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

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amych - Sep 11, 2008 5:45:24 am PDT #7640 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

The import settings moved -- they're on the front page of the prefs now where it asks you what to do with CDs, instead of buried on the advanced tab (which IMO is a good thing, but disconcerting if you knew where to look before). No idea about the arrow thingy since I never realized it was there before.


megan walker - Sep 11, 2008 6:45:10 am PDT #7641 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

There's still no way to delete unused genre categories, right?

Seriously, did a 19-year-old club kid pick those?


omnis_audis - Sep 12, 2008 10:01:25 am PDT #7642 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

new iPhone update. One new feature that is cool and scary at the same time:

Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts

Ya, 10 is a lot of "damn I'm too drunk to drunk dial", and good if some asshat steals your phone, so they might not get all your data. But, wow. Kinda like standing on the edge of a cliff... with a pretty good rope.


Laga - Sep 12, 2008 10:03:45 am PDT #7643 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Kinda like standing on the edge of a cliff... with a pretty good rope.

whee!

{I'm just envious 'cause I don't have an iphone)


amych - Sep 12, 2008 10:51:21 am PDT #7644 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts

It's a pretty common feature on business smartphones, and one of the big reasons the first gen iPhone was slower than they hoped for business uptake was that it was too easy (at least from the CIO pov) to lose corporate-owned data on a lost or stolen phone. Not really designed for your personal convenience, or your drunk-dialing, but if Apple can spin it that way, they will...


DCJensen - Sep 12, 2008 1:44:49 pm PDT #7645 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

At least it's a choice, not a mandatory feature.

Customizing the default would be nice.


§ ita § - Sep 13, 2008 12:56:41 pm PDT #7646 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Anyone here have a Blu-Ray player? Any recommendations? I have a region-free DVD player--will I be able to still be region free with Blu-Ray? Or do I hang onto my current one too?

I'm in no rush to buy. Just starting the looking around process.


Kevin - Sep 13, 2008 1:46:35 pm PDT #7647 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

Liese, install VMware Server (free) and XP.

The new iphone update has finally fixed crashing Safari and Apps for me. Phone runs quicker, too.


Liese S. - Sep 13, 2008 2:07:09 pm PDT #7648 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ah. I failed to give an update, eh? Turns out my griping at the universe was effective, because my vendor turned up a downloadable copy of the 2008 Quickbooks I needed for, like, two hours. I got in right before it sold out, and even managed to upgrade to the 3 license version for only $99. So I'm good (presumably, once I get the thing actually downloaded; I spent most of that day wrestling with antiquated fax equipment to get my registration reauthorized.) now and am very happy. Thanks for the advice, though.


sumi - Sep 13, 2008 5:30:50 pm PDT #7649 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

Isn't it supposedly better to buy some playstation thingy over a blu-ray player? (Being uninformed about game things I have no idea which one is the one you should get.) The reason has something to do with updates which the gaming thing does and the regular bluray player will not.