and, as I found out with my old school laser printer, the cost of the cartridges will kill ya.
Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.
Wash ,'Serenity'
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Vortex - Mar 22, 2009 7:00:39 am PDT #9526 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Jessica - Mar 22, 2009 3:36:45 pm PDT #9527 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Thanks for the battery advice, Tom.
I saw my first Kindle up close and personal yesterday - my neighbor got one and let me play with it a bit. And honestly? Playing with it has totally removed any desire I may have had to get one of my own. Which is not usually the case with gadgets, so huh.
beth b - Mar 22, 2009 4:01:26 pm PDT #9528 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Playing with my friend's kindle made me want it. But it may be that I wanted to read her books.
Wolfram - Mar 23, 2009 7:24:29 am PDT #9529 of 25501
Visilurking
They canceled my printer order. Bastards.
DCJensen - Mar 25, 2009 7:49:20 pm PDT #9530 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Just saw an ad in the free section on Craigslist giving away old computers:
a couple printers, a zip drive, bunch of ascii cords
Ascii cords?
Is that like sending a tenderfoot to find a Left-Handed smoke shifter or 50 feet of shoreline?
t /Boy Scout reference
DCJensen - Mar 25, 2009 7:53:22 pm PDT #9531 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
G5 hoarders, what do you want for your G5?
Postage will be paid...
Signed, tired.
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2009 2:18:59 am PDT #9532 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ascii cords were used to transfer ASCII data from one computer to another. They were eventually replaced by hexadecimal cable and binary wire. Cutting edge computers use gigabit rope.
Gudanov - Mar 26, 2009 5:01:39 am PDT #9533 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2009 5:10:37 am PDT #9534 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In order to stream video, ASCII cord needs to have gold-plated connectors. Otherwise, you get extended-character-set noise.
omnis_audis - Mar 26, 2009 7:26:04 am PDT #9535 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I have an Apple Mail app question. Mail v3.5 running on Mac 10.5.6.
At some point awhile ago, soon after getting the laptop in the fall, mail had some difficulties. There was a pop issue with the Outlook server or something, but when I finally got it working again, it downloaded messages a 2nd time, so there were a lot of messages that I deleted from mail, but I guess not from the server, that got d/l again, so it shows (2) messages, one of which is greyed. The grey one can *not* be deleted again or moved to another folder. Very frustrating. But I lived with it, just not scrolling down to the old messages.
Well, now it's starting to do it on new messages. Clogging the IN box, not being able to move grey messages. This time, it's not one I've deleted, but moved to a folder, but it remembers the message or something, but then I can't move the reply into that other folder.
OK, I think I'm babbling, not sure if I am making sense. It probably means a trip to the genius bar in May when the season is done, and I can afford to not have the laptop for a few days. But I was wondering if anyone here had heard of such a strange issue, and if there was a simple fix?