I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.

Willow ,'First Date'


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§ ita § - May 09, 2008 4:49:58 am PDT #6125 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It doesn't recognise the nano as anything at all? You may be out of luck then.


sumi - May 09, 2008 4:56:03 am PDT #6126 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

Yeah, it sucks.


-t - May 09, 2008 5:49:07 am PDT #6127 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I don't think it's overfilled. I can see a good inch of space above the shredded paper.

Black & Decker recommends I just keep struggling with it or take it back. Sounds like it might be a known bug with this model. Thanks for trying, buffistas!

sumi, if you can get the file moved to the computer you want it (on a thumb drive or over the network, maybe) you should be able to import it into that library. I know I've done that with music files and it should work with video.


DCJensen - May 09, 2008 6:32:08 am PDT #6128 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Ouch:

Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain

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Within hours of its release, Microsoft's Service Pack 3 for Windows XP began drawing hundreds of complaints from users who claim the update is wreaking havoc on their PCs.

The problems with XP SP3, according to posters on Microsoft's Windows XP message board, range from spontaneous reboots to outright system crashes.

Some notes on the enhancements are listed, too:

The service pack should offer a number of enhancements over the current version of the OS, which Microsoft is phasing out after June 30th. It includes all updates issued since Windows XP Service Pack 2 was released in 2004, and some new elements.

Among them: A feature called Network Access Protection that's borrowed from the newer Windows Vista operating system. NAP automatically validates a computer's health, ensuring that it's free of bugs and viruses before allowing it access to a network.

Windows XP SP3 also includes improved "black hole" router detection -- a feature that automatically detects routers that are silently discarding packets. In XP SP3, the feature is turned on by default, according to Microsoft.

Additionally, Windows XP SP3 steals a page from Vista's product activation model, meaning that product keys for each copy of the operating system don't need to be entered during setup. The feature should prove popular with corporate IT managers, who often need to oversee hundreds or thousands of operating system installations.

Some users may balk at a feature in XP SP3 that prevents them from downgrading their browser from Internet Explorer 7 to the older IE 6 once the service pack has been installed. XP SP3 also won't install on systems running beta versions of the yet-to-be released IE 8.

I think I might do a fresh install on my XP machine...


§ ita § - May 09, 2008 6:33:17 am PDT #6129 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Maybe it's to make people happier with Vista.


amych - May 09, 2008 6:33:42 am PDT #6130 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I think I might do a fresh install on my XP machine...

Which flavor of linux are you thinking?


DCJensen - May 09, 2008 6:35:55 am PDT #6131 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I think I might do a fresh install on my XP machine...

Which flavor of linux are you thinking?

Well, dual-boot, maybe. Unbuntu seems popular...


§ ita § - May 09, 2008 6:37:28 am PDT #6132 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How did Ubuntu gain position from Red Hat? What changed?


DXMachina - May 09, 2008 6:38:45 am PDT #6133 of 25501
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

NAP automatically validates a computer's health, ensuring that it's free of bugs and viruses before allowing it access to a network.

Of course if your machine isn't free of viruses and such, networking stops, prompting a call to tech support that SP3 broke your machine.


DCJensen - May 09, 2008 6:39:45 am PDT #6134 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I'm not really sure. I've just been getting around to seriously giving Linux another go, and have notice places like eWeek making broad statements about Unbuntu being popular