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[Sappho]

Yep. And uninstalling/reinstalling the software. Sadly, no luck.

[TheBiggerFish]

Have you tried rebooting your computer?

[Sappho]

Yep. And uninstalling/reinstalling the software. Sadly, no luck.

The "yep" referred to rebooting the computer.

[TheBiggerFish]

Ah.

Yeah, I've no clue.

Try googling it?

[Sappho]

Tried that first. No luck. Here's hoping someone on here will have some idea...

[Graknorke]

I have an issue where Firefox sometimes crashes when I close tabs. There doesn't seem to be much of a pattern besides it being more common on pages where there's lots of stuff going on, while, say, a google search hasn't ever had problems that I've seen.
All the advice I've seen online has to do with Norton internet security, but I don't touch the stuff so it's not like it would be that.

[BigD145]

ARGH big problem... Suddenly subtitles aren't working on my computer. I rely on subtitles to watch video, so it is EXTREMELY important that I get them working. I use Media Player Classic, but I tried other media players as well (Windows Media, VLC) and they don't work there either.

Subtitles I already have saved to the computer seem to work fine, but if I try to download new ones, only .sub files seem to work. .srt no longer work. I use the auto-search in Media Player Classic, sometimes using Czech and sometimes English. There are various different file types (avi, mpg, mp4, flv) and that doesn't seem to make a difference. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling MPC but that didn't fix it. It seems that .sub files still work consistently, but .srt ones only work if I already have them saved to the computer - if I download new .srt files, they don't work.

Just MPC (media player classic) or MPC-HC?

[Sappho]

ARGH big problem... Suddenly subtitles aren't working on my computer. I rely on subtitles to watch video, so it is EXTREMELY important that I get them working. I use Media Player Classic, but I tried other media players as well (Windows Media, VLC) and they don't work there either.

Subtitles I already have saved to the computer seem to work fine, but if I try to download new ones, only .sub files seem to work. .srt no longer work. I use the auto-search in Media Player Classic, sometimes using Czech and sometimes English. There are various different file types (avi, mpg, mp4, flv) and that doesn't seem to make a difference. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling MPC but that didn't fix it. It seems that .sub files still work consistently, but .srt ones only work if I already have them saved to the computer - if I download new .srt files, they don't work.

Just MPC (media player classic) or MPC-HC?

Just checked, it is MPC-HC (64-bit) according to the "about" info in the program. As I've said before, though, this change happened suddenly and without me having made any changes that I'm aware of to the program or the computer. So I'm really baffled.

[Rose]

Try Kodi? It's also able to download subtitles, and it's a pretty good media player.

[Sappho]

Try Kodi? It's also able to download subtitles, and it's a pretty good media player.

*Shudder* Thank you for the suggestion but I just tried it and it's hideous. On the other hand, for some reason MPC has started downloading subtitles again perfectly for no apparent reason. So whatever anomaly caused them to get messed up appears to have cleared itself up. I'm going to go ahead and not question it and just appreciate having my subs working again.

[Rose]

Yeah, kodi has a very purpose built interface, made for using it from across the room.

[Sappho]

HA! Here's a fun one. I was getting ready for work this morning and time seemed to fly. I felt like I hadn't been up that long, when I realized I only had 45 minutes to shower, eat breakfast, make my lunch, and get out the door. Turns out I am actually capable of that when I have to, so I got everything ready to go, grabbed my phone, and realized the time on it was an hour earlier than it should have been. Looked at my tablet - same time. Computer - an hour later.

We changed for daylight savings time here a week ago, and my computer correctly adjusted the time, automatically, like it should. But apparently last night it decided one hour wasn't enough, and jumped it forward another hour. I had to look up the local time on several different web sites to be sure it was really wrong - I had it in my head that it was time to go to work! At least I have an extra hour to chill now.

I manually adjusted the time, double-checked that the time zone was set correctly and the "auto-adjust for daylight savings" box was checked. Everything is set correctly. The computer just... decided to remove an hour from the day. Any idea why this might have happened? It's not a huge deal, since it was easily fixed, but I'm curious about why it may have happened.

[Thief^]

Most computers these days can update their clock from an internet source to correct for drift in their internal clock. Perhaps it updated from an internet clock that was set incorrectly?

That's all I can think of.

[Tawa]

Trying to run Civ II through Wine, but I'm getting these weird error messages. Any clue what's going on?

[USERNAME]@[COMPUTER NAME]:~/Civilization 2$ wine civ2.exe
err:menubuilder:init_xdg error looking up the desktop directory
err:module:import_dll Library DPLAYX.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\[USERNAME]\\Civilization 2\\XDaemon.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library XDaemon.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\[USERNAME]\\Civilization 2\\civ2.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\home\\[USERNAME]\\Civilization 2\\civ2.exe" failed, status c0000135

[gimlet]

The 1st thing I'd try is to install it into a directory with no spaces in  the path - try "civ2" instead of "Civilization 2".  Spaces in linux path or file names are just asking for trouble in general, even if SOME tools are coded to handle them it's really likely they'll break something subtle somewhere sometime...