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Computing / Greetings from a Nintendo Wii
« on: February 13, 2009, 09:48:59 pm »
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Yatta Yatta Yatta / Re: Cold Enough For You?
« on: February 04, 2009, 07:55:02 pm »
I love the "I'd do it again!" - what a great way to live life, mang!
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Computing / Re: Greetings from Windows 7
« on: January 26, 2009, 11:56:27 am »
I have not tried Windows 7 - honestly not that adventurous these days. Until I get bored.
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Computing / Re: Is that an OS in your pocket?
« on: January 22, 2009, 09:52:57 pm »
Of course - I just found the other flash drive. Doesn't hurt to have extra...
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Yatta Yatta Yatta / Re: Cold Enough For You?
« on: January 22, 2009, 05:09:42 pm »
Why, yes sir, I did. That is the trees behind the generator shed at work. They looked cool with the snow and whatnot all dripping down them. That is the most snow we have had in maybe 5 years - the roads were straight and most of it was gone (around here, anyway) by about 4 pm. I did enjoy lobbing a few snowballs and I made one very small snow person (out of snowballs).
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Computing / Re: Is that an OS in your pocket?
« on: January 22, 2009, 05:05:16 pm »
Playing with Portable Apps as we speak - was looking for my old 2 gig thumb drive and it was not to be found. Almost bought an 8 gig for $19, but the girl at the register hepped me up to some 2 gigs for $5, so I nailed that. Got my Portable Firefox somwehat setup and am Apping up a bit. Should be fun to play with, anyway.
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Yatta Yatta Yatta / Re: Cold Enough For You?
« on: January 22, 2009, 05:02:01 pm »
North Carolina can get cold... I am near the coast and snow is an anomalie at this point. We have had one good snow this year, and usually if we get anything, it is just a very light dusting. Barely enough to make a snowball. We go det cold - but 20's is about the lowest, and that is also unusual.
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From the future makers of Chuck - so I watched the pilot - a bunch of rich kids that party too much, parents that are way into careers and whatnot, and a troubled kid that somehow winds up in the mix. Up to episode 1-04 now - it kinda pulls you in. The entire first season is up on Hulu, of course
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Computing / Re: Drive Fun (notsomuch)
« on: October 11, 2008, 02:34:27 pm »
Oh - and then the original copy thing that froze up - I deleted that. It was ok - apparently the Move copys everything and then deletes from the original locatio - my iTunes library is intact.
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Computing / Drive Fun (notsomuch)
« on: October 11, 2008, 02:28:27 pm »
In an effort to free space on my C Drive I decided to move my Music folder to the D Drive - right click, Location, Move, Choose, Go...
And it froze up.
Hmmm... So I killed Explorer, noted I still had the full and complete Music folder on C, had some files on D, but not all. Renamed the newly not-all-the-way moved iTunes folder on D (just in case it deleted as it moved), and started it all over again - and it went. Unfortunately, as close as I can figure, I aimed the Music folder to be moved to the root of D - and now instead of a Music folder pointer on C taking me to D and my iTunes library being intact, I get a D drive Icon that takes me to the D drive and my iTunes library. iTunes won't even startup without the folder path being straight!
After a few Google events that led to nowhere, I come up with a desperate plan to save my iTunes install - I somehow managed to get the D drive to "restore original location" and it pointed back to C:/username/Music, so I nailed that, then it said do I want to move files, I said no, then I had the Music folder back in the username folder. Make a D:/Music folder, slide my iTunes stuff there, - right click on the username/Music folder and search for location, point to the D Drive, and point at it. Success, but a whole lot harder than it had to be.
Moral of the story is don't move a special folder to the root of a drive - you will not like the way it comes out.
And it froze up.
Hmmm... So I killed Explorer, noted I still had the full and complete Music folder on C, had some files on D, but not all. Renamed the newly not-all-the-way moved iTunes folder on D (just in case it deleted as it moved), and started it all over again - and it went. Unfortunately, as close as I can figure, I aimed the Music folder to be moved to the root of D - and now instead of a Music folder pointer on C taking me to D and my iTunes library being intact, I get a D drive Icon that takes me to the D drive and my iTunes library. iTunes won't even startup without the folder path being straight!
After a few Google events that led to nowhere, I come up with a desperate plan to save my iTunes install - I somehow managed to get the D drive to "restore original location" and it pointed back to C:/username/Music, so I nailed that, then it said do I want to move files, I said no, then I had the Music folder back in the username folder. Make a D:/Music folder, slide my iTunes stuff there, - right click on the username/Music folder and search for location, point to the D Drive, and point at it. Success, but a whole lot harder than it had to be.
Moral of the story is don't move a special folder to the root of a drive - you will not like the way it comes out.
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TV / Re: watch U Some Chuck
« on: October 09, 2008, 11:15:11 pm »
True Blood is good - the crowd is into that here.
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Computing / Gparted Question
« on: October 08, 2008, 11:58:26 pm »
I posted earlier about such a situation, but I am considering trying to combine my 30 gig C drive with my 30 gig D drive (also has about 20 gigs locked up in formatting and the like and the install partition that Acer threw on there). Has anyone here used Gparted to mash two partitions together like that? Data loss? I was thinking of emptying the D, delete it, and then expand the c to fill the rest of the drive. Any thoughts? Kinda nervous, as I don't want to have to reinstall.
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Computing / Re: Greetings from C5 Motion Computing Tablet PC
« on: October 08, 2008, 07:19:52 pm »
I wish I could downgrade...
My Vista laptop is actually stable, but... I have two 30 gig partitions and a 20 or so (formatting, mind you) for the install partition. The 30 gig C: partition is about 4 gigs from full. I was thinking of gparted to repartition and kill the D and merge it with C, but I still wonder what Vista (basic) needs with that much disk space? This thing has a 1.73 gig processor and 2 gigs of ram and an 80 gig HD. It would scream with XP... but Acer has a hardware issue it dealt with via software (hibernate and fan issues). I think there are XP versions if you look hard enough.
My Vista laptop is actually stable, but... I have two 30 gig partitions and a 20 or so (formatting, mind you) for the install partition. The 30 gig C: partition is about 4 gigs from full. I was thinking of gparted to repartition and kill the D and merge it with C, but I still wonder what Vista (basic) needs with that much disk space? This thing has a 1.73 gig processor and 2 gigs of ram and an 80 gig HD. It would scream with XP... but Acer has a hardware issue it dealt with via software (hibernate and fan issues). I think there are XP versions if you look hard enough.
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Just purchased some thumping $25 Altec Lansing speakers with a subwoofer and hooked them to the laptop/desktop and am thumping the ambient from Pandora through them. Awesome... I have loved ambient jams forever - starting with Tangerine Dream, and here it is, in it's screaming goodness. Yes!
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Yatta Yatta Yatta / Birthdays
« on: October 08, 2008, 03:27:49 pm »
Many years ago in a forum that I can no longer access I came upon a pair of HTML and WebTV knowledgeable soon to be 21 year olds, and I posted and learned with them. Then they turned 21 and left - and that seems to be about 10 years ago now.
Happy birthday, Sal. Doesn't seem like I have known you that long.
Happy birthday, Sal. Doesn't seem like I have known you that long.