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30 Nov 2007, 11:05 pm

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... it appears to load and then the computer says it can not find it....while it is plugged into my USB port and I have already loaded the instal software that came with it...

Maybe an easy one here...
A friend had exactly this problem, the other day, and it turned out that XP wouldn't talk to the camera until you pressed one of the buttons on the camera. Unfortunately, I can't recall which button, or indeed, how I found out. I think I Googled for it, or maybe it was in the camera manual/help?

Yup, it could be that simple or.... you bought a Kodak. They have their heads up the dark dark place with the software for their camera dock. We have two different docks in the house and I can get neither to work, no plug and play to them. I have even had the family pros try and they couldn't either. (pros, as in, computers are their day jobs) By pass it totally and let something like Adobe do the loading for you. That doesn't help with keeping your battery charged which mean a trip to an on line store or the mall for a battery charger. Andria uses Adobe PhotoShop Elements, freebie, to download pictures from her camera. Works very very well and no hassle. Sometimes you can get lucky with XP and have it link straight to the camera as well. All and all, XP has a very hard time with cameras, least so far in this house.

Yeah that link on the Sc-Fi page put this system through some pain. I never finished watching the thing, I got bored.

My computers and I. Strange relationship. If it doesn't do what I want, when I want, in an instantaneous manner, I hate it and it hates me. If I get to a site like the vid on the Sc-Fi channel, the computers pain is mine as if that little cherub on the Gerber Baby food jars was having hot pins pushed through it's chubby little cheeks. Normally I would enjoy that and like it even better if it was my kids instead of the actor baby. (He's really 32, smokes cigars, likes boob porn and plays the ponies. Just like my kids, except their vices and ages are more varied then that over paid jerk) However I gave birth to both of these computers and my mothers rage can do whatever it damn well feels like and for whatever reason. It does not have to make sense to the rest of the world. I was given the right by painful birth. I hate every wire in it because wires hate me, but it's mine, all mine and I love it faults and all. I know of no Socity of the Prevention of Cruelty to Computers, SPCC(TM), and until some uppity up decides to enforce their will on mine, I will always have the option, the threat of a hard wood 2x4 by my side, just like rising kids. I dared them to take mine, they wouldn't. Try to take my computers and you'll never get fully through the door, till you fall in your own pool of blood. A Mothers rage is not pretty and I am a mean Mother Ducker when it comes to mine. My kids? Anyone want em? I'll supply names and addresses, take the grand-kids too.

nope, thank you though, Postie. I found myself the other side of the coin, and have none of the accoutrement of family. I admire other's families, but would rather have it like it is.

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30 Nov 2007, 11:33 pm

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I was sitting at work tonight, knitting on a little baby jumper while 2 ladies quietly searched the many treasures. Suddenly out of nowhere, this little kitty popped into my head and I let out a very loud giggle. There are 2 customers who are now questioning the sanity of the brown haired lady. :roll:

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30 Nov 2007, 11:53 pm

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postpaleo wrote:

Anyone else looking forward to this one?

Tin Man link

Just for Alan Cumming's presence alone, I am so watching that when it airs here.

I like Alan Cumming, even though he annoys me sometimes. He has atrocious tastes in kilts.

I'm not sure what to think of this. I'll be watching though. Anything remotely watchable that airs on Sci Fi I try to watch.

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30 Nov 2007, 11:56 pm

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What OS are you using? XP or Vista? I suspect Vista, because that's what your "error" message sounds like - another of the irritating and pointless interferences from it. The other possibility would be Norton - they can be quite annoying too, when they keep trying to stop you doing what you want to do.

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So... technical enough?

Yes, thank you Lau. I am running Windows 2000 Pro, not enough memory or fast enough timing to upgrade to XP or Vista. I'm thinking of getting a second computer with more up to date stuff on it. This one runs fine, just can't keep up with all the demands like those mentioned above. It helps to know what was going on, though! Another reason that I keep hesitating to upgrade is all the complaints I'm hearing about XP and Vista.

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01 Dec 2007, 3:14 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9_ipu9GKw&feature=related[/youtube]

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01 Dec 2007, 3:41 am

As, what the hell, one more, for luck. I think Descanso just washed by....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I2bUhpuftk[/youtube]

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01 Dec 2007, 4:43 am

Hi aspiemartian! I haven't met you before.

