"There is something dishonestly self-serving in the tactic of claiming that all religious beliefs are outside the domain of science. On the one hand, miracle stories and the promise of life after death are used to impress simple people, win converts, and swell congregations. It is precisely their scientific power that gives these stories their popular appeal. But at the same time it is considered below the belt to subject the same stories to the ordinary rigors of scientific criticism: these are religious matters and therefore outside the domain of science. But you cannot have it both ways. At least, religious theorists and apologists should not be allowed to get away with having it both ways."
Well, if you only have a restore CD they will often by default erase the active partition as part of the process. Solution? Use RockXp to obtain your activation key and then use this key with the XP OEM install CD that you should have been provided with.
I'll be sticking with TB 1.5 until a bug that has been present in all 2.x versions so far is fixed. It is very annoying and applies to IMAP (maybe POP3 too) accounts. It seems like the mail notifier is broken because whenever a new message arrives, any previously unread messages get marked as read. Damn annoying!
That sounds bogus to me. Surely the iPod must have some buffering capability to prevent skipping so it's simply a matter of pre-buffering the next song.
(If I hadn't been so stunned I'd have installed a copy of a screen capture program and took a screenshot of the Ad-Aware window when it reported that.)
What's wrong with just pressing [Alt]+[Print Screen] to copy the active window to the clipboard? Or maybe you like doing things the hard way...
Have to agree there. It's an amazing little tool once you can get the hang of it.
It's amazing how much crap you can filter out. Plus you can create custom rules for specific sites, so you can 'repair' broken or badly-behaved sites.
As parent points out, the creator of The Proxomitron has since died, so alas the source code is closed AFAIK. Not that it needed improving as it has always been rock-solid.
I've tried the open source Privoxy which is very similar and unlike The Proxomitron available in non-Windows versiions, but IMHO it is not as flexible or powerful.
That reminds me - since it is Shonenware I really ought to get a Shonen Knife CD someday...
If you're going to post that old chestnut, at least get it right! Funny how everyone bitches about how ugly/. is, the lameness of the trolls, the same old jokes. Of course/. wouldn't be/. without it...
I remember Jet Set Willy on the C64 - it had a little leaflet with multi-coloured strips in a grid, and you were asked for the co-ordinates of a random cell. BTW, was the C64 version impossible to finish? I could NEVER jump the rolling egg on the rooftop, always hit the birds...
Flood on the Atari ST came with a poster, on loading you were quizzed about it... Great little game, good sfx (most ST games had appaling sfx due to it's shitty sound chip) and a rubber chicken!
Have you tried Safety.Net?. It's the best free Windows firewall I've found (one of the few that doesn't block ICS). Having said that, can anyone tell me how to get the Proximotron to co-operate with it? Answers on a postcard please...
Calm down, mate! I just assumed you had a mammoth inbox folder with no hierarchy. I can't comment yet upon how Thunderbird handles a high volume of e-mail, but having just installed 1.5 RC1, it seems pretty good to me. I just switched from Outlook 2000 due to its broken IMAP implementation.
'Channels' and 'Active Desktop' - the first features to disable on a fresh Windows install. Seriously though, how many 'features' do you need to disable to get a workable Windows desktop on a new install? At least you can use Group Policy Editor to turn off most of the crap, but it's the devil's own work hunting through that particular morass of options!
I concur - just upgraded to a 3800+ X2, and the support in XP Pro is decent. Not sure how the work is distributed between the two cores, but you can set something like DVD shrink to work away nicely whilst Firefox remains snappy even with tons of tabs open.
You cannot be serious! Which clowns modded this 'insightful'? I would hardly call spying on employees with a rootkit a 'legitimate' use! Your analogy with a format utility is extremely flawed.
Who said it was a logic puzzle? It's a puzzle with elements of logic and an element of lateral thinking. Obviously you're just bitter that you couldn't solve it!
How about this one?
A man lives at the top of a tower block. Every morning he goes to work and uses the lift all the way, yet when he comes home he travels to the 42nd floor, gets out and uses the stairs. The lift is fully operational - so why would he behave like this?
Yeah, what I meant was that 64Mb is pretty much the minimum but I only tried it pre-SP2. I'm not saying I'd want to use that config - 512MB is really what is required for a smooth experience. I built a Celeron 800 with 192MB running XP for my Dad, and it's pretty usable.
