Movie descriptions Drama , Romance , comedy , sci-Fi, yea , yea, but i just want to know if it would be on "lifetime" (the females channel, make me barf ) or "spike" (you call that romance , people are being killed off like flies, and somebody stops for a kissing scene)
"A romatic comedy" ok, but is it funny, or do i have to be loaded up on estrogen to understand it :-)
> We’ve enabled GPU-accelerated Canvas2D on capable Windows and Mac computers, which should make web applications like games perform even better than a pure software implementation
that seems to have improved the text rendering style
Oh noo Captcha, No i am not human! . that is 2 times now that I properly formated an answer on a notepad, and pasted it in. So i wouldnt do my usual Edit to death crap. And the system thinks i am a BOT . ok make up its mind, either i am human and make many errors, or i AM a BOT :-)
Being human, i cant really get Captchas correct, a computer could better decipher that blob of mispelled trash better than i could :-)
its ones like this that really get me. L or I, rn or m ? who knows but ya only get one guess, then it changes to some other one .
of course the spammers and bots dont mind , they can get a captcha in one move everytime. i have to squint or back off a bit and see if my brain forms some sort of pattern :-)
@Paul superuser.com/questions/403791/… On this question. Myself I have pondered putting one of 2 monitors on standby, using windows 7
You got an accepted on that question, although it is (somehow) 2 oses? which might make a big huge difference?
I use Dual monitors on One video card, with only one system running, XP or Win7, and i would like to somehow put One of the monitors on standby, without putting the other monitor on standby.
I can reach over and turn it off, with its own off button, and the windows opened there stay, and everything is fine. But if i Disable the monitor , using the standard windows methods WIn-P or whatever, everything on it has to be moved.
And that is the only non-disruptive way to disable One monitor, to send it into standby, or power save. How did the user at that question accomplish it?
because he is only using one monitor, and relying on a good monitor that will Seek out a signal and automagically switch using the hardware of the monitor itself?
@Psycogeek yes that is right, he is using a single monitor with two machines. He enables powersave on one machine (DVI) and the monitor looks for an active signal on another connection, finds it on VGA and so comes out of standby
@Paul You seemed to know all what was going on and how to pull it off. so i thought i would ask you about the one that I have not yet seen pulled off. Putting one of Dual monitors into standby.
@Paul Because 2 monitors are the most useless thing on the planet :-) Big Gap between them i am not getting over , cant see Both at the same time, and Virtual desktops basically can do the same thing. But . . .
It provides for real-estate , the more active programs are open on the main one, and some "other stuff" like downloads, encodings, rss feed , system monitors, on the other. On one i watch movies at times, would be nice to disable the other.
A lot of the time, it would be "OK" if the second thing, could go on standby. and when watching movies, it would be cool to put the first on standby.
Disconnecting the DVI cable, goes badly (system goes to 1 mon), it is sort-of strange that simply powering it off, does not disturb anything. and "Blacking" the display, doesnt save the backlight or power. The backlighting on either of them is good for about 5 years 24-7 before it gets dimmer and weak, and mabey even colors are not so good. so The backlight Alone shutting off is Money in the bank.
a 3 monitor system (as anyone can imagine) has the same gaps, but they would be on the peripheral sides , so the other 2 monitors can provide for peripheral visions, and the center is one whole chunk of picture. But 2 , even if i did "Span" windows, the most central parts of the picture have a big stupid bezel there :-)
i want to buy a game on steam, for me to do it in India, requires credit card which I do not have(only debit card), I know someone in US who can help, can they gift me the game or they have to login to my account and buy?
@Psycogeek You can do it with linux, so it is at least technically possible. With linux you would run a separate X server for each screen, then use xset -display :1.0 dpms force off or xset -display :0.0 dpms force off to turn off each screen independently
@Paul hmm, and your sure that is a standbying, not a device disable kinda thing? That would be promising, because it might indicate that it is not a video card or video driver issue, but only the system not having thought of it.
Yeah, DPMS is the mechanism that underpins display power management. So having DPMS on is what lets monitors go into standby. Forcing dpms off sends an immediate signal to the monitor that it should go into standby. I haven't actually done this mind you, but I don't see why you shouldn't be able to control them individually this way.
@Paul looks like it just needs a programer. send a DPMS through the WMI for the VESA depending on the EDID , obviously i have no idea what i am saying.
@TomWijsman I saw that from Shutdown trace in Windows ADK, it does something to the kernel and the system goes down.(I think I looked in the correct place)
@Psycogeek Yeah, once you get the method, there are any number of ways you can trigger it. A hot key, a strokeit gesture. Clearly the most straightforward approach is to switch to linux and stop suffering the indignity of windows immediately. :)
@Paul I cant use linux, 80% of the programs I run dont have linux versions, and when they do, they do not have enough humans complaining , , , err i mean assisting in the contributions to the software .
