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Gudanov - Apr 29, 2008 7:06:01 am PDT #5956 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

I'm not sure what is going on. The workgroup setting is correct. You might try setting..

domain master = yes
preferred master = yes

...to wrest control of VELVET from Vista and see if things straighten themselves out. It might take a minute or so after re-initing. Again, I'm not sure what is up, so this is just a guess.


§ ita § - Apr 29, 2008 7:37:01 am PDT #5957 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks. I'm making those changes and heading off to work.


Glamcookie - Apr 29, 2008 8:19:20 am PDT #5958 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

If I wanted to do a paper on how the iPhone was designed, is there documentation out there or is it classified? I'd like to see prototypes, info about the process...


tommyrot - Apr 29, 2008 8:20:56 am PDT #5959 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.

Hmm... didn't Wired do a big article a while back?

eta: This is it: [link]

Might be a good place to start....


omnis_audis - Apr 29, 2008 3:22:16 pm PDT #5960 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

neat trick I just accidently came across in Apple's Address Book. If you hold down the option button while arrowing down the list, if the contact is in a group, it will highlight. I found it very cool. I thought I'd share.


libkitty - Apr 29, 2008 7:21:30 pm PDT #5961 of 25501
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

I spent 4.5 hours last night trying to set up my DSL. This was not helped by my ISP giving me the wrong %^&* password. Anyway, I've now got it working if I plug the ethernet cord directly into my laptop, but I can't get it to work with the airport. I used the airport before with my dialup just fine, but now, most of the time it doesn't recognize that the airport is there at all, much less connect to it. I'm using a MacBook with Tiger. Any suggestions?


Jessica - Apr 30, 2008 8:55:40 am PDT #5962 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I really have no idea what the appropriate thread for this announcement is - could be here, could be Natter, could be B&A:

NBC is auctioning off post-production & office equipment from Passions this Saturday.

UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - April 21, 2008 - NBC Universal Television DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group in partnership with Premiere Props, is holding an industrial auction featuring millions of dollars worth of high-end post production equipment from Universal Media Studios' daytime drama "Passions."

A wide variety of post production equipment, printers, copiers, sewing machines, power tools, saws, electric production golf and utility carts, an electric forklift, architectural copier, drafting tables and much more from "Passions," will be made available to the public.

Own the Xerox machine Passions scripts were copied on! The disc duplicator tower that once dubbed Passions dailies!

Anyway, it made me laugh.


Tom Scola - Apr 30, 2008 4:09:07 pm PDT #5963 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

AT&T Providing Free Wi-Fi Access to iPhone Users.

W00T!!


§ ita § - Apr 30, 2008 9:27:28 pm PDT #5964 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm kinda jealous of you AT&T iPhone people right now, but I still burn with anger at the crap customer service I got from them. So it's all good.

Gud, Blaise is still in the MSHOME workgroup. I guess since stuff works and all I'll leave it be, but it does rankle.


Gudanov - May 01, 2008 5:14:40 am PDT #5965 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

I'm stumped, I tried to replicate the problem on one of my computers but it kept switching workgroups just fine.

You might try Ubuntu Forums there are a lot of people there who know a lot more than I do about samba.

If you have a Mac in the workgroup working well, you might check out the Mac's smb.conf file. I'm pretty sure Macs must have one.