Random Post of Randomness

[donutsweeper]

1) Just in case LJ goes poof I created an account over at IJ with the oh so original name, donutsweeper.  I friended a few people whose IJ's I knew, but if I missed you please drop me a note so I can friend you.  I don't plan on using the journal unless LJ does disappear, but I really don't want to lose my friends.

2) Today, instead of sitting in a staff meeting today I was home playing solitare on my (at the time) internetless computer.  A much better way to spend my time I think.

Comments

[snufflesdbear.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've been on IJ for more than awhile. I am sylumgator and have friended you. Now, get Semagic, and you can post to both journals at the same time. A lot of time at the library I can only access IJ, and not LJ.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Semagic? What is it and how does it work?

[snufflesdbear.livejournal.com]

crap. I was afraid you would ask that :-) here, best place in thier LJ site
http://community.livejournal.com/ljwin32_sema/
The trick is to get it to talk to both journal's at once. I need to look up my notes on that. I'll get back to you, okay? :-)

[snufflesdbear.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, check out maybe my links. Stewardess gets lots of good info, http://asylums.insanejournal.com/07refugees/ is a place to join for more info.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/announcements/ for official announcements from Squeaky himself.
ahhhh.... here goes.... http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/snapetoy/16797.html

NOTE: at #2 IIRC, it's username+IJ (LJ, etc)

"Most of us are using the same username across the LJ clones (GJ, IJ, JF and others). Because we're using the same username, we think that we only have one login when Semagic starts - it opens at the login screen with our username, and then we're manually changing the server to post to in from the File menu under Server settings.

Friends, this is not so! We can set up multiple logins with the same username!

1/ Log out of Semagic
2/ At the login screen, in the username field type username lj. Now put in your LJ password into the password field. Don't hit enter or click Login yet!
3/ Tick both the boxes for Remember Password and Auto-Login.
4/ Click the File menu and then Server settings.
5/ Make sure www.livejournal.com is selected as the server. Click OK.
6/ Click Login.

Now repeat steps 1 - 6 with your other journals, replacing username lj with username clone-abbreviation and the Server settings with the clone address.

You'll find that at your Login screen, you'll now have multiple login options. :)

For example, mine are:
- snapetoy lj - www.livejournal.com
- snapetoy gj - www.greatestjournal.com
- snapetoy jf - www.journalfen.net
- snapetoy ij - www.insanejournal.com

I've deliberately chosen to include LJ in that list, as I may end up defaulting to another journal service, so I didn't want to prefer LJ.

The latest build of Semagic allows you to Post to Multiple Journals from the Journal menu. Ticky box the ones you want to post to!"

I wouldn't normally post all that, but with GreatestJournal, you never know how long they will be around for, you know? I got the link off the User Info area of the 07refugees.

If you have problems, give me a yowl.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

thanks for digging up all that info!

[snufflesdbear.livejournal.com]

I didn't dig, I stumbled. Literally. People think I am Ianto, I am more...um... Owen? Things just sort of fall into place sometimes.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

sometimes it's all about being in the right place at the right time. *nods*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'll bookmark it to read it later when comcast isnt messing with my internet. Thanks!

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I heart Semagic. I wish I could use it on the computer I have now. Not only was it good for posting to more than one journal site at once, but I could be logged in to one LJ on my browser and another in Semagic and I could edit things that way.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Why won't it work on your new computer? (I forget its name, sorry, April was the old one, yes?)

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

You're right, April was the old one, good memory! Pidge is my new one, and she's an ultracompact EeePC and runs a Linux OS. They made the EeePCs really easy to use... unless you want to do any customizing or update any software. Then you have to know Linux, which I don't, and learning on my own hasn't been easy, the forums are not very n00b friendly.

So basically, if there's software I can't use on Pidge, it's because a) there's not a version for Linux or b) there is a version for Linux but I don't know how to install it (or how to install an update). I can't even install Firefox 3.0, which I think is why I can't use Read It Later.

::shrug:: It's not a very common problem. Semagic was wonderful on my PC!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh that's too bad that people aren't willing to help you figure out Pidge. I hate people who act like that

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's not so much that people are actively unfriendly, I just find the forums intimidating because they use a lot of Linux geek-speak I can't follow, and it's not an atmosphere where people easily speak up and say "Could you tell me step-by-step in language your 70-year-old PC using Aunt Mildred would understand?" What I need to do is buy a book. Ooh. ::adds to list::

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

maybe the library has a 'linux for dummies' book?

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

That's kind of what I was thinking. I've been thinking about it for months and keep forgetting! Though with as long as it takes for me to get around to reading these days, I'd probably do better to find a cheap used copy on Amazon Marketplace or something.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

any used bookstores near you?