I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.

Xander ,'Showtime'


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Vortex - Nov 22, 2010 10:50:44 am PST #15468 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Auto-deletes don't go into their equivalent of the recycle bin.

feh. they should, so you can recover them if you didn't realize!


-t - Nov 22, 2010 5:52:18 pm PST #15469 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Wah. The Mac Mini won't start up, just goes to a "you must restart your computer" screen. In safe mode, from CD, with all peripherals unplugged, nothing makes a difference. Any ideas?


Theodosia - Nov 23, 2010 3:02:43 am PST #15470 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Sometimes you expect something cheap to be a piece of crap, but the $99 Walmart Android "tablet" really overdoes it:

[link]


Gudanov - Nov 23, 2010 5:21:11 am PST #15471 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

A simple idea but kind of awesome. A computer case with a drive dock in the top. If I needed a case, this would be a strong contender just for that feature.

[link]


Laga - Nov 23, 2010 10:56:36 am PST #15472 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Sometimes you expect something cheap to be a piece of crap, but the $99 Walmart Android "tablet" really overdoes it...

It's more versatile than you think!


Kristen - Nov 23, 2010 8:54:11 pm PST #15473 of 25501

Best iPad accessory ever?


Theodosia - Nov 24, 2010 2:04:01 am PST #15474 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Heh. Just spent more than a half hour looking at all the cool ThinkGeek stuff... sigh.


SuziQ - Nov 24, 2010 12:37:49 pm PST #15475 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

We are having a very ThinkGeek Christmas. I can't WAIT.


Typo Boy - Nov 24, 2010 2:17:10 pm PST #15476 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.

I'm looking SOS for on-line backup (windows only). What makes it sound good:

Your choice between instant and scheduled backup. So if instantly backing up saved files slows you down, you can switch to daily or whatever. That beats carbonite. Also you can completely unload program if you need to, which beats Mozy. And has best feature of rivals including:

Decent support for local disks, so you can use the same program for local and on-line backups, versioning, backup of open files, genuinely simple interface, can backup multiple computers.

A bit more expensive than the cheapest rivals, but not horribly so: $80 for 50 Gig, or $100 for 100 gig annually. (Obviously no charge for local backups).

Can't exactly rec since I haven't tried it. And obviously how good that price is depends on whether your need for off-site (as opposed to local) backup priced is within their limitations, since it gets very expensive if you want more on-line storage than this. But for people whose on-line backup need fit with these limits it looks to me like it is worth considering. (They have business plans which look extremely expensive.)


Spidra Webster - Nov 26, 2010 10:34:55 am PST #15477 of 25501
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Can someone test something for me? Can you try to go to [link] I tried to log in with my old account last night and did it a couple times due to being unsure about the password. It now goes to an invalid session page, even if I go to the page where you find out about subscribing. I want to see if this is related to my login attempts or whether they're having some general errors on their server right now.