In space.

I haven't done flash in a while, and this morning was playing around with actionscript in a little gravity engine I wrote a while ago. I tweaked some physics, and added an interactive menu with sliders where you can tweak the main physics variables from the swf. To get the menu, just click the blue button that says "Physics Settings".

I know, the design on the menu and buttons is just a solid blue box. My main focus was the actionscript, not the interface. Tell me if there are any bugs.
Also note that changing certain friction or bounce greater than one will cause it to gain speed when it hits walls or rolls on the floor. Thats not a bug.

http://files.byondhome.com/Spade489/ballThrowSliderBeta.swf

I'm thinking about installing Linux to my computer simply so that I can compare it to other operating systems (namely Windows), and was wondering how I could have both Windows and Linux on one computer, and be able to easily switch between the two without losing any of my files. I'm sure you Linux junkies out there know how. :P

One of my dad's friends is having a problem with his computer. It runs the Microsoft XP operating system. When the computer starts up, he gets a ton of error messages from various system processes, saying this it will be forced to close. However, these are probably viruses, because the names of these processes are ones like: fneaefs.exe, xadfas.exe, ect. I was thinking of making a batch file or executable to just end all of these in one click instead of clicking through over 150 errors. I tried using the tskill command in DOS, but whenever I try to end a process with it, it says "Could not find process" I also get the same thing when I was experimenting with other processes that were not malicious, such as firefox.exe, and got the same error. Anyone know how I could end a whole bunch of processes with one executable or batch file?

is a total noob

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