Cool. Thanks Jon!
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
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esse - Oct 21, 2006 2:13:35 pm PDT #9295 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
DCJensen - Oct 21, 2006 6:42:40 pm PDT #9296 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Ha. cool. Thanks
I have the opus and bill "on the road again" edition for both Mac and PC in their original boxes. Several in fact.
I made disk images of the things available a couple of years ago. wonder where they are?
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2006 6:22:16 am PDT #9297 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Possibly someone might be interested in this:
Welcome to the official online archive of Computer Gaming World magazine, where you can read and download digitized versions* of the first 100 issues of the magazine, beginning with the first issue in November 1981, and then see covers of all the rest of the magazine's run through the final issue in November 2006.
Founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe, Computer Gaming World began life as a small, self-published, independent magazine for the then small community of computer game hobbyists (it was, in fact, the first magazine dedicated to the hobby), but grew over the years into one of the most important and powerful media voices in all of digital entertainment, thanks to its strong editorial voice and reputation for tough but fair reviews.
Liese S. - Oct 23, 2006 7:00:00 am PDT #9298 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
How cool!
Calli - Oct 23, 2006 3:15:39 pm PDT #9299 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Well, I finally have broadband. (Cable modem). I'm running OSX 10.4.5 on a mac, with 384 MB RAM, and I'm trying to watch videos on youtube. For some reason the video isn't going properly. I'll get the sound, but the video seems to be going at less than half speed. This happens in Camino and Safari. I ran a speed test on my cable connection, and Im suposedly getting 577.5 KB/sec. Does anyone know why Youtube hates me?
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2006 3:30:52 pm PDT #9300 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How fast is the CPU? My guess is it's the lack of RAM, slow CPU or both.
eta: My new MacBook occasionally has problems with video - it'll just freeze up sometimes. I have a system monitor thing that shows it's swapping virtual memory when that happens, which is a clear sign I need more RAM. Currently I have the 512 Meg it came with; soon I'll upgrade to 2 Gig.
Calli - Oct 23, 2006 3:33:21 pm PDT #9301 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The CPU is 500 MHz. I hope it's lack of RAM, because I suspect that's cheaper to replace than the CPU.
ETA: I'll try watching the videos with nothing else going on on my computer and see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestion.
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2006 3:39:13 pm PDT #9302 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If you don't mind installing a small program, I recommend you install iPulse: [link] It can show you CPU usage and memory swapping while the video is playing (of course it'll take up a small amount of CPU and memory itself). Anyway, this should tell you if your CPU is fast enough. And like I mentioned in my edit above, memory swapping while playing a video means you need more RAM.
iPulse also shows network activity, battery and WiFi strength, and other cool stuff, all in a very compact display.
Calli - Oct 23, 2006 3:49:16 pm PDT #9303 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
That sounds nifty, tommyrot. At the moment I'm surfing and *ahem* doing perfectly legal but possibly memory-intensive things involving Torchwood, so I'm thinking it'll be easy to see if I'm just trying to do too much at once in about 12 minutes. But it might be fun to install iPulse just to see what it tells me.
Jessica - Oct 23, 2006 5:12:42 pm PDT #9304 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Do you have the most recent version of Flash installed? (YouTube uses Flash video, so I wonder if that might be an issue.)