The only fact that allowed RealPlayer to remain on my system was that you didn't need to upgrade to the horrible, slow, ad-infested RealOne player. I've had no problem playing any "real" content with RealPlayer 8. It's not the best player, but compared to RealOne it is lean and mean.
For people using RP8, the "fix" is to upgrade to the latest RealOne player (V2).
Given those choices, I think any remaining RealPlayer users will choose to uninstall the software.
For starters, the MS page does not list Windows Me at all in the list of supported operating systems. But checking on my parents' machine (WinMe), that very cumulative IE update is listed on WindowsUpdate. I installed the update and here's how IE now behaves.
When going to *any* URL with an "@" in it, IE will come up with an error page titled "Invalid Syntax Error" with the content:
The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for might have been removed or had its name changed.
Once that error message is on the screen, any attempt to go to another URL with an "@" in the screen (by clicking on the URLBar and pressing enter, or typing in a different URL with an "@" in it) will cause IE to clear the page area to go blank and the throbber will continue spinning indefinately.
This makes it appear that there is some sort of network connectivity problem, or that IE is somehow hung up. Typing in a normal URL will show that everything is fine.
Also, this update doesn't fix the bug where IE displays an incorrect value in the status bar, such as this one:
this one. (Though clicking the link on that page will fail with the above described error page)
If you believe the numbers, running a drive in RAID mirror will double the effective MTBF, we have done that by choosing the Maxline series vs a standard consumer IDE hard drive.
So you are skipping any of the benefits of RAID just because you picked a drive with a higher MTBF?? Pretty naive, if you ask me.
Another possibility was RAID 5, which allows 5 drives to act as 4 drives.
I don't even know where to start here. RAID 5 doesn't require 5 drives, as the above statement implies. You can create a RAID 5 array with as little as 3 drives. And a RAID 5 array doesn't "act as" a number of drives. A RAID array will appear as a single drive to your OS. In the case of RAID 5, you'll have n-1 amount of storage, where n is the capacity of a single drive.
Something else to consider is that a RAID array would use more power than our current setup because the drives are run simultaneously.
The difference between an idle and active drive is one or two Watts. RAID or not, your system is going to draw about the same amount of power.
I'm sorry, but I couldn't make it any further in the article.
Using RAM for a swap file, huh? You know, if you used the ram as *system* ram (as opposed to some RAM swap device), then you wouldn't need to be swapping in the first place! Think about it...
That, plus PC133 is not "uber-cheap". RAM manufacturers make large volumes of DDR memory so the price is cheap. PC133 production is much lower volume, so it's actually a bit more expensive. Check crucial.com to see for yourself.
So while you PC monitor is de-interlaced, anything getting sent out the TV out part of the card must be interlaced. And if you use an S video cable you should be getting quality that equals your average DVD player.
Say you are playing an interlaced video clip (such as an MPEG2 from a DVD) on a PC. When it's played back on a PC Monitor, interlaced material will show both fields simultaneously. (giving the "mouse tooth" effect on motion scenes). Most software DVD players for the PC will use Bob, Weave, or a combination of the two deinterlacing methods to get rid of those effects.
Now, back to my original point. Consider you have a recording on your PVR that is interlaced. (as the NTSC broadcast signal is). They key is to output that recording to the TV while retaining the original interlacing. Your common PC hardware with TV-out capabilities will not retain the original material's interlacing.
With such equipment, the video bridge will generally only convert non-interlaced material to interlaced. So yes, by the time the signal hits the TV, it's interlaced. And when it's recorded, it's interlaced. But what you need to consider is that at some point in the process the signal is de-interlaced. The video bridge does this deinterlacing internally, usually along with some image enhancements as anti-flicker and scaling for overscan, at which point the benefit of having an interlaced recording is lost.
No, it's not impossible to retain the interlacing information. There are some external VGA->TV boxes that can do this. And I'm assuming that a Tivo unit has some dedicated hardware to handle this. But your run of the mill PC TV-Out will not.
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Sounds like a neat unit, but I have one question...
TV-Out cards (or video cards with TV-out) generally deinterlace the signal in the process of converting the signal to something that the TV can understand.
