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.
Mighty fine shindig.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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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?
Dana - Mar 16, 2008 2:53:36 pm PDT #5167 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
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.
§ 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.
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2008 8:20:56 pm PDT #5174 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yup, that's it. She's no longer recognised by the BIOS. Which is even more tedious than I'd thought--I figured the essential files would be corrupt, not that the whole thing would be kerfluey. It's a pretty new drive too, now that I think about it.
I should have kept records.
Pix - Mar 16, 2008 8:21:37 pm PDT #5175 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
Fuck. I need help. My laptop was working fine this morning, but now the screen won't turn on and the harddrive keeps spinning up over and over. Am I completely screwed? Can anyone help me? I have at least two months of un-backed up data that would really hurt to lose. (This is a new hard drive, btw, ND installed it for me in January.)