I have had xp, and now I have vista. We didn't have any trouble with xp, but vista seems .. queroulous ... if that's how you spell it. I'll just have to get used to it.

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I think there must be some chronic learning disability that is so prevalent among NT's that it goes unnoticed by the "experts". Krex

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01 Dec 2007, 5:49 am

I went to Sydney today to see Miss Saigon. Social club group booking, MIL didn't want to go, so she gave me her ticket. I enjoyed it, but the sound FX were incredibly loud, and it's a relief to be home again.

Hello Robyn! Ms Typical Virgo Blue-Pencil Nitpicker says querulous. Good word, too. Fits how I feel just now.

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01 Dec 2007, 6:07 am

Hi SD. I'm a failed virgo!

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I think there must be some chronic learning disability that is so prevalent among NT's that it goes unnoticed by the "experts". Krex

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01 Dec 2007, 7:07 am

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Hi SD. I'm a failed virgo!

I might have failed that class too. Was it in high school? If so, I'm sure I did.

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01 Dec 2007, 7:41 am

I was in lurk mode when suddenly someone let the cats in..... Ahh Ahhh Atchooooo!! !! !!

Ahh Ahhh Atchoooo!! !!....
Anyone have a Benadryl?

Good morning peoples we got a big winter storm heading our way, the sort of stuff we
are supposed to see in February and not on the first day of December.

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01 Dec 2007, 7:45 am

Ai-yah! Got blankets, candles, canned food, etc.?

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01 Dec 2007, 7:54 am

Yes, hi, AspieMartian! Good point you made on the thread about wrong-sided brain surgery. When you are out for the count, and some scalpel-wielding person is poised over you, you do want them to be able to tell their right from their left. :lol:

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01 Dec 2007, 11:27 am

Doctors just forget if it is supposed to be their "right" or the patients' "right"....I always get that confused,(course,I do avoid opening up others skulls)Guess the point is...if you dyslexic,you better have the nurse put a safty pin in the area that is supposed to be operated on.

My dad told me it almost happened to him when he had a lung removed...the paperwork had the wrong lung written down.If he hadn't noticed,it would have killed him because the remaining lung was only 25% usable and had cancer...ooops.I have also heard that when some hospitals do apendage removal they have the patient draw on the limb to be removed with a perminate marker.I can imagine how fun this is for some people........they could draw a little -------------line for the DR to follow,leave little messages for him.

I did get my pics on my Kodak software sight.They have a pretty good enhancement feature and close-up sizing but nothing to adjust the "size".Still will take some experimenting to figure out how to use it.(They put all my after adjustment pics in a "serving tray" and keep the "pre adjustment ones",so it's confusing to delete using just a thumbnail and it seems to take forever to load each pic.

I also loaded the free trial of adobe photoshop.I had to move each picture to it from the kodak site because I can't seem to find an actual file for these pics in my computer...and the dang thing keeps telling me they dont exist?I'm off to try and figure this all out.
Wish me luck(who is the patran saint of computers???I think I could sell them in my store....I'd buy one.)

Also had an idea for a shirt but can't remember if I have seen it some where or if it is an original idea(isn't that weird?)

Idea......

A picture of zombie with a blood mustach with a caption underneath.......Got Brains?(Or is that tooo 1990's?)

Another...

I was.....
to young for disco
to old for rave
guess I'll be punk
from highschool to grave

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01 Dec 2007, 11:31 am

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Ai-yah! Got blankets, candles, canned food, etc.?

Yeah, I have all that stuff ready for just in case the power goes out. I might get myself a portable propane space heater at Walmart
later.

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01 Dec 2007, 11:33 am

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Oh, SD! I saw "Miss Saigon" ten, twelve years ago on Broadway in New York City. The 'helicopter' landing on stage was incredibly stressful and the raked stage for the massive demonstrations I almost could not sit through! During the interval between acts, I was chatting with the people around me, like you do, you know, and mentioned it was a pretty good update and adaptation of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" and the sophisticated woman in front of me said "oh? I hadn't seen it." Come to find out ALL of my seat mates had no idea to what I was referring! Well, that told me immediately a few things, most of which was no wonder they could trot it out on the stage world wide when it was all brand new to them!

Merle

By the way, SD, I have MS Internet Explorer as a browser and have installed the Google Toolbar that has a spell checker that can't be beat! I scan before I post and that is why everything gets spelled so tidily.

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