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  • Is there a way to stream Youtube videos to Windows Media Player?

    I'm looking for a way to watch YouTube videos using Windows Media Player instead of the crappy, slow Flash plugin that YouTube uses. I mainly use Firefox, but a solution for Chrome, IE, or Opera will also work. I know that some YouTube videos are in the .flv format, which WMP can't play, but I want to view most videos in WMP.

    4 AnswersYouTube7 years ago
  • Does anyone know of a video editing program which allows me to remove individual frames?

    I recorded a video of some gameplay in Project64. However, the video lags in some places, and I want to remove a few frames to make it look smoother and be in sync with the audio. I recorded the audio and video with two different programs, so I can put them together whenever. I want to take my video and look at each individual frame and remove some from the laggy parts. What program can I use for this? (Windows or Linux)

    2 AnswersSoftware7 years ago
  • What is a good text editor for ASM programming?

    I'm looking for a text editor/IDE that is good for assembly language programming. I want is for it to show address offsets as well as line numbers, and allow me to hex-dump the code. I need it to support x86, z80, and MOS 6502. What's the best program for this?

    1 AnswerProgramming & Design7 years ago
  • DosBox: How do you switch drives on the fly?

    I want to perform a full installation of real MS-DOS 6.22 inside of DosBox. For me, this version came in 3 floppies, all of which I made images of. I can boot the first floppy image inside of DosBox and start installing, but then it asks me to switch disks. How do I swap drives while the installation is already running?

    1 AnswerSoftware7 years ago
  • Error loading operating system. How do I install Windows 95 in DosBox?

    I'm trying to install Windows 95 in DosBox to run a few of those old Windows games that don't run in XP. When the Windows Setup reboots, I get the Error loading operating system message. I've installed Windows 95 in qemu in more or less the same way,

    These are the exact steps I took:

    Copy all files from the Windows 95 disc to a folder 'WIN95' on the Desktop

    Install DosBox 0.7.4

    Install the Megabuild 6 DosBox (to get the imgmake command)

    Install DriveExplorer

    Create a directory 'DosBox' under 'My Documents'

    Download a MS-DOS 6.22 Boot disk to this directory.

    Open DosBox MB6 and run 'imgmake "c:\Documents and Settings\myusername\My Documents\DosBox\harddisk.img -t hd size 500'

    Open the newly created harddisk.img in DriveExplorer and copy the WIN95 folder from the Desktop to the virtual drive.

    Open up DosBox

    Mount 'DosBox' folder as drive D:, mount harddisk.img as drive c: and boot up the 'Dos6.22.img'

    I installed Windows 95 like normal from here and appeared to go smoothly. When it asks for a reboot, DosBox shuts down like it's supposed to. When I reopen DosBox and try to boot harddisk.img, I get this:

    Opening image file C:\Documents and Settings\myusername\My Documents\DosBox\harddisk.img

    Booting from drive A...

    Error loading operating system

    Where did I go wrong?

    3 AnswersSoftware7 years ago
  • Anyway to get mold out of an old saxophone?

    I have a tenor sax that's about 80 years old and it has a pretty strong mold smell. It's not a stinky smell, but it does smell quite musty and the odor stays on me after playing. I let it air out in my living room most of the time, but the smell isn't going away. Does anyone know how to get rid of it?

    2 AnswersJazz7 years ago
  • Can I get the Google Chrome menu bar on Ubuntu?

    If you've used Google Chrome on a Mac, it does in fact have the "File, Edit..." menu bar. Ubuntu has a global menu bar like Mac OS. Is there any way to get that Chrome global menu bar in Ubuntu?

    Screenshot: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SijId4tp1RI/...

    1 AnswerGoogle7 years ago
  • Is it possible to get malware just by visiting a website? If so, how?

    I'm using Windows 7 with Waterfox (a 64-bit build of Firefox). I'm don't have any antivirus, but I've got this Firefox addon called NoScript which blocks all scripts on all websites unless I explicitly allow them. I never download anything except for school stuff from my college's blackboard site. I'm pretty tech-savvy, so I have good browsing habits and can easily recognize fake stuff and scams. I don't watch porn or go on unsafe sites. So with all scripts disabled, can you get malware by just merely visiting a webpage? If it's possible, what allows the webpage to install malware without any user prompt?

    1 AnswerSecurity7 years ago
  • (Unix/Linux) What's the longest time your computer has taken to compile a program?

    I'm compiling Unity on Arch Linux and I'm 7 hours into it and it's still not finished. I've heard that KDE takes a full day to compile. Share your experiences. How long have you had to wait for something to compile?

    1 AnswerSoftware7 years ago
  • Are there alternative programming languages for the Java platform?

    I really like how Java is extremely portable and how the same bytecode can run on multiple platforms without modification. However, I'm looking for an alternative language than the standard Java programming language. Are there other languages that can produce Java bytecode and are not object-oriented. A Java assembly language or something like C would be great.

    1 AnswerProgramming & Design7 years ago
  • What is the name of this meme?

    I probably should know this since it's everywhere, but I don't know what it's called. The weird face in this comic:

    http://ragecomics.com/-img/52e721451605fb18f100053...

