That name rings a bell.
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
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tommyrot - Jan 25, 2007 1:17:43 pm PST #385 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.
Lee - Jan 25, 2007 5:07:25 pm PST #386 of 25496
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Someone sent me a file of music that they created on a PC using sendspace.com. It looked like I was able to download the file okay to my Mac, but when I tried to open the downloaded file using stuffit expander, I got a message that the file didn't appear to be encoded or encrypted, so stuffit expander couldn't open it. It asked if I wanted to try BOMAarchive helper, but that didn't work either.
Any ideas on how to get the file open?
aurelia - Jan 25, 2007 11:44:07 pm PST #387 of 25496
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I can't get Excel to open any files I've created in the past week. Excel just thinks about it for a while and then crashes. I can open older files just fine and I've opened the recent files on another computer without a problem. While on the other computer, I saved the file under a different name but my computer still wouldn't open it. WTF?
DXMachina - Jan 26, 2007 3:56:23 am PST #388 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Why the fuck did Google Images fancy up its results display?
Getting the old Google image search back: [link]
Theodosia - Jan 26, 2007 5:04:08 am PST #389 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"
Lee, could it be that they merely renamed the file extension to make it look like an archive but isn't? The other possibility it to try downloading it to a non-Mac and try opening it there.
Lee - Jan 26, 2007 5:06:09 am PST #390 of 25496
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Lee, could it be that they merely renamed the file extension to make it look like an archive but isn't?
I actually think this is it. I did try to open it that way last night, or at least thought I had, and it didn't work, but this morning I tried again and it did.
YAY.
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2007 5:06:09 am PST #391 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.
Lee, could it be that they merely renamed the file extension to make it look like an archive but isn't?
Oh yeah. That's a common trick to get around filters that look for the .mp3 extension. Does it have a .zip extension? Try changing that to .mp3 or whatever it's supposed to be.
xposty... Also, yay!
Lee - Jan 26, 2007 5:07:41 am PST #392 of 25496
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Down to the second xpost too-- impressive.
Gudanov - Jan 26, 2007 5:12:35 am PST #393 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I can't get Excel to open any files I've created in the past week. Excel just thinks about it for a while and then crashes. I can open older files just fine and I've opened the recent files on another computer without a problem. While on the other computer, I saved the file under a different name but my computer still wouldn't open it. WTF?
Sounds odd enough to maybe be a virus, OTOH, it's almost never actually a virus. Sort of like the first diagnosis on House.
Gudanov - Jan 26, 2007 5:18:27 am PST #394 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
Microsoft's anti-spyware software appears to have locked up on my work computer. I like my Windowless home computer.
BTW, if you want to try the Enlightenment desktop, Ubuntu is the way to go. Insanely easy to install and get running.