Cell phone question: My POS RAZR phone likes to pretend it doesn't have a battery. It seems like if I taped the battery down inside the case, that would help. (There's some "give" when the battery is in place, and I'm guessing it can move far enough that the little electrodes or whatever aren't touching.) Am I crazy? Should I just put down the duct tape?
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Jesse - Mar 12, 2007 11:14:38 am PDT #852 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2007 11:16:44 am PDT #853 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.
The battery contact things are probably corroded.
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2007 11:37:27 am PDT #854 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.
In more Daylight Saving Time stuff....
Our phone system here is an automated menu thingie... it reset its time correctly by itself, as did our fax. I'm thinking that the time must be sent over the phone line, but my boss (who worked in the telecommunications industry years ago) doesn't thing that would happen.
But somehow these two devices knew to reset themselves, and neither is connected to the internet.
Jessica - Mar 12, 2007 11:39:34 am PDT #855 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Our office's DST snafu for today was that only the XP machines updated the time change correctly -- the people still running Windows2000 are all an hour behind. Fun!
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2007 11:43:42 am PDT #856 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.
We finally figured that our XP machines are all pulling their time from one of our W2k servers, which explains why none of our computers reset themselves.
DXMachina - Mar 12, 2007 12:03:24 pm PDT #857 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
We finally figured that our XP machines are all pulling their time from one of our W2k servers, which explains why none of our computers reset themselves.
Yeah, I have the same problem. What bugs is that I did update the time zone definition on our W2K servers, but they're still still insisting that standard time is in effect.
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2007 12:29:08 pm PDT #858 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.
Apparently there are bunches of registry settings that need to be changed.
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2007 12:33:43 pm PDT #859 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.
There's a tiny little crack of the plastic of my MacBook. (NNNOOOOOOOOO!!!) Anyway, there's a little strip that stick out, where my wrist rests. Anyone know what glues can be used on this plastic?
amych - Mar 12, 2007 12:35:00 pm PDT #860 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
We got a lot of hoodoo from someone labeled "senior IT management" (messages unsigned by a human, origin unknown to anyone actually in senior IT management) about how they were busily patching LOTS OF THINGS for the DST change. Followed by one marked PLEASE READ - ACTION REQUIRED, in which the proposed action was that we should reschedule our meetings if they showed up wrong.
I also have one coworker whose Notes account has been insisting for years that he's actually in Monrovia, Liberia. I forgot to ask him today if his calendar was right, unlike everyone else's, since Monrovia hasn't changed over yet.
DXMachina - Mar 12, 2007 12:50:56 pm PDT #861 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Apparently there are bunches of registry settings that need to be changed.
Yeah, it's all about pointing the Windows Time Service at an external time source instead of the system clock. Simple in theory, but it's all about editing the registry by hand. Fortunately tomorrow is patch Tuesday, so I have to fiddle with the machines anyway.