Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.

Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


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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.


Jon B. - Jan 15, 2009 4:44:18 pm PST #8870 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

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.


Jon B. - Jan 15, 2009 4:48:32 pm PST #8871 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

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


§ ita § - Jan 15, 2009 4:58:20 pm PST #8872 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Vortex - Jan 15, 2009 8:06:06 pm PST #8873 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

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?


Sophia Brooks - Jan 16, 2009 4:05:58 am PST #8874 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

At my university, only separate schools have the school.university.edu, and the departments have university.edu/department.