There's an extension for Firefox 3.x named oldbar that makes the address bar work like the one in Firefox 2.x. I don't know if it works with Firefox 3.6, though, as I have not yet upgraded.
He/She meant that the newest nVidia chips have hardware support for decoding "MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 (a.k.a MPEG-4 ASP), VC-1/WMV9 and H.264" via VDPAU in linux (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU ). The biggest benefit of VDPAU is hardware decode of HD content like H.264, but it's also nice that SD DivX/XviD/MPEG-1/MPEG-2/etc. is accelerated, too.
You can most certainly put H.264 into an AVI container, though you may be hard pressed to find a reason to do this. There are tools available that make it an easy task. I've actually had to do it a couple of times, and it worked just fine.
With the most recent MS-provided updates for Windows Media Player on Windows XP (and Windows 7), it does support playback of XviD and DivX without installing any third-party CODECS. This is a relatively new development.
Maybe I'm lucky (conversely, maybe you are unlucky), but 32-bit Firefox 3.5x is 100%* rock-solid stable on my PCs. I can't compare this to IE's stability, as I never, ever, use IE. Granted, I only have 4 add-ons installed (ColorfulTabs, Flashblock, ForecastFox, and Oldbar), but Firefox simply works.
*Actually, I can remember 1 time that Firefox locked up on me, months ago, so its stability is 100% minus one_event.
Well, two things you are missing is evidence that the Mozilla foundation will (1) "withhold security updates until there is a feature ready to go", and (2) "withhold features until a security update is necessary".
...and I then remembered the year I spent on a Federal work release program and the nasty bathrooms in the facility housing. Those bathrooms had plenty of DNA.
I'm not sure about Milk or Frost/Nixon, but there was a DVD screener for Benjamin Button available for download months before the retail DVD was released. That may have measurably impacted rentals in a college ZIP code area. Or not, who knows?
I had this happen on my personal PC with Windows XP Pro a few days ago. I had been using the PC for a while and needed a break, so I locked the screen saver and stepped away. I came back later and the screen was black like power management had kicked in, but I don't have Windows configured to turn off the display. I moved the mouse but got no response. I run VNC server on this PC, so I used another PC to attempt a connection. The connection was successful, but the display was corrupt and basically unusable. I was able to navigate the PC's "Start" menu via the VNC session and shut the PC down. After a reboot, the PC worked properly and I haven't had this happen again.
I suppose it could have been some sort of problem with the display driver, but this PC NEVER crashes or locks up and this was definitely an unexpected occurrence.
Host: You're not fooling anybody, Mrs Mittelschmerz. In your letter you quite clearly claimed that... er... you could be thrown off the top of Beachy Head into the English Channel and then be buried.
Mittelschmerz: No, you can't read my writing.
Host: It's typed.
Mittelschmerz: It says 'elephant'.
Host: Mrs Mittelschmerz, this is an entertainment show, and I'm not prepared to simply sit here bickering. Take her away, Heinz!
Mittelschmerz: Here, no, leave me alone! (Sound of wind and sea).
Game Show Host (John Cleese): Good evening and welcome to Stake Your Claim. First this evening we have Mr Norman Voles of Gravesend who claims he wrote all Shakespeare's works. Mr Voles, I understand you claim that you wrote all those plays normally attributed to Shakespeare?
Voles (Michael Palin): That is correct. I wrote all his plays and my wife and I wrote his sonnets.
Host: Mr Voles, these plays are known to have been performed in the early 17th century. How old are you, Mr Voles?
Voles: 43.
Host: Well, how is it possible for you to have written plays performed over 300 years before you were born?
Voles: Ah well. This is where my claim falls to the ground.
Host: Ah!
Voles: There's no possible way of answering that argument, I'm afraid. I was only hoping you would not make that particular point, but I can see you're more than a match for me!
Host: Mr Voles, thank you very much for coming along.
Voles: My pleasure.
Host: Next we have Mr Bill Wymiss who claims to have built the Taj Mahal.
Wymiss (Eric Idle): No.
Host: I'm sorry?
Wymiss: No. No.
Host: I thought you cla...
Wymiss: Well I did but I can see I won't last a minute with you.
It's not the same as this newfangled "iNotes" service that IBM is hawking, but Lotus Domino/Notes has long had a web based interface that you can use if enabled on the server. There was even a very nice template you could apply to your email database (inotes6.ntf in Lotus Notes 6) that looked and performed well.
Microsoft Exchange doesn't hold a candle to Lotus Domino, but the two products are kinda like apples and oranges. Exchange is primarily an email server and Domino is a much more advanced groupware/database server with an email component. Microsoft doesn't make a single-product solution that has the same functionality as Domino. They will license you a suite of server products that can replace Domino, though.
