The totally off-topic thread

[QF WP]

I haven't seen it yet either, but I haven't highlighted your post to see what you say anat0l

Grateful to a member who saved it from his laptop to my USB on our flight back from MEL on Friday - then when I go to play it, I am missing some codex that won't allow it to play...:evil:

Have I told anyone I hate computers lately...where the hell do I download the codex from

 

[Flashback]

I haven't seen it yet either, but I haven't highlighted your post to see what you say anat0l

grateful to a member who saved it from his laptop to my USB on our flight back from MEL on Friday - then when I go to play it, I am missing some codex that won't allow it to play...:evil:

Have I told anyone I hate computers lately...where the hell do I download the codex from

Not that I condone piracy ... but try ffdshow tryouts | Download

 

[anat0l]

Have I told anyone I hate computers lately...where the hell do I download the codex from

If you use VLC media player (free media player), that should be able to play almost anything under the sun.

 

[thewinchester]

VLC is good for playback.

If you ever need codec's or are sick of installing different ones, then here are the only codec packs you'll ever need:
Windows - Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP)
Mac (Yes, you need codecs too sometimes) - Perian

 

[NM]

Serfty I thought you would have been one of the first people to see it, you will like it; and you will like it enough to point out the errors.

Wonder how long it will be before its included on the airline's IFE?

 

[oz_mark]

I don't think what I posted was much more than what you see in a trailer.

I think I had gleaned as much as you said from the trailers. Well, obviously excluding your opinion piece at the end!

 

[anat0l]

I think I had gleaned as much as you said from the trailers. Well, obviously excluding your opinion piece at the end!

I think the basis of that opinion is on something most people knew about the movie anyway.

 

[oz_mark]

I think the basis of that opinion is on something most people knew about the movie anyway.

Not saying I disagree with you, just that I would not have got your opinion from the trailers Certainly, most of the information you were commenting on could have been worked out from the trailers anyway.

 

[anat0l]

Not saying I disagree with you, just that I would not have got your opinion from the trailers Certainly, most of the information you were commenting on could have been worked out from the trailers anyway.

Not saying that you were disagreeing; of course you can't get my opinion from the trailers and that's not "new knowledge" and nothing to be spoilt.


Passing note: ¡Ay Caramba! 2,200 posts already - I thought it was only yesterday that I hit 2,000....

 

[anat0l]

Oy gevalt...!

Disadvantage of surfing too fast for a processor and with about 50 - 100 tabs open: Firefox just crashed on me.

Didn't lose anything important, but still annoying.

 

[Flashback]

Oy gevalt...!

Disadvantage of surfing too fast for a processor and with about 50 - 100 tabs open: Firefox just crashed on me.

Didn't lose anything important, but still annoying.

I find that after the crash it'll still offer to re-open your tabs.....

 

[anat0l]

I find that after the crash it'll still offer to re-open your tabs.....

Yeah....but I'm not keen on letting it try to reopen ~75 tabs across two windows.

Plus, session-based or login tabs, like GMail, need to be properly reinitialised anyway.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Oy gevalt...!

Disadvantage of surfing too fast for a processor and with about 50 - 100 tabs open: Firefox just crashed on me.

Didn't lose anything important, but still annoying.

That sounds like a Kiwi Flyer in the making with lots of web pages open.

I usually only ever have 2 or 3 open at once.

 

[notzac]

Disadvantage of surfing too fast for a processor and with about 50 - 100 tabs open: Firefox just crashed on me.

A bit ridiculous much? 100 tabs!? :shock:

 

[samh004]

That sounds like a Kiwi Flyer in the making with lots of web pages open.

I usually only ever have 2 or 3 open at once.

I usually have 10-20, but can get upwards of 100 on 4chan

 

[Bundy Bear]

I usually have 10-20, but can get upwards of 100 on 4chan

People; you only have 1 brain; concentrate on one thing at a time; well for most of us that could be 2 things.

 

[Mal]

Disadvantage of surfing too fast for a processor and with about 50 - 100 tabs open: Firefox just crashed on me.

Didn't you enable the pop-up blocker in your browser for when you visit *those* types of sites?

 

[anat0l]

Didn't you enable the pop-up blocker in your browser for when you visit *those* types of sites?

No; this was at work! ITS will be all over my backside if I even try...

To give you a bit of insight, I usually open up a new tab every time I view a subscribed thread that I have in AFF and FT. So there's instantly about 10-30 tabs. I should get into the habit of closing some as they are not too interesting, but I forget.

Linked articles from threads get a new tab so I can switch between reading the article and the thread. If I have to Google for something or do a bit of browsing related to a thread I'm replying to, then that gets its own tab.

Then I still have tabs for my research work and what not; sometimes I'll search for these in a separate window, to keep them apart from my "non-work" tabs.

So there you have it - me having 30-60 or more tabs isn't unusual.

 

[JohnK]

I haven't seen it yet either, but I haven't highlighted your post to see what you say anat0l

I don't think what anat0l has posted will spoil the movie in any way.

Have I told anyone I hate computers lately...where the hell do I download the codex from

Which codec do you need? I have had to install a few codecs recently for Windows media player.

I usually have 10-20, but can get upwards of 100 on 4chan

2-3 tabs at once is more than enough otherwise it becomes too difficult and time consuming to manage the open tabs....

 

[MissBurrill]

No; this was at work! ITS will be all over my backside if I even try...

To give you a bit of insight, I usually open up a new tab every time I view a subscribed thread that I have in AFF and FT. So there's instantly about 10-30 tabs. I should get into the habit of closing some as they are not too interesting, but I forget.

Linked articles from threads get a new tab so I can switch between reading the article and the thread. If I have to Google for something or do a bit of browsing related to a thread I'm replying to, then that gets its own tab.

Then I still have tabs for my research work and what not; sometimes I'll search for these in a separate window, to keep them apart from my "non-work" tabs.

So there you have it - me having 30-60 or more tabs isn't unusual.

Obviously you have better internet than I have in downtown Burrill Lake where I am lucky if one window opens. Gotta love living on the wrong side of a hill in a small town!