ZortMcGort11

don't you have a favorite file format?

Man of Steel was just all CGI special effects and poor acting, no plot, and no believable chemistry among the actors.

(PICTURE FORMAT) I never use PNG, it's a horrible format! It does compress 256 color images considerably more than GIF does, so I can see it being used for small webpage graphics or logos in place of GIF, but not much else. On the other hand, you can create animations with GIF files... so, it's a toss up. Personally, I'll take GIF. The reason PNG was created in the first place was because GIF had a lzw compression patent that needed liscensing if you were to compress GIF files (which 99.9% are compressed). PNG was supposed to be a free replacement. But that lzw patent has expired (as of 2003) and GIFs can be used freely now for commercial purposes. Furthermore, I hate websites that use PNG files for regular photographs, normally what jpegs are for, because all they do is waste bandwidth or take longer to load on dial-up. You can take a PNG photograph and compress it into a high quailty JPeg using a quality parameter of around 90-95%, you'll have the same exact picture, but the JPG will be less than half the file size of the PNG. And from an artistic/commercial stand point, I don't think PNGs are used that much either for professional photo editing - correct me if I'm wrong. Most professional programs have their own proprietary format. For me, I use Jpegs 95% of the time. I'll save some of my artwork that's in progress as plain windows bitmaps (.bmp file), whch I might compress into PNG later. Usually though, Jpeg suffices for most finished products. PNG might make a good intermediate format, until you're finished working on a picture that can be ultimately saved as JPG. (TEXT FORMATS) Rich text all the way. As a windows ME user, rich text is the only choice I have besides Word '97 or 2000. Now that I've gotten used to it, if I had a newer computer I'd still choose a freeware RTF word processor over anything from Microsoft or Google docs. My second choice would be the AbiWord document format (.abw), or else the open office format.

Its a waste of my cache space/time on dial up to load advertisements. With javascript disabled a lot of ads are gone anyway, but these two addresses are VERY prolific. Here's the other one I just blocked using your syntax, "http://adserver.adtechus.com/*" Between those two, I just annhiliated 95% of the ads. Oh and, the asterisk makes all the difference, that's why I couldn't get it to work before. Of course, when I clicked on the help button and went to Opera's webpage, no mention is made of manually typing in these things. *facepalm* Again, thanks.

Thanks very much, Jumper!! The top one with the single asterisk works. No more ads!

I have another question you might know the answer to, hopefully. Is there a way to block image URL's by entering them manually to the "blocked content" dialog box? For example, I want to be able to block ads from ad.doubleclick.net, but if I type that address into the blocked content box nothing happens. Is there a trick to blocking images in Opera? There is no right click context menu like in Seamonkey or Firefox.

Thanks, I fixed it using option two.

I selected the option "show menu bar" and the next thing you know, bye bye red menu/start button that used to be at the top left. I prefer that start button, I just can't figure out how in the heck to get it back to the way it was. Anybody an Opera expert?

Hehe :-) That's why I can't write long thoughts anymore. I just end up looking crazy if I change subjects too many times without starting a new pargraph. But I'll continue to have my javascript disabled :-)

One more thing, Gumbo is great. whatever vegetables they put in Gumbo I'll eat. Gumbo is the bomb. Jambalaya is good too.

It's kind of like how they label Fresh Pacific Salmon as a fresh fish... when in fact, it was farmed. They can get away with calling it "fresh." I guess it's "freshly farmed" pacific salmon. You know what really chaps my gluteus maximus? The fruit at the store! Nearly 95% of that stuff is dead. Oranges are always juiceless bitter yucky tasting. Kiwis are always too ripe or not even close to being ripe. Apples (except Braeburn variety) are always soft and tasteless. The strawberries are okay, but they're a shadow of the fresh local berries. The peaches are usually pretty good, if you know how to tell if they're ripe. Peaches, bananas, and strawberries are the only fruits I'll buy from the store. Cantaloupe occasionally. But apples and oranges are universally terrible. I eat canned vegetables like green beans and corn. Raw carrots are good, tomato sauce is good. Other than that I don't like vegetables.

