SillyDog701

[Don_HH2K]

Well gee, this is too plain. All browsers, all media players, all icons... Where's the variation? Try the current status of my desktop:

Yeah, that's real. You're seeing Donzilla 0.6, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Project (displaying the Donzilla roadmap), a SuperNES emulator (running A Link to the Past), a Nintendo 64 emulator (running Ocarina of Time), Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Windows Media Player (playing The Sisters of Mercy) all running at the same time.

I have 1024MB of physical RAM, and my pagefile boosts my system's total capacity to 1159MB of memory. At the moment this was taken, I had around 32MB of resources left. The bulk of the resources were Nemu64's 200MB, Photoshop's 100MB, Donzilla and ZSNES's 80MB, Project and Word's 50MB, Windows Media Player's 24MB, and then there's all my background services accounting for another 124MB... And, of course, processor usage didn't dip below 97% at all. Even more interesting was this configuration's time on batteries: seven minutes.

BTW -- That's resized from 2304x768 with two screens: one running at 1280x768 and another at 1024x768. If you want to have a look at the full thing, it's up at this link. Note that it's 2304x768 and almost 1MB in size, so I would reccomend you have a broadband connection to view it.

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[beanboy89]

From the archives of my hard drvie:

I found these two screenshots that were dated from March and May 2003 respectively. This is back when I was using WindowBlinds 3.x on Windows 98. For some strange reasion, I was set on making my desktop look like that of the newer Windows XP. I shortly dropped WindowBlinds, because I found it used alot of resources, and slowed the computer to a halt with only 63 MB RAM installed.



The first screenshot is of The My Copmuter window, in Windows 98, using WindowBlinds. I found this screenshot especially odd, because the original image size was 720x576, which I admit is strange resolution, and have no idea why I had used it. Also note that the taksbar is not skinned and navigation buttons in Exploer were not skinned, and have the old Windows 98-look.



The second screenshot is similar to the first one, but now I was using a more standard screen resolution, 800x600. Also, I had found ObjectBar which resembled the Windows XP taskbar. It even had the two-pained Start Menu, like that of Windows XP.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319

[Don_HH2K]

I found some interesting things with my N64 emulator and trying to emulate Ocarina of Time. Namely, the PC's inability to draw polygons as fast as the real N64 can. I suppose these count as whacky screenshots, right?


Forgot to render the rest of the road


Eight suns? I have no idea how that happened


Falling off a high cliff. I have no idea how Link got into this position.


That must be Rome, because all roads lead to it.


Once again, road missing, and the life gague appears to be missing.

Of course, this is all a result of the fact that my computer doesn't have a superpowerful MIPS-64 processor in it like the N64 does. If you think any common computer is going to perform like it with all HLE emulation enabled, you're going to need something powerful, like a G5 Mac or a SPARCStation. Of course, it still works alright on my AMD machine, if I turn off AHLE and Expansion Mode.

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[Al]

Here is a screenshot I made a few days ago. I took a screenshot of my desktop on a Mac, put that as the wallpaper and then moved the icons and you now can see two.

The FX/Camino icons on the right are real

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

[Antony]

Well, this message is annoying.

A corner of the screenshot of Windows XP SP2 running under Virtual PC 7 running under Mac OS X 10.3.8 “Pantherâ€

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12

[Don_HH2K]

Take a look at what I found over a game of Solitaire today:


At first glance, this is nothing special. Then something caught my eye: there are two cards bearing the Five of Hearts. I'd very much like to find out how that happened, or how you manage to win this game.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Donzilla/0.7PR1.5 (wml/1.3)

[David Wonn]

I'd very much like to find out how that happened, or how you manage to win this game.

I have done the exact same thing myself once a while back, but never figured out exactly how either. I don't recall which version of Windows it was on at the moment (3.11, 95, or NT most likely.) I'm pretty sure I snapped a screen shot (as I often do with weird glitches) so I'll find out when I'm on my own PC.

In the meantime, enjoy my defeat over Solitaire, if you haven't already seen my reply.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)

[David Wonn]

While I couldn't find the exact pic I was looking for, here is a similar one I did back in 2000:



Note the mysterious 5 of clubs placed on top (where I normally place my spades) along with an ace of clubs nearby! I wish I knew exactly how it happened, but I'm pretty sure the glitch was related to the duplicate card glitch that you and I have both encountered. I think I was alt-tabbing and playing cards or doing some other combination of using the keyboard and mouse that led to this scenario. One of these days I will re-create that glitch....

