Yeah, I had a cheapo VirginMobile phone, and the battery was on its last legs. I was gonna buy a new $50 phone, but then I saw this one was only $50 more....
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Buffy: Just how I remember it.
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tommyrot - Mar 08, 2007 8:40:58 am PST #788 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Theodosia - Mar 08, 2007 8:45:42 am PST #789 of 25496
'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"
You know what's holding me back? I have the Snapper, and it's just the right size for a certain zippered compartment in my pocketbook, so I can always lay my hands on it and easily get at it if I'm busy walking around or something. A larger phone would upset the convenience....
tommyrot - Mar 08, 2007 8:47:41 am PST #790 of 25496
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, this one is about the same size as my last one. It fits OK in my pocket (except sometimes buttons get accidentally pressed when it's in there).
tommyrot - Mar 08, 2007 9:12:48 am PST #791 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, I figured out how to scroll rapidly on my VM phone. That makes this thing more useable for b.org.
Sean K - Mar 08, 2007 9:19:55 am PST #792 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm very irritated. I can't get b.org on my brand new RAZR, and that's part of why I decided to pay the extra $20 a month for unlimited internets access on my phone.
I'm really baffled as to why your phone can load the page, but mine can't. Is there something I can do to my phone to change that?
tommyrot - Mar 08, 2007 9:28:00 am PST #793 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm not sure how cellphone browsers work. I think some cell services do some pre-processing of web pages (like, say, turning tables into inline text) but I'm not positive about this.
esse - Mar 08, 2007 9:46:35 am PST #794 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
So, I have this external hard drive, just a small 60 gig portable. And I set up the file system in Windows, and all the permissions to be open access. When I move it to my Mac, though, it says I only have read access, even though I deliberately set it up so that everyone could read and write. What's going on? Is there a way to change this that doesn't involve wiping the drive, because that is an ass-pain, last-ditch option here. But I need to be able to write to the thing.
Tom Scola - Mar 08, 2007 9:51:31 am PST #795 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Macs can only mount NTFS drives read-only.
This [link] is supposed to provide read-write support, but it's very new, and I don't know of anyone who has experience using it.
esse - Mar 08, 2007 9:53:30 am PST #796 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Man. I knew I was missing something obvious.
But linux can mount read-write, even though it doesn't like it, right?
What's the ideal mount state for an external drive, to be able to rwx in linux, osx, and windows? FAT32?
Tom Scola - Mar 08, 2007 9:54:54 am PST #797 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
FAT32?
Unfortunately, yes.