About the only advantage I see to this is the "up to 320k", whereas Amazon's are 160k I believe.
160 kbit is a bit marginal, but Amazon's MP3s are encoded at 256 kbit. For most people who aren't audiophiles, this is indistinguishable from the original CD.
By default AVG Free 8.0 will also delete a ZIP file if it finds a virus inside. No moving the ZIP file to AVG's Virus Vault - it just deletes it outright. I lost some e-mail because of this.
I've heard of the file copy issues with Vista from a few different sources but haven't seen anyone try to investigate the cause. I'm curious about that. As I understand it, Windows Explorer uses the CopyFile() or CopyFileEx() functions to copy files (duh). I don't have a copy of Vista to test, but presumably it uses the latter, and perhaps there's some oddball copy-protection code in it like another posted suggested. Or maybe it's just some other weird bug. Either way, one simple thing to try out would be to test the performance of a file copy using your own code, only using fopen(), fread(), fwrite() & fclose(). Those I/O functions will map to lower level Windows API calls, but you will at least avoid calling CopyFile().
Having said all that, it's odd that not everyone has experienced performance problems copying files, so maybe it's a driver issue, eg. faulty DMA code.
It would be nice if Python was supplied with Windows (as it is with Apple OS X), but it's not a lot of trouble to download and install. Having it not supplied by default may be a good thing as it will tend to stop people writing Python code for a particular version of Python, and eliminates problems upgrading the supplied version to a newer one (which I understand can be a bit of an issue with OS X).
Most people can freely download a whole stack of different devtools for Windows, eg. Bloodshed Dev-C++ (provides a GNU C/C++ compiler), Borland Turbo C++ Explorer, Turbo Delphi Explorer, Microsoft Visual Studio Express, Open Watcom...
I don't use a lot - just the Auto Copy, Image Zoom and MR Tech Local Install extensions.
Auto Copy, so I can copy text to the clipboard just by highlighting it (no need to press Ctrl+C).
Image Zoom, so Thunderbird will reduce the size of images to fit the message view pane. Without it, you have to scroll around a lot for large images.
MR Tech Local Install so I can force extensions to ignore the maxversion setting in the.xpi file, if necessary. Useful for when you upgrade either Firefox or Thunderbird and your extensions suddenly stop working - you can force them to work. Or at least try to work. I had to use that to get Image Zoom working in Thunderbird 2.0, although I think it's not necessary any more with the most recent version of Image Copy.
Presumably the current version of autorewrap is disabled in Thunderbird 2.0 because the maxversion setting in the.xpi file is set to only allow it to run in Thunderbird 1.5.x. You can use the "MR Tech's Local Install" extension to force other extensions to essentially ignore that setting. This works in both Thunderbird & Firefox.
I can't find a reference for this on the web, but I believe Windows Media files can contain embedded HTML including JavaScript code. Playing these files using Windows Media Player and the code will be executed by the Internet Explorer scripting engine, which (depending on your configuration) may allow ActiveX objects to be executed and exploited.
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He certainly is.
Xoom gave you 100 MB to use, which was a lot at the time. Great for hosting image galleries.
From memory, Geocities had a 10 MB limit, and Fortunecity 20 MB.
Codegear owns C++ Builder now.
C++ Builder 2009: http://www.codegear.com/products/cppbuilder
Unless you meant Kylix, which seems to have been abandoned.
I suspect Candlejack kidnapp
About the only advantage I see to this is the "up to 320k", whereas Amazon's are 160k I believe.
160 kbit is a bit marginal, but Amazon's MP3s are encoded at 256 kbit. For most people who aren't audiophiles, this is indistinguishable from the original CD.
I ran MediaInfo over one of their MP3s. The output is at http://pastebin.com/m75a78b22 .
By default AVG Free 8.0 will also delete a ZIP file if it finds a virus inside. No moving the ZIP file to AVG's Virus Vault - it just deletes it outright. I lost some e-mail because of this.
I've heard of the file copy issues with Vista from a few different sources but haven't seen anyone try to investigate the cause. I'm curious about that. As I understand it, Windows Explorer uses the CopyFile() or CopyFileEx() functions to copy files (duh). I don't have a copy of Vista to test, but presumably it uses the latter, and perhaps there's some oddball copy-protection code in it like another posted suggested. Or maybe it's just some other weird bug. Either way, one simple thing to try out would be to test the performance of a file copy using your own code, only using fopen(), fread(), fwrite() & fclose(). Those I/O functions will map to lower level Windows API calls, but you will at least avoid calling CopyFile().
Having said all that, it's odd that not everyone has experienced performance problems copying files, so maybe it's a driver issue, eg. faulty DMA code.
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QBASIC? :-)
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It would be nice if Python was supplied with Windows (as it is with Apple OS X), but it's not a lot of trouble to download and install. Having it not supplied by default may be a good thing as it will tend to stop people writing Python code for a particular version of Python, and eliminates problems upgrading the supplied version to a newer one (which I understand can be a bit of an issue with OS X).
Most people can freely download a whole stack of different devtools for Windows, eg. Bloodshed Dev-C++ (provides a GNU C/C++ compiler), Borland Turbo C++ Explorer, Turbo Delphi Explorer, Microsoft Visual Studio Express, Open Watcom
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Apparently Firefox 2.0.0.3 will run under Windows 98:
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http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requi
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I don't use a lot - just the Auto Copy, Image Zoom and MR Tech Local Install extensions.
.xpi file, if necessary. Useful for when you upgrade either Firefox or Thunderbird and your extensions suddenly stop working - you can force them to work. Or at least try to work. I had to use that to get Image Zoom working in Thunderbird 2.0, although I think it's not necessary any more with the most recent version of Image Copy.
Auto Copy, so I can copy text to the clipboard just by highlighting it (no need to press Ctrl+C).
Image Zoom, so Thunderbird will reduce the size of images to fit the message view pane. Without it, you have to scroll around a lot for large images.
MR Tech Local Install so I can force extensions to ignore the maxversion setting in the
http://autocopy.mozdev.org/
http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/
http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/
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Presumably the current version of autorewrap is disabled in Thunderbird 2.0 because the maxversion setting in the .xpi file is set to only allow it to run in Thunderbird 1.5.x. You can use the "MR Tech's Local Install" extension to force other extensions to essentially ignore that setting. This works in both Thunderbird & Firefox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/421/
http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/
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Is it possible to get Win2K to support USB 2.0?
I can't find a reference for this on the web, but I believe Windows Media files can contain embedded HTML including JavaScript code. Playing these files using Windows Media Player and the code will be executed by the Internet Explorer scripting engine, which (depending on your configuration) may allow ActiveX objects to be executed and exploited.
Why would a self-confessed "lifelong Apple devotee" want to run Windows?
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