Re: The 'Ask a Question' Thread

[Guest]

-_-;

Sex...right...

BJ...right...

...never had any of those
and that I'm still in an on-going 3 years steady relationship :p

[Ggultra2764]

I decided to test out Firefox. While I like what I'm going through so far, there's one thing I'm wondering about. Is there an option to change the location of where you want downloaded files to be saved? Internet Explorer gave you the option to determine the directory location of where you want to download a file. Seems whenever I choose to download a file that Firefox saves it automatically to a certain location on the computer without giving you any options to change where you want to download a file.

[Guest]

I decided to test out Firefox. While I like what I'm going through so
far, there's one thing I'm wondering about. Is there an option to
change the location of where you want downloaded files to be saved?
Internet Explorer gave you the option to determine the directory
location of where you want to download a file. Seems whenever I choose
to download a file that Firefox saves it automatically to a certain
location on the computer without giving you any options to change where
you want to download a file.

Yes there is my friend! Go to tools, options, and main. At the bottom there you could change where you want to save.

[Ggultra2764]

Thanks for the help.

Another thing: Should I still keep Internet Explorer as a backup option for a browser? Reason I ask is because I hear there are some features that IE has that Firefox is lacking.

[TTIO]

As a general rule, if you can do it in IE, you can do it in Opera, FF, or Chrome. Certainly in Opera and FF, you can actually make a website think that you're using IE, so there aren't any problems browser-rejection wise...

So I would say no, use Chrome or Opera as a backup.

[Kiskaloo]

Safari.

[Ggultra2764]

As a general rule, if you can do it in IE, you can do it in Opera, FF, or Chrome. Certainly in Opera and FF, you can actually make a website think that you're using IE, so there aren't any problems browser-rejection wise...

So I would say no, use Chrome or Opera as a backup.

Sad thing though is that Vista won't let me uninstall IE7.

[LoC978]

IE has unfortunately been an integrated part of the Windows OS since '98. no need to uninstall it, just delete/move the shortcuts to it and ignore the damned thing. It's not like even a few hundred megs is a notable amount of disk space anymore.

[Ggultra2764]

IE has unfortunately been an integrated part of the Windows OS since '98. no need to uninstall it, just delete/move the shortcuts to it and ignore the damned thing. It's not like even a few hundred megs is a notable amount of disk space anymore.

No kidding. My new laptop has 218 GB (over 8 times the hard drive space on my old one).

[Kiskaloo]

I just slapped a 500GB unit in my MacBook Pro. $99.

[Cherubino]

Hmm my question for all of you is...
How do you clip you dogs nails without them going nuts? Pharaohs claws must go... She scratched me when we were playing... No fun...

[LoC978]

depends on the dog... with mine, they always go nuts for a little while when you're trimming, but I just pin 'em until they stop struggling. also, use a small rotary grinder rather than clippers.

[boomer_gonz]

Diamond-plate file for me. Stopped using pet clippers when I trimmed one of Smokey's nails and it bled a little.

He was a trooper though, didn't yip or even flinch. He just turned his head as if to say, "Um...Ow, dude!"

[Cherubino]

We've tried files and the rotating thingy but... My dogs got violent when we tried filing them. And Pharaoh makes this high pitched squeek that kills your ears... *sigh* We would take her to petsmart but she bites people she doesn't know... And Doc my beagle? Well he'll bite anyone. They only listen to us but they never get their claws cut right. They struggle like fish and then we clip their vein and they freak out...

[LoC978]

I just use a Dremel with a grinding wheel on it...

[Cherubino]

I just use a Dremel with a grinding wheel on it...

Yes we used that to until my beagle bit my brothers face over it... *sigh*

[Kiskaloo]

I see some new-fangled one on the informercials nowadays, but I don't remember the specifics. Supposed to be far less damaging since it doesn't literally "cut to the quick".

[LoC978]

you guys need a professional dog wrestler (a title I made up for myself when I realized I was really good at immobilizing large aggressive dogs without hurting them or getting hurt)...

but yeah, grinding down to the dog's nail wick is a bad idea. lots of blood and freaking out involved. Did it once when I was a teenager.

[boomer_gonz]

Hence, what happened with me and Smokey as a kid.

My general rule is to nub the nails as opposed to actually filing them down.

[TTIO]

Anyone know how to get iTunes to import mkv or avi files? Granted, they are both jackets, but some of this is H264 in an mkv jacket, and it still won't accept it

[Kiskaloo]

Anyone know how to get iTunes to import mkv or avi files? Granted, they are both jackets, but some of this is H264 in an mkv jacket, and it still won't accept it

I don't think it can, to be honest.

