Posts by MidiMagic

Is there an easy (and free) way to copy just the audio portion of an .flv file to another file?

Or is there a way to get PowerPoint to play just the audio portion of an .flv file.

A co-worker made an .flv video of an event on campus. I want to use just the soundtrack from it in my slideshow, but the only copy of the file is in .flv format. Because there is some objectionable material (a tasteless student prank) visible in the background, I don't want to use the video portion.

I liked him as a criminal in a Columbo episode too.

I guess it doesn't trigger it here. But there are other sites where I have to refer to him as "the actor who plays Rob Petrey and Marc Sloan" to refer to him at all.

For some reason, the History channel site does not like the word "rim". And you cannot use the most common fastener that holds phonographs together on a site on repairing phonographs.

But by the NUMBER of users clicking the annoying ad button, they can tell if one is better than another.

Maybe we should use the Independent Voting System, and have a GREAT AD and an ANNOYING AD button. Then they can compare the results to find out if the ad is great, or annoying.

Thanks! It works great! Now if we didn't have to scroll....

Good. You have it right.

Ask the sysop.

You need p tags around each paragraph in your text.

It appears to be closing the login session after each use. You need a way to keep the session open, and a way to log out when you are done.

Make Faculty ID the primary key in the Faculty table.

Form one-to-many associations between Faculty table and the other two tables.

Sort of.

I used the exact language required by Access.

I use action=none when I don't want any submission.

You have unescaped < and > characters in your js code. The web browser is confused by these. Make your js an external .js file, and it might fix this.

Just add an id, and get the element that way.

Still waiting for a reason and a solution.

Reinstalling Windows should not remove other data. If it did, it means that Windows reformatted the hard drive because it was unreadable.

This sounds to me like the hard disk has a bad low level format, and while parts of it are working, the area with the Windows kernel is damaged to the point where the kernel will not load.

It needs a complete reformat for low and high level, and a reinstall of Windows.

It could be that the guy who sold it to you wiped the hard drive totally clean, to remove all traces of his files (unlike that high school coach arrested for having kiddie porn, because the pictures were left on the hard drive of the computer he sold on eBay).

In that case, you must purchase a new set of Windows disks.

Another possibility is that the hard disk has seized, and is not turning.

For it to be perfectly legitimate, one of the following must have occurred:

- The music was recorded before February 15, 1972. No sound recordings before that date could possibly be copyrighted, because that is the date the US copyright on sound recordings went into effect.

- The copyright owners themselves either placed the music online, or gave written permission for the music to be placed online.

- The copyright owners are reimbursed for the downloads. This does not necessarily mean that you pay them, because you might be required to watch advertising instead, and the ad pays for the download.

- The copyright owners voluntarily placed the music in the public domain.

I consider copyright a lost cause, and predict that the internet will destroy the entire concept of copyright within 10 years.

OK, what's this?

http://geocities.com/midimagic@sbcglobal.net/autort2.jpg

What's this?

whatsis

A paradox that disproves random chance as the origin of life:

Two elements are needed for self-reproducing life:

1. The DNA with the instructions on it.
2. The ribosome, to read the DNA and make the proteins.

Bit it's that first cell, and even more, the second cell, that bother me:

- If ribosomes were plentiful for some strange reason when the DNA appeared, then how did the instructions for making a ribosome get on the DNA?

- If, instead, the ribosome is first described on the DNA, then what was used to read the first DNA strands.

It's the equivalent of using the first CD Recorder, and finding the blueprints and instructions for making the recorder already recorded on the first blank CD.

Push the Scroll Lock key on someone's computer when they are not looking, and watch what happens.

You can also set Word to print in mirror printing to make T-shirt transfers.

That reminds me of the fake DOS program I wrote 20 years ago.

No matter what you did, it gave the error message:

BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME.

and then it printed a C:\ prompt and waited for input. It repeated this until you used ctrl-C.

