setting up xubuntu on my downstairs computer. Booted from CD. Created a connection to wpa wireless connection with proper password. Does not seem to connect with either infrastructure or ad-hoc. Thing is does not seem to be trying to connect and failing, just not trying. Is there some way to force it to try to connect?
Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. Zoe: We live in a space ship, dear. Wash: So?
'Objects In Space'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Typo Boy - Feb 02, 2012 8:59:25 pm PST #19366 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.
tommyrot - Feb 03, 2012 7:57:25 am PST #19367 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.
Shit. The FBI thinks I might be a terrorist.
FBI tells net cafe owners that TOR users might be terrorists
Icecube sez, "Are you concerned about your online privacy? Do you shield your laptop from view of others? Do you use various means of hiding your IP address? Do you use any encryption at all like PGP? That means you are probably a terrorist according to the FBI. These are just some of the activities that are suggested indicators of terrorism according to a flyer being distributed entitled 'Communities Against Terrorism' You can find a PDF version here entitled 'Internet Cafes'"
I think the solution is for more people to use encryption.
Jessica - Feb 04, 2012 10:07:20 am PST #19368 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Fuck - I just downloaded the new Mac version of Quicken and only just now realized that the built-in utility doesn't convert from iBank.
Help?
(I really, really hate iBank. Please help me go back to Quicken!!)
Vortex - Feb 04, 2012 10:08:10 am PST #19369 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Anybody have a rec for a good place online to get digital photos printed and/or framed? I want to get one of my DC photos printed for my office.
Jessica - Feb 04, 2012 10:32:10 am PST #19370 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ah, fuck it - I'll just reconnect to my accounts and download the info that way. If I want to see last year's numbers I can look at iBank.
-t - Feb 04, 2012 10:41:15 am PST #19371 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That sounds like a good plan. I think I tried to figure out how to go from iBank to Quicken and couldn't, but I hadn't been using iBank long enough to worry about it much. I do wish Quicken would sync with my phone the way it did 10 years ago.
javachik - Feb 04, 2012 11:38:29 am PST #19372 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Vortex, I've used Imagekind.com for high-quality prints (also used their canvas prints feature which look really cool). You can usually Google for discount codes, too.
§ ita § - Feb 05, 2012 5:43:06 am PST #19373 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does anyone use facial recognition to "secure" their Android? Any tips on the best way to take the reference picture?
It's not critical, but I think it's nifty tech, and when it works it's very handy. But better than 50 percent would be cool.
megan walker - Feb 05, 2012 7:39:29 am PST #19374 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
As I move from Blogger to WordPress, and contemplate giving up the big G totally, do people have recs for readers and calendars (which are the only other products I use besides gmail)?
le nubian - Feb 05, 2012 7:53:03 am PST #19375 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
gmail, calendars and reader are keeping me stuck.
calendar - you have a lot of options actually. I used 37 signals backpack before google calendar was viable. You might want to look into that. Their free accts are decent, and even the next step up is not all that expensive.
reader is a fucking problem. I was trying to find an alternative when google fucked up the interface and when I have done is keep the acct, but read items on my phone and ipad for interface reasons.
believe it or not, I have known some people to abandon reader altogether and use twitter for the RSS needs. It isn't as crazy as it sounds. I use ifttt.com and every favorite on twitter gets sent to my pinboard and then later I read through my pinboard page and read, delete, etc. as I see fit.