Network cables generally don't carry audio and video. You would need a cord specifically designed to carry video. If it's a fairly modern laptop it probably has an HDMI or Mini Display port output; running from that to your TV simply requires the right cord. What's the make and model of your laptop and TV?
Right. Piano. Because that's what we used to kill that big demon that one time. No, wait. That was a rocket launcher.
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Gris - Sep 15, 2014 12:30:44 pm PDT #24110 of 25497
Hey. New board.
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2014 12:41:40 pm PDT #24111 of 25497
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TV's a Visio, a few years old, laptop's a Dell. I'll see if I have an HDMI cable anywhere about. It's been hooked up to the TV before, I just have to remember how.
Gris - Sep 15, 2014 1:48:13 pm PDT #24112 of 25497
Hey. New board.
If your laptop can't do HDMI it is possible that your laptop and TV both use have VGA ports: my older TV has one. That's the same port yiu would use to hook up to an older projector or monitor.
Sue - Sep 16, 2014 9:43:46 am PDT #24113 of 25497
hip deep in pie
The open box deal is how they got me, Maria. I don't regret it.
Maria - Sep 17, 2014 9:54:29 am PDT #24114 of 25497
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Yeah, I fell for it. 13" with 128 gigs. So very pretty and shiny. I pick it up this afternoon. It was down to $863 from sticker. I couldn't say no.
Tom Scola - Sep 17, 2014 4:55:20 pm PDT #24115 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Again, a reminder: If you upgrade via iTunes, you don't need to have free space on your iDevice.
-t - Sep 17, 2014 5:01:42 pm PDT #24116 of 25497
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thank you. That is a big update.
sarameg - Sep 18, 2014 6:13:44 pm PDT #24117 of 25497
Is that true if your ipad never hooks up with your laptop? For all that I'm computer literate, I'm stubbornly NOT when it comes to admin...
meara - Sep 21, 2014 9:00:03 pm PDT #24118 of 25497
Aargh. I seem to have completely fucked up my Internet somehow. It was being funky and the last time he was here the cable guy suggested I get a new wireless router. Guess mine was getting old. So I figured maybe now was the time. Hied mysel to target and got one. Got home, started to set it up. Seemed fine. Hooked it all up. Stuck my USB time-machine backup drive to it, tried to make that work. And then it all went to hell and now I can't even get it to give me Internet. Ugh!!
Typo Boy - Sep 21, 2014 9:33:12 pm PDT #24119 of 25497
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
There is almost certainly something in the manual that tells you how to set the router back to default setting. Good chance it is a little recessed reset button you have to hold down for a certain number of seconds with a paper clip.