I have had the following bumper stickers over the years:

BUMPER STICKER

Stop Honking. I'm Pedaling as fast as I can.

(Two stickers, one cut in half, put on after the 55 speed limit:)
NIX ON NIXON

(Two stickers, one cut apart and reassembled:)
BAYH BAH

Are you closer to THIS than you are to Jesus?

I-69: Put it on the map.

The Big Bang: God said it, and BANG, it happened.

Give Me SPACE (picture of Marvin the Martian)

I believe in the Big Band Theory.

Fish don't walk, and Jesus still lives (dead Darwin fish feet up)

(My current stickers:)

Columbia II (picture of the space shuttle)

WHY are you slowing me down by following TOO CLOSE?

Warning: In case of RAPTURE, this vehicle will be unmanned.

-------------------------

Other stickers I have seen:

JOhn KErry

KERRY/EDWARDS
With this much squat,
you need two johns.

Pro-Accordion, and I vote

Satan's a Democrat

Come to the Dark Side
We have cookies.

If you can read this, you're in the wrong lane (on front of car)

BUCKLE UP
Then aliens can't abduct you.

Is there life after death?
Mess with my truck, and find out!

Someday, you'll look on this again
and plow into a parked car.

Portable holes.

Jonathan Archer.

There were 6 Star Trek series (and 6 captains):

Star Trek (James Kirk, Christopher Pike)
Star Trek Log (animated - James Kirk)
Star Trek, The Next Generation (Jean Luc Picard)
Star Trek, Deep Space 9 (Benjamin Sisko)
Star Trek Voyager (Kathryn Janeway)
Star Trek Enterprise (Jonathan Archer)

We have to remember that the special effects used in the movies and the other Star Trek series had not yet been invented when the original Star Trek was made. So of course, it looked more "corny" than the others. They were working on a shoestring budget too.

Actually, if cities were designed for automobiles, we wouldn't have the traffic problems we have.

Most cities were originally designed with the following two factors uppermost:

- Rectangular plots of real estate.

- Horse and wagon traffic.

Rail and automobile traffic were cobbled into the existing layouts.

Mass transit does not work until the city is large enough to support enough transit routes to cover most of the city. The transit systems of smaller cities (under 2 million population) don't cover enough of the city's area to handle even 10 percent of the trips.

If it happened to me, I wouldn't be able to post again, because refreshing clears the post window contents.

I am using linear, and do not have the error.

That explains why read-modify-write scientific operations based on real world events don't work anymore.

Kill the environmentalists who thought this up. They killed off a whole branch of science.

He is a famous comedian from the 1960s, and is also the main actor in "Diagnosis Murder".

Vulgar people independently made words identical to parts of his name vulgar after he became famous. They have no connection to his name except for the spellings.

My user id here is also the username of my email address, so that one is easy.

I can't take a screenshot while the ad has 100% cpu usage. The screenshot occurs after the ad stops running when I try this.

The expanded ad may be a popup instead. Come to think of it, I don't remember seeing an All-Bran ad on your site before. But I have seen it on Yahoo, where it did the same thing. Possibly it was detritus from when I opened a window to get info from an email for a post.

Might I suggest an "annoying ad" button, that we can click if the ad annoys us to the point where we would not touch the product? The advertisers might like the knowledge of the diseffectiveness of their ads. If they knew how annoying their ads really are, they might change their ways.

I used to be able to go directly into the HTML and CSS forum from the Web Development page. Now I have to go into the Web Development page, and then the Web Design page, to get to it. Each page takes time to load because of the ads.

And I have to scroll down to get to the link on each one, because the entire visible top of the page is all header bars and ads. To do that, I have to wait until the stupid ad animation stops, because the scroll stop bug is still there.

It makes the image clickable as a link.

It places the image where the word "welcome" is in your first example.

In

<a href="page.htm"><img src="pic.gif" /></a>

replace page.htm with the name of the web page you want the icon to link to.

replace pic.gif with the name of your icon.

