Oh, never mind. I've decided to just always delete the row in question before peforming an insert, and to send the two commands in one transaction. Should be safe.
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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I'm posting from my MacMini in the living room. I've just discovered that t cntrl - t mouse scrollwheel magnifies the entire screen centered at wherever my mouse is. Wacky!
I keep forgetting to post about my Harmony remote. I love it, but I have a few quibbles:
- The default softkeys for my devices were not at all intuitive to me. I needed to redo them all. One example -- The TiVo "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" were on different screens. That makes no sense.
- The emulation of the Mac FrontRow remote should default to have the arrow and OK keys do the same things as the five buttons on the original Mac remote. I had to manually program that.
- The "device" menu should allow for some cross control of the TV. If I select the device menu and then choose the DVD player, or even the TiVo, I lose my volume and mute controls. I needed to manually program those keys for each device by pointing the other remotes at the back of the Harmony.
These really are quibbles. Since there was a way to fix all of my problems, I was (and remain!) ultimately satisfied. Another toaster for Sean!
If I select the device menu and then choose the DVD player, or even the TiVo, I lose my volume and mute controls
I only end up in the device menu if something went weird. In fact, I kinda go there to lose the other controls. I just want it to pretend to be a solo one.
I've had mine a while, and tweaked the TiVo and DVD menu to look how I needed, but I only recently went in and clicked on every link in the setup website. As a result, my remote control has wallpaper! Stupid wallpaper, mind you, since it was the only thing lying around, but how cool (uh, and un-needed) is that?
I've just discovered that - magnifies the entire screen centered at wherever my mouse is.
Hey, cool, that just made my TV-as-monitor setup a lot more practical!
I kinda go there to lose the other controls. I just want it to pretend to be a solo one.
Yeah, but you always need volume controls. I also only end up there if I accidentally push the wrong thing, but it's still annoying.
how cool (uh, and un-needed) is that?
I know! You can set up a slideshow, too! I did something really sappy and put on these photobooth photos of me and FAQWife.
you always need volume controls
Me, NSM. I don't control volume from my DVD remote, so I've never thought of needing it under Devices. I just head in and get right back to Activities ASAP.
Question: I crash Firefox a fair amount. Just did it now trying to get into Cute Overload. It happens more frequently at work, where I run NT on a old and memory-impaired Dell, but it happens a decent amount at home on a 5 year old Mac G3 running 10.4, too. Is it me (in both places?), or is this a known Firefox thing?
DVD drive update -- the fix suggested in Kevin's link has partially fixed the problem. The Mac can now play all DVDs...except the ones it creates. (Doesn't seem to matter if we create a DVD with iDVD, DVD Studio Pro, or just by dragging QT files and hitting "burn" from the finder -- once they're done, they're all read as "Untitled CD" and completely unplayable.)
I am stumped.
flea - do you have any Firefox extensions installed? It's a common cause of Firefox crashes.
Nope. None at home; I think one here at work.