Someday I’m going to figure out how this owrks and what it really means. From IMDb Top 250. The formula for calculating the Top Rated 250 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate: weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C where: R = average for the movie (mean)…Continue Reading…
Well, I was trying to visit Google Groups to send an email, and seems to be down right now. Yup, 502 Server Error. I’ve been trying for well over 30 seconds, too. I hope Google gets it sorted out. I’m pretty sure a company like Google is aware of a problem like this on such…Continue Reading…
I have a new Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad Z61t. I close the lid often when done working, to put the system into standby (suspend) or sleep mode. Recently, the ThinkPad was failing to resume from standby. Instead, I’d just get a blank desktop. Although the wireless utility would pop-up with the Fn key combo, nothing else worked,…Continue Reading…
Bluetooth support server has encountered a problem and needs to close. I’m getting this error about 5-10 minutes after playing the online multiplayer game Albatross18. It doesn’t seem to affect anything, but I haven’t used the Bluetooth functionality on the computer yet. Since it doesn’t bother me (the computer doesn’t show any adverse effects), I’ll…Continue Reading…
My dad was trying to install Adobe Acrobat 7.0 when he got an error saying that he didn’t have sufficient privileges to create C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Adobe PDF, and that he should log into an Administrator account or contact the system administrator. Needless to say, he is the administrator and he was on the administrator…Continue Reading…