That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.

The Mayor ,'End of Days'


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

Got a question about technology? Ask it here. Discussion of hardware, software, TiVos, multi-region DVDs, Windows, Macs, LINUX, hand-helds, iPods, anything tech related. Better than any helpdesk!


Jesse - Sep 10, 2007 6:49:29 am PDT #2709 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I tried that! It told me there were no Word docs modified today!

OK, and then I tried all documents, and there were some notepad docs called "rescued document," but at best they are full of gibberish. Some of the gibberish is some of the stuff I lost out of the Word doc. Still, UGH.


Dana - Sep 10, 2007 6:51:14 am PDT #2710 of 25496
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Poor you. t pats your head

And aren't you on vacation? That sucks. There should be no technological disasters on vacation.


Jesse - Sep 10, 2007 6:51:53 am PDT #2711 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I just don't understand what happened, but I think I have calmed down enough to get someone to email me a previous version of the document, and just recreate what I just did. The whole thing was so weird, though, that I'd love to understand why the fuck my computer decided to delete my document!!


Jesse - Sep 10, 2007 6:52:30 am PDT #2712 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

And aren't you on vacation? That sucks. There should be no technological disasters on vacation.

Right??? Thanks. At least it's only semi-work, but now I have to call someone at my office, and bleh.


sumi - Sep 10, 2007 6:53:15 am PDT #2713 of 25496
Art Crawl!!!

My printer is driving me mad: when you ask it to print an envelope it prints on whatever paper you asked it to print the document previous to the envelope, i.e., if you print on letterhead, it prints the envelop on letterhead, if you print on plain paper it prints on plain paper - but not on envelopes.

It's an HP Cp;pr :aserKet 2605dtn - any ideas? Is this something I fix in the printer? Or something I fix in Word?


sumi - Sep 10, 2007 7:02:54 am PDT #2714 of 25496
Art Crawl!!!

Never mind.

(I had the default printer tray for envelopes listed incorrectly.)

Sometimes I hate technology because I really don't recall changing the default and yet it went from printing envelopes properly to not.


bon bon - Sep 10, 2007 7:43:23 am PDT #2715 of 25496
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

As I mentioned in natter, the hard drive in my laptop died over the weekend. It's not backed up, which is my own damn fault (the data is not *that* important, but I would like to keep my software). I have purchased an external drive and software to do backups in the future. For the present, does anyone have any experience with data recovery for a laptop hd? Particularly cost? I have a Dell Latitude D800, if it matters. Dell recommends the following vendors for data recovery-- any yeas/nays? I have no idea what something like this costs and the data is not worth more than maybe $750 to me.

Ontrack (Kroll) 
DriveSavers 
SalvageData Recovery Service Lab 
ActionFront Data Recovery Labs 
CBL Data Recovery Technologies 
Iomega Data Recovery Service


le nubian - Sep 10, 2007 7:46:05 am PDT #2716 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

If you can hook up the laptop to another working computer, try get data back. It was awesome and recovered all my data on an external HD.


bon bon - Sep 10, 2007 7:51:27 am PDT #2717 of 25496
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

That's really helpful, le nub. I will see if that works.


Polter-Cow - Sep 10, 2007 8:01:27 am PDT #2718 of 25496
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!