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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/405-line_television_system - and I love the throwaway line about the last 5 years of its use in Ireland.) Can't beat natural dithering. |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
"Bill in Co" wrote in
m: snip I don't know if this is exactly what you want, but perhaps look at IsoBuster? snip I thought it was free for limited uses (i.e., not all its features were available unless you purchased it). It may be, I haven't read anything yet, I just DL'd it since it seems to be what I need. -- What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'? Friedrich Nietzsche |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
Lostgallifreyan wrote in
: snip Without going into everything you raised, I think using file associations and hoping the right program will open is one of the WORST practices MS has forced on us and I am astonished that you have adopted it. Of course, at least you are knowledgeable enough to SEE the file extensions. (I wonder how much of a cut MS has been getting from AV program vendors ever since they made the file exts invisible by default.) I open the indicated program, and THEN I open whatever I want to work with. But that's just me. -- What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'? Friedrich Nietzsche |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Bill in Co writes: thanatoid wrote: "Bill in Co" wrote in m: [] look at IsoBuster? OK, thanks. I've heard of it, but never looked at it. (...) At $30, I'll try the other ("free") one first. It probably does NOTHING, but it's not a big deal anyway. I ceased to take anything in my life (except my mental disorders) seriously a LONG time ago. I thought it was free for limited uses (i.e., not all its features were available unless you purchased it). Yes, I've got a copy of it somewhere, and am pretty sure I didn't pay for it. Of course, that's some years old, and it's possible the current version doesn't have _any_ free features, but give it a look. [] majorgeeks sites. Well, there are some other good software sites too, but their names escape me now. There are dozens, and I have at least 60 URL's in my URLOrganizer, but many new ones are nothing but spams and redirects. Softpedia is also very good, as are some really *old*ies and goodies. I was just being lazy. Such as http://www.oldversion.com/ and Last Freeware Version (http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/index.html). [] I don't know what SD is. (I had to do a double-take, since I have SD cards in various devices such as cameras, though I did realise in the end that) SD means standard definition video *** edit: At least that's the one definition I'm used to. Who knows, there may be others. snip Ahhh. I remember when video was called video... And then all this High-Def stuff came into play, but fortunately, I have NOT jumped on the bandwagon. Why bother??? What I've got is good enough The old 405-line standard (actually still broadcast in UK until 1985 and Ireland 1982!) would, with a little tweaking, have given results not much inferior to the 625-line (or 525-line) system that followed it, and used about half the bandwidth. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/405-line_television_system - and I love the throwaway line about the last 5 years of its use in Ireland.) me. And I don't think the old 1940's black and white flicks are going to be all that much better in High Def. :-) In many cases, probably not, especially if the surviving prints aren't too well. For the ones made by skilled technicians towards the end of the era, such as Casablanca (some of the best actress-lighting ever, IMO), HD might well give some benefit. But I don't feel the need to get spoiled. Ditto on the highest end of audio (multi-thousands of dollars or Euros worth of audio equipment. And even 5.1 stereo. And the thing is, once you "go there" (assuming you ever do), there's likely no turning back. :-) But I haven't gone HD either - let alone 3D (see below). And I don't think I'll ever go there, but who knows. Anyways, all of the stuff I watch or work with is in standard def, which is "heavy" enough, in terms of any processing or disk space. And my old 20" color set is just fine by me. It wasn't all that long ago (cough) that I "upgraded" to a color set. ("upgraded" is in quotes, because the black and white sets were naturally sharper in their images (i.e., where there are now 3 pixels (needed for color), there was just one for black and white). This chart, which I saved (the reason escapes me) about a year ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ve...Standards2.svg can give you a MAJOR headache (and it doesn't even MENTION Interesting: odd that it uses the word vector, as it's actually raster formats (vector graphics are quite rare). threedee). I think that it's mainly concerned with computer formats, rather than video, though they're to some extent merging these days: for example it includes PAL (which strictly is a colour standard not a line/frame format, but is widely [ab]used in that way), but not NTSC. As for so-called 3D, which actually means stereoscopic display as it is usually used these days, there'd be no point in my getting it, as I do not have stereoscopic vision; both my eyes are fine (well, normal loss of close-range with ageing is starting to be evident), but I don't have the brain pathways that