I was trying to figure out which card I used on my PSN account. The charge description for sony psn points would read like: "PLAYSTATION NETWORK 877-971-7669 CA" then a few numbers. Hope this helps.
In reading over the declaration, I am struck at the frequent use of subjective modifiers, asides, etc... For instance, I wouldn't have thought "Not surprisingly..." (2) would have a place here.
Is this the norm?
I just bought a plasma, and it really irks me that many gamecube games (running at 480p over component cables)have black bars on the left and right hand sides. I have heard that this is intentional underscan, but it messes with my plasma burn-in to have unused areas of the screen like that. I really hope that their widescreen wii games fix this.
What I don't see with the wiimote is a way to replace the c-stick. Having experienced camera freedom in Mario Sunshine and Wind Waker, I can't imagine going back to the limitations of the N64 iterations (basic centering and zoom in/zoom/out in Mario64 and behind the player centering in Zelda:OOT & Majora's Mask).
Motion sensing of the wiimote has mostly been implemented to get a pointer (as far as I can tell) in the next generation iterations of both Mario and Zelda. I sure hope Nintendo hasn't decided that the N64 camera systems will be acceptable. Perhpas there will be an a way to use the wiimote for the camera as an alternate mode, like if a button is held...
From reading through replies here, one would think that X's were added to every tab, wasting a ton of space and ruining Firefox FOREVER!
Disclaimer: I can't install the Beta release because it's only provided as an.exe, but I was able to grab the latest nightly, which should be approximately the same.
If this behavior is not the same as in the release, the behavior of the latest nightly should at least be informative.
In the latest nightly, it is true that in the situation of 6 or so tabs or less there is an X on every tab. But once I open more than 6 tabs, there is only an X on the currently active tab. Since there is no longer a static tab on the right side of the tab row, real-estate wise, this is a wash.
I just middle click anyway, I was prepared to be peeved by the loss of room on the tab row.
I have found that the printing functionality of GIMP is pretty sub-par. I had to print a picture and center it on a page. I could not find any centering options in the print options in gimp, so I expanded the image to be as large as the printable area on a piece of paper, and manually centered the content. When I printed that, the white space was ignored and my image was printed in the corner of the paper. Great.
"The show with Bart eating from the vending machines and getting really fat touched on a lot of issues these days. One of them is local school boards putting junk food vending machines (Coke) in their schools to help pay the bills and adding to the childhood obesity problem."
Problem is, it is a very shallow approach to the issue without any bite or sarcasm or a hint of cleverness. All the recent episodes have been like this. I can't believe you're eating this tripe!
I am most annoyed that the main search bar at yahoo.com grabs focus when you start typing no matter where you click on the page. This breaks type to find ("begin finding when you begin typing" in options) and I always have to do a find on their page since it is so busy.
Ha, I reported this bug eons ago and it was WONTFIX'ed. Maybe the Firefox people will look at it again.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100143
By "computer literate," you must mean "someone who has been haxoring at linux for years." I am quite computer literate. I built computer systems as a hobby in grade school. I am now in charge of fixing everyone's win32 system where I work (which is a research center full of other "computer illiterate" engineers and scientists).
Okay, instead of trying to insult me, how about answering some of my complaints. Why is it so hard to get out of Xwindows? It is 2004 and a standard USB mouse freezes up randomly in linux. How about my complaints about the way red hat handles dependencies in its packaging system? Do you enjoy typing in a password when you want to change your screen resolution?
Ah yes, I just decided to try Linux again this week. (I was a dos guru back in the day and gave linux spins on and off around 1997). I heard things were great nowadays. Frankly, I think they're worse.
I tried installing Mandrake and Redhat 9, in that order. The Mandrake installer didn't like my standard MS USB wheel mouse. It would work until I got to the part where I tell it that I had a wheel mouse, then it froze. Eventually, I chose the magic option (gotta choose Explorer Mouse instead of Wheel Mouse), then the program didn't freeze, the mouse just stopped working for the rest of the installation. That was fun, especially since all the help for the installer options required mousing over them! Wasn't fond of Mandrake, moved to Redhat.
