Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.

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tommyrot - Oct 27, 2009 11:35:03 am PDT #11530 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.

Gotta say, Name Mangler is not an enticing name.

I wonder if that's riffing off "File Mangler," which is what some Mac people called the "File Manager" of Windows 3.1....


Pete, Husband of Jilli - Oct 27, 2009 11:45:30 am PDT #11531 of 25501
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd

Would you beieve it, I found a thread on the Apple forums that explained what to do in Automator.

Tried it, ran it, and it works. Thank grud, it's nice to be spared any more fussing on this tight deadline.

Thanks everyone.


§ ita § - Oct 29, 2009 6:49:01 am PDT #11532 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have a Philips DVP region-free DVD player that's decided it doesn't want to open anymore. It's sitting on my Netflix copy of American History X, perhaps sensing my reluctance to finish viewing it. I had thought that my next DVD player purchase should be Blu Ray, but I have a considerable portion of my collection in other region codes. Are there good Blu Ray/region-free players out there? Or should I consider the two functions separately? I think I've run out of digital inputs on my TV.


§ ita § - Oct 29, 2009 11:14:54 am PDT #11533 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does anyone have any experience with a complex or highly customised Sharepoint solution?


brenda m - Oct 29, 2009 12:05:37 pm PDT #11534 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

Designing, administrating or cursing? Because I've got two of the three.


§ ita § - Oct 29, 2009 12:08:04 pm PDT #11535 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does your implementation have any custom code on it? How is content being presented/retrieved?

I'm trying to work out if Sharepoint is usable in a sort-of decoupled architecture with custom code to present content instead of using the portlets and web parts that come in the box.


amych - Oct 30, 2009 5:10:04 am PDT #11536 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Google Wave update:

I got a few more invite slots, and added Jensen, Vortex, Theodosia, and Stephanie to the invite list. (Jess, I skipped over you because you're already in there, you sneaky thing.) As usual, they don't send out invites right away; the last batch took a week or so to go out. If you're already in and you get an invite, I'm pretty sure you can pass it along to someone else.

(And if you're already waving, feel free to add me -- sabreuse at googlewave dot com. My contact list is depressingly coworker-heavy atm.)


Jessica - Oct 30, 2009 5:10:33 am PDT #11537 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 create drop-down menus in Google spreadsheets?

I can see the "add form" button, but that doesn't seem to be exactly what I want to do. (Basically I want to create a spreadsheet that will allow my babysitting coop to track points without paying babysitterexchange.com.)

[eta: Actually, it looks like I can do this with forms. I'll just have to build a little website to host it.]


Theodosia - Oct 30, 2009 7:30:43 am PDT #11538 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"

Thank you, sweetie! I'll watch my mail like a Google-Wave-interested hawk!


DCJensen - Oct 30, 2009 8:14:33 am PDT #11539 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I will watch my email like another member of the raptor family.