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Joe BallMember
Here’s a test reply via firefox on the mac
Joe BallMemberSeriously, I think the entire chat conversation is fake. Maybe the title of this thread should be “IQ link I got in a fake IM conversation that I made up and posted on BBB just to try to get people to click on it…”
*smacks forehead*
Joe BallMemberHappy B-Day Doris! I’ll skip the cake, but let’s have a toast!
To another brilliant year… may they grow better and better!
-Joe
Joe BallMemberI have some concerns about this site and would advise against using it. First of all, the registration form has a checkbox that says by signing up you agree to their terms. But there is no link to their terms and conditions!
There is preciously little information about the company or who is behind it, which makes me suspicious.
And frankly, I don’t see anything new or innovative about it. Meebo and eBuddy already have multi-network web messengers.
Chatabcom, if you are some sort of official representative of the site, can you fill us in on the details? I don’t want to give away my username and password to just any website that “looks” semi-legit.
Joe BallMemberWhat exactly does this do? Who would use this? It seems like its designed for enterprise users, not the lowly consumer, right?
Can you clarify with a use case scenario?
Joe BallMemberMrEggsalad;247093 wrote:Generally it doesn’t seem to matter much (at least in my experience) on the video card make per se in if two monitors will work or not. If you have the ports then you should be able to just hook up and enjoy, maybe with a little configuration such as setting the default monitor and resolution if it isn’t automatic, but other than that it actually isn’t too bad.Yeah, I think Jeff was thinking back to the “old days” of Windows 3.1. Back then, the OS didn’t support multiple monitors out of the box. XP and later do just fine, as does the Mac OS X.
Dual screens ROCK!
March 24, 2010 at 12:57 am in reply to: ** The Kissing Competition for Boys & Girls – Don’t miss it ** #176750Joe BallMemberThis doesn’t make me laugh. Why can’t I give this a “thumbs down?” Arrgh!
Joe BallMemberHi Janet! Welcome to BigBlueBall.
First off, did you recently upgrade to AIM 7.2 or did you just recently start having problems signing on? It’s important to know when you were last able to successfully sign on, and what version you were using.
Second, do you have another account that you can test, or can you create one? Doesn’t have to be one that you’ll keep or use, just something to help us debug. If you can sign on with one account but not the other, that points to a problem with the one account rather than your computer configuration.
Joe BallMemberGet a new camera and laptop!
Really, you should’ve read the fine print before you bought a 16 GB SDHC memory card. A LOT of devices will not read them.
From Wikipedia:
Devices that use SD cards identify the card by requesting a 128-bit identification string from the card. For standard-capacity SD cards, 12 of the bits are used to identify the number of memory clusters (ranging from 1 to 4096) and 3 of the bits are used to identify the number of blocks per cluster (which decode to 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 or 512 blocks per cluster).
In older 1.x implementations the standard capacity block was exactly 512 bytes. This gives 4096 x 512 x 512 = 1 gigabyte of storage memory. A later revision of the 1.x standard allowed a 4-bit field to indicate 1024 or 2048 bytes per block instead, yielding up to 4 gigabyte of memory storage. Devices designed before this change may incorrectly identify such cards, usually by misidentifying a card with lower capacity than is the case by assuming 512 bytes per block rather than 1024 or 2048.
For the new SDHC (2.0) implementation, 22 bits of the identification string are used to indicate the memory size in increments of 512 bytes. The SDCA currently allows only 16 of the 22 bits to be used, giving a maximum size of 32 GB. All SD cards with a capacity larger than 4 GB must use the 2.0 implementation at minimum. Two bits that were previously reserved and fixed at 0 are now used for identifying the type of card, 0=standard, 1=SDHC, 2=reserved, 3=reserved. Non-SDHC devices are not programmed to read this code and therefore cannot correctly identify SDHC or SDXC cards.
All SDHC readers work with standard SD cards.
Many older devices will not accept the 2 or 4 GB size even though it is in the revised standard. The following statement is from the SD Card Association specification:
“To make 2 GByte card, the Maximum Block Length (READ_BL_LEN=WRITE_BL_LEN) shall be set to 1024 bytes. However, the Block Length, set by CMD16, shall be up to 512 bytes to keep consistency with 512 bytes Maximum Block Length cards (Less than and equal 2 Gbyte cards).”
I would start by checking with your laptop and camera manufacturer and see if they at least CLAIM to support > 4GB SDHC cards.
Joe BallMemberGet an iPhone. You won’t regret it.
Seriously though, your decision will depend on a number of factors. Do you have a phone already? Are you eligible to upgrade? Does your current carrier offer the iPhone (or Nexus) or would you have to switch carriers?
That being said, the iPhone has been designed to be fairly foolproof. You play inside Apple’s “walled garden” and they maintain pretty tight control over what gets planted in that garden. The upside, it works, plain and simple.
Nexus gives you more openness, but with that, expect some incompatibilities and other issues. Some people are cool with that.
Apart from those issues, what phone does what you need/want it to do? In many ways, it’s not unlike figuring out whether to buy a Mac or a PC. If the apps (or features) that you need (or want) are available on one, then that’s your choice.
Simple, no?
Joe BallMemberjackychain;247052 wrote:hey everyone please give me some suggestions to delete my orkut account from g mail.
Thanks,Here you go: Delete your orkut profile : Profile Settings – Orkut Help
Courtesy of your friendly neighborhood Google SEARCH! You should try it sometime. 😉
Joe BallMemberpatndoris;247023 wrote:…it did not like any punctuation or special characters such as * or &.Who does that besides pre-teen girls anyway? :p
None of my friends. But good to know in case my niece has trouble.Way to stay on top of things, patndoris!
Joe BallMemberHappy St Paddy’s Day! I can still type the day after! Amazing! If only I could stop using these >>!!!
Joe BallMemberMrOats, I get an “unable to connect” message when I try to access the BBB chat room. Maybe it’s down?
Joe BallMemberThe best speed tests are free, and found at http://broadbandreports.com — the original, biggest and best site for user-to-user ISP support. They can also help you compare your speed with others using the same ISP and in the same area, and give you advice on speeding up your browsing.
The simplest thing is to adjust your caching. When you visit a web page for the first time (like this one here at BigBlueBall) your browser has to download lots of files. There is the HTML that makes up the page itself, the CSS, javascript files, and usually lots of images. Many of these files are the same from page to page within the same web site (like the logo, for example). Your browser will “cache” these files, storing a local copy so when you return to the page, or when you visit another page on the same website that uses the same files, it doesn’t need to be downloaded again.
In Internet Explorer, check your cache settings by going to Tools > Internet Options then click Settings under Browsing history. I recommend using the “Automatic” option. If you pick either “Every time I visit the webpage” or “Every time I start Internet Explorer” it WILL slow down your browsing. On the other hand, if you pick “Never”, you will sometimes miss stuff that has changed (like a reply to a post in a forum). Automatic is the best option.
There are lots of other tweaks you can make, and for those, I’d suggest that BroadbandReports site.
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