I took out the yahoo toolbar addon and it seems to have reduced the incidence alot.

To the Fark tech team:

Due to a new job and other responsibilities, I haven't submitted a link in almost a year.

I just started back submitting links again last week, and I have to say the new(?) "Check Link" button is quite possibly the coolest addition to Fark yet.

Kudos on the implementation of this excellent feature, as it is very useful.

/end public farkback

No_47: Use the farkback link, you godamned tool.

I'm not sure if you were having a bad day or are just that nice to everybody.

At any rate, the reason I posted it on here was because I imagine they get hundreds of e-mails a day and my comment wasn't anything that important to bother with.

I also know the Geek forum is frequented by the tech team, so I figured if they saw it great, if not no loss.

PacersJAM3s

No_47 is generally cool, AFAIK. Possibly a bad day thing, wife/SO on the rag or similar. Add the random idiocy that is endemic to [semi]anonymous posting and you get asswipe posts from normally nice and useful community members.

Have fun (and Fark you all)!

;)

PacersJAM3s

Kudos on the implementation of this excellent feature, as it is very useful.

Okay, enough with the praise for now.
Who do we have to kick for the Blender and Fark-images-hosted-on-Maxim crap on the showbiz tab?

Come on, at least change it so that the IFrame doesn't have a vertical scrollbar.

piaddic120: AesopRock_00: MusicMakeMyHeadPound: piaddic120: How do I fix it?

Pick one:

Firefox (new window)
Opera (new window)
Safari (new window)
Chrome (new window)

I just wanted to applaud this answer. very nicely done.

Although the answer was sarcastic, I'm considering firefox. But does firefox take up more memory than IE?

I tried disabling addons but that didn't work. Still have the same problem

Firefox starts out using very little memory...but it very quickly ends up using 200/300MB for no real reason...and it inevitably ends up crashing. I tend to only put my comp into standby, so I won't turn it off for days, and it usually lasts more than a day before grinding to a halt (it occasionally very, very much will grind everything to a halt...)

Maybe it's a Windows thing. I've been browsing all night and FF has stayed steady at 140mb.

Also, putting your computer in standby loads everything into RAM. When there's no room left in RAM it starts using disk space called Virtual Memory. Disk read/writes are VERY slow, which can certainly make things feel sluggish. It gets exponentially slower as Virtual Memory fills up. Eventually it will bluescreen or halt.

Microsoft also uses a ridiculous locked thread model of memory management which can often cause memory to get bloated if a program doesn't properly unload the resources it locked up - which is why rebooting is oh so effective with Windows (because you clear the RAM).

So try to avoid using standby. Shut down when you can.

MusicMakeMyHeadPound: Maybe it's a Windows thing. I've been browsing all night and FF has stayed steady at 140mb.

Also, putting your computer in standby loads everything into RAM. When there's no room left in RAM it starts using disk space called Virtual Memory. Disk read/writes are VERY slow, which can certainly make things feel sluggish. It gets exponentially slower as Virtual Memory fills up. Eventually it will bluescreen or halt.

Microsoft also uses a ridiculous locked thread model of memory management which can often cause memory to get bloated if a program doesn't properly unload the resources it locked up - which is why rebooting is oh so effective with Windows (because you clear the RAM).

So try to avoid using standby. Shut down when you can.

I never have any problems when firefox isn't open though, and closing FF fixes the memory prob. FF2 apparently had a memory leak issue, does FF 3 have one as well? I just actually freaking bluescreened, right after firefox got all slow...

I know standby doesn't clean everything like a restart, but it always runs fine when I open it back up. It's usually when I leave FF on and am mostly/only using that that it freaks out...

Okay, I got a solution report that says it was caused by a USB driver...my BIOS is the latest, and no USB things are plugged in...

What's this "USB selective power suspend" option? It comes up as the first on the list for causes of the problem; I always left it on because I never use USB things when not plugged in...

Never had a problem with Windows coming out of standby. Linux on the other hand... standby has never worked on any machine I've tried it on. It goes to sleep... and then... it powers off the computer, RAM and all. Great.

I never saw the use in sleep, hibernate, or anything else besides simply turning it off, but hey, different masturbatory techniques for different folks.

gayb: I never saw the use in sleep, hibernate, or anything else besides simply turning it off, but hey, different masturbatory techniques for different folks.

Sleep is quite useful for laptops. You put them to sleep, throw them in a bag. Almost instant restart, just open the lid and it's ready to go.

gayb: I never saw the use in sleep, hibernate, or anything else besides simply turning it off, but hey, different masturbatory techniques for different folks.

