I had a Pet of Ace installed with each executable game being called what it was. Another later version had Ace and the beginning of the executable file name. After installing it, the older versions did not run anymore even though the executable name was different. So... When one upgrades a game or a...

My PC is running Lupu 520. I have a 3.6gig pupsave file loaded with various programs and apps as well as a few SFS files loaded. Upon running the file/partition size app, the base directory ,/, is showing the size as 4.1gigs. So how is it possible for that base directory size to be bigger than my in...

Evidently, HP is in the process of making an entirely new computer chip that could replace the transistor. It seems to be the combination of a capacitor, transistor, and resistor. It is supposed to go beyond being an on-off type and can be variable as to it's value. It is also said to be able to ret...

First, I am retired and have Medicare as well as being on my wife's work insurance policy. When I started using Medicare, I discovered that Medicare listed the insurance through my wife's work policy as my primary insurance and Medicare as my secondary insurance. This meant that Medicare did not pay...

It was not a Dell laptop, but my daughter's Acer laptop had developed heating problems. The area where one feels air exhausting did not seem overly hot though. I disassembled the laptop following instructions I got from the internet and found a square block of lint blocking the heat stove path. And ...

Somewhere along the line of downloading mawk, I got connected to a site called marriage chat with the picture of a young lady and a chat window with the line "Why don't you join now?"
Not what I was expecting.
I will have to check out the mawk programming language though.

I had previously visited internet archive to see how the games compare to those I can still play on my ancient computer with its 1.75 MHz processor and 64 kilobytes of ram. And I used that computer for quite a while with the thought that I would purchase an IBM compatible PC when it would have the f...

I am 67 and still here. My avatar is from a number of years ago.
I would update it, but I do not want to scare anyone!

I disagree with your assumption that OnStar is on every GM vehicle. OnStar was an option that one could get when we bought our 2007 Pontiac G6. But as cars are being built to be smarter, hacking into the computer to partially control a car are a possibility and with the proposed introduction of self...

I have Win 7 on a laptop and a desktop as other OSes installed. I retain them to play some games that will not work with wine in linux. Down the line, I may set up a few virtual drive installations of Windows for the games I have bought/acquired that need older versions of Windows to even install le...

I was trying to play the mp4 videos with mplayer and upon opening the preferences selection under Edit, I noticed the video interface was set to "mv". I changed that to "x11" and upon restarting the video, I then had the video displayed. So I can mark this as solved. I still do n...

I have Precise 5.7.1 installed frugally on my PC along with Lupu 520. I have some video movies I had downloaded from YouTube using the GTK Youtube Viewer. The videos were in mp4 format and they play just fine with mplayer in Lupu 520. But when I try to view them in Precise, a smaller window appears ...

Back in the Windows 95 time span, I can remember an article about someones test of running the complete OS and applications from a ram disk. Evidently, he had a boot loader that set up the monstrous ram disk, copied all the needed windows files and OS to it and then booted from the ram disk. He did ...

I used that printer to print 3 part carbonless forms that were custom shipping manifests for a company I had at one time.
And trying to print multiple part forms with an inkjet or lazer printer just does not work. Tractor feed dot matrix printers are still used by a lot of businesses.

For a while, I was watching StarHunter 2000 episodes. I thought they were very good and actually better than the original StarHunter. But when I saw the final episode, out of sequence, I was left wanting more. I also remember a scifi series called Fireball XL5. But earlier, I was addicted to the ori...

In my case, I had bought a PC that had Windows 7 Home Edition installed on the sata hard drive. I then added a pata hard drive that took over the position of being the first drive. Grub for Dos and the menu.lst were installed on the pata drive on a fat partition. So no modifications were done to the...

In my case, dowloaded, burnt a DVD, and booted. This is a Dell PC with 4gigs ram and an intel duel core processor. The resolution was set to 1280x1024 for the desktop. And I had to manually select the Connect icon to set up my network interface. The desktop icons, many of them, were overlapped somet...

Since you did not specify it, what is the size of the ISO file? I am downloading it now and it appears to be trying to continue downloading. But it also seems to be stuck at 2.4 gigs. (complete edited afterward) I will have to verify it with the md5 checksum and then burn a dvd. Is there some place ...

I have a laptop with facial recognition. And the recognition wants one to look exactly the same every time on logs on using that software. But over the course of days, weeks, one's looks change. I do not even have or use a log on password with my computers. Everything is backed up for restoring and ...

I tried it in Puppy Unicorn and it worked nicely.
The only thing I had to figure out was how to copy the video address without having to type it in manually.