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    Well yes and no, by default if you double click on the picture it does go to the fullscreen app. I havn't tweaked it just yet to utilize another default program. But if you right click on it, and utilize the preview option it brings up the older window based preview pane on the desktop.

     

    Currently still messing around with it, but should be able to change the default program to open up what extension via control panel/default programs and click the associate by file type and be able to change it if that helps.

     

     

    There's no way I'd be able to teach her to use the right click menu. I'm having a hard enough time just trying to get her to understand when she needs to use which button, and why some things need one click while others need two. 

     

    I'll try changing the default the next time I get my hands on it, thanks for the tip.

  2. Wow, I didn't even think this was still floating around. Anyone happen to know where Asch ran off too?


     




    I'm gonna bump this topic, due to the influx of tablets i've seen being placed on the market in the past few years. I see them everywhere at my job of many different makes and models. I own the new Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 32GB, I like to read, so it's good for me rather then having to carry around different books and the selection is massive. Also, the manga and comic book selection is quite impressive. So, i'll probably start buying and reading more manga. The graphics are the best I've seen on a tablet before.. except for maybe the iPad. I haven't got the chance to play around with it much, in regards to movies and other media and apps. But, as soon as i get the opportunity, i'm gonna see what it can do. The processor is pretty fast even when i had a bad internet connection it was still quite speedy. I bought an "origami" protective case/stand that's attractive and holds up the tablet nicely.


     


    Anybody else out there have tablet? Or has anyone else joined the hype?


     


    Oh, and I forgot to mention that i LOVE my tablet and am very happy with my purchase (although pricey) ^_^




     


    What do you think of the Kindle HDX? My nephews have the original kindle and it seemed like a pretty decent little machine for the amount of power it came with. I still haven't bought one yet myself, I always find a way to talk myself out of buying one at the last minute.


  3. Well I just did a reinstall to 8.1, not the most pleasant upgrade but it def taking some time getting use to. I have noticed that it does operate way differently from 7 and earlier. Although the new start menu does take time to get use to and well hangs here and there occasionally. But overall its not a bad after you learn the ends and outs of it. One thing I have noticed is there are some driver update issues, but it does provide a compatibility layer for older drivers for the kernel. Not saying this is a good thing, but its something rather than nothing. I still do have some unknowns for drivers that 8.1 can't support but it operates without a hitch.

     

    Also, I do utilize StartisBack to bring back the old start menu as well, which is relativity cheap.

     

    Does 8.1 allow you to print photo's and other stuff without having to dig into the charmbar. What my mother has right know opens all pictures into a fullscreen view regardless of where you opened it from. Since it's in fullscreen mode you have no toolbar or shortcuts to easily print.

  4. VMware is kind of like the emulators you'd use to play Nintendo games on your PC. Instead of emulating a Nintendo it emulates a PC so you can run an OS inside another OS. The VMware image is basically an image made from an OS already running inside VMware. It's designed to drop right into VMware so you don't have to worry about going through the install process yourself.


     


    If you're looking for a way to get Kali onto a thumbdrive, take a look at UNetbootin. It's designed to make the process fairly easy.


  5. What is this user style you speak of!

     

    Sorry about that, I deleted the pictures I had up before because it showed the older colors. I added a new one that should give an idea of what I'm talking about.

     

    Again, my css knowledge is very outdated, so any advice to make it better would be appreciated.

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    Actually, I used MeGUI for the encode.  It was reccommended to be earlier my someone so I tried it.  I am still not comfortable with it yet, but found a few Profiles to try it with and those are the results I got.  Not that it means much without posting the specifics, but I used a profile specifically for Animation and I selected 2-passes at a bitrate of 700 and a preset of "Placebo", which is the slowest.

     

     

    I would expect better performance from megui than what I'm seeing in that wmp shot. It has to be wmp's fault, because that one is awful. The vlc one is actually on par for what I'd expect from it.

     

    That aside, your problem is still most likely aliasing. It will make your lines look all jagged and broken up. It's probably left over from the deinterlacing process. You should be able to find a fairly simple anti-aliasing filter for avisynth, there are many to choose from. I would honestly take a look at AnimeIVTC or QTGMC. They are scripts you can run in avisynth to do your deinterlacing/detelecining that will also handle cleaning up the crud it sometime leaves behind. Both will require a little more work on your part, but they are my preferred method of dealing with non-progressive material. 

     

    You may also want to check out AvsPmod, it will probable be easier learning avisynth and it's custom filters with it. I'd keep megui around to tell you if the video needs to be deinterlaced or detelecined, but than move everything to AvsPmod. Doom9, the forum johnflower mentioned, will be a huge help in finding the filters you'll need and teaching you how to use them. 

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    I believe it's classed as personalising. I do it with every OS, hell, I have an installation script for Ubuntu which rips out the shitty Unity interface and brings back the classic look.

