Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


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

Got a question about technology? Ask it here. Discussion of hardware, software, TiVos, multi-region DVDs, Windows, Macs, LINUX, hand-helds, iPods, anything tech related. Better than any helpdesk!


Strix - Nov 27, 2011 8:27:17 am PST #18635 of 25513
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

YESSSS!!!! Now, hopefully, the title will let me add more than a line to two.

Uh, anyone wanna help me look for scandals for senators? Email is good. [link]


Strix - Nov 27, 2011 8:35:15 am PST #18636 of 25513
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Effin' SUCCESS!!!

My geek cred just rolled for +10!


Jessica - Nov 27, 2011 9:19:23 am PST #18637 of 25513
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

iTunes question - there's a daily podcast I listen to. A couple of weeks ago, I synced without downloading it and then shut down my computer, so I just downloaded it directly to my phone instead. Now that episode won't go away even though I have iTunes set up to remove podcasts once they've been listened to.

Any way to manually remove this one episode? It doesn't show up in iTunes at all, and I can't see an obvious "delete" button anywhere on my iPhone.


Tom Scola - Nov 27, 2011 9:24:03 am PST #18638 of 25513
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.

You can delete it using the swipe-right gesture.


le nubian - Nov 27, 2011 9:24:55 am PST #18639 of 25513
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Can you just remove it, unsubscribe, then resubscribe to the feed?

FWIW, I like instacast for my iphone and ipad (not universal unfortunately). After instacast, I don't even use itunes anymore for podcasts.


Jessica - Nov 27, 2011 9:52:30 am PST #18640 of 25513
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

You can delete it using the swipe-right gesture.

AHA! Thank you, that worked perfectly.


§ ita § - Nov 28, 2011 7:36:18 am PST #18641 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, I have a panicky Cyber Monday question. Which brands are decent?

  • Lenovo
  • ASUS
  • HP
  • Not getting Dell, never mind
  • Toshiba
  • Sony
  • Acer

Just trying to winnow down a list before I start deep diving for my sister's replacement laptop *today*. Good god, the pressure.


dcp - Nov 28, 2011 7:51:06 am PST #18642 of 25513
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Myself, I'm a Toshiba fan.

Work laptops are Lenovo, and seem to be holding up well. My major gripe with Lenovo is that the Ctrl and Fn keys are switched.


Amy - Nov 28, 2011 7:56:11 am PST #18643 of 25513
Because books.

I've liked the Asus products we have a lot (one laptop, one netbook), and our old Lenovo laptops were total workhouses that lasted way longer than I expected.


Ailleann - Nov 28, 2011 8:51:11 am PST #18644 of 25513
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

How do we use the affiliate links for Buffista purchasing? I go to the Amazon link, then search for a product, and the "buffista" text in the page address goes away. Does this mean it's not working? Can I click on the link, then go to my cart and check out and have it work?

(Cross-posted with Press.)