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Also, why is it that in Photohop, if I zoom in on the text, it looks all... fuzzy (don't know the technical name for this), rather than neat and vectory, like if I do it in Word or QuarkXpress? I mean, it's still editable text - I haven't converted it to being a pixellated layer or whatever. Is it going to print fuzzy too?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Check yr text antialias/aliasing settings.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah - there's an icon for that that I'd toggled between. If I turn anti-aliasing off then it just looks spidery and even worse.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

if you flatten the image it will print fine.
otherwise the other verison of photoshop wil have to use another font if it does not have yours. this can mess things up. if you don't want to flatten it you could also bring your font with you and install it on the other machine. or simply render the type layer (you won't be able to edit the copy after that tho).

― dysøn (dyson), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks - it was all OK.

I didn't flatten it and it was OK - it just came up with a message saying that the text on that layer wouldn't be editable, as the font wasn't installed. I ended up switching it to another font on that machine anyway, because the of the second problem, which turned out to be that because I had started from an image that I'd got off the web, with low resolution - this low-res of course affected everything else that I added to it. D'oh!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

something totally insane just happened to my powerbook!

i set it to dial on internet connect and left it for a second... when i came back the screen was all black and full of scrolling text, talking about some sort of "switchback error"! i restarted and things seem fine but WTF?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

kernel panic maybe?

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

My kernel panics have been more low-key affairs; just a shaded screen with some code on it. No scrolling or black screens. They happened when I plugged in a digital camera via a USB port to the computer. I guess os x didn't know what it was and crashed...

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it was a kernel panic!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, apparently I have the bloodhound exploit.6 virus on my home pc. Norton doesn't recognize it and cannot delete or quarantine it. Im trying to run panda softwares pandascan to check for it but it won't run. It tells me active x is not working or installing. How the fuck do i get active x to work?

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you found the key under the sword in the dungeon yet?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

One way to get around font issues in Photoshop is to select Layer | Type | Convert To Shape - this will turn the text into vector graphics. You still won't be able to edit it - BUT, you will be able to resize the image keeping the text sharp.

Another workaround is to save the file as a PDF and print from the other machine using Acrobat Reader or similar program. DO NOT open the file in Photoshop or you will be forced to rasterise it (Making the text a bitmap graphic rather than a vector).

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I thought I had posted this somewhere, but I guess not. I have a cheap HP desktop printer, with a color cartridge and a black ink cartridge. The color cartridge is out of everything but red, so if I try to print a picture or whatever, it just comes out in shades of red. This isn't a problem, since I mainly just print out stuff for my own use. HOWEVER, I also need to print out my resume. My resume was created using the Microsoft Word resume wizard, and it has lines under the various categories (education, experience, etc.). This lines print out as pink for some reason, even though the rest of the text is in black. If I change my print options to grayscale, it's the same thing, pink lines on my resume. I can't just take out the color cartridge because the printer doesn't like not having a cartridge in there and won't work without it. And I can't figure out how to take the lines off of my resume: they're not underlines, they don't seem to be images, I don't know what they are. Ideas on how to either a) get the lines to print in black ink instead of pink, or b) erase the lines from my resume?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe copy it and paste it into Notepad or whatever plain ASCII program you have, then back into Word, then reformat without the lines?

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You could also try saving it in RTF format or maybe an earlier Word format and reopening it that way. If you're lucky you might be able to lose the pink lines without losing all of the other formatting.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

But the lines aren't pink or even in color on the screen, so I'm not sure why they're even printing out pink?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Most likely whatever color they are on the screen has some red in it, but since all the other colors are out, only the pink is showing up.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink can be nice.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

But then why do the lines look black on the screen? And why doesn't grayscale print mode work either? ARGH!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

They could be a very dark brown perhaps? I don't know why the grayscale option doesn't work. Sometimes there's an option that says Use Black Ink only or something, try looking at all the Printer properties tabs.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone have any ideas for: rescuing an NTFS disk partition that's so corrupt that most tools barely recognise it as an NTFS partition any more?

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

If you haven't tried it already http://www.download.com/GetDataBack-Data-Recovery/3000-2094-10294180.html sounds like its good. Good luck!

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Monday, 11 October 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Does anyone know how to make Excel count in video timecode? I want to add up a whole load of numbers formatted

hh:mm:ss:ff

to get something to the nearest hour

for those that don't know ff is frames and for PAL there are 25 frames per second.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 October 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/timecode_spreadsheet.html

best i can find

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 28 October 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I found that already, it doesn't help unfortunately.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 October 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry it doesnt look possible without VBA coding, if i had time i'd try and knock something up.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 28 October 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe there's some way using that 25 is a factor of 100 and doing a calculation on 100's of seconds

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm actually really not bother about the frames bit. It parsing hh:mm:ss:ff, that's the problem.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

So I finally bought an external hard drive to house all my mp3s. Set it up last night, and after a few hours, my entire collection was copied to the new drive. Then I deleted the originals to free up space on my computer.

