Hmm. He has a GeForce2 MX AGP card. I picked up the latest drivers from nVidia for that to no avail. Im guessing what you mean by the nForce chipset drivers is more for the motherboard/video combo?
... because then if they approve a bunch of bogus patents and have to pay a bunch of court costs, they will lose all their money and... what... go out of business?
I bought my father the TV Wonder VE PCI for Father's day, since he just wanted a simple way to record video off his analog camcorder.
I never got it to work. He has a Dell 3.06 HT, and it just wasnt happening. I tried *everything*. Format, SP2, latest drivers, latest DX9, turning off HT (suggestion from support forum), a dozen display resolution / bit depth combos, capturing to different drivers, capturing to different filesystems (NTFS, Fat32, FAT), and probably a half dozen things I don't remember.
Every single time, it would play the video source on screen just fine, but soon as you hit the record button the machine would lock up solid. As in, had to power cycle it.
I had good luck with an AverTV on a 2Ghz Dell awhile back though, I should have just bought one of those for him.
What the fuck is Microsoft smoking with Longhorn? 2 taskbars, 2 clocks, huge huge huge amounts of wasted space with every window having a giant banner with common (and useless) tasks across the top. Giant carnival buttons to close windows. Theyve seriously lost their minds. You could have a 24" widescreen and still barely fit 2 Longhorn Windows on screen.
The entire top 1/3 of the screen used just for "File, Edit, View, etc". Look at the "28 items in this folder", it gets like 7000 pixels of height and width all to it self, leaving 90% of it unused.
I dont even want to talk about the dual taskbars and dual clocks. YES, GIVE ME 2 CLOCKS, 1 ISNT ENOUGH. AND A LITTLE SLIDESHOW VISIBLE ALL THE TIME ON THE DESKTOP.
Preference aside, don't they realize the more shit on screen at all times, the more the average user says "what? where? I dont see it?" when you're trying to talk them through doing something? They should be shot in the back of the head just for littering redundant icons in 5 places as it is (start menu folder, start menu commonly run apps, start menu Pinned list, desktop, quicklaunch bar), that is just assinine, but Longhorn takes it to a whole new level.
Longhorn makes me sick.
Mod me offtopic if you want, the rant was worth it, I feel better now.:)
Start a company that sells CPUs. When profits are failing, start 2 more companies that can be big customers for the first company. When all 3 fail he can start another company that is built on Transmeta clusters and OQO handhelds.
It's like floating checks around banks, but with venture capital.
"And even those scientists really had no idea how the net would grow to encompass so much of our lives."
Sort of makes you wonder what else is out there, just around the corner, maybe among us all, maybe just invented last night in someone's basement or down a few years that we can't even see coming that will have another profound impact on us all. The internet wasn't the first and definately won't be the last.
Post 1: That's why fixes usually take days or hours on Open Source products.
Post 2: A quick look [openoffice.org] at Issuezilla displays 3752 unfixed defects in Openoffice. The oldest, id #166 [openoffice.org], was opened on Nov 16, 2000.
Reconcile please. Or just keep knee-jerk generalizing, it gets you more +mods.
After the posts above recommended it, I am using the Media Player Classic from Sourceforge, and it's _exactly_ what I was looking for. Its like the old school Windows 95 media player. Simple, to the point. Loads fast. Its like 1.5 megs. Why can't more software be like this:`(
Along this line, can anyone recommend a Windows based media player that plays most all formats (mp3, divx, avi, mpeg, whatever), that ISNT some overly feature laden, skinnable piece of Britney candy?
WMP and RealPlayer make me gag. WinAmp can probably be skinned lame, but it seems to not play DiVX so very well (and still its a zillion feature candy looking player).
Anything for the minimalist? Id like a standard windows UI screen and basic buttons, is that so hard?
As MS as shown, a good marketing strategy most often trumps a better product.
