So if I remove it from my PC, it probably won't hurt anything?
Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.
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Connie Neil - May 22, 2011 1:33:36 pm PDT #16795 of 25501
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Typo Boy - May 22, 2011 1:34:49 pm PDT #16796 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.
You might have an app that runs on it. Unless it is running on start up and eating memory cycles I would not remove it. And even then I might just remove it from startup.
Connie Neil - May 22, 2011 1:40:40 pm PDT #16797 of 25501
brillig
Ah, well, my impetuosity got the better of me. We'll see what crashes after it finishes uninstalling.
edit: What I should really uninstall is The Sims Complete, but I keep thinking I'm going to play it.
Typo Boy - May 22, 2011 1:43:27 pm PDT #16798 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.
Hopefully nothing will crash.
Lee - May 23, 2011 8:25:09 am PDT #16799 of 25501
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Hivemind question cross-posted with Natter:
Has anyone read any good articles or papers or whatever on the future of mobile devices recently?
le nubian - May 23, 2011 1:22:22 pm PDT #16800 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Perkins,
I think Diane Riehm had a radio show on this topic earlier this year.
you might want to search gizmodo or engadget and see if you can come up with something. Oh! Wired too.
Lee - May 23, 2011 2:51:02 pm PDT #16801 of 25501
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Thanks!
Sue - May 24, 2011 11:47:54 am PDT #16802 of 25501
hip deep in pie
So the replacement AC adpater for my HP Mini that I order through amazon arrived today. [link] It looks virtually the same as my previous adapter, except it's a two prong plug instead of a grounded three prong plug. Should I worry about this? Am I exposing my netbook (house?) to a higher risk of damage? I suspect it's a knockoff or a refurb, even though it was sold as "genuine."
Jon B. - May 24, 2011 4:35:32 pm PDT #16803 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Is one prong wider than the other? Do your outlets have one slot wider than the other so that the plug can only go in one way? If the answer to both questions is yes, then you've got nothing to worry about. Everything is correctly grounded.
Steph L. - May 24, 2011 4:50:15 pm PDT #16804 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I am posting this from the espresso machine MacBook Pro. It started up fine after >100 hours of being off and inverted in a cool, ventilated room.
Regular backups are definitely in order, though, since I have no way of knowing whether it's all really okay. (But hell, I should be backing up regularly anyway; I backed up the old laptop anywhere from every 1-2 weeks. I think I need to back this one up more frequently. Fortunately it has Time Machine on it, so that will be easy. Although it was easy on the old laptop, too; I just used Carbon Copy Cloner software.)
And related to backups, I have a question that reveals my lack of knowledge: is it common for external hard drives to have an AC adaptor for power? The external hard drive I was using to back up my iBook is 160 GB and probably 3 years old, and it was powered through the laptop's USB port.
I don't really care if it's common for the external hard drives to have AC adaptors; I just didn't realize that they did. t /living under a technological rock