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Category Archives: Computers
Longbox Digital Comics
Ages ago comic books graced the shelves of newspaper stands across the United States. When I was a child, the local 7-11 had about eighteen shelf-feet of Marvel and DC comics right up front near the cash register to lure young shoppers in the door. The world has moved on, and the comic book publishers and distributors have had trouble keeping up. They switched over from cheap newsprint to glossy high-quality paper, improved their printing techniques, and saw their production costs go through the roof. The $3.99 cover price of Dark Avengers #6 isn’t primarily due to the jet-setting lifestyle of Brian Bendis and Mike Deodato, but rather due to an ailing business model, which has a lot to do with why 7-11 doesn’t stock it. Can Longbox be the answer?
Disney Learning Kindergarten
If you ever find yourself trying to run Disney’s Mickey Mouse Kindergarten or Winnie the Pooh Kindergarten on a Windows Vista Home Premium x64 system, you may find yourself running into the following gem of an error:
Script runtime error
VERIFY: [3s.dcr] OpenForWriting Error:
I/O ErrorIt then refuses to continue, dumping you back to your desktop. Now, this is a pretty self-explanatory error message, but I fired off a web search anyway. The only page I saw that looks reasonably-likely to provide a solution to this problem wanted me to sign up for an account and provide credit card information. Oh hell no.
As a public service:
After you install, find your shortcut to the launcher and right-click on it. This will give you a pull-down context menu. Select “Preferences” and click on the “Compatibility” tab. Mark the checkbox labeled “Run this program as an Administrator.” Click the button labeled “OK.” Done.
Now every time you use that shortcut you will be prompted to allow it to run as administrator, but it will work and your little kid can stop bugging you about his Mickey game. You’re welcome, Internet.