Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.

Tara ,'First Date'


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sumi - Jan 15, 2009 10:05:13 am PST #8860 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

Thanks - I will try that.


sumi - Jan 15, 2009 10:07:17 am PST #8861 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

Ah, no - that didn't work.


sumi - Jan 15, 2009 10:48:21 am PST #8862 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

My nano ejects as soon as it connects. Could I have too much stuff on my itunes or something?

However, I uninstalled a useless "communcator" thing that was my university-centric and suddenly my computer is working much, much faster.

I'm tempted to restart and then see if I can get nano to update manually.


Vortex - Jan 15, 2009 12:42:51 pm PST #8863 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Hey, can someone tell me the difference between a web address that is "www.mywebsite/mystuff" and "www.mystuff.mywebsite" ? Is one more desirable than the other? if so, why?

We're debating renaming my program's website, and I'd like to be able to respond intelligently. The people I'm working with are idiots not very web savvy, so I'm trying to explain why at least some of the changes that they want are stupid. Two people are arguing about this difference, one thinks that mystuff.mywebsite "looks better", and I want to know the difference.


§ ita § - Jan 15, 2009 1:01:19 pm PST #8864 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hey, can someone tell me the difference between a web address that is "www.mywebsite/mystuff" and "www.mystuff.mywebsite" ? Is one more desirable than the other? if so, why?

Aesthetically, when I put a subdomain up I never put www before it. But that's beside the point. I think subdomains (mystuff in your second example) are useful when you have significantly separate groupings under your domain umbrella. So most of my domains don't have subdomains, but provocateuse is broken down by picture topic, because maybe people who want barefoot don't care about the skirts or spectacles.

But they're organised in my file structure exactly the same way they'd be if I'd opted for provocateuse.com/barefoot. But you could separate them more. Even put them on different servers.

Now, if your only content is mystuff, I'd toss it entirely and just go with mywebsite--is it?


askye - Jan 15, 2009 2:31:25 pm PST #8865 of 25501
Thrive to spite them

Omnis, thanks for the information about the bluetooth headset option, but I decided to go with a wireless headset that had noise cancelling headset. After a couple days of listening to my downstairs neighbors I'm missing the ability to drown them out.


Jessica - Jan 15, 2009 3:32:33 pm PST #8866 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm reprogramming my Harmony remote for the new TV, and suddenly the software is telling me "None of my devices can change the channel." Anyone know how I can convince it that my cable box in fact DOES have that function?


Jessica - Jan 15, 2009 4:02:42 pm PST #8867 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Aha - I'd mistakenly left "Watch TV" in DVR mode even though I don't have a working DVR at the moment (and already deleted Tivo from my device list). Once I switched to "Watch TV (Cable or Antenna)" the cable box popped up on the list.


Jon B. - Jan 15, 2009 4:10:01 pm PST #8868 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

All the USB ports (save one pair) on my 'puter have mysteriously stopped working. If I plug a device into it, I get nothing, not even an error message. I already tried going into device manager and removing all the USB stuff to let WindowsXP reinstall it all on reboot, but it made no difference. Any ideas?


NoiseDesign - Jan 15, 2009 4:15:00 pm PST #8869 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

Are they ports that are extended to the case from a motherboard header, or are they ones on the backplane of the motherboard? If it's ones from the MB are working the case ones are not check to make sure you didn't have a ribbon cable come loose from the header.