Awesome! I'll totally try that when I'm sober. Thanks, DCJ!
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Calli - May 30, 2015 2:55:48 pm PDT #24485 of 25496
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
DCJensen - Jun 06, 2015 2:16:39 pm PDT #24486 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
So here's a weird one for you all.
I have just resurrected a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with a new Motherboard. It works OK, except the keyboard has various keys out.
A USB keyboard works fine when plugged in.
I have a Dell Vostro 1525 with similar size keyboard, and they have the same ribbon connection, so I thought, "why not?"
After swapping the keyboard from the Vostro into the Inspiron, that keyboard worked.
So I decided it was the keyboard, and put the keyboard into the vostro so as not to lose parts while I scrounged for a new keyboard.
However, the Inspiron keyboard also works fine in the Vostro.
Thinking I had made some sort of mistake initially, I put the Inspiron keyboard back into the Inspiron. The missing keys were back.
I gave up and swapped them one more time, and both laptops work with the keyboards from the other.
At this point I'm tempted to pop off and swap the five or six keys that show different icons and go with it.
Connie Neil - Jun 09, 2015 8:23:46 pm PDT #24487 of 25496
brillig
What do people recommend for downloading off of YouTube? A recent Firefox upgrade seems to have knocked out the one I had.
Jon B. - Jun 10, 2015 6:18:10 am PDT #24488 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I've been happy with the NetVideoHunter add-in for Firefox. It works with Vimeo too!
Vortex - Jun 10, 2015 5:23:02 pm PDT #24489 of 25496
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
My free McAfee has expired. Thoughts for new antivirus? Stay with McAfee? Something else?
Typo Boy - Jun 10, 2015 10:50:35 pm PDT #24490 of 25496
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.
Does your internet provider offer free anti-virus? Comcast does, as do many others.
Gris - Jun 11, 2015 2:19:47 am PDT #24491 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Lifehacker recs: [link]
I should probably install avast on my desktop. Still just using windows defender.
Vonnie K - Jun 12, 2015 5:54:04 am PDT #24492 of 25496
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I'm having an odd issue with getting to the livejournal site. It was working fine last night, and since this morning, I can't get the page to open at all. The LJ status report says there is nothing wrong. I can actually get on LJ on my phone using 4G network, but on my home network? Not working. I can get to all other sites, just not LJ.
I've tried: rebooting the computer, clearing the cache, flushing DNS cache, changing DNS service to Google Public DNS according to the recs from this site and so far, no dice. Usually, I wouldn't care that much, but I just posted on LJ last night after 3 weeks' of silence and I am getting comments, but can't reply to them. Which is irritating.
sj - Jun 12, 2015 5:59:50 am PDT #24493 of 25496
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I have heard lots of people on lj complain about similar things lately. I can still access it from my computer but the apps on my phone and iPad were not working at all last time I checked.
Typo Boy - Jun 30, 2015 4:36:19 pm PDT #24494 of 25496
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.
My computer monitor would show my screen for 2 seconds, then black out - not during boot up but as soon as I was at the windows login screen. I turned off computer, disconnected and reconnected monitor to make sure it was properly seated. Same problem. Tried the monitor from another computer, which supports slightly different resolution. Works fine. I'm still wonering if it was the software, and the automatic resolution reset resolved. Trying to work up spoons to switch monitors a freakin gains. Given that a decent 23 inch monitor will run between 110 and 150 (and I suspect that there are problems with the ones in the 110 range), it is worth it to check. Just got a bad cases donwannas.