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Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

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§ ita § - Dec 18, 2012 1:18:49 pm PST #21699 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, I don't have any Cas in my cock porn. A lot of penises, no Castiel.

If duckduckgo doesn't do image searching, then it's not that useful to me. About 1/3 of my searching is image searching, not including reverse (that's maybe another 1/4?). I'll check Bing.

omnis_audis - Dec 20, 2012 1:17:07 pm PST #21700 of 25501

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

OK, this is a curiosity if ever there was one. It's a MacBook Pro, about 2.5 years old. Running 10.6.8. 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 with 8GB of RAM. I have an external monitor hooked up, so I can spread the paperwork across two screens (or have the tools on one screen, and the project on the other). When I boot the sucker, the external screen does not come up. If I unplug it, and plug it back in, it still comes up as power light green (getting signal) but nothing on the screen. If I close the lid to the laptop, and let it go to sleep for 5-10 minutes, then open up the lid, the external monitor pops on like it's always been there. If I close the lid, and try to awake it too soon, neither screen comes on. If I put the machine to sleep via the apple menu, then wake it up, the external screen stays off as described above.

Any clues what might be going on there? Or how to resolve it? It's rather annoying. Not critical or anything. Just annoying.

Toddson - Dec 21, 2012 10:23:22 am PST #21701 of 25501

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

This seems like the place to ask ... I've never used anything but Windows (you can stamp my Luddite/masochist card now) but I got a $300 Apple gift card.

What do I buy? recommendations? advice? ... envy?

Jessica - Dec 21, 2012 10:27:34 am PST #21702 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

For hardware, $300 will get you an iPod Touch or most of an iPad Mini.

For media, that's a lot of movies/music/TV shows off iTunes!

Toddson - Dec 21, 2012 10:34:38 am PST #21703 of 25501

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Thanks! I'm going to have to look into this ....

Consuela - Dec 21, 2012 10:38:52 am PST #21704 of 25501

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

For hardware, $300 will get you an iPod Touch

or an iPod Classic.

tommyrot - Dec 21, 2012 10:59:59 am PST #21705 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.

Or a dozen Steve Jobs bobbleheads.

le nubian - Dec 21, 2012 1:31:24 pm PST #21706 of 25501

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Go to the apple store and check it out. BTW you may also be able to sell it at price on eBay.

§ ita § - Dec 24, 2012 2:49:10 pm PST #21707 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have a remarkably stupid question.

Last year I added two routers to my parents' network, and this year I wanted to document them properly. But I can't work out what their IP addresses are. I've done a port scan on 80 (and 443, just in case) on 192.168.1.* (which is the network the main modem/router is on and giving out addresses) and only the main modem/router shows up.

Is there a way short of resetting to find out? I want to leave them with a properly documented system (which I patently did not last year), but I don't want to go through the same process as before of working out precisely the best access point configuration.

It can't be that hard--it must be that I'm overlooking something obvious.

Tom Scola - Dec 24, 2012 2:53:49 pm PST #21708 of 25501

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Check the arp cache on your PC, and see if any of the entries up to the MAC addresses of the routers.

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