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    F.R. David became famous with songs "Words Don't Come Easy" and "Pick Up the Phone". The second album "Long Distance Flight" is less known, but has a few bangers. It can be found ingested on digital platforms in CD quality with mixed up track sequencing. Few things are worth hearing on WEB platforms.
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    Before choosing a big video card, consider the power consumption, if your PSU is big enough, if the card will fit in the case next to hard drives, and if the fans will make too much noise. Maxwell 2 added decoding of h.265 video, which has become common, and very CPU hungry. If these cards really cost 50 euros in your part of the world now, it's amazing how much value they've lost within a few years, and how bad an investment they've proven to be. We live in a disposable world.
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    Do you think the virus could equally run in any program capable of dispaying WebP, or does it have to be crafted to attack a specific web browser? I'll admit, I don't understand the technical details. But once the program overflows in attempt to run the virus, the image viewer is likely to become corrupted. They only need to runt he virus once to do it job. I've not yet encountered new viruses. I only recently updated New Moon, and still use Opera 12 and Opium 93.0.
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    Can you demonstrate that on a screenshot with two players of the same size side by side? On my PC I can take a screenshot of the video if it is not output via overlay mixer. Maybe you have selected a fancy renderer with its own color settings, enabled a "shader" or chosen TV Levels 16-240 in the output.
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    Can't do it for all file type at once? Then it is easier in the registry in GUI by renaming open to something else. To make Ctrl-F search jump to the found result on Discourse, I still need to use _escaped_fragment_ For example, here I need to search for "TLS".
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    When I download a file in New Moon, I get the prompt with a Open With and Save File choice. As long as an "open" verb is registered for the file type, the dialog defaults to Open With. I just click through it and nearly had a heart attack when an MSU update started installing. Can this be set to default to Save? I never want to open files from the temporary directory.
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    Yes, you are right. I had disabled it in the Firefox browsers during the initial tweaking to remove all possible animations, and had forgotten about it. The setting is: general.autoScroll
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    I can't do the middle-click in New Moon. It might be specific to the application or mouse drivers. It works in Opera 12 and some other programs like Microsoft Word, but not in simple text fields. But I find it hard to control and unnecessarily smooth (higher cpu load). I can press Page Up and Page Down. The banner is small and it doesn't follow if you scroll down. It is smaller than cookie-law banners.
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    Yes, scrolling with arrow keys works. I didn't notice it.
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    No, it didn't do that for me. I only checked that CPU usage was low and there were no glitches. It's not my player, but I kept hearing it was other people's choice. There is the TV Levels setting in the driver, but it applies to all video output at YV12, not just hardware decoded.
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    A DNS list in my router. It can filter out completely bad servers, but doesn't have the granularity to do individual URLs. Over time, the list of bad ad servers grows to immense length. I forgot which adblock I tried in Firefox, and adding an URL was a bit of hassle through the javascript/xul interface (it required special regex-like syntax for the simplest url), and I had to rely on downloading a pre-made list.
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    I added the user-agent. But the forums still don't work with only this change. I restarted the brower and found a fresh Discourse forum. At the moment I don't use a complex adblock to avoid slowing down the browser.
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    Since these players have self-contained codecs, it's easy to have more than one installed, and try them with different formats and situations. BE still has accurate and instant seeking in DTS Coherent Acoustics elementary streams (music disks, external sountracks), whereas LAVFilters inherited the current ffmpeg behavior of estimating the duration inacurately from the transmission bitrate. Today I tried PotPlayer for the first time. I didn't know it was made in Asia. Finding CUVID in the preferences was not easy. The GUI looks clean, and better than HC's modern. There is something good to say about every program.
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    Many websites seem to be switching to Discourse for the forum. Unusually, both commercial and free sites are converging on this flat (modern, clean, secure, streamlined) platform, where the page can't be scrolled in either New Moon or Serpent. A user-agent hack doesn't seem like a good solution if I need to add it for each website I have entered from search. The solution is to append ?_escaped_fragment_ (or &_escaped_fragment_) to the URL, and again after following a link, which feels like a Touch Typing Simulator.
