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No, the computer hadn't frozen. It happily stopped defragmenting (if that's what it was really doing) when I clicked the Cancel button. And no, nothing else running. I'll have a look at the logs next time I'm at that computer. My big complaint here is really about the totally uninformative interface.
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I want to make my own version of pastebin.com. An exact copy of what it does (but without all the mobile applications and the like). I don't know how to code, and I don't have enough money for a website developer. They make their API publicle available, if that helps. How do I do it? Is there code
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i'm not a programmer but would like to run an ancient tiny "game" engine on this crappy netbook, the requiremen is that I can create my own level map and put bitmaps on the wall. it should be wolfstein 3d era (I.e. Like a few Megan, dos mode, no installation, and a few kb "level editor". This is
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for a proof of concept and I wan to spend no more time on this than finding and running the binary and level editor. Any old-timers know of abandonware that fits the bill? (sorry, I don't program and can't compile. It has to be tiny, all CPU and 640x480 or 320x240 is fine). Thanks.
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you pick one or the other encoding depending if there is an excess or a deficiency of 1 bits previously. If there is too few, then the code with more 1 bits is picked to restore the average number of 1's and 0's. For 00000 the disparity will change sign +/- 1.
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AVI is just a container format, is it a series of BMPs? In any case can do the later, and should be able to do the former - set the GOP (group of pictures) to 1 to force I-frame only. However, it is a command-line tool, and can be a bit awkward to get used to.
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I am trying to understand 8b/10b encoding.The very first line D.00 is encoded as 100111 or 011000. D.00 00000 100111 011000 How is this achieved.Something is missing in my thoughts.I would like to know how 00000 is encoded to 100111 and 011000. Many Thanks
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with good results -- to a degree where friends think I upgraded their hardware, when all I've done was merely to run the "Data Disk Weekly" script on all their partitions. It is free of charge and comes with that script, and it has its own article here on
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You might want to use a free (of charge) defragger. The Vista defragger IS craptacular, and there are even some quite reliable sources who criticized it for its uselessness, slowness, and inadjustability (wow, "Vista" and "stability" in the same
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Not tried this on Vista but on old Windows 95-era systems if there was something running while you did the defrag it would keep restarting and never get to the end. Have you tried looking for any logs, maybe in the system event logs?
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both True; yet, every time my finger slips and I hit Q rather than W, Firefox quits immediately. How can I bring back the confirmation dialog? (It's FF 11.0 on MacOS 10.6, but this quirk has bugged me for a year or two.)
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Word, you're out of luck. The fonts are either available to everything, or unavailable to everything. However, if your reason for disabling some fonts is so that you don't need to scroll through endless
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variants to get to the two or three fonts you actually use, I suggest using 'styles'. You can define any number of your own styles, including the font to use, paragraph formatting and much besides.
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has issues dealing with files that are over 2 GB and will only load the first few thousand frames. Is there another free utility that compresses avi to Motion JPEG?
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Many newer defraggers aren't exactly informative, probably to hide what a crappy job they do at ordering the files. But the Vista thing really jumps the shark...
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Been dabbling with PCs since 1989, so I know a bit about performance enhancement. A friend asked me to look at her Vista machine, which was running very slowly.
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Yep. MyDefrag worked a treat. Showed that the Vista defrag had achieved nothing. Much tidier HDD now. I'll await the user's response when she next fires it up.
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The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the
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I simply cannot tell what it's really doing. At least in Win 95 (and all other Windows versions I'm aware of) you got a picture of what it was doing.
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That said, how much experience do you have of Knowledge? I wouldn't recommend using STiki if you haven't already been around the block a few times.
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On Windows 7, how can I make a font that is installed on my computer not show up in Microsoft Word? That is, without uninstalling the font.
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The fonts in question are required in another program, so that would not work. I just want them to be invisible to Microsoft Word.
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You're going to have a very hard time trying to create a website if you do not know how to program. I suggest you try learning
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i am looking for a file on my computer. Type whatsit.htm in search box. It finds it but also finds a lot of other files . Why?
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I cleaned up the hard disk drive too, and thought I'd defragment the disk. (It wasn't set up to run automatically.) And I have
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I've already made her smile some more by turning off a mass of unnecessary startup processes. It's made a big difference.
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All I've had now, for over 24 hours, is the little spinny thing on the screen, and a helpful(?) message telling me "
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encountered a less informative dialog from Windows! (Well, maybe I have, but this is top of my mind right now.)
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Alas, I long for the old XP search function. It seems Microsoft would have us learn "Advanced Query Syntax"
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Hi, it will look for similar files with the simlar name, type or location to extend your search results.
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Why bother when you can just use an image viewer that displays it just as it would if it were video? ¦
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It absolutely cannot have any interframe compression-- I'm tracking fruitflies using Ctrax.
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Does Stiki crash your computer. I am too nervous to run it in case it crashes my computer.--
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P.S. It is safe to cancel a defrag job, at least with all XP-compliant defraggers I know.
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Need to convert raw avi to MJPEG or with similar intraframe compression only codec
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http://www.zhacks.com/disable-fonts-without-deleting-it-from-windows-7/
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If you stop it and start it again. You might lose minutes at most.
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Unfortunately, if you want the fonts available to all programs
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http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/869468#answer-240137
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so I would have thought that crashing would be pretty unlikely.
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I don't think so. Has the computer frozen, or the application?
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attribute. Perhaps the link-checker only sees the links when
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Welcome to the Knowledge Computing Reference Desk Archives
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It has never crashed my computer. It runs through a
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part 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d get overlooked. Why please?
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Knowledge:Reference desk
Archives
Computing
Computing desk
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current reference desk
HiLo48
talk
07:08, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Mr
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irish
08:26, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Kittybrewster

09:07, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Colapeninsula
talk
13:42, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
comparison of defragmentation software
Reisio
talk
15:45, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
HiLo48
talk
21:11, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

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