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

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Gudanov - Oct 16, 2008 5:29:24 am PDT #7914 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

Interestingly, unlike XP, Ubuntu 8.04 installed without a hiccup.

Ubuntu 8.04 was by far the easiest install I've ever done of an OS.

Sorry about your router Cashmere, whenever my old Linksys router lost it, I unplugged it and my cable modem for about a minute, then plugged in the cable modem and let it get a connection, then plugged in the router. That usually did the trick until the router stopped working entirely. I replaced it not too long ago with a $30 Netgear router and haven't had a problem since. I probably just go unlucky, but when I got that router I first of all had to return two others, the first one dropped connections about every 10 minutes, the second one started smoking after about a half hour of use, and the one that worked would still lose its connections every week or so. Wireless was problematic as well.


bon bon - Oct 16, 2008 8:44:37 am PDT #7915 of 25501
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Thanks for the google reader assistance -- it doesn't quite do what I'm looking for, but maybe I'll just re-sort my feeds to approximate it.

So wtf is up with bloglines anyway? Besides being down that one day, all sorts of things that were working have gotten all wonky. I started thinking of switching to google reader even before bon bon's post. I'd rather not (just because I'm lazy) - is there any word on wtf is up with bloglines?

When I searchedall I could find were people bitching about how flaky it is, and how support and the forums are useless. It's super annoying that bloglines doesn't communicate when/why they're down. This was the tipping point for me: [link]


tommyrot - Oct 16, 2008 8:49:10 am PDT #7916 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.

This was the tipping point for me: [link]

Heh. Thanks.

It's super annoying that bloglines doesn't communicate when/why they're down.

Well, sometimes they have that plumber guy, when they're down for scheduled maintenance....

Say, you don't suppose that's Joe the plumber, do you?

Yeah, I'll probably end up switching to google reader....


le nubian - Oct 16, 2008 9:29:03 am PDT #7917 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

bon bon, I am dying with the twitters that are in other languages - and complaining about bloglines!

bloglines fucked up my feeds about 2-3 years ago and I moved to google reader.


omnis_audis - Oct 16, 2008 9:34:17 am PDT #7918 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Looks like it's not good to be "Joe the Plumber" [link]
- no contractors license
- never served as an apprentice
- owes back taxes
- has two tax lien
- claims to be in the union, but no record of it

oops.


le nubian - Oct 16, 2008 9:35:47 am PDT #7919 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I also heard the really good gossip that he might be related to Charles Keating.


omnis_audis - Oct 16, 2008 9:37:56 am PDT #7920 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Oops, sorry, I didn't mean to post that in tech thread, meant it for Bitches... most curious.


tommyrot - Oct 16, 2008 12:47:22 pm PDT #7921 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.

NASA: Hubble Space Telescope's Reboot Going Well

NASA's long-distance effort to revive the ailing Hubble Space Telescope is going well, with the orbital observatory on track to resume science observations by week's end, agency officials said Thursday.

The two-day repair began early Wednesday as NASA engineers began commanding Hubble from the ground to switch to a backup system after its main data relay channel failed last month. But remote control fix is tricky, requiring systems to power up after nearly two decades of hibernation.

Wow, booting up hardware that's been sitting dormant in space for 20 years....


Ailleann - Oct 16, 2008 1:18:54 pm PDT #7922 of 25501
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Has anyone else been having issues with their Tivo lately? Mine has been recording reruns of TDS and Colbert that are clearly not on the To-Do List.


sarameg - Oct 16, 2008 3:23:51 pm PDT #7923 of 25501

Wow, booting up hardware that's been sitting dormant in space for 20 years....

People were a little bit...stressed. (The actual work took 2 days, but the testing and planning took much longer.) But that's what a side B is for! And btw, it worked. Science operations are in fact resuming tonight. Yay data!