I convert them from .mkv to .mp4 using Visual Hub. Since the videos are already in H.264 I just tell it to skip the video processing part (saves shedloads of time and leaves the original video intact) and convert the audio to .AAC and then iTunes will happily take them. Visual Hub is no longer made, but it's based on the FFMPEG core and being a Linux person you should be familiar and handy with a Command Line Interface.

If you just want to watch .mkv files in QuickTime, Perian will allow you to do so.

[TTIO]

Well that sucks

WMP won't support ogg, iTunes won't support AVI/MKV, and Live only supports iTunes and WMP...
Damn monopolies.

[Awinnell]

try CCCP or VLC,VLC does ogg and CCCP does virtually everything

[TTIO]

I currently use VLC, but it sorta sucks for music. It can play ogg, yes, indeed it can play every format I've tried on it so far (excluding MIDI ) but it really sucks for music...

Oh, and it keeps breaking on Windows anyway

I got a codec pack for WMP before, but it won't let me edit tags on the ogg files anyway. Unless this one is any better...

[boomer_gonz]

I'm a CCCP supporter myself.

[Tommygunner70]

I'm a CCCP supporter myself.

They Write: CCCP
A russian reads that as: SSSR
In English: USSR


I think you guys mean the Comunity Codex Pack. ('CCP' for short)
With one 'C' too many like that, you guys are actually referring to the Old Soviet Union.

[boomer_gonz]

Naw, the extra C at the beginning stands for Combined.

[TTIO]

The full title is the Combined Community Codec Pack. Actually, it's more a filter pack than a codec pack, but filter doesn't begin with C and we wanted a good acronym. The name is also a pun on the Russian name for USSR, Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, abbreviated as "СССР". Blame Lenin and the Commies. Blame movax.

They knew that already

[Kiskaloo]

I thought we were referring to old episodes of Second City Television (SCTV) and the "CCCP 1" community access channel skits.

"Three Cee Pee One is now on the air, serving the Melonville and Tri-City Areas!"

[Guest]

I have no idea what you're talking about Kiskaloo, probably before my time, lol.
Anyhow, after discovering MPC I pretty much just ditched all other media players. The CCCP build of it is absolutely AMAZING for anime, but it still has some limitations. The most annoying being that it does not support FLAC files. The K-lite build has a lot more diversity (I don't think there is any file type that it doesn't support) but it's not nice to all of the different encoding methods fansubbers use. For example, I remember when I tried playing The Subbers in the Rye's releases of Death Note, all I would hear in the OP was a really high pitched and garbled crap.

[Guest]

CCCP does virtually everything

Yep. It even has a feature to set up an Iron Curtain on your PC which--behind the Iron Curtain--would work twice efficiently with lesser requirement with the risk of a lesser life-span. Satisfaction guaranteed!

I'm a CCCP supporter myself.

CCCP?

Spoiler:

Blame Lenin and the Commies.

Nawh, you can't blame Lenin for that. You can only blame either the one who write up the Manifesto (Engels and Marx), or blame the paranoid, power-hungry dictator running after Lenin

[TTIO]

What's the Mac filesystem? I wanna know if Fedora can read it

[Kiskaloo]

What's the Mac filesystem? I wanna know if Fedora can read it

The primary OS X file system is HFS Plus.

[TTIO]

Anyone happen to know how to get rid of multiple files with the same name that are in the same folder? Windows messed up big time, even fsck can't fix this one

[Guest]

...uuh...delete the folder, I guess?

[Guest]

Anyone happen to know how to get rid of multiple files with the same name that are in the same folder? Windows messed up big time, even fsck can't fix this one

You can try bringing up a command prompt window (DOS window, that is) and see if the files have different DOS short names. If they do, you can delete them via short names.

[TTIO]

...uuh...delete the folder, I guess?

Thinks I'm trying to rename multiple files/can't delete them XD

You can try bringing up a command prompt window (DOS window, that is) and see if the files have different DOS short names. If they do, you can delete them via short names.

Damn. I should have tried that... I ended up moving everything minus the folder in question onto an external drive, and then reformatting the drive. Downside is that now my sdb5 is sdb6, and vice versa, so I need to do a bit of hacking to get Linux to boot again...

[Nachtsider]

Now, I don't know if I've asked this question before, but I'll put it out here for the hell of it nonetheless.

I'm seeking the title of a song I've heard many a time, but don't know the name for. This one does not date from any earlier than 2003. It's got a heavy drum beat (something like tribal drums), and female vocals. These vocals are very... for want of a better word, reedy. With a lilt to them. Think Samantha Mumba. Lyrics escape me, but a very prominent phrase in the chorus is "mambo, mambo".

Recognize it?

doesn't ring any bells, but after looking for female names on a google search for 'lyrics mambo', I turned up this: