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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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    It's been in use for about 1 week. I first noticed it buzzing on the second or third day. It is working, I can't say that it has failed. And I also don't have a warranty card for it.
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    I recently replaced my power supply unit. The model is Fortron "Hydro K Pro" HP2-500. Every once in a while it emits sharp AC buzzing. I can hear it when listening to music quietly or watching a film. The buzzing occurs at regular intervals: sometimes 10 seconds buzz, 10 seconds silent, and in other times 4 seconds buzz, 10 seconds silent. To check if was receiving a square wave on the power line, I turned on a second PC, which was silent as expected. It seems to be keeping this time internally and not responding to changing load. It can go for hours without buzzing. When on standby, the PSU buzzes quietly if I put my ear right next to it. What is up with that? Is this what PSUs now do? The power supply boasts a DC-to-DC converter and promises the full power on 12V, and has a fancy black circuit board with very few big caps. I am not capable of doing in-depth diagnostics. The sound is disturbing as if the device is about to fail.
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    I missed the meaning of upstream and was looking at New Moon and Serpent.
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    How long to wait?
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    How does a browser cause a BSOD?
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    Your JPEG screenshot is noticeably degraded, which you can see if you look around the red icons on the GUI. This distorts the comparison. This program is mainly useful to decode downloaded images that can't be decoded on WinXP at all. With fast networks and large disks, one can easily use high quality JPEG. Extreme compression is not necessary today. All these advanced formats load very slowly. JPEG-XL is somewhat better because it includes options for producing a lower complexity file that is easier to decode, but you're no in control over them if you download images from the internet.
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    Vista, pity the "poor" Sv2003 users who can't post in the XP forum. On topic, it seems that recent New Moon 28 that I updated works better on Facebook. I can post comments to post without waiting for so long, or having the text cursor return to position 0.
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    This program is more valuable now that YouTube has begun a fight against ad-blockers in the web browser. Advertisements, on top of the overhead of the browser, lead to very poor experience. A method of disabling YTDL is likely in the works too because we can buypass the whole site by loading a video through search results.
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    I'm beginning to understand why Mozilla considered the version number to be a "bug" at one point. They have successfully subverted it. After updating to Serpent 52 in place and copying over the existing profile, ClickPlayPics now work with "low" CPU usage. It is very simple, and I can't observe a difference between angle on and off. Aquarium has the same performance as in Serpent 55.
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    It's the "55" version. I don't know what the differences between them are exactly, and assumed that is sligthly newer and better. The WebGL that work don't have any sound.
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