I think it's safe to say that my five-year long love affair with Firefox has come to an end.
I love everything about it so far. It loads pages insanely fast, which is great. But, right now, I have a computer that is limited in memory (256MB), and while I liked Firefox, it was a furious memory hog and slowed my computer down to zero if I loaded anything more strenuous than a youtube video. Even when running a single open tab on a normal website, it would regularly consume anywhere from 80 to 150 megs of RAM and sometimes in excess of 300MB of paging file, which obviously is going to deep-six a computer like mine.
My current Google Chrome browser has two tabs open, the other running a YouTube video of Ray Kurzweil, and it's consuming a total of 60MB of paging file. It isn't slowing me down one iota. It's sleek, it's functional, it looks really nice and performs like a champ.
... But it was just in that box? I must have put that stuff there back in like 2002 and completely forgot about it, unless I actually had found it again at some point and put the folder there (or back there?) but not remembered it at all afterwards... really though, I think this was the first time I'd seen this stuff in years and years. Amazing, I thought it was gone.
(The only way this could ahve been better is if my five or six missing papersleeve PC CD games I lost around that same time had been in the same box... but sadly no, I wasn't quite that lucky. Oh well...)
I doubt anyone cares, but I found my folder full of codewheels and code sheets! Years ago I had completely given up on playing non-cracked versions of these games again, so seeing them all again is just amazing...
I'm going to list it all just because I want to. :)
-Hardball III Codewheel
-Summer Challenge Codewheel
-Gear Works manual (contains the codes required to get past copy protection)
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles code sheet (bah, that game is so evil...)
-Zool 2 codewheel (I was wanting to try this game again, now I can!)
-SimCity codesheet
-Commander Keen: Aliens Ate My Babysitter manual (copy protection is that it shows you an image of an enemy and you name the enemy; manual contains enemy list. You can find this information online, but this manual is obviously the easiest way to get it... makes playing the game easier. :))
-Lemmings (DOS ver.) manual (here both for required codes needed to install and for the password page in the back that I was filling out as I reached the levels. Evidently I got to level 28.)
-Lemmings Paintball manual (for the password list I was making only, not any required codes)
The rest of the stuff is on paper.
-Norse By Norsewest password list page (up to level 7... the keyboard-only controls really annoyed me, I wanted to use pad...)
-Rebel Assault 2 passwords (for all levels)
-Lemmings Paintball passwords (the section in the book wasn't enough to fit all the ones I got to, so I started a new sheet)
-Starfire passwords for levels 2 and 4
-A second Norse By Norsewest password sheet, also going to level 7
-Dschump password sheet, passwords for levels 0 and 1 only
-Sonic & Knuckles Collection password for the infinite secret game mode, just one password though
-sheet with a few Bumpy (levels 2 and 3) and Dschump passwords (again levels 0 and 1)
-Worms 2 passwords, up to level 13
-Failed attempt at mapping a Planescape Torment Modron Cube dungeon
-Quest for Glory I overworld map of my dad's, done back when we first played the game in the early/mid '90s
-Quest for Glory I notes page of mine
-Castle Adventure map of mine(with all but the basement complete...)
-Castle Adventure map of my dad's, complete floors 1 and 2 of the castle
-Commander Keen 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 overworld maps, plus partial Keen Dreams map, on a total of 5 pages
-Keen Standard Galactic Alphabet conversion chart page
-List of some common SGA phrases from Keens 1, 2, and 4 and what they mean
-A couple pages of Dr. Brain notes
-Heroes of Might & Magic 2 cheatcodes page (partially printed, part written)
-Starcraft cheatcodes page
-Kirby Pinball cheatcodes page, with Dschump again (with a level 2 password!)
-Rebel Assault 1 cheatcode page (important, given how hard that game was!)
-Rebel Assault II cheatcodes - four printed pages (not needed to beat the game, but because there's some amusing stuff you can do with them... :))
-TIE Fighter Keyboard Commands (vital for the game! I needed to learn a lot of commands for this game, so having them written down really helped...) There are also some passwords on this page for something or other, but I'm not sure what exactly... levels 4 through 8 or something. :)
I heard they were shipping Arab Hezbollah fighters to beat down on protesters.
Eran probably is one case were a violent revolution is necessary, Allot of this apparently is not just related to the election but corruption of the Ayatollah who has been giving each of sons 100,000,000 $ , The guy has been hogging off public funds living in extravagance almost to the same degree as the former royal family.
Not that it looks much different from SSB, as you'd probably expect given the same programmers (Game Arts) are making it, and it's also on Wii. Will it be anywhere near as good as the SSB games without Nintendo's oversight, though? I'm skeptical, but we'll see...
Quote: Why did id sell? "We're really getting kind of tired competing with our own publishers in terms of how our titles will be featured," Carmack said. "And we've really gotten more IPs than we've been able to take advantage of. And working with other companies hasn't been working out as spectacularly as it could. So the idea of actually becoming a publisher and merging Bethesda and ZeniMax on there [is ideal.] It would be hard to imagine a more complementary relationship. They are triple A, top-of-the-line in what they do in the RPGs. And they have no overlap with all the things we do in the FPSes."
Not sure what I think, kind of strange... too bad that it reinforces once again how dead the PC industry is, given Bethesda's focus more on consoles than PC now. Very sad in that respect. :(
Posted by: etoven - 22nd June 2009, 9:44 PM - Forum: Ramble City
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(NEW UPDATES AND BUG FIXES)
Changes:
Fixed issue where component wont stop speaking if you stop down word with out hitting stop first.
Updates:
Ebook now get created as a background process.
Old Stuff News:
I just created this AddIn for Microsoft Word 2007.
It creates ebooks from the currently open word document. Everyone check it out..
This AddIn fully supports SAPA 5 voices!
You can install realistic voices into windows and create sweet ebooks. In the sample file I created I only had a crappy voice, but there are some really realistic voices out there.
Requires:
.Net 3.5 (Installer will install if necessary)
Microsoft Word 2007
Instructions:
Unzip the files to a folder
Run Setup
This will install the addin!
You can use add remove programs to remove the addin.
Enjoy!
I just got a free copy of Visual Studio 2008 PRO just because I give ECPI all my money once a month... About time I got a nice perc...
After a few installer issues I just got everything working nicely.
All I can say is... Holy crap... Before I was using the free version of Visual Studio Express editions, and man was I ever missing out!!!
I can make cell phone apps for windows mobile....
They debug in a cell phone emulator, pre loaded with the lasest version of windows mobile and all the apps that come with it. I litertly was surfing the web in pocket IE inside real IE, just because I could.... My app even previews in a handly little picuture of a cell phone complete with working controls!
.Net... I think I love you.......