Okay, so I want to get twinview to work some day. I install the new NVidia drivers. To do that I need A)root B)get outside of xwindows.
I just love root. Wow, I love having to type in a password every time I want to open the equivalent of a windows control panel item. Makes me feel all fuzzy and protected
Okay, so there is no obvious way to get outside of Xwindows in redhat 9. I looked it up online, and I got 4 people with twice as many options, and they didn't agree with each other. Some methods involve changing your inittab or something.
All of this to get out of windows! Why is this not a default option in GRUB? I had to add an argument to the kernel in the end.
Now I'm going to edit XF86Config. But there is no pico installed (perhaps because I didn't install pine). So I have to try to use "vi", a wonderful tool where ctrl-S is a shortcut for "lock up my system" instead of save, and:sav results in "error, not enough arguments" or something to that effect.
At the moment I am trying to de-bloat my original Redhat install with the Add/Remove Applications application. Only, when I, say, uncheck "cdda2wav" audio application, I get a warning saying that the cdda2wav package can not be found, and that it is required by some other arcane piece of software. However, this is not very clear at all. At first glance, it seems as though the package I am trying to remove can not be found. That dialog needs to be reworked big time. After that, the program cancels back to the part where I can check or uncheck applications. So if I really want to get rid of the 100k cdda2wav program, I'd better get searchin' through the dozens of other application categories to I can find that one other program that depends on it! No way that could happen automatically, eh?
All said, I am very disappointed in Linux. I've been reading Slashdot for ages, and I was very optimistic coming into this, but it seems that the way things are now, some major overhauling has to happen. Perhaps it is a form of blindness, from spending so much time in Linux the developers and Linux lovers are overlooking these huge flaws. I'm hoping that the experiences of a newbie can open some eyes.
I'd better submit this before my mouse freezes up again. Ugh, I need therapy.
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I was trying to figure out which card I used on my PSN account. The charge description for sony psn points would read like: "PLAYSTATION NETWORK 877-971-7669 CA" then a few numbers. Hope this helps.
In reading over the declaration, I am struck at the frequent use of subjective modifiers, asides, etc... For instance, I wouldn't have thought "Not surprisingly..." (2) would have a place here. Is this the norm?
I just bought a plasma, and it really irks me that many gamecube games (running at 480p over component cables)have black bars on the left and right hand sides. I have heard that this is intentional underscan, but it messes with my plasma burn-in to have unused areas of the screen like that. I really hope that their widescreen wii games fix this.
What I don't see with the wiimote is a way to replace the c-stick. Having experienced camera freedom in Mario Sunshine and Wind Waker, I can't imagine going back to the limitations of the N64 iterations (basic centering and zoom in/zoom/out in Mario64 and behind the player centering in Zelda:OOT & Majora's Mask). Motion sensing of the wiimote has mostly been implemented to get a pointer (as far as I can tell) in the next generation iterations of both Mario and Zelda. I sure hope Nintendo hasn't decided that the N64 camera systems will be acceptable. Perhpas there will be an a way to use the wiimote for the camera as an alternate mode, like if a button is held...
From reading through replies here, one would think that X's were added to every tab, wasting a ton of space and ruining Firefox FOREVER! Disclaimer: I can't install the Beta release because it's only provided as an .exe, but I was able to grab the latest nightly, which should be approximately the same.
If this behavior is not the same as in the release, the behavior of the latest nightly should at least be informative.
In the latest nightly, it is true that in the situation of 6 or so tabs or less there is an X on every tab. But once I open more than 6 tabs, there is only an X on the currently active tab. Since there is no longer a static tab on the right side of the tab row, real-estate wise, this is a wash.
