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by **Garm** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:13 pm UTC

SlyReaper wrote:Screech: my router needs resetting almost every day now. When it was new, it didn't need resetting at all. Is it buggered, or is it my ISP screwing around with the exchange or something?

Dunno why a router would need resetting more as it grows older.

by **pseudoidiot** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:14 pm UTC

Yeah, I'd be curious what the actual symptoms are that your'e rebooting because of.

by **Ubik** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:16 pm UTC

Maybe it has collected dust into its insides and is now overheating. Or maybe it was always overheating because of bad design or low quality parts, and now it has started to show as the parts have started to get bad.

by **emceng** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:22 pm UTC

Anyone have a suggestion for a website to create a custom book? Not like a vanity press. I want to make a cookbook for my parents of all the family favorites, and include pictures of the finished products. So small run of maybe 5 books.

by **Angua** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:25 pm UTC

My boyfriend's family have done a couple of things where you get a photo album printed in book form - you design it online, and then they send you the copies. That's in the UK but I'm sure you can find similar things in the US. He's not here right now - but maybe googling photo album books might help?

by **roband** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:27 pm UTC

What Angua said. You can add custom text to them too, so a recipe would definitely be possible.

by **I Am Raven** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:27 pm UTC

Oh I remember this feeling. Yep. I guess I'm crushing on someone again.

/

by **Angua** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:32 pm UTC

roband wrote:What Angua said. You can add custom text to them too, so a recipe would definitely be possible.

Even if for some reason you couldn't add text, it shouldn't be too hard to turn your text files into photos to just slot them in!

by **emceng** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:36 pm UTC

Thanks. I'll have to look around.

by **pseudoidiot** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:41 pm UTC

Hell, depending on exactly what you want, you can do stuff like that with Office Depot or kinko's.

I made a Christmas present of a cookbook a couple years ago. Most recipes had accompanying pictures along with section dividers and the like. It was relatively easy to put together. But somewhere like lulu.com or something might be a better deal.

by **RollingHead** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:01 pm UTC

roband wrote:Lots of awkwardness today. I like the word awkward. Something about the letters 'wkw' in that order in the middle of the word.

I hate how the italian language doesn't have a good translation for "awkward".

by **bluebambue** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:34 pm UTC

Most custom "books" I've seen like that (including a couple of recipe ones) were spiral bound. I think that may be the cheaper/easier way to go. I think it just requires printing out the pages (or have someone print them out for you) and then go to Kinko's or similar to have them use their spiffy spiral binding machine.

by **philsov** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:10 pm UTC

emceng wrote:Anyone have a suggestion for a website to create a custom book? Not like a vanity press. I want to make a cookbook for my parents of all the family favorites, and include pictures of the finished products. So small run of maybe 5 books.

Shutterfly?

I'd imagine you'd next to turn text into images and maybe do some frankensteining on your back end, but past that it might be worth checking out. Dunno first thing about their prices, but the quality is rather good.

by **SlyReaper** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:56 pm UTC

pseudoidiot wrote:Yeah, I'd be curious what the actual symptoms are that your'e rebooting because of.

It randomly decides to stop connecting to the Internet, even though the little WiFi icon on my taskbar insists it still has internet access.

by **Angua** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:11 pm UTC

emceng wrote:Thanks. I'll have to look around.

I think this is the UK one.

http://www.photobox.co.uk/shop/photo-books

by **ameretrifle** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:33 am UTC

...You know, this whole "only bothering to post things when I'm annoyed" thing has me in perpetual fear of logging in to find I've been banned from a subforum. (or insert-applicable-social-network-analogue-here)

I should probably do something about that.

That isn't my usual default of saying nothing at all.

(posting this might help)

by **The Scyphozoa** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:43 am UTC

Banned from a subforum HERE? I don't think that's against any rules. So long as you're not, like, posting things that belong in the Rant Thread in the Awesome Thread instead.

by **Cathy** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:18 am UTC

Usually bans seem to go to blatant and repeat offenders. Like being unpardonably rude in a safespace. Or spamming Serious Business.

You're probably ok.

by **ameretrifle** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:52 am UTC

I know. Being social without fretting is obviously something I am still working on, even in things like the fora. XD

But thanks

by **UniqueScreenname** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:41 am UTC

RollingHead wrote:
roband wrote:Lots of awkwardness today. I like the word awkward. Something about the letters 'wkw' in that order in the middle of the word.

I hate how the italian language doesn't have a good translation for "awkward".

I looked it up and it said scomodo. Please tell this italian student why that isn't good enough.

by **Garm** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:58 am UTC

SlyReaper wrote:
pseudoidiot wrote:Yeah, I'd be curious what the actual symptoms are that your'e rebooting because of.

It randomly decides to stop connecting to the Internet, even though the little WiFi icon on my taskbar insists it still has internet access.

