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DCJensen - Jun 25, 2008 2:56:54 pm PDT #6792 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I was really pulling for the special adapter a company was working on about 10 years ago that would have let me take the back door off my K1000 and make it digital. (or other SLR)

I wonder whatever happened to that? It must have run into price/performance and other issues.


§ ita § - Jun 25, 2008 4:51:55 pm PDT #6793 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My cordless phone is for crap. I think it's about time I stop trying to leverage my investment in Uniden's 5.8GHz technology and start from scratch--but where is the market now? What's clean and crisp tech? I have no interest in an answering machine--I just need something with expandable cordless handsets. Anything else that's default these days is probably enough.


Tom Scola - Jun 25, 2008 5:08:46 pm PDT #6794 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I gave up a long time ago, and just got a really long cord.


megan walker - Jun 25, 2008 5:25:25 pm PDT #6795 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

So I'll only say this (and it may drive Tom mad) all that stuff about aperature and F-stops was really valuable to learn, and then really easy to forget as taking pictures became more instinctive.

I totally agree. I had to really think about what was what to explain it because I don't think about it now.


§ ita § - Jun 25, 2008 11:35:21 pm PDT #6796 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does Thunderbird hide all of its attachments? Eudora had a folder with them all sitting right out there so I could image index and copy and paste them without going through the app. I can't work out how to do that with Mozilla.


le nubian - Jun 26, 2008 2:29:57 am PDT #6797 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I think you need to set preferences in Thunderbird and pick the folder you want to use for downloads.


Miracleman - Jun 26, 2008 4:23:43 am PDT #6798 of 25501
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

Me stupid monkey.

I'm trying to add Kerfuffle Bunny to youllallpay.com. I want it to be its own separate thing, i.e. if you go to youllallpay.com/kb you will not get You'll All Pay the dormant blog but Kerfuffle Bunny the comic.

I have a directory on the server labeled "kb", and I have WordPress and a comics plug-in, but I don't know how to install them so that if you go to youllallpay.com you'll get the blog as it is and if you go to youllallpay.com/kb you will get the spiffy new comic. I don't know where to install them, if I need to install wordpress to the kb directory since I already have wordpress on my server space and if I don't need to install wordpress anew to the kb directory how I configure wordpress so it leaves You'll All Pay alone and adds Kerfuffle Bunny...

I'm probably babbling.

Any insights?


DCJensen - Jun 26, 2008 4:48:00 am PDT #6799 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

What folder is it under?

I don't know if Wordpress is any different than some other sites I've used, but if there is a HTML folder on your account, it would have to be under that.

Hmm.


Miracleman - Jun 26, 2008 4:51:02 am PDT #6800 of 25501
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

No, there's no HTML folder.

I don't know how to explain it. GARGH, I'm a doof.


Gudanov - Jun 26, 2008 4:51:37 am PDT #6801 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

You'll need a database to use Wordpress. Once the database is configured, Wordpress is amazingly easy to install.

If you don't have a database, then you're SOL with Wordpress.