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Meophist from Toronto, Canada Since: May, 2010
#2751: Jul 5th 2011 at 7:01:56 PM

Try pressing enter in the address bar or copy and pasting it into a new tab/window.

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#2752: Jul 5th 2011 at 7:17:53 PM

Hm. Didn't try the new tab one. I tried pressing enter and pasting it into the same window.

Edit: still didn't work, though

edited 5th Jul '11 7:18:41 PM by TParadox

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#2755: Jul 6th 2011 at 7:39:39 AM

Ah, you're right! I thought he looked familiar, many thanks!

chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#2756: Jul 6th 2011 at 7:42:23 AM

Right now I'm in a school being used for summer camps. In the mornings I'm allowed to be in this one area away from the class rooms, but a little girl is nearby, and people walk through the door every once in awhile. We're both kids of the staff.

What is the best way to play Team Fortress 2 without getting in trouble with the staff (or any kids taking a glance at it)? Should I even attempt it?

Edmania o hai from under a pile of erasers Since: Apr, 2010
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#2757: Jul 6th 2011 at 9:57:48 AM

Does anyone know an image hosting website that lets you hotlink to the image and doesn't resize the image? For free, of course. I don't mind if I have to create an account.

edited 6th Jul '11 9:58:16 AM by Edmania

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
Edmania o hai from under a pile of erasers Since: Apr, 2010
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#2759: Jul 6th 2011 at 10:17:44 AM

Why do you download it?

...the image itself is still uploaded to the net, right? Rather than like, say, sending the image file from my computer every time a link is used.

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#2760: Jul 6th 2011 at 10:21:25 AM

Because it works as a daemon on your computer. It gives you a special folder which is readily accessible from the usual filesystem, the only difference being that anything you put in it is mirrored on Dropbox's servers (so no, it's on an external server).

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Edmania o hai from under a pile of erasers Since: Apr, 2010
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#2761: Jul 6th 2011 at 10:25:09 AM

Would uninstalling it or deleting a specific file cause the mirrored one to also be deleted?

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#2763: Jul 6th 2011 at 10:29:25 AM

deleting it either online or in your folder would cause the deletion to be mirrored, yes.

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juancarlos Faith in the self. Since: Mar, 2012
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#2764: Jul 6th 2011 at 11:48:12 AM

So my mouse stopped working all of a sudden. I've tried unplugging it and using different ports, but it still doesn't work.

Any help?

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
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#2765: Jul 6th 2011 at 11:51:45 AM

Are you using a wireless mouse?

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#2766: Jul 6th 2011 at 11:53:28 AM

Nope. USB wired.

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#2767: Jul 6th 2011 at 11:53:29 AM

Would uninstalling it or deleting a specific file cause the mirrored one to also be deleted?

Deleting it causes it to be deleted. I don't know about uninstalling, but my computer died with the dropbox daemon on it, and the files stayed up for the few months until I reconnected.

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
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#2768: Jul 6th 2011 at 12:00:55 PM

Hmm. Well, I don't know what to tell you, then. Sorry.

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Edmania o hai from under a pile of erasers Since: Apr, 2010
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#2769: Jul 6th 2011 at 2:03:48 PM

So I got Dropbox, but I asked my online friend to check out a link, and she doesn't see anything.

[down] Okay thanks

edited 6th Jul '11 2:25:31 PM by Edmania

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snowfoxofdeath Thou errant flap-dragon! from San Francisco Suburb Since: Apr, 2012
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#2770: Jul 6th 2011 at 2:23:49 PM

You have to put it in the "Public" folder and get the public link.

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BobbyG vigilantly taxonomish from England Since: Jan, 2001
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#2771: Jul 6th 2011 at 6:55:48 PM

Anyone know a non-shitty way to rip CD tracks?

There's a particular track on this CD that Windows Media Player always stops mid-rip for some reason. And I know Windows Media Player is apparently shitty and it's my own damn fault for using it, but when I tried ripping CDs with Foobar 2000 in the past it ripped them all as WAV files so I couldn't edit the properties, which IMO is shittier.

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HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
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#2772: Jul 6th 2011 at 7:01:11 PM

Is youtube refusing to play videos for anybody else?

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BobbyG vigilantly taxonomish from England Since: Jan, 2001
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#2773: Jul 6th 2011 at 7:04:54 PM

You Tube's working fine for me.

Argh this is driving me nuts. I think I might just delete this album from the computer altogether because having an entire album minus track twelve is just ugly and lame.

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Tumbril Since: Feb, 2010
#2774: Jul 6th 2011 at 7:07:57 PM

I'm pretty sure Foobar has a way to change the output settings. I don't have a CD to rip right now so I can't check, but it should let you edit the last output format or something along those lines before you start the rip.

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BobbyG vigilantly taxonomish from England Since: Jan, 2001
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#2775: Jul 6th 2011 at 7:10:37 PM

It does but they're all weird formats and I'm scared of them!

Thanks, though. I'm being dumb. There's no reason I can't research audio file formats myself, and it's probably something I should know. But not at this time of night, so fuck it.

I just realised how lame I'm being about this. I want everything to be the same format and properly labelled, otherwise I may as well not listen to it at all. But that doesn't make any sense so whatever, forget it.

edited 6th Jul '11 7:12:45 PM by BobbyG

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