Sounds like the problem is on the other side of your router so to speak. By which I mean your router is providing wireless signal but may have been cut off from the intrawebs for any one of a variety of reasons. Doubt I'm telling you anything you don't know. Point is that getting a new router quite possibly won't fix the problem.

by **Ubik** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:53 am UTC

The router probably has an administration interface in an address like 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.1 (the manual of the device tells the default address and the username/password). If you can get there when there's an outage, you will possibly see some sort of status report on the connection, and you can also be more certain that the problem is not with the box itself.

by **Menacing Spike** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:45 pm UTC

New favorite porn title:

His ass is a mangina

by **UniqueScreenname** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:05 pm UTC

BTW, my router was messing up because the wires connected to it were getting old and crappy. Try getting new wires.

by **Van** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:47 pm UTC

Dicopomorpha echmepterygis is a parasitic wasp in the family Mymaridae. The males of this species are the smallest of all known insects. They are blind and wingless and may be no more than 0.139 mm (139 μm) in length.

by **Angua** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:50 pm UTC

Are they the ones that never make it out of the nest?

by **Ubik** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:58 pm UTC

Wasp police 1: Hey, looks like we have a grower here!
(Wasp police 2 takes out a tape measure)
Wasp police 2: Yup, the reading is 139.7 μm.
Wasp police 1: You see that, scumbag? That's .7 μm more than you're allowed to be. Now sure, it's less than one micrometer, but that doesn't mean it doesn't count. Hell, even .3 would be too much, or .2 or...you see where this is going.
Wasp police 2: What he means is that we're going to take you in, and if - if, not when - if you'll ever get out, you'll be sorry to correct your posture. Ever. Again.
(Wasp police 1 points at a book)
Wasp police 1: It reads here, folks of your kind just may not be longer 139 μm. It's no laughing matter, it's the rule!

by **Menacing Spike** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:34 pm UTC

Aren't drunk wasps thrown out of the nest with their legs chewed off also?

by **You, sir, name?** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:57 pm UTC

This morning I was rudely awakened by the sun shining in on my face. It was like "*400 yottawatts of hydrogen fusion straight in my face* Oh? Were you trying to sleep? Lololol"

D:

by **Menacing Spike** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:57 pm UTC

You, sir, name? wrote:This morning I was rudely awakened by the sun shining in on my face. It was like "*400 yottawatts of hydrogen fusion straight in my face* Oh? Were you trying to sleep? Lololol"

D:

Yeah, the window of my flat doesn't have shutters, so I taped towels to close the parts curtains did not cover.

by **phlip** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:18 pm UTC

Van wrote:0.139 mm (139 mm)

... What?

[edit] Oh, Lynx just messed up with its Unicode translation again. I see.

[edit 2] Interestingly, it'll translate U+00B5 MICRO SIGN (µ) into ASCII as "u", but U+03BC GREEK SMALL LETTER MU (μ) as "m"... I guess that makes sense.

by **Van** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:43 pm UTC

Weird. I totally assumed text only browsers weren't really in use these days.

Is that like a work related thing? Like, not wanting to risk NSFW images/scripts/whatever? Or is this your Preferred Browser™?

by **phlip** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:25 am UTC

Yeah, it's a work thing... it's slightly less recognisable as "wasting time on the web" at a glance than, say, Firefox...

by **Steax** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:59 am UTC

Hmm, either ReCAPTCHA thinks I'm a bot, or it's trying to screw everyone with impossible-to-decipher text.

... Or they're cleverly catching bots by deliberately placing unreadable text, forcing humans to refresh.

Hm.

by **SlyReaper** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:20 am UTC

Ubik wrote:The router probably has an administration interface in an address like 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.1 (the manual of the device tells the default address and the username/password). If you can get there when there's an outage, you will possibly see some sort of status report on the connection, and you can also be more certain that the problem is not with the box itself.

Can't be accessed during these "episodes". Get the same error as when trying to load a website.

by **Giant Speck** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:35 pm UTC

It's bad enough that I decided to go for a run at night. It's even worse that I decided to do it when it's only 38°F with 20+ mile per hour winds.

by **Zarq** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:40 pm UTC

Giant Speck wrote:It's bad enough that I decided to go for a run at night. It's even worse that I decided to do it when it's only 38°F with 20+ mile per hour winds.

Weren't you used to Alaskan temperatures?

Disclaimer: I didn't convert the temperature to °C so I don't really know what temperature we're talking about.

by **roband** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:42 pm UTC

Zarq wrote:
Giant Speck wrote:It's bad enough that I decided to go for a run at night. It's even worse that I decided to do it when it's only 38°F with 20+ mile per hour winds.

Weren't you used to Alaskan temperatures?

Disclaimer: I didn't convert the temperature to °C so I don't really know what temperature we're talking about.

A little over 3 degrees Celsius.

by **Giant Speck** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:02 pm UTC

Zarq wrote:
Giant Speck wrote:It's bad enough that I decided to go for a run at night. It's even worse that I decided to do it when it's only 38°F with 20+ mile per hour winds.

Weren't you used to Alaskan temperatures?

Disclaimer: I didn't convert the temperature to °C so I don't really know what temperature we're talking about.

Yes, but I didn't go outside and run in shorts and a T-shirt in Alaska at those temperatures. I may have gotten so used to the cold winters that 38°F felt warm, but it was still cold enough that shorts were a no-no.

by **UniqueScreenname** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:05 pm UTC

It was gonna be in the 50s the other night and I was gonna wear long sleeves when I went running. That wind chill really gets you.

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