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using pidgin/trillian i can automatically back up my chats to convenient plain text logs. using google chat i understand that chats are backed up to the google servers and you can search through them through gmail.com However i was wondering if there was anyway i could get a local copy of these chats preferably in plain text form? Maybe a program or script to help accomplish this? Thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by thesonofmorgoth
at 8:22 PM on July 15, 2008
(3 comments)
The end of Moore’s influence came when, years later, she tried to block the publication of a book by E. B. White. Watching Moore stand in the way of “Stuart Little,” White’s editor, Ursula Nordstrom, remembered, was like watching a horse fall down, its spindly legs crumpling beneath its great weight.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole
at 5:04 PM on July 14, 2008
(30 comments)
So, I have about 1400 CDs and I'd like to be able to listen to them at any time from a server at several locations through out the house.
Whats new in the world of media servers?
posted to Ask Metafilter by softlord
at 8:32 PM on July 7, 2008
(21 comments)
Malor - your arguments have to stand on their own merits without bringing other people's names up.
posted to MetaTalk by Mutant
at 7:43 PM on June 27, 2008
(76 comments)
Where can I find statistics on the number of users for different instant messaging networks (aim, yahoo, google talk, icq, msn and so on) over time?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nolnar
at 9:03 AM on May 7, 2008
(1 comment)
I'm looking for a VOIP provider that doesn't suck. Can anyone recommend one?
posted to Ask Metafilter by krisak
at 5:35 PM on April 22, 2008
(14 comments)
Recommendation for professional 35mm slide scanning services, either through the mail or in the Washington D.C. metro area. Best recommendation for extremely long term archival storage of slides. About 400-500 slides.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Pastabagel
at 9:41 AM on April 28, 2008
(7 comments)
Prosecuting someone for a crime that someone has already been convicted of?
posted to Ask Metafilter by yesno
at 2:42 PM on February 14, 2008
(15 comments)
What naked games or exercises can I play with my partner that are intimate, loving and/ or fun but don't necessarily involve sex?
posted to Ask Metafilter by The_Partridge_Family
at 10:16 AM on October 11, 2007
(39 comments)
Any way we can get an input box on the 'add as contact' page so that we can enter something that only we can see (on our own profile page) as to why we're adding someone as a contact? I find the provided options useless and I'd like to leave myself a note as to why I've added someone. Often, I'd even like to "link" them to a specific comment/post.
posted to MetaTalk by dobbs
at 10:41 AM on February 11, 2008
(42 comments)
How much of my GLASS do I drink when I drink a glass of water?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Eiwalker
at 7:23 AM on February 12, 2008
(10 comments)
Defining Upstate New York as "anything within the state further north than Westchester," what documented bizarre historical events - large or small - have transpired in Upstate New York since the late 19th century or so?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sticherbeast
at 10:16 AM on February 11, 2008
(20 comments)
In your opinion, who are the best female science fiction authors? What are the best scifi books written by women?
posted to Ask Metafilter by taz
at 4:52 AM on February 8, 2008
(106 comments)
Perepiteia.
Thane Heins, who named his invention after a Greek word meaning an action that "has the opposite effect to that intended," has perhaps created a...perpetual motion machine. His
20-year obsession has broken up his marriage and lost him custody of his two young daughters. Contraption stumps
MIT professor. Is it a
hysteresis brake? Or a scam. YOU decide.
posted to MetaFilter by wallstreet1929
at 8:54 PM on February 9, 2008
(76 comments)
I'm looking for a showcase/inspiration gallery of imageless (or at least minimal graphics) pure CSS web designs. I figured this would totally have been done as a "Top X" list somewhere, but it doesn't seem to exist. Not necessarily "minimalist" design, but what can be done with great colour, layout, typography, and clever CSS.
posted to Ask Metafilter by stephthegeek
at 5:07 PM on February 4, 2008
(9 comments)
I'm looking for a (good) Mac word processor with some sort of GUI for viewing and navigating among multiple open RTF and text documents, a la the TextWrangler document drawer. I specifically want the documents to remain their own separate entities, as opposed to being gathered in a database or project file as with Scrivener or Mori. A pleasing appearance would be a bonus. I'd also be interested if there's a Linux app that does this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by viscountslim
at 9:38 PM on February 3, 2008
(20 comments)
We need to buy two rackmount servers that will play nice with Xen (and Linux). Budget: approx $10k. Can you suggest a configuration, brand, and/or vendor?
posted to Ask Metafilter by fishfucker
at 1:16 PM on January 28, 2008
(30 comments)
Where can I find a fitness center where I can jog/bike/elliptical while browsing the internet? I live in Clifton (Centreville, Northern Virginia), I can drive as necessary. I don't want to bring bulky equipment into the house unless it's really the only option. Convenience (driving distance, hours of operation, not having to fight over equipment) is more of a factor then price.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anaelith
at 12:05 PM on April 8, 2007
(8 comments)
Despite my very best efforts, I got scammed on eBay. Now my only recourse is to sue someone who lives in Chicago, while I live in DC. I know YANML, but can people provide me with an idea of how difficult and expensive this might be? I would need to be able to subpoena information from a couple of companies.
