Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.

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§ ita § - Feb 08, 2007 8:18:36 am PST #570 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've been getting consistently good results with Firefox, Matt. I think I'm using RealPlayer.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 08, 2007 8:45:41 am PST #571 of 25496
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Thanks everyone! I'm pretty sure I've used the RealPlayer option for some attempts, but I can keep trying knowing that others have gotten intermittent connections.


Gudanov - Feb 08, 2007 8:59:16 am PST #572 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping

It appears that Linspire and Ubuntu are going to do a lot of sharing of features.

[link]

Pretty interesting (for a limited audience), especially the prospect of easily installing commercial software.


Gris - Feb 11, 2007 7:23:50 am PST #573 of 25496
Hey. New board.

Never mind! I found what I needed.


Pix - Feb 11, 2007 7:27:07 am PST #574 of 25496
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Thank you all for introducing me to Dream Host! I'm extremely happy with them already and have moved my old domain over and registered my new one. ND found a $97 off (!!) coupon code if you pay two years in advance, so I just got two years of hosting for $93! I'm very happy.


Jessica - Feb 11, 2007 9:06:04 am PST #575 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Sweet!

"Amazon Unbox on TiVo" will allow TiVo subscribers to purchase or rent videos from leading movie studios and television networks at Amazon Unbox and download them directly to their TiVo's "Now Playing List" to enjoy on their TV.

"Amazon Unbox on TiVo" is currently in beta testing among a select group of TiVo subscribers and will be available soon to broadband-connected Series2™ and Series3™ TiVo subscribers.


le nubian - Feb 11, 2007 10:09:54 am PST #576 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Okay, that is some good shit.


Jessica - Feb 11, 2007 1:15:03 pm PST #577 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

DH's computer has a weird problem -- it seems to be in denial over the existence of its built-in speakers.

With headphones plugged in, the audio works normally. Without headphones, there's no audio at all. The Sound preferences tell me that no settings exist for the selected device ("Digital Audio Out -- Built-in Audio" which is the only option listed), and the volume controls are grayed out.

Oddly, when the headphones are plugged in, the setting switches to "Line Out - Built-in Audio," but it's still the only option listed.

I know the internal speakers still work because when I restart the computer, it still bings.

There has to be some setting I'm overlooking, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it could be. Apple's support site only offers help for people who have plugged their speakers in incorrectly, not for people with no speakers at all.

[eta: I'm going to try the solution at the bottom of this page and report back. Seems like this is a known issue to users, if not to Apple.]

[eta2: fixed, though I don't know if the command-option-p-r thing helped any. I restarted a few more times and plugged and unplugged the speakers until "Digital Out" switched to "Internal Speakers" Very odd.]


DebetEsse - Feb 12, 2007 8:23:37 am PST #578 of 25496
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Getting a single tone during an iBook boot process is a Very Bad Thing, right?

Like, get it serviced bad?


Ailleann - Feb 12, 2007 8:31:22 am PST #579 of 25496
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

RIP, Clippy: [link]