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Grrrrr.....
Okay, ND and I updated the software on this geriatric G3 as much as possible before I took possession of it, and I think it broke the damned thing. My browser keeps regularly crashing for no reason, even when it's not being all that overloaded.
And now the new extreme annoyance -- it has taken up randomly deciding that any mouse click anywhere on screen is to be interpreted as a back button command.
That's unfortunate. It might be the keyboard Sean. Swap to the other keyboard. I think an option click is a back command in many browsers. If the keyboard is flaky it could be causing problems.
Sean, are you still using Firefox?
Remember the part where I said it was unstable? Seriously, you may want to just use Safari or Opera on that machine. My machine, which is fairly modern compared to yours, still has to deal with regular Firefox barfing.
That machine is kinda like trying to websurf with the mental capacity of gramps from The Simpsons.
I have a Vaio right now, and let me say -- their TV tuner and recording software sucks. The integration of it with other apps is pretty good, but the equivalent to the intelligence of a season pass didn't exist when I bought the box a year and a half ago.
interesting. thanks for the information. I had no idea such animals existed.
Mine's not dedicated like the one in the article, but I did get it because of the integrated tuner and recording software. I ended up using it much less than I'd expected as a "media centre." It's just a computer, except when Lost is up against VM and I don't feel like torrenting.
However ... I wonder if TiVo can read what the Vaio records ... that'd change things...
Anyone know how I can convert a video on a DVD-R into a streamable file (e.g. WMV)? I have a set of 30-second PSAs they want posted on the school's website, but they only gave me a DVD.
Sean, are you still using Firefox?
Nope, I switched to Opera. Opera lets me do TabEnterPost, Firefox still does not. Safari may, I haven't checked yet. If it does, I'll try that for a while and see if that runs better on the machine.
And will do on switching the keyboards, ND.
That machine is kinda like trying to websurf with the mental capacity of gramps from The Simpsons.
Heh. Yes it is. I'd renamed the two drives Romulus and Remus, but I think I may have to rename them Abe and Homer Jay.
Gotta run. Got rehearsal for Mother Courage @ Boston Court tonight, and that runs from this weekend through the end of November, so I won't be able to do much on weekends for Grand Tour, ND. I can do Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, but that's it for evenings. I can still tech during the day on thursday and friday if it helps.