Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.

'Out Of Gas'


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-t - May 09, 2008 4:56:09 pm PDT #6172 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Shredder update: I took it back and got another just like it. Upon inspection, it appears that the bin starts overflowing when it looks a quarter full from the front, so "overfilled" probably was the right diagnosis.

Now that I know that, I should be able to avoid doing it again...

In related news: shredding CDs is pretty fun.


le nubian - May 10, 2008 1:59:07 pm PDT #6173 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

question regarding airport express/extreme ...

in my home I have the cable modem in one room (upstairs) and a printer I'd like to network downstairs. Clearly they are not attached to the same computer.

Should I get an airport extreme for the room upstairs to initiate the wireless and then get an airport express for the downstairs office that has the printer?


Gris - May 10, 2008 2:23:49 pm PDT #6174 of 25501
Hey. New board.

Oops double post. My full answer is down a ways..


Jessica - May 10, 2008 2:23:57 pm PDT #6175 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

You'll need some kind of wireless router connected to the modem, but it doesn't have to be an Airport. I have a Linksys router and an Airport Express functioning as a print server and they talk to each other just fine.


Gris - May 10, 2008 2:24:20 pm PDT #6176 of 25501
Hey. New board.

Should I get an airport extreme for the room upstairs to initiate the wireless and then get an airport express for the downstairs office that has the printer?

That's what I'd do. Assuming you can't move the cable modem to the same room as the printer and plug both into an Extreme.


le nubian - May 10, 2008 3:23:27 pm PDT #6177 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

excellent. thank you both. I appreciate the responses.


Jesse - May 10, 2008 4:06:38 pm PDT #6178 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, here's a really minor issue. I'm used to the websites I've been to recently still being in the drop-down bar when I restart IE. And yet? NSM here with the new computer. The setting seem like they should be there. Any ideas?


Sean K - May 12, 2008 8:00:14 am PDT #6179 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I just upgraded my MacBook from 2Gb memory to 4Gb. POW!


Wolfram - May 12, 2008 10:30:17 am PDT #6180 of 25501
Visilurking

I just got an Ipod.

I finally get it.

That is all.


Gris - May 12, 2008 2:47:12 pm PDT #6181 of 25501
Hey. New board.

The ability to edit my personal RSS feed on here was so exciting and spoiling (I read SO much better on a light grey background than a white one) that I installed Stylish on my Firefox. Now I'm catching myself writing custom sheets for a lot of pages I use regularly. Nice!

The TWOP recaps are MUCH more readable on a gray background with a better font. Which is good, since last week's GG recap is 36 pages long.