It'll turn all the flash boxes into white boxes with an "F" in the middle that acts as a play button, so if it smells like an ad, you can ignore it and if you think it's valid content, click to play it.
Works pretty well. It says up to 0.8 on the site, but the author made a new version that works on 1.0pr
It works with firefox, but the full functionality is not ther yet.
the Desktop Google browser caches information and links retreived by IE. Since FF uses a different method for caching, they need to adapt it for Firefox.
Here's the key quote...
We realize that many of our users use Mozilla Firefox as their primary browser, and we may consider adding increased Firefox support in a future version of Desktop Search.
It does integrate, but is not fully functionnal yet.
>> Q: I can't find webpages I viewed with Mozilla Firefox.
A: Google Desktop Search is only partially compatible with Mozilla Firefox. If you install Desktop Search and open a Firefox browser window, you'll see a 'Desktop' link appear on the Google homepage. You can click this link to go to the Desktop Search homepage whenever you want to search with Desktop Search.
Web pages which you view in Firefox aren't added to your Desktop Search index, however, so you won't be able to find them with Desktop Search.
We realize that many of our users use Mozilla Firefox as their primary browser, and we may consider adding increased Firefox support in a future version of Desktop Search.
The wav files seem to be phone messages played on specific phones (you can see the coordinates, gps friendly, on the page) at specific times.
Marketing, don't you just love it?
But that's really what SCO is all about right now. Image. They probably need to release a game or two on the XBOX and everybody will love them. (sorry, just to steer back to the topic.)
People should not be allowed to post before their first coffee of the day.
Actually, I've tried with a device on my thumb, like a fingerpick, and I've been able to "draw" more accurately than with a stylus, and figure I'll still have access to the right shoulder button.
Aye.. Dupré in Serpernt Isle.. I never liked that part. You also needed to sacrifice a companion to Blackthorne in U5. You could chose who would go.
By the way, I never thanked you enough for directing me to NWNC a few years ago.. I've been playing each sunday the "Avatarship" campaign, based on Zonker's Ultima 4 adaptation, with more or less the same players for around 2 years now.
In the next few sessions, we'll be going to the abyss, meaning this journey is about to be over. I'll need to write a song or two about it. (I've been playing Iolo)
Well, most of these are no cost anyway. Usually you just need to register an ID on their forums and post once, generating MORE bandwidth, but probably loading up five or six ads in the process.
Hmm.. sounds a lot like "mythbusters" on discovery.
Doing simple stuff like cooking steak with cocacola, and more expensive stuff like dropping crash test dummies from great heights in rivers, once with a hammer falling a few seconds before the dummy to "break the water", once without and seeing the result.
"The next step was sterilizing the tiles and inoculating them with E. coli, then placing 25 grams of cookies or gummies on the tiles
for 5 seconds. In all cases, E. coli was transferred from the tile to the food"
There you go. It should be LESS THAN 5 seconds. 4.99 seconds would have been good.
Adobe Reader 6.0 for Windows loads lots of unused plugins on startup. The Inquirer has a great article explaining how you can disable those unneeded plugins and make Adobe Reader load faster. Basically, you need to do the following:
1. Install Adobe Reader 6.0 and notice where it is installed.
2. Navigate to that folder in Explorer, locate the plug_ins subfolder and rename this folder to plug_ins_disabled.
3. Create a new plug_ins folder.
4. Move the files EWH32.api, printme.api and search.api from plug_ins_disabled to plug_ins.
##########
With the files listed, you get half the load time on low-end systems, and a 2-sec load time on high-end ones. Still, you might want to prefer using Acrobat Reader 4.05 on old systems, since it loads in just seven seconds instead of 20. --the inquire article
It's right in front of the faq but it took me ages to find that one.
I was shopping for a cheap USB keyboard for my PC.
Someone told me that I could get a PS2 keyboard. and of course, "PS2 won't do. My ps2 port's taken by the wireless keyboard."
So that was pretty silly. A PS2 USB keyboard... Can you use a PS2 keyboard with a ps2/usb adapter and hook it up to the usb port of a PS2, or the other way around?... I need more coffee.
To a non-American, an American. To an American Southerner, a Northerner. To a Northerner, a person from New England. To a New Englander, a person from Vermont. To a person from Vermont, someone who still uses outdoor plumbing. [E2 node]
confirmed by M-W. 1 a : a native or inhabitant of New England
b : a native or inhabitant of the northern U.S. 2 : a native or inhabitant of the U.S.
