No need for the bat file, you can just pass index.html to CreateProcess
Been there, done that, didn't work under Win2K (or that's what I would've used). The batch file was a kludge to work around that bit of brokenness. I thought maybe it was an IE-vs-Mozilla issue, but your default-browser selection makes no difference. Maybe CreateProcess only knows how to deal with executables of some sort (even batch files), but isn't smart enough to launch the appropriate app when you pass it a data file (such as HTML).
Neither the Platform SDK nor the MSDN website make any mention of CreateProcessEx...is it an undocumented function?
Frames are evil. Tables are useful for presentation of some types of information, but too many clueless webmasters use tables to do layout jobs that are better handled with CSS.
Or maybe they're clued in to the fact that up to 30% of their potential audience won't be able to see the site properly with a CSS layout. Point IE 5 here.
I don't have any machines here that still have IE 5 on them. Besides, the bits of CSS I've used work fine as far back as IE 4. (I still have IE 4.01 on a Quadra 610 at home (it's the last version released for 68K Macs), and my website, which uses CSS, renders on it as it should.)
Frames are evil. Tables are useful for presentation of some types of information, but too many clueless webmasters use tables to do layout jobs that are better handled with CSS.
BTW, Lynx does support tables. Try viewing this page with Lynx if you don't believe me...there's a table near the top of TiVo video-quality settings and their corresponding bitrates. It renders just fine in Lynx. Also note that the bitrate table is the only part of the page that uses the TABLE tag.
Last time I checked, most of the Iraqi oil was going to France and Russia...and in larger amounts than permitted under the food-for-oil program. Given their behavior to date (especially the French, whose behavior IMNSHO has been abhorrent), I think they should be cut out of any postwar economic activity--rebuilding homes and schools, oil drilling, whatever.
All rational, thinking people long ago came to the conclusion that this war is not about oil. It's only blinkered America-haters and Bush-bashers who keep flogging that dead horse, and they're getting proven wrong at every turn.
Anyhow, I heard something about DirecTV's Tivos only working with DTV and other Tivos not working with DTV.
Standalone TiVos work just fine with DirecTV. DirecTiVo works better, though, because it eliminates a digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion. (FWIW, I use a standalone TiVo with digital cable and haven't noticed any degradation. That might be the result of recording everything at best quality, though.)
That said, I could not buy one of their players because they would not support WMA files. Over 5gb of my collection is in that format.
Their CD-based players (the Rio Volt series) support WMA...not that I've ever needed that capability, as I've always ripped to MP3, but the capability is there.
(On my last long drive, though, I left the SP90 and home and ran AeroPlayer on a Palm Tungsten T. 256 megs is enough for 4-5 hours, and it supports both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. I brought along a CD with more music to load onto the card (through a notebook and a card reader) for the return trip. The SP90 skips on rough roads, but the Palm doesn't.)
BTW, dBpowerAMP lets you convert from WMA to more open formats. (You could also build the WAVDest DirectShow filter (part of the DirectX SDK) and use it in GraphEdit to convert WMA to WAV, but that's a cumbersome approach that requires Visual C++ to implement because the WAVDest filter is only supplied as source.)
By comparison, the Buick Century weighs 3368kg (nearly 3.4 metric tons!)
Put down the crack pipe...even a Suburban doesn't weigh that much (curb weight=4914-5760 lbs., depending on chassis options). Are you sure you're not confusing pounds and kilograms? (FYI, 3368 kg=over 7400 lbs.)
I don't know whether you have them over there but in Europe (Italy especially) the Smart Car is increasingly popular.
Never heard of it.
It has a 599cc engine (yes 0.6 liter) and that easily gives it enough power to wizz around town and do 90mph on a motorway.
I've only driven a couple of American cars (a Buick Centry and an Oldsmobile Sierra Cutlass or something - scuse if I've got the names wrong) and they were both extremely heavy/slow (despite massive 3 liter V6 engines!)
The Century and Cutlass Ciera are hardly massive cars. Since they're both wrong-wheel drive, they can be a bit front-heavy...but that applies to nearly everything that's wrong-wheel drive.
