Did you know that although Mario is more detailed in Super Mario 64 DS, he actually has significantly less amount of polygons than Mario in Super Mario 64?
Seeing as they went and tried to convert everything GPL to LGPL (perhaps for Windows RT?) and rewrote the code to be much more friendly to mobile platforms (Unix-styled code won't work well in mobile environments and Windows NT), maybe FluidSynth couldn't be kept?
Windows 8.1 actually brings a lot of things to Windows Runtime that make apps like VLC possible (and right now, release imminent), like I/O access (example: DVD playback).
Seen in Wizardry 7 Gold (a Windows 3.x/95 Win32s game) readme:
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Screensavers were originally designed for older computer monitors to avoid "burn in", damage caused to the screen by leaving your monitor on. Even though modern monitors no longer need screensavers, they are still an interesting distraction!
Makes you wonder how old are these monitors that burn in. (Turning off the monitor is the best "screen saver", anyway.)
It's quite telling that if I want a thin ultraportable that still keeps an optical drive, I'm basically stuck with Toshiba Portege (HOW did they cram in a functional tray-loader?!)... and I still don't think they'll keep churning out the optical-drive models for too long.
*wonders whether Cat333Pokémon has ever tried CHKDSKing his own burned discs*
CHKDSK is perfectly capable of checking a UDF-formatted optical disc.
Code:
C:\windows\system32>chkdsk d:
The type of the file system is UDF.
Volume SupportDisc is UDF version 2.01.
CHKDSK is verifying ICBs ...
ICB verification completed.
CHKDSK is looking for orphan ICBs ...
Search for orphans completed.
CHKDSK is verifying ICB links ...
ICB link verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying link counts and parent entries ...
Link count and parent entry verification completed.
CHKDSK is checking system files.
CHKDSK is checking the directory tree for cycles.
CHKDSK is identifying lost files.
Lost file identification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying object size for ICBs with alternate data streams ...
ICB object size verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
4584512 KB total disk space.
4357328 KB in 802 files.
440 KB in 200 directories.
2 KB in 1 alternate data streams.
2 KB in 1 stream directories.
282 KB in use by the system.
226458 KB available on disk.
2048 bytes in each allocation unit.
2292256 total allocation units on disk.
113229 allocation units available on disk.
It looks oddly supportive of things I never thought Microsoft would support (VMs on Linux), the RAR archive format, and what appears to be working VMs. (They're too large for me to test right now.)
Say, if Nokia were to come out with a 525 that combines a no-contract $100-ish handset and threw in Bluetooth ear buds, would you still want it? Or will you want to stay with your phone? Or will that be the one that tips you over the proverbial edge?
Funny enough, I sometimes want to go back. Other times, though, I want to go big.
Speaking of KeePass, it's kind of telling when a given amount of master key transformations that would be done in a second on an Ivy Bridge Core i5 laptop takes well over the lockscreen timeout on a phone.
I'm stuck with the default value of 6,000 because my phone is, to put it mildly, too slow. KeePass has a function to determine how many transformations would take for a second to pass - apparently, something that a Core i5 doesn't break a sweat is something that mobile phone processors cry about.
Makes me wonder why C# is significantly more secure... and consistent.
Server software adds a lot of seconds to your boot times.
They tend to register as services, though. If you do not need immediate use of them (like me and Oracle Database Express Edition, as I only need to use them for assignments), and don't want to manually activate them yourself, use Delayed Start from Services. (Type Services in the Start Menu/Screen in any Windows computer running Vista or newer.))
Something on some other guy's laptop managed to +H and +S everything in the root directory of the flash drive I was using while hauling long file copies.
Have you wondered how many North American and Latin American 3DS owners imported the Southeast Asian Ocarina of Time 3D for the boxart and compatibility?
Hey, Cat. Have you noticed any kind of improvement in audio quality with regard to stereo streamed audio in virtual surround mode on the 3DS? I don't know what happened, but it doesn't sound atrocious now in Gates to Infinity.
Yes, they learned from Microsoft that they can't keep supporting all the intermittent versions (like service packs or the latest patches for Windows) without going crazy.
It's a bit funny when your laptop's own chipset does not support memory faster than DDR3-1600. At least it makes me not think about upgrades in term of speed.
I miss when everyone had a feature phone. Apart from the obvious part about people not being distracted every five minutes, they were a lot more unique than a black/white rectangle with a big screen.
You know, a part of me hopes that the Nokia 515 makes it to the US market. Why? For you. So you have a versatile feature phone. You won't be using it for things that a smartphone can do, but it's still a Swiss Army Knife for mobile things.
Perhaps this is a good time for me to start evaluating my options for upgrading my phone... Or going back to a feature phone, but I need tethering, so there's that.
Tell him I said hi - and tell him whether he can either accept the friendship request or open up VMs. It feels a bit awkward, but if it's like that for privacy reasons, I understand.
Hehe. I guess I never told you about some kid that used my email address as his/her "parent's" email for a children's site. That was even easier to nuke as the cancellation link is right in the verification email.
Phht, one? I get about two or three of those a week with one of my other e-mail accounts from folks thinking it was picked up by a name squatter. It's turned into an entertaining game of shutting down accounts and trolling the people who own the accounts. That'll teach 'em to use someone else's e-mail.