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What an insult! WHERE'S Turbo Pascal?! I grew up on 7 and 8! At least C++ is still there. Who knows? Maybe that fabled Q&A 5 might actually come out someday, then.

I do so much for you guys that the very fact that I haven't been emperor of all corporeal matter by now is simply apathetic. Anyway, just passing along, as is my usual wont, which makes me wonder why since, invariably, I will end up paying for helping others by spreading my knowledge, that there could be some issues involving the latest update to Firefox, 1.5.07. Especially in regardless to Extensions and, in particular, so called "session" ones. The session ones, well, may just not work. Or behave oddly. For instance, Session Manager doesn't like 1.5.0.7 much, it seems. My guess is a simple fix can fix these various issues, but, who knows? Any, SM just always reloads the last session saved, regardless of user preferences. It will also ignore the prompt for a session option UNLESS there is only one window of tabs to open. Then, it's fine.

Well, in his defense, this WAS a Microsoft issue he had to fix. So, he, naturally, encountered other fucker gotchas that had to be worked around.

Plus, I think we're starting to see more and more cases where slower write strategies and descriptors just aren't being included in firmwares and discs. For instance, the 8x DVD+RW's I've seen, granted it's only 1 brand, did not write at less than 6x.

Well, he was his father. James Earl Jones's father, fellow actor and a former boxer Robert E. Jones, died at the ripe ol' age of 96.

I had to laugh at this! It should show up on Leno's headlines. As it people's wonts, especially these people, Muslims took the streets over the Pope's recent comments. In a surprisingly civil demonstration, I saw some footage of people carrying a wide banner down a street. What made me laugh was a typo that changed the meaning entirely. The sign was in English, but, instead of reading "THE POPE'S COMMENTS" followed by the pretense of the protest, the sign read "THE POPS COMMENTS!" Yeah, whatever the Top Of The Pops has to say is of pinpoint political significance in today's world! Especially consider it's no longer on any more, right?

Yeah, I've also tried some ways to think of "automating" searches based on what drives can return versus what rpc1 has in its database. While there's no one to "blame," rpc1's database, with how some, but not all, of its entries are designed, are to, well, blame. Because of this little bit of incosistency (CONSISTENCY, people! CONSISTENCY!) it makes it really impossible to do anything beyond what we have at the moment. But, at least, the site is opened with the drive ID string already entered, so, there's 2 steps you don't have to do.

My favorite is from Jurassic Park.. By just LOOKING at a GUI, the kid miraculously knows that the system is a UNIX based one. "I know UNIX!" Or in that recent series, Surface, where the lead character, a supposed marine biologist, looks at a DNA stream and makes a remarkable discover that the creature is a mammal. Wow! Of course, by just LOOKING at a DNA sequence, it could also be FROG DNA or human DNA or...

It's a good question. Near as I know, a buffer can be both physical and virtual. A physical one being attached to a piece of hardware and a virtual one linking to storage in RAM or swapped disk space. The buffers on the drives themselves are just as good a question. I would guess they're FLASH RAM of some kind. But, I, too, would like to know what this 8 MB or whatever buffer on the drive itself is. I should know, but, it goes to show, once again, that I most likely overestimate my own value. In the words of the Weird One, Al: "You suffer from delusions of adequecy."

WideScreen Video Home System.

Never mind. Seems like IconShop worked where IconsExtract failed on these non-extension named files for the icons.

Once again, the fuckers don't make it simple... or even SENSICAL to even the damned simplest thing... Anyone have any hide or hair idea of how to make sense out of where the icon files that are referenced in C:\WINDOWS\Installer are? For instance, the File Types in Folder Options and the Registry entries point to weird {} hyphenated directory names and to underscored files with no extensions as containing an icon, but, I can't seem to extract any icons from these files. Which I'd like to, as you can guess. Any suggestions how I can access/save them? Thanks!

Need something that will automate saving the frames from an AVI, MPG, etc. file. Basically, go in and save each frame individually to a JPG, BMP, etc. file. Nothing fancy. I need it for a one time, as far as I know, project. The more free the application is the better and nothing with stupid TRIAL or logos etc. fucking up the image. Anyone with any suggestions? Thanks!

Well, what do you know? Clearing the cache and refreshing this page actually made a difference for a change.

