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Casao posted:On a Windows PC, there's really no reason to use iTunes if you don't have an iPod. Even if you do, you can get good support in most other things. Only reason I can think of is having used the iTunes store for a while and are too lazy/honest to strip the DRM and use it in something else. I use it when I'm in Windows and I don't own an iPod. I use it because I like the interface and have a modern computer with lots of RAM (more than 512MB). HPL posted:See, that's the dumb thing. With the default skin under Ubuntu, the active tab is the same colour with the same button and it stands out by maybe one or two pixels above the rest, so you kind of have to look at the tab bar for a second or two to figure out what's what. Firefox 2 was fine.  ?? The active tab is lighter, larger and bolded. Maybe you need to adjust the contrast on your monitor.
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HPL posted:Contrast is fine. Like I said, Firefox 2 was normal, much like your screenshot. For some reason Firefox 3 is all weird. That is Firefox 3 in my screenshot. Either you've changed your theme (Ubuntu's or Firefox's) or your profile is messed up.
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Lum posted:While I'm on Terminal Services Client. version 6. Why do you insist on making me enter a username and password when the remote server is going to ignore them anyway and prompt me for them again. When I'm impatiently trying to reconnect repeatedly during a server reboot this gets really loving aggrivating. I curse the day I inevitably forget to untick version 6 on WindowsUpdate and have to put up with this crap from there on in. They changed it for security reasons. There were some viruses exploiting it or something. Sniep posted:People who use the wrong file formats, i.e. GIF instead of PNG for a screen shot. I deal with this daily in my company - a partner loves GIF for webpage graphics and apparantly is blind to how horrible it looks. Or worse, a JPG for a screenshot that involves a lot of the color red. JPG artifacts are to me as Papyrus is to Creative Commons.
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tlc posted:Dear people who post stuff on USENET, You just have a crappy unrar program or crappy file system. I've had all sorts of crazy filenames extract just fine.
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thebruce posted:Unfortunately that sounds intentional to prevent you from using flash blockers. If you use flashblock it's transparent so you can still see the text but you might not be able to click anything it's blocking. CT2049 posted:This, people making GBS threads on Silverlight (2.0, as 1.0 was really just demo technology) without giving a valid reason why. Maybe people do have valid reasons against this technology, but I've never seen them mentioned. The two arguments I ever see are: ARGH MICROSOFT!!!! and ARGH ANOTHER PLUG IN!!!!. I wouldn't be so upset about Silverlight if MS was also adding canvas support to IE. As it is, they're just reinventing the wheel, again. And making the first release of that wheel a square.
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| # ¿ May 1, 2008 16:17 |
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KennyG posted:Fixed it for you. Not quite, I've got 12k songs taking up just shy of 70G. Not everyone has problems with iTunes.
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Anjow posted:What pisses me off? Videos that have hardcoded letterboxing. Meaning when I view it with my widescreen TFT it's the right aspect ratio but much smaller than it should be. Non-anamorphic is the fancy term for that. What's nice about VLC is that it has zoom functions built in that will take care of that.
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dorkanoid posted:Video -> Crop -> 16:10 (or whatever your monitor is) (Zoom is a "different effect") Right, crop. My bad. Paper Mache Soul posted:For some reason, my MP3 player won't accept a rename of a file if the file name is the same except for capitalization. Meaning, if I try to rename "04 - song title.mp3" to "04 - Song Title.mp3" and press Enter, it won't accept. I have to change the filename and go and change it back. I can't think of why it wouldn't accept it, because I'm pretty sure it doesn't see those two filenames as being the same. I assume this is because you're using a Microsoft filesystem all of which are case insensitive so when you change just the case, it thinks you havn't changed the name. If the application is smartly written, it won't have that problem, but so few are it seems.
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nmfree posted:YES. It's even worse when they don't have controls for the noise.
