Bah. Before I get that far, I have to fix this VPN issue. I can connect using my laptop (with XP) to the VPN, but once there I can't attach to any shares on the network. I've set up the VPN connection to allow access to the network. Any ideas what I'm missing?
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tommyrot - Jun 19, 2007 4:13:46 pm PDT #1935 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Jun 19, 2007 6:11:52 pm PDT #1936 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Wouldn't it be nice if your screensaver automatically unlocked when you sat down at your computer, and locked up again once you got up and left? Applescripter Jesse David Hollington put together some nifty scripts that do just that, based on whether or not his Bluetooth phone is in range.
§ ita § - Jun 19, 2007 9:03:42 pm PDT #1937 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Idly poking around browser features...
Opera lets you define your own searches, so something like "i alan cumming" in the browser bar searches IMDB for Alan Cumming. Plenty neat, and I've been using it on and off for a few versions now.
Only recently did I notice that with your cursor in any text box Opera gives you a "Create search..." option which does the syntax worrying for you.
Brilliant! Made setting up an LA Public Library search (just highlight the text, right mouse click and menu on from there) was trivial, and now that I have my library member ID attached to the monitor, I am only a few clicks away from putting a hold on (instead of Amazon wish-listing) most any book people bring up.
I know what kind of obsessive I am--Wikipedia and IMDB were the first searches I added. Oddly, not Google images yet--but that's only one click away from the normal Google search, and for my purposes I don't mind seeing the next results first--they may give me research ideas too.
Lee - Jun 20, 2007 10:42:25 am PDT #1938 of 25496
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
This isn't really tech support, but this seemed like the place to start. I was asked to find license information for several different software components (Combobox xp, GridCtrl, TabPageSSL, XML viewer, CColor, cSubClassWnd, and CXImageGUI). Does anyone know how one would go about looking for such things?
Sean K - Jun 20, 2007 4:27:27 pm PDT #1939 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I am now officially pissed off.
I dropped $40 on Motorola's Phone Tools program, in the hopes of finally getting some pictures off my phone, and maybe installing some custom made ring tones.
The FRELLING PROGRAM refuses to see the phone. I want my forty bucks back.
Actually, I want the effing thing to work right, so I can customize my damned phone! But if that can't happen, I want my damned forty bucks back.
Jon B. - Jun 21, 2007 1:37:17 am PDT #1940 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Had you already tried BitPim, Sean?
esse - Jun 21, 2007 7:36:05 am PDT #1941 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Motorola PhoneTools kind of sucks, babe. I used it back when I had a Motorola flip-phone, and it was flaky on the best of days, and useless on the worst.
Sean K - Jun 21, 2007 7:57:15 am PDT #1942 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Had you already tried BitPim, Sean?
No, I had not. Off to Google.
tommyrot - Jun 21, 2007 9:06:57 am PDT #1943 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The Onion looks at the new iPhone: [link]
Nanotechnology enables it to reassemble itself when thrown against wall
Heh.
Sean K - Jun 21, 2007 2:03:42 pm PDT #1944 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Well, crapsteaks. Even BitPim refuses to see my damned phone.
Both programs only see two COM ports -- COM port 1, which is a serial port, and COM port 3, which both programs read as a USB port that has my printer attached to it.
Neither of them see any of my other USB ports for some unfathomable reason.