@Paul I have the question up now. superuser.com/questions/406577/… at least with this question, they are asking me "why the hell would you do that?" hey its a start :-)
@Psycogeek, @TomWijsman, dlls are memory mapped files, so their pages are paged to the file they are mapped from. The system swap is for anonymous pages not backed by another file. In other words, yes, pages from executables and dlls are simply dropped to free up ram, then reloaded from the file when needed later, hence, why the system grinds to a halt when out of ram, because programs are constantly being discarded and reloaded from disk.
@psusi Ok so they should be unloaded not paged, but isnt it true that the system Pages specific parts and pieces of the system after startup? so those are still "mapped" but not in any disk paging file item?
Install AutoHotKey
Create a new text file. Rename it to F1Mute.ahk, or whatever you
want, as long as it ends in .ahk
Open the file (I opened it in Notepad++), and type in the following
code:
F1::
Send, {Volume_Mute}
Now save the file, and double-click it.
This is what I've been doing and it ...
@Psycogeek, I didn't quite grok that... generally linux does not page things out to swap without some memory pressure... by "not in any disk paging file item" do you mean not been written to the swap device?
@Psycogeek, paged pool is kernel memory that can be paged out
@psusi well supposedly they fixed how poorly it was stated in the windows tool items, so it is "said more correctally". They had previously oversimplified what they were calling things, which confused. Myself i always go on "is the hard disk light blinking" and "is the paging file itself being written to" Just because that is pretty much all i cared about, Disk or Not.
@Psycogeek, yea, paged pool just means it isn't locked so it can be paged out, not that is is paged out... as opposed to the non paged pool which must be available at all times
@Psycogeek: Paging something doesn't mean "put it into the page file". A page file is a file of pages, but that doesn't mean the pages can't be in the memory.
The page file can be better seen as a backing file for pages... :)
@TomWijsman i have adsorbed that, sometime ago, that is why i try to say disk paging, cant say i understand it, but i can see the little disk light :-)
@Psycogeek The little disk light means nothing but "Disk I/O is happening", it doesn't mean "Pages are being restored / backed up from/to the page file.".
@TomWijsman, when you get down to it, pretty much all IO these days is paging... it happens in response to the disk cache mapping a file and parts of it being page faulted into memory when accessed ;)
@TomWijsman random process , there were few left, and in the xp system i used Fat32 for some of the time, My system was (and hopes to be again) dead still when i did not initiate the process. because otherwise i cant tell if (say) a virus is doing something.
Thats what put me into Psyco mode with the system to begin with. Why the heck WAS it doing anything, because none of the stuff it did saved whole seconds ever.
Probably what makes the "windows know best" a most irritating thing to hear, when it was all shut off, it was Simple, never failed, and i could tell everything that was going on, and it used less power. It comes from having been Way Way backwards, with Dos, and Amigados. where Virtual still existed, but trying to "fix" and overly complicate things didnt.
There is still a group of people in existance, who would be "OK" with the system saying "i am out of real memory, i only understand real memory, and your going to have to add more, or do something different, because Your Out " :-)
@Psycogeek But even back in the DOS days, you had TSR programs. And config.sys was a real pain to deal with (I actually ended up creating an interactive prompt in autoexec.bat to set up the memory on one of my old computers depending on what I intended to do after booting, since one setting worked for one program but not for another, and vice versa).
Some of this stuff is for this "unknown majority" that has to little memory and is trying to do to much with it. But look back at my picture, 5.5G of free, used for some cache , that probably will get a 36% hit before the items in it get flushed again.
I have 8 programs activly running , gee where does it all go :-) and superfetch is still on taking 300-500m
@Psycogeek A lot of this stuff (paging, ReadyBoost, etc), was for the days when software had increasing memory requirements but hardware wasn't keeping up very well. We're now in the opposite. I find it amusing that ReadyBoost, for one, was a solution whose window of necessity after introduction was probably measured in months.
@sidran32 and for the laptops that have hard disks that move slower than 7-20MBs they probably thrive on such a feature as readyboost :-) untill they did the math.
or did a test of that cheap flash disk and its write speeds in 4K chunks.
@Psycogeek At my old job I actually had a case where I needed tons of RAM, couldn't fit it all in the computer (we maxed it out to 12 GB but still needed a lot more), and the only solution I had to increase performance, so the task wasn't taking 2 weeks to complete, was replace the OS disk with a SSD so swap performance wouldn't bog the system down. It actually got it up to about 2-3 days, instead of 2 weeks. Pretty dramatic. :)
This was a Linux system. No ReadyBoost, anyway (not that it'd matter... we'd probably max out the flash drive as well).
@sidran32 And that seperates the 2 parties, have a fat database that the whole thing needs to load into Something, or anything, and the method chosen is best. Which brings back, IF that method didnt exist, then shrinkage, and scratch disk, and 50 other methods would have been used by the programs, with the program in control and probably way faster.
