Thanks DX!
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
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askye - Jan 12, 2008 3:26:09 pm PST #4251 of 25501
Thrive to spite them
Jesse - Jan 12, 2008 3:27:31 pm PST #4252 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I got a message to take out the cable card in my cable box earlier today. I did, and everything seems fine. But could it be because I had the box sitting on it's side?
omnis_audis - Jan 12, 2008 3:32:32 pm PST #4253 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
A Steph, a thought. It might be, with us Mac users, we can type a password of "any word", but then some Win users need the hexidecimal version of it. I seem to recall that it could be fixed by setting the password in quotes on the airport. Not 100% sure on this, but worth a try. Then, on your Mac computers, you'll have to retype the password with the quote marks. IIRC, the win machines ignore the quotes, but use the word you type and not hex.
Again, I might be wrong. But something to try.
dcp - Jan 12, 2008 3:46:44 pm PST #4254 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Just did some Skype test calls with my Dad, Skype-to-landline and Skype-to-Skype. I'm impressed. The sound quality was very good -- better than our cellphone-to-cellphone calls. Earphones are a definite necessity to avoid the stadium echo effect.
brenda m - Jan 12, 2008 3:49:36 pm PST #4255 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That reminds me, I've been meaning to ask if anyone has recommendations for webcams that you can use with Skype for video calls. My brother and his fiance use it all the time to talk to her brother and their friends in Moscow, but they use a built in camera on their Mac. It was actually really fun, and I'd love to try it out, but I'm not getting a new computer over it.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2008 3:55:34 pm PST #4256 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I skype-skype laptop to laptop without headspeakers to Jamaica, and haven't had any echo problems.
My sister uses an Intel laptop with a built in camera--I have an iSight on my Powerbook. For Christmas we bought our parents Logitech webcams, but we haven't tested them yet. At least not across the waters.
Laga - Jan 12, 2008 5:26:26 pm PST #4257 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
now I'm having gmail problems. All those other times I wasn't but now I am. Or am I? It seems to be working now.
sumi - Jan 14, 2008 10:04:04 am PST #4258 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
I have a dvr question. My second vcr gave up the ghost and I'm going to need a way to record two different things by the end of the month. (What with Lost and SPN being on at exactly the same time.) I thought I could add dvr to my comcast but they are only offering it to people who are getting 3 different comcast services. So, if I want to be able to say, record two things and watch a 3rd what do I need to look for in a dvr?
Thanks!
brenda m - Jan 14, 2008 10:05:53 am PST #4259 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
So, if I want to be able to say, record two things and watch a 3rd what do I need to look for in a dvr?
You can do that with a dual tuner Tivo if the third channel that's not recording is via antenna.
sumi - Jan 14, 2008 10:34:58 am PST #4260 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
Okay. Thinking of getting something used on ebay.