I love you, amych.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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flea - Mar 06, 2009 12:53:44 pm PST #9373 of 25505
information libertarian
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.
Jon B. - Mar 09, 2009 5:10:59 am PDT #9381 of 25505
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 25505
"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.