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Well, if you only have a restore CD they will often by default erase the active partition as part of the process. Solution? Use RockXp to obtain your activation key and then use this key with the XP OEM install CD that you should have been provided with.
I'll be sticking with TB 1.5 until a bug that has been present in all 2.x versions so far is fixed. It is very annoying and applies to IMAP (maybe POP3 too) accounts. It seems like the mail notifier is broken because whenever a new message arrives, any previously unread messages get marked as read. Damn annoying!
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That sounds bogus to me. Surely the iPod must have some buffering capability to prevent skipping so it's simply a matter of pre-buffering the next song.
Sounds like an ugly hack to me. How come foobar2000 and Winamp manage it without a hitch?
What's wrong with just pressing [Alt]+[Print Screen] to copy the active window to the clipboard? Or maybe you like doing things the hard way...
Have to agree there. It's an amazing little tool once you can get the hang of it.
It's amazing how much crap you can filter out. Plus you can create custom rules for specific sites, so you can 'repair' broken or badly-behaved sites. As parent points out, the creator of The Proxomitron has since died, so alas the source code is closed AFAIK. Not that it needed improving as it has always been rock-solid.
I've tried the open source Privoxy which is very similar and unlike The Proxomitron available in non-Windows versiions, but IMHO it is not as flexible or powerful.
That reminds me - since it is Shonenware I really ought to get a Shonen Knife CD someday...
If you're going to post that old chestnut, at least get it right! /. is, the lameness of the trolls, the same old jokes. Of course /. wouldn't be /. without it...
Funny how everyone bitches about how ugly
What a great idea!
When XP blue-screens your 'serious work' will disappear in a puff of smoke!
Genius!
I predict that nanotechnology will be very small.
I remember Jet Set Willy on the C64 - it had a little leaflet with multi-coloured strips in a grid, and you were asked for the co-ordinates of a random cell. BTW, was the C64 version impossible to finish? I could NEVER jump the rolling egg on the rooftop, always hit the birds...
Flood on the Atari ST came with a poster, on loading you were quizzed about it... Great little game, good sfx (most ST games had appaling sfx due to it's shitty sound chip) and a rubber chicken!
Have you tried Safety.Net?. It's the best free Windows firewall I've found (one of the few that doesn't block ICS). Having said that, can anyone tell me how to get the Proximotron to co-operate with it? Answers on a postcard please...
Calm down, mate! I just assumed you had a mammoth inbox folder with no hierarchy. I can't comment yet upon how Thunderbird handles a high volume of e-mail, but having just installed 1.5 RC1, it seems pretty good to me. I just switched from Outlook 2000 due to its broken IMAP implementation.
'Channels' and 'Active Desktop' - the first features to disable on a fresh Windows install. Seriously though, how many 'features' do you need to disable to get a workable Windows desktop on a new install? At least you can use Group Policy Editor to turn off most of the crap, but it's the devil's own work hunting through that particular morass of options!
Has it ever occurred to you to use 'folders' to 'organise' your ludicrously sized Inbox? No, that would be too obvious...
I concur - just upgraded to a 3800+ X2, and the support in XP Pro is decent. Not sure how the work is distributed between the two cores, but you can set something like DVD shrink to work away nicely whilst Firefox remains snappy even with tons of tabs open.
AC is confused - work done is a scalar, not a vector quantity. It's ludicrous to suggest that after a complete revolution that no work is done!
Aha! That's a crafty little improvement on the original puzzle...
You cannot be serious! Which clowns modded this 'insightful'? I would hardly call spying on employees with a rootkit a 'legitimate' use! Your analogy with a format utility is extremely flawed.
Who said it was a logic puzzle? It's a puzzle with elements of logic and an element of lateral thinking. Obviously you're just bitter that you couldn't solve it!
How about this one? A man lives at the top of a tower block. Every morning he goes to work and uses the lift all the way, yet when he comes home he travels to the 42nd floor, gets out and uses the stairs. The lift is fully operational - so why would he behave like this?
Yeah, what I meant was that 64Mb is pretty much the minimum but I only tried it pre-SP2. I'm not saying I'd want to use that config - 512MB is really what is required for a smooth experience. I built a Celeron 800 with 192MB running XP for my Dad, and it's pretty usable.
Win XP with 32MB does not 'chug along', unless you mean the HDD. 64MB is OK, anything less is painful...