A thread for boring computer questions.

by the way, i totally figured out my can't-send-mail problem. i just configured my mac to use its own built-in SMTP server! i feel like a BAD ASS.

Every other CD works besides B. Dylan Blood on the Tracks. I tried it on my girlfriend's newer iBook and it works fine. I've shut down the computer multiple times and tried it over a few days. WTF?

They're not in my sent items, nor in my recent documents, not even in my temp folder.

Surely if I saved the Word doco it MUST be somewhere?

I think my second draft is better than the first one so I'll draw a line under this!

I'm fuming.

I've logged off and back on, I've even restarted (that old fallback) still no change.

see if you can see a line, that might be its edge, over to the right, click inside it and drag back? or maybe drag the whole taskbar bit down, yeah, try that

(I ask because in the past when I've used PCs to play CDs a lot, the CD drive has always been the first part of the PC to fail)

I only use the CD drive to rip CDs rather than play CDs, as I've also had experience of them failing in the past.

We all currently use Mail.app and Address Book; we're going onto an exchange server with the PCs. So - how do I:

- (as nearest thing to techie) get Mail.app mails into Outlook? Everyone but me uses 10.3, I'm on 10.4
- Get iCal into Outlook calendars
- Get address book into Outlook address books

Given that I'll be using a Mac at home, what's the best setup? Use entourage at home and connect that way? And can I use Thunderbird to talk to an exchange server?

entourage is a POS, don't bother with it.

in fact on top of that, the shit really hits the fan when i use winamp. could something in there be fucking things up?

ive defragged the disk and stuff, and run a billion spyware/virsu checks...this has been going on for a while but its getting ridiculous. im hovering a lot of the time between 90-100% CPU usage and its killing even the simplest of tasks. this sounds a bitdumb buit might uninstalling and reinstalling things like firefox or winamp help?!!

I want to export various pst folders from my Outlook work account with personal emails in, so that I can take them home (I'm leaving my job)

I've done this using the export command, but when I tested the results by trying to open them up on another machine I'm not logged into, it says I don't have access permissions to them.

How do I export them so that I can read them? Do I have to do it as text rather than .pst?

I am starting to think it's a lost cause.

Plus I've now found I can't even export them as tab/comma delimited files - Outlook says the conversion modules aren't in place and I need a Windows disk to install them. ARRRGH.

Are you sure it can import .pst, I've just tried to do it, going from my work PC-work Mac but there is no .pst import function in Mail.app unless I am being most dumb.

seems to suggest, though, that because .pst is a proprietary format, you'll need the access to them in outlook anyway. it might also mean that you'll need the bits you don't aleady have.

I will have to have a fiddle. Never tried such a thing in Outlook before.

start forwarding?

Yep, I have. But have to do it in blocks of less than 10MB or else my fastmail and gmail both bounce. I hate boring computers.

I've been using a computer-to-computer network to copy documents between my home mac (brought into the office) and the work XP. I set up a network, enable windows sharing, then connect up using the 'add network place' wizard.

Unfortunately, I take the mac home, and when I come the next day, the IP address has changed, so the shortcut I made and the connection established the day before has changed. Is there any way to make the IP address used by the Mac for windows sharing static, so the same shortcuts work etc?

can someone extract the direct link to the video from this mess:

embed src="http://update.videoegg.com/flash/proxy.swf?jsver=1.4"; FlashVars="jsver=1.4&allowFlash9Fullscreen=true&MMdoctitle=John Waller <yirmon> - Flash Player Installation&MMplayerType=PlugIn&MMredirectURL=http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=953595184&adVars=site=bebo&area=userhomepages&vl=gb&va=null&vg=null&pa=24&pg=m&channel=entertainment&wmode=window&autoPlay=false&file=http://download.videoegg.com/gid329/cid1124/G6/AM/11730441094esAaZtZ1dYeAqRsiLEF&rootUrl=http://update.videoegg.com/flash/player&swfpath=http://update.videoegg.com/flash/proxy.swf?jsver=1.4"; quality="high" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" scale="noscale" wmode="window" width="355" height="299" name="VE_Player" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer";></embed>

It isn't there, the video is prolly flv, this code only embeds the flash flv player. If you can give a link to the page the video is on, i can prolly ferret out the location of the flv fle.

This is probably it it. Copy and paste to your title bar

download.videoegg.com/gid329/cid1124/G6/AM/11730441094esAaZtZ1dYeAqRsiLEF_high.flv?showAd=true

The Boyler, can you use the computer name with UNC (i.e. \\theMacsNetworkName\c) instead of the IP address? n.b. I don't work with Macs ever, but that is what you'd do in Windows.

does anyone know of a good freeware program that will allow me to change windows' dvd region once the limit has been reached?

The facts:

Last night, as I was innocently typing a reply to ILE in my fumble-fingered way, my display jumped to a much larger font size (looks about 14 pt to me). It seemed to coincide with my fingers slipping to hit a multi-key combination that may have included Shift, Crtl or possibly even Alt. I really have no clear idea what keys got mashed.

Further facts:

I use (boo, hiss) Internitwit Explorer under WinXP. The problem doesn't appear to affect the font size within the reply entry box (titled: Add a Comment).

The question:

I am not legally blind and I do not need this size of font. It is irksome. Can anyone assist me in returning my ILE display to a proper (default) font size? Something like a good, solid 11 point. I would be ever so grateful for the assistance.

IE: View -> Text Size - > Medium