Datura stramonium ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium ) will make you do weird things like this. I knew a guy that took way too much and the cops found him roadside in the grass, swimming.
What are you talking about? Microsoft Security Essentials has been, and still is, available for Windows XP. I installed it on (yet another) XP machine earlier today.
XBMC is a great app, although the reason why you're finding it runs fine with your video card is that XBMC does not use any hardware acceleration. So you could have the best card in the world, and it wouldn't help performane.
That's not true. XBMC on linux supports hardware video decode via VDPAU ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU ). nVidia Geforce 8xxx and later chips are supported, as are a couple of S3 Chrome chips. Depending on the age of the chip not all video codecs are accelerated, but all the supported chips include at least some support for H.264 and VC-1. Geforce 210 and later even accelerate XviD and DivX. Currently neither ATI nor Intel include support for VDPAU in their linux drivers.
XBMC has also recently added hardware decode support to their Windows build. It uses DXVA2 on Vista and Windows 7, and there is experimental support on XP using DXVA.
I use Firefox 100% of the time and surf the 'net like a madman, and have no compatibility problems with any websites. That includes online banking, merchants, pr0n, news sites, etc. "IE-only" is really a thing of the past as far as publicly-accessible websites are concerned.
haha, I had a roommate in the 80's that once bought an "Alphine" car stereo. He went to some traveling electronics market and came home all excited with his purchase. "Alphine" was the first thing I noticed when I saw the box, and I think that put a slight damper on his day.
I also have a brother that bought a digital camera from some guy at an Arby's. It's the only digital camera I've seen that takes 35mm film!
Try the "oldbar" add-on for newer versions of Firefox. It makes the address bar function pretty much just like it used to before they introduced the Awesome Bar.
It appears that this does not effect the older 1TB+ Western Digital Green drives such as the WDC10EADS. Those use 333GB platters and are native 512-byte sectors. The newer (newest) Western Green drives, like the WDC10EARS, use 500MB platters and have 4K sectors. One way to tell the drives apart with a quick glance is the old Green drives had 32MB of cache and the new ones have 64MB of cache.
Nah, it was Windows XP Pro. I should have specified that in thedf;dafjlajflf A problem has been detected and Windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer.
I agree. Dell must have used magic to make their old batteries or something. I own an old Latitude C600 with Intel P3-1GHz CPU, and have two batteries for this laptop. The batteries are 7+ years old, but each is still capable of powering this laptop for 2-3 hours with average use. As far at battery life is concerned, it's pretty amazing.
True, the warning will start Feb 15h, and Microsoft doesn't release security updates for the Windows 7 RC code.../p>
Yes, Microsoft does currently release security updates for the RC. I have it installed on a spare drive in a PC, and it updates on the rare times that I boot into that OS.
anything more complicated than adding a few numbers, it's easier to open a spreadsheet than to learn how any particular calculator functions.
Not if you use the Google Apps spreadsheet program. It doesn't round by default and gives weird results to some of the simplest math. Play around with it a bit and you'll see.
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They stirred salt water in coconut shells once to charge the batteries from their portable radio. That Professor was a smart guy!
Datura stramonium ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium ) will make you do weird things like this. I knew a guy that took way too much and the cops found him roadside in the grass, swimming.
What are you talking about? Microsoft Security Essentials has been, and still is, available for Windows XP. I installed it on (yet another) XP machine earlier today.
Thanks for the reply.
Does the "Flashblock" plugin for Firefox help block this exploit? The only sites in my whitelist are YouTube, Amazon.com, and NewEgg.
You're a couple of posts behind on this stuff...
Porn sites have a built-in defense mechanism. It's hard to hack when your hands are busy.
It's just like drinking a latte.
...and why do they need them?
XBMC is a great app, although the reason why you're finding it runs fine with your video card is that XBMC does not use any hardware acceleration. So you could have the best card in the world, and it wouldn't help performane.
That's not true. XBMC on linux supports hardware video decode via VDPAU ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU ). nVidia Geforce 8xxx and later chips are supported, as are a couple of S3 Chrome chips. Depending on the age of the chip not all video codecs are accelerated, but all the supported chips include at least some support for H.264 and VC-1. Geforce 210 and later even accelerate XviD and DivX. Currently neither ATI nor Intel include support for VDPAU in their linux drivers.
XBMC has also recently added hardware decode support to their Windows build. It uses DXVA2 on Vista and Windows 7, and there is experimental support on XP using DXVA.
Bionicman. You can probably guess the password.
Was it "da da da da da da da da"?
I use Firefox 100% of the time and surf the 'net like a madman, and have no compatibility problems with any websites. That includes online banking, merchants, pr0n, news sites, etc. "IE-only" is really a thing of the past as far as publicly-accessible websites are concerned.
haha, I had a roommate in the 80's that once bought an "Alphine" car stereo. He went to some traveling electronics market and came home all excited with his purchase. "Alphine" was the first thing I noticed when I saw the box, and I think that put a slight damper on his day.
I also have a brother that bought a digital camera from some guy at an Arby's. It's the only digital camera I've seen that takes 35mm film!
Try the "oldbar" add-on for newer versions of Firefox. It makes the address bar function pretty much just like it used to before they introduced the Awesome Bar.
Maybe they were just very good swimmers?
Q: How come there's no truly clever or truly witty humor on Slashdot?
A: Because shit like this keeps getting modded up.
O: Slashdot seems to have an open door policy for @$$#0l3$, though. ;)
I think it's past my bedtime.
I posted that the newer WD Green drives use 500MB platters and I meant 500GB. 500MB platters would make for a very physically-large 1TB+ hard drive!
It appears that this does not effect the older 1TB+ Western Digital Green drives such as the WDC10EADS. Those use 333GB platters and are native 512-byte sectors. The newer (newest) Western Green drives, like the WDC10EARS, use 500MB platters and have 4K sectors. One way to tell the drives apart with a quick glance is the old Green drives had 32MB of cache and the new ones have 64MB of cache.
Nah, it was Windows XP Pro. I should have specified that in thedf;dafjlajflf A problem has been detected and Windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer.
I updated yesterday and haven't had any problems. I feel like I won the lottery!
I agree. Dell must have used magic to make their old batteries or something. I own an old Latitude C600 with Intel P3-1GHz CPU, and have two batteries for this laptop. The batteries are 7+ years old, but each is still capable of powering this laptop for 2-3 hours with average use. As far at battery life is concerned, it's pretty amazing.
True, the warning will start Feb 15h, and Microsoft doesn't release security updates for the Windows 7 RC code.../p>
Yes, Microsoft does currently release security updates for the RC. I have it installed on a spare drive in a PC, and it updates on the rare times that I boot into that OS.
anything more complicated than adding a few numbers, it's easier to open a spreadsheet than to learn how any particular calculator functions.
Not if you use the Google Apps spreadsheet program. It doesn't round by default and gives weird results to some of the simplest math. Play around with it a bit and you'll see.