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The upshot of all of this is that I seem to have lost everything on my desktop. Not only that, but my free space has gone from 3-4gb to 12gb, and I only had a handful of word files and one or two apps (clutter and coverstar) on my desktop, so where did the extra memory come from? What the hell is going on???

If you were running a PC, I would say that it sounds like something nasty is deleting all your files, or that maybe there's a problem with the hard drive itself. On a mac...dunno.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I have restarted. They are all gone. Luckily, it was nothing too important. I still have all that extra gb, though. Very very weird.

Also both of my browsers are running super super slooooow.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

did you repair the permissions?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

the what now?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

run disk utility in the apps > utilities folder, select your hard drive, then click on "repair all permissions."

you should do this every couple of weeks or so, and especially whenever you upgrade or install anything!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Better yet do it every few miuntes. Your OCD will thank you.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

OCD what now?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 March 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

you down with ocd?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 March 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It runs in the family!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 March 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://wizardishungry.com/

^ anyone care to figure out why the menu (with a Boredoms link) doesn't show in IE?

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Jon, are you trying to get us to do your homework for you?

At one point I might have even known, but it's been a long time since I've bothered to dive that deeply into JavaScript/CSS.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

No, my homework is on undecidable problems :D

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you like my webpage?

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The menu box itself was kind of a let down, and it took forever to load, but it had its certain grace.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

What browser are you using?

There's obviously going to be more on the menu, but I'm thinking about using some small animated gif patterns to make it more sick.

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

> anyone care to figure out why the menu doesn't show in IE?

the menu is the least of your worries as the png transparency also seems to be broken (known IE bug).

also the entities you're using in the background &prop etc should all end in a ;

as for the menu, i'd look into whether the onmouseover event is reaching it when it's under the rest of the page.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Andy, I'm pretty positive that it doesn't matter that HTML character entities have a ";" at the end as long as there is a space. I think IE is just gay and doesn't support them!

Yea, I don't have an IE machine to test on.

I think I fixed the png though.

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/

mozilla on win32 displays all three pages of these perfectly, IE drops the ball on 50% of the greek page and doesn't do the various spaces in the 'other specials' page if that helps. this may just be a font thing though. (try Psi, Omega, part, omega, xi)

the ;s do matter 8) (i've just tried it and i get twice as many of your symbols visible (but still only about half of the total) if i add ;s after the names)

IE menu seems a lot better as does png. however, MY EYES! MY EYES!

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugga!

When I go to play a new track in Winamp, the sound goes off. INcluding the radio.

Anyone know why this might be? I am using Windows ME and I live on the third floor.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

My brand new Powerbook keeps freezing for 10-15 minutes at a time, sometimes more and I just restart it. the cursor moves, but that's it. Does anyone know what might be causing this.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Karma.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I would actually like some help in setting up the Beast so it will do alt+tab switch between windows stuff. I've had a quick google but people started on about kernel issues and I know nothing about that without being sat in front of the beast - I'm using a test kernel now or something anyway so... meh. Does anyone have a clue of how to start, as it's really getting irritating!

AKA - how do I make it go alt+tab in linux pls. debian. gnome.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I just bought a maxtor 200GB drive and an external enclosure (firewire/USB2). I put the drive in the enclosure. I connected it. my laptop detected it and told me 'IDE to USB' and 'maxtor drive' and 'hi-speed device connected to non-hi-speed hub' or something. I realise, now, that my laptop won't have USB2 because laptops kept having USB1.1 for a while after USB2. it tells me it should function but at 12MB/s rather than 480MB/s. I can get a firewire/USB2 pcimia card, tomorrow. but it should still be working, now! where should an icon appear? in 'my computer'? it hasn't. I have the drive jumpered as master. is it because it isn't formatted? how are you supposed to format it, if there is no way to, like, do anything to it?

anyway.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 17 April 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

rjg:

control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> disk management -> right click hard drive, choose 'format'

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 17 April 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, thanks, mark.

right after I posted, I switched off my laptop and opened it up and connected the new drive, in place of my laptop drive, and had it hanging out and powered through the enclosure thing and I started up and had the XP disc in and formatted it that way and it appeared, after, but now I have followed your route and I am formatting it anew. it came up as being only 125 or so GB, originally, as it left 60 something unallocated.

thanks, again.

