ION, I "recharged" a 3v button battery (CR3025) by taping it carefully to a 9v for 1/2 hour.
If it gives me a few blood tests before I can get to the store for a replacement, that'll work out well.
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DCJensen - Feb 24, 2008 1:23:40 pm PST #4905 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
P.M. Marc - Feb 24, 2008 2:08:15 pm PST #4906 of 25501
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Y'know, I've had similar problems on Macs through the years, too.
So it ain't just a Windows thing.
(Signed, debated even posting this, but finds this thread useful, and really doesn't want to have to unsub from this thread again due to other people's kneejerk reactions against a product I on which I work.)
DCJensen - Feb 24, 2008 2:17:44 pm PST #4907 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Ginger - Feb 24, 2008 2:28:56 pm PST #4908 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've used Windows many, many years, and that's the first time it's gone quite so bad. Six hours of troubleshooting is very tiring, though. The initial mistake was mine, although I was trying to fix something that had popped up when I installed something else. I think of the inside of my computer as a battleground.
I'll take a look at TweakUI, DJ.
P.M. Marc - Feb 24, 2008 3:01:41 pm PST #4909 of 25501
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think of the inside of my computer as a battleground.
This is wise thinking!
Kevin - Feb 24, 2008 9:46:37 pm PST #4910 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I use Linux and Macs at home and Linux, AIX, SunOS and Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 at work.
I think every OS sucks. Having worked with Windows for many years, I can say nowadays it's actually fairly stable -- back in the 9x days, it was awful. Although I do loose about one day a month due to shitty Windows issues still. Windows Server 2003 + terminal services is particularly fun - it's a stability clusterfuck.
NoiseDesign - Feb 25, 2008 12:07:50 am PST #4911 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Seeing as my last three days have involved crazy crashes on a brand new MacPro I think all computers suck donkey ass.
tommyrot - Feb 25, 2008 5:31:54 am PST #4912 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 of the inside of my computer as a battleground.
But then love is a battle field too. So by the transitive property....
ION, everybody complains about the Win 9.x days, but were those days as bad as the 3.x days? I dunno - I thought 95 was much better than 3.1, and 98 was about the same as 95....
Jessica - Feb 25, 2008 9:25:48 am PST #4913 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In Outlook 2003, follow-up flags default to 12:00 AM unless you manually change it.
Is there a way to change that setting globally so that (just say) all of my follow-up flags default to 5:00PM?
tommyrot - Feb 25, 2008 6:06:22 pm PST #4914 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.
How much does it cost to replace an LCD screen on a MacBook?
(I slipped on the snow and fell on top of my MacBook. Now there's lots of pretty liquid patterns on half the screen....)