT #10671 of 25501

All is well that ends in pizza.

Is the card removable?

Juliebird - Jul 11, 2009 2:00:23 pm PDT #10672 of 25501

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

me? Not a clue.

DCJensen - Jul 11, 2009 5:09:00 pm PDT #10673 of 25501

All is well that ends in pizza.

What model is it?

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