@sidran32 The assumption always are the system needs to handle something like loading the entirety of a 4G database into memory. it is a false assumption, that programs would ever be created that way :-)
The lost art of fitting everything on a Floppy , not because we have the space, but because it could be done in Way less space :-)
@sidran32 And we all need to be able to work out the whole human genome out of ram , just in case we can even figure out how to patch up a single part of any human first.
The worst ram vaccume for me so far was megga bitmaps in a photo program. i was always running out, not of space, but of Undos :-)
it was terrible waiting 3.5 minutes for an Undo to complete. as soon as i added more memory, i increased the resolution 2X again . Ya i never learn
It cant be "Rocket Science" because nasa was using an amiga for some of thier work, through many launches to the Moon :-)
now if they go to the moon, a floppy wouldnt hold the spam they get in an e-mail folder :-)
my question has become rocket science superuser.com/questions/406577/… , It must need a serious Edit job, because so far no-one read it the way I wrote it
@psusi I was not to keen on them when i realised to backup a less compressed video project was going to take 1000 of them, I almost did it then thought, well what if one has an error :-)
2000, is of course the answer, because i got to have a backup.
ok so those days are gone, but the days of having 2 programs, one 23K and one 540k and both doing the same function are here to stay.
floppies sucked so hard... no media change events, no type auto detection ( hence why every pc bios has a screen to tell it what kind of floppy you have, and why a non existent one shows up in your OS if you tell the bios you have one when you don't )... so annoying... the only fun thing about them was when you changed the low level format to back 1920k instead of 1440 on them ;)
of course, the spec said they had a command to detect the type... so I spent a week bashing my head on my desk trying to figure out why the hell I couldn't get it to work before I realized that nobody bothered to follow the spec
"Many PC games were delivered on 720k disks." from: pcmech.com/article/retro-friday-the-720k-floppy-disk . funny thing is we played them for hours on end, they might use 2 disks, the second for the massive quantity of data needed for the game.
today just the histroy of bugs list wouldnt fit on that disk
@Bibhas dang i wish i had gone to college and got drunk for 4 years and partied, cheated, and had the time of my life, mabey squeeze out some piece of paper in the process. because you can always learn more, but you can never recapture your youth :-)
@Bibhas I live next to the lab, and many of the people there are constantally going to more classes, putting in more degrees, and married, and have 3 things, work school sleep.
@Bibhas: most of what I know is self-taught - if I had a Mac, I would teach myself... I took the class because I don't want to have to buy a mac to learn them, so I figured that I would learn at the college :)
The magic show my brother did with the University Magic Society is on Youtube - Please watch and like! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMb4NnNzlbw ..I hate@ 2:05
Best phone call ever **Me:** Hello? **Him:** Hi is Dave (*my boss*) there? It's Uncle Sanchez **Me:** This is ???? from ???????, right? **Him:** *pause* Yup
Cool, i had an opertunity to test the overuse of the cache, freeing memory and all that other fun stuff. as short as i can make it it was like this. I dont ever bother to test 'clearing the memory" because i usually have free available.
The computer was acting funkey, I had spent a lot of time TRYING to get the system to use all of the cache (for disk cache), I open up the resouce monitor and for the first time, almost ALL of the leftover ram is bing used for cache. Cool
I clear out some of the cache by opening and closing some things, and when an allocation had to occur, the Cache had to be de-alocated first , slower. As weird as it was that i finnaly was Using all the ram for cache, the cache use would return almost immediatly, not so cool :-), what the frill was happening.
So opertunity came with the full cache, to stop the driver, and Actually Time, the slowdown from the apps loadings.
2 of 10 seconds approx. slower when trying to free the cache at the same time as running and allocating the program.
So time for the stupid "free memory" thing, which in reality is to allocate loads of memory pushing out the cache, then de-allocate. this process take Way long, like 6-10 seconds .
Now all the programs are back to thier normal speed, which was only this 20% difference from what i was used to.
But no that isnt enough :-) now I allocate every piece of memory in the machine :-)
First touching of any of the programs they Balk, and are slow at first, then they run ok.
@TomWijsman I am trying to explain, it did take a longer time to Free a large ammount at one time, the programs then were faster, Untill I went well beyond the overuse of the Cache.
In other words, as expected, manually freeing a chunk, taking more time than it would take to let the system free it, does improve the speed of loading a program. It is Real, but it is just one verses the other.
Overdoing the cache was a fail, overdoing the freeing was a fail, and overdoing the disk paging was a fail.
But proper manuel use of a a ram crammer, could give a person a manuel boost, it could be concidered placebo, because it will happen anyway, but it does what would be expected, it can manually free up a chunk, you can then use .
@TomWijsman But often the point of herassing somone over using a POS ram booster, is it is a total fail. it is no more a total fail, than overdoing any other aspect of anything. used manually you can Decide to control that.
Install AutoHotKey
Create a new text file. Rename it to F1Mute.ahk, or whatever you
want, as long as it ends in .ahk
Open the file (I opened it in Notepad++), and type in the following
code:
F1::
Send, {Volume_Mute}
Now save the file, and double-click it.
This is what I've been doing and it ...
