I am the worst computer user ever. I got my wireless router, but it wouldn't work, I called and was bitchy to the person and was getting frustrated.
...um...
I didn't have the antennae turned on.
er...
I apologized.
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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askye - Nov 26, 2007 2:08:15 pm PST #3575 of 25497
Thrive to spite them
Jessica - Nov 26, 2007 2:11:02 pm PST #3576 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I use (and love) Google Reader, but before that I was a fan of Bloglines.
Jon B. - Nov 26, 2007 2:31:21 pm PST #3577 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jessica is me.
tommyrot - Nov 26, 2007 2:39:04 pm PST #3578 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.
I use Bloglines, but I'm probably going to switch to Google Reader. Both for the Google Gears thing and the fact that Bloglines sometimes just seems to lock up. Oh, and Bloglines marks an entire blog as read as soon as you click on it, but Google Reader only marks them as read as you scroll to them.
sarameg - Nov 26, 2007 3:14:25 pm PST #3579 of 25497
Got the external monitor to work. Wow, this is going to take some getting used to. Everything is HUGE. I once knew how to shrink it. Hrm.
tommyrot - Nov 26, 2007 3:17:32 pm PST #3580 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.
I think with a G3 iBook you're limited to the same resolution of the iBook's screen. So if you attach a big monitor, everything becomes huge (because of the lower resolution than the monitor would typically use).
sarameg - Nov 26, 2007 3:21:39 pm PST #3581 of 25497
Yeah, I'll just put it farther away!( I have 15 days to decide whether I'm keeping it or not. We'll see.)
Gris - Nov 27, 2007 1:32:49 pm PST #3582 of 25497
Hey. New board.
So am I the only one absolutely salivating for an Amazon Kindle?
This review has convinced me that I am going to be 100% happy with my purchase. It sounds like exactly what I've wanted out of an eBook reader since I discovered the concept of them several years ago.
tommyrot - Nov 27, 2007 1:37:09 pm PST #3583 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.
I like the hardware, but the terms of service and other limitations they put on it make me not want it.
Among other things, they make it a PITA to load any stuff that's yours that you didn't buy from them. And no PDF.
§ ita § - Nov 27, 2007 1:46:13 pm PST #3584 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think I'll wait on a later ebook. Or something.
I'm surprised by this:
It's surprisingly easy to get non-Amazon material on it. I just plug it in to the USB cable which perpetually hangs off the back of my laptop, and it shows up as a hard drive. I drop .txt and .mobi files into the "Book" folder and they show up. I convert a handful of PDFs to .mobi files using Mobi Creator and they work perfect, Tables of Contents and all. Sweet.
since that was a flag waved by dissenters. I just have to remember which ones, so I can see if they've withdrawn their claim.
Also, it's ugly. Why it got to be ugly?