But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?

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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!

tommyrot - Sep 10, 2007 8:11:59 am PDT #2719 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.

Jobs Offers Apple Lisa Early Adopters Store Credit

Cupertino, CA – Early adopters of the iPhone weren't the only ones receiving in-store credit from Steve Jobs. In an overlooked announcement, Jobs said that early adopters of the Apple Lisa would be receiving a $7000 in-store credit.

Apple LisaApple released the Lisa in January of 1983 for $9,995, and the similar Macintosh was released a year later for $2,495.

"I've felt bad about people who bought the Lisa for a long time. Anybody who bought one of the first Apple Lisas really got screwed," said Jobs. "Now that we've got some cash, I think it's about time we made it right."

People interested in the refund will need to bring in an original receipt showing they bought the Lisa in 1983 and proof of purchase from the Apple Lisa box. Sales figures from that year show that if all people who bought the computer claim the refund, Apple could be liable for almost $70,000.


sumi - Sep 10, 2007 8:13:21 am PDT #2720 of 25496
Art Crawl!!!

An orginal receipt and proof of purchase?


§ ita § - Sep 10, 2007 8:14:58 am PDT #2721 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

An orginal receipt and proof of purchase?

Did you check the "Related News" tab?

  • Apple Stores Begin Charging Entrance Fee

  • College Professors to be Replaced by Apple iProf

  • iPhone Hacker Headed to Guantanamo


Theodosia - Sep 10, 2007 8:15:13 am PDT #2722 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"

Hmmm... note that another story on that site is Apple Store to Begin Charging Entrance Fee"