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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)



 
 
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Old November 20th 11, 11:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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Default 1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
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(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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Old November 21st 11, 12:07 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default 1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)

"Bill in Co" wrote in
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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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Old November 21st 11, 12:11 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
thanatoid
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Default 1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)

Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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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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Old November 21st 11, 01:34 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Bill in Co
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Default 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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Old November 21st 11, 02:10 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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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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Old November 21st 11, 02:28 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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Default 1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)

Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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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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Old November 21st 11, 03:13 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
thanatoid
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"Bill in Co" wrote in
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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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