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Comment on SeaPort Service seaport.exe – Trojan Alert? by Ninite Easy Software Install Upgrade - BestHubris.com Best Hubris

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Comment on Top 5 Uses for Google Incognito Windows and Internet Explorer Privacy Mode by WGHubris

WGHubris — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:30:32 +0000

But not, ONLY porn. That’s the point

Comment on Top 5 Uses for Google Incognito Windows and Internet Explorer Privacy Mode by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:02:58 +0000

C’mon now…we all use it for porn most of the time. Dont lie to yourself

Comment on Wireless Networking Drops Connection Windows 7 Troubleshooting by Brendan Smith

Brendan Smith — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:12:31 +0000

Any tips on what to do after trying this fix but it doesn’t work? I was getting the exact 3 errors with the same timestamp and the message that the WinHTTP service was stopped. Did the fix, those errors are gone.

The problem seems to persist though. With the same results, nothing works but resetting the router. In the event logs now, after resetting the router there is a message saying the WinHTTP service was started up again, but there are no messages in the log saying it was ever stopped. Still just the same DNS error, but without the other 2 simultaneous errors, and no BROWSER errors in site on the whole log!

The fix seems to have caused the problem to be less frequent, but it’s still happening.

Comment on HP LaserJet 1012 Printer Drivers for Windows 7 by w carl mayer

w carl mayer — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:53:09 +0000

I just had the same experience. I clicked on what looked like a download for a LJ 1012 printer driver that would work in Windows 7. I paid almost $40, but I did not get what I thought I was getting. I will cancel the order.

I hope the article is correct, as I would like to use my 1012.

Comment on Galaxy Tab Flash Support Shows Flash Sucks? by WGHubris

WGHubris — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:26:30 +0000

Alex, it isn’t the content that is bloated, it is Flash itself. We are talking about tiny, nothing, little animations — usually in ads — that use up stunning amounts of CPU and RAM. I am perfectly willing to accept high resource usage for high-level functionality or display, but open any performance monitor you wish and watch what happens when you load three webpages with nothing but small little Flash ads. It takes up more RAM than full-scale applications running on your computer.

I don’t know about the background, but I do know two things:
1) The ONLY reason I EVER see for a Chrome crash is that the Shockwave plugin or other Flash resource has crashed. Crappy HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, etc… may all affect my machine, but they don’t take down the browser.
2) Both Google and Firefox isolate Flash for exactly this reason.
3) Flash drains your battery like there is a whole in the bottom and the electricity is running out. I can run a full media player with an HD movie and use less battery than a small Flash animation uses up.

I get that Flash can be used for a lot of things. I also get why DEVELOPERS like Flash. End users hate having their computers bogged down without a real good reason and mobile users hate having their batteries depleted. It isn’t just me. You’ll see no one out there defending Flash except Flash developers. That is like the only people saying the Dodge Dart is a good car are the people who make the Dodge Dart. It isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement.

It seems that developers like writing flash, but users don’t like using Flash.

Comment on Sprint LG Optimus Android Update by WGHubris

WGHubris — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:18:09 +0000

I just rooted my LG Optimus. There appears to be a delay in making the CyanogenMod work on the Optimus so I stared with the Your Mom Rom. We’ll see how that goes.

Comment on Wireless Networking Drops Connection Windows 7 Troubleshooting by Wondertoad

Wondertoad — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:20:32 +0000

Wow. My case was not really the same, mine was clearly indicating a lost signal. But I thought, “what the hell, let’s try,” and it was a good choice.
It really seems to have worked 100%.
Thank you for your time and expertise, sir!

Comment on Galaxy Tab Flash Support Shows Flash Sucks? by Alex

Alex — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:15:43 +0000

1. You call Flash “bloated.” The same content distributed through HTML and Javascript is bigger. Flash content is compressed. Most HTML and JS applications are not. Flash is much faster at rendering vector graphics than JS, especially on mobiles, and distributing vector graphics is obviously takes less space than passing down bitmap animations. Flash content also typically relies on much less information being passed between client and server. Many HTML based web applications pass large amounts of generated HTML down from the server. Obviously there are ways around this, but the reality is what it is.

2. Flash outperforms HTML5 + JS in most applications, especially on mobile. http://www.craftymind.com/guimark3/ JS performance on mobiles has been horrible so far, though Apple made huge progress in iOS5. One point that should be clarified – people who say that Flash content eats into battery life on mobiles are correct – it does. The missing part of that analysis is that if all of this content was currently rendered in JS and HTML, we’d be much worse off. The problem isn’t that Flash is the inferior technology, it’s that there is a huge amount of content out there that isn’t designed for mobiles.

3. You’ve misunderstood Google’s work with Flash. Google has created an entirely new plugin API called the Pepper Plugin API that they intend to be a replacement for Netscape plugins in general. Among their stated reasons are that the NPAPI is lacking in both security and performance. As part of their implementation of their new plugin API (PPAPI), they are making their own version of Flash to work with it.

4. In my experience, Flash applications crash in one of two general scenarios – A)the Flash application developer wrote bad code. B) Flash makes use of a multimedia service on the machine (video card usually) that causes a problem. The first problem happens in all languages and generally becomes more common as the applications become more complex. The second problem is also not unique to Flash. Anyone who has lived in the world of computers for any length of time can tell stories about difficulties with getting games or video players to work right, the need for updating drivers, etc. Essentially, when you introduce multimedia, you begin to access the aspects of our computers that vary the most from one machine to the next. I have not seen any evidence to suggest that Flash crashes on more systems than any other significant piece of MM software. Personally, I’ve never had a Flash application that I’ve written crash for any reason other than my own mistakes in writing the code. By all means, if you have written code that shows otherwise, please share it.

When it comes down to it, developers should choose the right tool for the job. There are still many cases where Flash is preferable to HTML+JS. And there are of course things which Flash should not be used for.

Btw, here are a few demonstrations of what the latest Flash can do:

Unreal Engine 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQiUP2Hd60Y
Square Enix game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHLjQKjk6Dg
An MMO in development: http://www.mmorpg.ca/sherwoodalpha.html

Comment on Sprint LG Optimus Android Update by fluffy

fluffy — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:44:31 +0000

The Apple store can’t fix your Android device.

CyanogenMod, however, can.