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Sue - Jan 16, 2009 5:22:12 am PST #8877 of 25501
hip deep in pie

On-the-go playlists are one created on the iPod by holding down the centre button for a few seconds.


sumi - Jan 16, 2009 5:37:37 am PST #8878 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

I think I have it figured out now. (i.e., it did what I wanted - allowed me to sync manually and whew - I was afraid it was broken somehow.)


Vortex - Jan 16, 2009 5:39:46 am PST #8879 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

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

well, that would make sense in a school that had some sort of consistency in their web presence and design. Here, not so much.


Jon B. - Jan 16, 2009 6:14:09 am PST #8880 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I'd try clearing CMOS.

How do you do that? Is that the same as resetting the BIOS?

After that, one of the things I like to do in these sort of cases is to boot a Linux live CD. Then I can determine if it is a software or hardware problem.

I think I've already got an Ubuntu CD. Would booting from that and seeing if the various USB plugs recognize my flash drive do? I haven't played around much with Linux so i don't know if the default Ubuntu bootup would normally recognize flash drives...


Gudanov - Jan 16, 2009 6:24:49 am PST #8881 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

How do you do that? Is that the same as resetting the BIOS?

Well, it does mean resetting the BIOS, but I don't know if you mean going into the BIOS setup and telling it to reset or if you mean using a jumper and the motherboard. There should be jumper on the motherboard that will clear the CMOS memory (where the BIOS lives), setting back to factory settings. The MB manual should tell you how to do it if you look up the jumper settings.

The Ubuntu CD will work great. It should recognize and open a flash drive with no problem if USB is working.


Vortex - Jan 16, 2009 6:28:59 am PST #8882 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Just got an answer back from the webguy on the mystuff.myuniversity vs myuniversity/mystuff. Of course, the answer was "myuniveristy/mystuff would be easier because then I wouldn't have to create a new domain". At least he's honest.


Jon B. - Jan 16, 2009 7:19:37 am PST #8883 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I don't know if you mean going into the BIOS setup and telling it to reset

That's what I meant. There's definitely an option in the BIOS that restores it to factory settings. Will that do it? I'm not sure if there's a jumper on the mobo.


Jessica - Jan 16, 2009 7:24:17 am PST #8884 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I can haz HD cable! BSG IN HD TONIGHT!!!!!


megan walker - Jan 16, 2009 7:31:04 am PST #8885 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Speaking of which, never fear Tom, we will have BSG tonight (and FNL).


Tom Scola - Jan 16, 2009 7:37:56 am PST #8886 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Huh. I don't watch either show.