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The Screen Savers: June 3, 2004 [The Screen Savers: June 3, 2004]

submariner — Mon, 17 May 2004 18:55:37 GMT

Take a look at this show, when they pan to the audience as they normally do eventually, look for me. I won't be hard to spot, I'll be wearing my summer working white uniform!

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OT: Comcast Fires ENTIRE TechTV Staff [OT: Comcast Fires ENTIRE TechTV Staff]

submariner — Fri, 07 May 2004 19:46:17 GMT

It looks like Comcast has given everybody at TechTV the 60-day notice. TechTV's San Francisco operations will cease as of July. I don't want to hear any macfanboy junk about it, either, as this affects all geeks everywhere. It's the death of an icon. Leo Laporte details what he can in his weblog: http://leo.typepad.com/tlr/2004/05/comcast_fires_t.html

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See SPOT [watch] RESET?!? [See SPOT [watch] RESET?!?]

submariner — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:39:13 GMT

I've had my Fossil/Abacus SPOT Watch for about a couple months now, and today it did something odd... TWICE... it apparently reset itself or something, as twice I've looked at my watch only to discover it's reset to 0:18 and it's January 1, 2003. What's the deal here? I don't live in a service area (yet), but get service when I travel to Hartford or Providence. So, what's the deal with the resets? it's rather a pain, especially twice in a day. FYI, the battery still shows a 77% charge, so it's not low... nor have I gotten it wet.

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Excel XP -> Excel v.X Macro Problems [Excel XP -> Excel v.X Macro Problems]

submariner — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:04:03 GMT

Here's a question for the Office gurus out there... I have an Excel worksheet I need to work on. It was created on Excel 97, and I can open update, and save it fine in Excel XP, however, when i try to open it in Excel v.X (10.1.5) I get errors on opening the file stating "Run-time error "57121": Cant exit design mode because Control 'ComboBox1' can not be created." Of the four buttons (Continue, End, Debug, Help) only "End" and "Help" are avaliable to choose, and help tells me to enable macros. I'd LOVE to, but it's not letting me. This worksheet has several pulldown boxes I need to use. Argh! is there any help for this? I need to use this worksheet, and running Excel XP in VirtualPC is an option, though only a last resort (for speed reasons).

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