The advantage of this is that the picture can easily be scaled to handle overscan. But the disadvantage is that the image quality, especially in panning scenes, is compromised. An interlaced NTSC signal will display 59.94 fields per second. This will allow for smooth motion, especially in the example of a scrolling ticker at the bottom of the screen. When the signal is deinterlaced, that rate is cut in half to 29.97 and there can be blurring in areas of fast motion.
If this unit is using standard PC hardware, then it is likely deinterlacing the output. If so, it would make a pretty poor replacment for a DVD player. So much for an all-in-one solution...
Does this Telly unit have true interlaced TV output? If so, how is it achieved?
Uninstalling Mozilla before installing a new version is a good idea. But more importantly, you need to make sure that Mozilla is installed into an *empty* directory! The former doesn't necessarily guarantee the latter, especially if you have installed any add-ins.
While Extensions are nice and all, the post does nothing to answer the original question. None of the extensions there add search engine functionality into the *URLBar*. The whole point was to not require typing into another textbox for search engine functionality. (Like Mozilla has)
If the following are true, then the high CPU usage is expected: -You have an IDE CD burner -You are using IDE-SCSI emulation -You are burning a CD with a blocksize other than 2048 (such as redbook audio, or (S)VCD, etc..)
If the above are all true, the ide-scsi emulation reverts to PIO mode. Supposedly this will be fixed for 2.6
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The only fact that allowed RealPlayer to remain on my system was that you didn't need to upgrade to the horrible, slow, ad-infested RealOne player. I've had no problem playing any "real" content with RealPlayer 8. It's not the best player, but compared to RealOne it is lean and mean.
For people using RP8, the "fix" is to upgrade to the latest RealOne player (V2).
Given those choices, I think any remaining RealPlayer users will choose to uninstall the software.
For starters, the MS page does not list Windows Me at all in the list of supported operating systems. But checking on my parents' machine (WinMe), that very cumulative IE update is listed on WindowsUpdate. I installed the update and here's how IE now behaves.
When going to *any* URL with an "@" in it, IE will come up with an error page titled "Invalid Syntax Error" with the content:
The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for might have been removed or had its name changed.
Once that error message is on the screen, any attempt to go to another URL with an "@" in the screen (by clicking on the URLBar and pressing enter, or typing in a different URL with an "@" in it) will cause IE to clear the page area to go blank and the throbber will continue spinning indefinately.
This makes it appear that there is some sort of network connectivity problem, or that IE is somehow hung up. Typing in a normal URL will show that everything is fine.
Also, this update doesn't fix the bug where IE displays an incorrect value in the status bar, such as this one: this one.
(Though clicking the link on that page will fail with the above described error page)
Windows 98 is supposed to continue to get security updates, and what about Windows Me?
Neither of those are listed as being supported by the update.
Just because it's a joke, that doesn't mean that it's funny.
Microsoft didn't "pull" the article. You'll get the same error for *any* KB article.
It looks like the whole MS Knowledgebase system is down...
For once, the correct information is listed. (Rather than just making stuff up, and stating it as fact)
Other Photoshop CS users said they had successfully imported bank-note images by ... scanning an image in pieces and reassembling it in Photoshop.
I don't even want to think about the reasoning here...
Nothing screams quality like a browser-scaled GIF for the company logo!
No, that site works just fine.
Opening up the hard drive to put a window on it. Now that's one way to guarantee failure!
If you believe the numbers, running a drive in RAID mirror will double the effective MTBF, we have done that by choosing the Maxline series vs a standard consumer IDE hard drive.
So you are skipping any of the benefits of RAID just because you picked a drive with a higher MTBF?? Pretty naive, if you ask me.
Another possibility was RAID 5, which allows 5 drives to act as 4 drives.
I don't even know where to start here. RAID 5 doesn't require 5 drives, as the above statement implies. You can create a RAID 5 array with as little as 3 drives. And a RAID 5 array doesn't "act as" a number of drives. A RAID array will appear as a single drive to your OS. In the case of RAID 5, you'll have n-1 amount of storage, where n is the capacity of a single drive.
Something else to consider is that a RAID array would use more power than our current setup because the drives are run simultaneously.
The difference between an idle and active drive is one or two Watts. RAID or not, your system is going to draw about the same amount of power.
