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Connie Neil - Oct 15, 2008 9:47:54 am PDT #7891 of 25501
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tommyrot - Oct 15, 2008 9:51:32 am PDT #7892 of 25501
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 thought Microsoft had made another 6-month extension of XP's life.
Part of the issue is these cheap netbooks generally don't have the power for Vista, right? So MS will lose even more sales to Linux if they don't let XP be an option for these laptops.
Gudanov - Oct 15, 2008 9:53:50 am PDT #7893 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
My concern would be with SATA drivers, do recent version of XP have SATA support on install?
That said, my cheap laptop has Vista and has worked just fine even with 1GB of memory.
Jessica - Oct 15, 2008 9:54:44 am PDT #7894 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I know Dell will still give you the option to downgrade to XP - I imagine most of the other big names are too, at least for now.
Vortex - Oct 15, 2008 11:07:08 am PDT #7895 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Hivemind, I'm using Google maps. I don't want directions, i just want to plot multiple points on the map. Can I do that without the annoying purple lines?
Jon B. - Oct 15, 2008 11:13:56 am PDT #7896 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Yeah -- create a new map, right click on it and select "Add a placemark".
tommyrot - Oct 15, 2008 11:16:14 am PDT #7897 of 25501
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 just want to plot multiple points on the map.
Lemme guess - you're marking the places where you've buried your retirement money?
NoiseDesign - Oct 15, 2008 11:26:19 am PDT #7898 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
XP has had support for SATA for years.
bon bon - Oct 15, 2008 2:45:58 pm PDT #7899 of 25501
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
So, like a lot of people, apparently, Bloglines' flakiness is getting so bad that I'm switching to Google Reader. Is there any way to set the reader pane to show my new posts by feed, rather than by date?
Jessica - Oct 15, 2008 3:25:56 pm PDT #7900 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Bon bon, I'm not sure exactly what you mean.
ION, I have a question - ages ago, I downloaded JoinTogether on the suggestion of this thread to turn some 1-mp3-per-chapter audiobooks I have into single files. Even after downloading the upgrade, it's still hanging when I try to run it. (Pre-upgrade, it would hang on chapter 8/46, now it's hanging on chapter 32. So yes, an improvement, but still not actually working.)
Is there another piece of software out there that does this? I'm on a G5 running Tiger.