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§ ita § - Nov 08, 2007 4:38:20 pm PST #3430 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Bleargh. Not good week on many fronts. Tech too. I can't run Repair Disk on my Macintosh HD. The underlying task reported failure on exit.

Will fsck do anything for me that Disk Utility can't? How can I tell if this is hardware-related (ie don't buy Leopard and start from scratch)?

lori - Nov 08, 2007 10:14:33 pm PST #3431 of 25497

Any recommendations on cheap/free software to rip DVDs so I can watch my movies on my pretty new Nano? I'm on a MacBook Pro.

NoiseDesign - Nov 09, 2007 1:36:41 am PST #3432 of 25497
Our wings are not tired

Handbrake.

Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2007 1:38:58 am PST #3433 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Will fsck do anything for me that Disk Utility can't?

Wouldn't hurt to try. At least it will give more verbose error messages.

How can I tell if this is hardware-related (ie don't buy Leopard and start from scratch)?

Look in /var/log/messages, (or use the Console.app utility), and see if there have been disk errors that have been logged.

Any recommendations on cheap/free software to rip DVDs so I can watch my movies on my pretty new Nano? I'm on a MacBook Pro.

HandBrake

NoiseDesign - Nov 09, 2007 1:52:07 am PST #3434 of 25497
Our wings are not tired

Wow. Middle of the night x-post.

DCJensen - Nov 09, 2007 4:17:50 am PST #3435 of 25497
All is well that ends in pizza.

After Making a mini maglight into a working laser, what do you do for an encore?

Make a Star Trek Phaser prop into a Blu-ray-powered laser, of course.

lori - Nov 09, 2007 5:09:39 am PST #3436 of 25497

Thanks guys!

Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2007 11:12:27 am PST #3437 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

MLB.com backtracks, after people made a big enough stink: [link]

tommyrot - Nov 09, 2007 11:13:42 am PST #3438 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

MLB.com backtracks, after people made a big enough stink:

I figured that would happen.

Sheryl - Nov 09, 2007 1:16:32 pm PST #3439 of 25497
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

I have a problem I hope someone here can help me with. In the last couple weeks when I read lj I frequently have computer freeze-ups or lose input from the keyboard(the mouse works fine). I don't know if it's a browser problem(I'm using Netscape 7.0 for the Mac) or a computer problem(I have a 6+ year old iMac running System 9.1).

If it's a browser problem, is there anything I can do about it, or are there any other/better browsers that will run on my computer?

(I really don't want to buy a new computer right now, as I've had a lot of expenses in the last few months that have eaten away at my bank account)

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