Right, what's a little sweater sniffing between sworn enemies?

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

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tommyrot - Sep 16, 2009 8:27:31 am PDT #11172 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.

Pretty Sony Walkman is pretty! [link]


brenda m - Sep 16, 2009 8:32:40 am PDT #11173 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

Pretty Sony Walkman is pricy. Which is probably for the best because otherwise I'd be all over that brown one.


Jessica - Sep 16, 2009 8:38:01 am PDT #11174 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Just ordered an HD Tivo. Soon I shall be free of the Cablevision DVR of Total Suckitude! FREEE!!! FREEEEEEEEE!!!!!


msbelle - Sep 16, 2009 3:19:37 pm PDT #11175 of 25501
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

if anyone has connected a Tivo wirelessly to a network with an Airport express. I need help.

ETA - of course, the NEXT time I tried, going round a different way, it seems to have worked. 5 hours over 2 nights and buying a new adapter, that's all it has taken. Now to get the software and see if I can download these f'in cartoons.


Barb - Sep 17, 2009 6:39:46 am PDT #11176 of 25501
“Not dead yet!”

Okay, let's see if Buffista magic works here. When I work at my desk (which is about 90% of the time) my MacBook Pro is hooked up to a monitor, everything's great, blah, blah.

If I disconnect from the monitor to use the laptop on its own, any open Word doc pages shrink to approximately 1/8 of its normal size. Or rather, the viewing window shrinks while everything within the window remains the original size. You'd think I'll I have to do is drag the window back open to its normal size, but nope. That doesn't work. Everything else in Word works, I can minimize the window into the Dock, I can copy and paste and scroll. I just can't stretch the freakin' window back to its original size. The only way to do that is quit Word and reopen.

This is something that only started when I switched to Word 2008. Upgrading to Snow Leopard doesn't seem to have altered this tendency any except now the background of the doc remains white rather than turning babyshit brown, which it had been doing.

It's not a HUGE deal, necessarily, just inconvenient. Any searches I've done have come up empty. Any ideas/suggestions?


le nubian - Sep 17, 2009 7:12:18 am PDT #11177 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

have you checked the monitor/display settings? I bet you just need to adjust them.

In System Preferences.


Barb - Sep 17, 2009 7:15:00 am PDT #11178 of 25501
“Not dead yet!”

Everything's as it should be there, unless there's something I should be looking at that I'm missing.

This only started happening when I upgraded to Word 2008 from 2004.

I should point out too, this isn't a consistent problem. Sometimes it does it, sometimes it doesn't. There's no rhyme or reason to it. Which makes it that much more baffling and annoying.


tommyrot - Sep 17, 2009 7:48:09 am PDT #11179 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.

So at work I have these four big monitors connected to my computer. The only problem is sometimes I can't find my mouse pointer. Anyone know of any programs/settings that, say, give you a keyboard shortcut to make your mouse pointer get really big or something?


le nubian - Sep 17, 2009 7:49:37 am PDT #11180 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

yes. I saw something like that.

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tommyrot - Sep 17, 2009 7:53:22 am PDT #11181 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.

Oh sorry, I should have said my work 'puter is a PC running XP....