October 03, 2005

things computer-related

one: i'm beginning to hold back and disable commenting abilities on older entries in an effort to stem the tide of spam-comments - i spent a lot of time this morning deleting some 200 spam comments. this isn't a problem anyway, since nobody ever posts comments to anything but the current, front page entries, anyway.

two: i'm trying to burn mp3 dvds on my external drive. but there's some perverse trick happening. first off, in order to burn on my external, i need to put a dvd-rom program disc (for the burning program) in my internal drive. (my internal cd-burner, dvd-reader drive has decided it doesn't like burning, hence my external burner.) anyway, my internal drive won't recognize the program disc and keeps spitting it out. so i can't burn any dvds. it's brilliant, really.

three: i used iTunes music store in abundance recently. i love the service, but i wish that they wouldn't distribute the music as .aac files. i understand the logic behind it, but it's still annoying. oh well.

Posted by iain at October 3, 2005 01:26 PM
Comments

I completely de-spam the blogs every couple of days, so I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. However, if you want to go through and keep your blog more consistently spam-free, we have MT-Blacklist installed, a plug-in that is really helpful for deleting spam comments. Ask me about it if you're interested in using it yourself; it is slightly broken (it doesn't block things the way it should anymore, for some reason), but it still searches and deletes just fine.

Posted by: jen at October 3, 2005 06:34 PM

Is it not possible to completely disable the internal so the computer doesn't see it at all and run only the external?

Posted by: Elizabeth at October 3, 2005 07:05 PM

Uh, what? I'm sorry; I have no idea what you mean.

Posted by: jen at October 4, 2005 07:01 AM

hehe... i think lig is talking about the dvd-burner whereas you are talking about the spam...

Posted by: iain at October 4, 2005 10:01 AM

Yes, yes I am. Sorry I didn't put more descriptive words in there. Monday's at work will do that to you!

Posted by: Elizabeth at October 4, 2005 01:17 PM

Oh, gotcha. :)

Posted by: jen at October 4, 2005 06:37 PM