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such a nice boy posted:It's not all good for the podcast authors. I listen to "Common Sense with Dan Carlin", and he was complaining that if he didn't release a podcast every 3 weeks or so, iTunes would automatically unsubscribe his listeners. Which is weird, because it's not time based.
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Javid posted:This right here. Ubuntu is my nemesis for this. Almost every time I ask for support for something like that it degrades into a debate over how I'm wrong to want to do it that way. You do know that Gaim renamed itself to Pidgin, right?
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Xenomorph posted:You do know about the Nazi developers who keep removing features, right? No, but I know about developers that move older features into plugins so people can use them if they want and some users are upset their favorite feature isn't enabled by default. Anyways, it upgraded to the latest version of the software and you're complaining about it in a thread called poo poo that pisses you off. You can always go and install the old version after it's done if you really want to use something that has bugs and security holes.
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krylex posted:I hate how the ad banners quit loading for me on the top part of the page between the animals. You're using Opera, right? It's either because your adblocking software is messing with it or that you don't have adblocking software, I forget what the solution was.
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John Dough posted:Or the constant nagging that my USB ports were only 1.0 while 2.0 is so much faster and better and yummier and oh god did you hear about USB 2.0 it's aaaawesooooome!!!! Click here to search your computer for USB2.0 ports! . . . . . . . . . Sorry no ports found. Why don't you use USB2.0 for better speed! Click here to search your computer for USB2.0 ports!
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Erwin posted:Tinyurl. What the gently caress is the use of this? I see this sometimes on the forums and it makes no sense since you can use the url code to tame long urls. I don't want to click your drat blind tinyurl link that probably forwards to tubgirl while I'm at work god damnit stop using tinyurl! Then enable their preview feature.
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duckstab posted:It may seem like an aesthetic complaint, but the way Leopard renders fonts makes for an eye-watering time for me. If I could get Leopard rendering fonts the way they are in XP/Vista with ClearType on, i'd be a happy man. Sorry but MS and Apple each have patents on how they render fonts, never mind the ideological reasons for why they render the way they do.
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FrantzX posted:http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;260650 It can also happen if there was a 300 level redirect during the request, like what waffleimages uses.
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tripwire posted:Which genius Ubuntu developer decided that the right click context menu will only open while you HOLD the right button? It's working normally here, maybe your mouse is broken?
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Elected by Dogs posted:I'm pretty sure spiders don't check how far down content is. Googlebot prioritizes the first 1K of the HTML and considered the rest of the page less important.
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Zhentar posted:There's the long tooltip bug, of course (Since you users want it fixed so bad I'm not going to!). That wasn't a bug but a difference of opinion on how to implement a vague spec. The spec refers to it as a short message but never gives any sort of limit. The Firefox devs originally took that to mean 50 characters. This has been changed to something like 500 in Firefox 3.
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Casao posted:It needs to be said. Why the gently caress are there two package managers for Ubuntu? Explain that away, keeping in mind Ubuntu claims to be things like an "Easy to use desktop distro" and "Linux for the masses" One's simple to use with a user friendly interface the other's an advance user's paradise.
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Zhentar posted:Things like Synaptic come in handy here. Unless you're a Linux power user you shouldn't be using Synaptic. Add/Remove Programs has a much cleaner interface with lots of friendly names and descriptions for programs.
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Sweevo posted:I'm not arguing about using it for general compression, but I doubt very much you're going to get 30% compression on things like mp3s or mpeg files. It's why people bother compressing such files for little/no benefit that annoys me. They do it so you know if the file is corrupt/incomplete.
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Zorilla posted:Why do we have a Windows vs. Linux argument going on in SH/SC? Because Linux peed in Casao's cornflakes. The Gunslinger posted:From our perspective maybe but we're not the average computer user which is what I'm addressing here and the whole point of the discussion of usability and ease of installation. Problem is, the average user won't see that. Firefox is already installed and it will auto update for them. Also, update your OS Erwin, it's free:  The only thing that annoys me on a sort-of-daily basis is forms that don't use label elements. It's a little thing but it makes forms so much easier.
