You know what the problem with technology is? You never know what is wrong. When there's a stutter, is it the digital signal, is it the tivo, is it the new TV? Feh.
I don't give a good gorram about relevant, Wash. Or objective. And I ain't so afraid of losing something that I ain't gonna try to have it. You and I would make one beautiful baby. And I want to meet that child one day. Period.
Zoe ,'Heart Of Gold'
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Vortex - Mar 03, 2011 7:05:30 pm PST #16193 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
§ ita § - Mar 05, 2011 6:52:33 am PST #16194 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You know how they say any press is good press? Based on half-remembered discussions here, I totally started shopping for a new Vizio TV before I thought to come back and check.
SAMSUNG. I'm supposed to be looking at Samsung.
§ ita § - Mar 05, 2011 6:14:15 pm PST #16195 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OMG, 1080p is creepy.
Vortex - Mar 05, 2011 6:21:34 pm PST #16196 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
so, wierdly, on one or two channels, there's a line of something like static at the top of the screen. It goes away when I put it in widescreen mode. That's okay, right?
Tom Scola - Mar 06, 2011 12:50:01 am PST #16197 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It's normal.
aurelia - Mar 08, 2011 11:30:29 am PST #16198 of 25501
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Back in December I messed up and left my very old (circa 2003-4) iPod in the car for a few days during very cold weather. I just replaced the battery and it will now hold a charge but the drive is wiped. When I connect to the computer iTunes opens and the iPod shows up on the desktop, but not in iTunes.
I can't seem to find this scenario in the troubleshooting info here [link] or in the related links. Any advice?
tommyrot - Mar 08, 2011 11:35:58 am PST #16199 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.
There are some disk diagnostics you can perform directly with the iPod.
I have no idea how old this info is [link] so you might want to google some more.
aurelia - Mar 08, 2011 12:08:01 pm PST #16200 of 25501
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I can do the reset (which I'd already done) but I can't get to the diagnostics.
Looking further, I seem to have games and contacts intact, but no calendar information and no songs. Except the capacity/available numbers seem to indicate that the songs really are on there somewhere. Hm.
tommyrot - Mar 08, 2011 12:14:48 pm PST #16201 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.
Well at the very least, its file system must be corrupted. Anyone know how to reformat an iPod's hard drive? That's what I'd try next.
Or you could erase and restore it (dunno if this does a reformat too): [link]
Possibly the hard drive is failing, in which case it'd need to be replaced. I've never replaced an iPod HD but I know it can be done. (I have a 160 GB iPod with a dead drive. Should do something about that, I suppose.)
aurelia - Mar 08, 2011 12:24:01 pm PST #16202 of 25501
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I can switch to disk mode and back. I just don't know how to make it show up in iTunes so I can to a restore.