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

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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.


Typo Boy - Nov 08, 2009 8:27:45 am PST #11598 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.

The router you linked to G.b which has nominal speed of 11 mps, but in practice will give a speed of 2-4 MPS. My cable broadband has a download speed of 9.2 MPS. DSL tends to run at a download speed of 1.5 MPS to 2 MPS. (The speakeasy test rates in KPS so my 9 MPS shows as 9,000 plus KPS).


Jesse - Nov 08, 2009 8:47:35 am PST #11599 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That test showed my download speed at 7883 kbps, so does that mean I want a fancier router?


Typo Boy - Nov 08, 2009 8:54:27 am PST #11600 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.

Maybe. Depends on what you do. Will cutting your browsing speed by half be a problem for you? I think you can get an N router these days for around $40 bucks.

I have not shopped lately for routers so can't swear as to quality, but here is a D-link brand N router for for about the same as your linksys G at Amazon

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Typo Boy - Nov 08, 2009 8:56:56 am PST #11601 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.

Ok customer reviews don't sound good. But you can probably find something in that price range, perhaps for five or ten bucks more.