Based on the date of the pic (9/29/2000), I am certain that it happened on Windows NT 4.0. This version of Solitaire is a full 32-bit application, unlike the versions bundled in Windows 3.x / 9x. I suspect XP's 32-bit version of Solitaire may still have some of the same code from NT's Solitaire, so it's possible that the glitch is only found in the 32-bit versions. All 32-bit versions of Solitaire are immune to the 32,768 point glitch.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; OffByOne; Windows NT 4.0) Webster Pro V3.4

[Antony]

Sometimes, there are just too many status icons in the menu bar.

From left to right:

• Konfabulator,
• Bluetooth
• .Mac sync
• screen
• iChat
• AirPort
• volume
• language
• battery indicator
• time
• Spotlight

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412

[Don_HH2K]

On a bad day, I can get this...

From left-to-right:
PalmOne HotSync Manager
VMWare Virutal Network Connection VMnet1
VMWare Virtual Network Connection VMnet8
i.LINK network interface
Gaim 1.2
WaveLAN Network Connection
Removable Device Manager
Onboard NIC Connection
NOD32 Antivirus System
Windows Sound System
Battery Indicator (charging)
Time

When this system was delivered to me by HP, it had Windows Activation, the ATI Taskbar Control, a taskbar icon for Windows Media Player, RealOne Start Center, and QuickTime Quick Launcher. The extra junk has since been removed. The network icons stay, though, as I like to see if some rogue program is attempting to get through the firewall using them.

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[beanboy89]

I was recently using a build of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 from Mozilla Firefox's Tinderbox Builds section from ftp.mozilla.org. I was moving around buttons using Mozilla Firefox's "Customize Toolbar" feature, and I noticed this strange bug.



Note that there are duplicate buttons in the Menu bar and Navigation bar. It seems Firefox doesn't like it when you move icons into the Menu bar, then click the "Restore Default Set" button in the "Customize Toolbar" dialog. It produces two sets of icons, one set is the buttons that I moved to the Menu bar, the other set is the default button set. You can then go back to the "Customize Toolbar" dialog and remove the buttons on the Menu bar.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050203 Firefox/1.0

[Antony]

iTunes Music Store...

Where are the banners?

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[Pu7o]

here's one http://kidzilla.planetaclix.pt/operabug.jpg

If you look to the bottom, where the "post reply" button should be, you'll see it forgot to parse that part of the HTML. pretty weird...

UserAgent: Opera/8.0 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X; U; en)

[Ron Williams]

[quote="Antony"]Well, this message is annoying.

A corner of the screenshot of Windows XP SP2 running under Virtual PC 7 running under Mac OS X 10.3.8 “Pantherâ€

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[Don_HH2K]

I found some interesting glitches in Windows Media Player 10's Info Center View...

Let's take Green Day's American Idiot CD. If I rip it to my hard drive, the track listings display fine on the side, exactly as they are on the CD case. But, if I use Info Center View in WMP, I get this. In the first screen here, I'm playing Holiday, but it registers in Info Center as two songs: Holiday and Boulevard of Broken Dreams (the next track).



So, if I go to the next song, the Info Center thinks I'm playing the track after that, which it also counts as two tracks...



Towards the end of the CD, due to the fact that it is out of data, I get 'Unknown'.



Another oddity is with R.E.M.'s Eponymous, where Track 3 is misspelled.



On The Cure's Bloodflowers, every single track is appended at the end with "LP Version". AFAIK, the CD versions and LP versions are different in length.



I have a very old Windows 95 game called Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II. Since there was no convenient method of compression at the time, Sierra (who made it) decided to make a mixed-mode CD with the data on Track 1 and the in-game music on Tracks 2 through 13. If I put the CD into Windows Media Player, I would expect to get nothing, but instead, it comes up as Rage Against The Machine -- Guerilla Radio. Ironically, the game was made in 1996, and the RATM CD was released in 2000, so I know that it can't contain even a single track.



Only in Microsoftland could such an atrocity be present in a media player...

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