First, I've gotta say thank you, everyone, for your laptop shopping advice, however contradictory it was. It's been very entertaining reading, although mostly it's scaring me off from buying anything, because for any given brand, there's someone who loves it and someone who hates it ( Read more... )

I need a new laptop. I wish I didn't, but this one is getting very slow and cranky, and the hard drive has been having lots of errors, and since I use it for work, I can't afford to wait for a catastrophic failure ( Read more... )

When I plug my power cord into my computer, it doesn't recognize that it's plugged in; it says it's still on battery power. Matt tried my cord with his computer with the same result. So it's looking like that cord is bad ( Read more... )

So I'm working on the tardis_bigbang website, and this year, in a fit of insanity, I decided that we really need to put it in a MySQL database. And things are going really well, except I'm being tripped up by something that should be completely simple ( Read more... )

A couple more things on the computer front.

1. Right now, my Dell laptop has 2 Gb of memory--two 1 Gb cards. Can I replace one of the cards with a 2 Gb card, for 3 Gb total? Is that allowed? And is it something I can probably manage without breaking anything? I've never opened a laptop case before, and I'm nervous. I can cope with 2 Gb, but some ( Read more... )

Anybody using Windows 7? My computer has reached the point where I really need to reformat the c: drive and reinstall Windows, and I'm wondering if I should go ahead and upgrade while I'm at it. I'm on XP now, so if I ever upgrade, I'll have to start from scratch anyway. Any opinions?

First, a PSA ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know, I haven't posted in ages, and now I'm asking for advice. Sorry ( Read more... )

Anyone out there good with Excel macros? I'm trying to write a macro that will replace text, but only if it's the leftmost thing in the cell ( Read more... )

Is anyone using Komodo Edit? I'm looking for an alternative to Arachnophilia, and Komodo looks promising, but I'm having a horrible time figuring out how to do the simplest things. Like inserting an image. Shouldn't that be really obvious ( Read more... )