The Whine thread.

[dark_rain]

I really hope that you manage to work something out, Bether. Good luck.

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I HATE wireless networks, especially ones served up by a P.O.S. USR9110. I;ve just spent the best part of 5 hours trying to set this damned thing up, but it's a tempremental son of a bitch. Unfortunately for it, my bin-and-get-a-new-one sense isn't, so maybe I'll ditch it. Anyone want a free router? (seriously, I dont want it) It'd work fine generally, but it doesn't like complex setups like mine.

[blacknblue]

Nay. I am seriously planning still to set up a Linux box. I just decided to wait until Caesar graciously coughs up his pittance of my money and buy an upgrade. Then I can take my son's old AMD 1.5 gigahertz system and use it instead of the PII I was originally planning. I am going to swear off using stock routers altogether. Gimme a box with some PCI slots and cards, along with a nice Linux distro and a solid firewall or three instead. At least that way I can stay on top of what is happening.

[dark_rain]

This is why I love my BT voyager 220v. Embedded linux and easy access to busybox. Sweet

[CoffeeCat]

So I'm in the middle of making a complex picture with the GIMP - like 3 hours into a project - and the frelling thing crashes on me. BASTARD!

[dark_rain]

So I'm in the middle of making a complex picture with the GIMP - like 3 hours into a project - and the frelling thing crashes on me. BASTARD!

Ctrl+S

[JadziaKathryn]

I spent two hours cooking a soup that turned out like slop. Not tasty slop, but the kind where it doesn't have much flavor despite the seasonings. It didn't help that the cabbage, broccoli, and even most of the sweet potato disintegrated. I couldn't even eat the last two spoonfuls of my bowl - and I have six or seven bowls left.

Telling myself that the starving children in Kolkata would love it didn't help, either. It just made me feel guilty that I couldn't choke down another bite.

[Alelou]

I was going to suggest you fry up a little ham or sausage and garlic/onions and throw it in for flavor, maybe a dash of sherry or vermouth too, but I'm not sure cabbage, broccoli and sweet potato are ever going to blend really happily in a soup. I find broccoli so overwhelming a flavor in soup that I only ever use it to make cream of broccoli soup. I use cabbage and sweet potato all the time but usually in zesty Spanish soups, which already have pretty strong flavors of ham or chorizo or saffron and garlic dominating them. You have my sympathy. I've been there.

[CoffeeCat]

So I'm in the middle of making a complex picture with the GIMP - like 3 hours into a project - and the frelling thing crashes on me. BASTARD!

Ctrl+S

That kinda defeats the purpose if you have it divided all into layers and paths that you need to complete the project

[blacknblue]

I spent two hours cooking a soup that turned out like slop. Not tasty slop, but the kind where it doesn't have much flavor despite the seasonings. It didn't help that the cabbage, broccoli, and even most of the sweet potato disintegrated. I couldn't even eat the last two spoonfuls of my bowl - and I have six or seven bowls left.

Telling myself that the starving children in Kolkata would love it didn't help, either. It just made me feel guilty that I couldn't choke down another bite.

Pepper. Lotsa pepper(s).

And maybe toss in some beans.

[justTripn]

Season salt!

[Escriba]

After an eternity (OK, OK, a week), formatting my hard-drive and arguing with my phone company (threads included ) at last I recovered my Internet connection.

Boy... Worst.Week.Ever.

[panyasan]

My sympathies. I have had my share of crashing computerssystems and calling help desk and they sure are a good practice for your patient. (We are working on it... we are still busy finding the cause...) Last week my husbands almost new laptop crashed with all his college information gone. Nothing left.
That was in the same week my one year old little family robinson robot (destroy! destroy!) took a tube out the washing machine, making the water spill all over our little kitchen.
We survived.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

My sympathies as well. I remember once when my (old) computer crashed. Thanks to the people at the IT section of my place of work, I managed to recover most of the contents. And another time my IE frakked up and I couldn't get online (at the time I had no other browser). So I downloaded Firefox from my work computer and burned it to a disc so I could get it to my home computer. That's when I switched to Firefox. Haven't looked back since.

[Dinah]

Having just gone through my own computer problems, I can really sympathize. I hope your problems are all resolved and things will get back to normal for you once again.

[CX]

Well, my last test is tomorrow, and I have to move out tomorrow too. I really would rather not go back home, but since I know I have to, I'm really anxious to get it done and over with. This has made me very irritable, and it's actually made it very difficult for me to study for that final - which is really what I should be doing right now.