3L is hardly massive...if anything, it's a bit undersized if you want decent power without having to run your engine at the ragged edge. When I bought a truck last year, the choice was between a dinky 2.2L 4-banger and a 4.3L V6. Mileage for the two is about the same (go here if you don't believe me), but the V6 delivers the same performance at low- to mid-throttle that the 4-banger only delivers at WOT. That translates into longer engine life, which is good if you figure on getting at least a couple of decades out of a vehicle. Being able to go up and down the hills between Las Vegas and Phoenix at a constant 80 mph (assuming that other traffic doesn't get in the way) is an added benefit.
Just out of interest... what do you pay for one litre of unleaded gasoline/petrol in the US?
My last tank of premium ran about $2.10 per gallon...that works out to about 55 per liter, which is close to what you're quoting. It's worth mentioning, though, that Nevada has the third-highest gas prices in the nation right now (only California and Hawaii are more expensive).
The recent run-up in prices is most likely profiteering on the part of Big Oil. The people in charge of the oil companies might want to recall that during WWII, profiteering was a capital offense...
HTF is this +1 Insightful? I don't see many imports around here that are as old as (for instance) my '77 Cutlass Supreme, and the few that are still on the road are almost always clapped-out beaters that belch thick smoke as soon as you give them some gas. While there are plenty of older American cars that have been allowed to fall apart, it's not at all hard to find one that still looks nice and runs nice. I'll allow that the bigger models aren't always the easiest on gas (one of the reasons I also have an '02 S-10 now), but your choice in the 70s and earlier was either (1) great performance and not-as-good mileage or (2) better mileage and lousy performance.
Gore was the one who flunked out of college while Bush was the one with an MBA from Harvard)
If by "flunked out of college" you meant "graduated cum laude from Harvard (1969), then from Vanderbilt Divinity School (1972), then from Vanderbilt Law School (1976)," you're absolutely right.
Guess again. There's no fscking way that someone with Cs and Ds all over his undergrad transcript graduated cum laude, unless Harvard has a much lower standard than every other university. While he did muddle his way through Harvard, he quit both divinity school and law school before obtaining his degrees in those programs. Dubya, OTOH, has his Harvard MBA.
1) USB interface. Add a microcontroller, learn to program microcontroller (maybe 2-3 months to learn, if you're a competent coder already), get the programming hardware ($20 if you make it yourself, $100 if you buy it), connect LEDs and resistors to microcontroller.
You might want to have a look at this page. In particular, you might find the FT245BM interesting...it supports a "bit-bang" mode that allows you to read/write bits on an 8-bit parallel port. I've designed it into a pan/tilt interface for some security cameras we've obtained that supports up to 8 cameras. That interface uses this chip, a couple of 8-to-1 muxes, and some passive components...no microcontroller is needed. Connecting to the parallel port would still be easier/cheaper/faster, but the hardware and software exist to make USB much less hairy than it initially appears. (Two FT245BMs cost less than $20, shipped from Australia to the US in about a week. There is a distributor in New York, but that company has a $30 minimum order.)
Drivers or no, I seem to remember a Tom's Hardware review wherein the Creative cards blasted everything else out of the water.
Does anybody still pay any attention to Tom's? I thought everybody concluded they jumped the shark when they did that stupid video of an Athlon frying when the heatsink was removed, or sometime around that.
Yeah man, share the wealth. What's this "sends their IP" script?
If you have Cygwin and mutt installed, it would be as simple as this:
#!/bin/sh
ipconfig | mutt -xs "Mom's current IP" foo@bar.com
Put the script on the desktop and you're good to go. Cygwin...it's not just for geeks anymore.:-)
(I used it on my dad's computer to take the pictures copied from his digital camera and automatically shrink them down to a size that can be emailed. All he has to do is copy the pictures into the appropriate folder and double-click the script. It then shrinks the image dimensions by 75% (it's a ~3MP camera) and applies a bit more compression than usual. It took just a few minutes to knock the script together, once I had downloaded Cygwin and netpbm.)
Sites that require JavaScript and cookies enabled (I reject most cookies) just to browse around suck.
(Veering offtopic for a second, does anyone know how to disable auto-refresh in Mozilla, or if it can be disabled? I think that'd fix their problem...and it'd also be good for dealing with Anti-Leech.)
The picture in the article is just one of a bike as an example of what the motor *could* fit onto.