I don't know about anything past Lotus Notes 6.5x, but up 'til then you could open a command prompt and "nsd.exe -kill" from the Lotus Notes install directory if you had a single user install ("Only install for me" during installation), or from your Notes data directory if you are using a multi-user installation (you would do something like "C:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\NSD.EXE -kill" from a command prompt while in your personal Notes data directory). This will kill all Notes processes and allow you to restart Notes (on the rare occasion that you couldn't restart it without first running NSD.EXE). You have to run NSD.EXE from wherever the active notes.ini was located. No need for ZapNotes.
Hire some uninhibited, terminally ill but still attractive 20-somethings, give them the minimum training required to run a camera and the space ship's onboard computers, and send them off to film the first real-time space porno, "Missionary to Mars". DVD sales and online streaming revenue will pay for this, with plenty of money left over to fund a proper Mars mission.
The negative terminal of a battery supplies the electrons and they move from negative to positive when a conductor is placed between the two poles. The two popular notations for charge flow, "Conventional Flow Notation" and "Electron Flow Notation", do not dispute this. The difference is that "Electron Flow Notation" illustrates the physical movement of electrons (from "negative" to "positive") and "Conventional Flow Notation" illustrates the "movement" of the electrical charge from the "positive" terminal to the "negative" terminal. As electrons move from - to +, the "positive" side of the battery becomes less positive in relation to the "negative" side, effectively meaning that the electrical charge is moving from + to - (in "Conventional Flow Notation"). The electrons are still moving from the - battery terminal to the + battery terminal, though.
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There's an extension for Firefox 3.x named oldbar that makes the address bar work like the one in Firefox 2.x. I don't know if it works with Firefox 3.6, though, as I have not yet upgraded.
He/She meant that the newest nVidia chips have hardware support for decoding "MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 (a.k.a MPEG-4 ASP), VC-1/WMV9 and H.264" via VDPAU in linux (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU ). The biggest benefit of VDPAU is hardware decode of HD content like H.264, but it's also nice that SD DivX/XviD/MPEG-1/MPEG-2/etc. is accelerated, too.
Or, "I was a Windows admin in a previous life and now can't get laid."
If you want to talk about those updates, then you have to also acknowledge that h264 is supported out of the box, too
The post to which I was replying didn't mention h264, so why would I acknowledge it? ;)
You can most certainly put H.264 into an AVI container, though you may be hard pressed to find a reason to do this. There are tools available that make it an easy task. I've actually had to do it a couple of times, and it worked just fine.
With the most recent MS-provided updates for Windows Media Player on Windows XP (and Windows 7), it does support playback of XviD and DivX without installing any third-party CODECS. This is a relatively new development.
"about:crashes" shows no submitted crash reports on my computers.
Maybe I'm lucky (conversely, maybe you are unlucky), but 32-bit Firefox 3.5x is 100%* rock-solid stable on my PCs. I can't compare this to IE's stability, as I never, ever, use IE. Granted, I only have 4 add-ons installed (ColorfulTabs, Flashblock, ForecastFox, and Oldbar), but Firefox simply works.
*Actually, I can remember 1 time that Firefox locked up on me, months ago, so its stability is 100% minus one_event.
Unless I'm missing something?
Well, two things you are missing is evidence that the Mozilla foundation will (1) "withhold security updates until there is a feature ready to go", and (2) "withhold features until a security update is necessary".
...and I then remembered the year I spent on a Federal work release program and the nasty bathrooms in the facility housing. Those bathrooms had plenty of DNA.
I'm not sure about Milk or Frost/Nixon, but there was a DVD screener for Benjamin Button available for download months before the retail DVD was released. That may have measurably impacted rentals in a college ZIP code area. Or not, who knows?
...It's a PITA for me to watch videos...
Leave the toys put away when watching p0rn! That will help.
You deserve a very positive mod for that comment.
I had this happen on my personal PC with Windows XP Pro a few days ago. I had been using the PC for a while and needed a break, so I locked the screen saver and stepped away. I came back later and the screen was black like power management had kicked in, but I don't have Windows configured to turn off the display. I moved the mouse but got no response. I run VNC server on this PC, so I used another PC to attempt a connection. The connection was successful, but the display was corrupt and basically unusable. I was able to navigate the PC's "Start" menu via the VNC session and shut the PC down. After a reboot, the PC worked properly and I haven't had this happen again.
I suppose it could have been some sort of problem with the display driver, but this PC NEVER crashes or locks up and this was definitely an unexpected occurrence.