I'm sorry, but I couldn't make it any further in the article.
Using RAM for a swap file, huh? You know, if you used the ram as *system* ram (as opposed to some RAM swap device), then you wouldn't need to be swapping in the first place! Think about it...
That, plus PC133 is not "uber-cheap". RAM manufacturers make large volumes of DDR memory so the price is cheap. PC133 production is much lower volume, so it's actually a bit more expensive. Check crucial.com to see for yourself.
So while you PC monitor is de-interlaced, anything getting sent out the TV out part of the card must be interlaced. And if you use an S video cable you should be getting quality that equals your average DVD player.
Say you are playing an interlaced video clip (such as an MPEG2 from a DVD) on a PC. When it's played back on a PC Monitor, interlaced material will show both fields simultaneously. (giving the "mouse tooth" effect on motion scenes). Most software DVD players for the PC will use Bob, Weave, or a combination of the two deinterlacing methods to get rid of those effects.
Now, back to my original point. Consider you have a recording on your PVR that is interlaced. (as the NTSC broadcast signal is). They key is to output that recording to the TV while retaining the original interlacing. Your common PC hardware with TV-out capabilities will not retain the original material's interlacing.
With such equipment, the video bridge will generally only convert non-interlaced material to interlaced. So yes, by the time the signal hits the TV, it's interlaced. And when it's recorded, it's interlaced. But what you need to consider is that at some point in the process the signal is de-interlaced. The video bridge does this deinterlacing internally, usually along with some image enhancements as anti-flicker and scaling for overscan, at which point the benefit of having an interlaced recording is lost.
No, it's not impossible to retain the interlacing information. There are some external VGA->TV boxes that can do this. And I'm assuming that a Tivo unit has some dedicated hardware to handle this. But your run of the mill PC TV-Out will not.
Sounds like a neat unit, but I have one question...
TV-Out cards (or video cards with TV-out) generally deinterlace the signal in the process of converting the signal to something that the TV can understand.
The advantage of this is that the picture can easily be scaled to handle overscan. But the disadvantage is that the image quality, especially in panning scenes, is compromised. An interlaced NTSC signal will display 59.94 fields per second. This will allow for smooth motion, especially in the example of a scrolling ticker at the bottom of the screen. When the signal is deinterlaced, that rate is cut in half to 29.97 and there can be blurring in areas of fast motion.
If this unit is using standard PC hardware, then it is likely deinterlacing the output. If so, it would make a pretty poor replacment for a DVD player. So much for an all-in-one solution...
Does this Telly unit have true interlaced TV output? If so, how is it achieved?
Uninstalling Mozilla before installing a new version is a good idea. But more importantly, you need to make sure that Mozilla is installed into an *empty* directory! The former doesn't necessarily guarantee the latter, especially if you have installed any add-ins.
While Extensions are nice and all, the post does nothing to answer the original question. None of the extensions there add search engine functionality into the *URLBar*. The whole point was to not require typing into another textbox for search engine functionality. (Like Mozilla has)
If the following are true, then the high CPU usage is expected:
-You have an IDE CD burner
-You are using IDE-SCSI emulation
-You are burning a CD with a blocksize other than 2048 (such as redbook audio, or (S)VCD, etc..)
If the above are all true, the ide-scsi emulation reverts to PIO mode. Supposedly this will be fixed for 2.6
Yeah, but don't forget one of the main advantages of using zip... It'll join multiple files into one archive.
VHS, huh? You've got to be kidding. How exactly would you sneak that into a theater? A backpack?
The BBC? Do you think they linked to the bittorrent file?
The BitTorrent URL itself? You obviously don't understand how BitTorrent works....
Phoenix does not come with Java. I don't know what you mean by "java console", but you seem to be confused.
Does that mean that people are reading the article before posting??
DVD-R's are 4 layers(4gig, 1gig per layer), and this new tech is 11(or 9??).
ofcourse, i really have no idea. i just read this somewhere.
Ok, at least you admit to not knowing what you are talking about. The common DVD-R is single layer, and is 4.7GB.
Gates also plans to demonstrate a new scroll wheel and set of buttons for navigating Windows-powered devices with one hand.
Uh-huh...