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How in the world do you use that program? It's the most complicated piece of software I've ever seen!

Ok I downloaded that program and I looked around but it doesn't have the features I looked for. It basically is a program for encoding video files in different formats. I'm looking for video editing software. Thanks anyways.

I need to find free video editing software that allows you to control brightness, sharpness and contrast of a video. I have tried a few options but they didn't have those features or they added a watermark to the video (huge red fonts saying "Please Register").Is there any good video editing software out there that is freeware and/or open-source?

Some things I look forward to having Windows Vista are:- Windows Aero (well if it is too slow, then I might turn it down a little)- User Account Control (the main reason I want to experience Vista)Yes, I love user account control. I use Ubuntu and the password prompt is the best thing in it for me. If there is any way of making it appear more often, I'd definitely do that.

I recommend The GIMP. It is quite popular as an Adobe Photoshop alternative and it is open-source. It is compatible with Windows and Linux (not sure about other operating systems) and has plenty of features. You may find it to be a bit bulky or a bit hard to use at first, but you will get the hang of it as you use it more often. Here's a link: https://www.gimp.org/

Ok I've heard of Python before but do end-users need to download some software before running the software (something like the .NET Framework)? Also, is it possible to develop FREE software with Python, not just commercial software?As for C++, don't you need to learn C before learning C++?

Ok I usually would use Linux to program because there is a compiler (gcc), but I need to use Windows to program for now because of a few unexplained reasons.I need to find a compiler for Windows that will compile the C language. I have tried Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2008 but I find it to be way too bulky and hard to use. The command-line compiler is similar to gcc I guess, and it creates executable files for Windows, but the compiler in the actual program compiles C++ but not C for some reason. And it will only compile files in projects, not standalone files. In my opinion, this is not such a great product.Where can I find a free C compiler for Windows?Second question: How do you program a GUI? It would be nice to have a GUI to run the program, not just command line stuff.

I don't use Yahoo! much, I prefer Google and Windows Live services. Yahoo! is not that appealing to me because most of my friends do not use Yahoo! services. Have you ever thought of how the MSN address is http://www.msn.com/de-de/, not just http://www.msn.com/en-ca?checklang=1? This is because they are in a partnership with Bell Sympatico, a Canadian company. This is a pretty shocking thing because isn't Windows Live supposed to compete with Yahoo!?

So you actually use this? Does it work good? What I mean by that is are there any system crashes when accessing/writing to the partition?

It also works from a bootable CD or a USB device.

Just a side note: Your site should be compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera in order for the widest amount of people to play it. But if it is compatible with Mozilla, it should be compatible with Firefox.

If you do not have any data to save on the hard disk, I suggest downloading the Ubuntu 7.10 CD and wiping out the entire hard disk from GParted and start installing Windows (and possibly Ubuntu as well) from there. It should be able to wipe your partitions. Another thing you can try is this tool, recommended by CNET Download.com: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Make sure that you install Windows first if you decide to install Ubuntu.

Is there any way to just receive all postings of all public mailing lists with just a few signups?!? I am not going though thousands of forms to copy and paste my email address to do this. That would be way too time consuming!

I think NoScript does that, however I am not sure that it actually removes the scripts. I think that it allows whitelists and blacklists, although I've actually never used that extension before. You can try disabling JavaScript entirely if you wish, however that may not be such a good idea nowadays.

PHP and C++ are totally different. Well, they are both programming languages, but one is designed for browser-based applications and the other is designed for desktop applications.If you will be using PHP, you need to know HTML, CSS and other related web technologies first. Considering that you are targeting a web audience, I would recommend PHP since you can give your users nothing to install and it can be played from any browser.Using C++ gives the advantage of more flexibility, and you don't need to be connected to the Internet for it to work considering that you aren't making a multiplayer online game. C++ is harder to learn in my opinion, and I've heard from numerous sources that learning C first is needed.It's you choice, it all depends on what you know, what you are willing to learn and the target audience.

Well the Mozilla Add-ons site has a Recommended Add-Ons section where you can check out the most popular add-ons. There is no such thing as a best add-on in my opinion because it all depends on what your browsing preferences are/what you use the browser for. If you are a web developer who uses Firefox to test pages and debug HTML and JavaScript with, then you would probably be using Web Developer Toolbar, Firebug, HTML Validator, IE Tab and related extensions. For the social person, Me.dium and an appropriate toolbar (Facebook, digg, etc) will be really useful. As for my list of extensions, I have McAfee SIteAdvisor (for safe browsing), Adblock, Adblock Filterset.G Updater, Firebug, YSlow, Update Notifier, Fasterfox, Colorful Tabs, Web Developer Toolbar, Google Toolbar, ColorZilla, Facebook toolar, FireFTP, Google Icon, Me.dium and PDF Download. In my Firefox on Ubuntu, the only differences are that I have ubufox and Total Validator (instead of HTML Validator). Browsers do not fall under the category of one size fits all. That's why some extensions are good for some people, and others are better for another person. Hope this helps.

