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?

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

Are they ports that are extended to the case from a motherboard header, or are they ones on the backplane of the motherboard?

Both. But just for the heck of it, I opened up the case and switched the one connected with a cable to another available header. Now they are all working. Maybe. We'll see how long it lasts. Thanks.

And minutes after I wrote the post above, they stopped working. No warning. Nothing. Verrrry strange!

I want to use tivo.com to schedule a recording on my non-HD TiVo (it's not responding to the remote) but I can't work out how to have it not send to the primary TiVo. It tells me the name of the machine it's going to program, but that's not even the same as either of the names I have defined on the TiVo DVR Preferences page.

eta: Aha! There is more than one "record this episode" page. I found one with a DVR dropdown.

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

no, it's for my job. My office has 4 separate functions, each of which needs its own page and subpages. Also, my office's name has changed, so we're changing the general website name. Therefore these issues have come up.

so, we're looking at "honors.university.edu" or "www.university.edu/honors".

What's the deal with using the www or not?