So, are any of the Flash ads on Fark causing massive CPU usage for anyone else? Those HP computer ads are the worst.

FuturePastNow: So, are any of the Flash ads on Fark causing massive CPU usage for anyone else? Those HP computer ads are the worst.

There are flash ads on Fark? I guess I have been spared them because of adblock. Perhaps you should try it.

Maddogjew: There are flash ads on Fark? I guess I have been spared them because of adblock. Perhaps you should try it.

Listen, I know all about f*cking adblock. I don't need a lecture about blocking sh*t. I'm just not using Firefox all the f*cking time, and I'm just wondering if this is a problem for anyone else, or with this computer.

Cripes.

Never underestimate the nature of a nerd to be smug motherfarker when asking a simple question. It's why we're known as people persons.

//had to stop myself from saying "What ads?" too
//though I'm surprised I haven't heard "Use Farkback" yet.
//On second thought, don't use farkback to report the ad, post in Fark Forum instead. They like it when you do that there.

FuturePastNow: Cripes.

I appreciate the self-censoring.

FuturePastNow: Listen, I know all about f*cking adblock. I don't need a lecture about blocking sh*t. I'm just not using Firefox all the f*cking time, and I'm just wondering if this is a problem for anyone else, or with this computer.

Your aspergers is showing. Lighten up Francis.

gayb: I appreciate the self-censoring.

It's an underused word. I like "ninny," too.

leftyblonde: hrmmmm.....

No_47: ok...
what email address?

Ninnies. Get a room.

/I like No_47 being "Christmassy," too.

Anyone know a way to widen the little slider bar for FireFox or possibly all throughout windows (vista)?

No_47: Right click on Desktop
Click "Personalize"
Click "Window Color and Appearance"
Click "Open classic appearance properties for more color options"
Click "Advanced" button
In the "Item" dropdown box, select "Scrollbar"
Change the "Size" value

Sweet! Thanks; kinda fat now but easier to use. Firefoxes is still the same though; is it different, or will it change when I restart FF?

NVM the bar's in FF now too :D much easier touse my pen on.

Mike
One or two new presents hidden in users.pl, see if you can find 'em.

Favorite links list and "highlight my name"?



..and a debug(?) message at the bottom of each thread:

Displayed 60 of 310 comments

Neat.

But does "orange 3" make me look fat?

Whoa. Hey now.

Mike:
The 'debug' message is meant to stay.

Looks funny with farky...

"Farky found 33 comments in this thread.

Displayed 33 of 315 comments"

Just noticed it today.

Mike
The 'debug' message is meant to stay.

Hm.
It's a little bit too close and too similar to the comments for my taste.

Brainstorming:

Maybe it would look better if it were separated by a thin line? Like when you are previewing a post and there's a line between the post's content and "If you're ready to post this as-is, yaddayadda"?

Or aligned to the right?

Or maybe somehow connected to the thread pages navigation? That would make sense semantically - like between "First|<<|1|2|3|>>|Last|Show all" and "Redisplay/refresh comments"?

The Voice of Doom: Mike
The 'debug' message is meant to stay.

Hm.
It's a little bit too close and too similar to the comments for my taste.

Brainstorming:

Maybe it would look better if it were separated by a thin line? Like when you are previewing a post and there's a line between the post's content and "If you're ready to post this as-is, yaddayadda"?

Or aligned to the right?

Or maybe somehow connected to the thread pages navigation? That would make sense semantically - like between "First|<<|1|2|3|>>|Last|Show all" and "Redisplay/refresh comments"?

It's blue now. I keep wanting to click on it.

Not to derail... but I have a kingwin esata/usb external drive case and a 7200 rpm sata drive inside... using an esata cable I patch it to an esata port on my case which is patched to my motherboard with a normal sata cable... 8gb of data is trying to move across and it's taking forever. I thought that sata drives were at minimum capable of humming along at 1.5gb/s... shouldn't this have taken at most 10 minutes? it's been 15 and the window tells me it will take another hour. I've never had transfers take this long... what could be holding this up?

@TehNacho
I had the odd Linux version mount external FAT32-drives (USB sticks) with some crappy mount parameters that it would have been quicker to write the data on the HD with my own hands - yes, literally.

So if your happen to use Linux..

The Voice of Doom: @TehNacho
I had the odd Linux version mount external FAT32-drives (USB sticks) with some crappy mount parameters that it would have been quicker to write the data on the HD with my own hands - yes, literally.

So if your happen to use Linux..

Oh, operating system is XP Pro. I lost track of how much longer it took, but it was a while. I did a transfer of about .97 gb in about 8 minutes right after wards though.

The Voice of Doom: @TehNacho
I had the odd Linux version mount external FAT32-drives (USB sticks) with some crappy mount parameters that it would have been quicker to write the data on the HD with my own hands - yes, literally.

So if your happen to use Linux..

Oh! Hey! Thanks! I have this problem! Haven't had the chance to look it up yet.

I'm most likely buying a new computer this week, so there's no point in fixing it until I get the machine and install my new distro.

I had been running Kubuntu 6.06 on my poor machine with a flawed motherboard (which doesn't like most RAM), and then installed 8.04 which my poor system couldn't hack (256MB RAM not so good). I installed the Xfce desktop (which I'm running right now, but things are a little flaky and probably slower than when I ran Kubuntu 6.06).

I'll probably want to go back to Kubuntu once I get my upgrade. Anyone running Intrepid Ibex? Is it pleasant to use? I had a bit of a hard time getting over 8.04's Vista-like look.

Yes, yes, I know I can install several desktops, but I like to keep my system minimal. I guess some of that would be moot if my system was running a lot faster, though...

Nother question-is there some way to autorun a key combination at startup of windows? Like a batchfile or something.. (vista)? Once my OS is passed the authetication I always like the fingerprint reader for scrolling, but I don't know of any way to enable it other than a keycombo (which I mapped to a pen flick) and I don't know how to get that to run at startup.

geekybroad
Oh! Hey! Thanks! I have this problem! Haven't had the chance to look it up yet.

Try mounting the external FAT drive without the "sync" option, i.e. with "mount -o async".
But you'll have to remember to umount the external device manually before removing it; sometimes a lot of the writing happens only delayed at the time of umounting - at least it did sometimes with my SuSEs.