I just middle click anyway, I was prepared to be peeved by the loss of room on the tab row.
I have found that the printing functionality of GIMP is pretty sub-par. I had to print a picture and center it on a page. I could not find any centering options in the print options in gimp, so I expanded the image to be as large as the printable area on a piece of paper, and manually centered the content. When I printed that, the white space was ignored and my image was printed in the corner of the paper. Great.
Problem is, it is a very shallow approach to the issue without any bite or sarcasm or a hint of cleverness. All the recent episodes have been like this. I can't believe you're eating this tripe!
I am most annoyed that the main search bar at yahoo.com grabs focus when you start typing no matter where you click on the page. This breaks type to find ("begin finding when you begin typing" in options) and I always have to do a find on their page since it is so busy.
Ha, I reported this bug eons ago and it was WONTFIX'ed. Maybe the Firefox people will look at it again. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100143
By "computer literate," you must mean "someone who has been haxoring at linux for years." I am quite computer literate. I built computer systems as a hobby in grade school. I am now in charge of fixing everyone's win32 system where I work (which is a research center full of other "computer illiterate" engineers and scientists).
Okay, instead of trying to insult me, how about answering some of my complaints. Why is it so hard to get out of Xwindows? It is 2004 and a standard USB mouse freezes up randomly in linux. How about my complaints about the way red hat handles dependencies in its packaging system? Do you enjoy typing in a password when you want to change your screen resolution?
Ah yes, I just decided to try Linux again this week. (I was a dos guru back in the day and gave linux spins on and off around 1997). I heard things were great nowadays. Frankly, I think they're worse.
:sav results in "error, not enough arguments" or something to that effect.
I tried installing Mandrake and Redhat 9, in that order. The Mandrake installer didn't like my standard MS USB wheel mouse. It would work until I got to the part where I tell it that I had a wheel mouse, then it froze. Eventually, I chose the magic option (gotta choose Explorer Mouse instead of Wheel Mouse), then the program didn't freeze, the mouse just stopped working for the rest of the installation. That was fun, especially since all the help for the installer options required mousing over them! Wasn't fond of Mandrake, moved to Redhat.
Okay, so I want to get twinview to work some day. I install the new NVidia drivers. To do that I need A)root B)get outside of xwindows.
I just love root. Wow, I love having to type in a password every time I want to open the equivalent of a windows control panel item. Makes me feel all fuzzy and protected
Okay, so there is no obvious way to get outside of Xwindows in redhat 9. I looked it up online, and I got 4 people with twice as many options, and they didn't agree with each other. Some methods involve changing your inittab or something.
All of this to get out of windows! Why is this not a default option in GRUB? I had to add an argument to the kernel in the end.
Now I'm going to edit XF86Config. But there is no pico installed (perhaps because I didn't install pine). So I have to try to use "vi", a wonderful tool where ctrl-S is a shortcut for "lock up my system" instead of save, and
At the moment I am trying to de-bloat my original Redhat install with the Add/Remove Applications application. Only, when I, say, uncheck "cdda2wav" audio application, I get a warning saying that the cdda2wav package can not be found, and that it is required by some other arcane piece of software. However, this is not very clear at all. At first glance, it seems as though the package I am trying to remove can not be found. That dialog needs to be reworked big time. After that, the program cancels back to the part where I can check or uncheck applications. So if I really want to get rid of the 100k cdda2wav program, I'd better get searchin' through the dozens of other application categories to I can find that one other program that depends on it! No way that could happen automatically, eh?
All said, I am very disappointed in Linux. I've been reading Slashdot for ages, and I was very optimistic coming into this, but it seems that the way things are now, some major overhauling has to happen. Perhaps it is a form of blindness, from spending so much time in Linux the developers and Linux lovers are overlooking these huge flaws. I'm hoping that the experiences of a newbie can open some eyes.
I'd better submit this before my mouse freezes up again. Ugh, I need therapy.