Memory usage i found was better when i compared Foobar2000 with Winamp 5 Lite with about 6 hours in the play list.
Foobar = 6.0mb
Winamp = 8.6mb
I'm also a fan of the look of Fubar verses winamp. I find it looks much cleaner/simpler. If you want it to look a special way, then obviously winamp is the better choice because of skinning. If you are running a LOW CPU and MEMORY environment then Foobar might be worth while looking at. I also like replaygain (normalisation) that comes with foobar.
Don't get me wrong, i'm not complaining about the money. Everyone needs to make a living. But it gets old real quick when you get phone calls every couple of days about the same damn things. One would think that after a while they would clue in.
(ring)(ring)My computer is dialing the fax all the time and i'm not telling it to. Can you put a program on here so i know who it is trying to call. I think its long distance.
(ring)(ring)This game from my kids cereal box doesn't work? Why? whats wrong? Make it work?
(ring)(ring)I got this email from someone i don't know and the computer wouldn't let me open it because of some virus message. So i shut off the virus program, and now my computer is real slow and crashing all the time. Fix it?!?
(ring)(ring)I couldn't print last night, I tried to install a new printer and it doesn't work either. What kind of printer do i have? Can i make a list of 30 go back to 1?
(ring)(ring)I deleted this file last month, but i don't remember what it was named. it is a really important file. It has a picture of a donkey in it. Can you get it back for me?
(ring)(ring)Can you bring me a monitor and keyboard for the server computer so my kid can play webpage games?
(ring)(ring)I got this packard bell 386 out of the neighboors trash, can you install Home Windows professional on it?
(ring)(ring)I'm getting all these e-mails telling me that i got a virus. I already shut down that virus program, now what do i do?
(ring)(ring)Can you teach me how hack into websites?
(ring)(ring)Why doesn't some company make a program that will detect all the bad programs before they run on my computer so i can be safe.
The problem is that people do stupid shit with their computers (that they don't know is stupid shit), and then IT professionals have to fix it (for free, every time, because they're on contract). If IT services were contracted out and cost $50/hr, you can bet people would start being more careful about downloading shit onto their computer after a few hundred dollars.
Yeah, tell me about it. People do crazy stuff. I find some people who will just blindly click the OK button, no questions asked.
I started an experiment a while ago. I started charging more for problem clients who just never seem to learn just to see if the money would eventually get through their thick skulls. Well, eventually the money got to them. But this only made it worse. They just waited longer before calling to fix things. Now the machines are hosed to the point of not even booting and they still expect me to just magically fix it quick like. This got tiring really quick. I solved this problem by just stopping in every other week and doing a little preventative maintenance.
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to have a computer attached to the internet. But until there is some sort of governing body that tests and polices who can and can not use computers we will just have to suck it up and get the job at hand done.
I'm curious if this is a new thing (I hadn't noticed this before), or this has been going on a while. Also, do others have observations of frequency & latency of virus definitions?
If you rely on the Liveupdate feature in Norton you will see that it is only updated once a week or so, but if you manually apply the patches then its much more frequent. Some of the Netsky variants are scheduled for a March 10 update (WTF?)
I can imagine quite a few home users or smaller business doing just that. And of course skipping over and not detecting the newest of the virus variants.
Beware... some motherboards that say they can boot from USB can not. I've two boards here that say they support it, but only one works properly. http://www.goosee.com/puppy/flash-puppy.htm has a tutorial using a USB CF reader.
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I must not understand this correctly, but when i read section 80.(2) i see there there are limitations base from subsection 1. I interpret this as not being able to copy for personal use if it falls into the limitations. This to me means i am not supposed to copy from rented media, internet, radio, and public shows.
In Canada downloading music from the net is legal. Owning music on your hard drive for which you do not have the original CD is also legal.
Umm, no, actually its not. The Media Levy allows you to make copies onto the media the the levy has been paid upon. The law in your instance is kinda grey. The levy allows you to make personal use copies from borrowed original media not copies from the internet.
Sorry, you're wrong. Copyright law is very clear, I suggest you read up on it.
For example, it is perfectly legal to borrow a CD from a friend, copy it for your own personal use, and then return the CD. However, it is not legal for your friend to copy their CD and then give you the copy.Sorry, you're wrong. Copyright law is very clear, I suggest you read up on it.
This is also totaly dependant what country you live in. This example is fair if you live in Canada where Canadains pay a Tax on blank media. In the USA they don't, so copying borrowed content from a friend is all together different.
