1st thing I install on my computer after reinstall is Total Commander. It is awesome. $30 for a lifetime license is an awesome deal.

Do you really need to have camera's geo-location and other metadata information recorded in your thumbnail screenshot? Do you really need to have your lens setting saved in a 32x32 image?

There's also an "extended" version of RIOT plugin for IrfanView with a bit more features. Consider using that.

Jpeg2000 has licensing and patent baggage. It will not get good adoption because of that.

well RIOT is not an image editor either..

You obviously don't understand what exactly happens when your media player tries to setup everything needed to start playing a media file, what it needs to load, scan, inventory, connect, etc etc.

once again you haven't explain why you need to install it when: 1)all good media players already have that builtin 2)all good video editing and conversion software already have that builtin.

Why exactly is CCCP valuable if MPC-HC can play everything?

I agree with you regarding codec packs. They cause more problems than they solve.

yes, there are maybe 2450 individual servers, however time.windows.com resolves to time.microsoft.akadns.net. As you know, Akamai has more than enough capacity to handle the load. And chances are akamai's servers are going to be closer to you than some random volunteer server.(yes i know ntp works regardless of lag)

There's no point in changing from the standard "time.windows.com" since that server synchronizes with ntp.org one and it has a lot more capacity than ntp.org one.

good job waiting 3 days to reply

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When I left my last job and got the current one, I gave 2 weeks notice to the last company(I was easily replaceable there) and told new one I'll start in 3 weeks. :) I gave myself a week vacation time to recharge before starting a new position, and if something bad happened at the old place, I wouldn't have to deal…

Whitson Gordon, you might want to refer people to blind A/B listening tests where a group of people listen to a sample of music encoded with various codecs and bitrates and try to identify which, if any, sounds better. Results of such tests are pretty accurate.

isn't that when you give money to your bank and then they keep it?

if you think about "archiving" your music in lossy format, you might want to consider using a more advanced code than mp3. mp4/aac is a better option.

Generally not Okay. This is like copying a tape or VHS..each copy becomes progressively worse in quality.

You really don't want to do ABR unless you have very strict space limitations or streaming constraints.

Whitson Gordon, there's actually a very dangerous problem with moving apps out of their publisher dir and directly into 'program files', that problems happens during uinstall time. Some apps are written w/o consideration that somebody would move them to another install path, so their uninstall scripts either have…