Putting it up front doesn't seem like that bright an idea, either...hit a slick patch of road while it's trying to pull and you lose control. Hit a slick patch with the front wheel freewheeling and you should be OK as long as you're going straight. (I took an icy patch the wrong way once when I was a kid...wiped out pretty spectacularly. Knobby BMX tires didn't help at all.) That's why you don't see any wrong-wheel-drive motorcycles (that, and it'd be hella tricky to get any respectable amount of power to the front wheel anyway).
Looking at the new features - they got one of the more annoying features from IE in there - I can't stand the frigging image resize feature.
If the installation I just did is any indication, this "feature" is turned off by default. That it is off by default is a Good Thing, since image resizing was one of the first things I used to turn off in IE (along with smooth scrolling and the useless "go" button).
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Been there, done that, didn't work under Win2K (or that's what I would've used). The batch file was a kludge to work around that bit of brokenness. I thought maybe it was an IE-vs-Mozilla issue, but your default-browser selection makes no difference. Maybe CreateProcess only knows how to deal with executables of some sort (even batch files), but isn't smart enough to launch the appropriate app when you pass it a data file (such as HTML).
Neither the Platform SDK nor the MSDN website make any mention of CreateProcessEx...is it an undocumented function?
(ripped from a dialog-based MFC app)
afx_msg void CAppDlg::OnHelp()
}{
Create a single-line help.bat:
@start help\index.html
Whatever's installed as the default web browser becomes your help viewer.
I don't have any machines here that still have IE 5 on them. Besides, the bits of CSS I've used work fine as far back as IE 4. (I still have IE 4.01 on a Quadra 610 at home (it's the last version released for 68K Macs), and my website, which uses CSS, renders on it as it should.)
Frames are evil. Tables are useful for presentation of some types of information, but too many clueless webmasters use tables to do layout jobs that are better handled with CSS.
BTW, Lynx does support tables. Try viewing this page with Lynx if you don't believe me...there's a table near the top of TiVo video-quality settings and their corresponding bitrates. It renders just fine in Lynx. Also note that the bitrate table is the only part of the page that uses the TABLE tag.
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You're quoting Worker's World as a source? You might as well quote from Pravda...it'd be about as accurate.
All rational, thinking people long ago came to the conclusion that this war is not about oil. It's only blinkered America-haters and Bush-bashers who keep flogging that dead horse, and they're getting proven wrong at every turn.
Standalone TiVos work just fine with DirecTV. DirecTiVo works better, though, because it eliminates a digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion. (FWIW, I use a standalone TiVo with digital cable and haven't noticed any degradation. That might be the result of recording everything at best quality, though.)
Their CD-based players (the Rio Volt series) support WMA...not that I've ever needed that capability, as I've always ripped to MP3, but the capability is there.
(On my last long drive, though, I left the SP90 and home and ran AeroPlayer on a Palm Tungsten T. 256 megs is enough for 4-5 hours, and it supports both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. I brought along a CD with more music to load onto the card (through a notebook and a card reader) for the return trip. The SP90 skips on rough roads, but the Palm doesn't.)
BTW, dBpowerAMP lets you convert from WMA to more open formats. (You could also build the WAVDest DirectShow filter (part of the DirectX SDK) and use it in GraphEdit to convert WMA to WAV, but that's a cumbersome approach that requires Visual C++ to implement because the WAVDest filter is only supplied as source.)
Put down the crack pipe...even a Suburban doesn't weigh that much (curb weight=4914-5760 lbs., depending on chassis options). Are you sure you're not confusing pounds and kilograms? (FYI, 3368 kg=over 7400 lbs.)
Never heard of it.
0-60 in how many minutes?
The Century and Cutlass Ciera are hardly massive cars. Since they're both wrong-wheel drive, they can be a bit front-heavy...but that applies to nearly everything that's wrong-wheel drive.
3L is hardly massive...if anything, it's a bit undersized if you want decent power without having to run your engine at the ragged edge. When I bought a truck last year, the choice was between a dinky 2.2L 4-banger and a 4.3L V6. Mileage for the two is about the same (go here if you don't believe me), but the V6 delivers the same performance at low- to mid-throttle that the 4-banger only delivers at WOT. That translates into longer engine life, which is good if you figure on getting at least a couple of decades out of a vehicle. Being able to go up and down the hills between Las Vegas and Phoenix at a constant 80 mph (assuming that other traffic doesn't get in the way) is an added benefit.