Same here. I've tried it on my work laptop a few times but the thing crawls to a halt and eventually bluescreens. Easier to just shut it off.

It's a good idea on paper, and if it works for you it could be handy.

FuturePastNow: Never had a problem with Windows coming out of standby. Linux on the other hand... standby has never worked on any machine I've tried it on. It goes to sleep... and then... it powers off the computer, RAM and all. Great.

Works all too well in Ubuntu for me - I have a keyboard with the sleep button in the upper right corner near where I have my mouse. I've pressed it accidentally a few times. Too lazy to unmap it.

Still don't find the utility in it - this is my desk computer, it's not like it takes long to boot the computer up, and I can't download or do my automated backups with the computer in sleep mode.

FuturePastNow: Sleep is quite useful for laptops. You put them to sleep, throw them in a bag. Almost instant restart, just open the lid and it's ready to go.

That's true. Forgot about laptops. I wish the wireless connection would go to "sleep" and come back on as fast.

No_47: you should try Firefox 3

Can you believe I'm only now learning that Google has discontinued Google Browser Sync? That was my main reason for holding off FF3. Off to the download page it is. Sigh, work is pushing too many things aside.

Halp me i want linux on a flash drive oh god i a m no t good with computer

any advice for a dumbfark with a inspiron with the bottom third of the screen with virticle lines?

How can I add/expand the bookmark toolbar to make it two rows deep? I tried expanding it just like you would any window (drag to make larger) and it didn't work... tried adding a new toolbar, but can't drop favorites in it...

It's Firefox 3

Anyone familiar with apt-get?

I'm trying to script installation of sun-java-6 from Capistrano and the damn thing fails because of the interactive license acceptance.

Anyone successfully worked around this?

FuturePastNow: Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar

Triple Bonus Word Score you get 8000 points!*

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Another question;

From what I understand, there is a limit to the amount of stuff you can put in a folder in Windows XP.

I have a folder on my desktop that I keep all my media in- pictures, music, etc., it's divided into four more sub-folders, which are divided into subfolders where appropriate. All in all, there is about 17gb in that folder... am I reaching this limit, or does the limit not exist, or does the limit not apply as long as it's all divided into smaller sub-folders?

I don't believe there is a size limit for folders in XP. I could be wrong, and most often am, I just came here to say that Steam is having a sale for audiosurf (very addicting music puzzle game) for $3. I encourage everyone to buy it, the game is freakin' sweet!

gayb: FuturePastNow: Sleep is quite useful for laptops. You put them to sleep, throw them in a bag. Almost instant restart, just open the lid and it's ready to go.

That's true. Forgot about laptops. I wish the wireless connection would go to "sleep" and come back on as fast.

It does on my machine, flick the switch on/off, connects before I can try to refresh it. I have vista though, maybe that's it. (also a laptop, and decently new)

I feel retarded for not knowing this, and even more so for asking it here...anyone know anything about the Little Big Planet extra costumes? I didn't even know there was a pre-order bonus...I really want the Nariko and Kratos skins. A friend let me try the promo code for Nariko...doesn't work anymore :(
Are they planning to let people download/buy them later? I really want them...it sucks, I bought LBP, GoW and Heavenly sword...

/I guess it's geeky enough...

Hey Fark Tech Geeks:

I've got Speakeasy as my ISP-- love them, very reliable. Speedtest.net reports my download speed at 676 kb/s. However, downloading through steam, I never get above 168 kb/s. Does Steam self-limit it's downloads? I couldn't find any documentation on this.

Thanks in advance.

By the way, Nvidia's latest geforce driver (178.24_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql) left my GPU underpowered, unable to function after doing voltage tuning. It also caused a lot of artifacting in Warmhammer Online and a big slowdown in Maya. Recommend caution.

Obdicut: Hey Fark Tech Geeks:

I've got Speakeasy as my ISP-- love them, very reliable. Speedtest.net reports my download speed at 676 kb/s. However, downloading through steam, I never get above 168 kb/s. Does Steam self-limit it's downloads? I couldn't find any documentation on this.

Steam downloads from hosted weird servers. You're gonna be limited by that. I usually get my full 1 MBps, but depending on the steam content server I can get annoyingly low. You might just be downloading during high traffic times? I've twice caught TF2 updates within a few hours of being released. Verrrry slow. And like 10 servers tops are actually up for an hour or more...

