Does anybody mind if I pass out?

Willow ,'Beneath You'


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

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beekaytee - Jul 20, 2009 4:23:12 pm PDT #10748 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant

Right. Though I don't love Verizon, they are the best game in town...but not for the spanking new iPhone. Still haven't figured out what to do.


DCJensen - Jul 20, 2009 5:47:52 pm PDT #10749 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Only $900!

That's $3.52/Gb.

Hmm, about $1 more per Gb than a solid state drive, in a convenient little package.

It'd make one hell of a tiny server with that wall plug wireless dongle.


omnis_audis - Jul 20, 2009 8:45:08 pm PDT #10750 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

and no moving parts!


Gris - Jul 21, 2009 3:06:04 pm PDT #10751 of 25501
Hey. New board.

I just bought a 1 TB external hard drive and plugged it into my Airport Extreme Base Station with 2 partitions (350 GB of HFS+ for laptop Time Machine backups and 600 GB of FAT32 for Improbable Girl's backups and media server duties for when I get my LG BD390 in sometime later this year).

Time Machine is working beautifully.

What do you recommend for simple backup solutions on Windows? Ideally, it would back up everything incrementally, similar to Time Machine, since there's plenty of space.


Jon B. - Jul 21, 2009 4:10:21 pm PDT #10752 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

What do you recommend for simple backup solutions on Windows?

SyncToy isn't bad, and it's free: [link]


Theodosia - Jul 22, 2009 2:04:15 am PDT #10753 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"

One of my purchased iPod games has started closing when I open it. If I delete it from the iTouch, will a sync bring it back?


Tom Scola - Jul 22, 2009 2:33:49 am PDT #10754 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I would try rebooting the iPod first.


Theodosia - Jul 22, 2009 2:38:49 am PDT #10755 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"

Alas, I already did that.


amych - Jul 22, 2009 4:17:49 am PDT #10756 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Theo, yes - if you delete it, it'll come back when you sync again.


omnis_audis - Jul 22, 2009 7:38:47 am PDT #10757 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

long shot question here. My old, pre-color iPod click wheel (I think 4th gen, last one before color came out) 40 GB iPod. Well. It's center button doesn't seem to depress anymore. Or maybe its stuck in the depressed mode. Aside from pharmaceuticals that the iPod can't ingest, any suggestions? Or should I take it to the genius bar to hear them say "oh, you should just upgrade".