Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


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smonster - Feb 03, 2013 5:11:56 am PST #21924 of 25513
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

le n, none of that looks helpful. My phone is on and in recovery mode; I can start the recovery process but it won't complete. I'd like to dl a fresh version of ios6 and try again since my internet has been a bit wonky but I can't figure out how to do that.


le nubian - Feb 03, 2013 7:26:51 am PST #21925 of 25513
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Here are links for all the iOS. [link] You may have to google to find out which one you need. I can help you later if you can't find it.


smonster - Feb 03, 2013 7:57:01 am PST #21926 of 25513
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Thanks, le n. I'm going to download a fresh copy and try one more time, and then head to the Apple store if that doesn't work. I can't be without a phone.


le nubian - Feb 03, 2013 8:06:25 am PST #21927 of 25513
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

make an appt at the apple store anyway. you can always cancel.


smonster - Feb 03, 2013 9:37:43 am PST #21928 of 25513
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Bad news - dead. Good news - I got apple care for 2 yrs, so i'm good.


§ ita § - Feb 03, 2013 10:28:39 am PST #21929 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Apple care seems to be one of those warranties that's worth it--but surely that implies the hardware fails...

Still, it seems much simpler than any other program to get back into gear with--I still remember the woman who replaced my hard drive after water damage for free because she couldn't see definite signs of water damage-even though I told her what had happened.


smonster - Feb 03, 2013 2:24:33 pm PST #21930 of 25513
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Well, I've had the phone for almost a year and a half, and I drop it and expose it to sawdust daily, so I can't complain. Yay lifeproof case.


tommyrot - Feb 04, 2013 8:12:14 am PST #21931 of 25513
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Anyone familiar with setting up a DNS server on a Windows server? (A Windows 2008 server, specifically.)


quester - Feb 04, 2013 4:05:52 pm PST #21932 of 25513
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I don't venture in here very often, but I have a problem.

Either my power cord is failing or my battery is. I have a macbook pro circa 2008 and I've already replaced the power cord once for it.

Just in the last few days the cord would only glow orange, then just a few minutes ago it stopped lighting up at all.

Then the computer just went off. When I restarted it the cord is orange but the battery is reading 0. It had been reading 96% before it went off.

Now it's starting to slowly charge.

Any ideas?


sarameg - Feb 04, 2013 4:46:18 pm PST #21933 of 25513

I'd first check to see how your battery is doing. My light indicator on the power cord is sometimes fritzy, so I kinda ignore it. But I have had similar behavior when my battery stopped being useful and so I replaced it.

About this Mac under the apple menu-> more info-> power

Check cycle count and condition.

I'm not super techy, this is just from experience.