Conan O'Brien gets Ajay Bhatt to talk trash about Firewire. Okay, not really. But Conan interviews the *real* co-creator of the USB port, not the actor from the Intel ads. Apparently their rock-stars aren't like their rock-stars either.
Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.
'The Message'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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§ ita § - Oct 18, 2009 11:50:24 am PDT #11389 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Vortex - Oct 18, 2009 2:04:48 pm PDT #11390 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I thought it was the actual guy until I saw the actor in another commercial for subway or something.
DCJensen - Oct 18, 2009 2:06:41 pm PDT #11391 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I hear that on some phones, you can get internet and share it to your computer using bluetooth.
OTOH? A number of the restaurants we serve in out-of-the-way areas with no DSL are using Cellular stick modems hooked onto a router that handles USB input.
That, too is cool.
SuziQ - Oct 18, 2009 2:10:28 pm PDT #11392 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I'm trying to backup my iTunes files so I can move them to my new laptop. It keeps saying that my brand new DVD-R's are locked and unwritable. I have no clue what to do from here. I have about 28GB of data to move.
NoiseDesign - Oct 18, 2009 2:20:09 pm PDT #11393 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Bonnie, I've purchased Toshiba in the past and had good luck, but it's been a few years since I purchased my last PC. For the last 3 or 4 years I've been buying Macs even when I want to run Windows, I just run windows using Boot Camp. I'm much happier with the Apple hardware no matter what OS is running on top of it.
Theodosia - Oct 18, 2009 2:28:48 pm PDT #11394 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"
SuziQ, 500GB backup drives are approaching cheapness these days -- certainly not all that much more expensive than a bunch of DVDs and the time needed to burn 'em. I keep mine in the car in the the car on the theory that if something takes out the house, the car will survive (or vice versa).
le nubian - Oct 18, 2009 2:36:47 pm PDT #11395 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm with Theo. You can get a great external drive pretty inexpensively. Good, reliable, external drives.
That said, are you sure your computer can read/write DVD-R and not DVD+R?
I purchased a spindle of blank DVDs from Amazon, and only about 50% seem okay to burn.
SuziQ - Oct 18, 2009 2:41:26 pm PDT #11396 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
What is the difference between DVD-R and DVD+R?
Even if I had an external drive, the back-up process doesn't let me pick where to put the files, it automatically picks my DVD drive.
le nubian - Oct 18, 2009 3:08:47 pm PDT #11397 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Suzi,
You should just copy the files (from the Itunes directory on your computer) and not use the Itunes process. That's what I did when I moved computers.
beekaytee - Oct 18, 2009 7:59:47 pm PDT #11398 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
There are a lot of new-ish netbooks out there now, which are pretty stripped down, and most importantly INEXPENSIVE. Howver, it sounds like she wants a bigger screen because of vision issues, right?
Theodosia, I think the bigger screen thing is mostly for the luxury of it. She seems to have pretty good eyesight...perhaps even better than mine!
I kept trying to get her to buy a $400 refurbed Toshiba that looked great to me, but she kept wandering over to the 1K machines that are roughly 3 to 4 times what she really needs.
ND, I like the Toshiba's too and, believe me, I pushed hard on the Apple issue. I can't imagine why she is entrenched when ease of use would be so much higher with a Mac.
I'll look for a Toshiba model to contrast with the Dell and let her decide.