WinAmp 5 is WinAmp 2 with bugfixes and additional plugins. It's the additional plugins that are giving you the trouble. The "Lite" version doesn't include most of the bloat, so WinAmp 5 should do everything you need it to do, especially on older hardware.
I remember reading an interview with the CEO of Nintendo about why they made the N64 a cartridge based system - I'm sure it had to do with preventing piracy, yes, but the primary reason he gave was load times. Cartridges are fast, especially compared to the 300KB/s you could get from the double speed drive in the original Playstation.
Even now that they've gone to optical media, Nintendo's games will never show a blank screen with "Loading" on it. Even if there's background loading going on, there's always something happening on the screen, like the elevator sequences in Metroid Prime.
I have a meagre setup in comparison but it serves me well enough. I'm a student so I don't have a lot of disposable income to spend on toys. I've also been threatened with death if I bring home another computer without getting rid of one. Since it's not my house, I comply.
1 x OpenBSD DHCP / DNS / Web Server
1 x FreeBSD Secure Web / Subversion Server
1 x Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller so I can learn about Active Directory
1 x General Purpose Windows XP Desktop w. TV Tuner
"needed to be able to play videos" - plugin "had to show stupid tripping-on-acid-harmonograph visualizations" - plugin "had to melt songs together" - plugin "skins on Winamp that just made my computer shit its gourd" - plugin (modern skins, anyway - classic skins are a collection of static bitmaps)
I still use WinAmp. I also use iTunes. My WinAmp v5 installation looks more or less like my old WinAmp v2 installation because I've disabled and deleted the plugins I didn't want (like video and modern skins). The installer even asks you whether it should install all this junk and you can say no.
Don't get me wrong, I think WinAmp is past its prime but most of the bloat can be disabled.
A lot of people don't seem to be too clear on this so I thought I would mention it - WinAmp 5 is WinAmp 2 with bugfixes and some extra plugins (e.g. video). If you don't want the extra stuff just delete / don't install the plugins.
I think "too good" is giving Hotmail way too much credit. My friends who still use Hotmail routinely have junk routed to their Inbox and e-mail from a real, genuine person dropped in the Junk folder. I'm not talking about spam that's hard to filter, either - my friend showed me her Inbox one day and the subject line of one of her messages was "Cheap Meds".
Since the WMF vulnerability caught most of the major Antivirus vendors with their pants down, I'm starting to see this possibility as somewhat unlikely.
I haven't used Evolution so I don't have a basis for comparison of GPG integration but the EnigMail Extension for Thunderbird is quite good. I like it because it stays out of my way.
1. Evolution deletes mail by putting it into a virtual folder and hiding the original message in your inbox. This is ok and seamless to the end user UNLESS you happen to also use webmail. In which case your inbox will be cluttered by messages you thought you'd gotten rid of ages ago. The evolution team has flat out refused to address this issue and has been calling this 'not a bug' (which is true) since 2001.
IIRC, Thunderbird works this way as well - deleted messages aren't actually removed from the folders in which they're stored until you "Compact Folders".
I have cousins who send me messages that look very much like this; they're also getting 80s and 90s in high-school English. It's not that they can't write in English, it's that they choose not to. I don't know if they're representative of the general population but it is worth noting.
The patents on the machines might be expired but the copyrights on the games certainly haven't. Unless they get permission to republish the games from the original copyright holder (such as with the 10-in-1 Atari joysticks), you won't be seeing them in legit shops any time soon.
GMail seems to work as it should on my copy of RC2.
When I decided to test 1.5 Beta, I uninstalled 1.0.7, deleted the Firefox installation directory then copied my bookmarks into a clean profile. That may help, although it does mean resetting your configuration.
Incremental update from 1.5 Beta 1 to 1.5 Beta 2 failed on me but the update from Beta 2 to RC1 and RC1 to RC2 both worked fine without a clean install.