: )

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 17 April 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

AKA - how do I make it go alt+tab in linux pls. debian. gnome

It depends on your window manager. If you're using Metacity (now the default gnome window manager) it should just work by default. Others, you might have to set up a new keyboard shortcut.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 18 April 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

What form of player do I require to play .ram files?

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 6 May 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Real Player

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 May 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool. Thank you.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 6 May 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Do mac laptops ever "beep" at you, even when the headphone jack is engaged? I swear mine just beeped at me. Its screen is shot so yesterday I plugged it into a ca. 1993 VGA monitor courtesy of Chez Ed's Backroom (aka Mission Control). Its "sound out" is plugged into the stereo, which is off. I think the sound came from INSIDE the computer!! Is this a hard-working little electron's equivalent of "help, I'm stuck inside a Chinese fortune cookie factory"? Or something even worse?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

COMPUTER, WHAT IS THE STATUS OF NUMBER ONE

― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM NUMBER TWO

― Hulko Mainframington (tracerhand), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

LET HIM GO

― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Captain, I am fine. I suggest a racially motivated attack on a Klingon vessle.

― Commander Riker (numbertwo), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

MAKE IT SO, WE CAN FUDGE A STORY ABOUT THEM KILLING MY SON.

― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Thy will be done, master.

― Commander Riker (numbertwo), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, uh, yes captain.

― Commander Riker (numbertwo), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I am good with tools Captain.

― Geordie (Jean-Luc), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

WHERE IS WESLEY CRUSHER

― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Currently sucking me off.

― Commander Riker (numbertwo), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

That reminds me of the time I painted a womans face on the back of my head and went on a date with him.

Why we certainly had an "end-of-the-episode-chuckle" at that didn't we NUMBER ONE.

― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Rightly so. Don't forget the time we shorn Guinan of one of her "dread locks", and affixed it to her crotch as a substitute penile member.

― Commander Riker (numbertwo), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

thank goodness the only strong female characters both wanted to fuck us.

― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

No one will ever be writing "slash" about us!

― Commander Riker (numbertwo), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah Ryker, shall I see you at the Romulan ELECTROCLASH NIGHT this Thursday? Every Friday morning you rush off before I get out of the shower and put my shoulder pads on.

― Commander Tomohawk (Jean-Luc), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

AKKKKK

― Warf (Jean-Luc), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

It is not logical for a grown man to dress up with a conch shell embedded in his forehead.

― Data (numbertwo), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to ask a boring question, rather than talk about penises, I'm afraid:

I can't download my e-mails using Outlook Express 6 on Freeserve. I'm getting a message saying 'socket error 10060'. Confusingly, this message appears to have nothing to do with the socket - because the internet works fine.
Freeserve 'how can we call this a help line' Help Line tells me its because my anti-virus software (AVG) is preventing e-mails from being downloaded, and I have to re-configure my anti-virus software.

two questions, then?

1. Are Freeserve LYING?
2. How the buggery bollocks does one re-configure one's anti-virus software.

Clicking 'configure' doesn't seem to work, btw..
Also, I have read the 'help' section on AVG. It is RUBBISH.

Thank you.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

my hard drive is wiped.

I don't have a back-up hard drive but I do have an iPod.

is there anyway I can transfer the music from my iPod back onto the new (formatted, clean) mac hard drive?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, there are number of applications to do this for you, see http://www.ipodding.com or htt://www.ipodlounge.com. however you can access the hidden music directories on the iPod throegh the terminal using the 'cd' command.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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