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DXMachina - Dec 18, 2006 3:36:35 pm PST #9830 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

There's an about:config tweak for the "Unresponsive script" thing. [link]

Basically the default value for how long Firefox will wait around for a script to finish just times out too quickly. I run into it a lot during threadsucks.

Here are some other good tweaks: [link]


le nubian - Dec 18, 2006 5:41:49 pm PST #9831 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

thanks! I read that site all the time and didn't think to search the site for this.


DCJensen - Dec 18, 2006 6:36:58 pm PST #9832 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

To be proper, the Google search sheet referred to above should be printed 2-up on a mimeograph machine.

t sniffs Mmmm-ahhh.


DXMachina - Dec 19, 2006 4:16:58 am PST #9833 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Ooh! Found at Lifehacker, Free Direct Audio Converter and CD Ripper software at Giveaway of the Day (today only). [link]


Steph L. - Dec 19, 2006 4:57:38 am PST #9834 of 10003
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

I'm a little embarassed to ask, but....how is that software different from iTunes?

Don't mock me.


tommyrot - Dec 19, 2006 5:09:24 am PST #9835 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.

This one can do all sorts of conversions between all the popular formats, can split and join mp3s and wavs, and can also convert MIDI directly to mp3 (if one should ever want to do that). Also, it's not really intended to be a player AFAIKT.

So there's just some overlap between this and iTunes.


Polter-Cow - Dec 19, 2006 7:52:09 am PST #9836 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Can iTunes convert between different formats? Even WMA? I haven't really played with it so much.

Thanks for that link, DX! Sounds like a great program. I've been using a shareware IMTOO program for my WMA -> MP3 conversions.


DCJensen - Dec 19, 2006 8:41:50 am PST #9837 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Testing something:

(\__/) This is Bunny.
(='.'=) Copy, and paste bunny onto your LJ.
(")_(") Help Bunny gain World Domination

It's making the rounds of my LJ friends...

ah, buffistas.org also deletes one of the slashes that makes the ears.

There we go.


tommyrot - Dec 19, 2006 8:56:04 am PST #9838 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.

So Bunny is made with a proportional font?


DCJensen - Dec 19, 2006 9:29:59 am PST #9839 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

It doesn't have any special font coding in it, other than "hotpink" for color.

Maybe those characters are in some way fairly stable between fonts?

Hmmm.