Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.

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le nubian - Oct 02, 2011 4:57:04 pm PDT #17969 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

can you deauthorize that computer and then reauth?


§ ita § - Oct 02, 2011 5:03:52 pm PDT #17970 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I was Gris. I rebooted, and the connection failed, as it should, with the credentials deleted. And I put them back in and I'm golden. I just hate rebooting. I had a ton of documents I wanted to save to the shared drive, dammit.


aurelia - Oct 02, 2011 5:05:10 pm PDT #17971 of 25501
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I gave that a shot. Didn't work.


Una - Oct 02, 2011 7:40:08 pm PDT #17972 of 25501
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.

aurelia, have you transferred your purchases from your iPhone to your computer?

(for the record, I hate the way syncing is set up. Why do they assume that I want my computer and iPad to have exactly the same stuff?)


aurelia - Oct 02, 2011 9:39:13 pm PDT #17973 of 25501
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

No, I never purchase via the phone. It's a new computer and the Apple store did a mac-to-mac transfer when I bought it.


Jesse - Oct 03, 2011 4:53:44 am PDT #17974 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

When I try to sync my iPhone with iTunes I get a pop-up saying that this computer isn't authorized and that I'll lose 7 apps if I sync without authorization. When I click to authorize, I get a pop-up saying the computer is already authorized. It just keeps going in that loop until I cancel the sync. Any ideas on how to fix this?

I had this problem, and apparently it's because I had bought stuff with two different IDs (although I'm not sure how), and I could never fix it, although I didn't go so far as to contact Apple about it. I think megan walker had a similar issue.


megan walker - Oct 03, 2011 7:41:33 am PDT #17975 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Yup, just happened to me again yesterday. It's just a few songs so I didn't worry about it. But next time I should probably write them down and see if they are loading anyway.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 03, 2011 8:08:46 am PDT #17976 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I swear I used to use a free service to send large files so I did not have to email them. Trouble is, I can't remember what it was, and everything else seems to require me to pay $9.99

EDIT- Nevermind- it is sendspace!


Polter-Cow - Oct 03, 2011 8:37:22 am PDT #17977 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

My laptop has arrived! It is shiny!! So I am going to be asking a lot of stupid questions this month because I've never owned a laptop before and I don't want to destroy the battery or whatever.

I know that I am supposed to fully charge the battery and then let it discharge completely to make sure it's calibrated. Can I use the computer when it is charging initially? Or am I supposed to let it charge without anything going on so it doesn't have anything draining it while it charges? Do I need to have it on so that I can remove the charger once it hits 100% or can I just plug it in right now while I'm at work and assume it will charge completely by the time I have to go home? And then I should use it for four or five hours until it's almost dead and shut it down at 1% or whatever before charging it fully again?

Apparently I'm not supposed to keep it plugged in all the time, though? How does that work when I want it to function like a desktop computer that is on all day all the time so I can just use it whenever? Maybe I want it to be downloading something while I'm asleep or while I'm at work.


Gris - Oct 03, 2011 10:02:50 am PDT #17978 of 25501
Hey. New board.

You can use it all the way through the calibration, both during charging and discharging, as far as I know.

I keep mine plugged in pretty much all the time, and have never suffered any ill effects. As far as I know, there's no problem with doing that.

A lot of the battery "suggestions" around are essentially old wives tales, leftovers from the days of nickel/cadmium batteries, which were far more finicky than the Lithium batteries of today. Mostly, laptop batteries and their charging systems are designed to work just fine in the ways they are commonly used; plugged in a lot, with arbitrary amounts of charging and discharging. No battery lasts forever, of course, but you won't kill it in a year by leaving it plugged in.