AVG turned to fucking donkey shit after 7.5. it blows my mind people still use it. the company treats their end users like idiots, their software behaves like the malware it claims to rid your system of, and eats up a shitton of resources to boot
yet it still seems to be one of the most popular free scanners, if not the most. I don't get it
it's hard to find a decent free antivirus that doesn't nag or suck these days. iirc Avira had nag screens, and a ridiculous amount of false positives. the least crap one I've used seems to be avast!. it seems to detect a decent amount of viruses, keeps out of the way, and and doesn't eat up a lot of resources
burning data (especially data like CDDA) at speeds above 2 or 4 speed can fail spectacularly for no apparent reason. Discs burned at high speeds are frequently unreadable by anything other than a CD burner. If you want to be very sure that everyone can play what you burn, you must stick with double speed or less
this is simply untrue. I've burned many cds at 8x with absolutely no problems with any non-cdrs reading them. several of my friends have 8x burners as well, and none have had problems
in fact, just yesterday I burnt a music cd at 8x; oooh, in fact, I OVERburned it! and it played perfectly in my 25-disk cd changer hooked to my amp, and the Pioneer deck in my car
burning data (especially data like CDDA) at speeds above 2 or 4 speed can fail spectacularly for no apparent reason. Discs burned at high speeds are frequently unreadable by anything other than a CD burner. If you want to be very sure that everyone can play what you burn, you must stick with double speed or less
this is simply untrue. I've burned many cds at 8x with absolutely no problems with any non-cdrs reading them. several of my friends have 8x burners as well, and none have had problems
in fact, just yesterday I burnt a music cd at 8x; oooh, in fact, I OVERburned it! and it played perfectly in my 25-disk cd changer hooked to my amp, and the Pioneer deck in my car
have you ever used the "goofy roller clicker thing?" I too thought it retarded when first I saw it, but once I used it I could never go back to a mouse without one. it is insanely handy whilst viewing html, and nice in any other app with scrollbars, etc.
logitech has a comfortable, minimally warped one; the mouseman+ I believe it is named. its the same one bought in bulk and branded by hewlitt packard
speaking of stuff not working behind masq, has anyone gotten napster to work? I have read dejanews posts & google posts and done what they suggest to no avail. unblocking ports 6699, 3333, 4444, etc, still don't let me download files. I can connect, search, chat, etc, but not download.
anyone know where that game can be found? I played that on my ancient 486 and remember it being le merde. I found RoE2 at this site, but can't seem to find the original..
I think this idea has been thrown out as not being important enough. as far as coding difficulty versus usefulness goes.
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Superiority - You are correct. I've had Windows NT and even 95 boxes up for months at a time.
(pendantic) impossible. maybe you had 95 up for 54 days at a time, but any longer is not possible without system lockup. I think it was some sort of timing bug
seems to me you could just put a redirect on the story, instead of a simple anchor. but then, all one would have to do is click it, then quickly click back without reading. oh well
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not to be picky, but word 2k actually opens separate windows for each document. very nice! now I can alt-tab between docs. (why they didn't also do this for excel 2k, I will never know.)
you know, one thing I never figured out, why didn't they make it so you could type alt-# to switch between docs in the old versions? alt-w # is very awkward. (perhaps you can configure keys to do this, I never checked.)
my take on piratism is this: take photoshop. I would not use it enough to warrant paying $600, nor do I have enough money to throw out that much on a program I would rarely use. therefore, I would never have bought photoshop in the first place. if I downloaded it, and used it for personal (ie, noncommercial) tasks, and since I would not have bought it in the first place, adobe is losing absolutely nothing.
I am gaining something I otherwise would not have had, sure; but they lose nothing. it is simply greed and anti-altruism of software companies to claim they lose $40 billion (I made that up I don't know the real amount) per year to "software piracy."
sure, that is the theoretical loss, had every one who obtained it illegally instead purchased it. but I wager that that is a very small fraction indeed.
on a related note, if I had need of photoshop for commercial use and profited (directly or indirectly) from its usage, I would definitely pay for it.
try using fdisk before choosing what to mount / on with disk druid. I had some problems with disk druid on my 20.4 maxtor, but fdisk had no problems. I did have to set up the geometry in my bios manually tho.
offtopic, but.. people created computers. what if what they created is mistaken? then indeed computers could make mistakes even if the software is proper. ie, pentium (math?) bug, etc
In the past few years, handheld cellular phones have been sold to the US public by the tens of millions. In the past few years, there has been no dramatic upsurge in the incidence of brain cancer [yet].
cancer is patient. well that is, if cellphones really are carcinogens.