Myself, i don't use the boxed firewall/nat/routers from Linksys and the gang. I've been using a linux variant for years now. (LRP, Leaf, etc...) I'm just the friend whom everyone calls when they have problems with their cheap home routers.
Are the phones locked to providers, like every where else and can we somehow get bluetooth into the equation? (yes, I'm in Telus territory and in Alberta)
On that note, i'm starting to think something is up with Shaw. Friends of mine who are on Shaw have problems with router/wirewalls. SMC, Microsoft, USR, Netgear, everything, you name it. Except for Linksys, they seem to work though. Hmm...
I might also point out, just about every one of those routers worked fine on my Interbaun account (Yes, I'm in Alberta)
It may just be the possibility how friendly the ISP is to router/nat. But at the same time, not all NAT's are created equal. It's quite possibe that some/most home router/nats are complete garbage.
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Foobar = 6.0mb
Winamp = 8.6mb
I'm also a fan of the look of Fubar verses winamp. I find it looks much cleaner/simpler. If you want it to look a special way, then obviously winamp is the better choice because of skinning. If you are running a LOW CPU and MEMORY environment then Foobar might be worth while looking at. I also like replaygain (normalisation) that comes with foobar.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
And even if the fellow needs it to be interactive they can still use simple menus.
He head fakes Professor Cool Linux with a picture of Natalie Portman and the idiot falls for it.
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(ring)(ring)My computer is dialing the fax all the time and i'm not telling it to. Can you put a program on here so i know who it is trying to call. I think its long distance.
(ring)(ring)This game from my kids cereal box doesn't work? Why? whats wrong? Make it work?
(ring)(ring)I got this email from someone i don't know and the computer wouldn't let me open it because of some virus message. So i shut off the virus program, and now my computer is real slow and crashing all the time. Fix it?!?
(ring)(ring)I couldn't print last night, I tried to install a new printer and it doesn't work either. What kind of printer do i have? Can i make a list of 30 go back to 1?
(ring)(ring)I deleted this file last month, but i don't remember what it was named. it is a really important file. It has a picture of a donkey in it. Can you get it back for me?
(ring)(ring)Can you bring me a monitor and keyboard for the server computer so my kid can play webpage games?
(ring)(ring)I got this packard bell 386 out of the neighboors trash, can you install Home Windows professional on it?
(ring)(ring)I'm getting all these e-mails telling me that i got a virus. I already shut down that virus program, now what do i do?
(ring)(ring)Can you teach me how hack into websites?
(ring)(ring)Why doesn't some company make a program that will detect all the bad programs before they run on my computer so i can be safe.
(ring)(ring)UUURRRGGGGG
I started an experiment a while ago. I started charging more for problem clients who just never seem to learn just to see if the money would eventually get through their thick skulls. Well, eventually the money got to them. But this only made it worse. They just waited longer before calling to fix things. Now the machines are hosed to the point of not even booting and they still expect me to just magically fix it quick like. This got tiring really quick. I solved this problem by just stopping in every other week and doing a little preventative maintenance.
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to have a computer attached to the internet. But until there is some sort of governing body that tests and polices who can and can not use computers we will just have to suck it up and get the job at hand done.
I can imagine quite a few home users or smaller business doing just that. And of course skipping over and not detecting the newest of the virus variants.
I can't believe Pepsi let this one through.
Beware... some motherboards that say they can boot from USB can not. I've two boards here that say they support it, but only one works properly. http://www.goosee.com/puppy/flash-puppy.htm has a tutorial using a USB CF reader.
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I must not understand this correctly, but when i read section 80.(2) i see there there are limitations base from subsection 1. I interpret this as not being able to copy for personal use if it falls into the limitations. This to me means i am not supposed to copy from rented media, internet, radio, and public shows.
I still think copying the file from internet still falls into a grey area since it's not the original comercial medium.
http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
Myself, i don't use the boxed firewall/nat/routers from Linksys and the gang. I've been using a linux variant for years now. (LRP, Leaf, etc...) I'm just the friend whom everyone calls when they have problems with their cheap home routers.
Are the phones locked to providers, like every where else and can we somehow get bluetooth into the equation? (yes, I'm in Telus territory and in Alberta)
It's because we're so close to that curtain of Iron. It block's most of the signal.
I might also point out, just about every one of those routers worked fine on my Interbaun account (Yes, I'm in Alberta)
It may just be the possibility how friendly the ISP is to router/nat. But at the same time, not all NAT's are created equal. It's quite possibe that some/most home router/nats are complete garbage.