My last tank of premium ran about $2.10 per gallon...that works out to about 55 per liter, which is close to what you're quoting. It's worth mentioning, though, that Nevada has the third-highest gas prices in the nation right now (only California and Hawaii are more expensive).
The recent run-up in prices is most likely profiteering on the part of Big Oil. The people in charge of the oil companies might want to recall that during WWII, profiteering was a capital offense...
HTF is this +1 Insightful? I don't see many imports around here that are as old as (for instance) my '77 Cutlass Supreme, and the few that are still on the road are almost always clapped-out beaters that belch thick smoke as soon as you give them some gas. While there are plenty of older American cars that have been allowed to fall apart, it's not at all hard to find one that still looks nice and runs nice. I'll allow that the bigger models aren't always the easiest on gas (one of the reasons I also have an '02 S-10 now), but your choice in the 70s and earlier was either (1) great performance and not-as-good mileage or (2) better mileage and lousy performance.
Don't forget to double or triple that number (or maybe even more) if you have a high-speed CD burner...
Chirac and Schröder appear to have picked up the slack in that department, FWIW...
You're right, Rush Limbaugh's never done anything like that.
You are aware that FAIR has zero credibility, right? Rush rebutted each of FAIR's false claims years ago in his first book.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Guess again. There's no fscking way that someone with Cs and Ds all over his undergrad transcript graduated cum laude, unless Harvard has a much lower standard than every other university. While he did muddle his way through Harvard, he quit both divinity school and law school before obtaining his degrees in those programs. Dubya, OTOH, has his Harvard MBA.
Are you speaking of years in production or sales volume? If it's the former of which you speak, the record holder remains the Apple IIe (1982-1993).
You might want to have a look at this page. In particular, you might find the FT245BM interesting...it supports a "bit-bang" mode that allows you to read/write bits on an 8-bit parallel port. I've designed it into a pan/tilt interface for some security cameras we've obtained that supports up to 8 cameras. That interface uses this chip, a couple of 8-to-1 muxes, and some passive components...no microcontroller is needed. Connecting to the parallel port would still be easier/cheaper/faster, but the hardware and software exist to make USB much less hairy than it initially appears. (Two FT245BMs cost less than $20, shipped from Australia to the US in about a week. There is a distributor in New York, but that company has a $30 minimum order.)
Does anybody still pay any attention to Tom's? I thought everybody concluded they jumped the shark when they did that stupid video of an Athlon frying when the heatsink was removed, or sometime around that.
If you have Cygwin and mutt installed, it would be as simple as this:
#!/bin/sh
ipconfig | mutt -xs "Mom's current IP" foo@bar.com
Put the script on the desktop and you're good to go. Cygwin...it's not just for geeks anymore. :-)
(I used it on my dad's computer to take the pictures copied from his digital camera and automatically shrink them down to a size that can be emailed. All he has to do is copy the pictures into the appropriate folder and double-click the script. It then shrinks the image dimensions by 75% (it's a ~3MP camera) and applies a bit more compression than usual. It took just a few minutes to knock the script together, once I had downloaded Cygwin and netpbm.)
Sites that require JavaScript and cookies enabled (I reject most cookies) just to browse around suck.
(Veering offtopic for a second, does anyone know how to disable auto-refresh in Mozilla, or if it can be disabled? I think that'd fix their problem...and it'd also be good for dealing with Anti-Leech.)
Putting it up front doesn't seem like that bright an idea, either...hit a slick patch of road while it's trying to pull and you lose control. Hit a slick patch with the front wheel freewheeling and you should be OK as long as you're going straight. (I took an icy patch the wrong way once when I was a kid...wiped out pretty spectacularly. Knobby BMX tires didn't help at all.) That's why you don't see any wrong-wheel-drive motorcycles (that, and it'd be hella tricky to get any respectable amount of power to the front wheel anyway).
If the installation I just did is any indication, this "feature" is turned off by default. That it is off by default is a Good Thing, since image resizing was one of the first things I used to turn off in IE (along with smooth scrolling and the useless "go" button).