In an interview for the Criterion collection DVD, George Lucas states that while this film is a story a story about a princess and her protectors that this is not the element inspired Star Wars. Lucas states the inspiration comes from the telling of the story through the eyes of two smaller roles. In Hidden Fortress it is the two thieves, in Star Wars it is C3PO and R2D2. imdb
There's a princess, a few shady characters and that's about it.
The only reason that the movie was an inspiration to Lucas (or so he says) was that the story is seen from the eyes of two main characters who play minor roles. And that's how the tale is told. Just like 3P0 and D2 are the "point of view" of A new hope.
That movie rocked, btw. Is it just me or most female "Characters" in chinese movies have annoying voices? (princess, leaders, important figures) example: Jade King in New Dragon Gate Inn and Princess Yukihime in Hidden Fortress.
It's all true - I was alerted to this by a developer friend (hi, Peter!) and we went 'Ooooh! That's fun!' So apologies for creeping you out. But anything involving natural logarithms and roadside advertising is too good to pass up. No sign of Slashdot taking an interest, though. Rupert Goodwins, technology editor, ZDNet UK Friday, July 09, 2004
The whole movie in Sindarin and Quenya, subtitled. I wonder if he will keep the names of key characters similar just to confuse everyone, or subtly rename them to Bob, Chris, John, etc.
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Actually, get flashblock from this site.
It'll turn all the flash boxes into white boxes with an "F" in the middle that acts as a play button, so if it smells like an ad, you can ignore it and if you think it's valid content, click to play it.
Works pretty well. It says up to 0.8 on the site, but the author made a new version that works on 1.0pr
It works with firefox, but the full functionality is not ther yet.
the Desktop Google browser caches information and links retreived by IE.
Since FF uses a different method for caching, they need to adapt it for Firefox.
Here's the key quote...
We realize that many of our users use Mozilla Firefox as their primary browser, and we may consider adding increased Firefox support in a future version of Desktop Search.
It does integrate, but is not fully functionnal yet.
>>
Q: I can't find webpages I viewed with Mozilla Firefox.
A:
Google Desktop Search is only partially compatible with Mozilla Firefox. If you install Desktop Search and open a Firefox browser window, you'll see a 'Desktop' link appear on the Google homepage. You can click this link to go to the Desktop Search homepage whenever you want to search with Desktop Search.
Web pages which you view in Firefox aren't added to your Desktop Search index, however, so you won't be able to find them with Desktop Search.
We realize that many of our users use Mozilla Firefox as their primary browser, and we may consider adding increased Firefox support in a future version of Desktop Search.
totally offtopic, but there..
The whole site is a promo for Halo 2.
The wav files seem to be phone messages played on specific phones (you can see the coordinates, gps friendly, on the page) at specific times.
Marketing, don't you just love it?
But that's really what SCO is all about right now. Image. They probably need to release a game or two on the XBOX and everybody will love them. (sorry, just to steer back to the topic.)
People should not be allowed to post before their first coffee of the day.
Actually, I've tried with a device on my thumb, like a fingerpick, and I've been able to "draw" more accurately than with a stylus, and figure I'll still have access to the right shoulder button.
Aye.. Dupré in Serpernt Isle.. I never liked that part.
You also needed to sacrifice a companion to Blackthorne in U5. You could chose who would go.
By the way, I never thanked you enough for directing me to NWNC a few years ago.. I've been playing each sunday the "Avatarship" campaign, based on Zonker's Ultima 4 adaptation, with more or less the same players for around 2 years now.
In the next few sessions, we'll be going to the abyss, meaning this journey is about to be over. I'll need to write a song or two about it. (I've been playing Iolo)
There was a player released patch that made the game greater than it was, and more like what it was supposed to be.
More details and discussions can be found at their forum, Telp's MM9 tavern.
Why would you need CTRL?
Alt-Prtscr is enough for a capture current window.
Well, most of these are no cost anyway.
Usually you just need to register an ID on their forums and post once, generating MORE bandwidth, but probably loading up five or six ads in the process.
But yes, it totally goes against the standard.
Hmm.. sounds a lot like "mythbusters" on discovery.
