Ummm... does missing 0.2% of a movie really matter? That means at some points in the movie you will get skips totaling about 15 seconds, probably less.
Oh? You have a suggestion for a better device than the iPod then? I had been looking up iPod alternatives for a friend, and I could not find any that would even play AAC (a requirement, since his collection is currently in MP3 and AAC). Playback in the formats you listed would be nice, but not a requirement.
Kerio Personal Firewall has a setting which makes it ask you every time a program runs if you want to allow it to run, along with simple checkbox to tell it to always use your choice. I have used this when trying to clean some really nasty adware, but I do not use this mode in normal usage, since it seems like it would be too annoying. I do use the option to have it control which programs have permission to run other programs. (All the programs I use are permanently allowed or denied, but it would ask me about a virus/adware trying to open itself again after I kill it.) Obviously, any such system has the problem that if a malicious program is already running, and knows about the system, can just programmatically click the "Allow" button.
I agree that the GameCube disc format was chosen to make piracy harder, but the N64 used cartridges because disc drives at that time were too slow. Nintendo thought gamers would prefer games without the long loading times that the orginal PlayStation had. (Obviously, they were wrong about that.)
Gaim can do the emoticons (it should come with them, but I do not use MSN much, so I do not know about the MSN ones), but games support is a lot more difficult, and it is probably not a focus of the Gaim team.
Ummm... I use Gaim as my main IM client and I (mostly) use Windows. The only problems I have noticed with Gaim's AIM support are (1) it tends to show more generic error messages (specifically, if you add a buddy to a full buddy list, the official AIM client will say something about too many buddies, but Gaim will just say error adding buddy) and (2) lack of voice and video support, which is being worked on, but I would not use anyway. It that what you were referring to?
As a note, I have gotten a few of my not so techy friends to switch to using Gaim instead of the official AIM client because of its lack of ads and support for spell-checking.
You mean first (hopefully) popular IM service to use the standard. My @jabber.org log-in has worked quite fine for serveral months (and the service itself is older). I just only know one or two other people with @jabber.org log-ins.
Wikipedia to the rescue. The TI-89 had two hardware versions (three if you count the titantium). HW1 had a 10 MHz processor. HW2 and HW3 (titanium) have a 12 MHz processor. HW1 and HW2 appear identical, except they show a different version number on the about screen ([F1]+[A]).
Ah, there's the beauty of it: VLC (like another poster mentioned of MPlayer) does not have any download servers anywhere in North America. Look at their mirror list. The DMCA has no effect on them unless a similiar law is adopted by the EU. And Brazil. And Taiwan.
Now, wait a minute. Let's say the micropayments for sending e-mails, which would be refunded by humans for legit e-mails, did get implemented. Am I incorrect in believing that a large portion of spam is sent through virus infected zombies? Why wouldn't the viruses just get a little smarter and send the e-mail so it is charged to the user of the computer (by looking at the set-up of their e-mail client)? People would be mad, but they would blame the micropayment system, not the viruses (or themselves for getting the viruses). Also, why wouldn't some spammer make a virus that marked all e-mail as legit? The normal user would probably not be sufficiently aware of the micropayment system to even realize that something were wrong.
What possible reason do you have to have a terabyte disk with a _SINGLE_ partition!? It takes long enough to defrag the 40 GB partitions on my drive! (Admittedly, a 7200 RPM ATA100, not SATA.)
I believe I have seen that howto before. I had some problem with the palette being wrong (Starcraft uses a custom palette since it is 256 colors) and another with the mouse not moving. It would either look right and have to be killed remotely or the graphics would be too messed up for it to be usable. This was a while ago so I do not remember what settings I changed, and my problem may not occur with the most recent version of WINE.
That cry of anguish is all the South Koreans trying to get WINE to work so they can play StarCraft. (I have done it, it just took a lot of messing with settings.)
Normally it does, but it sounds like you cannot directly use the included WAV output plug-in (because of the DRM), but you can use the Output Stacker program that allows you to use multiple output plug-ins, and set one of the outputs you are using to the WAV writer. I assume that this process limits you to 1x speed. Or maybe Napster is just wrong.
Speaking of, why the hell doesn't slashdot let you edit your comments like every other message board!!?!?!
You cannot edit posts on slashdot because that would allow for great abuse of the moderation system. Ex. troll posts good insightful comment, gets moded to +5, and then the troll edits it to an advertisement or other trollish post or changes a link.
Unlimited upload on BT (or any p2p for that matter) is bad because it uses TCP so the upload interferes with the packets sent to tell the computer you are downloading that you are actually reciving packets from it. Since those packets do not get sent, the computer you are downloading from sends slower. It would also be interfering with your HTTP requests and acknowledgements to the web server. (There is a correct terminology for what I am saying, I am just to tired to think of it.) On the other hand, I have found that capping my upload too low does lead to lower download speeds. (If there are not a ton of seeds, my download tends to hover around three times my upload.)
That's interesting. AIM File transfers seem to work fine on Gaim for me. In fact, since I'm on a NAT'd connection and Gaim has an option IP and port, it works better than the official client for me (the official client may have this option now, I have not used it in a long time). If you are having trouble with file transfers on Gaim, direct connect, and then try again.
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Ummm... does missing 0.2% of a movie really matter? That means at some points in the movie you will get skips totaling about 15 seconds, probably less.
