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Ze Frank's videos never fail to make me laugh (or sometimes cringe), especially the "True Facts About ..." series.

On an educational side, I subscribe to the obligatory MinutePhysics (and its sister MinuteEarth), PBS Idea Channel, Vsauce, and AsapSCIENCE.

[Fill]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Fill option does exactly what you want?

Just exactly what I need! Thank you very much! 

Jesus, it was only down for less than 4 minutes...stop panicking people...I didn't even lose connection to it.

I wasn't panicking, I was just very curious.

I noticed that certain things disappeared and broken links are everywhere.  Have you tried https?  I get most of the site that way...

I always use https whenever I can.

Anyway FB's up again from here, and here's Mashable's coverage.

Wait, I can open the mobile site from my phone but not from PC. And isup.me says the mobile site is up. How's that even possible?

Damn Mayans, it was supposed to happen on 21st.

 

["Firefox can't find the server at www.facebook.com."]

Anyone here can open facebook.com?

I tried to open facebook.com just now and Firefox says "Firefox can't find the server at www.facebook.com." I entered facebook.com into isup.me and it says "Huh? http://www.facebook.com doesn't look like a site on the interwho."

It's like facebook vanished just like that, and I haven't found any news related to it. How can it happen to such a big name?

No love for non-US residents? 

[why]

Why would you need to enter safe mode and restart again normally? In general it is better if you explain why you need things, because it's likely that a different solution already exists that we can point you to.

If my assumption that you are using Windows is true, then I'm sorry that I cannot help you now. I'm 400 miles away from my Windows machine, and I won't be there probably for another month. 

It' still a good idea, though, and I do hope someone can make this happen. 

It can be done with version control system, especially with decentralized ones (e.g. Git or Mercurial), probably plus a script to do commits whenever a change (file created/deleted/edited) is made.

From what I noticed, Facebook does use some Microsoft products in it, such as Bing Translate to translate posts in foreign languages, and Office web app for viewing attached Microsoft Office files. I won't be surprised if they integrate Skype with Facebook Chat.

It's likely that the black bar at the top of page is just a temporary navigation aid while Google is preparing for a new user interface. I read it here yesterday.

app103 - Fortunately (or is it unfortunately?) where I live, a cinema that plays better movies (which means any movie other than cheap erotic ones) is still considered a luxury. That means they have good and clean restrooms, comfy chairs, and pretty spacious leg room. Better (or worse) yet, buying a DVD is actually even more expensive than paying ticket for 5. The taxes are too damn high. We still have to deal with annoying people though, and having a DVD means we can watch it over and over. I myself prefer to go to the cinema for visually pleasing movies and buy DVDs for more complex movies that I would watch more than once. For other movies I'd just borrow from my friends (rental is not very popular here).

Oh, and one of the best advantages of watching a DVD is we can pause it at any time should we need to go to the toilet or fetch some snacks.

worstje, 40hz - Wow, that explains a lot. Thank you very much! I know it's never wrong to ask about anything here.

As for the technical definition of "film" as the medium in which data are saved (as steeladept & joiwind said), I am aware of it, and actually that's why I was confused and couldn't understand what the posters wanted to say.

Renegade's description that "film" is used in the "literary" sense also gives me some new perspectives, thank you.

And now that I understand what the posters wanted to say, I must admit those are some clever ads.


Man, DC is the best forum I've ever known.

So the New York International Latino Film Festival posters (nylatinofilm.com) apparently encourage us to watch films, not movies. English is not my primary language, so I don't know the difference between films and movies. In my language, what I thought they define as "movies" and "films" have the same translation: "film". I duckduckgo-ed for the difference but have not found anything useful to separate what I know as "film" into the two categories "movies" and "films". Would some native English speaker (or perhaps movie/film enthusiasts) here clear things out for me? I'm confused as hell.  

Edit: Here's a blog post showing all of the posters.

I must agree with merle. While the website design is visually very pleasant, it is not very intuitive to navigate. While at the top of page I recognize that I can click the "INFO" lid at the bottom, the next part of the page shown does not indicate that there are more information if I scroll down. I would expect another lid or button to show more information.

While this is not a big problem for the website, if it's indeed showcasing the design of the upcoming bvckup2, you might have to review the UI design and make sure the design is consistent throughout the program, for usability sake.

Anyway, I really like your idea of single purpose program and wish the best for bvckup2.

Hi worstje, it's been a while... I've also been busy.   

First of all, thank you for making the changes I requested.

I have tried the new version and it works as I wanted, but with one tiny issue: for example I temporarily hide the bar by middle-clicking or Ctrl+clicking it and switch the focus to another program (let's say Notepad). After 5 seconds the bar shows itself but also gains focus, and therefore the Notepad window loses focus. This may cause unwanted interruption, but since I don't use my netbook for any critical tasks, I don't really need a fix for this. I am happy with the current version and my netbook will never boot (Windows) without Teensymon.

With its current version, I wouldn't need any configuration files, so unless somebody else asks for configurability, I don't think you need to make any other changes.

Once again, thank you very much. 

You're welcome

[windows from the same program]

Doesn't work in Win 7.

It is odd that Microsoft removed the feature to select multiple taskbar buttons, but as this article shows, it is still available from the task manager.

But if you only need to tile/cascade windows from the same program, good news! Windows 7 gives you the tile/cascade options by Shift+right clicking the taskbar button!

If you want to tile/cascade windows from different programs, though, Windows 7 still gives options to tile/cascade unminimized windows, by right clicking an empty space in the taskbar. So it would mean that you have to minimize all but the windows you want to tile, right click the taskbar, and select one of the windows arrangement options.

Hope this helps

Actually that feature is already available in Windows Taskbar. I don't know about Windows 7's Superbar (I'll try it later, I'm using my Windows Vista workstation now), but in Windows XP/Vista (and maybe the older versions too), you can select multiple tasks in your Taskbar by holding Ctrl while clicking the taskbar buttons. So to achieve what you wanted, you just need to:

1. Press Win+D to minimize all tasks,
2. Click one task in the taskbar,
3. Hold Ctrl while clicking other tasks that you want to tile/cascade,
4. Right click on one of the selected tasks,
5. Choose one of the options (in Windows Vista: Cascade, Show Windows Stacked, Show Windows Side by Side).

As far as I'm concerned, unfortunately it doesn't work with Google Chrome.

If your country imports Chinese goods (which country doesn't anyway?) you must try to get one made-in-China mouse. It usually has left, middle, and right buttons as well as scroll wheel. In my country the cheapest ones are sold at 15,000 IDR (less than 1.7 USD)! No lie! And I have one that still works after 4 years

Two more things:

First, since the bar width is dynamic (e.g. when the battery is fully charged, it shrinks because it no longer shows the time remaining) and I am using it on the rightmost of the screen (under the min/max/close buttons as you suggested), perhaps you can make the bar to align to the right?

Second, since I rarely use mice when using a netbook and the touch pad doesn't have a middle button, perhaps I can use something like Ctrl+left click to temporarily hide the bar instead of middle click?

Thank you

Sorry for late reply, I was out for business lunch 

v0.3.1 now works fine both in my win Vista work station and my win 7 netbook, great job!
(On a side note, I've really never been on IRC )

Once again I thank you worstje for your great work and the rest of DC for your suggestions

@lanux12

I have tried WinBar, it's nice and more friendly than StatBar, but still not exactly what I need

@skwire & app103

Power Meter + app's DClock 2 look like what I need but the Power Meter wastes too much space

@worstje

Thanks
BTW for my main work station I actually prefer more choices, but for a netbook the simpler the better