What's been funny, though, is that the Yahoo problem is usually caused by the system logging me out. Or if I shut down a browser and restart, it wants me to log back in. But, once I sign back in, it's fine. I have to Refresh, though. LiveJournal was also problematic. Both it and Yahoo, especially, would display "ancient" data until the log in and then Refresh. Always the SAME ancient data, it seemed. And, I've also had problems lately with these forums wanting me to log in at least once a day where, before, it hadn't before. But, that was on IE as well, so, I don't expect it to be related to that. I think what I'll first do is do a clean out of the disk cache in Firefox. That should help, well, something, in any case. Maybe not this issue, but... eh, who knows?

Is there a "file name" I can find in a backup of my system? I know Firefox likes to make its own cache names versus "real" ones like in Opera in many cases.

Thanks! I needed a Registry solution so it could be automated, to prevent me from having to always do it on my own. I think I know why what I had that had worked before actually failed. When I test to find whatever X key is for Y, what I do is go in and make some kind of dummy change. A value Windows won't normally have in it, like Zambisi. Then, I search the Registry for all hits to Zambisi. This isolates the keys I need and can juggle around. But, I can guess what I did with this at one point was before and just changed the default in Folder Options and searched for the change. Which is fine IF you pick the right Registry key. The .REG file then works fine. If you have the wrong key, then, running a .REG file may "work" only because I had already changed the value manually didn't change it back. Now, in this case, it wasn't HKEY_CLASSES's key I had to change, but, LOCAL's. Changes to the CLASSES didn't work, but, changing the same keys in LOCAL_MACHINE did. Oh, and I did something I thought was better. That stupid &Play shit was apparently hexadecimal. So, I simply created my own Shell, Play With MY Default DVD Player, assigned the proper application and icon, and set it the the default.

Is there an (Easy. ) way to fix that? In the meantime, I'll just go over my oldest drive backup and do a search for CSS and see if any Firefox/Mozilla directories have a file with CSS in them. Just for giggles.

Where is the fucking thing? I THOUGHT I knew where it goddamned was, but, of course, my fix isn't working anymore. It seems that the File Type DVD Video in the Folder Settings is the DVD Player, but, DVD Video seems to call Play as the default, or whatever else may be set, such as Play With PowerDVD. And, those are stored, well, any fucking where. Plus, there are about 2 or 3 redundant copies of those keys that have nothing to do with it, so, finding it is by trial and error, mostly error.

Yeah, after Firefox extensions finally added one of the two things it needed to get rid of Opera, saved tabs, I was happy with it. Now, Firefox goes and shoots itself in the foot. Too many bugs are creeping into the releases and for an app that had prided itself rightfully on fixing revealed bugs to them, they've let the ' bug sit in there for the last 3 or 4 revisions. I'd go with Opera, but, they STILL have NOT addressed the issue that appears only in Gold releases, but not Betas: that Golds want to randomly just refuse to LOAD pages. No reason, just sit there, Waiting, with 0 kbs rates.

I tried to tell you, and a few others, this would probably happen. They were simply doing a direct copy from the laserdisc to the DVD. And, while, essentially, the technology is relatively the same, you can't just let the computers do all the work without checking the results afterwards. Hell, who knows? It wouldn't surprise me if they saved money and just stuck a camera in front of a TV and made a VHS copy, like some cheap ass content providers make. Like Allied Artist's DVD of Day Of The Triffids.

At least the goat wasn't dead in a trap. Besides, who is to say he was FORCED to? Seems he probably enjoyed it.

Has anyone else noticed a tendency for Firefox to refuse to properly render pages? The forum boards here are a common victim, as are Yahoo 360's sites. It just won't render them properly, randomly, unless Firefox is closed down and reopened or the rendering engine is switched to IE. Then, it loads them properly. Otherwise, it just randomly happens. Everything gets formatted to indent to the far left, bars, etc. don't form. Replying to posts is impossible since the buttons never get "painted" still saying Initializing. Examples. Firefox, when it doesn't render properly: Then, switching to IE immediately afterwards. (Switching back doesn't help and switching to IE again makes it fine in IE rendering only.)

No, because ISO's limitation is it cannot be split into parts. So, unless you have NTFS, the cap is at 4 GB. And, no, I won't use NTFS, although I am tempted to create a blank NTFS partition of about 5 GB for uses like this. Then, I can hide it when it's not needed.

I don't mind that they get them first. Gives the fuckers a chance to iron out the bugs they slip in. For instance, the missing effects on Remembrance Of The Daleks early pressings. Of course, sometimes we get errors inserted in, like the mysterious, silent footage on The Five Doctors that can only be accessed on PC... although, for my own enjoyment, I extracted the silent VOB's.