dbminter

I've never had the System Tray or the Notification Area return at ALL! i.e. I can restart apps, but, they don't show up in Trays because there was no tray. Even when I start EXPLORER, all it does is open a tree base view. It does let me get to my folder with my Desktop, which is SOMETHING, but, the tray areas themselves always need to be restarted. They just ain't there, hoss.

Well, the guy is almost 90 years old.

It's not photoshopped db It was taken after Manchester Utd crashed out of the Champions League Just a funny angle....... I don't believe it. Why is one person in the image lighted with a different tint than the other? (Check the flesh tones.) Look at the pixelation around the arm on the left side. I admit that, at first, I did not have the photo manipulation part in my post. I edited it and added it in later after I noticed a few tell tale signs that tell me it's a fake, anyway. But, I could be wrong. You never know...

Yes, that's what I've done. CTRL+ALT+DEL and use the shutdown there. However, sometimes, you have something running you need to complete, so, might as well try to get some work done in the meantime.

Nay, I say it is that my mind continues to expand into infinity... INFINITY, I SAY!

You know... I never thought of it before, until I finally needed it. But, how do you "restart" the "Desktop?" You know what I mean, when EXPLORER crashes and the Desktop disappears, along with the Start menu, the Notification Area, and the System Tray. How can all this crap be brought back? I've just used CTRL+ALT+DEL to start a new EXPLORER which lets me access where I keep a shortcut to my Desktop, but, that only displays the folder in a tree view, and the Trays are still gone. I realize I may need a batch series of commands to get all the appropriate stuff restarted, with the right switches, etc. but, I'm up to the task. I just realized, though, I don't know what the damn stuff Microsoft fucked together to get all this shit up when Windows starts. Thanks!

Oh, man... laughing myself to tears over this one! Had the strangest/dumbest idea just now! How to work in a corn joke into this thread? Simple... Abducted By The Corneks! Daleks with corn cobs for eyestalks and lasers. Tins of Jiffy Pop replace those compass things the Daleks had in The Daleks Master Plan. Each of the Dalek globes is replaced with a corn kernel.

The beheld part comes from beholding a new Heaven and new Earth, beholding the morning and evening stars, etc. The multi-eyes on each wing is something about the great Beast having many eyes all over its body. Makes no sense. The name written on his thigh comes from Christ's name written on his thigh when he comes back. Don't ask me WHY he carved his name into his THIGH... I chose the of Death because of the name of the Fourth Horsemen. Another beholding part. Revelation 6:8 "and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death" That one reminds me of the great final dialogue before you fight the final boss in Castlevania: Curse Of Darkness. "That weapon... YOU ARE DEATH!" The number of a man, aka the Mark of the Beast, comes from the whole 666 thing, where the mark of the Beast is also listed as the number of a man: six hundred 3 score and six. I chose Orville Redenbacher because he's the god of popcorn. Plus, the mark of the Beast can in your palm or on your forehead, so, I chose to put Orville on the forehead. The mark of the Corn thing just followed on naturally from that.

I think what caused the problem with the movie test was the fact that the layer break needs to be calculated. Because it does, it is different from the source IFO's layer break. Thus why the 1:1 backup was fine because no changes were made to the VOB's and thus none to the IFO's. However, in the test with editing the source video to remove advertising at the start of the DVD, this meant removing VOB contents, which meant changing the streams. So, given the costs of DVD+R DL, I never tested again. Only DVD+RW DL or DVD-RW DL, if it's made, have seemed feasible enough to be worth to test around with again. If they fail, they can always be reused. With DVD-R DL, like with DVD+R DL, I'd be willing to give a 3 pack a test. If a firmware update for the NEC 3500a with DVD-R DL support is ever released.

I was thinking about it, and, I realized I don't know how DL discs are burned. For instance, thinking about old DVD. Is DVD+R DL written from the inside out. Or inside out then outside in for the 2nd layer? Or inside out for the first layer and then reset to inside and write the 2nd layer inside out, too? Or is to burn each layer at each sector? Meaning, burn a sector at Layer 0's sector first then 1's, or 1's then 0's, if you're only doing one pass? The way I see it is since you're writing instead of reading, changing the laser intensity doesn't do any good unless you do it the opposite way around. Otherwise, how do you prevent burning up the data you've already written? So, it seems that what has to be done is for each sector, both layers are burned in the same "pass," first one and then the other, with Layer 1 first so that the laser intensity can be reduced and burn Layer 0 without burning through and to, thus damaging the data already burned to Layer 1. So, LUK, or anyone else how's it done?

It's all taken from Revelation. And not of the Daleks.

You know... I was all set to find something in a thread with that title to poke fun at the poser for... but, damn, a photo manipulation like that just writes its own jokes. Well done!

And, the film version of this thread will star Tim Curry. The soundtrack will lead off with Johnny Cash's "Ring Of Fire." I Fell Into A Burning Ring Of Fire I Went Down, Down, Down And The Flames Went Higher And It Burns, Burns, Burns The Ring Of Fire The Ring Of Fire

Who cares about that stupid git?

For I beheld the Corny Beast. A thousand eyes on each wing. And the name written on his thigh was... DEATH! And tatooed across his forehead was ORVILLE REDENBACHER, the number of a man and the mark of the Corn.

Granted, I only performed one test, so, the test was limited to one movie, one software, and one player. But, with the cost ot DVD+R DL, I'm not inclined to do anything more except wait for the DVD-R DL I've been, well, waiting for.

Which is the irony I've found with DVD+R DL in that my tests showed that removing anything you don't want caused a 50/50 chance of the disc not playing in a player that allowed a 1:1 archive of the same material.

Family Guy had a similar gag where Peter, pretending to be God, answers "Yes?" when Lois says, "Oh, my god!"

Then, turn the oil into wine. Or, make the oil burn for 8 straight nights.

Good god... 500 DL's at about $3 each! Plus, imagine backing up 500 movies in just a little under 2 years since the introduction of DL's.

Peri already cornered the market on bikini clad assistants.

I still wonder what the Spielberg/Amblin/NBC/Hasselhoff Doctor Who might have been like had it ever been made. Spider Daleks. A talking TARDIS? "Michael- er- Doctor. I am detect an anomaly in the space-time continuum."

digi, you've obviously forgotten your American history when it comes to Doctor Who. Whenever you need someone to dub over a new Who, the first person you seek is David Hasselhoff.

Are you kidding? Often times, I need a translation of what Christopher Eccleston is just SAYING because of his fast accent. Honestly, sometimes, I just gave up trying.

Let us not forget the Chicken Gun from Mythbusters.