I love you, amych.
Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
Zoe ,'Serenity'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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flea - Mar 06, 2009 12:53:44 pm PST #9373 of 25501
information libertarian
DCJensen - Mar 06, 2009 1:12:51 pm PST #9374 of 25501
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 25501
"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 25501
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 25501
"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 25501
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 25501
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 25501
"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.
Jon B. - Mar 09, 2009 5:10:59 am PDT #9381 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I meant the gmail stuff specifically. I use Firefox extensions all the time.
le nubian - Mar 09, 2009 5:12:38 am PDT #9382 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
hmm. I think gmail's performance is a firefox one. I don't think all the extensions I use in gmail has affected it much.
and I have a whole lot of email in gmail. I think I'm 50% full.