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Sophia Brooks - Jul 05, 2014 11:38:29 am PDT #23944 of 25496
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Java, that is it!


javachik - Jul 05, 2014 12:42:29 pm PDT #23945 of 25496
Our wings are not tired.

Great!!


sj - Jul 11, 2014 1:12:57 pm PDT #23946 of 25496
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Is there a software program out there that will automatically transfer handwritten text on a tablet to a searchable spreadsheet?


§ ita § - Jul 13, 2014 12:14:46 pm PDT #23947 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If spreadsheet is important, I don't know. OneNote lets you "copy writing to text" which is a start in your direction.


sj - Jul 13, 2014 5:53:18 pm PDT #23948 of 25496
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

ita, it's for TCG. He looked into OneNote, but the spreadsheet part is important for what he wants to do with it.


§ ita § - Jul 14, 2014 8:50:55 am PDT #23949 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Never seen anything like that, and judging by the difficulty finding the One Note technology, I wouldn't be optimistic,


sj - Jul 14, 2014 9:03:24 am PDT #23950 of 25496
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Thanks, ita.


omnis_audis - Jul 22, 2014 4:31:29 pm PDT #23951 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

DNS question. Why are there two DNS address? If I make one OpenDNS and the other GoogleDNS (or whatever it's called), is that a bad thing? Do they both have to be the same company? Just trying to make my devices (especially my AppleTV) a bit faster.

Also, I found there is a video on Netflix for testing. It's called "Example Short 23.976". It will show what your connection speed and resolution is at while it's playing. So far, tested on iPad and laptop. Not sure if it shows on AppleTV or xBox. Pretty neat, to help troubleshoot. There looks to be several "example short ..." videos, some with time code, some with I dunno what. If you take the name that's in quotes above, that one seems to have the connection data in it.


tommyrot - Jul 22, 2014 5:23:41 pm PDT #23952 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

You don't need to specify two DNS addresses. But specifying two gives you a backup in case one goes down (your computer will automatically use the good one in that case).

Eta: I'm not sure how one would test DNS server speeds to find the faster one. By ping time?


Rob - Jul 22, 2014 6:03:33 pm PDT #23953 of 25496

One thing to look out for with GoogleDNS or OpenDNS is that it used to cause places like Apple or Netflix to choose the wrong Content Delivery Network node to stream content to you. This caused a big drop in your download speeds.

I don't know if this is still a problem.

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