I love my wee remote.
This takes me to a place of "I love my wiimote". Which I do.
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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amych - Mar 16, 2007 1:33:47 pm PDT #896 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
aurelia - Mar 16, 2007 1:46:01 pm PDT #897 of 25496
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I think my G3 Powerbook is nearing the end of it's lifespan (7 years is a good run, right?).
I've all but decided on the black MacBook (120GB hard drive). Is it worth an additional $175 to upgrade the memory from 1GB to 2GB?
amych - Mar 16, 2007 2:02:48 pm PDT #898 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Is it worth an additional $175 to upgrade the memory from 1GB to 2GB?
Upgrading to 2GB memory is absolutely worth it (but shop around a bit to see if you can find a better price -- I'm not sure what the going rate is, but Apple's memory upgrades are notoriously overpriced.)
Pix - Mar 16, 2007 2:16:39 pm PDT #899 of 25496
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Oh trust me, she's heard the excuse. We still don't have a new TV. She also doesn't see how a 50" TV would be SO much better than the one we have.
This is why I subscribe to this thread. Turn my back for a second and pricey electronics conspiracies crop up.
tommyrot - Mar 16, 2007 4:23:55 pm PDT #900 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.
Is it worth an additional $175 to upgrade the memory from 1GB to 2GB?
I'd say it depends on what apps you run. I have 2GB on my MacBook - most of the time I have two-thirds of that free. Currently I'm using 19.1% of the available memory. But when I use Parallels and run XP on top of OS X, suddenly I'm using 2/3 of the memory. Running XP and Linux at the same time with Parallels I come close to using all the memory. Of course, virtual machines are notorious memory hogs. I suppose if you run a good graphics program the extra memory would come in handy too. Definitely get the 2GB if you're gonna be editing video.
Gris - Mar 17, 2007 6:02:02 pm PDT #901 of 25496
Hey. New board.
So, Opera users (that is... ita). I'm trying this thingy out, as Camino is starting to show its age (it hasn't seen an engine upgrade in a while) and if I'm going to try something new, why not try Opera? So far, it seems pretty nifty, but... I want to emulate the Camino/Firefox/Safari interface by putting my "Personal Bar" underneath my "Address Bar." rather than at the very top. I can't figure out how to make that happen. Any ideas?
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2007 6:12:20 pm PDT #902 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gris, that's never occurred to me. Let me have a looksee.
Liese S. - Mar 17, 2007 6:46:57 pm PDT #903 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Damn. I missed the most awesome deal on a laptop at Sony's outlet site. And I knew it was an awesome deal and I should have just jumped on it and asked permission from the board afterwards. Damn.
sumi - Mar 17, 2007 7:15:05 pm PDT #904 of 25496
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, my computer just did this thing -- where it went to blue screen and told me that if it was the first time this happened I should restart, but if it had happened before I needed to do something. The message said something about a "device driver."
1. What is a device driver?
2. Messages from microsoft tell me how to get to the device driver but I have no idea how to figure out which thing is the one I need to do something about -- is there somewhere to go to figure that out?
I haven't loaded any new hardware and I think that the latest program I downloaded was an update of McAfee. I'm running Windows XP.
Thanks!
Theodosia - Mar 18, 2007 1:23:44 am PDT #905 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Gris, I think I used to rearrange some of the tool bars in Opera pretty easily, since if you right-click on the bar (not an icon) you should get a menu that includes placement choices. But this is from memory as I use Opera at work and I'm on Firefox at the present.
(Still, I find Opera pretty nifty, enough that I haven't bothered to try out other choices on the work machine just yet.)