Doing simple stuff like cooking steak with cocacola, and more expensive stuff like dropping crash test dummies from great heights in rivers, once with a hammer falling a few seconds before the dummy to "break the water", once without and seeing the result.
Sorta like a TV-Snopes.
Brainiac is great for silly science. Sky One, 8PM, every Thursday. Watch it. (Not shown in America, AFAIK).
.torrent near you, pretty please?
Soon on a
Thank you!
There you go.
It should be LESS THAN 5 seconds.
4.99 seconds would have been good.
5 was just too much.
But Java is a dance.
Rumba, Samba, Java... I'm sure you can think of others.
It makes much more sense when you look at it that way. A slow, heavy, memory hungry dance..
Actually, it's just a silly french dance, usually on a musette.
You're using adobe reader 6?
Disable unnecessary plugins
Adobe Reader 6.0 for Windows loads lots of unused plugins on startup. The Inquirer has a great article explaining how you can disable those unneeded plugins and make Adobe Reader load faster. Basically, you need to do the following:
1. Install Adobe Reader 6.0 and notice where it is installed.
2. Navigate to that folder in Explorer, locate the plug_ins subfolder and rename this folder to plug_ins_disabled.
3. Create a new plug_ins folder.
4. Move the files EWH32.api, printme.api and search.api from plug_ins_disabled to plug_ins.
##########
With the files listed, you get half the load time on low-end systems, and a 2-sec load time on high-end ones. Still, you might want to prefer using Acrobat Reader 4.05 on old systems, since it loads in just seven seconds instead of 20.
--the inquire article
It's right in front of the faq but it took me ages to find that one.
I was shopping for a cheap USB keyboard for my PC.
... I need more coffee.
Someone told me that I could get a PS2 keyboard.
and of course, "PS2 won't do. My ps2 port's taken by the wireless keyboard."
So that was pretty silly.
A PS2 USB keyboard...
Can you use a PS2 keyboard with a ps2/usb adapter and hook it up to the usb port of a PS2, or the other way around?
So anyone can photoshop this picture?
No. I'm sure I don't want a copy.
Version 1:
#include "windows.h"
int main(void)
{
RunWinders();
return 0;
}
Version 2:
#include "windows.h"
int main(void)
{
RunWinders();
return 0;
}
Then a version with tabs.. and stuff like that.
And pass each section through some sort of CRC checks.
Easy to find if you get your hands on two versions leaked. But what are the odds of that happening.</sarcasm>
You make it sound like it's a profession. Mainframer.
I think that attitude came from the mandatory sock suspenders in the dress code.
Yankee
To a non-American, an American.
To an American Southerner, a Northerner.
To a Northerner, a person from New England.
To a New Englander, a person from Vermont.
To a person from Vermont, someone who still uses outdoor plumbing.
[E2 node]
confirmed by M-W.
1 a : a native or inhabitant of New England
b : a native or inhabitant of the northern U.S.
2 : a native or inhabitant of the U.S.
(got the quote)
In an interview for the Criterion collection DVD, George Lucas states that while this film is a story a story about a princess and her protectors that this is not the element inspired Star Wars. Lucas states the inspiration comes from the telling of the story through the eyes of two smaller roles. In Hidden Fortress it is the two thieves, in Star Wars it is C3PO and R2D2.
imdb
Ok. I've just watched Hidden Fortress.
There's a princess, a few shady characters and that's about it.
The only reason that the movie was an inspiration to Lucas (or so he says) was that the story is seen from the eyes of two main characters who play minor roles. And that's how the tale is told. Just like 3P0 and D2 are the "point of view" of A new hope.
That movie rocked, btw.
Is it just me or most female "Characters" in chinese movies have annoying voices? (princess, leaders, important figures)
example: Jade King in New Dragon Gate Inn and Princess Yukihime in Hidden Fortress.
indeed.
here's a blog about it.
It's all true - I was alerted to this by a developer friend (hi, Peter!) and we went 'Ooooh! That's fun!'
So apologies for creeping you out. But anything involving natural logarithms and roadside advertising is too good to pass up. No sign of Slashdot taking an interest, though.
Rupert Goodwins, technology editor, ZDNet UK
Friday, July 09, 2004
No. he's going to do a PREQUEL. LoTR 0.
The whole movie in Sindarin and Quenya, subtitled.
I wonder if he will keep the names of key characters similar just to confuse everyone, or subtly rename them to Bob, Chris, John, etc.