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Oddhair posted:Also, Firefox portable won't run when regular Firefox is running - not too portable. I don't doubt there's some compelling reason for this, It's to prevent your bookmarks and such from being overwritten. If you're using Firefox 3 you can add the option -no-remote to make it load up anyways.
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Idran posted:Okay, fair enough, I can agree that it's a bad mindset to have nowadays. Not at the time, especially for Nintendo (they were only five years off of the whole Tengen mess, for one), but nowadays yes. There was that OSX software last year that deleted itself if you used the key that was floating around. /. and several other places were freaking out because the person that found out said it deleted the home directory.
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MrMoo posted:I'm talking about for regular users, some form of graphical integration with GDM with progress notification for long updates. ?  That's from clicking the update notification icon and selecting install all.
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my stepdads beer posted:The braindead coding of timg tags on these forums. There's nothing worse than when I'm happily reading something and suddenly the whole page jumps around because all of the image resizing happens right at the very end of a page load. GenericAdmin is aware of the link issue and has a fix queued up. The jumping around thing is a pain as SALR tries to fix it as well and neither of us have been able to get something that always works.
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Zhentar posted:Cached version didn't have it for me. I've also had google say that my search term wasn't found on that page but found in links to that page.
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Lum posted:The reason you have the manufacturers own wireless poo poo is because ZeroConf was only added in XP SP2 and there's plenty of people out there still running Win2K or XP SP0/SP1. I'd think they'd be smart enough to detect what version the OS when installing and not overriding SP2's stuff.
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hyperborean posted:hahaha, you think hardware vendors give a poo poo That's why I said smart enough and not care enough. I know they don't care.
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VTS posted:No, I don't know why they're stuck in the early 1990's. but they haven't spent a penny on anything IT related for at least 3 years. You just answered the former with the latter.
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Sister Miyagi posted:I'll need someone to tell me I'm not crazy before I get too pissed off about this one: I swear that in earlier versions of Firefox 2, it would remember what directory you last saved a filetype in. I.e., you'd go to save a .jpg and it would open the folder you last saved a .jpg (or .gif or .png) into, then if you went to save an .exe, it would open the folder you last saved an .exe, into. Nope, you are crazy. Firefox never did that, you have to install an extension to do that.
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Sister Miyagi posted:
DownloadSort can do it, don't know what others can.
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Well don't keep me in suspense, what extension was it?
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ZeeBoi posted:I know this was a few pages back but just today I read an article about Radiologists in Singapore using iTunes, of all things, to manage their PDFs. They must read LifeHacker.
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Arsten posted:Eh, I have. But, generally, I'm not staring at my torrents so it's not like i'm waiting expectantly for the last bit of porn to download so that I can fondly myself with fake woman holes, or something. Then what the hell are you doing here?
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:Cue activation by phone (which is another thing that pisses me off-why does it need to take so long?), Because you're speaking instead of using the keypad? The order that they give the options is the number to press.
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Mr Chips posted:You can control tab order with a javascript, but then you're relying on the loveliness of working with JS in multiple browsers & platforms. The person in the office next to me pretty much has a full time job making sure Java & Javascript in our web pages works on Safari, IE 6, IE 7, and Firefox, on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Or you can just use the tabindex attribute which is standard HTML. I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it.
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Lum posted:So yeah, I guess 'Mains' is a useless term to you. You Americans really refer to it as "AC" all the time? We usually just call it electricity. The only people I've heard call it mains are electrician and carpenter type people.
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Factor Mystic posted:I have 3 rows of 12 tabs open at the moment. One quarter is articles queued to read but have been too lazy, about half is research and documentation for a couple projects I still have to wade through, and the rest of it is kind of daily things. If there was a better way to put things that are "important, but not enough to bookmark; transitory but important for now" I'd be all over it. Over in the Firefox Extensions thread there was a temporary bookmarks extension. I think it was called Read Me Later or something.
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