Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?

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

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javachik - Jan 31, 2010 8:58:39 pm PST #12724 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.

I just upgraded my wireless router, so if anyone here needs a Netgear wireless G router, email me.


Stephanie - Feb 01, 2010 5:01:56 pm PST #12725 of 25501
Trust my rage

Ok, this is so cool. Joe is gone and Ellie is downstairs watching TV while I get Frisco to sleep upstairs. She came up, asking for a new movie and it occurred toe that I could use the Remote function on my iPhone to turn it on for her. So cool!! I have no idea why this never occurred to me before.


tommyrot - Feb 02, 2010 6:06:13 am PST #12726 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.

Waldemeyer outfits Imogen Heap's Twitter dress at the Grammys

Imogen Heap wears Twitter dress at the Grammys... Say hello to our new creation: after video dresses and laser dresses here is one that connects Imogen to her fans directly via Twitter. When Imogen walked the red carpet to collect her Grammy, fans could send messages and photographs directly to her dress. The messages scrolled across the collar while the images were displayed on her Fendi handbag. How does it work? The Fendi bag contains an iPod Touch that receives the messages (thanks to Memo Akten for programming this). It displays the pictures and passes the text on to a flexible LED display in the collar.


Vonnie K - Feb 02, 2010 6:13:52 am PST #12727 of 25501
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

I was trying to add a new hard drive to my computer tower couple of days ago (and had to get a mounting bracket to put it in the media bay on account of there being no more room in the hard drive slot), and in the process, I must have mangled something -- now, it's not even booting, and the computer is giving me this scary three-tone noise. One long beep followed by two short beeps. Googling it makes it sound like a RAM problem. I had to pull out the memory stick to get it out of the way for the hard drive insertion then put it back, and something must have gone wrong there. I tried other memory stick slots on the motherboard, making sure it's properly inserted and everything, but I get the same three-beep noise every time.

I've ordered replacement RAM sticks, but my big worry is that it's not the memory, but the motherboard. Does motherboard problem result in the beeping noise like i described?


DCJensen - Feb 02, 2010 5:24:23 pm PST #12728 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

What happens if you put it all back to the way it was, with your old Hard Drive.


Jessica - Feb 03, 2010 4:34:01 am PST #12729 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I exported a budget from Quicken that I'm now playing with in Excel. The issue I'm having is that Quicken for some reason lists both inflows and outflows as positive numbers. In order to make Excel do the math correctly, I need the income budget numbers to be positive and the expense numbers to be negative.

Is there a way to automate this (something equivalent to a "case change" in Word)?


Gris - Feb 03, 2010 4:35:30 am PST #12730 of 25501
Hey. New board.

Hmm. How does it differentiate between inflows and outflows? Are they in different columns, or is it just with a text field or something?


Sophia Brooks - Feb 03, 2010 4:42:06 am PST #12731 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I am trying to cancel an MSN dialup subscription for my mother. I got a man on the line saying very quickly "We are updating our system, could you call back in 24 hours" and hung up. Do you think he was playing me. I have to get this cancelled!


Vonnie K - Feb 03, 2010 4:43:09 am PST #12732 of 25501
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

What happens if you put it all back to the way it was, with your old Hard Drive.

Tried that. Same result.


Jessica - Feb 03, 2010 4:43:10 am PST #12733 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Inflows are at the top in a bunch of rows, then outflows beneath them.

The Quicken export just gave me the raw numbers, so I've been manually converting the rows where I need math (budget vs actual, totals etc) into formulas.

It's not such a huge spreadsheet that I couldn't just re-enter these numbers, but if there's a way to have Excel do it in one step that would be nifty.