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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Liese S. - Aug 03, 2007 10:17:00 am PDT #2329 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, be careful, though, tommy. If I recall correctly there were definitely some quote regular expression endquote artifacts in VB that act funky. No memory what specifically, though, so I'm no actual help.


Anne W. - Aug 03, 2007 6:00:42 pm PDT #2330 of 25496
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

If I suspect that accidentally clicking on a site may have dumped a largish file on my computer (I have a MacBook), how would I find that file. I went to the wrong kind of anime site and it tried to get me to install some sort of media player. It would not let me close out of Safari w/o a Force Quit.

It appears that my available memory has now dropped by .4GB. I can't swear to that, but I recall having 2.0 G left, and now I have 1.6.


Jesse - Aug 04, 2007 6:40:07 am PDT #2331 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I've been trying to update iTunes for like 45 minutes. That's not normal, right? I downloaded, restarted and now I'm supposed to "wait while Windows configures iTunes," but that's been on for like ten minutes. What to do?

Edit: OK, it finally finished. I guess part of the problem was Norton trying to stop iTunes from doing something online.


DCJensen - Aug 04, 2007 10:33:58 pm PDT #2332 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

Some biological technology...

That South Korean scientist who claimed to have created clones of humans, but turned out to be a fraud? May have achieved human parthenogenesis -- by mistake.

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Theodosia - Aug 05, 2007 2:30:46 am PDT #2333 of 25496
'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"

Yeah, I saw that story! Is that irony or WHAT?


Anne W. - Aug 05, 2007 8:14:57 am PDT #2334 of 25496
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Crap. I think I may have gotten a virus on my computer. I think by having an Apple, I'd been lulled into a false sense of security. Any ideas on what to do at this point?


DCJensen - Aug 05, 2007 8:53:07 am PDT #2335 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

What are the symptoms?

Actual Mac OSX virus infections are still quite rare.

Sophos Anti-Virus has a 30-day free trial [link]

I'm sure there are others.

ETA: Links to virus scanners, etc: [link]


Anne W. - Aug 05, 2007 9:12:17 am PDT #2336 of 25496
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I was getting a virus warning from my ISP. Turns out, though, that my ISP and Apple are having issues, as I discovered from talking to Apple tech support. Feh.

Still, I'll check out those virus scanners. Better safe than sorry. Thanks for the links, Daniel.


beekaytee - Aug 06, 2007 6:36:49 am PDT #2337 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

Minor gripe with related question:

For years, I have used and loved the ecards on the Apple website. Simple, tasteful...no flash or creepy midi-soundtracks.

Apparently, Apple has become too cool for such trivialities...or I've gone blind. I can't find the cards anywhere and a google search gives me no love.

The popular ecard sites, 123, bluemountain, hallmark...all give me the crawling of the skin.

Any recommendations for alternatives?


le nubian - Aug 06, 2007 9:53:22 am PDT #2338 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Beej,

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I pick some favorite art and send it as an ecard...