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'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Pix - Feb 28, 2007 3:58:59 pm PST #751 of 25496
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

I think Raq said something about Zazzle.

t still not here


DCJensen - Mar 01, 2007 3:56:55 am PST #752 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

Take a wok on the wild side: [link]


Deena - Mar 01, 2007 7:07:28 am PST #753 of 25496
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Jilli, Zazzle has stuff that Cafepress doesn't, but for black messenger bags, you want Spreadshirt [link]


Laga - Mar 01, 2007 9:13:19 am PST #754 of 25496
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Ooh they have charcoal grey too. Based on my experience, anything's gotta be better than Cafe Press.


Jessica - Mar 01, 2007 9:15:00 am PST #755 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

This is from last week, but it made me laugh:

CUPERTINO, CA—Only a month after the much-heralded announcement of the iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that his engineers were already working around-the-clock on the touchscreen smartphone's far-superior replacement. "We looked at [the iPhone's] innovative user interface, the paradigm-shifting voicemail, the best-in-class mobile browser, and we realized we could make all that seem ridiculously outdated by the time the product becomes available to customers in June," said Jobs, who described the project as "Apple reinventing the iPhone." "When the second-generation iPhone comes out this fall, we want iPhone users to feel not just jealous, but downright foolish for owning such laughably primitive technology." Jobs also hinted that the second iPhone device would not be compatible with existing Mac computers, third-party peripherals, or any future Apple products.


Typo Boy - Mar 01, 2007 1:29:20 pm PST #756 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Outlook was corrupted so I uninstalled it and reinstalled it.

Now when I try to open it it is telling me that files are missing, and that it can't open the outlook window. So I guess I need to recreate the default outlook files in the right directories.

T Solved

Used mail to figure out where outlook was searching for outlook.pst - apparently the user had moved this to her home directory and then deleted it.


§ ita § - Mar 02, 2007 8:38:14 am PST #757 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have bluetooth questions.

Reading up on it informs me that there's a master/slave hierarchy, with each master controlling up to seven slaves. This control involves being a source of reference for band-hopping (to reduce interference), etc.

My phone can only connect with one bluetooth device at a time. My computers can connect with more (I mean, the mouse doesn't give out when I'm transferring a file from my phone or PDA), and I'm assuming this isn't via slicing.

So, my computers can be masters, and my phone can only be a slave. In a multi-master-capable piconet (two computers and a phone)...well, am I even forming a piconet at this stage?

Also, what's the overhead in being able to control more than one device simultaneously? Will a phone readily be able to use Bluetooth to connect to my Mac and a headset at the same time?


Consuela - Mar 02, 2007 2:04:11 pm PST #758 of 25496
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So, what's an .est file? Or, more precisely, what do I need to read it?

I have a contractor who sent me some maps (I think) as .est files because they claimed they couldn't PDF them, and I don't have whatever it is I need to read them.

Anyone have any suggestions?


Gris - Mar 02, 2007 2:10:59 pm PST #759 of 25496
Hey. New board.

Possibly a "Microsoft Streets and Trips" file? That's the only thing that seems like it might be a map, though it seems like a very home-oriented file, not really for professional use. Information found here: [link]

As for what you need to read that, if it's what it is, MS Streets and Trips is $40 without GPS. I find it very hard to believe they can't find a way to make a PDF out of it, using one of those PDF print drivers that I know must be out there, if nothing else.


amych - Mar 02, 2007 2:11:43 pm PST #760 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

So, what's an .est file?

Filext.com gives three options [link] of which the most likely looks like Microsoft Streets and Trips.

eta: x-post!