Patterico's Pontifications

10/17/2009

Can You Stand Another Live Chat?

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 9:16 pm



The wife is camping with my daughter, and my son is in bed. I don’t feel like reading or working right now.

The usual instructions: You see the chat window below? Look at the bottom. Enter your name or pseudonym in the top window. Enter your comment in the second window, and hit send. I will have to approve your comment before it appears, but I’m online right now, and will approve most comments within a minute. Usually within seconds.

IMPORTANT: Note the buttons at the bottom. You will probably want to turn off “autoscroll.” It bothers a lot of people.

7 Responses to “Can You Stand Another Live Chat?”

  1. Hardware overlays

    On Windows systems, screenshots of games and media players sometimes fail, resulting in a blank rectangle. The reason for this is that the graphics are bypassing the normal screen and going to a high-speed graphics processor on the graphics card by using a method called hardware overlay. Generally, there is no way to extract a computed image back out of the graphics card, though software may exist for special cases or specific video cards.

    One way these images can be captured is to turn off the hardware overlay. Because many computers have no hardware overlay, most programs are built to work without it, just a little slower. In Windows XP, this is disabled by opening the Display Properties menu, clicking on the “Settings” tab, clicking, “Advanced”, “Troubleshoot”, and moving the Hardware Acceleration Slider to “None.”

    Free software media players may also use the overlay, but often have a setting to avoid that, or dedicated screenshot functions.

    Mac OS X DVD player deactivates the built-in screenshot feature, but it is still possible to capture the image or the video with third party software, or by using the “screencapture” command in the terminal.*

    happyfeet (f62c43)

  2. Bill and Angelo,

    I think there must be a timer on Live Chats and ours just shut off. I don’t know how the Live Chat works so I can’t reopen comments, but feel free to leave comments here. I’m turning in for the night but I enjoyed our conversation.

    DRJ (f462b4)

  3. Hey, guys. I see you are both still commenting but it won’t let me back in. I hope you see this comment because I feel bad that it looks like I left without saying anything.

    DRJ (f462b4)

  4. No prob DRJ, its late lol

    Angelo (5df281)

  5. DRJ..;.the story pertained to Mexican food in Minnesota in 1981….I found autentico! Surprised the hell outta me…goodly lol see ya

    Angelo (5df281)

  6. It seems that mustangs have been federally protected since 1971 and as a result have hopelessly overpopulated. The Department of the Interior tries to capture and adopt out as many as 5,000 a year with little success due to a shortage of people willing and able to adopt. It’s sad but better than in the first half of the last century when farmers were shooting them and rendering them down for pig feed.

    nk (df76d4)

  7. I keep missing these chats. Rats! One of these days…

    Stan Switek (d9d8ce)


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