The problem now is that iTunes doesn't know what happened to the mp3s. If I try to play something, it says "The song could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" If I click yes, I can show it that's on the new hard drive. And then it'll play.

But is there a way to avoid doing this for every individual song on my computer?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 31 October 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Never mind -- figured it out!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 1 November 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Yesterday, out of the blue, my laptop started making a clicking/whirring noise from the vicinity of my hard drive. It sounded like the computer equivalent of a car that wouldn't start (except my computer was already on at the time). After a few minutes of this, the Blue Screen of Death came up, so I restarted the computer and it started giving me "hard drive not located" errors, so of course Windows wouldn't start. After several repeat attempts, it did restart properly, so I rebooted and ran a full diagnostics test, which didn't find any errors at all. After four hours of normal operation, the clicking came back and the computer died again -- "hard drive not located".

I got the idea that perhaps something had overheated, so I turned the computer off for forty minutes, and restarted it again. Since then, everything's worked fine, although I haven't been doing any kind of serious work with my computer.

Dell is sending me a new hard drive (I'm under warranty) ... so it'll be a pain in the ass to reinstall everything, but whatever. Now, assuming that the overheating is the problem, will it be solved with a new hard drive? What's stopping the next hard drive from overheating too? I removed the hard drive and examined it -- nothing appeared scratched or damaged at all. Is the real problem something else?

Your opinions would be appreciated!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you know what brand the drive is?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

my purchase order says it's a "Ultra ATA 40 GB"

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it sounds like your cooling fan is broken.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Except that the fan was tested during the diagnostic check (along with everything else) and it passed.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

are you going to trust a broken hard drive? ; )

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Exactly -- I don't trust it now. But I do want to be sure that the hard drive is the full extent of the problem, and not the fan or something else. I've only had the computer for nine months and I have had virtually no problems with it. It seems strange to me that the hard drive would suddenly implode.

Mechanical parts (such as fans or motors) -- those are the sorts of things which break down at a moment's notice.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Hard drives are moving parts, and more likely to break IMO than a fan. It sounds to me like something doesn't work right above a certain temperature, but that doesn't mean the temperature itself is the problem. It may start to fail at lower temperatures as it wears down more.

When you replace it try to clean out any dust from vents, etc. (Or from anywhere.)

― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

ok so my dad gave me this 256mb usb key & i deleted everything on it but os x seems to think that there's only ~70mb available! what's up with that

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

reformat it then

― svend (svend), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

in disk utility?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish my dad gave me stuff like that!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

he got a new one and i was hinting around!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone know of a good encryption system (for email and attachments) that works across windows and mac os x and integrates nicely with common mail tools?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

― LSD, called the aristocrat (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, there should be plenty of gpg front ends

like:

http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html

― LSD, called the aristocrat (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish my dad gave me stuff like that!

yes, so much nicer than the routine beatings fathers usually hand out

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

is this the newset borin computer questions thread?

my housemate has told me about this after her mum read bout it in the paper, but she doesnt know anythiong about computers

is it a scam? how could it work?

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 16 January 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I've been having trouble with my b!tt0rr3nt client, Azureus (and s1sk too, I bet) with closed ports, I'm always NATed. Since I'm on a school network, I can't really figure out what ports to forward to. (However, ports were openable w/ Azureus either before I upgraded to the new version of that or of Java Runtime Environment 1.5.) Yet, I notice that I'm able to set up most connections with other programs like mIRC. My question: can/should I check what ports mIRC is using and put it into Azureus?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I just fitted a wireless network card to the pci slot in my computer. Ever since, it has been acting up and now it isn't really working at all.

Soon after I fitted the card and got everything working so that I was on the internet the computer turned itself off - no warnings, just 'clunk' and it was off. Up on restarting it, it got stuck in a loop of getting to the point where the blue XP 'welcome' screen appears and then restarting again and again and again from the same point. after a while it started up fine and said it had recorvered from a serious error. Everything worked noramlly until I shut it down. when I started it up again, it got stuck in the same loop.

This happened a few times until last night when it restarted, got through all the dos stuff and now keeps hanging prior to the Windows XP screen (with the orange blobs scrolling left to right to make it look like it is loading).

I'm guessing this is pretty serious but is there anything I can do to sort this out other than taking it in to be repaired?

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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