Eh... I don't know how much of their sales is from someone "Evaulating the product and marketing points coherently, and making a sound decision based on this information." as opposed to "Well, they have like 99% market share, it came free with my PC, all my friends use it, they don't appear to be on the verge of folding, etc etc." -
I mean, MS could probably change their logo to a swastika and they'd still retain most of their business.
Human nature is follow the leader, when you take a change you become responsible, and the last thing most corporate drones want is "the eye of scrutiny upon them". No, MS's "marketing" doesn't matter, they just have huge amounts of inertia.
This is like the third time in 24 hours I've read this analogy and it's really lame.
If you don't pay mafia protection fees, then "bad things happen to you".
If you don't pay the RIAA for its monthly fee or buy it's content, then the only things that could happen to you (such as not listening to Britney Spears) are good.
If you're referring to the court cases brought against people who were file-sharing and infringing on copyrights, then I don't think a monthly college file sharing fee protects you if you continue to file-share copyrighted works that aren't part of the deal. It's safe to assume if you pay a $5 a month college file-sharing fee, then rip your copy of Lord of the Rings and put it up on eMule, you can very well still find yourself in court.
I am no expert on mail or spam, but I recall reading some various good ideas of how to re-implement email to make it nearly impossible for spammers. Like that "ticket" system, where the mail actually sits on the senders mail server until you collect it. Im sure theres dozens of good ideas, that just with simple logistics make it nearly impossible / unfeasible to mass mail random people.
Given that, why can't there just be a proposal, adopted (like a DVD format, etc) by some huge players (Microsoft, OpenSource, whatever), and then announce a sort of "Spam Doomsday", a ways out. Say January of 2006. Give people time to write in the new mail handling ability so it's side by side with POP in the next Outlook and Thunderbird and whatever else, as well as all the various mail-servers, and months for organizations to plan on roll out.
Yes upgrades are a bitch and especially on a large scale, but coporations have to go through them anyway, from the OS's to the software running on them. I dont know of too many people woul'd prefer to throw never-ending money at spam blocking and net traffic associated with it instead of just knowing "January 18th, 2006 - everyone on the net (who has a brain) is moving to nEw-Mail".
I realize POP/SMTP is ancient and embedded, but unlike a physical "format" like CD-ROM or 4mm DAT, the bulk of existing email is transient, it's collected and forgotten about or "local" in a few minutes. So picking a transition day, agreeing on an open transition method, and just "DOING IT", can't possibly be that hard. POP/SMTP wouldn't even have to go away, it could run side-by-side for the hold-outs, but I think 99% of the people are so tired of spam they'd be understanding of "Sorry, if you want to email customer support at Citibank, you will need to use our new support#citibank.com nEw-Mail address." when its so universally pushed.
The effectiveness of the spam that's blocked decreases, the potentcy of the spam that gets through skyrockets since it stands alone. This alone is motivation to triple the efforts of spammers. Im sure the more talented spammers out there nearly jizz themselves as they run thier latest crafted email through their local "test servers", seeing it passes through all the filters with ease, and hit the SEND button.
Until there is new methodologies to prevent the "ability" to spam, period, everything else is just throwing effort into an unbeatable problem. Not saying things like Spam Assasain aren't nice, they are, but the bulk of the effort should be going to some universal email method that can be moved to easily and prevents spamming.
Hmm. Your comment made me think, someone should write a P2P file sharing app that keeps all the slices of the files as specifical serialnumber'd (subject line?) attachments on emails stored on hundreds of free email accounts.
So what youre saying is, "If you're going store some kind of files that you don't want others to have access to... just save to CDRW, ZipDrive or any other media that is far easier to turn to smoke and ashes than a hard drive." Besides, do you really need 250gigs of platters to store a bunch of Word docs?
Sadly, the less overall spam that's out there the higher the desirability to sieze the opportunity and spam your message.
