Common Practice Annoys Me, Probably Others

Many websites I encounter abuse ECMAscript such that copy/paste is disabled for certain forms text boxes. I use random generated passwords of great length. And it is a real pain to type these in manually - twice. People apparently are too stupid or careless
to type anything in correctly without typing it in twice. So what's all this about disabling the paste function? The usual answer is "security reasons." I'm supposed to back off and slink away satisfied with that answer. I want more information.
This is a security issue because I want to change my password and I want to enter it correctly. Twice if absolutely necessary. And I don't want to have to type all 20 characters in. If there is a security issue then disabling the paste function isn't
the fix.
MARK D ROCKMAN

Apple has never supported muxed formats and only added the ability to play them after years of user demand. (FYI, even with MPEG2 component, QT player cannot play audio.) QuickTime and all similar applications support parallel (separate) tracks of audio and video data. Your are better of simply investing in a third party application which will automatically transcode muxed files to an intermediate format and then convert that file to an iPod compatible file using QT or similar tools. PSPWare, for instance, will convert MPEG1 files in the free unregistered mode. Forty-TwoDVD-VXPlus ($14.99) will convert decrypted DVD,VIDEO_TS folders, and MPEG1 files, as well as, most "common" file formats found on the Mac to iPod compatible files.

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Context
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Harald Kastelijn

Harald,
I think that the best way is to create different services for every division under the party (company) with multiple divisions. (Exp. for Party BMW you can have services BMW_DE and BMW_USA). AS2 ID is unique and even for large companies (if they have one IT department) is possible using of the same AS2 ID.
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>
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su
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error: you can replace packages manually using -Rd and -U
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(1/1) installing kde-common [###########################################################################################] 100%
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error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
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resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
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Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 90.41 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
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(1/1) checking for file conflicts [###########################################################################################] 100%
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resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (1): kdebase-workspace-4.1.0-5
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 90.41 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(1/1) installing kdebase-workspace [###########################################################################################] 100%
pacman -U arts-1.5.9-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [###########################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) installing arts [###########################################################################################] 100%
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loading package data...
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(1/1) upgrading kdemultimedia [###########################################################################################] 100%
exit
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Issue resolved by extracting the files libartskde* (4 files) from kdelibs package and placing them manually in /opt/kde/lib and noatun works !
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Basically whate do is
Uninstall KDE 4 package
Install KDE 3 package
Remove the conflict information from the KDE 4 package description files
Install back the KDE 4 package (overwriting the KDE 3 files if required)
Complete files from other packages if required
Last edited by 11010010110 (2008-08-09 12:18:27)

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I used to do this on my PC to make sure the media files and documents don't get erased when I reinstall Windows. I asked this question on a Turkish Mac forum and the response was that most Mac users don't feel the need to partition their drives since the OS rarely needs reinstalling and in case it does, the partition doesn't have to be formatted anyway.
I would appreciate your replies on whether I should consider partitioning my drive to separate system and media files. I have never reinstalled MacOS and I'm not sure if I will need to format the drive and install afterwards if I need to reinstall one day. Also, AFAIK I won't be able to use Boot Camp if I partition the drive.
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Hello,
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den.thed, thanks for the welcome. I see that as long as there is space in the partition there is no tangible benefit to partition the drive.
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Also, thanks for the information about the "boot camp section" of the forums, if I come across any problems I will certainly visit there.
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