I do not like RealPlayer because of previous privacy concerns with their product named RealOne. But even if they have fixed that, it is still a resource hog because it runs realsched.exe at startup, which takes up quite a bit of virtual memory.The ads on the Message Center is not that annoying because I've disabled it I remember they used to have flashing banner ads on the top of the Web window. The only thing I like is that they can download YouTube videos, but that's pretty much it.I use iTunes as my default for MP3s, Windows Media Player sometimes. For movies, I use Windows Media Player mainly because it offers various skins and plug ins. When listening to songs, I use Windows Media Player sometimes so that it is compatible with Windows Live Messenger's Music Personal Message.RealPlayer is installed on my system because some audio files embedded on web pages HAVE to use RealPlayer. Why can't they use a normal mp3?

I think upgrade whenever Ubuntu upgrades. I am not familiar with the technical parts of Linux and I do not want to damage my distribution, although my files are stored on another.

Introduction Ok so many of you that use Linux, you probably have Windows installed also, probably on another partition (an exception is using Wubi). There is a problem that exists with Linux having read-only access to NTFS partitions. A solution to this is to install NTFS-3G or a similar package/application, but this only solves half of the problem. The other half of the problem is Windows not being able to read an ext2/ext3 partition. If you check your partitions in Disk Management, Windows has absolutely zero support for ext3/ext2/linux-swap partitions, display the message Healthy (Unknown Partition). Again, a utility is available for Windows to have read/write access to ext2/ext3 partitions, called EXT3 IFS. From my experience, there are a few problems in this such as blue screen errors, system crashes and the speed is a bit slower, but not notably slower. My Recommended Solution Instead of having to do this, we can try partitioning the hard disk as shown in the table below. This is an example of using a 160 GB (more accurately, 149 GB) hard drive. As you can probably guess, the FAT32 partition is used to store documents and settings, music, webpages, pictures, movies and other data.Before you begin/notes To use this partitioning system, you must meet either of the following requirements: - The biggest partition should be the first partition of the disk - You do not have any extended partitions (see note below) I will not be able to help much if you have an extended partition, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. The reason for not having an extended partition is because 4 partitions (Windows, data, swap and Linux) can fit nicely on the disk as primary partitions. But if you have more than 1 Linux distribution installed (such as Ubuntu and SuSE for example), it would be necessary for extended partitions to be developed. Windows should be your hda1 or sda1, or the "first" partition (if you installed Windows first, it should be like this). This is because if it isn't, the drive letter for the Windows installation would not be C:, and although this is not a huge problem, it can cause backwards-compatibility issues. If you have already set up other partitions, use a utility to hide them (Super FDISK, Parted, etc) to try and install Windows onto a partition that is drive C:. Some developers do not use %SystemDrive%, or %ProgramFiles% (see this for more information) when developing their programs/installers, they put in C:\ or C:\Program Files instead. If you are willing to verify the installation path of each program and change it, then you can use whatever drive letter you want. ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS make a backup BEFORE working with partition utilities!! There is ALWAYS a risk of data loss!! Partitioning and installation of operating systems If you already have the partitions setup like this, skip to the part below labelled Remapping Documents and Settings. If you have the time to make a complete backup, wipe out your entire disk and start over, it would be a good idea to avoid complications. However, if you do not have the time to do that, resize them. Resizing partitions: Boot into a Linux Live CD and open GParted/GNOME Partition Editor or whatever it is called. This is using the Ubuntu Live CD, yours may vary. Make sure all partitions on the hard disk is unmounted. Resize the Windows (NTFS) partition to a smaller size, minimum should be 12 GB, for the virtual memory and programs. The space beside the Windows partition should be the FAT32 partition. Ensure that your Linux partition is also resized to a smaller size, approximately the size of the Windows partition, but it can be smaller. Personally, I don't even know what I am apt-getting so I need to have some extra space there. Make the FAT32 partition between the Windows and ext3/swap partition (should be a big space). Format it as FAT32 if you haven't, and exit out of the live CD. Installing Windows: Install Windows into the NTFS partition if necessary. It should be the same as installation Windows any time. The only thing you need to follow is when setting up user accounts, you should either set up only 1, or only log onto 1 until you read the Remapping Documents and Settings section. Trust me. Installing Linux: Umm...you should know how to do this. I'm not really an expert in this area, but the Ubuntu installer is easy enough. Remapping Documents and Settings If you installed Windows and set up multiple user accounts, just log onto 1 right now and do not log onto other ones until you have finished this section. As you know, all settings and stuff in Windows is stored in a folder called Documents and Settings. We will move the directory to the FAT32 partition to share documents easier. *From now on, the shared FAT32 partition will be called the Z:\ drive. Make a folder on the Z: drive called Documents and Settings. Move all that you can move, the only thing you can't would be your accounts. Ensure All Users is moved. Now according to this https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/236621, we need to go into Registry Editor to find all the paths to C:\Documents and Settings\ to change them (remapping them). CTRL+F and type in Documents and Settings. Everytime it says C:\Documents and Settings\, change it to Z:\Documents and Settings\ (of course substitute Z: for whatever drive letter it is). Use caution when editing the registry. Now log onto another account, if you followed the above steps properly, the new profile should be created on the Z: drive. Move the other accounts' profile into Z:\Documents and Settings and delete the old folder on the C: drive. Remapping /home Search Google for some instructions because I almost damaged my Linux partition when do this. Conclusion By using this method, we can avoid using 3rd party utilities to access files on other non-native partitions. Some issues Here is a list of possibly issues that may result from using a FAT32 partition. This list is non-exhaustive: Permissions are not kept. Anyone booting into Windows can delete, modify, rename or do anything to the files. The Windows permissions aren't kept either. There is no NTFS compression, because this is a FAT32 drive. A 3rd party utility would need to be used for encryption. Anything that requires NTFS will either need to be FAT-compatible, otherwise it will not work. An example of this is Windows Live Messenger Sharing Folders. Hope this helps, FirefoxRocks/OpenOffice

