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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #540 on: August 15, 2010, 11:04:38 PM »
Actually I think it does matter. Microwaves are pretty directional and I think they set it up so it's directed at the stuff in the middle sitting on the 'floor' of the dingus. It might not work very well on the 'wall' of the dingus.
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #541 on: August 15, 2010, 11:23:39 PM »
Yeah, but the microwaves do bounce around in there, and this is for heating a liquid only.  It would tend to mostly heat just the top, but . . . it's a liquid.  Convection and conduction are good, and you could stir it.


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True, true . . . but I'd have to buy probably three because of the number of coffee cups we typically have going at once, and those things always make me nervous.  Partly because I had an immerser (not the same, I know, but not completely different) asplode in a hotel room pretty spectacularly, years ago, when I really didn't expect it.  And we're very short on electrical outlets in most of the shop; the ones near the front counter, say, are already overtaxed.

I admit, too, that I was a little seduced by the idea of turning a microwave on its side.

Hey, wait . . . somewhere I have a ThinkGeek 'plasma mug' with a heating base.  I never brought it in to work because (A) it's too distracting, and (B) it's pretty fragile.  But where the heck did that go?
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #542 on: August 19, 2010, 05:35:24 PM »
OK . . . XP has been doing this cute trick where it keeps changing file and folder properties while we're not looking.  It's doing this on a machine I'm hoping to replace this weekend anyway, but I'd still like to know WTF, just in case it ever happens again.

Its favorite thing to do is to make it so no one is allowed to rename, move, or delete files.  It started by doing this in the Shared Folders directory, and now even logging in as the Administrator doesn't help.  But now it's doing it to subdirectories (at random?) elsewhere, including in the regular login's My Documents folder.

The Help file for File Explorer tells me to open the Computer Management console, which is an interesting place to start, but, for one thing, where the heck is that console normally linked to?  I can't find it to run it except from the dumb Help search page.  Based on opening it and looking at Task Manager, I thought it was mmc.exe, but apparently not, or not quite, or something.

But, in any case, I can't figure out how to use it.  The Help instructions say "In the console tree, click Shares." and it has a little tree that shows Shares in Shared Folders, but in the tree I actually get, there's only Sessions and Open Files, and even logged in as Administrator I don't have permission to see what those are.

Is this just another Windows thing that needs to be nuked from orbit?  Because it's really, really annoying.  Really.
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #543 on: August 19, 2010, 05:39:52 PM »
Did you Google the issue?
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #544 on: August 19, 2010, 06:01:56 PM »
:lol:

I totally did, but the pages that appeared to be talking about it were either unhelpful or incomprehensible.

I need an IT person, is what I need, but pretty much everyone here makes minimum wage . . . part-time.  And we can barely afford that as it is.  I have yet to plumb the depths of the new guy's tech knowledge, though.

He did learn to use GIMP in about fifteen minutes, which I consider a good sign.
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #545 on: August 24, 2010, 05:49:43 PM »
WHAT THE.


I was explicitly told, awhile back and now [oy] I can't remember by whom, that you couldn't reasonably use Gmail with a whaddaya call it POP email reader like, say, Thunderbird.

Now someone says you can, and a quick googling turns up Gmail help pages on how to do it.  And it looks pretty straightforward.

I would MUCH rather use Thunderbird than Gmail's web interface whenever I can.  Any of you people do this?  Are there problems with it I'll want avoid?
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #546 on: August 24, 2010, 07:37:21 PM »
I haven't connected them, but Gmail is a lot more advanced behind the scenes than it was a year ago.
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #547 on: August 27, 2010, 02:30:53 PM »
Anyone know a good freeware web archiver / spider-downloader?  I have some shit I need to back up off the web, and there are enough pages so that it's a major drag to do it manually, especially since I'd rather keep the tree structure intact.

Tucows and ZD Net seem to suck nowadays, and the googles weren't exactly helpful.  Installing three dozen apps just to test and uninstall them is quite a drag, too.
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #548 on: August 27, 2010, 07:23:58 PM »
Here's a couple of FF add-ons that I've used in the past. I don't have them installed now though. Not sure if this is what you're looking for...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/220/
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #549 on: August 27, 2010, 07:48:42 PM »
Huh.  I hadn't even considered Firefox add-ons.  I'm used to standalone software for this kind of thing.

I'm not looking to raid an image directory, though, or like that, though.  I want to point it at a domain and download all the web pages (just as HTML; none of this 'Web Page Complete' crap) in the domain, without it following links leading elsewhere, and ideally preserving the directory structure.

Filezilla will do that for your own site, but not other people's sites.  If I wanted to back up an entire thread here, for instance, I don't have anything that could do it automatically.  Five years ago I did, but I can't seem to find comparable software now, and I don't seem to still have the same utilities I used to.
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #550 on: August 27, 2010, 08:05:00 PM »
Ah. I've never seen anything like that, but it may exist. Most of the things that I'm aware of are for grabbing images/files. There are some that I've seen that you have to enter parameters so that the program understands the way the pages are numbered so that it knows how to go to the next page to download - fusker, flux, urltoys are some of the names I remember, but I don't think that's what you're looking for either.

If you find what you're looking for, please share, because I've wanted something like that in the past too. I'd like to have some personal backups of some of the threads here.
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #551 on: August 27, 2010, 08:10:47 PM »
Wait. Filezilla is an FTP client...?
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #552 on: August 27, 2010, 08:15:51 PM »
Er . . . yeah, one of those things.  We use it at work to update / modify the shop website.  I love it because you can learn about half a dozen things and then use it pretty much just like you were using two File Explorer trees and ignore all the extra features.

It has a feature that lets you automatically mirror your website on your local drive.  But not other people's sites.
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #553 on: August 27, 2010, 08:24:28 PM »
 :hmm:

I can understand how you would use it to update/modify your website... ok, I see, you're basically dl'ing the website to your computer, yeah, okay.
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Re: Geek Talk
« Reply #554 on: August 27, 2010, 08:43:38 PM »
Googling for "how to download a complete website" led me to this commandline tool, which would be too geeky for me, but you might prefer this kind of thing:

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html
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