Interesting:
Rackspace Takes at The Last Ten Years of Data Storage
eta: Wankers changed the link on me after I posted....
Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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tommyrot - Jan 18, 2011 7:51:35 am PST #15931 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.
megan walker - Jan 18, 2011 8:19:39 am PST #15932 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
So, I had an issue redocking my laptop at work (power cord had been pulled out accidently) and now for some reason my primary montior has been switched from the one on the left to the widescreen on the right. I cannot switch it back via Control Panel/Display. Any other ideas?
Jon B. - Jan 18, 2011 8:56:30 am PST #15933 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Megan -- On my PC, if I right-click on the desktop, one of the context menu options that pops up is "Graphics Properties". If I select that, I can switch which monitor is the primary (among other things).
Liese S. - Jan 18, 2011 9:06:25 am PST #15934 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
That was fascinating, tommyrot. We all have such short term memories technologically these days.
Gudanov - Jan 18, 2011 9:09:41 am PST #15935 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I've been pretty impressed by how quickly 2TB hard drives have come down in price. They've already hit the point where if I need a new hard drive, I don't want to bother with anything less.
Gudanov - Jan 18, 2011 9:21:47 am PST #15936 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I finally added the profile for my iPod Touch to my car stereo so it can play through the car's speakers wirelessly. It's like living in the future.
megan walker - Jan 18, 2011 9:49:47 am PST #15937 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Megan -- On my PC, if I right-click on the desktop, one of the context menu options that pops up is "Graphics Properties". If I select that, I can switch which monitor is the primary (among other things).
Thank you! That worked partially, but it allowed me to go back into Display and change things back.
The network has been pushing through more and more automatic settings so I was worried I was stuck with it. Hopefully it was just a weird glitch because of the docking and undocking.
tommyrot - Jan 18, 2011 11:49:38 am PST #15938 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.
HTG Explains: What Are the Differences Between All Those Audio Formats?
As well as explaining the different formats, it does a nice job of explaining what digital audio is and the difference between lossy and lossless compression.
tommyrot - Jan 18, 2011 11:51:15 am PST #15939 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.
Ooh. Free stuff!
PDFZilla Batch Converts PDFs to Editable Formats, Is Free Until February
Windows: We've featured many ways to convert single PDFs to editable formats like a Word Doc, but if you work with PDFs regularly, you may need something a bit more robust. Shareware batch converter PDFZilla is free for the next few weeks.
Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2011 9:44:20 pm PST #15940 of 25501
brillig
I just inherited a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100, with Windows Media Player 9, running XP Pro SP2, with 512 mb ram and a 1.7 Ghz Pentium 4. It has a DVD drive, but I put in a standard TV show DVD and it said it didn't have the files to run it. Should I bother trying to find Media Player 9 compatible files, or is the hardware not even up to it?
edit: display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go