Stupidest computer problem ever
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You've hit the nail right on the head Javs.He probably found out that jiggling the computer helped in the same way I found out that bashing my Nintendo 64 cartridges against MEHTUL made them work. Reckless experimentation in the midst of a fit of anger!
Yes. Yes I do. Punctuated by brief and loud fits of swearing.Do you honestly sit there and jiggle your computer while watching DVDs? Heh.
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Re: Stupidest computer problem ever
Unless you happen to know a DVD-drive knowitall who regularly cracks open drives to take a peek, you would probably have to get a new drive. Which, in most laptops, equates to having to get a new laptop.Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to learn more. How would I balence it?

Or you could work around the problem entirely by ripping the movie to your hard drive... here's a hint... you can just take the large VIDEO VOB files off the disc and feed them into some media players like this one and they'll play directly.
You could also try to use mplayer to play the DVD directly, and fiddle with the command line options for buffering, which could be another workaround (more buffer == less chance of skipping, but more memory used).
Ah yes, this loathsome condition is a rare affliction that has the scientific name Jigglytiaum skippus. The two ailments for the malady are simple yet ingenious, devised by the brainiest boffins working (usually in the buff) day and night in their laboratechs. There are two effective cures for your particular problem, positively primed to prove pleasing.
The following two paragraphs are the cures found by the team of S. L. Baum and C. R. Haekenshup in their brilliant scienterrific paper labeled, "On the Remedies to a Person Afflicted With the Computer* Ailment (and Other Associated Ill Breeds Similar to) Commonly Known as Jigglytiaum Skippus." They are abriged versions as the full paper, whose entirity currently takes the space of an entire floor of the Ministry of the Interior's Portsmouth offices.
The first is to program your computational device to vibrate slightly as if a mobile phone. The resulting movement that is a direct visible product of the aforementioned cure you have enacted will set in motion a chain reaction of events that will (and this is the ingenious part) move the device without the need for human touch and keep a constant fluidity and smoothness in the continued running of your digital photoplay moving picture shows.
The second curative elixir is unfortunately the one that weighs heavier on the money pouches of the distinguished gentleman (or ladies) since it makes them lighter as it costs more. Experts agree that the acquisition of a vibrating chair like the ones usually found in massage parlours and setting upon the part where one would usually place his or her own buttocks the computechtional doohickey with the aforementioned devious disease would constitute a substitute cure. This method has also been proven to have secondary benefits. One may use the chair as one would normally use a chair (unless one is a knave of the worst chair breaking kind) and rest upon his or her lap the electronic doodad and enjoy at the same time the moving picture and a massage.
Never fear. The foremost professional minds are at work even now (yes even now) extracting from the bowels of the unknown our newly gained information and dissecting the useless from the knowledge useful for the civilized person. Who can guess at the marvels we might uncover in years to come that mankind today can only see as feasable in a few years to come?
*Most of our readers may not be familiar with the technical term "computer" even though they may use it almost daily. A "computer" is the collective name of the device with the roughly oblong glowy screen you gaze at, the set of keys depicting our alphabet and numbers and the pygmy elephant shaped (from where it gets its name of pygphant) device used to move the little arrow on the glowy screen, that is powered by the big box nearby it.
The following two paragraphs are the cures found by the team of S. L. Baum and C. R. Haekenshup in their brilliant scienterrific paper labeled, "On the Remedies to a Person Afflicted With the Computer* Ailment (and Other Associated Ill Breeds Similar to) Commonly Known as Jigglytiaum Skippus." They are abriged versions as the full paper, whose entirity currently takes the space of an entire floor of the Ministry of the Interior's Portsmouth offices.
The first is to program your computational device to vibrate slightly as if a mobile phone. The resulting movement that is a direct visible product of the aforementioned cure you have enacted will set in motion a chain reaction of events that will (and this is the ingenious part) move the device without the need for human touch and keep a constant fluidity and smoothness in the continued running of your digital photoplay moving picture shows.
The second curative elixir is unfortunately the one that weighs heavier on the money pouches of the distinguished gentleman (or ladies) since it makes them lighter as it costs more. Experts agree that the acquisition of a vibrating chair like the ones usually found in massage parlours and setting upon the part where one would usually place his or her own buttocks the computechtional doohickey with the aforementioned devious disease would constitute a substitute cure. This method has also been proven to have secondary benefits. One may use the chair as one would normally use a chair (unless one is a knave of the worst chair breaking kind) and rest upon his or her lap the electronic doodad and enjoy at the same time the moving picture and a massage.
Never fear. The foremost professional minds are at work even now (yes even now) extracting from the bowels of the unknown our newly gained information and dissecting the useless from the knowledge useful for the civilized person. Who can guess at the marvels we might uncover in years to come that mankind today can only see as feasable in a few years to come?
*Most of our readers may not be familiar with the technical term "computer" even though they may use it almost daily. A "computer" is the collective name of the device with the roughly oblong glowy screen you gaze at, the set of keys depicting our alphabet and numbers and the pygmy elephant shaped (from where it gets its name of pygphant) device used to move the little arrow on the glowy screen, that is powered by the big box nearby it.
You're on a roll today Jack. Your posts are not only confusing me, they are also causing me physical pain.
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