We were generally not pleased with our DLink.
Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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Dana - May 07, 2009 7:56:41 am PDT #9906 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Calli - May 07, 2009 7:59:10 am PDT #9907 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I've been pretty pleased with my Belkin. The cat's knocked it off the table a couple of times, and it still keeps working. (The cable modem keeps working, that is. The cat disdains work as is right and proper for his species.)
Liese S. - May 07, 2009 9:47:56 am PDT #9908 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Our whole system is hodgepodge now. We have the Belkin router, 24-port D-Link wired gigabit switch, Linksys -n adapter to upgrade the SO's laptop. My VAIO came with n, which is another part of why we went the way we did. The switch was for all the wired outlets in the new house, which are super nice to have. We were dubious about whether or not we'd actually need them, with wireless hitting its peak when we were planning, but it's been handy to have reliable quick connections all over the place.
Oh, and we'll be replacing the router shortly with a Cradlepoint, which will play nicely with our cellular modem.
Sean K - May 07, 2009 12:24:34 pm PDT #9909 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
As soon as I'm not scrambling week to week for cash, I really need to dump the DSL service I've been getting for a while, and replace it with cable.
§ ita § - May 07, 2009 2:39:40 pm PDT #9910 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How do I change a shortname in OS X? The shop that repaired my laptop set me up as firstnamelastname, and I want it just to be firstname. I can change my user name, but the "shortname" stays long.
Tom Scola - May 07, 2009 3:18:25 pm PDT #9911 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
You will have to create a whole new account:
- Create a temporary, generic user account with admin privileges. Call it "admin"
- Log off completely as yourself, and log in as admin
- Create a new user account, ita.
- From the command line, type "sudo mv /Users/itasurname /Users/ita"
- Type "sudo chown -R ita:ita /Users/ita" (This make take a while to complete).
- Log off as admin, log in as ita, make sure everything is OK
- Delete the itasurname and admin accounts (if desired).
§ ita § - May 07, 2009 3:25:55 pm PDT #9912 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks. I tried something like that, differing because I'd renamed the user directory to "ita" beforehand.
Looking good so far.
Vortex - May 07, 2009 4:54:00 pm PDT #9913 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Grrr. I downloaded AVG 8.5 and now I get all of these popups. Very irritating, even after I uninstalled AVG.
§ ita § - May 07, 2009 9:27:01 pm PDT #9914 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kindle DX. It looks all ST:TNG. But definitely not something you can stuff in a pocket or smallish bag. Expensive for bedside reading.
Jessica - May 08, 2009 3:45:32 am PDT #9915 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I did the math for a Kindle DX plus NYT subscription, and it pays for itself (in savings over a paper newspaper subscription) in 2.7 years for most of the country and 4.5 in NYC.
Then I realized that didn't make sense for anyone sharing a house, because it's really difficult to separate out the Week In Review and hand it to someone if you're reading the paper on a Kindle. So not really worth it for most people.