Can anyone suggest a slim, up-to-date, linux distro based on Redhat or Fedora? Do I just need to run a standard install and de-select everything?
http://www.centos.org/
Host: ... we have Mrs Mittelschmerz of Dundee who cla... Mrs Mittelschmerz, what is your claim?
Mittelschmerz (Graham Chapman in drag): That I can burrow through an elephant.
Host: (Pause) Now you've changed your claim, haven't you. You know we haven't got an elephant.
Mittelschmerz: (Insincerely) Oh, haven't you? Oh dear!
Host: You're not fooling anybody, Mrs Mittelschmerz. In your letter you quite clearly claimed that ... er ... you could be thrown off the top of Beachy Head into the English Channel and then be buried.
Mittelschmerz: No, you can't read my writing.
Host: It's typed.
Mittelschmerz: It says 'elephant'.
Host: Mrs Mittelschmerz, this is an entertainment show, and I'm not prepared to simply sit here bickering. Take her away, Heinz!
Mittelschmerz: Here, no, leave me alone! (Sound of wind and sea).
Mittelschmerz: Oooaaahh! (SPLOSH)
Game Show Host (John Cleese): Good evening and welcome to Stake Your Claim. First this evening we have Mr Norman Voles of Gravesend who claims he wrote all Shakespeare's works. Mr Voles, I understand you claim that you wrote all those plays normally attributed to Shakespeare?
Voles (Michael Palin): That is correct. I wrote all his plays and my wife and I wrote his sonnets.
Host: Mr Voles, these plays are known to have been performed in the early 17th century. How old are you, Mr Voles?
Voles: 43.
Host: Well, how is it possible for you to have written plays performed over 300 years before you were born?
Voles: Ah well. This is where my claim falls to the ground.
Host: Ah!
Voles: There's no possible way of answering that argument, I'm afraid. I was only hoping you would not make that particular point, but I can see you're more than a match for me!
Host: Mr Voles, thank you very much for coming along.
Voles: My pleasure.
Host: Next we have Mr Bill Wymiss who claims to have built the Taj Mahal.
Wymiss (Eric Idle): No.
Host: I'm sorry?
Wymiss: No. No.
Host: I thought you cla...
Wymiss: Well I did but I can see I won't last a minute with you.
Host: Next...
Wymiss: I was right!
It's not the same as this newfangled "iNotes" service that IBM is hawking, but Lotus Domino/Notes has long had a web based interface that you can use if enabled on the server. There was even a very nice template you could apply to your email database (inotes6.ntf in Lotus Notes 6) that looked and performed well.
Microsoft Exchange doesn't hold a candle to Lotus Domino, but the two products are kinda like apples and oranges. Exchange is primarily an email server and Domino is a much more advanced groupware/database server with an email component. Microsoft doesn't make a single-product solution that has the same functionality as Domino. They will license you a suite of server products that can replace Domino, though.
I don't know about anything past Lotus Notes 6.5x, but up 'til then you could open a command prompt and "nsd.exe -kill" from the Lotus Notes install directory if you had a single user install ("Only install for me" during installation), or from your Notes data directory if you are using a multi-user installation (you would do something like "C:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\NSD.EXE -kill" from a command prompt while in your personal Notes data directory). This will kill all Notes processes and allow you to restart Notes (on the rare occasion that you couldn't restart it without first running NSD.EXE). You have to run NSD.EXE from wherever the active notes.ini was located. No need for ZapNotes.
Hey, it worked for Jean Luc Picard when he was trapped in the 19th Century!
...they could have traded the Shuttle in towards a nice Hybrid.
Hire some uninhibited, terminally ill but still attractive 20-somethings, give them the minimum training required to run a camera and the space ship's onboard computers, and send them off to film the first real-time space porno, "Missionary to Mars". DVD sales and online streaming revenue will pay for this, with plenty of money left over to fund a proper Mars mission.
The negative terminal of a battery supplies the electrons and they move from negative to positive when a conductor is placed between the two poles. The two popular notations for charge flow, "Conventional Flow Notation" and "Electron Flow Notation", do not dispute this. The difference is that "Electron Flow Notation" illustrates the physical movement of electrons (from "negative" to "positive") and "Conventional Flow Notation" illustrates the "movement" of the electrical charge from the "positive" terminal to the "negative" terminal. As electrons move from - to +, the "positive" side of the battery becomes less positive in relation to the "negative" side, effectively meaning that the electrical charge is moving from + to - (in "Conventional Flow Notation"). The electrons are still moving from the - battery terminal to the + battery terminal, though.