I'm visiting my uncle, and his HP laptop DVD drive will not open. It does not appear in bios or device manager. I suspect it is not getting power, as the access light didn't blink when I scanned for new devices. The drive does not appear to be removable. Any thoughts of what it could be or how to fix it?
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omnis_audis - Feb 17, 2008 10:19:20 pm PST #4811 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
evil jimi - Feb 18, 2008 1:57:12 am PST #4812 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Jessica - Feb 18, 2008 5:00:19 am PST #4813 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Is there a way to make Wordpress display more than 20 comments at a time in Mass Edit mode? I'm de-spamifying DH's blog, and it's taking for-freaking-ever.
I'm not talking about the moderation queue - these are comments that slipped past the filters and were automatically approved. I've now changed the settings so that you need a previously approved comment or else you get moderated, which should keep things pretty spam-free in the future, but I was lax about it for so long that there are close to 30,000 spams that need to be deleted...20 at a time...
Jon B. - Feb 18, 2008 5:35:20 am PST #4814 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Is there a way to make Wordpress display more than 20 comments at a time in Mass Edit mode?
The 20 seems to be hard-coded into edit-comments.php. If you're self-hosting and feeling adventurous, you could go through that file and change all the 20's to something bigger. Or maybe there's a plug-in (I couldn't find one, but I didn't look very hard)?
sumi - Feb 18, 2008 6:44:29 am PST #4815 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
Help!
I bought a nano on Saturday and today I'm trying to charge it up and when I first plugged it into the USB port - my computer told me that it didn't recognize it and it is malfunctioning so try again. Which I did - and got similar messages but now I'm getting nothing. Does this mean my ipod's cord is frelled or is it the two usb ports on my home computer?
Consuela - Feb 18, 2008 8:34:16 am PST #4816 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Okay, I got the book on cd ripped in via iTunes. It's just annoying because then I had to use MP3 converter to make it an audiobook. iTunes should have an mp3-to-audiobook converter built in...
tommyrot - Feb 18, 2008 8:35:15 am PST #4817 of 25501
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 you can just tell iTunes that an mp3 is an audiobook. (He says, without checking iTunes first.)
OK, I think that what you do is go to "Get Info" and change the Genre to AudioBooks. You also might want to check "Remember playback position" under Options.
§ ita § - Feb 18, 2008 11:17:57 am PST #4818 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What tommy said has worked for me. I've never had to convert anything again, but I use iTunes to listen to it in.
evil jimi - Feb 18, 2008 4:10:58 pm PST #4819 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Jessica ... what Jon said ... or, if you're feeling really adventurous, another solution I found is to edit the comments database using PHPMyAdmin.
Kristen - Feb 18, 2008 11:33:25 pm PST #4820 of 25501
From Wired.com:
Toshiba put HD-DVD out of its misery today. Reuters confirmed this afternoon that it will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, following earlier reports from Japan's NHK public broadcasting network.
So I guess this means Blu-Ray wins?