I could solve this "cryptolocker" BS in as long as it takes for me to insert my DOS boot disk in the A: drive and type "Format C:". I have the original installation files of all my programs backed up on CD's and thumb drives. All my photography is backed up and archived on more than one CD and thumb drive as well. Thus, everything I care about on my computer is backed up. This is why I don't like the bloated monstrosities that are newer operating systems. I will never use Windows XP or newer operating systems. They are nothing but bloatware ridden spyware, intended to snoop on the user. I "own" my computer, Windows and Microsoft do not. I'm not renting my computer from Microsoft. Why should I need their permission to re-install their bloatware crap on my MY computer? Not only are these poor people victims of ransomware, they're also victims of Microsoft. The computer they purchased is being rented to them by these snooping nitwits. XP and newer are solely designed to take your computer from you. Microsoft XP is like a toaster that has to be registered every time you toast a piece of bread.

QPV/386 1.7e, the famous grafx viewer, incredibly fast!. A fast JPEG viewer for MS-DOS. VGA graphics and 80386+ required. Currently supports JPG, TGA, GIF, PCX, BMP, IFF/ILBM, PNM/PBM, PCD, PNG. by Oliver Fromme http://www.filewatcher.com/m/qpv17e.zip.527244-0.html *Edit* I originally uploaded a program to ZippyShare for hosting... but the files have expired from their website. Here's an intersting DOS program called FileView Pro 1.0 http://www.qbasicnews.com/dav/projects.php The interface/GUI is quite good :-) I'm impressed actually. At the least, a very nice text viewer and shell for DOS, with cool additional features like playing .FLI animations. P.S. Don't bother downloading his Hex editor, it didn't even run at all. He also wrote a webserver called SmallWeb, for Windows 9x, which is only 13kb in size. The Garbo PC collection went offline in 2012, here's a mirror that still has old downloads. http://www-ftp.lip6.fr/pub/pc/garbo/pc/ Nomsi viewer for DOS. Nice image viewer, certainly one of the better DOS ones. http://www.download-central.ws/DOS/Apps/The/NOMSSI-Viewer/ A working mirror of the old Simtel collection of files... http://www.scovetta.com/archives/simtelnet/msdos Nice tools LostInSpace2012. Keep it up! A little known file manager is "Directory Control" for DOS. This is similar to the more popular "directory freedom" but more versatile. http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/dc.html Quickview Pro has been updated... now reads MP4 files for playback in DOS. www.multimediaware.com Here are my two biggest DOS programs I wrote. They're both guitar related. Final versions, fixed a bunch of bugs and stuff. They work in 32-bit versions of Windows as well DOS. If you run these from just plain old DOS 6.22 without windows, you'll need to put "cwsdpmi.exe" in same directory as programs. Micro Guitar Tab 1.5 and Guitar Chord Search 2.7 Download from my website, along with the rest of my utterly ridiculous programs :-) http://www.geocities.ws/gcd/index.htm

The first is the best, followed by number 3 in my opinion. #2 was pretty good too of course, but the villians were pretty lame. 4 was okay. Nuclear man was pretty funny! All the comic book movies today are too serious. Batman? Ppppffftt.

Superman the movie (1978) Superman II (1980) Superman III (1983) Superman IV (1987) Superman Returns (2006) Man of Steel (2013)

I'm using Firefox 3.5.19 as my emergency rendering browser... I'm saving 3.6.28 for a couple years down the road. I will do my own "end of life" support cycle :-)

when I started this topic I was going on about 3 days without any sleep... which can mess with your mind. I can easily give in to despair sometimes. But like ROTS message, it's better to try and find the good in people and stay positive. It's a nice sunny day outside. I can come and go as I please, I can go outside and go for a bike ride, should be grateful for the simple things.

I'm not advocating that we all return to some simple life Amish lifestyle... Actually, maybe that doesn't sound too bad. Un-contaminated Culture? check. Everyone shares the same religious belifes? Check. Everybody works for the common good? check. Everybody speaks the same language? check. Sounds like the Amish actually have a society. What we live in though, can't be described as a society or a culture. It's more like a cesspool. Society: "a voluntary association of individuals for common ends; especially: an organized group working together or periodically meeting because of common interests, beliefs, or profession." I was born here, so there goes the voluntary part. Organized group of people? What if there's like 5 million different organized groups squabbling over table scraps? Again, a cesspool. Common beliefs? Again, it's just a bunch of people squabbling over table scraps, trying to argue their correct belief. As you can see, America fails in every regard when you try to define it as a society.