    1 AnswerComics & Animation7 years ago
  • How do you install a driver in MS-DOS?

    I'm trying to repair an old computer that has Windows ME and I need to install a DOS network driver. I couldn't find the real Windows ME driver, since it's no longer available, but I did find an MS-DOS driver, though, which I've heard works with Windows. The problem is, I have very little knowledge of how DOS works. The driver came in a .cab file that contains 4 files (atnds2.dos atnds2.ini ndis.pci ndis.txt). What do I do with these files?

    4 AnswersOther - Computers7 years ago
  • How do I read strings containing newline characters (C)?

    I'm a beginning C programmer. I'm trying to make a program that displays the contents of a text file (called thefile), but the string always seems to stop at a new line. As far as I know, lines are not terminated by a null value, but by \n.

    My code is this:

    main(){

    char contents[100];

    FILE *fp;

    fp=fopen("home/cameron/Desktop/Programming/thefile","r");

    printf("THESE ARE THE FILE CONTENTS:/n");

    fgets(contents,50,fp);

    printf("%s",contents);

    return 0;

    }

    The file "thefile" reads:

    ABCD

    EFGH

    IJKL

    But the program only displays the first line.

    THESE ARE THE FILE CONTENTS:

    ABCD

    How do I get it to display the whole thing including newline characters.

    3 AnswersProgramming & Design7 years ago
  • Is there any way to recover data from my broken non-smart phone?

    I have an old cell phone (Motorola v195) to be exact. It A few days ago, the screen snapped off. The phone still works except for the screen. I can even make calls and stuff, but I can't see at all what I'm doing. Is there a way to get data off of it (like addresses and phone numbers)? I've tried plugging it into my computer, but Windows XP only recognizes the phone's modem. I need to access its internal storage.

    3 AnswersCell Phones & Plans7 years ago
  • What folder are Windows updates downloaded to in Windows 95?

    Yeah, I know what you're going to say. "What on earth are you doing with Windows 95?". The reason is because I'm trying to run a very old computer game, but I can't get it to run on Windows XP or later, and it didn't work on Linux with Wine, so I installed Windows 95 in VMware. I'm trying to get VMware tools to work, but it requires a certain Windows update. Since Windows has removed Windows 95 updates from their website, it seems the only way to get them is from my ancient Windows 95 PC. The problem is I don't know which folder the updates are stored in on the computer. Does anyone know?

    1 AnswerSoftware7 years ago
  • What exactly is a handle in Windows?

    I'm trying to learn Windows programming, but this term "handle" keeps coming up. A handle to this, a handle to that, etc. What exactly is a handle? Yes, I know it's some sort of reference to something, but what is it exactly? Is it a memory address, an ID number? Just remove all of the abstractions for me. An answer in terms of assembly language would be best.

    3 AnswersProgramming & Design7 years ago
  • Is there any way to escape the horrible wrath of object-oriented programming in Windows?

    I'm learning to program for Windows and trying to find a way to program without dealing with OOP. I am not liking the Windows API one bit. Even with assembly language, many of the functions I call deal with classes and objects and all of that object-oriented BS. Creating a window deals with device contexts, window classes, device classes, and objects. Everything seems to need a class, a context, and a handle. Can I actually make Windows applications without dealing with all of this?

    5 AnswersProgramming & Design7 years ago
  • A question about using brackets in assembly language?

    Sorry for the very unspecific title. I don't know what it is called when you do this. I know that in Intel syntax, putting brackets around a memory address means "the value at that address". So, if we wrote:

    mov eax, [ebx]

    It would take the value at the address stored in ebx and put it into eax. But what if we do something like this:

    mov eax, [ebx-24]

    Would this take the value at address ebx-24 and store it into eax (like you would think), or would it simply take the value of ebx-24 and store it into eax?

    1 AnswerProgramming & Design7 years ago
  • How do I cross-link on Linux?

    I have a computer with both Windows 7 and Linux Mint 13. I'm learning to program for Windows, but I use Linux for most of my stuff. I'm looking to assemble and link on Linux so I don't have to reboot into Windows every time I want to work on my program. I'm sure the basic stuff I'm doing can be tested with Wine. I can use NASM on Linux, just like in Windows, to assemble my code into a .obj file, but I don't know how to link the DLLs and make a .exe on Linux. On Windows, I use alink, but what do I do on Linux? Can the GNU Linker (ld) do this? If so, how? I don't want to use a virtual machine, because I don't think I will be able to activate Windows, which would make me have to reinstall every 30 days.

    Also, please don't ***** about me using assembly language. I'm tired of people telling me to just use C/C++. I'm not interested in that right now.

    1 AnswerProgramming & Design7 years ago
  • What is the purpose of the EBP register?

    So, I'm currently learning x86 assembly language. I know that the ESP register contains the location of the front of the stack, but what is EBP? I'm reading this article here: http://forum.codecall.net/topic/65232-assembly-loc... and it doesn't give a clear answer to what it really does. Is it to somehow save the stack pointer when calling a function, so I can restore the stack frame after the function returns? I know it stands for "Extended Base Pointer", but what is a base pointer?

    1 AnswerProgramming & Design7 years ago