Grrr, having wireless trouble with my school connection-what steps do I go through to troubleshoot in Vista? I can't seem to connect properly to my school's WPA2 connection (which always worked before), but the second I open my tablet in my room it's online with my WEP wireless, so it's not the wireless card I think. When I'm in class/wherever it tries to connect automatically, but alternates from no connection to limited to local only to internet and local (with a clock by the symbol?). I tried the diagnose function and reset the wireless adapter (didn't work) gave up on the diagnose thing after that cause I was in class. It DOES seem to connect a little, because it loaded the plain text frontpage of fark, but gagged on everything else.


Are there steps I should try to troubleshoot on my end, or should I contact the school's IT dep?

Anyone got experience with ffserver / ffmpeg / streaming live video?

wyrlss: Halp me i want linux on a flash drive oh god i a m no t good with computer

nosajghoul
Anyone got experience with ffserver / ffmpeg / streaming live video?

I played around with it for a few hours a couple of months ago.
I tried to stream TV from my TV card (Linux, ivtv driver) to
a) a Windows client
b) through another server on the internet with bigger pipes than my ADSL

It wasn't that difficult to configure, there are example configs that don't need many adjustments.

But I had lots of difficulties getting that live-from-TV-card stream stable - the trouble was finding and configuring a video/audio codec combination that
a) would work with the crappy, codec-challenged Windows client I had AND
b) didn't crash the encoder

IIRC Real video and flv were the only ones that kind of worked; but the instability and the problems with other codes might have had something to do with my system or the on-the-fly encoding from a /dev/video device, so YMMV.

Obdicut: Hey Fark Tech Geeks:

I've got Speakeasy as my ISP-- love them, very reliable. Speedtest.net reports my download speed at 676 kb/s. However, downloading through steam, I never get above 168 kb/s. Does Steam self-limit it's downloads? I couldn't find any documentation on this.

Thanks in advance.

By the way, Nvidia's latest geforce driver (178.24_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql) left my GPU underpowered, unable to function after doing voltage tuning. It also caused a lot of artifacting in Warmhammer Online and a big slowdown in Maya. Recommend caution.

I've also noticed some wonky shiat with the new geforce drivers on my 8600GTS. after a few reboots and normal use it seems to be stable though.

Ugh, having another problem.

I bought Call of Duty 5- and it brought out the worst in my sound system...

I'm using the onboard sound of an abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI motherboard, and some knock-off speakers from Staples.

Now, there is a constant hum from my speakers, but in order to hear it, you either have to jack up the volume, leave a cellphone within a few inches of them, or hold them within an inch of your ears. During normal playback of music and movies, it is pretty much impossible to hear the humming noise.

However, when I play Call of Duty 5, it is there, it is constant, and it is quite irritating. While other sounds play normally, they are sometimes hard to hear over the humming.

I thought at first it would be interference- I moved power cords away from the speaker cables, and it made very little difference. I changed the jacks from the one on the case to the one on the mobo, it made very little to no difference. I played with the equalizer on the realtech control panel- no difference. I played with the volumes thinking that maybe it was distortion from too high of a volume- while the noise is now more quiet outside of the game, it's almost worse in the game. My drivers are up to date according to Microsoft, should I check abit, or realtek for new drivers? Could this be a driver issue?

No_47: TehNacho:
I bought Call of Duty 5-

It's called Call Of Duty: World at War. It is most certainly not CoD5.

Now, make sure the sound options (in the game) are set to two-speakers and not 5.1 if it's not a 5.1 system. Possibly try disabling EAX. Otherwise, go buy some decent speakers.

Call of Duty 5... sound's pretty damned good to me ;)

Course, Call of Duty 3 doesn't really count, cause it really sucked. So maybe instead of Modern Warfare being Call Of Duty 4, Call of Duty 5 would be Call of Duty 4. But then again, Call of Duty 2 came after United Offensive, which would make it Call of Duty 3 not two (even though United Offensive was an expansion, it contained enough content, IMHO, to consider it a sequel). Though, looking at it objectively, I think Call of Duty 5 is a lot like Call of Duty 4, so, maybe it should be Call of Duty 4, number 2.

But, the short of it is that changing the speaker settings does not seem to have worked. Even though there are buttons to change the settings, they cannot be pressed and the game tells you to change the settings in Windows and then restart the game.

I've been using Prime95 to stress test a couple of Processors and some RAM here at work, but my boss asked me about a program/util to stress test a Hard Drive. i couldn't think of anything offhand, anyone know of anything good (and preferably free)?