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

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Liese S. - Nov 04, 2009 7:29:48 pm PST #11588 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Heh. I have the 7680 as well. But I have my laptop security cranked down so hard it doesn't actually acknowledge any information coming from the printer, which negates its usefulness as a scanner or photo card reader. I need to sit down and tinker at some point, because it works just fine for the SO on the same network with the same OS.


§ ita § - Nov 04, 2009 7:35:15 pm PST #11589 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Why so much security on the laptop? Do you travel with it a lot? Is it exposed?


Liese S. - Nov 04, 2009 8:04:05 pm PST #11590 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, I do, and kiddoes use it from time to time. Also, I'm paranoid. But I need to dial it back because really, there's not enough danger in all the digital world for where it's set now.


meara - Nov 05, 2009 9:23:54 am PST #11591 of 25501

Anyone know why my iPhone is suddenly logging me out of buffistas all the time? Driving me batty.


megan walker - Nov 05, 2009 9:37:09 am PST #11592 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I don't know, but I now have to sign in to Yahoo mail any time I navigate away from the page. It's annoying. Even more annoying than their recent redesign and their attempts to be Facebook.


ehab - Nov 05, 2009 9:57:23 am PST #11593 of 25501
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala

Anyone know why my iPhone is suddenly logging me out of buffistas all the time? Driving me batty.

I don't know if this is the cause, (iphone Luddite here) but when I had the 8 GB iphone and it was almost full, Safari did not cache anything and I had that very problem on sites.

With the 32 GB version I've not had the same problem.


tommyrot - Nov 06, 2009 1:26:01 pm PST #11594 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.

Some Mac software titles that normally costs money is free for a week: MacHeist nanoBundle


Liese S. - Nov 06, 2009 5:02:08 pm PST #11595 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Whoohoo, I have joined the 90`s! I am mobile posting, qwerty keyboard & all. The SO`s phone died (well, Alltel started refusing to acknowledge its presence) so we figured it was time.


Jesse - Nov 08, 2009 8:12:20 am PST #11596 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I just read earlier discussion of wireless routers and etc., and just want to confirm: If I go to Gud's link [link] and pay them $40, I will end up with everything I need for wireless internet for my laptop? (I think I'm incredulous partly because seriously, if it's that cheap and easy, why didn't I do this years ago?) I don't need anything fancy, just the one computer online.


Typo Boy - Nov 08, 2009 8:22:32 am PST #11597 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Since your laptop already has a wireless connection built in (I haven't heard of any made in the past decade that don't) yes it will connect you wirelessly. My one warning is that if you have a really fast connection, you may notice a speed difference with a Wireless G. Yeah, G is nominally faster than most broadband connections, but by the time you get overhead for encryption it is slower than most cable connections, though not slower than a lot of DSL connections. What is your current broadband speed? If you don't know it, try this link, enable flash if it is blocked, then select a city in your general region.