And now my boy's in love. All hearts and flowers. But, doesn't it freak you out that she used to change your diapers? I mean, when you think about it, the first woman you boned is the closest thing you've ever had to a mother. Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hm. There should be a play.

Angelus ,'Damage'


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le nubian - Dec 09, 2007 7:08:15 am PST #3733 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Julie,

I don't think you need to change the filename. If it is mkv, that's what extension should remain.

I don't know jack about converting mkv files. I've only worked with avi.


Juliebird - Dec 09, 2007 8:08:20 am PST #3734 of 25497
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

okay, another tact: if I dl'd the torrent from one particular site, would other sites possibly have different torrents, and therefore different, non MKV file formats? (don't know if I'm using the terms correctly)


DXMachina - Dec 09, 2007 8:22:03 am PST #3735 of 25497
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

It's certainly possible, especially if the show in question is at all popular.


Juliebird - Dec 09, 2007 8:31:08 am PST #3736 of 25497
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I used mininova, and piratebay, what other sites are recommended?


DXMachina - Dec 09, 2007 8:33:27 am PST #3737 of 25497
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Those are the two main sites I use. Another thing you can try is a place like isohunt, which is a search engine for torrent sites.


Juliebird - Dec 09, 2007 8:35:14 am PST #3738 of 25497
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

okay, I didn't know if there were some that were better than others. Found some with Swedish subtitles at pirate bay, argh!


Dana - Dec 09, 2007 8:43:59 am PST #3739 of 25497
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Is it my imagination, or is it substantially harder to compare laptops than it is for desktops? Or is it just that my husband did the brunt of the research when we bought a desktop?

AMD Athlon dual-core vs. AMD Turion dual-core. Is the only difference that the Turion is newer?

Am I correct that it's better to get more memory (say, 2GB) than a better processor (say, AMD vs. Intel), all things being equal?


le nubian - Dec 09, 2007 8:44:15 am PST #3740 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Julie, found a mkv converter for you:

[link]


Juliebird - Dec 09, 2007 8:54:30 am PST #3741 of 25497
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

oh, bless you, le nubian! I had dug a little more into videohelp and kept finding the need for a minimum of three pieces of software I don't already own. I had given up on the converting and been hunting down other torrents instead.

Thanks!

*crosses fingers*


beekaytee - Dec 09, 2007 9:56:11 am PST #3742 of 25497
Compassionately intolerant

Sweet weeping Moses. What have I done?!?

I downloaded Adobe Contribute in a last ditch attempt to be able to edit my new website myself. I really am at the very end of the very end of my rope.

I can't for the life of me understand what I did that caused the footer to move to the right, over the flame graphic, when before it was lift aligned with the text. All I wanted to do was increase the font size. Contribute shows me exactly what I want to see, but the actual site has gone kafloogity.

What did I do wrong?

Also, does anyone have experience with Contribute and its not as wysiwyg as they'd lead you to believe?

I edit a piece of text, publish it and then find it has moved or only part of the editing has taken fully.

The software tried, but failed to add a Firefox extension. Could my problems have anything to do with that?

Also, I want to add a text box under the leaves on the right hand side.

Ginger gave me a handy piece of code that put the box in line with the existing text but, try as I might, I could not get it to move over to the right of the screen. Is there a columns problem here? If so, how can I align the box under the leaves and above the flame?

Stepping away from the computer for a few minutes to avoid an overwhelming impulse to put something hard and large through the screen. aaaaaaaagggghhhh.