Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"

'Lessons'


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Jon B. - Apr 22, 2010 4:33:20 am PDT #13667 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

For anyone using Folders4Gmail, it looks like it's broken again. [link]

However, Google Labs has its own version (called Nested Labels) which seems to work just as well. The only catch is that you need to have labels named for the top level folders. So, if you want a set of folders for all your friends, you still create labels named "Friends/Tom", "Friends/Dick", "Friends/Harry", etc., but you also need to create a label named "Friends".

t edit Also see this: [link]


Jessica - Apr 22, 2010 4:36:04 am PDT #13668 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Thanks for the tip, Jon. Hopefully the labs version will be a little more stable. (Not that it's F4G's fault.)

[eta: Nested Labels also doesn't like spaces surrounding the slash. So I'm having to edit all my labels.]


meara - Apr 23, 2010 12:01:21 pm PDT #13669 of 25501

I need help with the whole Smart Panel/hub/ethernet outlets thing, Liese and anyone else who knows what that's about.

Now that I'm actually in the house and (finally!) have internet set up: So I've got a cable modem. And hooked up to that, a wireless router. Those are downstairs. The smart panel is upstairs. I have a hub. What do I hook into what, where? What I attempted: having a cable go out of the wireless router into the ethernet jack in the wall, and then putting the one that seemed to be labeled "living room" (where it is) into the main thingie in the hub, and having the rest of the ones in the smart panel being going into the....rest of the hub thingies. But currently, no working ethernet out of the jacks. So, either mislabeled, or that's not the way to do it. Help?


Jon B. - Apr 23, 2010 12:21:54 pm PDT #13670 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

meara, you might try checking things one step at a time. First make sure the router works by plugging directly into it. Then, after plugging it into the wall, go upstairs and try plugging a computer into the "living room" labeled jack and see if that works. And so on.


Tom Scola - Apr 23, 2010 12:28:45 pm PDT #13671 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Your router and hub should both have LEDs that light up when ports are connected correctly.


meara - Apr 23, 2010 12:36:19 pm PDT #13672 of 25501

Oh, the router definitely works--I'm on buffistas through the wireless, and the TiVo is hooked up through one of the other wired ports. Voila! Will try the other suggestions...


Liese S. - Apr 23, 2010 7:14:27 pm PDT #13673 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, bring the hub down and hook it up straight to the router, and see what that does. What you describe in general sounds like it should work. The only thing I`m unclear on is what you mean by the main thingie (jack?) on the hub. Do you mean something labeled as internet input to the hub? Because you probably don`t need to do that, your router is handling the internet distribution. It might just need to go to a regular thingie on the hub (from the marked living room). Pics might be helpful at this point. And yes, do look at the blinky lights and see what they tell you. Hee.


meara - Apr 26, 2010 3:26:43 pm PDT #13674 of 25501

Ah, turns out I had plugged from the router into the ONE jack that is apparently broken. Useless! Of *course* the jack that is right where everything I want to be there is the somehow messed up jack. Sigh. Have an unsightly wire trailing across the room, in the meantime.

Next project, remembering what my TiVo Seaon Passes are, so I can program them into my new TiVo. I ...think I know what I watch? Mostly? Ooh, no wait, I just remembered another one.

Upcoming project: I want to make my printer wireless, since it's allll the way up in my office, two stories above my living room. PITA. (Of course, then anything I print would be up there, too, but...still)


Liese S. - Apr 26, 2010 5:26:25 pm PDT #13675 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

It should be possible, maybe pretty easily, to repair the jack, but it should be done by a competent tech or electrician. Glad the rest is working, though. The making the printer wireless should be fairly simple.


§ ita § - Apr 27, 2010 5:44:39 am PDT #13676 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I seem to recall that one of my OS X iterations had an iCal subscription for current movie releases. I can't find a decent one anymore. Anyone have a recomendation?