If most the so called "King Pins" were nailed, and spam dropped by 90%, that 10% would be even more hotly contested and it would drive right back up again. When you get 100 emails and 95 are spam you glaze over the spam. But when you get 6 emails and 1 is spam, you notice it. And getting noticed is what spam is all about.
So pressure on the spammers isn't the answer. Some system that denies the ability to spam period is.
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Hmm. He has a GeForce2 MX AGP card. I picked up the latest drivers from nVidia for that to no avail. Im guessing what you mean by the nForce chipset drivers is more for the motherboard/video combo?
... because then if they approve a bunch of bogus patents and have to pay a bunch of court costs, they will lose all their money and... what... go out of business?
Yes, did that too. Tried different PCI slots as well as everything in the BIOS that was even remotely related to PCI, Video or otherwise.
I never got it to work. He has a Dell 3.06 HT, and it just wasnt happening. I tried *everything*. Format, SP2, latest drivers, latest DX9, turning off HT (suggestion from support forum), a dozen display resolution / bit depth combos, capturing to different drivers, capturing to different filesystems (NTFS, Fat32, FAT), and probably a half dozen things I don't remember.
Every single time, it would play the video source on screen just fine, but soon as you hit the record button the machine would lock up solid. As in, had to power cycle it.
I had good luck with an AverTV on a 2Ghz Dell awhile back though, I should have just bought one of those for him.
thx
What the fuck is Microsoft smoking with Longhorn? 2 taskbars, 2 clocks, huge huge huge amounts of wasted space with every window having a giant banner with common (and useless) tasks across the top. Giant carnival buttons to close windows. Theyve seriously lost their minds. You could have a 24" widescreen and still barely fit 2 Longhorn Windows on screen.
What in gods name?
The entire top 1/3 of the screen used just for "File, Edit, View, etc". Look at the "28 items in this folder", it gets like 7000 pixels of height and width all to it self, leaving 90% of it unused.
I dont even want to talk about the dual taskbars and dual clocks. YES, GIVE ME 2 CLOCKS, 1 ISNT ENOUGH. AND A LITTLE SLIDESHOW VISIBLE ALL THE TIME ON THE DESKTOP.
Preference aside, don't they realize the more shit on screen at all times, the more the average user says "what? where? I dont see it?" when you're trying to talk them through doing something? They should be shot in the back of the head just for littering redundant icons in 5 places as it is (start menu folder, start menu commonly run apps, start menu Pinned list, desktop, quicklaunch bar), that is just assinine, but Longhorn takes it to a whole new level.
Longhorn makes me sick.
Mod me offtopic if you want, the rant was worth it, I feel better now. :)
It depends. If the fallout grows second sets of arms on everyone, cleanup will take half as many people!
Start a company that sells CPUs. When profits are failing, start 2 more companies that can be big customers for the first company. When all 3 fail he can start another company that is built on Transmeta clusters and OQO handhelds.
It's like floating checks around banks, but with venture capital.
Sort of makes you wonder what else is out there, just around the corner, maybe among us all, maybe just invented last night in someone's basement or down a few years that we can't even see coming that will have another profound impact on us all. The internet wasn't the first and definately won't be the last.
Enable file system encryption on NTFS and try again.
Post 2: A quick look [openoffice.org] at Issuezilla displays 3752 unfixed defects in Openoffice. The oldest, id #166 [openoffice.org], was opened on Nov 16, 2000.
Reconcile please. Or just keep knee-jerk generalizing, it gets you more +mods.
After the posts above recommended it, I am using the Media Player Classic from Sourceforge, and it's _exactly_ what I was looking for. Its like the old school Windows 95 media player. Simple, to the point. Loads fast. Its like 1.5 megs. Why can't more software be like this :`(
WMP and RealPlayer make me gag. WinAmp can probably be skinned lame, but it seems to not play DiVX so very well (and still its a zillion feature candy looking player).
Anything for the minimalist? Id like a standard windows UI screen and basic buttons, is that so hard?