I've had some experience with both WebCT and Blackboard. WebCT was in use at my previous school, Blackboard at my current one. I have to wonder what Blackboard is thinking. I haven't run into any huge, glaring problems with Blackboard yet (although apparently many people here have); WebCT is just garbage.
After using WebCT for a few weeks I concluded that they're one of those companies that just doesn't understand the web. WebCT had an aneurism when it detected that I wasn't using the One True Browser. They eventually updated the list of allowed browsers to include newer versions of Netscape but the "DANGER! DANGER!" message never went away on Firefox.
From what I saw, WebCT allows professors to choose any format they'd like for course web pages which, in my case, meant that you had to learn how to navigate a badly written Frontpage site for each course in which you were enrolled.
At least with Blackboard there seems to be a modicum of standardization. Hopefully they won't take the "flexibility" of WebCT and try to add it to Blackboard. The last thing I need is helpful improvements to a system that sortof, mostly works.
You may also want to try Novus plastic polish. My dad bought some to use on the tables of our pinball machines and it works beautifully. My sister had a car accident that left a scratch all the way down the side of our Saturn - my dad used Novus on it and it's barely noticeable now.
One of the design goals of Firefox was to make things work intelligently by default. Most users will never touch the preferences and I think the dev team made the right choice here. There's extensions to change the behaviour - anybody who wants to change the default can do so.
The worst thing they could've done in terms of meeting their design goal is to throw a dialog box with a cryptic question about tab behaviour at a new user ("What's a tab?").
You can find more on the status of the projects in the Subversion dev list archives. I believe David Anderson's "Path-based authorization for svnserve" project was completed. I haven't really been watching the rest of the SVN SoC projects.
I realize it's a joke but I can't help pointing out that Nintendo is making a profit while Microsoft and Sony are both reporting huge losses. </fanboy>
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WinAmp 5 is WinAmp 2 with bugfixes and additional plugins. It's the additional plugins that are giving you the trouble. The "Lite" version doesn't include most of the bloat, so WinAmp 5 should do everything you need it to do, especially on older hardware.
WinAmp 5 is just WinAmp 2 with a bunch of plugins and bugfixes.
I remember reading an interview with the CEO of Nintendo about why they made the N64 a cartridge based system - I'm sure it had to do with preventing piracy, yes, but the primary reason he gave was load times. Cartridges are fast, especially compared to the 300KB/s you could get from the double speed drive in the original Playstation.
Even now that they've gone to optical media, Nintendo's games will never show a blank screen with "Loading" on it. Even if there's background loading going on, there's always something happening on the screen, like the elevator sequences in Metroid Prime.
I have a meagre setup in comparison but it serves me well enough. I'm a student so I don't have a lot of disposable income to spend on toys. I've also been threatened with death if I bring home another computer without getting rid of one. Since it's not my house, I comply.
I can see your point but...
"needed to be able to play videos" - plugin
"had to show stupid tripping-on-acid-harmonograph visualizations" - plugin
"had to melt songs together" - plugin
"skins on Winamp that just made my computer shit its gourd" - plugin (modern skins, anyway - classic skins are a collection of static bitmaps)
I still use WinAmp. I also use iTunes. My WinAmp v5 installation looks more or less like my old WinAmp v2 installation because I've disabled and deleted the plugins I didn't want (like video and modern skins). The installer even asks you whether it should install all this junk and you can say no.
Don't get me wrong, I think WinAmp is past its prime but most of the bloat can be disabled.
A lot of people don't seem to be too clear on this so I thought I would mention it - WinAmp 5 is WinAmp 2 with bugfixes and some extra plugins (e.g. video). If you don't want the extra stuff just delete / don't install the plugins.
You can use a program called Ghostwalker that comes with Ghost Corporate 2003 to change a computer's SID after the disk image is loaded.
I think "too good" is giving Hotmail way too much credit. My friends who still use Hotmail routinely have junk routed to their Inbox and e-mail from a real, genuine person dropped in the Junk folder. I'm not talking about spam that's hard to filter, either - my friend showed me her Inbox one day and the subject line of one of her messages was "Cheap Meds".