I feel like every time I walk out my front door it costs me money. Walk out the front door, BOOM. Money wasted for gas, car insurance, etc. We are such human slaves. We spend money on cars in order to get us to our jobs (where we're treated like "Human Resources..." like crap) only to have to spend money and time on preparing food for when we get home. More money and time wasted. One hour worth of my work equals roughly $9 per hour. So, when I work for an hour, I've basically earned enough for a McDonalds meal. But for some reason, the amount of sweat and labor feels a heck of lot more than a McDonalds meal. Back when I was a janitor, the amount of physical labor I performed, I figure I could've built my own house in the same amount of time I spent on that job... for peanuts. Basically slave wage, poverty level. But the amount of work I did for that janitor company, from a physical stand point, if I had worked for myself, say, like a pioneer in the 1600s, I could've built a whole town. To summarize, we are being absolutely exploited like never before in human history. 7 billion people, how many of those people can say they own a dang thing in the world. The land they live on? The house they live in? The car they drive, if any? Don't forget, you need a license to catch your own fish (more money). IT's hopeless. You probably wouldn't even be allowed to grow your own food let alone sell it without government interference. Complete absolute slavery is how I would describe western society. Slave to the dollar.

correction: guess I was wrong, website does say Gecko version 24. There was another thread floating around here, from what I vageuly remember it didn't work. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong on that :-)

I haven't tried it, but I don't belive it's KernelEx compatible. The new K-Meleon is built using the chrome engine, to my knowledge. And there's no way to get that to work. Going by the final versions that worked on Windows 2000... you know, Opera 12.02, Firefox 10 or whatever.... those seem to be the latest KEX compatible browsers.

Hmm... upgraded WMP 7.1 to 9.0 and now the .wma files it produces are playable using XMPLay and Trout. I guess this should be a word of caution to WMP 7.x users. Don't rip files with it. They're only playable using WMP 7.x and nothing else.

I remember back in 2011 I could still purchase from Amazon and Ebay using K-Meleon 1.5.4 and SeaMonkey 1.1.19, with javscript enabled too! Now, those websites destroy those browsers. Ebay doesn't function at all without javscript, but amazon still has a presentable website. I haven't actually attempted to order anything on Amazon though in a couple years. Can't purchase nothing at home now. I go to the library and use the latest Firefox for making purchases. Getting back to your main point, yes, Firefox 3.6 is almost toast. I actually prefer to stick with Firefox 2 based browsers, since I'm on dial up. They load 5x quicker. The difference is that Firefox 3.x sits there and loads ALL t he images before rendering the page. Firefox 2 will load the text, render the basic design of the page, then slowly fill in the graphics. It's the complete opposite with FF 3. I guess maybe they do load nearly the same, but it creates the illusion of slowness. Plus, FF3 is just way bulkier anyway. The tradeoff on dial up approaches nil. I will only use FF 3.6 if I need to read a website real bad. And that's it, I'm through with Opera (good riddance). I use K-Meleon 1.5.4 and SeaMonkey 1.1.19 for everyday use, and in case of emergencies FireFox 3.6.28.

I format my hard drive like every 2 months, and I save my MP3 files (several hundred) onto a data CD, so I guess there's absolutely no point in using WMP 7.1 to rip songs. Unless somebody can tell me why they don't work...

Hello, I used Windows Media Player 7.1 to rip a couple of songs. Only problem is that *ONLY* windows media player can play the files I ripped. Tried opening several songs in XMPlay and Trout but niether worked. By the way, these songs work fine when played through WMP. I even turned off "personal rights management" under the CD options because I was reading about how it records your license or something like that... meaning, these songs are only playable on this computer. Well, I don't know, all I know is that I can't get any other program to open and play my songs in .wma format. It would be nice to have a single program that can play cd's and rip the music... but I guess that ain't gonna happen. I upgraded from 7.0 because that thing always seemed to get buggy after a while, I'm experimenting with WMP 7.1 for the heck of it. Normally I would just use WMP 9, but that program is more of a resource hog. Any possible reasons for why I can't play these .wma files in other programs?