Wash: I mean, I'm the one she swore to love, honor and obey. Mal: Listen... She swore to obey? Wash: Well, no, not...

'War Stories'


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

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-t - Mar 22, 2007 8:44:54 am PDT #984 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I was very tempted to go browse amongst the Harmony remotes when I found myself near a store that is said to carry them, but I am being all rational and holding off on getting a fancy remote until after I replace my TV. My 10 year old Symphonic keeps right on working fine, except that it refuses to take IR instruction of any kind. Or show things in high definition, of course.


Tom Scola - Mar 23, 2007 8:19:11 am PDT #985 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Batcave home theater: [link]


Typo Boy - Mar 24, 2007 7:28:59 pm PDT #986 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I'm giving a powerpoint presentation Wed. I have now prepared the actual slide show, and a speech to go with it. But for my notes, what I'd like to have is thumbnail of each slide, and then tie the stuff I'm going to say to that thumbnail. Is there an easy way to make powerpoint generate a series of thumbnails of the slides? I'd rather have that than the RTF outline so that I know exactly what the audience is seeing at any one moment. Right now it looks like I have to copy one slide at a time.


libkitty - Mar 24, 2007 8:06:30 pm PDT #987 of 25496
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

I think I've seen powerpoint do what I think you want, Gar. I think it's in the print options, although the more I think about it, I'm not sure that this option is available in every version. I don't remember off the top of my head how to do it, and I don't have powerpoint at home. Monday is a holiday here, but if you don't get a response from someone else earlier, I would be happy to go through it at work and provide a step by step on Tuesday. Just email my profile addy if you still need help.


Typo Boy - Mar 24, 2007 8:49:56 pm PDT #988 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

What is frustrating is that it almost does what I want. If go into the slide sorter, there are a bunch of thumb nails of all my slides. But it won't export those thumbnails.

[On Edit] Ah - I think it something called handouts. (You can tell this is my first use of PowerPoint.)

[Update. Use send to word. Choose notes below or notes to left to get exactly what I want.


le nubian - Mar 25, 2007 5:14:16 am PDT #989 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Okay y'all, I feel like a complete doofus, but I couldn't figure out the basic thing of opening the Dell computer case. I tried several different ways short of jumping on it to get it to open - to no avail.

So I called the Geek Squad at Best Buy and paid $39 to get the wireless card installed.

Okay price, they did it in about 1 hour, everything is okay.


Theodosia - Mar 25, 2007 6:08:41 am PDT #990 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"

I think some companies deliberately make the cases hard to open, to discourage DIY. Or maybe, in the wise words of MST3K, "they just don't care."


DCJensen - Mar 25, 2007 6:11:40 am PDT #991 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

Before Steve Jobs came back, Apple had some of the worst designs for upgrading RAM ever. You nearly had to dismantle everything inside a 8500/9500 series case to get at the RAM.


Sean K - Mar 25, 2007 6:12:32 am PDT #992 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Well, and then Dell typically (IME) makes the cases pretty easy to open, in a very non-intuitive way.


Jessica - Mar 25, 2007 6:19:11 am PDT #993 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Anyone have any magic tricks for getting an HP 6120 Officejet printer to network with a couple of Macs using an Airport Express as a print server? We had it working in the old apartment, and now I can't remember how we did it. (So far the Just Plug It Back In The Way It Was In The Old Place method has failed to yield satisfactory results.)