A lot of people said similar things about the Mozilla project.
I'm looking forward to Perl 6. In the meantime, I'm amusing myself by learning Ruby.
Since the WMF vulnerability caught most of the major Antivirus vendors with their pants down, I'm starting to see this possibility as somewhat unlikely.
The official MSN client downloads and renders "Avatar" images without user intervention. I don't know if it will render a WMF sent this way, however.
I haven't used Evolution so I don't have a basis for comparison of GPG integration but the EnigMail Extension for Thunderbird is quite good. I like it because it stays out of my way.
IIRC, Thunderbird works this way as well - deleted messages aren't actually removed from the folders in which they're stored until you "Compact Folders".
I have cousins who send me messages that look very much like this; they're also getting 80s and 90s in high-school English. It's not that they can't write in English, it's that they choose not to. I don't know if they're representative of the general population but it is worth noting.
The patents on the machines might be expired but the copyrights on the games certainly haven't. Unless they get permission to republish the games from the original copyright holder (such as with the 10-in-1 Atari joysticks), you won't be seeing them in legit shops any time soon.
GMail seems to work as it should on my copy of RC2.
When I decided to test 1.5 Beta, I uninstalled 1.0.7, deleted the Firefox installation directory then copied my bookmarks into a clean profile. That may help, although it does mean resetting your configuration.
Incremental update from 1.5 Beta 1 to 1.5 Beta 2 failed on me but the update from Beta 2 to RC1 and RC1 to RC2 both worked fine without a clean install.
Apparently you're not alone since this got moderated up. I haven't run into any clipboard bug - can you provide a URI or a description of the problem?
They're talking about backend systems, not end-user machines.
My favorite 419 e-mail was from the gentleman who had a "preposition" for me.
Alas, there was no reply when I sent him the definitions of "preposition" and "proposition" from dictionary.com.
I've had some experience with both WebCT and Blackboard. WebCT was in use at my previous school, Blackboard at my current one. I have to wonder what Blackboard is thinking. I haven't run into any huge, glaring problems with Blackboard yet (although apparently many people here have); WebCT is just garbage.
After using WebCT for a few weeks I concluded that they're one of those companies that just doesn't understand the web. WebCT had an aneurism when it detected that I wasn't using the One True Browser. They eventually updated the list of allowed browsers to include newer versions of Netscape but the "DANGER! DANGER!" message never went away on Firefox.
From what I saw, WebCT allows professors to choose any format they'd like for course web pages which, in my case, meant that you had to learn how to navigate a badly written Frontpage site for each course in which you were enrolled.
At least with Blackboard there seems to be a modicum of standardization. Hopefully they won't take the "flexibility" of WebCT and try to add it to Blackboard. The last thing I need is helpful improvements to a system that sortof, mostly works.
Undead zombie lawyers?
Wait, that might be redundant...
You may also want to try Novus plastic polish. My dad bought some to use on the tables of our pinball machines and it works beautifully. My sister had a car accident that left a scratch all the way down the side of our Saturn - my dad used Novus on it and it's barely noticeable now.
There can only be one default.
One of the design goals of Firefox was to make things work intelligently by default. Most users will never touch the preferences and I think the dev team made the right choice here. There's extensions to change the behaviour - anybody who wants to change the default can do so.
The worst thing they could've done in terms of meeting their design goal is to throw a dialog box with a cryptic question about tab behaviour at a new user ("What's a tab?").
If you weren't aware, a list of the SVN projects is here:
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-06/0975.shtml
You can find more on the status of the projects in the Subversion dev list archives. I believe David Anderson's "Path-based authorization for svnserve" project was completed. I haven't really been watching the rest of the SVN SoC projects.
I realize it's a joke but I can't help pointing out that Nintendo is making a profit while Microsoft and Sony are both reporting huge losses.
</fanboy>