posted to Ask Metafilter by procrastination
at 3:17 PM on January 21, 2008
(17 comments)
Is our 401(k) protected through ERISA (or anything else) if the institution where funds are housed goes belly-up tomorrow?
posted to Ask Metafilter by quinoa
at 7:58 AM on January 18, 2008
(9 comments)
I'm taking a letterpress class and need inspiration for things to print.
posted to Ask Metafilter by melodykramer
at 7:20 PM on January 16, 2008
(20 comments)
Looking for a cheap NAS enclosure (~$50) - interested in ximeta netdisk, but I'd rather go with something that doesn't require a software install. For $100ish I could build a cheap VIA C3/C7 server, but a simple HD enclosure would be better. I'm planning to run it off a WRT54g, and have heard that ximeta's get slow wifi performance - could I watch videos over the connection (300mb/hr divx), or would I be restricted to backup and music? If so, what's the cheapest NAS enclosure that isn't a POS that can manage mp3's over wifi?
Something that could do bittorrent would be great, but they seem much more costly.
Most important, I want a NAS that will spin down when not in use so it doesn't kill my non-enterprise HD.
posted to Ask Metafilter by lrodman
at 11:47 PM on January 3, 2008
(7 comments)
Oh, deer.
"The catching was slow and they looked back to check their lines. They saw what appeared to be a seal with its snout out of the water, but they didn't think any seals were around their fishing grounds and they kept watching."
posted to MetaFilter by mr_crash_davis
at 1:29 PM on October 20, 2007
(73 comments)
NewsFilter:
"A Montgomery minister found in his home this summer died with his hands and feet bound behind his back and dressed in two rubberized suits, an offical autopsy showed. ... The Rev. Gary Michael Aldridge was found dead June 24. Police ruled the 51-year-old pastor of Thorington Road Baptist Church was alone at the time of his death and that there was no foul play involved."
He's a
Liberty University graduate and former Liberty dean.
posted to MetaFilter by ibmcginty
at 2:55 PM on October 12, 2007
(133 comments)
Help me solve the mystery of an obscure 2D barcode, indexing historically valuable documents from the Vietnam war!
posted to Ask Metafilter by garfy3
at 9:02 AM on September 22, 2007
(29 comments)
Does a Network Storage Link for a firewire HDD and OS X exist?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cahlers
at 7:24 AM on July 31, 2007
(9 comments)
For nearly two decades, fifty computers have been running day and night on an extremely complex problem. Today, scientists from the University of Alberta announced the result of all that work - they have
solved the game of checkers. Chinook, the computer program they developed, can never be beaten -
try for yourself. While checkers is the most complicated game to be solved so far, it is
not the only one. You can play a
perfect game of tic-tac-toe, of course, but also
connect four, and a 6x6 board of the game
othello. Chess players are already
thinking ahead to when their game is solved, with
Advanced Chess being Gary Kasparov's answer. The hardest game to completely solve might be Go, which
may not be solved until 2100.
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah
at 7:02 PM on July 19, 2007
(76 comments)
I distinctly remember reading a thread in AskMe a few weeks (?) ago, where someone was asking, in a nutshell, 'how do I get sent to Iraq as a defense contractor?' It might not have been that, exactly, but it related to jobs as a defense contractor, or maybe overseas jobs in general, or maybe just 'dangerous jobs.' I think it specifically mentioned the idea of defense contracting (Blackwater, etc.), and the question related to how one gets their foot in the door.
I can't find this, using any combination of searches or tags, looking under all the logical terms (jobs, employment, iraq, all combinations thereof).
Does anyone else remember or have a link to this thread? Or did I just totally hallucinate it?
posted to MetaTalk by Kadin2048
at 1:22 AM on July 16, 2007
(9 comments)
Newlyweds in DC planning a quick weekend honeymoon up in
Harper's Ferry, WV. Difficulty: carless.
posted to Ask Metafilter by brownpau
at 2:49 PM on June 22, 2007
(7 comments)
Now that I found out the XBox 360 won't have Xvid support in the Media Extender (thanks M$), what alternative media streamer would the mighty filter suggest to view the LOADS of Xvid (and perhaps x.264 HD) content on my PC via my HDTV over a wired network connection?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lattiboy
at 10:32 AM on May 1, 2007
(12 comments)
I remember reading a book about a young girl living in an underground city. She decides to escape for some reason, and ends up taking a young boy with her too. They journey up to the surface, evading capture by some sort of authority figure. Help me! I want my daughter to read this. (It's a young adult book)
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmicbandito
at 8:28 AM on April 25, 2005
(14 comments)
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