I reformatted a laptop with Windows XP SP3; updated drivers, completely ran Windows Update, and installed Firefox and Microsoft Office. Then I went to install Microsoft Security Essentials. It installed fine, but when it tried to update virus and spyware definitions, it got all the way to the end (“Installing…”) and then had a “Connection Failed” error.
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Symptom:
When you double-click a .camproj file and play it in Camtasia Studio, the mouse cursor is a black box.
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Imagine you wake up tomorrow, sit at your computer, and Windows won’t boot because of a hard drive failure. What would your first thought be? Really think about it for a minute: what would you lose? Assuming, of course, that the hard drive is not recoverable. What kinds of family photos would be gone forever? How much work, how many school papers, how much progress would be irreversibly ripped from you?
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Here is a basic JOGL application:
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I am currently using SDL_Delay function in my program, which sleeps for the specified number of milliseconds. But seeing as I’m trying to get rid of SDL, I have to find another cross-platform solution for implementing sleep. So I have to write a replacement function. I’m still figuring out what to call it, but here’s the essentials of a cross-platform sleep. Read the rest of this entry »
Sorry for the mess! I recently got hacked and lost my previous theme, so I'm working on reconstructing that. In the meantime, this theme is messy/broken but at least you can read my posts. Sorry!!
Hi, I'm Richard Carter! I use this blog to document particularly difficult-to-solve computer problems. My posts are written for clarity and keywords for search engines to pick up on, so that the next person that runs into the same problem will easily find my solution here and have an easier time than I had! I'm forging a path through the brush, so to speak. So if you came here by search engine, I guess it worked! Enjoy the solution to your problem.