Oh? You have a suggestion for a better device than the iPod then? I had been looking up iPod alternatives for a friend, and I could not find any that would even play AAC (a requirement, since his collection is currently in MP3 and AAC). Playback in the formats you listed would be nice, but not a requirement.
Kerio Personal Firewall has a setting which makes it ask you every time a program runs if you want to allow it to run, along with simple checkbox to tell it to always use your choice. I have used this when trying to clean some really nasty adware, but I do not use this mode in normal usage, since it seems like it would be too annoying. I do use the option to have it control which programs have permission to run other programs. (All the programs I use are permanently allowed or denied, but it would ask me about a virus/adware trying to open itself again after I kill it.) Obviously, any such system has the problem that if a malicious program is already running, and knows about the system, can just programmatically click the "Allow" button.
I agree that the GameCube disc format was chosen to make piracy harder, but the N64 used cartridges because disc drives at that time were too slow. Nintendo thought gamers would prefer games without the long loading times that the orginal PlayStation had. (Obviously, they were wrong about that.)
Gaim can do the emoticons (it should come with them, but I do not use MSN much, so I do not know about the MSN ones), but games support is a lot more difficult, and it is probably not a focus of the Gaim team.
Ummm... I use Gaim as my main IM client and I (mostly) use Windows. The only problems I have noticed with Gaim's AIM support are (1) it tends to show more generic error messages (specifically, if you add a buddy to a full buddy list, the official AIM client will say something about too many buddies, but Gaim will just say error adding buddy) and (2) lack of voice and video support, which is being worked on, but I would not use anyway. It that what you were referring to?
As a note, I have gotten a few of my not so techy friends to switch to using Gaim instead of the official AIM client because of its lack of ads and support for spell-checking.
You mean first (hopefully) popular IM service to use the standard. My @jabber.org log-in has worked quite fine for serveral months (and the service itself is older). I just only know one or two other people with @jabber.org log-ins.
The Google Talk client has no ads. You can use any Jabber client, anyway. I am currently logged-into Google Talk via Gaim.
Wikipedia to the rescue. The TI-89 had two hardware versions (three if you count the titantium). HW1 had a 10 MHz processor. HW2 and HW3 (titanium) have a 12 MHz processor. HW1 and HW2 appear identical, except they show a different version number on the about screen ([F1]+[A]).
Ah, there's the beauty of it: VLC (like another poster mentioned of MPlayer) does not have any download servers anywhere in North America. Look at their mirror list. The DMCA has no effect on them unless a similiar law is adopted by the EU. And Brazil. And Taiwan.
Someone tried it almost two years ago: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/09/03/1823202.shtml
Now, wait a minute. Let's say the micropayments for sending e-mails, which would be refunded by humans for legit e-mails, did get implemented. Am I incorrect in believing that a large portion of spam is sent through virus infected zombies? Why wouldn't the viruses just get a little smarter and send the e-mail so it is charged to the user of the computer (by looking at the set-up of their e-mail client)? People would be mad, but they would blame the micropayment system, not the viruses (or themselves for getting the viruses). Also, why wouldn't some spammer make a virus that marked all e-mail as legit? The normal user would probably not be sufficiently aware of the micropayment system to even realize that something were wrong.
It sounds like you are talking about The Language Game.
What? The exploit is in the extension (XPI) installation code, not the updating for FireFox itself.
You could just run FireFox in Safe Mode and uninstall the offending extension.
What possible reason do you have to have a terabyte disk with a _SINGLE_ partition!? It takes long enough to defrag the 40 GB partitions on my drive! (Admittedly, a 7200 RPM ATA100, not SATA.)
I believe I have seen that howto before. I had some problem with the palette being wrong (Starcraft uses a custom palette since it is 256 colors) and another with the mouse not moving. It would either look right and have to be killed remotely or the graphics would be too messed up for it to be usable. This was a while ago so I do not remember what settings I changed, and my problem may not occur with the most recent version of WINE.
That cry of anguish is all the South Koreans trying to get WINE to work so they can play StarCraft. (I have done it, it just took a lot of messing with settings.)
But proving a composite number to be prime is impossible, so any possible task would be easier. The grandparent was a joke. Laugh.
Normally it does, but it sounds like you cannot directly use the included WAV output plug-in (because of the DRM), but you can use the Output Stacker program that allows you to use multiple output plug-ins, and set one of the outputs you are using to the WAV writer. I assume that this process limits you to 1x speed. Or maybe Napster is just wrong.
Unlimited upload on BT (or any p2p for that matter) is bad because it uses TCP so the upload interferes with the packets sent to tell the computer you are downloading that you are actually reciving packets from it. Since those packets do not get sent, the computer you are downloading from sends slower. It would also be interfering with your HTTP requests and acknowledgements to the web server. (There is a correct terminology for what I am saying, I am just to tired to think of it.) On the other hand, I have found that capping my upload too low does lead to lower download speeds. (If there are not a ton of seeds, my download tends to hover around three times my upload.)
That's interesting. AIM File transfers seem to work fine on Gaim for me. In fact, since I'm on a NAT'd connection and Gaim has an option IP and port, it works better than the official client for me (the official client may have this option now, I have not used it in a long time). If you are having trouble with file transfers on Gaim, direct connect, and then try again.