On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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

Got a question about technology? Ask it here. Discussion of hardware, software, TiVos, multi-region DVDs, Windows, Macs, LINUX, hand-helds, iPods, anything tech related. Better than any helpdesk!


omnis_audis - Mar 11, 2008 10:20:55 pm PDT #5117 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

iPhone and iTouch users. A very cool new website for us all. Could be very useful when reading/posting in b.org. A wacked out way to copy/paste. Only works in browser. It's more of "copy/paste/paste", but it works!. Here is the link to the newstory and the link to the website


Gris - Mar 12, 2008 3:59:16 pm PDT #5118 of 25501
Hey. New board.

I just took apart my MacBook Pro and replaced the fan without looking at any instructions first. I am both stupid and proud.


Glamcookie - Mar 12, 2008 6:50:44 pm PDT #5119 of 25501
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

SHIT! I was working on a school paper in Word (for Mac, in OSX) and Word crashed! I lost shit! HELP!!! Temp files anywhere????


le nubian - Mar 12, 2008 6:56:58 pm PDT #5120 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

sometimes when you reopen word it asks if you want to work on the document you were last working on...

that's all I got.


Glamcookie - Mar 12, 2008 6:57:23 pm PDT #5121 of 25501
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

It didn't :(

ETA: I was able to get it back! I looked in the Finder and there was a label for "Today." It had an AutoRecovery version of the file. Thank God!


Jessica - Mar 13, 2008 8:33:10 am PDT #5122 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

DH and I are having a Google Chat problem - we're both logged in, but neither of us is showing up on the other one's contact list. What gives?


tommyrot - Mar 13, 2008 8:39:28 am PDT #5123 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.

Isn't the contents of that list determined by how often you get email from a given person? If that's the case, have you tried sending a few emails to each other?


bon bon - Mar 13, 2008 8:40:51 am PDT #5124 of 25501
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

It should just say so if you are, but you're not both invisible, are you?


Glamcookie - Mar 13, 2008 8:40:55 am PDT #5125 of 25501
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I don't think so, tommy. I never use my GMail account and people show up on my list...


Jessica - Mar 13, 2008 8:41:21 am PDT #5126 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Well, the top of the list is always other contacts signed into Chat.

We seem to have fixed it by re-inviting each other, even though we were both already signed in and online. Weirdness.