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§ ita § - May 28, 2013 9:55:39 am PDT #22495 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


§ ita § - May 28, 2013 1:11:20 pm PDT #22496 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Theodosia - May 28, 2013 1:41:33 pm PDT #22497 of 25497
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Those lynda.com courses do sound good.


§ ita § - May 28, 2013 2:33:07 pm PDT #22498 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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!)


Jessica - May 28, 2013 4:08:08 pm PDT #22499 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

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?


flea - May 28, 2013 4:11:48 pm PDT #22500 of 25497
information libertarian

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.


meara - May 28, 2013 4:36:08 pm PDT #22501 of 25497

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


sj - May 28, 2013 5:10:34 pm PDT #22502 of 25497
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

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.


Jessica - May 28, 2013 5:15:47 pm PDT #22503 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

sj, how did you update the software without being able to see most of the screen?


sj - May 29, 2013 3:12:02 am PDT #22504 of 25497
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I could see just enough of the screen to do that in my case.