I seem to recall that there should be a way to downgrade for free, but I'm fuzzy on all the details.
I think so too, but I don't know how, having never done it.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
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Sean K - Apr 12, 2008 9:40:22 am PDT #5607 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
le nubian - Apr 12, 2008 9:44:55 am PDT #5608 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
DXM - well am I mixing it up? Might it be Foldershare and AVG? There was a crucial program that I couldn't use because of AVG.
Jon B. - Apr 12, 2008 9:45:55 am PDT #5609 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
McAfee is such a drain on my computer's resources that I have to get rid of it.
Tell me about it! Thanks to the conversation here, I've just switched over to AVG.
brenda m - Apr 12, 2008 10:00:38 am PDT #5610 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
AVG highly recommended. Brenda m, I know it's absolutely none of my business... but I recommend you invest half an hour installing AVG at some point. It's free. If you're using Windows and you haven't got any anti-virus software installed, you've probably already got something on there. Which isn't a problem, but if you shop online it can be troublesome.
Oh, you're not wrong. I do use Spybot and AdAware and a firewall, but I'll add this as soon as my machine is running again. (Blown power cable, not already hoist on my lazy petard, FTR.)
DXMachina - Apr 12, 2008 12:58:33 pm PDT #5611 of 25501
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
DXM - well am I mixing it up? Might it be Foldershare and AVG? There was a crucial program that I couldn't use because of AVG.
Not sure. Antivirus programs can occasionally flag valid software as viruses, which is why a lot of programs tell you to turn off antivirus software during installation. I just haven't seen it with BT. Is it possible you had a trial version of one of AVG's pay products one that had firewall and/or spyware features? I know Grisoft makes it hard to find the free version sometimes.
Here is a link with quick reviews of three different free antivirus products, AVG, Avast, and ClamWin: [link]
Gris - Apr 12, 2008 1:24:55 pm PDT #5612 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I just bought a new MacBook. After a series of problems with MacBook Pro and a discontinued AppleCare (due to my computer having both liquid AND extreme accidental damage. Oops.) it stopped accepting power today. So I bit the bullet.
The new Macbook is smaller, lighter, faster, and has twice the hard disk space of my old computer. I can handle this.
DCJensen - Apr 12, 2008 6:37:28 pm PDT #5613 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
t insert inevitable MacBook question from Daniel
So, whatcha doing with your old one?
t /inevitable MacBook question from Daniel
§ ita § - Apr 12, 2008 7:22:00 pm PDT #5614 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. I'm wondering about an iTunes server--what does that do to synching iPods? Do you have to connect the iPod to the server itself?
le nubian - Apr 12, 2008 7:26:38 pm PDT #5615 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
if you use a program like webdrive, it can load your server as another disk...
§ ita § - Apr 12, 2008 7:45:54 pm PDT #5616 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, since it's a machine on my internal network, mounting a drive should be little problem at all. I just want to be able to present the same iTunes library intelligently to my PC and my PowerBook, but now I wonder where I plug the hardware in to synchronise.