A long night ahead

After getting my new MBP just before the weekend and spending all weekend syncing my idisk with it, this is just what I didn't want.
Updated to iweb 1.1 and added search and comments to my blog pages, hit publish to .mac and was told that 1.1 is more efficient and did I want to republish my whole site. Well actually I did (eventually) but with 1.7 Gb of website, I figured I'd do it a bit at a time and chose only to update my blog pages.
After a few failures, where iweb couldn't read my idisk quota, I decided to log on to .mac to take a look at my quota, even though I knew there should be no problems. Anyhow simply taking a look seemed to solve the problem (or was it just coincidence) as next try it published OK.
However when I tried looking with my browser my blog had disappeared, I decided to sync with my idisk to see what was going on. 544 files later I have the answer, iweb has given the folder with my blog in it a different name, so all my links to that page will be broken and I need to republish them all.
So I figure I'll republish a few pages at a time so as to avoid tearing my hair out when after publishing for 4 1/2 hrs there is an error and I have to start again. Unfortunately I didn't get the option to publish only the selected pages this time and iweb has now set about republishing my whole website (all 1.7 Gb)
Already had one failed publish due to an error with a file (supposedly) but 2nd time it seems to have passed that file. Fingers crossed for an error free publish, but I won't hold my breath. Even when I get my site republished, I have the big wait while 4 macs in total then sync with my idisk.
It would be nice if I could publish to a folder and then upload manually a bit at a time, by placing it bit by bit in my local copy of my idisk, but that didn't work for me in 1.0.1 why should it now and I reckon it's too early for any one to have any experience with such a procedure under 1.1.

Still trying to publish, keep getting the usual errors, (quota and file error), I rather think my idisk keep running a sync doesn't help. Something must be going on though because I now have 5,920 files that need syncing via idisk.

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Over 30,000 contacts listed in my backup assistant. Help!

I have somehow been able to accumulate over 30,000 contacts listed in my backup assistant/Verizon online contacts. How do I delete them or get someone at Verizon to delete them?

Chrsp wrote:
I have somehow been able to accumulate over 30,000 contacts listed in my backup assistant/Verizon online contacts. How do I delete them or get someone at Verizon to delete them?
Ouch, long night ahead in your near future. You can log on to your My Verizon account, mouse over My Services, click on Backup Assistant in that list. Now you can either mouse over each contact and delete each one that you don't want, or you can mouse over the contact and click the check mark to the right on each contact on that screen that you don't want. After you have checked all the contacts you don't want, up at the top of that window, right above the the contacts and below the letter index is a small box that says "Actions", click on that box and click on delete, it will ask you if you are sure you want to delete these contacts.
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You know you've been on these boards too long...

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I just had this long involved thread about the appropriateness of the XML format for the ant tool config file, as well as the general question of the use of ant at all. Of course jschell came down on the anti-ant side of things (I suspect as a more of a "devil's advocate" position) and things got a little heated, you know how it is. Now you way be wondering where this very interesting thread is. Well, I'd post a link but I can't*, since it was in my dream. Shudder.
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Well, I feel like an idiot, but sometimes the biggest problems have the simplest solutions. I actually did not have my PC set to adjust for daylight savings time. So I turned it on, then had to manually set the clock back an hour. Now the appointments in Outlook are at the correct time and when I sync my iPhone it no longer moves ahead one hour after.
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Screwy Desktop After Last Update

Rather than type again. I'm gonna copy and paste. I was in the wrong place. Thanks for the help, BDAqua.
I am late doing my updates. I have a friend who has broadband. I usually go to his place to do it. I'm on dialup. So I waited and waited. But it wasn't gonna happen anytime soon. My friend got sick and then sicker at the hospital. As it stands he's a lot better. But he's gonna be a the hospital for a least another month. I'm so gland he's gonna make it. The guy almost died twice. I got a horrorible phone call in the middle of the night from his girlfriend saying the doctor said he doesn't believe he will live through the night. I don't think I cried more that night since my dad died. If he ever decided to get another tattoo it should read "Chuck Norris - Beta". He proved the doctors wrong and lived. Right now he has a tracheostomy and a tube going into his stomach for feeding. I can't imagine the horrors he has gone through. He's gonna pull through, but he has a long voyage ahead of him.
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Thank you Miss Samit.
I've done as you wrote.
I've recreated my desktop locations. My original plan was to boot off my clone drive and take a screen snap, move it to a flash drive and use it to map my desktop. But then recalled my friend's advice - NEVER change the clone. So I decided to boot off the drive and take out some paper and write out the layout. Restart from my laptop and do the deed.
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Any tips for 'challenging!' multi-cam edit?

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Niall Mallyon wrote:
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... and now it's all ok?? ... or are you getting what I am getting ?
-i.e. .... loads of different applications complaining that =this or that certificate is invalid etc - even if you change the trust settings !!!! $&^&( aaarghhhhh)
I am cross enough to join you at the wall down there for a spot of head butting that wall !!
I think you are just about to suffer the issue I am - guess what ... some of those apple certificates have just gone out of date today/yesterday .........
can we download some new ones from...... now lets see....... ummmmm .... hey APPLE !! can you send us some in date ones in an 'update' (good name for it really)
still cross, in london, tired now too as 12:48 in morning/night whatever, big long day ahead tomorrow to
I have also posted about this in another thread - BDAqua has been trying to help me (thanks) but I am trawling around these other threads in the vain hope that one of them will contain the secret 'fix'
hows the head WZZZ ??!!
Best regards
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To name a few, I have to select from:
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Java Class Library (is this an Applet?)
Web Application
Enterprise Application
EJB Module
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Hi WolRon
I am in the process of learning Java myself and from what i have read, you have a long road ahead of you!
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Applets - if this is going to an online game
Multiple Threads - for the Server side
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And knowledge of a database.
those are the most obvious things that you will need to understand.
I strongly suggest buying a Java book from which you need to start at the beginning. Although the concept of OOP is the same through most languages Java has terms - as do all languages- that will be different from the other languages. Starting at the beginning will be beneficial to your Java coding future.
Good luck.

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