RIAA
Eh... I don't know how much of their sales is from someone "Evaulating the product and marketing points coherently, and making a sound decision based on this information." as opposed to "Well, they have like 99% market share, it came free with my PC, all my friends use it, they don't appear to be on the verge of folding, etc etc." -
I mean, MS could probably change their logo to a swastika and they'd still retain most of their business.
Human nature is follow the leader, when you take a change you become responsible, and the last thing most corporate drones want is "the eye of scrutiny upon them". No, MS's "marketing" doesn't matter, they just have huge amounts of inertia.
If you don't pay mafia protection fees, then "bad things happen to you".
If you don't pay the RIAA for its monthly fee or buy it's content, then the only things that could happen to you (such as not listening to Britney Spears) are good.
If you're referring to the court cases brought against people who were file-sharing and infringing on copyrights, then I don't think a monthly college file sharing fee protects you if you continue to file-share copyrighted works that aren't part of the deal. It's safe to assume if you pay a $5 a month college file-sharing fee, then rip your copy of Lord of the Rings and put it up on eMule, you can very well still find yourself in court.
Stop with the knee jerk quip karma bait comments.
It turns your hair green.
Given that, why can't there just be a proposal, adopted (like a DVD format, etc) by some huge players (Microsoft, OpenSource, whatever), and then announce a sort of "Spam Doomsday", a ways out. Say January of 2006. Give people time to write in the new mail handling ability so it's side by side with POP in the next Outlook and Thunderbird and whatever else, as well as all the various mail-servers, and months for organizations to plan on roll out.
Yes upgrades are a bitch and especially on a large scale, but coporations have to go through them anyway, from the OS's to the software running on them. I dont know of too many people woul'd prefer to throw never-ending money at spam blocking and net traffic associated with it instead of just knowing "January 18th, 2006 - everyone on the net (who has a brain) is moving to nEw-Mail".
I realize POP/SMTP is ancient and embedded, but unlike a physical "format" like CD-ROM or 4mm DAT, the bulk of existing email is transient, it's collected and forgotten about or "local" in a few minutes. So picking a transition day, agreeing on an open transition method, and just "DOING IT", can't possibly be that hard. POP/SMTP wouldn't even have to go away, it could run side-by-side for the hold-outs, but I think 99% of the people are so tired of spam they'd be understanding of "Sorry, if you want to email customer support at Citibank, you will need to use our new support#citibank.com nEw-Mail address." when its so universally pushed.
The effectiveness of the spam that's blocked decreases, the potentcy of the spam that gets through skyrockets since it stands alone. This alone is motivation to triple the efforts of spammers. Im sure the more talented spammers out there nearly jizz themselves as they run thier latest crafted email through their local "test servers", seeing it passes through all the filters with ease, and hit the SEND button.
Until there is new methodologies to prevent the "ability" to spam, period, everything else is just throwing effort into an unbeatable problem. Not saying things like Spam Assasain aren't nice, they are, but the bulk of the effort should be going to some universal email method that can be moved to easily and prevents spamming.
Damn trekkies everywhere.
Hmm. Your comment made me think, someone should write a P2P file sharing app that keeps all the slices of the files as specifical serialnumber'd (subject line?) attachments on emails stored on hundreds of free email accounts.
- Bill Gates
I'll save you a step over the last guy, just sign the checks and send them to me.
So what youre saying is, "If you're going store some kind of files that you don't want others to have access to... just save to CDRW, ZipDrive or any other media that is far easier to turn to smoke and ashes than a hard drive." Besides, do you really need 250gigs of platters to store a bunch of Word docs?
If most the so called "King Pins" were nailed, and spam dropped by 90%, that 10% would be even more hotly contested and it would drive right back up again. When you get 100 emails and 95 are spam you glaze over the spam. But when you get 6 emails and 1 is spam, you notice it. And getting noticed is what spam is all about.
So pressure on the spammers isn't the answer. Some system that denies the ability to spam period is.