Anya: It's lovely! I wish it was mine! Oh like you weren't all thinking the same thing. Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't.

'The Killer In Me'


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tommyrot - May 31, 2012 10:36:50 am PDT #20175 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.

Apple iMac was almost named "MacMan," until this guy stopped Steve Jobs - Boing Boing

Well, good for him.


§ ita § - May 31, 2012 10:51:07 am PDT #20176 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I had misread the options: FormatFont does it, not FormatText Styles. I don't need most of those, understand all of them, and I can't workout what "highlighted" refers to.


msbelle - May 31, 2012 3:55:59 pm PDT #20177 of 25501
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Anyone want to walk me through trying to connect the work PC laptop with my Apple wireless network. It has worked before and I can get it to show me it is connected, but cannot actually get it to connect to the internet.

Things I can see:

Dell Wireless WLAN Card Utility - shows good signal from the wireless. Shows packets being sent but not received.

Wireless Network Connection Status - will only show connected if I manually type in a IP address, Subnet Mask, and Preferred DNS server (these are not things I had to do when I was able to connected on this network before). NOT sure it matters or not, but it is a new router from when I connected before.


Zenkitty - May 31, 2012 4:13:56 pm PDT #20178 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I also need Apple help. I pulled out my old iPod and went to download iTunes onto my eeePC. At first it wouldn't let because the security certificate was out of date? I finally found a site on Apple that would let me DL and install it. Now I can't sign in to the iTunes Store - or rather, get them to send me my login info - because again, the security certificate is not trusted.

What the hell is going on? I went through the actual official Apple.com. Why won't this work?


msbelle - May 31, 2012 4:42:53 pm PDT #20179 of 25501
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Zen, I have had good luck searching my Apple issues on the apple site. often with iTunes and iPod issues people have had the same problems.

Ok - I ran a connection diagnostics on the PC and it is failing at authentication. any help?


Zenkitty - May 31, 2012 4:46:40 pm PDT #20180 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I FIGURED IT OUT. So there, technology.


Zenkitty - May 31, 2012 4:47:27 pm PDT #20181 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

msbelle, turned out my problem was the date and time were wrong on my computer. Fixed that, fixed the security issues.


Zenkitty - May 31, 2012 4:48:57 pm PDT #20182 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Wow. I probably haven't used this iPod in a couple years. It's almost dead of neglect, poor thing. I hope the battery isn't dead.

Many posts in a row. Sorry.


sarameg - May 31, 2012 4:50:05 pm PDT #20183 of 25501

Oooh, yeah, I have that with my vpn and work computer at home sometimes! I reboot, synch the clocks with a server and it is all good again. Of course, that means you have to get the offending computer online somehow. Maybe plug it into the actual internet line? t /talking out of my ass, bigtime.


Zenkitty - May 31, 2012 5:00:24 pm PDT #20184 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

My computer went online no problem, it just thought it was in 2002.

I have another question! iTunes says I've used 3 of my 5 devices that I can have iTunes on at one time. One of those devices was a work laptop that I no longer have, and one was a desktop I no longer use. Is there any way to get iTunes to give me those devices "back"?