Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread

[Genocidicbunny]

If there is nothing better, than sure, use it. The fact is though, Vista eats up ALL the RAM. Even the RAM Firefox or iTunes or etc. were using and makes those applications uber slow/dead. I don't mind Vista using a lot of RAM as long as when I need it, it gives it back. When I install something though, it decides to be greedy and not give any back.

EDIT- Well, apparently it was PowerISO causing it. By someone's suggestion I tried uninstalling it and using Daemon Tools and bam, no 100% memory usage.
I feel kinda bad for assuming it was Vista right off the bat.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I remember getting pissed because every time I had to do a hard boot, my Windows 98 would force me through a 10-minute scandisk thing. There was an exit button but I didn't know how to activate it. Until about 6 months before I sold it, I was so pissed I was hitting buttons on the keyboard everywhere trying to find it. (It was the spacebar.)

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I remember getting pissed because every time I had to do a hard boot, my Windows 98 would force me through a 10-minute scandisk thing. There was an exit button but I didn't know how to activate it. Until about 6 months before I sold it, I was so pissed I was hitting buttons on the keyboard everywhere trying to find it. (It was the spacebar.)

Ah yes, the disk scanner on W98. Those were fun times.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

How many people here agree than 15 gigabytes is a tad bit much for a 10-minute video which isn't even high-def?

(I forgot the compression settings in VirtualDub. I was aiming for a 100 MB file, at most.)

 

[lndm]

100MB sounds OK. Might see some minor improvements up to 500MB but hardly worth going past that point IMO. Of course, I'm speaking on average as some videos compress better than others. I'm assuming you're using DVD style MPEG compression.

BTW I don't make that many videos so I'm estimating here.

 

[Turner]

What's a good chat client (Yahoo, MSM) for Linux? I'm using PCLOS.

 

[Souron]

What's a good chat client (Yahoo, MSM) for Linux? I'm using PCLOS.

You mean for IM? I use Pidgin. For Linux and windows both.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

How many people here agree than 15 gigabytes is a tad bit much for a 10-minute video which isn't even high-def?

(I forgot the compression settings in VirtualDub. I was aiming for a 100 MB file, at most.)

I really didnt like that about VirtualDub. No matter what I tried, I couldnt get it to save video at anything besides every frame full-size no compression. 20 second clips ended up being several hundred mb...

 

[Fifty]

Is there a good firefox addon or something that will allow me to download flash videos? I tried DownloadHelper but it only works for like youtube and porn sites and other places I don't care about... I'd like to be able to download streaming Windows Media Player stuff too.

 

[GVBN]

VirtualDub doesn't come with internal codecs. Install ffdshow + LAME

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Is there a good firefox addon or something that will allow me to download flash videos? I tried DownloadHelper but it only works for like youtube and porn sites and other places I don't care about... I'd like to be able to download streaming Windows Media Player stuff too.

It's not an addon, but I've had luck with Orbit Downloader.

In VirtualDub, I did have some codecs, I just forgot to set them. (I was using it because I was having problems with Avidemux.)

 

[PeteAtoms]

Why are so many Irc clients trial software, when pidgin can apparently do it for free? or chatzilla?

 

[Turner]

Dunno.... Trillian does it too for free.

 

[Padma]

What's a good chat client (Yahoo, MSM) for Linux? I'm using PCLOS.

Pidgin is generally recognized to be the best all-around chat client for Linux. You could also try Kopete (it's the KDE multi-chat client), but most of us prefer Pidgin.

Both Pidgin and Kopete are in the PCLOS repositories.

Edit: For irc, my favorite Linux one is KVirc (also in the repos).

 

[Turner]

Well, got pidgin installed. I'll play with it an the others tonight.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Because while Pidgin is a good all-around client, it sucks for IRC. XChat is another good one for Linux, or windows if you can compile it. Personally though, I prefer mIRC. Definitely worth the money imho.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Because while Pidgin is a good all-around client, it sucks for IRC. XChat is another good one for Linux, or windows if you can compile it. Personally though, I prefer mIRC. Definitely worth the money imho.

In what ways does it suck for IRC?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I remember my mom had a pirated version of mIRC on a CD (someone mailed it to her, I think), and I didn't understand why she was upset when I lost the disc. Because I thought it was freeware and she could just go download it again. (I was only 9 or 10 at the time.)

 

[Genocidicbunny]

In what ways does it suck for IRC?

After using mIRC, Pidgin's IRC interface just seems so primitive. No support for scripting like mIRC has ( although I wouldnt call mIRC's scripting language a language, more like keyboard vomit, but thats a different topic ). It just didn't sit well with me. The way Pidgin's interface is organized is useful for straight-up im'ing and occasional IRC when you just need to ask a quick question, but using it as a dedicated client is a no no.

 

[Fifty]

mIRC never actually makes you register anyways.