Captain was looking for a pilot. I found a husband. Seemed to work out.

Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'


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Sean K - Aug 19, 2008 5:43:23 am PDT #7449 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I should take pictures of my new job and submit. It's not all I.T. wiring, but equally harrowing in places.

This is one reason I'm a tiny bit bummed I've been promoted from Crew Lead to Associate Designer for Halloween this year -- my crew's cable runs looked better than everybody else's. The higher-ups even said as much.

Of course, we burned through probably three times the zip ties of any other team in order to make that happen....


Jon B. - Aug 19, 2008 9:13:56 am PDT #7450 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Except that I used to have a 640Gb hard drive partitioned into two equal size drives of ~320Gb... and now I only seem to see one ~320Gb (which shows 288Gb in Windows Explorer, but IIRC that's normal)

Was there data on the second partition? If not, you should take a look in Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Computer Management >> Disc management And see if there's a partition that's not active.

If there was data on the second partition, then go straight back to MicroCenter.


Theodosia - Aug 19, 2008 10:38:23 am PDT #7451 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Thanks, Jon! I tried and it's stubbornly telling me that it only has 320. So there'll be a trip back to the store in just a little while longer....


erikaj - Aug 19, 2008 11:37:15 am PDT #7452 of 25501
Always Anti-fascist!

My antivirus detected a thing it called a POSSIBLE_HFIRM(or something like that) but it couldn't remove it(I've got the company working on it, too,ftr) Computer seems fine...but I've just been through Virus Hell...how much should I be concerned about this?


omnis_audis - Aug 19, 2008 7:46:09 pm PDT #7453 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Of course, we burned through probably three times the zip ties of any other team in order to make that happen....
zip ties are cheap, awesome cable runs are priceless. Seems like a good deal to me. Especially where safety is involved.


NoiseDesign - Aug 19, 2008 8:07:01 pm PDT #7454 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

I'll be buying extra zip ties this year.


Sean K - Aug 19, 2008 8:25:26 pm PDT #7455 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

We caught a bit of flak for going through so many zip ties. Of course, part of the problem was that we lost a bag for a few days, which caused Drew to have to make an emergency zip tie run that turned out to be unnecessary....


evil jimi - Aug 19, 2008 11:56:52 pm PDT #7456 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Rockbox; it turned my new Sansa e260 mp3 player from a pretty good value unit, into a goddamn-fricken-fracken-fantastic value unit. The only reason I've avoided buying anything like that is not the money but the lack of support for FLAC and other decent lossless formats but it turns out the only impediment was software and Rockbox fixes that. I can now play FLAC, APE, SHN, or a host of other lossless formats. I can now also play some simple games on the thing. :)

Works on certain types of iPods, as well as a host of other brand portable music players.


sumi - Aug 20, 2008 8:02:59 am PDT #7457 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

Using duct tape to stick telephone lines out of the way shouldn't cause any problems, right?


Sean K - Aug 20, 2008 8:20:42 am PDT #7458 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Well, to your paint, maybe. It shouldn't cause a problem with your line. Tack-in cable stays would be better, and pretty cheap.