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I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

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tommyrot - Mar 16, 2008 6:53:42 am PDT #5164 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.

Somewhere I have a little case with a handle on top. It would hold 20-25 45's so you could take music with you to a friends house.

We had one of those! My brother and I used it to carry our James Blish books of adaptations of Star Trek episodes.

But we didn't use it to carry our books to friends' houses, on account of all the blizzards (both ways).

Consuela - Mar 16, 2008 2:44:41 pm PDT #5165 of 25501

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So I screwed up on an ahem and ended up with rar files. How do I join them all up again?

amych - Mar 16, 2008 2:47:53 pm PDT #5166 of 25501

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Are you on Mac or Windows, Suela? Either way, you need the un-rar-ing software, but it's free and reliable and easy, so if you post your system details, I'm sure we can help with links.

Dana - Mar 16, 2008 2:53:36 pm PDT #5167 of 25501

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

WinRAR for Windows.

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Sheryl - Mar 16, 2008 3:01:16 pm PDT #5168 of 25501

Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

So I'm learning how to use the stuff on my new computer, but I haven't found a way to read newsgroups. Is there a way to do that using Safari or the Mail program in OS X? If not, what program should I look for?

Tom Scola - Mar 16, 2008 3:03:25 pm PDT #5169 of 25501

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

UnRarX for OS X:

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Tom Scola - Mar 16, 2008 3:06:30 pm PDT #5170 of 25501

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Usenet readers for OS X:

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§ ita § - Mar 16, 2008 4:53:56 pm PDT #5171 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My PC is off in the other room dying. It shut itself off overnight, refused to start this morning (bitched about hal.dll or somesuch), and I finally got it started in safe mode and it's now running chkdsk and finding a bunch of stuff it can't repair.

Irritiatingly it's not one of those that came with an OS disk--it's the sort that expects you to reimage it.

I'm pretty sure I have XP disks around here somewhere--just not the ones that built that machine. Grr. It's unlikely I'll lose much data or evene any apps, but I will lose a buttload of time and perhaps environments I'll need to reconfigure.

Gris - Mar 16, 2008 5:38:40 pm PDT #5172 of 25501

Hey. New board.

Ouch, ita. Do you think it's a dying drive, or some other problem?

§ ita § - Mar 16, 2008 6:04:09 pm PDT #5173 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm guessing it's a dying drive. I'm not sure what the right answer is here. I guess I'd replace the failing drive and restore the backup. Uh, which I don't have.

This is so not going to be fun. I have that uncharacteristic My Documents setup that I'm not even sure where it is. Ugh. Tedious.

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