Okey dokey. I don't understand how something can be so fundamentally wrong with my network when I've replaced the router, the switch and the NAS (both a replacement of the same model and another one from a different vendor).

Time Machine is Greek to me. What controls whether or not a volume appears to be selected? For the new NAS I chose the Documents share, which was unmounted at the time, but now it can't see it. I mounted it and tried again--still can't see it. I've rebooted both the laptop and the NAS. Can't see it.

Clearly the OS X laptop can see it just fine--but Time Machine doesn't give a flying fuck. I would attribute some of this to not having DNS in my home network, but most people don't, right? They rely on Bonjour and the like, right?

Time Machine needs to see the drive mounted as an afp:// device where the Mac will happily mount a device through smb://, I've see that as one issue with Time Machine. On my network I've also had some Time Machine devices only be discoverable by their IP address, not by their friendly name. This is the case with my Drobo. Works great with a Time Machine partition but the first time I mount it I have to mount it as afp://192.168.x.x for it to be mounted. Once this is done the first time then Time Machine doesn't have a problem mounting. As such the Drobo is on a static IP.

Thanks, ND. I dismounted all the shares just in case and remounted the share in question with afp, and voila! Is there a way to force that on reboot? And I can't work out how it seems to lose that during normal operation.

Whoa. Two things are making me wanna jizz in my pants right now: Lynda.com and Sublime Text 2¹ (where they intersect on the Lynda.com course on Sublime Text 2 is predictably wondrous). I was not going to work out it could do all these things and I'm already saving time and wanting to take notes (hello, they call them help files--now you know it can do it, easier to look up).

So far on Lynda.com I've done:

• Responsive Design
• CSS Fundamentals (great for plugging in self-taught omissions)
• Up and Running with Sublime Text 2
• JavaScript Essential Training
• Interaction Design Fundamentals (kinda fluffy, but what were they gonna say in under ten hours?)

I don't know how it rates against competitors, but if there are better/cheaper sites, I want to sign up for them/get work to sign up for them too.

I haven't been able to find IIS training, sadly. We have an enterprise-sized hole there. Maybe I'm searching wrong. Will look again.

¹: THANK you, amych.

Those lynda.com courses do sound good.

At least give the seven day free trial a shot--I can technically do these at work--I'm supposed to be doing them as part of my work week, but at least at the level I've been working so far they've been the right amount of effective while I poke at some other stuff at home, but less easy to do at the office.

Damned shame I'm falling in love with that the same week my Coursera art class starts...how much video can I learn from?

(Goddamn, Sublime Text--way to go to earn the name!)

My Kindle Keyboard has a borked screen - I'm not sure what happened, but all except the lower left quadrant (more or less) has the screensaver image frozen in place. I've powered it down and restarted, restarted by holding the power button for 20 seconds, and it's still frozen.

It was sitting in DH's backpack (not used) all weekend, so I can't imagine how it could have banged into something hard enough to do this. Amazon's help pages are...not. Anyone have this issue and resolved it?

I have seen that issue a couple of times - I managed a college class of 20 using Kindles - and found it unresolvable if the restarts didn't help. It doesn't need to have been banged to happen, in my experience - it seems like a software glitch. I was able to get replacements for examples of this happening by contacting Amazon. I'm not sure if there's a time limit on that - the problems we saw were under 6 months onto the life of the Kindles. Good luck.

That happened to mine, but after I sat on it. The screen was clearly borked, in my case.

Mine had a similar issue. I rebooted it several times. Turned on the wifi and did a software upgrade and another reboot and it was fine after that.