     

     

    In Win 8's position I install Start8 (well worth the £3) and that's pretty much it. Give it some colours and change the wallpaper and I'm good.

     

     

    Then you and I have a different definition of personalize. To me, personalizing would be changing the color scheme, location of the taskbar, or anything else that doesn't involve installing something. It also shouldn't use anymore system resources than the default system would. What you and every other win 8 user are doing is modification. You're changing the way the system operates in a way that causes it to do more work than it would in it's default settings.

     

    Win 8.1 and this newer update would of never happened if everyone just did what you and people like you are telling them to do. Microsoft doesn't care about making the best OS possible, they just want to sell the most licenses. It's up to us, the consumer, to ensure they continue to improve the OS in both performance and usability. 

     

    I'm not trying to start yet another argument, but the install this and edit that is getting old. It doesn't get us to where we all want to be, which is win 8 performance with win 7 usability.

     

    As for ubuntu, I would just install a distro that doesn't come with unity for the same reasons I listed above.

     

  8. Here is an example of a problem I am experiencing with one of my encodes.  As you can see, some of the solid black lines (like the eyebrows, and mouth) are broken up in SOME of the frames, while others look fine.  I tested the Original (Actual DVD) in both VLC and WMP and it looks good.  I was mainly testing my encodes in WMP and the broken lines told me I was doing something wrong.  Then I tested the same encodes in VLC Player and they looked almost completely fixed like the original.  Perhaps VLC player has some settings on to improve the picture by default.  Any idea on what is causing this?

     

     

    I believe the problem you're having is a combination of aliasing, and using handbrake to clean non-progressive video. Handbrake is, IMPO, the wrong tool for non-progressive video. It lacks the fine tuning you can achieve from a more advanced filter you would find in avisynth. Avisynth will also offer a host of other filters to combat aliasing, rainbows, mosquito noise, and other crud you would rather not preserve. Handbrake should really only be used when you have progressive video that just needs to be compressed. 

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  9. I updated the Style above to the newer colors I'm using. I'm sure it still has some bugs hidden in there somewhere, but it should be usable. It should also now work on firefox, but the script above needs editing, details above.


     


    Edit: the style above is set to use the font Comfortaa which can be found here.


  10. You guys do realise you can make Windows 8, look and work exactly the same as Windows 7, right? "Classic Shell", download and install that. I am using Windows 8 and it feels exactly the same as Windows 7 with it but there is one big difference. That difference is Windows 8 is a lot faster! I can really notice the speed difference in a lot of areas. I am glad I made the switch I'll never be looking back.

     

    The customer shouldn't have to fix the companies products. That's what free enterprise is built on. The idea that if you don't like it, don't buy it. This is what fans of Win 8 never seem to understand. It's not metro we're upset about, it's the fact that Microsoft different listen to everyone who's been complaining about metro since the developers preview. 

     

    The debate should be fairly moot soon, because they're changing it yet again. This time it seems like they are finally listening. 

  11. It looks pretty cool, but I would likely wait until comes out fully before getting it. Also its kind of amusing that it's hardware specs say that you need a minimum hard drive of 500 GB or more.

     

    Well, I think it's a very ruff beta at this point. Geared more towards developers than end users. I believe things will start to get interesting when Portal 2 finishing being ported. That's the one I'm really waiting for.

     

    I imagine the 500 gb is more for the massive size of games today than anything involving the actual OS. They could probably save a decent amount of space on the OS if they ditched gnome3. A bloated desktop like that really isn't necessary for something that's going to boot straight into Big Picture Mode.

     

    The only thing I'm worried about is the controller. I'm not sure how much I'll like the dual trackpad it's sporting.

  12. Valve has released a beta of their upcoming SteamOS, and it seems to be based on debian stable/wheezy. According to the site, it will overwrite the entire hdd of the computer you install it on. This means dual booting is out of the question at least for now. 


     


    It doesn't look like I'll get a chance to try this one anytime soon. I lack a spare pc to test it on, so I'll have to wait awhile. I am, however, liking the progress off the Steam Linux Client. This console may be the only one I bother with this gen.


  13. This version hasn't made it into the debian repos yet, so I'll have to wait to hate it.


     


    You can try installing a scrollbar extension, I use a modified version of this. I just changed the colors to something that matches the themes I use and narrowed the thumb a bit more. You can find the modified version of my extension at the bottom of my user style linked form here, or here. The extension I linked to isn't the only one for scrollbars either, but it's the only one that I have experience with.


     


    Below is an image of what mine looks like.


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    Regarding the arrows, I don't really miss them because my mouse has really smooth scrolling.


     


  14. This season has been an incredible disappointment. There's no fun in watching the same guy walk away with the win every time.


     


    The only plus side has been that Hamilton apparently made the right call for jumping ship last season. I really wasn't expecting him to be this competitive.


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