Sadly, I know how to fix this (though I'm probably going to be installing this version of Phoenix on our terminials here and let everybody use that instead). From the IE Preferences menu (Tools...Internet Options...). Click on the "Advanced" Tab. Under "Browsing" there's a spot for "Automatically check for Internet Explorer Updates". Uncheck that, problem solved.
There's a guy my small town in Central Oregon that's offering a guide to starting/running one. Take it with a grain of salt, however, as I don't think he does much business there:
If you're on a Wintel platform, Irfanview (www.irfanview.com) is a great freeware tool that can open damn near any format of image (some that other viewers can't) and is a small download. I've opened some pretty dang big images in there (a 42 meg jpeg that was ungodly huge), and it loaded fine (and it can open cmyk images and do basic manipulation, resizing, color adjusting, etc...). I've been using the program since version 1.2 and love it (it's at 3.61) and recommend it to anybody that needs a simple graphic viewer (it's a helluva lot faster than ACDSee).
Yes, the Presario line from Compaq sucks ass (had one...got rid of it quick), but their Armada lines are quite respectable. If you look up old reviews on the Armada 7800, it's been rated as the fastest PII-266 laptop you can (could?) buy. It's nothing on the new ones, but it's still pretty nice.
The fact that I can exchange parts with dang near any other armada (and many IBM laptops) makes it really nice
If you've got a Compaq Armada 7400 or 7800 (like I do), Compaq's got a good little white paper on getting it installed properly (it's a bit dated, but will help newbies out):
Grounding and Electromagnetic Interference?
on
Clear Computer Cases
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· Score: 3
I'm not an expert by any means with electrical wiring and interference issues, but aren't cases usually metal for grounding purposes? Will these plastic cases allow more interference? Metal makes a pretty dang good shield for those types of things, but I'd be worried that those kinds of waves would get through.
I see it's an industrial mouse, but is it actually a mouse? Based on the diagram (quick glance...didn't read through it too quickly) it looks like a pointing sticks that you'd see on a laptop. So it just sits there, and you put your finger on the button to move it around.
Personally, I wouldn't see too many people using the thing. While it is burly, working with those kind of pointing devices is work that can only be done for a while without getting frustrated. But I guess if durability is a concern, it'd work for that.
But really: If durability were a concern, wouldn't you worry more about your keyboard? Your computer can function fine without a mouse, but without a keyboard you're S.O.L.
Actually, now that I look at it a bit more, it looks a lot like my garage door opener;-)
I saw this on a site last night...it's a site for Anthrax (the chemical, not the band), encouraging soldiers to get the vacination. It's got a pretty fancy flash front end.
3dfx has done some good things, and created an API that is still in use by many games today. Granted, it wasn't the best API, but it was the first one to really push the limits. Congrats to them for that.
But they've learned their lesson.
3dfx did some cool stuff with glide. And I thought there'd be no stopping them when they started licensing their chipset. I remember my buddy having a couple of Creative Voodoo's running SLI, and the games just flew. The minute I saw 3dfx decide they were going to do it themselves, I was pretty disapointed.
Hopefully they'll learn from their mistake and realize they can't take on the world by themselves. Nvidia realized that, and cards with their chipsets are the fastest you can buy. Then we'll see some serious competition, as we haven't really seen any for a while. It'll only benefit the consumer.
Now if we could just convince ATI to do the same thing....:-)
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Excuse me while I go make sure my Javascript that counts down until the end of the world is up to snuff.
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Sadly, I know how to fix this (though I'm probably going to be installing this version of Phoenix on our terminials here and let everybody use that instead). From the IE Preferences menu (Tools...Internet Options...). Click on the "Advanced" Tab. Under "Browsing" there's a spot for "Automatically check for Internet Explorer Updates". Uncheck that, problem solved.
His Guide
His Cafe
If you're on a Wintel platform, Irfanview (www.irfanview.com) is a great freeware tool that can open damn near any format of image (some that other viewers can't) and is a small download. I've opened some pretty dang big images in there (a 42 meg jpeg that was ungodly huge), and it loaded fine (and it can open cmyk images and do basic manipulation, resizing, color adjusting, etc...). I've been using the program since version 1.2 and love it (it's at 3.61) and recommend it to anybody that needs a simple graphic viewer (it's a helluva lot faster than ACDSee).
Man, does this sound like somebody hoping to get phone-sex like satisfaction? Sorry pal...you ain't getting that from a bunch of geeks...
The fact that I can exchange parts with dang near any other armada (and many IBM laptops) makes it really nice
http://www.compaq.com/support/techpubs/whitepapers /0206-0799-A.html
Of course you could always build your own: like this previous slashdot story linked to
HardOCP had a link to a guy that was doing at-home jobs like this, but I can't find the URL.
As a U. of Oregon grad, I knew this couldn't be right. Change
limestone.uoregon.net
to
limestone.uoregon.edu
Here's a direct link to the 2.4 directory (it is FTP, but thing's pretty damn fast so you can probably easily fake it through your browser).
-orty
Personally, I wouldn't see too many people using the thing. While it is burly, working with those kind of pointing devices is work that can only be done for a while without getting frustrated. But I guess if durability is a concern, it'd work for that.
But really: If durability were a concern, wouldn't you worry more about your keyboard? Your computer can function fine without a mouse, but without a keyboard you're S.O.L.
Actually, now that I look at it a bit more, it looks a lot like my garage door opener ;-)
http://www.anthrax.osd.mil/Flash_interface/intro.h tml
Funny, he doesn't look like the martian from looney tunes ;-)
But they've learned their lesson.
3dfx did some cool stuff with glide. And I thought there'd be no stopping them when they started licensing their chipset. I remember my buddy having a couple of Creative Voodoo's running SLI, and the games just flew. The minute I saw 3dfx decide they were going to do it themselves, I was pretty disapointed.
Hopefully they'll learn from their mistake and realize they can't take on the world by themselves. Nvidia realized that, and cards with their chipsets are the fastest you can buy. Then we'll see some serious competition, as we haven't really seen any for a while. It'll only benefit the consumer.
Now if we could just convince ATI to do the same thing....:-)
-Orty