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Aargh. Winamp 3 crashes every time I playlist all my mp3s; and my Opera browser for some reason takes a full three minutes to launch but I live with it 'cause it's still the best browser despite that! Shit!
I know other people must deal with stuff like this.
(oh yeah and if anyone happens to know how to fix these problems that would be very cool too)

― Dan I., Sunday, 6 April 2003 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

More memory? More hard drive space (swap space)?

Even the best coded programs will fail in the absence of the above.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 6 April 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The most annoying one for me is when you get to the top rank in Space Cadet pinball, completing one of the missions often crashes the game - I've lost games with over 150 million on the board. Also, higher still, something goes wrong with the flippers and anything but a very oblique angle shot (these continue looking pretty natural) suddenly becomes a much more acute angle, making shots up the middle nearly impossible. At this point I can't hit anything, and generally give up. I guess because this happens somewhere up towards 200 million, it's not a problem that bothers many people.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 April 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Windows keep opening in Photoshop Elements 2.0 for Mac too high up - the top of them is hidden by the lower toolbar, which you have to temporarily close in order to be able to move them down.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 6 April 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a fix for that Winamp 3 bug - downgrade to Winamp 2.8x

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 6 April 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Soulseek could stop devouring memory whole... or its developers could have a more user-friendly response to it than "if it's a problem just restart it now and then."

Acrobat Reader could go ahead and kill itself when you close the window the plugin is loaded in when you view a PDF through Internet Explorer, instead of hanging around using 25+ Mb of RAM. You have to either end the task or start the standalone Reader and then kill it.

Other than that I'm pretty pleased with just about everything I use regularly.

― Stuart (Stuart), Sunday, 6 April 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, not a bug, but this computer is so crappy that Photoshop (only 4.0) won't open sometimes if lots of other stuff is open. It just sort of hovers on the splash screen interminably.

(That will teach me to buy second-hand. My old computer blew up in November '01, and it was an emergency. Donations to my New Computer Fund™ are welcome!)

BTW, what's so great about Opera? No scarcasm, serious question. Never tried using it, just curious.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Not so much a software bug as a current annoyance. I just update my computer to Windows 98 and it has trouble connecting to the internet. It connects but has trouble receiving date (ie doesn't) and sends very little, it looks for the page then comes up with a dialog box saying "Server not found" or somesuch. Anyone know what I can do? I've tried re-setting up my internet connection, but beyond that I'm flummoxed.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Winamp 3 suXors. Even the people who made it don't recommend using it. Get v2.9 instead.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep, I now use v.2.9. Opera's good because it tends to load pages faster, but it's not that good that I'm going to put up with waiting so long just to use it. And all this confuses me 'cause I have, like, hella memory.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 6 April 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

which opera? i recently reinstalled 6.06 because the bugs in 7.03 were killing me. although i still use 7 most of the time, cuz it's where i have my email. the main things that bug me about it are that the startup dialog (do you want to: continue from last time? start with home page? etc) comes up all the time, even though each time i check "don't show this dialog again"

winamp3 only lasted a few hours on my computer, then it was banished forever. the ONLY thing good about it was that the volume slider works with my soundcard, unlike winamp2.

― ron (ron), Monday, 7 April 2003 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess because this happens somewhere up towards 200 million, it's not a problem that bothers many people.

This an obscenely high score Martin. I can't believe you can endure that game for so long. I may have said it before, but you should buy Big Race USA for a fiver, which is about a billion times better, or download Visual Pinball for free. 1000s of tables, including *all* arcade tables - free for the taking - and you can design and program your own games.

― Simeon (Simeon), Monday, 7 April 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Not a bug, but I spent a lot of yesterday evening being frustrated by the fact that there doesn't seem to be a "p in a circle" special character (used on UK records for phonographic copyright or something) anywhere (in any fonts?!) on my mac. Any help?

― marianna, Monday, 7 April 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't the P in a circle just a gag made up by the Beatles for Parlophone? Or shorthand for publisher?

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 7 April 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no - explained here.
http://www.music-law.com/demotape.html

If you have MS Reference as a font - its ctrl 0174.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 7 April 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Simeon, where can I download that set of pinball games from? Though I confess, I do like getting the hang of a layout, knowing how to get free balls/replays, blocking out channels and stuff - you can't get really big scores without that.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 7 April 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.vpforums.com/

― Simeon (Simeon), Monday, 7 April 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)