You can't change the attributes of the icon animation (speed, etc) without making a new .gif image for each set of attributes. This requires an animation editor.

What's wrong with it?

Why not make one image with the logo and the bars in it?

Make student-id the sorting key of the students table.

Form one-to-many relationships from student to tests, and from student to assignments, using student-id as the key.

You can't have multiple items with the same id. It is a W3C violation.

Such codes are usually not rendered.

Have you tried the code \r?

I don't know if a text box can handle page breaks - it is one page.

You do not have the right to take over the user's computer. It is illegal to do so.

Is this a video saved on your hard disk, or over the Internet?

- A video on your hard disk should not change. If it is changing, you have hardware trouble.

- You might have other software running that is stealing jiffies from the program playing the video. Close all other windows, and check for malware.

- Is your virus checker rechecking the file each time?

- If an Internet video slows down in the hours 4pm to 9 pm, you are fighting with other users for Internet bandwidth. It's a traffic jam on the Information Superhighway. Change your viewing hours.

These traffic jams occur at several different points:

1. Your ISP might be overloaded.
2. The server with the video might have too many requests to serve at one time.
3. There might be traffic jams in between.

Be aware that over the last two weeks, Pakistan has been trying to block videos from sites containing materials that violate Islam. The effects of these blocks (which are really packet eaters) have extended beyond the borders of Pakistan, causing traffic interruptions.

This sounds like an out-of-memory or out-of-internet-cache error.

Such errors do not depend on the time IE is running, but the size of the web page.

The fact that you are running Vista could indicate incompatibilities between page contents and Vista.

Look for:

- Viruses

- Software someone downloaded (may be taking over keyboard commands)

- A pop-up organizer (such as Sidekick)

- A different keyboard (programmable?)

- Extra files with the names of system files.

Is there a way we can patch Bill instead?

Is this a question of IE opening by itself when you aren't browsing the web, or is it a case of a website being browsed in another browser (Netscape, Firefox, Opera) switching to IE when a particular link is opened?

If it is the latter, it might be that the site contains a file that fits one of these descriptions:

- It is not supported by other browsers

- It is assigned by default to IE in the File Types list in My Computer.

I find the following about the ads:

- Many of them take 100% CPU usage, preventing scrolling and hiding the edit window insertion point.

- There is one that expands to cover the navigation buttons, so you can't go into a forum.

- I have trouble reading posts with ads jumping around with motion pictures.

- A couple of them try to take keystrokes intended for something else.

- I received an email containing in the subject line a word I made up (as a dummy filename in an example). I never used that word anywhere else online, except in a post I made here.

We should not have to do special things to work around the ads.

How can we tell the advertisers that they make us mad when they take over or drive us crazy. Do they really think we are going to buy anything after they pester us to death?

I find it harder to navigate on the new layout. Half of the things I use were on the main level of each forum, and now they are several levels deep.

Processors generate heat. It is a very simple concept, with the newer processors, they are more 'energy efficient' which means they *will* perform less work, and thus generate less heat when you are doing nothing on the computer.

OK, so how does the CPU know whether the program it is running is doing a lot of work, or is just sitting there going through some status-checking loops? Does Windows tell it when it is doing work? It can't find out by analyzing the program, because a hardworking program could look a lot like an idling program.

Next, how does whatever device determines how busy the computer will be know that in advance? It can't telll what the user is going to do.

How does the CPU save power? Does the clock speed change? Does a second processor of a dual processor shut down? Those are the only power-saving methods I can think of that don't destroy data.

The only articles I could find on the web say that some laptops slow the CPU clock to half speed when no windows are executing code. And I found a few companies using overclocking (running the CPU beyond spec speed) for short periods.

And compared to the amount of power an average house uses, reducing CPU consumption is mousemilking.

Another example of (expletive deleted)-for-tat censorship?

I find it excessive that some words with ordinary uses are banned because they also have illicit uses. I can't even post either name of my favorite comedian.