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Inara ,'Objects In Space'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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le nubian - Feb 15, 2008 5:30:58 pm PST #4799 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

bonny, there's a sent folder in thunderbird. are you using pop or imap?


beekaytee - Feb 15, 2008 6:39:42 pm PST #4800 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant

Daniel, you seem always to save me.

I will try to get the hard drive out and let you at it. If it's fun for you, it's fine with me!

le nub...It's weird. I've yet to take Daniel's advice on the computer for which this is an issue, but I did find the 'make new folder' option he recommended.

The thing that flummoxes me is that I'm pretty sure that there used to be a sent folder...but it disappeared. While I know every dweeby screw-up says this...I SWEAR I didn't do anything to it!

eta: pop. I am pointing a verizon, a gmail and a onebox address at thunderbird. All are pops I think.


Sue - Feb 16, 2008 5:57:34 am PST #4801 of 25501
hip deep in pie

Suzi, have you tried giving your iPod a good thwack? I kept my alive for about six months with the thwack and reboot scheme, until the touch pad finally died. It won't last forever, but it might keep you going until you can get a new one.


Ginger - Feb 16, 2008 9:40:05 am PST #4802 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I have many, many transformer blocks. They are all the same voltage. They are all made by no-name companies in China. In the course of the Great Office Reorganization of Aught Eight, I've lost track of which was which. Does it matter? Also, why the hell isn't there a universal transformer with lots of outputs, so we could plug all this crap into the same transformer? Is it a Chinese plot?


DCJensen - Feb 16, 2008 6:26:56 pm PST #4803 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I have a large collection. Mainly because the all seem to be different amperges and ends on them, and some are reversed polarity.


Consuela - Feb 17, 2008 8:28:18 am PST #4804 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So I'd like to rip an audiobook on cd to my iPod, but there appears to be some DRM in place. Anyone have any recommendations for shareware for ripping cds?


§ ita § - Feb 17, 2008 11:51:42 am PST #4805 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Do you have any details on the DRM? What is the audiobook?


Consuela - Feb 17, 2008 12:07:57 pm PST #4806 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

It's a Chabon novel. The files are .cda format. I don't know what the DRM is, other than that Windows Media Player can't rip the cd.


Rob - Feb 17, 2008 12:12:34 pm PST #4807 of 25501

Can you play it in a regular CD player?


Consuela - Feb 17, 2008 12:18:49 pm PST #4808 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm sure I can.