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    The same players that worked in previous versions of Windows probably still work on Win11. Media Player Classic is a good one. Ultimately all video players have the same ffmpeg guts these days and only differ in the graphical interface. VLC has a Linux/Qt feel to it, and is unresponsive on Windows. MPC-BE simply is an earlier fork of the project, and is similar to Homecinema pre-v1.6. BE still makes separate DirectShow filters, where portions of the player can be added to the system without installing the whole ffmpeg/libav monstrosity. I wouldn't use a universal video player for playing music. They tend to not be gapless, and lack precise tweakable DSP. Use Foobar2000.
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    It has a Haali Video Renderer. I think it comes with Haali Media Splitter. It is the only output that works for me under Windows 2008 R2. Unlike Mad, it doesn't have demanding features, and is just a basic output. Haali splitter is good because it allows you to select languages in VOB and AVI in the basic player, and seek in most VOBs accurately. Isn't it simpler to select films in normal formats like h.264 and use a compatible media player? On WinXP you can't decode CPU-intensive codecs. Even h.264 with CABAC pushes it on Conroe-class processors.
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    Do you have a monitor that has a higher dynamic range than sRGB? Maybe you need to re-install its color profile. There is also a video range setting in the control panel under Adjust video color settings that defaults to Limited, but it only affects YCbCr video playback. Do you see banding on gradients? 6-bit is usually appears perfectly smooth, and the dithering is only revealed in motion.
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    Maybe the reason why it can't grab the subtitles is that you don't have the latest SSL encryptions and certificates on your system. I can find some results from Podnapisi, nothing so far from OpenSubtitles, and SubDB is dead and has been removed from recent MPC.
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    I would attach a second older router behind the current one for use only with the laptop instead of looking for complete replacement.
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    If Serpent is version 52, and vanilla Firefox is also 52, why would the latter work better? Does it really work faster on Facebook?
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    This editor opens fast, and can be a good choice as a Notepad replacement. It's lacking in GUI menu items for most options. They are all in text files. Can it only do syntax highlight, and not formatting?
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    It seems that MD files are getting increasingly popular for Readme text documents. The supported formatting elements are extremely basic: two levels of heading, bold, italic, bulleted list, numbered lisit, horizontal line, hyperlink, image and quote. A program analogous to WordPad could show them. Yet the programs I've seen are tied to the web, and are a couple dozen megs or larger, and may include programming features. Among the recommendations I saw Visual Studio Code (are you serious?) and Markdown Pad, which is 36 MB compressed, despite being described as small, MDView claims to do nothing else but display the text but is 73 MB and doesn't come in x86 architecture. Am I getting old and these sizes are now right for a text editor? Is there a small MD text editor based on RichText or an old HTML engine similar to Opera or Pegasus mail?
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    TRIM for XP

    j7n replied to Dietmar's topic in Windows XP

    A defrag program working in the background doesn't make much sense. You only run it when a disk requires maintenance. What I'd expect it to do is the following: block the system from writing to the disk, collect all free space by interpreting the file system, tell the disk that it is free, unblock the system. Alternatively it could work by not blocking the system but by creating a big file that fills all the free space (whatever is considered free by the OS), and collect a list of clusters belonging to this file. If it can succssfully defrag, it should be able to work with the file system on a low level anyway. Keeping track of all deleted files is too complex and could cause errors if it erased space that where a new file had already been created.
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    A minor thing they should improve. When downloading a HTTP Live Stream from internet radio, the file is given an MP4 extension, when it is in Transport Stream format.
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    Even cheap units of the past were never quite this empty. I remember people were alarmed about ATX12VO when it was announced. Seems like ATX 3.0 is this at its core. The metal case of the HP2 is thin and bends easily. For some reason they included 2x CPU and 2x GPU plugs on the same wires. I replaced a FSP400-GHN. It was supposed to be for a retro PC, with quite a few molex connectors. But something shorted inside it. The big capacitor dead and, oddly, has a direct connection to the heatsinks of the power factor correction and primary. Somehow the PC wasn't damaged. Fortron seem to have remove most of their serious models and gone with a retail/gamer marketing. It used to be a serious manufacturer, OEM for marked up gamer brands. I don't really want to spend more than €50 for this, as I only need about 250 watts.
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