Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.

'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


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esse - Jan 18, 2007 12:08:45 pm PST #297 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I'm not sure, since I'm not sitting front of a Mac right now, but I think that only works with IMAP accounts, not POP.

it does with IMAP, but it's features are more limited with POP. I've liked using the mail.app with gmail, but it's annoying having to go back and filter/sort/delete messages on the web. I tend to migrate back and forth between using it on mail and using it on the web.


§ ita § - Jan 18, 2007 1:54:49 pm PST #298 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just don't get it. I've assigned that email account a simple signature, set Choose Signature to be Signature #34, the one I want, but when I reply to an email sent to it, although the identity is right, the Signature option says None, and I have a random sig from the other account. I can then choose Signature #34 and it cleans things up--no improvement at all.

I went and turned the main address signature option to None, and then there are no signatures for any of the other accounts unless chosen manually.

This is silly.

eta: it seems to pull new sigs from whatever account is selected to send new mail from, even when it's not sending mail from that account.


Rob - Jan 18, 2007 3:36:46 pm PST #299 of 25496

I'm seeing the same thing. It looks like a bug. Do you want to report it or should I?


Sean K - Jan 18, 2007 3:50:15 pm PST #300 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Okay, new question in my neverending computer upgrade:

I tried to hook my old hard drive up as a slave to the new 200gb drive. I set the jumper on the new one to "master with slave present." The old drive surprisingly does not have a jumper diagram on the outside. I left the jumper off that drive and hoped it would let the other drive's master setting and its cable position do the selecting, but when I turned it on like that, the computer didn't like that and decided there was no boot drive. I unhooked the old drive and booted up again.

So, my question is, are jumper setting more or less universal across similar drives (ATA)? Can I use the jumper diagram from another drive to figure out what setting to use on the old drive? Or would I be able to find jumper settings with just a little Google time?


NoiseDesign - Jan 18, 2007 3:56:12 pm PST #301 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

They differ based on manufacturer and drive model. Go to the manufacturers website and you can usually track down the model number and get the jumper settings.


Sean K - Jan 18, 2007 3:57:29 pm PST #302 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Thanks, ND.


Sean K - Jan 18, 2007 4:26:58 pm PST #303 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Well phooey. I can't find the jumper for the old hard drive. Can I just go down to Radio Shack and buy a hard drive jumper?


Kalshane - Jan 18, 2007 5:21:39 pm PST #304 of 25496
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Sean, is your CD-ROM on a separate IDE cable from your hard drive? If so, just unplug the cable from the CD-ROM and plug it into your old hard drive. If it defaults to master without a jumper, it should work fine if it's on its own cable.

ETA: I'm assuming in the above you're just planning on plugging the old drive in long enough to get the data off of it, not leaving it there permanently.


Sean K - Jan 18, 2007 5:33:27 pm PST #305 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Yeah, it's a temporary thing, Kalshane. And yes, there's a seperate cable for the CD drive. I guess as long as one drive boots and can mount the other one, it doesn't matter which is the boot drive, I just copy the old files over, pull the old drive and be done.


Kalshane - Jan 18, 2007 5:38:38 pm PST #306 of 25496
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Well, the CD-ROM should be on the secondary IDE. Which means if you hook up the old drive to that cable, and the new drive to the original IDE cable (which should be plugged into the primary IDE port on the motherboard already) it will boot from the new drive. The jumper settings only apply to the individual cable/IDE port.