let me use them both at once for depth perception. (I rarely find this any problem, other than for very close/fine work, and of course for any so-called 3D effect - including those dotty pictures - that relies on stereoscopy.) The only 3D display that would work for me would be a truly 3D one, such as those spinning grids of points of light (as seen on one of the flavours of CSI for brain images, and other places). I long for the good old days. I kinda do too - and in many more ways than one! I think things went downhill after the 1950s, give or take. Like society, in general. Hmm. I'd miss computing power and the internet, and probably medical advances. And a lot of reductions in prejudice. Yes, and those are indeed the exceptions. But as for personal responsibility (or rather the prevalent lack thereof) nowadays, well, let's not get started on that one. But yes, there are a lot of aspects of society that were better then. (Especially if you were white, straight, male, middle-class or above. Most of which I am, though.) SIGH. Ditto. Ditto, with restrictions. Agreed. :-) |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
thanatoid wrote in :
Without going into everything you raised, I think using file associations and hoping the right program will open is one of the WORST practices MS has forced on us and I am astonished that you have adopted it. It's a brilliant idea. It's been sorely abused, usually by coders who force associations on users against their will, stealing existing ones from existing installs. So take control. FIGHT THE POWER! There's no magic to them, I don't even use the OS's inbuilt 'Open With' dialog to set them up permanently. I use the registry, every time. It's far easier. The template below shows details, all that most stuff ever needs. It is commented with lines beginning with a semicolon, and these comments can follow active entries on the same line. If you strip them out of the following template you'll see how little is needed. It's all plain text, save as .REG and if some idiot coder steals your associations, run the file like this that you keep, and it's yours again instantly. I totally agree that lazy and arrogant coders who force their stupid will instead of respecting remote host systems have borked this system for many, it's why I deliberately took control of it. It really IS actually easier this way than all that Open With nonsense, and trusting the shell tools to do it. REGEDIT4 ;Required, but extension can be anything, so long as the association it points to exists. ;Many extensions can use one association. Other associations may be set up, and switched here. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\.asc] @="LTspice" ;Optional, allows right-click to creat new data file anywhere. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\.asc\ShellNew] "NullFile"="" ;The association itself, with the descriptive name that the operator gets to see in normal use. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\LTspice] @="LTspice File" ;Sets path to executable, and addresses internal icon. Can also use path to external icon. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\LTspice\Defaul tIcon] @="E:\\EDITORS\\LTSPICE\\SCAD3.EXE,1" ;Commandline, allowing spaces in path and filename. Command arguments can be placed here. ;Escaped notation makes sure quotes and slashes work in registry. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\LTspice\shell\ open\command] @="\"E:\\EDITORS\\LTSPICE\\SCAD3.EXE\" -registry \"%1\"" |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
Lostgallifreyan wrote in
: REGEDIT4 Right after that, before the rest of the template, it's wise to put this: [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\.asc] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\LTspice] Note the dashes inside the key path brackets. Those mean DELETE the keys, which means when the template puts back your linkage, you can be totally sure that no pollution was left behind by whatever program stole the association. |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
"Bill in Co" wrote in
news J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: Interesting: odd that it uses the word vector, as it's actually raster formats (vector graphics are quite rare). Hey, square hugger: vec•tor n., v., -tored, -tor•ing — n.1. a. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, as force or velocity.Compare SCALAR (def. 4) . 2. the direction or course followed by something, as an airplane. 3. a. something or someone, as a person or an insect, that carries and transmits a disease-causing organism. b. any agent, as a mutated virus, that acts as a carrier or transporter. — v.t.4. a. to guide (an aircraft) in flight by issuing appropriate headings. b. to change direction of (the thrust of a jet or rocket engine) in order to steer the craft. [1695–1705; L: one that conveys = vec-, var. s. of vehere to carry + -tor -TOR]— vec•to‚ri•al adj.— vec•to‚ri•al•ly adv. sca•lar adj.1. representable by position on a scale or line; having only magnitude: a scalar variable. 2. of, pertaining to, or utilizing a scalar. 3. ladderlike in arrangement or organization; graduated. — n.4. a quantity possessing only magnitude.Compare VECTOR (def. 1) . [1650–60; L sc€l€ris of a ladder. See SCALE3, -AR1] Get it? -- What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'? Friedrich Nietzsche |
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