|
4
|
Other Software / Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xara Xtreme 5 Giveaway
|
on: April 15, 2013, 02:24:12 PM
|
|
Well not exactly : I installed it within sandboxie, got to the webpage to get the license. Then I erased the sandbox. So the app is not installed and I have a valid license, but if online activation is required, they may forbid it after April 29th.
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
Other Software / Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xara Xtreme 5 Giveaway
|
on: April 15, 2013, 01:20:15 PM
|
Free Xara Xtreme 5! Offer ends 29th April 2013. - not sure if it has to be installed before that time (anyone know?)
- presumably it will work on x64 (Requirements: >Microsoft® Windows® XP | Vista® | 7 | 8)
- download is called Xara_Xtreme_5_Silver.exe
Thanks. Got the installer and the license, I just hope it will register after the indicated date too.
|
|
|
|
|
15
|
Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: R-Drive Image 5
|
on: November 23, 2012, 02:23:23 PM
|
|
There seem to be an issue with scripts with this release. I cannot elaborate more, I just recommend you try on your side and see if it works. On my side they refuse to execute, saying the script couldn't be loaded. And I am talking about scripts generated by this new version.
|
|
|
|
|
16
|
Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Anything wrong with formatting a USB stick in NTFS?
|
on: November 19, 2012, 02:31:13 PM
|
All USB sticks come formatted as FAT. But FAT can't store large multi-gigabyte files. Does anyone see any problems with formatting a disk in NTFS? I can't come up with a reason not to...
you can always use an archiver like winrar that can split big files into chunks of 4GB max. And keep the FAT32 format. (Obviously) not if you want to use the files directly, though - like large .WIM files for Windows installs, or HD .MKVs for playback on a media thingamajig  I've used NTFS-formatted pendrives for a while, and they work fine (as fine as those unrealiable POSs go, anyway). Only trouble I've run into is that NTFS is read-only on OSX, so you can't use it to get data from loose-wristed coworkers :-) Sure, but when clicking on the .rar file it will uncompress it to a temp folder and run it from there. Less efficient but it would still work - you still need winrar installed I think.
|
|
|
|
|
20
|
Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
|
on: November 12, 2012, 11:30:55 AM
|
Nice find. BTW, I don't understand the computation for "7" : 9-sqrt(9)+ ? = 7, what is actually the ? Reading that would be "point nine bar". Some mathematical notations are used differently in different situations. I believe that they mean "ad infinitum" there. So: nine minus root nine plus point nine bar = 9 - 3 + 0.999999999999999999999... = 7 Math is just wonky sometimes with odd symbol usage. I generally think of "bar" as meaning absolute value or ad infinitum for several digits, with dot being used for 1. Thanks ! I only used to see a bar over a value to designate the conjugate of a complex number.
|
|
|
|
|
22
|
Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
|
on: November 02, 2012, 12:25:10 PM
|
1979. The Shadows and Light Tour. Here's Joni Mitchell in a performance of her song Free Man in Paris accompanied by Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker, Don Alias, and (the much missed) Jaco Pastorius on bass. With a band lineup like that nothing further needs be said.  Alas, blocked in France by WMG. Funny for a song mentioning Paris...
|
|
|
|
|
23
|
Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
|
on: November 02, 2012, 03:07:35 AM
|
Don't know if anybody is into classic Berlin School electronic music. But I think Michael Hoenig's 1977 LP Departure from the Northern Wasteland is still one of the best - if not the best - that genre ever produced. (With apologies to all the Tangerine Dream and Ashra fans out there.) Pleasant and listenable. The perfect "for headphones" meditation or background music. It was released with two different covers. (I prefer the one with the balloons myself.  ) This "video" is just an audio track. You'll have to let your brain generate its own images for this one. Bon Voyage! Thanks, as an old Tangerine fan it's really great to discover this music.
|
|
|
|
|
24
|
Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
|
on: November 02, 2012, 03:03:54 AM
|
Here's an interesting one from both a musical and a historical perspective.
Back in the early 70s, the ABC network hosted a marvelous concert as part of their "Wide World (fill in the blank)" network brand. In this particular instance it was the Wide World in Concert series, and the performance was Cat Stevens and his 1973 Moon and Star concert. ... Note: the audio quality leaves a lot to be desired since it's dubbed off analog video and suffers from the limitations of 70s era recording technology. Not that it really matters. Cat Stevens packs more musical inventiveness and creativity into the seventeen and a half minutes of "Foreigner" than most songwriters generate in their entire career. ...
Thanks, this is really magical !
|
|
|
|
|