I use Ext2 IFS but it occasionally bluescreens me. It can also cause my system to freeze, although this is quite rare (but I don't access the Linux partition from Windows much anyways). The only time I actually needed to use this was to move a folder because of an improper mounting, couldn't log into Linux.The speed is a bit slow, you can actually tell, but not notably slow.

Well you can run PortableFirefox. It overrides all of their proxies so you can bypass a proxy server. I am trying to encourage schools in my district to use DNS blocking instead, so no matter what browser people use, the site is still blocked because the network is the same.Instead of that, they blocked Firefox!!! Now they blocked Notepad++ for some reason, no more syntax colour coded HTML for me!! Why don't they use OpenDNS or something to implement the block?But anyways, if they use a proxy blocking method, they will also block external proxies (anonymizers and similar things) but you can still try the browser thing.

I don't need a server, but if I would need one for any reason, I would purchase one I guess.The school server runs SuSE Linux, I think I prefer Ubuntu Linux.I do not recommend using Windows as your server system, unless are willing to put up with crashes and many restarts. The uptime for the server should be maximum, unless it is for personal use only. The installation of Apache, PHP and MySQL on Linux is way too complicated for me to apt-get myself, even with Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager. I managed to install it on XAMPP, but it is just for me to test my PHP codes when I don't have access to the school server (well I can only access the school server at school).Just make sure that your ISP's terms and conditions (acceptable use policy, end-user license agreement, etc) permits running a server. For mine, Shaw Communications prohibits running a server under a residential Internet connection, so I would need to upgrade to a business account to be able to use my computer as a server. But I blocked outgoing connections to the world from XAMPP, and only allowed 127.0.0.1 to connect to 127.0.0.1

I don't think it is possible to achieve Windows Vista Aero on Windows XP. You can try downloading this PowerToy called Alt+Tab replacement to make a similar effect (sort of), but it's definitely not the same: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ For the sidebar, I do recommend using a third-party one, but since you mentioned you didn't want to, I don't know what to tell you. It's a bit of a system resource hog, especially when indexing, but you can try the Google Sidebar: http://desktop.google.com/ For Vista Thumbnails, I've never seen them before, but you can change the icon of certain applications and even the My Documents/My Music/My Pictures folder using TweakUI, available as a PowerToy from Microsoft. As for using Hex Editor to modify Windows XP so that the components will run, I don't think it will work because: 1. Windows Vista software is designed for Windows Vista. 2. It is a violation of the Microsoft EULA in some way I think. Hope this helps.

I don't know if it will help or not, but maybe taking a look at this will give you some ideas: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/msn-url/ It's really old and obviously hasn't been updated, last support was for Firefox 1.5. But it is almost the same feature, putting the data in the Music portion of Windows Live Messenger.

Yeah well Macs are quite expensive and I need to be really sure that I want one before I get one. My dad isn't really interested in them, although I have told him my brief experience on the Mac.One thing that is major and missing from Mac is User Account Control, which throws me off on decision making.