And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

Got a question about technology? Ask it here. Discussion of hardware, software, TiVos, multi-region DVDs, Windows, Macs, LINUX, hand-helds, iPods, anything tech related. Better than any helpdesk!


Sean K - Mar 06, 2009 11:59:46 am PST #9371 of 25505
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Damn. I would have figured out how to code it, just to streamline B.org on my phone.


amych - Mar 06, 2009 12:50:51 pm PST #9372 of 25505
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Are you kidding? I already started, even though I didn't even have the phone until 5:32 pm ET.


flea - Mar 06, 2009 12:53:44 pm PST #9373 of 25505
information libertarian

I love you, amych.


DCJensen - Mar 06, 2009 1:12:51 pm PST #9374 of 25505
All is well that ends in pizza.

It's been a while since I dealt with this, so I'm asking ya'll.

I have a PC here that a friend wanted me to get some files off of, and make it basically a word-processing machine and occasional dial-up internet box. The CD drie had mysteriously stopped working too, and could I take a look at that, too?

It's a windows 98 machine, with about 10 years on it and a bad CD drive. I ended up taking off the files with a few floppies.

After that I was trying to get a different CD-rom drive working in it and noticed the computer was struggling. It froze and I shut it down and got the old "insert boot device' type message.

Took a Win98 CD to it and found that something malicious must have been at work from before I started working on it, as almost everything on the HDD was erased.

Sigh. Installing an Antivirus was my next step, after getting the CD working.

The question:

I vaguely remember a way to restore the file tree on windows 98, but can't recall the best way to do this.

Any suggestions?


megan walker - Mar 07, 2009 10:10:53 am PST #9375 of 25505
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Questions for anyone that has upgraded to iTunes Plus:

Does the replacement affect playlists? Does it affect any info you've entered or changed (genre, etc.)?


Jessica - Mar 07, 2009 10:19:31 am PST #9376 of 25505
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I would like the default setting on my Google Calendar to be "no reminder" on new events. Anyone know where I can click to make this happen?


le nubian - Mar 07, 2009 10:22:53 am PST #9377 of 25505
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

yes.

settings (up top right)

calendars ... each calendar has its own notification settings.


Jessica - Mar 07, 2009 10:24:12 am PST #9378 of 25505
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Thank you!


Jon B. - Mar 09, 2009 5:01:24 am PDT #9379 of 25505
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Anyone use the Better Gmail firefox extension? [link]

Is there a performance hit using stuff like this?


le nubian - Mar 09, 2009 5:09:57 am PDT #9380 of 25505
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I have not used it. I don't use all the things in the extension, so I add extensions as I need them. I have a lot of extensions in firefox, and it seems to work okay.