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AVG turned to fucking donkey shit after 7.5. it blows my mind people still use it. the company treats their end users like idiots, their software behaves like the malware it claims to rid your system of, and eats up a shitton of resources to boot
yet it still seems to be one of the most popular free scanners, if not the most. I don't get it
it's hard to find a decent free antivirus that doesn't nag or suck these days. iirc Avira had nag screens, and a ridiculous amount of false positives. the least crap one I've used seems to be avast!. it seems to detect a decent amount of viruses, keeps out of the way, and and doesn't eat up a lot of resources
burning data (especially data like CDDA) at speeds above 2 or 4 speed can fail spectacularly for no apparent reason. Discs burned at high speeds are frequently unreadable by anything other than a CD burner. If you want to be very sure that everyone can play what you burn, you must stick with double speed or less
this is simply untrue. I've burned many cds at 8x with absolutely no problems with any non-cdrs reading them. several of my friends have 8x burners as well, and none have had problems
in fact, just yesterday I burnt a music cd at 8x; oooh, in fact, I OVERburned it! and it played perfectly in my 25-disk cd changer hooked to my amp, and the Pioneer deck in my car
(note to self: use the preview button)
burning data (especially data like CDDA) at speeds above 2 or 4 speed can fail spectacularly for no apparent reason. Discs burned at high speeds are frequently unreadable by anything other than a CD burner. If you want to be very sure that everyone can play what you burn, you must stick with double speed or less this is simply untrue. I've burned many cds at 8x with absolutely no problems with any non-cdrs reading them. several of my friends have 8x burners as well, and none have had problems in fact, just yesterday I burnt a music cd at 8x; oooh, in fact, I OVERburned it! and it played perfectly in my 25-disk cd changer hooked to my amp, and the Pioneer deck in my car
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but I may be wrongbear in mind the judicial system will only overturn an `illegal' law if that law is challenged.
this is the reason sites like this exist.
have you ever used the "goofy roller clicker thing?" I too thought it retarded when first I saw it, but once I used it I could never go back to a mouse without one. it is insanely handy whilst viewing html, and nice in any other app with scrollbars, etc.
logitech has a comfortable, minimally warped one; the mouseman+ I believe it is named. its the same one bought in bulk and branded by hewlitt packard
try it before you knock it
what's really fucked, according to the wired article, it blocked this photograph ..
where are the skin tones?
speaking of stuff not working behind masq, has anyone gotten napster to work? I have read dejanews posts & google posts and done what they suggest to no avail. unblocking ports 6699, 3333, 4444, etc, still don't let me download files. I can connect, search, chat, etc, but not download.
can anyone help?
anyone know where that game can be found? I played that on my ancient 486 and remember it being le merde. I found RoE2 at this site, but can't seem to find the original..
I think this idea has been thrown out as not being important enough. as far as coding difficulty versus usefulness goes.
Superiority - You are correct. I've had Windows NT and even 95 boxes up for months at a time.
(pendantic) impossible. maybe you had 95 up for 54 days at a time, but any longer is not possible without system lockup. I think it was some sort of timing bug
a little perusing on megazeux.net lead to this utility:
screen thief
it can captuer images to gif format
I don't know how to implement that, though.
seems to me you could just put a redirect on the story, instead of a simple anchor. but then, all one would have to do is click it, then quickly click back without reading. oh well
not to be picky, but word 2k actually opens separate windows for each document. very nice! now I can alt-tab between docs. (why they didn't also do this for excel 2k, I will never know.)
you know, one thing I never figured out, why didn't they make it so you could type alt-# to switch between docs in the old versions? alt-w # is very awkward. (perhaps you can configure keys to do this, I never checked.)
my take on piratism is this:
take photoshop. I would not use it enough to warrant paying $600, nor do I have enough money to throw out that much on a program I would rarely use. therefore, I would never have bought photoshop in the first place. if I downloaded it, and used it for personal (ie, noncommercial) tasks, and since I would not have bought it in the first place, adobe is losing absolutely nothing.
I am gaining something I otherwise would not have had, sure; but they lose nothing. it is simply greed and anti-altruism of software companies to claim they lose $40 billion (I made that up I don't know the real amount) per year to "software piracy."
sure, that is the theoretical loss, had every one who obtained it illegally instead purchased it. but I wager that that is a very small fraction indeed.
on a related note, if I had need of photoshop for commercial use and profited (directly or indirectly) from its usage, I would definitely pay for it.
hmm not true, I have found redhat 6.1 easier to install than win. but then again I still feel more at home with win, so linux has a ways to go
tip: I heard the best (stablest) netscape to run in linux is 4.08.
try it.
try this one.
try using fdisk before choosing what to mount / on with disk druid. I had some problems with disk druid on my 20.4 maxtor, but fdisk had no problems. I did have to set up the geometry in my bios manually tho.
Would you like it if windows ran a hardware discovery everytime the machine booted up?
I believe it does. No, I don't particularly like it.
oh I remember now; CDDA has no error correction but CDR does, isn't that right?
creepy. do they also have a screen in their living room which can see them when theya re naer and hear them regardless of where they are in the house?
yes.
"Computers don't make mistakes, people do."
offtopic, but.. people created computers. what if what they created is mistaken? then indeed computers could make mistakes even if the software is proper. ie, pentium (math?) bug, etc
In the past few years, handheld cellular phones have been sold to the US public by the tens of millions. In the past few years, there has been no dramatic upsurge in the incidence of brain cancer [yet].
cancer is patient. well that is, if cellphones really are carcinogens.