Azureus Vuze still is the best bittorrent client. :)
And ImgBurn is still awesome, but the installer has some really sneaky adware that tries to slip itself into your installation if you're not very careful.
I hate that. They're trying to be more and more clever as the days go on.
I have a NAS though, and am going to set up my router again to accept VPN connections but I can't really debug it from within the network right, it seems. :P
I posted a typing test video with this keyboard on Youtube but my camera made it louder than it actually is. Must have some auto-levelling of the audio or something.
@JourneymanGeek Because I know you'd be all interested:
From: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/1/26/StackOverflow-what-does-NameSourceDir-refer-to
Honestly, it's something that we should have hidden from the developer but didn't. Sorry. The truth of the matter is that the Windows Installer expects the Directory tree to always be rooted in a Di...
Oh what I'm trying to debug is why my computer can detect the headphones being plugged in but not them being unplugged. I suspect it's hardware. I recently replaced the front panel PCB but I'm really hoping the new one isn't defective too.
I have to disable the headphone jack in the sound control panel in Windows to get my desktop speakers to work.
It persists even after I reboot the computer. :|
Just burned a Linux LiveCD and will see if it happens there too
I always get the really obscure problems with my computer. :P
First Windows never releasing the drive lock when burning DVDs. Then NetBIOS being disabled and Windows not detecting my WiFi card as being a network adapter card. Now this. XD
And if I dig back further, my DVD drive being completely borked, and then eventually my HDD instantly dying, where even a file recovery couldn't detect any files on the disk.
That was a fun time. It literally went from Windows worked -> corrupted system file -> OS not found within minutes. :P
1 TB drive, too
Well to try out this livecd I gotta reboot. See ya soon. :)
It all started with 8.1 BCDBOOT error.I think it happened after I changed a few drives.I have accidentally made it work after somehow I changed it again but now it wont work whatever I try.
Since then Ive been using Lubuntu 14.04 live and I have to run this script I made everytime
To make it sho...
My desktop has 2 Seagate hybrid HDDs in RAID0, which have held up for a few years now, even surviving my trip with my computer to PAX East (and my friend accidentally dropping the tower off my pushcart, which I caught with my foot).
My old Dell desktop from 2008 which my parents use now, in which the WD drive failed, is back to its original Seagate 380 GB drive and it's still chugging along.
And my NAS has 2 Seagate drives in it. :P
The only WD internal drive I bought failed within a year. But maybe it's just because it was a Green drive. shrugs
@slhck Haha, yeah, that's showing up for me too! :O
Man, Windows 8 really cleaned up the file transfer dialog mess...
@BenRichards GIMP was the epitome of terrible when it was heralded as the photoshop killer over a decade ago, people still claim "You have GIMP quit your complaining!" and GIMP is still a program that allows you to manipulate images with the only requirement being you code the manipulation yourself pretty much
ok so I haven't touched GIMP in a number of years, but people were zealously sure it was as good as photoshop for a long time, during which period it was truly and completely terrible.
tabbed browsing in Konqueror; KHTML became WebKit; Dolphin was "borrowed from" for certain bits of both Explorer and Finder; the KIO file copy dialogs of KDE 4.x appear to have heavily influenced Win8's file copy dialog; yeah KDE seems to be the breeding ground for new UI
only thing they haven't been ahead of the game on is Modern UI; I'm not sure where that came from; it's too bad to be a creation of anyone else besides Microsoft
@JimmyHoffa you still have to script it to do certain advanced tasks, but it's much better out of the box recently; they have a single window mode (finally!) so the whole UI is one window instead of being a bunch of floating toolbars blah
it's the most powerful non-photoshop image editor, and it happens to be FOSS, cross-platform, a much smaller install than photoshop, and not all that hard to learn the scripting stuff to do any advanced things you might need that photoshop lacks (or install pre-canned extensions)
@allquixotic but it still takes most people 30 minutes to figure out how to draw a line ;P hehe just poking fun, I don't know anymore but you gotta admit; it was terrible to use for a long time while it was still touted as the greatest thing since sliced partitions
@JimmyHoffa anything has been terrible to use forever (including the present, past, and future) for people who don't know how to use it, or don't know what they're doing
I don't believe in UIs that are intuitively easier than others -- "intuition" is just "similar to things I've used before" -- we aren't born with a brain that decodes Modern UI or Photoshop UI easier than Gimp or something else -- missing features are a valid knock against a program, but not its mere layout
people who are raised on a GNU/Linux desktop will find Gimp a lot more familiar than people who aren't
Guys this is driving me crazy. There is a command shell prompt replacement ( Windows ), created by a user on this website, anyone know the name of it ( and/or the user ). All I can recall is that the user had a ton of reputation. It was based of a unix type command prompt
I have just experienced something very odd. Blue screen error after downloading Windows Updates, about a minute after it started saying it needed to restart the PC to finish installing updates. I was writing a message and them bam, blue screen. And then it restarted, installed its updates, and everything was fine.
You can use the debugging tools built within Windows, which are hard to use, and if provided a screen capture of the bottom window we could tell you what we believe happen.
it wouldn't be the first time that a display driver fell over while it was trying to update -- ever since WDDM, vendors can technically update graphics drivers on the fly without rebooting, but there tend to be bugs in the process of deinitialize -> update -> reinitialize... it's fairly fragile code
Ive just built a website for a client, and Ive got an odd problem that only occurs in Firefox browser.
At the top of the page I have a navigation bar that fills the width of the browser. Ive used the technique described here http://css-tricks.com/full-browser-width-bars/ to achieve the effect a...
I had this problem. overflow-x: hidden had totally solved all of my issues. But I had double scrollbars in some browsers. My teacher said there was nothing that could be done. Made me work 4 hours on absolute positioning and Photoshop. And then I find this. Not sure I even want to try it. Might make me too desperate if it works.
Ive just built a website for a client, and Ive got an odd problem that only occurs in Firefox browser.
At the top of the page I have a navigation bar that fills the width of the browser. Ive used the technique described here http://css-tricks.com/full-browser-width-bars/ to achieve the effect a...
