Zero-day Windows bug problem worse than first thought, says expert

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Is this something that's immediate, or happens after like
two hours of playing a Pogo game?

I've just played like 15 games of Poppit, the free one
with the ads in the background......I find that pretty
funny, the ad in the background, I've never seen that
before. I think it was for some cracker !!!!! (If I go to
Pogo, I'm usually on the wife's PC and she (hahahahaah)
pays for membership, so I don't see that.).....but anyway,
the sound seemed to be the same as it is when playing
under Windows........

......which prompted the question above.

No, it happens immediately.
Usually, sound works, then just falls off.
If I mute/unmute the sound icon in the game window, it
works for 15 sec.

I don't see ads, wife and me are members.
Its only 20 or 30 bucks a year.

You use gnome?
Maybe its KDE ... which for some reason I feel compelled to
put up with.

Put up with ? ...... actually with 9.10 I went the KDE route instead of
GNOME. I think it's much more polished looking and much more asthetically
pleasing. While earlier attempts to
use KDE with ver. 2 & 3, which were significantly and noticeably slower
than GNOME, 9.10 came with ver 4.something of KDE that works far better
than the previous versions. I recently
updated to v4.4 of KDE w/o upping K****tu to 10.04......

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-t...0-134546.shtml

'Put up with' would have been the term I used in the earlier versions, but
not 4.x. I've found some neat thing's like with Dolphin file manager, you
can go to settings, services, and
add context menu functions that otherwise you might need to use the
package manager or other method to use. This is just like directly d/l'g
plugins. I found these while trying to find
a ISO file mounter script, and ran across it, and there was one that
worked great. There's also a couple different root actions menus as well.
There isn't a ton of them, but a few
important one's available.

You can also change the desktop to act exactly as a desktop w/icons and
not the totally lame way files in the desktop dir don't show and the icons
that *are* on the desktop don't have
that stupid bar that pops up to control it. Interestingly enough, I'm
using DuoView with two screens, and can set each monitors 'desktop' to
show the contents of a different 'desktop'
directory.

I checked Java and that is the Sun/Oracle package and not the open source
Java thing. I don't know if that was something I did or that's how it
came. After you made the comment on the
sound in Pogo, I did some searching, and many times the solution was to
dump the open Java for the 'real' one. That is what prompted to see what I
was running.

I do rememeber all the fuss over PulseAudio and do rememeber removing
that. I've since realized a misunderstanding though. I was under the
impression that the inclusion of PulseAudio
in the *buntu distros was in lieu of ALSA, like it was a completely
different sound system, like OSS. Instead, it appears to be another sound
'server' that runs through ALSA...similar
to JACK.

I only use JACK when using the audio apps I do. When JACK is running, I
don't get system sounds or non-JACK app sounds. Non-JACK would be systems
sounds, stuff in the browser, and some
media players (I'd assume, but I never checked any of their optins for
JACK settings), and the games I mentioned before are not JACK apps....but
I'm only doing audio work whe JACKs
running so who wants those other sounds when trying to work with audio.

Apparently, I can install a second sound card and configure it so JACK
uses one card all the time, and straight-ALSA stuff uses the other card,
and somehow pipe one card through the
other and use only one set of speakers.....but I'm not sure if I'm *that*
much of a geek to go that route.

I'm also using Firefox v3.6.9pre.....excuse me, not Firefox, but Namoroka.
(Apparently, in beta or pre-release form, they've been using a different
name for FF and TB.) Up until 2 days
ago when TB was updated to v3.1.2, I was running a pre-release and it was
called Shredder.....kind of stupid if you ask me.

I'm also using the Aurorae Decoration Theme Engine under 'Look & Feel' -
'Appearance'- 'Windows', and only using a few effects. I really don't
understand how people can say this
looks unfinished and not up to the quality of the Windows Aero theme. I
couldn't disagree more. Oh, and the video card is nVidia, a fanless 8600GS
(?) with the proprietary drivers
installed, running dual monitors using DuoView as I mentioned before. Oh,
and a 2.something Ghz Athlon 64 x 2 w/2Gigs RAM, running everything 32 bit
on an ASUS MB w/some generic
onbaord 8 channels sound.

I don't know what else I can tell you.


Sounds like you don't know JACK!



If his last name is Meoff, I've heard of him.

Dan will be happy to hear that I've installed Mint Gnome and64 on this
lappie, I now have no f-ing sound what-so-ever now.
Arrgghhhhh.
The suffering continues!
I'm sure I'll get it sorted ... will need to quit working for a friggen
week.

Sounds like you don't know JACK!



If his last name is Meoff, I've heard of him.

Dan will be happy to hear that I've installed Mint Gnome
and64 on this lappie, I now have no f-ing sound
what-so-ever now. Arrgghhhhh.

Why would I be happy to hear that ?

That sucks.

On 08/27/2010 09:53 PM, DanS wrote:


Sounds like you don't know JACK!



If his last name is Meoff, I've heard of him.

Dan will be happy to hear that I've installed Mint Gnome
and64 on this lappie, I now have no f-ing sound
what-so-ever now. Arrgghhhhh.

Why would I be happy to hear that ?

That sucks.


Got it.
I needed this to fix a bug with my Intel HDA
Package: linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic (2.6.32.24.25)