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§ ita § - Jun 02, 2008 9:21:18 pm PDT #6432 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What's the OS X version of "reconnect at logon" for a network drive?


NoiseDesign - Jun 02, 2008 9:27:26 pm PDT #6433 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

ita, you need to add the drive to your startup items. In the users pane of the system prefs you can select startup items for each user. Just add the volumes you want mounted to the list using the "+" button.


§ ita § - Jun 03, 2008 1:13:50 am PDT #6434 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks, ND.


le nubian - Jun 03, 2008 2:40:51 am PDT #6435 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

okay y'all...

I just received a beta invitation to dropbox -

[link]

2 gigs of storage space free that can sync between computers (mac & windows) and you can access your files on the web.

when a person joins up, they get 10 invitations. is anyone here interested in this and if so would they use their beta invitations to invite others? I only have 5 or fewer left and we could get as many people signed up as interested if we use some of our beta to help others out.

use my profile addy if you are interested in an invitation.


tommyrot - Jun 03, 2008 6:08:46 am PDT #6436 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.

Random thing I just learned: In Javascript, there is a value "NaN", which means "Not a Number". There's a isNaN() function to test for this.

How come I didn't know this?

Someday, someone should write a book on the philosophy of Null, empty strings, NaN, #error, etc....


Tom Scola - Jun 03, 2008 6:16:44 am PDT #6437 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

NaN.

It's what you get when you do various kinds of illegal mathematical operations, such as 0/0.


tommyrot - Jun 03, 2008 6:20:53 am PDT #6438 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.

Yeah. Apparently in Javascript you can get NaN by assigning something non-numeric to a Number object....

A few weeks back I read something in wikipedia that some think there should be more than one kind of Null....


tommyrot - Jun 03, 2008 7:00:05 am PDT #6439 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.

OK, a Javascript question (instead of just ramblings): Let's say I have

oJTT.all(19)

where oJTT is an HTML table. Now let's say that in oJTT there's a row that begins

<TR class=stdweekrow id=19 style="DISPLAY: block" name="19" code="19">

then oJTT.all(19) should return that row, right?

My reference book shows syntax like

all[10]

which should return the 11th element of the HTML, but not something like

all(10)

So, is

all(19)

similar to

all.tags(19)

, but without the "tags" it defaults to looking for the 'name' or 'code' tag?


Torque - Jun 03, 2008 7:06:28 am PDT #6440 of 25501
Bad Wolf

Hivemind Mac Question:

So I have a Macbook w/ a CD stuck in the drive (could be because I dropped the damn thing on pavement =( )

I've tried holding down eject when restarting. I've tried the credit card/holding down the door with a thin knife trick. Does anyone else have any suggestions. I really don't want to take it to the Apple Store.


Laga - Jun 03, 2008 5:52:05 pm PDT #6441 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

pretty!