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I HATE mkv files - 1) they usually are of poorer video/sound quality than avi and 2) they are ALWAYS bigger. Goodness.
Odd. Neither MKV or AVI are actually video formats per se, they're just container formats that connect the video to the audio and provide for things like seeking and subtitles and stuff. Apple's MOV is a container format as well. You can make MKV and AVI files using the exact same XviD or H.264 or whatever video streams, and they should look/sound exactly the same. I played around with them a lot in college. MKV files are awesome for anime because multiple audio and subtitle tracks can be included directly in the file, without any hacks or anything.
Anyway. I wonder why the ones on the webs tend to be lower quality than equivalent AVIs. Strange.
Gris,
maybe I'm getting the wrong mkv, but I avoid them like the plague if I have a choice.
Bonny, I would try two things. It looks like the div that surrounds your subscription box isn't defined. I would define its width and I would tell it to float right instead of align right.
Insent in a minute.
So, um, my office Mac won't turn on.
More specifically, the monitor won't turn on. I can't tell if the actual computer is working or not, because, well, no monitor!
I've toggled all the cables and turned the whole thing off and on again several times in several different ways. (Holding the power button down, turning the power strip off, unplugging it...) I've even pressed that utterly useless on/off button on the side of the monitor a few times. Nada.
Any ideas? I'm about to swap out this monitor with the one from the other Mac to see if it's the monitor or maybe the monitor's power brick.
This would be an extremely shitty time for this machine to break.
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Bonny, when I used contribute at work, I could only change text. If I tried to change anything about the look of the page, the webmaster had to go in and make the changes with dream weaver.
Not the power brick. Fuckity. And I just realized it's probably not the monitor, because the studio monitor's not showing anything either.
FUCK.IT.Y.
(Sorry, this isn't so much a question any more as it is a vent. But advice would still be welcome.)
Does it play a chime when you turn the Mac on?
Is it on a network? Can you see it on the network?
CompUSA is closing its doors. [link]
Swapped the monitors, still nothing.
There's no chime. (Bad sign, I know.)
The Macs aren't networked. (They're connected to the internet, but outside the company firewall.)
(And neither has Airport, so I can't even try to detect it with my iPod.)
